Today, when I was eating soil on the boiler, Teacher Yin's avatar trembled on WeChat: "I'll give you a question." ”
"What's the matter?"
"The troubles of the elderly guard. You look at Paul Lowry Conley's stats this season. ”
"What do you think they have to worry about?"
"Even a defender of 1.8 meters may be doomed to a cliff at thirty-five six. The strongest cannon brother passed his 37th birthday and really changed someone. ”
I understand that Hai Ye probably means that when the defender reaches the age of 35, the rivers and lakes will not tolerate it. But another small thing is somewhat suspicious to me, from some of the video data leaked on the Internet, it can be seen that Mr. Yin is famous in the sea, but the figure on the wild court is like a mountain, belonging to the category of big people on the ordinary people's court, so I think he is raising this theme is not implying anyone, I also have some conclusions, but I have no evidence, so I have to return to the main topic after all.
After 1 hour of surfing the Internet back home, I came to a depressing conclusion: Teacher Yin may indeed be right. We don't say 1.8 meters, just 1.9 meters down, one of these defenders is counted as one, don't talk about the cliff outside the age of 35, at least jumped off the building, what kind of fall, mainly depends on how high you climbed, the so-called climb must fall heavy.
A more recent example, Tony Parker, who was put on the bench by Popovich at the age of 35, dropped to below double digits for the first time in his scoring career except for his rookie year, and the old sports car did not accept the old until the Hornets were pure substitutes for another year before he realized that he was retiring. Similar to him, "Beatle" Hardaway missed scoring for the first time in his career at the age of 35 and retired after another year.
In fact, the great dwarfs of the old era basically had a hard time living at the age of 35, and they walked away neatly as if they were collectively rushing to the civil service exam. "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas played the last season of his career at the age of 32, Slater Martin, Calvin Murphy, K.C. Jones, Bob Cousy, Bill Shaman, "Little Flying Squirrel" Stadmeier all retired after the age of 34, as strong as Iverson, transferred from Detroit to Memphis at the age of 34 and returned to Philadelphia, the wet kiss floor LOGO is certainly moving, but it can't let himself stay longer, the AI who left the league at this age ran to Turkey to play 3 games, and in 23 minutes at 37% Scored 9.3 points. Archibald, Jerry West and Goodrich all retired after the age of 35. Lenny Wilkens switched to the Cavaliers at the age of 35 and played another peak All-Star season, and two years later he ran to the Coaches Hall of Fame.
Stockton, one of the two Utah elders, between the ages of 25 and 34, averaged assists per game for 10 consecutive years, was the assist king for the first 9 years, dropped to less than 10 times for the first time this season at the age of 35, and played 5 years of high-quality games, but the number of assists will never come back.
Of course, there is a reason for all this, and the most direct reason for the decline in performance is the decline in the playing time of these older athletes, and the decline in their playing time is mostly directly related to injuries or the decline in status after transfers. Stockton suffered a knee injury at the age of 35, after the Ironmen, who had missed only three games in their 13 years in the business, had taken 18 games off this year. Although he went on to the Finals, and although he had 82 full games for the last four years of his career, these were only part of the saga, and after 1998, Jordan retired for the second time and Stockton could no longer touch the floor with his two old buddies.
It seems that Stockton, who is 1.85 meters tall by the official report, is the ceiling of all the point guards. If you still have any illusions about how ordinary people perform in the top flight, you can try to understand Stockton's life, and then you will hear the sound of late night drinking and clinking glasses, all broken dreams. Let's not talk about the unmatched number of assists and attendance today, let's just talk about one small thing, this ruthless and cruel shorts head uncle, once voted by Sports Illustrated as the second dirtiest player in the league, if basketball is a show, Stockton played about 19 years killer Lee Toyota, which is something that the kind and mediocre you can't do in your ultimate life.
Point guard god Paul made about 70 percent of Stockton, and people who still have an obsession with traditional basketball praise him as "reasonable." But since his 37th birthday last year, it has been difficult to get too much praise for his game, and I can't bear to present his new season statistics, and the playing time can't be pulled down by the expansion, as did Conley and Lowry, who were named by Mr. Yin.
Rob Simmons, an expert in labor economics in the United States, published a paper a few years ago, mainly studying the impact of salary differentials on professional sports, and piggybacked on a conclusion that NBA player performance generally peaks around the age of 26, and then maintains its peak around the age of 27 or 8, and since then, player performance has slowly declined, and then the cliff.
The average age of an All-Star is 26.5, the MVP is 27.9, and the average age of the All-Star selection is 27.7, in fact only 14 players have made the All-Star Team after their 35th birthday, Abdul-Jabbar did it 3 times, Malone 3 times, Duncan 2 times, and then Paul's 3 times and James' 3 times. Players including Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Ewing, Dominic Wilkins and David Robinson all earned their last All-Team nominations at age 34.
It's worth mentioning that you'll most likely find another name on the 35-year-old roster at the end of the season: Stephen Curry.
And the names we can come up with so limited can only show that time is indeed an opponent that 99.999% of athletes cannot beat, and only the strongest 0.001% of the crowd Haslem has the face to become a time lord to sit on the bench and play 2 minutes a year to prove that he is still a player without mentioning retirement.
This is in line with the laws of nature, not to mention athletes, my personal experience is this, after the age of 35, it is difficult to fall asleep easily at night, and it is difficult to get up late in the morning, it is already two o'clock in the morning before closing my eyes, and when I open my eyes, it is only 6:30, after the age of 35, I have gently asked my flesh countless times, why the do you wake up so early?
It doesn't have to be 35 years old, after 30 years old, human basal metabolism begins to decline, fat is easier to accumulate, injury recovery ability is not as good as before, and even more terrifying, young people - Morant, Zion - enter the alliance one after another, the dance steps of birds and beasts sound behind you, and before you can react, Alvarado has appeared behind your body.
For NBA players, the scarier thing than 35 is that you are 35 years old and find yourself still less than 1.9 meters, not an inch long. This means that your static talent deficiency that you originally relied on athleticism or some kind of metaphysical basketball IQ to make up becomes more prominent, and young people begin to imitate your old big loops and laugh at them, because with your arm reach not even ringing him, young people have already thrown themselves on the floor to grab the ball before your knee has just bent 12° and produced the first sting, which will make you look like you are nothing good on the court, and even the only remaining "tenacious spirit" cannot be displayed. The appearance that you try to play some sinister trick and get nothing only makes you look more ridiculous, and experience will eventually become worthless in the face of immaturity, this is the NBA, and this is the final destination of the aging athlete described by Jack London in "A Steak" written for us 111 years ago: he now understands why Old Bill is crying in the locker room.
So Kerr was right after the opener that it was James and Curry who made Evergreen look so easy. Obviously it's not easy. Of course, Kerr did save face, now that the Pauls have collapsed visibly, James can only maintain a little decency in terms of personal data, I don't know if Curry can break the laws of nature, he is playing extremely well now, just knocking down a young high-paid player to make a key three-pointer, he said, "I think I can stay like this for a long time really I really think so." Curry is 35 in 137 days, and adult aging is as much an unseen moment as it is collapse.
As for how my feelings for these elderly people will change, I may have to say otherwise, when I was a child, I also vowed to love Zhao Yazhi for the rest of my life after watching "The Legend of the New White Lady", I was sincere at that time, but later I changed my heart. Now I see the appearance of everyone's dislike of elderly athletes on the Internet, and the jokes they tell are indeed coke, but when I think that I will also age so gradually, being hammered by latecomers in the arena of life, I am a little sad, as if these jokes are describing their future.
Of course, this empathy is still a bit too much. It has been said before that the 35-year-old of NBA players is at least equal to the 58-year-old before the average person retires, and we still have a large part of our lives to live before we become stubborn old people who surround the city downstairs in the community to discuss the inducing effects of telecommunications base station radiation on cancer and prepare for collective protest. Even if you ask these 35-year-old shorts now, what will happen to the short stars who we have seen when they were young and still have not forgotten? How can this ball be played down? Most of the time you can only get some contemptuous or proud answers: this is the way it is, the time is like this, what are you pretentious here in the middle of the night? I have to wake up at 6:30 tomorrow to move bricks.