First published on the public account: Basketball Friends
Stewart chases james!
"He rushed over three times to apologize and was stopped"
Blood-stained hair, angry eyes rounded, looking at Zhang Fei from a distance, looking at Stu up close
On November 22, 2021, a bearded man was moving rapidly inside the Palace of Auburn Hill, constantly pounding the layers of human walls, and the murderous eyes swept toward James from time to time, as if to swallow him alive
The seemingly unsatisfactory player was named Stewart, and just a few minutes earlier, James had crushed his brow bone with a bully elbow. In the face of the king's provocation, Stewart waved his fists to try to fight back, and James looked at this scene coldly, as if to say: "You all see, he wants to kill the widow!" ”
Stewart told everyone in his own way: "No one can bully me at will, for me, this basketball court is both decisive and life-threatening!" Corresponding to this indomitable is the fighting spirit he showed on the field
Stewart and his father
"When you're working, give your all, and when you're not working, show respect"
— Dela Stewart
Where did Stewart's fighting spirit of fighters come from? His father, Della Stewart, used his experience to tell everyone the answer. Dela is a Jamaican immigrant, with a different background and unrecognized education, making his survival in a beautiful country extremely difficult, and after unremitting efforts, he finally found a job operating a hand drill on the construction site
Although the job was hard, Della was willing to fight with concrete on the construction site every day, but never complained, and Little Stu saw all this in his eyes and remembered it. A few years later, in an interview with The Athletic, Stewart recalled: "When I was very young, my father showed me what it was like to work hard, what a work ethic was like, those things were in my heart, and this was my attitude towards my own life."
In addition to showing little Stu's work ethic and fighting spirit, Della also strictly regulates the social scope of little Stu, and frames little Stu's life in four things: "eating, writing homework, sleeping, and boxing". Finally, one day, little Stu went to his father on the construction site and told him, "Baba, I want to play basketball." ”
University of Stewart performance
With his father's permission, Little Stu threw away his boxing gloves and picked up the orange leather ball, and with his well-developed limbs, he never thought he would suffer a rout in any sport, but basketball taught him a lesson! Little Stu, who did not understand what basketball was, was constantly humiliated in the 1V1 bullfighting organized by his classmates, but he did not give up lightly, and at the end of the elementary school, he finally defeated everyone and won the title of "Elementary School Bullfighting King"
In this way, Stewart held aloft the plaque of "Elementary School Bullfighting King" and entered the middle school league, and soon after, the coach of the University of Washington, Mike Hopkins, stared at him and threw him an olive branch, which Stewart gladly accepted
Hopkins was impressed by Stewart's fighting spirit after watching him train for a few days: "I once heard Will Smith say, 'The difference between me and the others is that I'm willing to run all the way to death on the treadmill.'" If you're on a treadmill next to me, I won't go down before you even if I die. This is Isaiah Stewart. ”
With the support of the coach, Stewart quickly sat in the team's starting center position, in the 2019-20 season, Stewart played a total of 32 games for the University of Washington, averaging 32 minutes per game, can get 17 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks, this outstanding performance, attracted the attention of a large number of scouts, after the end of freshman year, Stewart bid farewell to the University of Washington and announced his participation in the draft
"Confirmed the look, you are my person." At the draft, Pistons general manager Troy Weaver and Stewart had a pair of eyes and knew that he had to be. So the Pistons picked off the small interior player with the first round of no. 16 picks. In the long-standing NBA, the height of 2 meters 03 is somewhat inadequate, but Stewart has caught up with a good era: most teams abandon traditional centers in favor of small lineups, and the iteration of the version makes Stewart's mobile interior line very tight in the market
Under the dual gaze of expectation and doubt, rookie Stewart came up with a stunning performance, from April 17 to 20, 2021, Stewart has cut 18+16, 19+12, 15+21 consecutively, stepping on The wiseman and others, and becoming the best interior player of the 2020 class. In order to adapt to modern basketball, he also developed his shooting skills, and the middle shot and three points have made great progress compared with those in college
In addition, he also inherited the glorious tradition of his predecessors in the auto city: tearing, fighting, fighting, scrambling for every rebound as if using all his strength, another big book seems to be reborn in the shouts of fans, and the nickname of "Wild Bull Stu" does not go away
In the 2020-21 season, he averaged 21.4 minutes per game, with 7.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks
In the 2021-22 season, he averaged 25.6 minutes per game, with 8.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.1 blocks
At only 21 years old, Stewart is still improving, and one day, he will prove that his traffic is not rubbing, it is playing!