Basketball has no borders, but athletes have, each country has its own basketball totem, China has Yao Mingzhen ancient and modern, Turkey also has Oku alone.
Basketball journey, like martial arts practice, talent level, sect resources, indispensable, in a national basketball league to call the wind and rain, can only be regarded as entering the room, barely have the qualification to be valued by the top league NBA, but there is an old rumor in the basketball field "into the NBA, the party is my generation", to further become a star or even a superstar is even more difficult, even if the mainland as an Asian basketball powerhouse, there are only a few people who really enter the NBA, and only Yao Ming is famous. And Oku can stand out from Turkey and become a big bitter master of Yao Ming, and his strength can be seen, let's review Oku's basketball road.
Young Oku shows off his skills in Turkey, invincible at home, is a kind of loneliness
In 1979, Memet Oku was born in the Yalova region of Turkey, and when he was a child, he only played with mud like ordinary children, and occasionally bought some toys in the city, but after middle school, Oku's height improved by leaps and bounds, and he was more than a head taller than his peers in only one year, and the school's physical education teacher was suffering from a lifetime of school abandonment, and when he saw such Oku, he couldn't help but shout: I look at your Excellency's roots and bones, at first glance is a good material for playing basketball, he will definitely be able to achieve a career one day, are you willing to practice with me?
In 1997, at the age of 18, Oku represented Turkey in the Under-22 World Basketball Championship, and won the championship, becoming the first basketball master of the young generation in Turkey, and passed all the way the following year, winning the European Basketball Championship under 22 again.
Since then, the famous Oku joined the Turkish league, in the repeated struggle, Oku's skills soared all the way, and finally achieved positive results in the 2001-2002 season, led the team to win the championship, and was elected the most valuable player in the Turkish league (the world's first master), at this time in the Turkish league, no one is Oku's enemy, plus the Pistons have long taken a fancy to Oku's genitudinal wizards, in the second round of the ninth pick in 2001 to select Oku, invincible in the country Oku knows that Turkey's rivers and lakes, It's too small, to improve basketball skills, but also to get bigger rivers and lakes to break in.
In the army of bad boys, Oku began to practice three points and married Bai Fumei to the top
In the 2002-2003 season, Oku came to the Pistons team that gathered a large number of martial arts masters, among which Ben Wallace, known as "Big Ben" by the rivers and lakes, was the most powerful in horizontal martial arts, as soon as Big Ben saw Oku's 2.11 meters and a figure that was not inferior to him, he felt that this kid was a genius, so he decided to teach him a peerless martial art, and said to Oku: "Ren Er East, West, South and North Center, I stand still, you have to learn"
Oku was shocked when he heard this, and asked: Do you want hand-to-hand combat?
Big Ben: Yes
Oku spread his hands: don't learn, don't learn
The next year, the Pistons continued their efforts and ushered in another martial arts master, Wallace, known as "Roaring Tianzun" by the Jianghu people.
As soon as Wallace came to the Pistons, he suddenly felt that the Pistons' inner line was too crowded, although he had a three-point skill, but he always felt that it was difficult to stand alone, and after some observation, he felt that Oku was a good material for shooting three points, so he asked Oku now: Now that my team is hiring, I have a three-point skill, can I decide, are you willing to learn?
Oku's little face turned red, made a coquettish gesture, and said softly: The power is determined by his brother.
So Oku opened his own three-point path.
Back to business, joining the league's top team when you first came to the NBA is a godsend for Oku, after all, the cultivation resources that can be obtained in a strong team are not what a weak team can have, in the Pistons team with masters, Oku is fighting against the league's top players every time he trains, just as it is said that if you want to practice peerless martial arts, you must first endure the unbearable pain of ordinary people, and the two Wallaces will not start lightly because Oku is a young man, after all, in that era, martial arts on the court can not be called fighting, but confrontation.
The so-called: Familiar with 300 Tang poems, can not compose poems can also chant. Over time, Oku has developed a decent defense and a good three-point hand.
Although the Pistons were full of masters at the time, but Oku with his own efforts, and the tall three-point score of the martial arts, successfully established himself in the Pistons, in the 2003-2004 season, Oku played in 71 games, averaged 9.6 points and 5.9 rebounds in 22.3 minutes per game, shot 37.5% from three-point range, and won the championship with the Pistons, which is also the first championship won by a Turkish basketball player, so that Oku has completely become a totem in the hearts of Turkish fans.
On July 7, 2004, Oku, who had just won the title, married Yelitz Chaleska, the first beauty of Turkey who had been in love for many years, she had been shortlisted for the finals of the Miss Turkey competition, and also won the world's top model competition in 2000, Bai Fumei undoubtedly, in the summer of 2003, Yelitz, who was at the peak of his career, decided to fade out of the modeling circle and go to the United States to take care of Oku, and the good couple became a natural match, and the two have lived a happy life without shame, and Oku's career has ushered in a turnaround.
The postman leaves, the Jazz dig around, and Oku returns to Salt Lake City
To say that the martial arts are high or low, the postman Malone is also a master in the long history of the NBA, a pair of iron elbows, has long been notorious, but such a master of class ran to the Lakers in the 2003-2004 season to have a dragon and tiger meeting, so that the jazz, who are accustomed to Marlon's iron elbows, are at a loss, determined to find another inside line who can resist and fight.
At that time, almost all martial arts masters gathered in the Pistons and Pacers, the two teams can be called the Taishan Beidou of basketball martial arts, the Pistons have two major Wallace, the Pacers also have Artest, O'Neill Jr. and other masters, but such figures, how can they easily leave the team?
But after watching the hand-to-hand battle between the Eastern Conference Finals and the Finals in 2003-2004, the Jazz knew that if they wanted to revive the door style, they must have a reliable martial arts master, so they went around, after careful speculation by scouts, they felt that the champion center Oku, who had been honed in the Pistons for two years, was the chosen one, from a famous family, studied under the two major Wallace Oku, and his martial arts attainment must not be low, nor nonsense, and directly threw over the contract with an annual salary of 8 million yuan and brought Oku to Salt Lake City.
After getting it, I found out that this guy actually did not learn a trick and a half from Big Ben and Wallace, although although the defensive skills are quite deep, but there is no deterrent like the two Wallaces, and the offensive end has been floating outside, and the average three-point shooting rate of 27% per game makes the Jazz dare not compliment, so the Jazz fiercely let Oku start from the bench, and he really gave up if he couldn't.
But what they don't know is that Oku is just because he didn't adapt to the environment after changing the environment, after all, there were big books and others in front of him before, they didn't know the depth of the rivers and lakes, and now they come out to walk the rivers and lakes, knowing the dangers of the rivers and lakes. Oku who understood this painfully, changed his past at the end of the season, pulled out his three-point energy that he had worked hard for many years, made a blockbuster, and won the starting position at the end of the season, averaging 12.9 points and 7.5 rebounds per game throughout the season, which is regarded as a center all the way to the door.
Relying on three-pointers to blaze a trail, with Boozer, Oku became Yao Ming's nightmare
Time blink to the 2006-2007 season, after Oku's efforts, has been rectified after the "group of demons" in Auburn Hill Palace, the entire league is peaceful, the fights and brawls that can be seen everywhere in the past are almost rare, the three-point man Oku ushered in a rapid personal development, and the Jazz also felt that the era that belonged to Oku was coming.
At this time, Oku has become an 18+9 phenomenal center, even compared to the first-line center, in the 2006-07 season, the constantly running Oku was also favored by the coach to become an All-Star, the scenery is infinite.
At this time, Oku, who was already considered a success, was praised by his hometown father, and a large number of fans came to Salt Lake City to cheer for Oku, and whenever Oku had a game, the Turkish commentator would shout: Oku, Oku hit a three-pointer, and the Jazz overtook the score. Then millions of Turkish fans cheered for Oku in their homeland, and Oku also knew that his achievements today could not be separated from the strong support of his fathers and elders in his hometown, and he would often send his match photos back to his hometown, the crows fed back, and Turkey returned to his heart.
In the 2006–07 season, as Boozer gradually integrated and Delon Williams began to shine, the Jazz ushered in the first revival after the Utah double, under the leadership of Coach Sloan, the Jazz successfully advanced to the playoffs, and finished fourth in the West to gain first-round home-court advantage, Oku averaged 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and shot 38.4% of three-point shots in the regular season this season, and Boozer both entered the All-Star.
At this time, although the jazz were secretly happy in their hearts and got Boozer and Oku two fragrant preserves, what they didn't expect was that they knew when they entered the playoffs that the combination of the two geeks could beat the so-called Yao Mai combination at that time and eat happily.
The time came to April 2007, the Jazz of the fourth in the West and the Rockets of the fifth in the West opened the first round of the playoffs, the first game of the playoffs with the Chinese star Yao Ming The Rockets won the game without bloodshed, Yao Mai combined both scored 20+ points, Yao Ming if he cut down 29 points and 13 rebounds like a god, on the other hand, Jazz, Boozer scored 11 points on 4 of 17, Oku scored only 6 points on 2 of 14, and no one on the team scored 20+, making Chinese fans cheer at that time, I can't wait to fly to the United States to see Yao Ming holding the O'Brien trophy and shouting, and Chinese basketball finally stands up.
But in the second game of the series, fans suddenly found that something was wrong, how did the Jazz's last paper-like inside line suddenly seem to open the three changes of the sky fire, although Oku floated outside and only scored 4 points and 10 rebounds on 2 of 9, seemingly without achievement, but because he learned to return to the vitality of three points, it is a long-range attack, resulting in Yao Ming with a larger tonnage being crazy poked, once left the inside line, it will lead to the rocket internal line vacuum, Delong Xiaomo and others like no man's land.
In desperation, Yao Ming can only change the defense of Boozer, but Boozer is a power forward after all, one hand shooting even a super guard like Kobe Bryant is also called insider, accurate to defend the defenseless, and Boozer is also quite flexible, is one of the best inside lines in the league, the world's martial arts are only fast and not broken, although Yao Ming comes from China with peerless skills such as Lingbo micro-step, he can still only care about one and the other, Boozer scored 41 points and 12 rebounds on 17 of 30 in this battle, but fortunately, Yao Mai and the two teamed up to cut 58 points to barely win, this battle, Yao Ming's defensive end was indeed beaten into grass. But in the final analysis, the main reason is that Oku is not doing business, otherwise it should not be Boozer who is in the opposite position with Yao Ming, you know, one of the most important tactics in the NBA is to create misplaced singles, the existence of the second Oku, so that the Jazz do not use tactical arrangements to have a dislocation, Yao Ming was indeed blown up, but in the face of this strange combination of inside lines, there are very few big inside lines that can occupy the upper hand, can only say that the crime of the Philippine war, the existence of Oku, makes Yao Ming at a loss on the defensive end.
Although the Rockets led the Jazz 2-0, when they returned to the Jazz's home stadium of Salt Lake City, the storm suddenly changed, Oku suddenly returned to his soul and played at the normal level of the regular season, and on the Rockets side, although the Yao Mai combination is still efficient, but other players are collectively muted, by the Jazz two cities, although the battle of Tianwang Mountain was won later, but the returning Oku teamed up with Boozer and Delon to win 4-3, although the entire series, Oku averaged only 11 points and 8 rebounds per game, but his presence, Boozer has gained the ultimate output space, averaging 24.6 rebounds and 11 rebounds per game in the series, and Yao Ming's 25.1 rebounds and 10.3 rebounds have formed a mutual explosion. Boozer also got the name of Yao Ming's nemesis, but it was obviously not Boozer who restrained Yao Ming, but Oku, the cross-era center.
In the 2007-2008 season, due to Yao Ming's season reimbursement, the Yao Mai group once again fell under the iron horse of the jazz, and then fell into endless injuries until they retired, so that Oku, Boozer and others Yao Ming's nemesis can no longer be taken off.
Shortly after Yao Ming retired, Oku also lost his martial arts skills due to serious injuries, and finally ended his legendary career in the Nets, entered the All-Star and won the championship, which is already a great honor for Oku from Turkey.
Oku's career has played a total of ten years, averaging 13.5 points and 7 rebounds per game, which was originally just a role overwhelmed by the times, but it was precisely his accurate three-point shot and a "rival play" with Yao Ming that allowed him to be remembered by countless Chinese fans, and his injury was also regrettable, after all, waiting for two more years will usher in the era of three-pointers.
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