"Jamal, stay and play for another year." In the summer of 1993, Rick Pitino, a gold-medal coach at the University of Kentucky, made his only request to one of his disciples. The player, who Pitino regards as his son, has been playing under him for three seasons, and it took him only three years to become the fourth scorer in Kentucky's history after becoming the main player in the varsity team in his freshman year, his appearance is strange, and his shooting posture is even more peculiar, but everyone who has seen him know that as soon as Jamal shoots, what he hears is definitely the sound of the ball hollowing into the net.
'I'm sorry, coach, I'd love to stay, but there's nothing to prove for me here. The disciple's answer made Pitino very angry, but the anger was quickly replaced by helplessness, and the disciple walked out of the gymnasium without turning his head.
Jamal Marshben thus entered the NBA...
The 1993 Draft was full of talent, and a large number of well-behaved players entered the NBA that year, including Chris Webb, Third Place Anfinny Hardaway, 11th Place Alan Houston, and even interior Giants like George Murresan and Sean Bradley. Of course, this rookie also produced several "monsters", such as Sam Kassel in the first round 24th and Nick van Exel in the second round in 37th place. In the fourth place, Jamal Mashburn, who was selected by the Mavericks, had both: he was a "monster" with elegant manners.
When Marshburn joined the team, the Mavericks had just set the worst record in team history of 11 wins and 71 losses, and the best scorer on the team was Jim Jackson, who also had a "J" in his name, and 1992 rookie Jackson and 1993 rookie Marshburn began their difficult entrepreneurial path. This season's Mavericks coach is Quinn Buckner - Bobby Knight's disciple, who did not learn the coaching ability of the mentor, but learned all the devilish personality, and the "2J", who was hailed as the pearl in the palm of the hand in college, suffered a lot, so the two rebellious young people began to unite and play negatively. After the relentless "efforts" of two talented players — the two of them tied to become the team's top scorers with the same 19.2 points per game — the Mavericks' record remained very consistent at 13-69 and Buckner was off the hook. But no one came to celebrate, and the two young people looked at the "achievements" they had created with one hand and bowed their heads, regretting their teenager Meng Lang.
In the summer of 1994, another rookie with the name "J" came to Dallas, and Marshburn and Jackson began to take the game seriously, and the explosion of genius was amazing, and a brand new Mavericks team appeared. Marshburn made 80 appearances and averaged 24.1 points per game, reaching heights not reached in the NCAA, and against the Bulls, against the best defender Pippen, Marshburn scored a career-high 50 points, with an unblocked shooting posture and comprehensive back-to-back hoop footage that gave him the freedom to swim in guard and forward positions. Jackson was also in pretty good shape, averaging 25.7 points per game, although the impact of the injury only made 51 appearances. The two of them are all due to jason Kidd behind them, the rhythm of the three people is amazingly consistent, when they join forces to attack, the other side can not stop, when they disperse to perform their duties, but also let the opponent lose one or the other, invincible.
The Mavericks had their best record in five years in 1994-95, 36-46, Kidd was the rookie of the year, and even Roy Tappley, a talented center who was expelled by the team three years ago for drug use, returned to the team, and the "three Js" called the NBA, and everything looked so good.
For Dallas, happiness comes so suddenly, but it leaves so quickly.
In the 1995–96 season, Marshburn made only 18 appearances due to injury, the Mavericks' record dropped to 26-56, coach Dick Motta was dismissed, and more importantly, there was a rift in the interior of the "Three Js". Jackson and Kidd both pursue actress Toni Preston, and the two fight in the locker room. In the game, Jackson and Marshburn also had a conflict, both wanted to become the leader of the team, they first shirked responsibility, and then developed to not pass each other, and the friendship and chemistry that had been cultivated for only one year quickly disappeared.
It is difficult for three people with similar personalities to carry out friendship to the end, because the closer they are to each other, the more intense the impact of personality.
In the 1996-97 season, the "three J" disintegrated at the hands of the new coach Clemens, Marshburn was exchanged to Miami, in order to get his Heat paid for Kurt Thomas, Denilovic and Martin Messep, Riley's idea is simple, the team is good defense, but scoring is very difficult, the most direct solution is to find a high scorer, and Marshburn is the ideal candidate.
Traded less than three seasons into the league, Marshburn, who came to the resort, didn't have the excitement he deserved, but his desire to start over was strong. The Heat were a united team at the time, Tim Hardaway, Arenzo Morningn, Dan Marley, these extroverted players quickly mingled with Marshburn, the taciturn P. J. Brown was also pleased with his arrival, and the godfather-level Riley completely changed Marshburn's previous miscalculation, and soon Jamal Marsh could no longer put himself in the position of the boss of the team, and he had a new position--- providing the team with a stable scorer.
In 1997, the Heat, who had just perfected their team lineup, appeared in the playoffs — the season they had the best record of 61 wins and 21 losses in team history, and after defeating the Magic and Knicks, the Heat met the Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals. Marsh was not afraid of Pippen, and he had an advantage in height and speed, but the overall strength of the Heat was slightly inferior after all, and they lost five games.
The 1997–98 season was celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Heat, and they once again won the Atlantic Division with a record of 55 wins and 27 losses, and Mashburn became the third scorer on the team after Hardaway and Mourning with an average of 15.1 points per game, and he was affectionately known by fans as Masher because of his fierce attack firepower.
In the playoffs, the Heat met the Knicks, and in that classic battle, Marshburn's mid-range shot was still solid, but the Heat collectively lost to the opponent at the end of the fifth game.
Gradually, successive high-intensity competitions began to create a burden on the body, because Marsh was accustomed to turning with his right foot, and when he was accustomed to using his right foot to force his right foot, his right knee began to accumulate water, and the patella in his right knee had a slight deformation, and he did not expect that this inconspicuous patella would become an eternal pain in his basketball career.
In the 1998–99 season, the 33-17 Heat still held the top spot in the Atlantic Zone, and they met the Knicks again in the playoffs. By this time, Marsh had had to wear heavy knee pads, and injuries began to torment him from time to time, and the jump shot he had been good at before gradually turned into a topsy-turvy shot. Facing Houston, who entered the league that same year, he seemed helpless, directly leading to his classic high throw. The Heat were once again eliminated with the same score of 2-3. Full of self-blame, Marshburn desperately practiced shooting in the summer of 1999, but with a sting in his knee, he was no longer the all-around small forward who cut points like chopping vegetables.
The bumpy experience taught Marshburn to help others, he began to focus on social welfare, and he always ran ahead of every charity event launched by the alliance. No one knows that he provided ten years of tickets for 100 Social Security residents free of charge, and no one knows, he also set up the Jamal Scholarship for students with excellent academic qualities at the University of Kentucky. During the 1999 offseason, he was also invited to participate in a charity concert by NBA players, and the collaboration between Marshburn, who is good at jazz piano, and Moon Baker, who is good at saxophone, won a full house and raised a lot of money for the society. Compared to this, the pain in his knee is nothing, because he has a kind heart that cares for others.
The Heat moved home to the American Airlines Center in 1999, and Marshburn steadied his knee injury over the next 1999-00 season, making 76 appearances, surpassing Tim Hardaway to become the team's second-leading scorer with an average of 17.5 points per game, but none of these efforts changed back to the team's trust, and the defense, which had been criticized, eventually became involved in the Heat and Hornets' big deal of up to 8 people without knowing anything, and the direct opposite of Marshburn in this transaction was Eddie Jones. Leaving Miami for five years, Marshburn, 28, set out on his way north to Charlotte.
The Hornets' new leader emerged, and Marshburn was not affected by the deal, and the success of this major knee surgery in the summer of 2000 brought him almost back to the top. The solid and undefendable back-of-the-head jumper was back, and Marshburn made 76 appearances in 2000-01, raising his score to more than 20 points — 20.1 points — and becoming the third player in the league to rank in the top thirty in terms of scoring, rebounding and assists, which is undoubtedly the biggest affirmation of his just seven years of fighting.
Marshburn's brilliant performance led the Hornets back to the playoffs, and with the help of David Wesley, rookie Byron Davis and veteran center Eldon Campbell, he led the team to victory over the Heat and avenged the attack. Marchburn, who reached the Eastern Conference semifinals for the first time, eventually lost to the Bucks, led by three Musketeers.
Another unsuccessful struggle sent Marshburn's mood into a depression, and the injury eroded him, and another nerve sting in his knee patella made him unable to walk for almost a few months. 2002 was a bad year, and by the time Jamal on crutches showed up at the Charlotte Dome Center, the team boss had turned into little fat Davis.
In the remaining 40 games, Marshburn showed his abilities again, delivering a record of 21.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists while his patella was not yet fully injured. In the 2002-03 season, the 30-year-old Marshburn was more mature, dragging his knees to play 82 games and averaging an astonishing 21.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game. In 2003, Marshburn was named to the All-Star Game for the first time, and in Atlanta, he scored 10 points, six rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, once again explaining the definition of an all-around small forward.
In the first round of the playoffs, the Hornets' opponent was the 76ers, and Marshburn dislocated his right middle finger in the second game, missing two games. In the fifth game, faced with a 1-3 deficit and pressure from the media, Marshburn had to bring an injury to the court, and he scored a game-high 21 points to help the team pull back a game. "We really can't win the game without him." Hornets coach Paul Silas said at the time, "But injuries are afflicting him and he's really miserable. ”
Marshburn failed to beat injuries, and the Hornets also failed to beat the 76ers.
Various injuries (including groin strains and anemia) kept Marshburn out of the first half of the 2003–04 season, and on 28 January 2004, After surgery, Mashburn returned to the stopper because the team could not live without him, and Charlotte's fans liked him so much that they voted him the most popular star many times, and once Marshburn came on the pitch, there was a cry of "Jamal" in the stadium. But after just 19 games, he was injured again due to a confrontation with his opponent.
After several MRI examinations, it was found that the cartilage in Marshburn's right knee had been worn out, which made the two bones connected by the cartilage directly touch, resulting in mutual grinding between the bones, which not only made his right knee appear bruised and inflamed, but even affected his normal walking.
The coach Who appreciated Mashburn, Silas, has left the team, the new coach Floyd has not even included him in the playoff roster, and the continuous misdiagnosis of the team doctor has made Marshburn intolerable.
"I've been misdiagnosed by the team doctor many times, and the team doctors don't take the interests of the players seriously, they just want you to be able to play as soon as possible." Marshburn said angrily that he missed 110 of the team's 328 games with the Hornets. "It's time to think for myself, I hope I can walk when I'm old."
But professional sports are brutal, and Marshburn's shouts didn't move anyone, and on the advice of the hateful basketball experts, in February 2005, Marshburn and "Big Dog" Robinson swapped owners, the last thing he could do for the Hornets, because he never got back on the field.
To this day, who else remembers their core Marshburn? And the strange shooting moves of the former field monster disappeared with him, and we may only be able to recall the super shooter from "alien" like sam Cassel.