The NBA playoffs have begun for a while, in the first game day of the playoffs, there are 4 under-23 players cut 30+, they are: 21-year-old Maxi scored 38 points, 20-year-old Edwards scored 36 points, 22-year-old Poole scored 30 points, 22-year-old Morant scored 32 points, seeing these young players play will be amazing, the times have changed, a generation of new people for the old, the league has begun to change from the era of James to the alphabet brother, The era of young people such as Embiid.
No one can be young forever, but some veterans still maintain a very good level, they can still give the team a lot of help, today we will look at the 5 players in the league who are still in good shape over 35 years old, they are all-stars at their peak, and now most of them have been transformed, quite a bit of peak feeling, of which James, Anthony are on the list, let's take a look.
Anthony is 37 years old
"Someone told me to come to the Lakers to win the championship", this is the Lakers after the playoffs, Anthony said, it is not difficult to hear his disappointment for this season, the Lakers have three stars but did not even score the playoffs, Anthony came here willing to be the sixth person, as a no-ball shooter with a three-pointer to help the team through the danger, although the age of 37 no longer has the peak level, but if you give Anthony more ball rights, his current state to win 17+ per game is no problem.
This season, Anthony averaged 13.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.7 steals, 0.8 blocks per game in 26 minutes, shooting 44.1% from the field, 37.5% from three-point range, the overall shooting rate was equal to his career, and the three-pointer was even better than most of his career, it can be seen that the old melon did not sweat less in order to maintain the state of the field, as the only player who could shake the position of James in the 03rd class, although Guago has not won a championship so far in his career, he is also good enough.
Ninth in the all-time scoring list, he is in front of O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and James, the top twenty players in history, and from here can also reflect how good Anthony is. At his peak, Anthony was known as the offensive kaleidoscope, and when he first entered the league, he could break the wrist with older stars such as Kobe Bryant and Maddy, and his strength was beyond doubt, but the Knicks' major injury made him lose his athletic ability and jump height at his peak.
This has been the drama of being traded by the Thunder and abandoned by the Rockets, but fortunately, Anthony transformed in time, from a ball-holding offensive player to a no-ball shooter, his foundation is still in this way to make his transformation very successful, in the next game it is estimated that Anthony will not retire, his technology is here, I believe he will still have a good performance.
James is 37 years old
Old Zhan can be said to be the strongest 37-year-old player in history, looking at the entire history of the NBA, there is no player at this age and his dominance, Abdul-Jabbar, Malone is not ok, and James can have the current state, in addition to his talent is too perverted, very disciplined for himself, old Zhan's annual maintenance costs for his body are not small, no one can succeed casually, and what he pays must be unimaginable to everyone.
Is Old Zhan still maintaining the standards of his peak? I think yes, but he has now changed a model, the previous James is a player who can determine the lower limit of a team, single-core team to play the league's first record, single-core team to the Finals, everyone has seen, and now James is a player who can determine the team ceiling, the age of the increase makes him unable to cover everything, but he is more mature on the offensive end.
Old Zhan's current three-point ability, mid-range back-up playing technology has come to the peak of his career, he and Kobe Bryant and Jordan at that time in the career talent is not popular, quietly transformed to use technology to contribute to the team, if this season Westbrook really integrated into the system, let James get more rest time, this season's Lakers still have a chance to win the championship, but now it is a little late to say that these, after all, they did not produce the desired chemical reaction.
Old Zhan has averaged 30.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 1.3 steals, 1.1 blocks, shot 52% from the field, 36% from three-point range, averaged 2.9 three-pointers per game, a new career high, on the combination of three-point efficiency and production, this season's old Zhan is the best time in his career, next season Old Zhan is 38 years old, I believe he will still have the league's top ten level level, see what new surprises he can bring to everyone.
Horford is 35 years old
Horford is the tanhua in 2007, he and the UAE League, Durant is the same draft, Horford is known as the ball blind appraiser, the peak period by excellent comprehensiveness and top defensive ability, let many pseudo-big star eat, once became the core of the Celtics offensive and defensive ends led the Green Army in 18 years to reach the division finals, but then Horford joined the 76ers, he also lost his value, resulting in his almost no ball to play.
Although Horford has the ability to space, the ability to respond is also top, but he still has to occupy the inside line more time, and the original 76ers emperor and Simmons need inside space, Horford sacrificed the data to play the value of the thunder, but in the offseason of this season, the Celtics brought their own central axis back from the Thunder, Horford returned to the familiar system and he also played the performance he deserved.
So far in the playoffs, Horford has averaged 18 points, 10.5 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.5 steals, 0.5 blocks, shooting 60.9% from the field and 62.5% from three-point range, although Horford has only played two games so far in the playoffs, the sample is small, but from here it is not difficult to see that Horford's state is good, he is a technical flow center, and the ball quotient is extremely high, playing such a performance is deserved.
Although Horford's athletic ability is not as good as before, but the state is also maintained well, coupled with the high ball quotient, he can stand in advance at the defensive end, facing the short inner line, Horford will have height in the inner line with technology to crush, in the face of a large protective frame inside line, Horford will block the demolition of the outer bullet with three points to punish the opponent, so old or the inner line "hit everyone misaligned" ah!
Kyle Lowry is 36 years old
Lowry can be said to be one of the most inspirational players in the history of the NBA, a first-round No. 24 show became the first person in the history of the Raptors, for which the Raptors also erected a statue for Lowry, and Lowry can get such a treatment is nothing more than he gave the peak to Toronto, although only as the second boss to help the Raptors win 1 championship, but he gave everything for here, and the Raptors deserved to give back to him.
In the last years of his career, Lowry was still eager for a championship, so the Raptors satisfied him, traded him to the Heat, let him join hands with his good brother Butler, this season Butler and Adebayo stopped and stopped, injured many games, but under lowry's leadership, the Heat played the first record in the division, lowry's arrival made the Heat condense from a previous loose sand into a tower, indestructible!
Lowry averaged 13.4 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 1.1 steals, 44 percent shooting percentage and 37.7 percent three-point shooting this season, although the data is not good, but this season's overall shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate are far beyond the career average, so he still maintains the peak state, but the team can play too many players, he just sacrificed the data, in order to win the sacrifice of the data is also worth it.
Some players are not reflected in the data, such as Lowry, after the arrival of the playoffs, Lowry's advanced data shows that he can win 22.9 points per 100 rounds when he is on the floor, this data is too terrible, the playoffs so far defensive efficiency 94 League 16th, very good, this season's Heat has Lowry like a tiger, they are expected to chase the championship.
Paul is 36 years old
Speaking of Paul, the first few keywords that everyone thinks of are: top strength, tragic fate, personal ability to say, Paul looking at the historical point guard is also able to rank in the top ten, or the top five, even if he does not have a championship now, but his fate is also tragic enough, that year almost joined with Kobe, but was vetoed by the league, in the Clippers period was reversed many times, or injury missed the best championship period.
In 19 years, Paul was questioned as a garbage contract because of injury, but then in the Thunder he played a group of shrimp soldiers and crabs to enter the playoffs, re-proved himself, came to the Suns and led the team to the Finals, his ability and historical status have risen, and now Paul is still one of the best point guards in the league, averaging 23.5 points, 4 rebounds, 12 assists and 2 steals per game so far in the playoffs, shooting 53% from the field and 50% from three-point range.
The playoffs came to the old cannon and did not pretend to be dead, all kinds of unsolvable mid-range punishment opponents, but before Booker was injured, there was a high probability that he would miss three weeks, which was a great test for Paul and the Suns, and crossing the Pelicans should not be a big problem, but the next round against the Lone Ranger or Jazz, if there is no Booker, it is not easy to say.
And if you can wait until Booker returns, the Suns will inevitably be one of the most powerful teams in the league, they are also the most promising team to win the championship, if they can win the championship Paul is expected to win the coveted championship and FMVP, but I don't know what fate and Paul joke will be, whether Booker can return will directly determine the efforts of Paul and the Suns this season.
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