Associated Press: Gasol played perfectly to help the Lakers get off to a good start
Gasol leads the Lakers to conquer the Nuggets
ESPN: Gasol exploded, and the Lakers started the playoffs
You must be wondering what kind of performance Gasol played to achieve a 100% appearance rate in the titles of major media in the United States in the final quarter of the Kobe MVP season with 18 points.
14 of 20, 8 free throws, 34 points in the third quarter, 36+16+8+3 blocks. Perhaps Gasol waited too long for his first victory in the playoffs, and this outbreak is like the Three Gorges Dam opening the gates, leaving no dregs left for the opponent's inside line.
Gasol will also say, ah, who did I play when I led the team a few years ago? Every day, dogs fight the top cows, horses and sheep in the west! Now it's just a nugget, of course, you have to show your skills!
With the ball, without the ball, face frame, back basket, plus this clear arrangement for the opposite side, all at once refreshed the playoff scoring rebounds and assists new high. I don't know that Gasol is this year's MVP, and he and Kobe are on the same court as Zhang Wuji to Yang Xiao.
This is not just a data advantage, but also a counterpoint advantage. Kobe played Kenyon. What kind of goods is Martin, get a 26 out of 9; Gasol played last year's best defensive player and two consecutive All-First Defensive Team winner Marcus. Cambihuh. This intensity, let alone say.
If this is the case, then the vast number of Kehei can naturally set off fireworks for three days in a row, illuminating the entire Bohai Bay bank. But the problem is that, aside from the personal performance of Kobe Bryant and Gasol, let's say that the two who are mainly in position, arranging Martin to guard Kobe Bryant was originally a dangerous move by the Nuggets, and Camby and Gasol are the right opponents.
If there is a problem with the first set of matchups, Carl can say that he can't take Kobe, and Kobe can also be said to be bluffed in the first round; But the second set of counterpoints is less excused and less complicated. If you can fight, you can fight, if you can't fight, you can't fight, and there can be no changes.
As a result, the best defensive player, the two-and-one defense of Camby, was chopped 36+16+8 by Gasol in the face, while he was 2, 4+7 of 9. Gasol had more dunks than he scored.
Throughout the series, Gasol shot less than 6, 22+9+5, and Camby 2 hit the top, 3+13+3. Since then, Camby has not shown his face in the All-Defensive Team. Three months later, he was the addition to a trade, and the Nuggets traded him for a second-round pick from the Clippers.
A cheap sale within a cheap sale. The general manager is called Mike. Dunleavey's side dared to accept Camby with two years and $20 million left on his contract – of course, with nothing to give, only a drop of 16 second-round picks.
Suddenly, the first defense player became a quasi-amnesty player.
"I was greatly insulted and felt calculated. I felt like I was a scapegoat for the team's years of poor defense and not being able to make it through the first round of the playoffs, and I felt like they were telling me that the team didn't need me anymore and that I was the cause of the team's situation all these years. "Camby is still cheering on the Nuggets' boys in the Las Vegas Summer League one second, and the next second he is announced that he has moved to the Clippers, and of course there will be no good things to say in the interview. Plus this is the third time he has been "betrayed", triggering certain PTSDs.
But unlike the last two times, what happened next would leave him without excuses.
In the 08-09 season, the sun shines and everything takes shape. Losing the Nuggets of Camby, the defensive effect did not drop but rose to the top ten; The Clippers, who got Kambi, didn't do anything either, ranking sixth from the bottom in the league in points conceded, defensive efficiency per game, and rebounds per game, respectively.
The real defensive effect of a person like this cannot be associated with the "iron gate" that took the best defensive player from Duncan the year before last and competed with Garnett for the best defensive player last year. But actually, he did. At least in those two seasons, he was considered a defensive master at the same level as Garnett and Duncan.
By what?
Don't look at the Nuggets' defense is not very good, two consecutive years of points per game ranked in the bottom five, defensive efficiency is out of ten, and in 08 even lost to the opposite side more than one rebound, but this is not critical, this is all Iverson, Anthony, JR their pot.
Canby, who has 11.7 rebounds, 1.2 steals, and 3.3 blocks in '07, and 13.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals, and 3.6 blocks in '08, has tried his best? If you don't believe it, look at the subsequent high-level data, DBPM Canby 3.9 in '07, Duncan 3.2, DBPM Garnett 3.5 and Canby 3.3 in '08.
So handsome. Therefore, the Nuggets without Camby must be pulling the middle pull, and the Clippers with Campy should be violent in force.
Points conceded per game, defensive efficiency, opponent shooting percentage, poor rebounding
09Nuggets 100.9(18) 106.8(8) 44.0%(4) +0.4
09 Clippers 103.9(25) 111.7(27) 47.3(24) -4.3
Could it be that Iverson and Billups swapped this result?
Let's have 06 Nuggets. The point guard is not the short and thin Iverson, but the tall and strong Andre. Miller; The inner line is just inside the testicles, and the canby is positive.
Points conceded per game, defensive efficiency, opponent shooting percentage, poor rebounding
06Nuggets 100.1(23) 105.2(13) 45.4%(15) -0.6
09Nuggets 100.9(18) 106.8(8) 44.0%(4) +0.4
Do you know who the old Pistons, who is the highest score scored in regular time in a single game? Exactly for the 08 Nuggets.
The old Pistons can score 136 points for a team of offensive quality, what a great defense it must be.
You talk about the limited improvement of the team, and it's okay to attribute it to other players not defending well. Then this person's single defense must be very powerful, right? The center against Camby had 19 points and 15 rebounds per 48 minutes in the regular season, compared to Bynum before the injury, who only had 14.5 points and 13.6 rebounds per 48 minutes. As for the playoffs... Gasol data, I don't want to read it again.
But I want to give the classic example: Duncan, like Yao Ming in '07, would be dashed by Boozer in various ways. But he will destroy the pass cut, extinguish all the backdoors of Kirilenko, Haprin, and Girichek, and turn the opponent's attack into a two-point line. The so-called reasonable basketball can't get by, isn't that what the Spurs said. The great interior defenders in history are not about his inability to lose their position, but about how much he tolerates teammates who defend below the horizon.
Contrary to the experts who cast Camby as the best defensive player, his new club, Clippers fans, are the eye-catchers. One fan wrote in a New Year's Day card: I hope that in the new year, Camby can not knock his teammates out of bounds when grabbing rebounds; Don't deliberately leak people in order to block when defending.
It certainly wasn't out of nowhere, as Camby knocked the rookie off the sideline during a game before New Year's Day over a rebound that fell into the hands of teammate Gordon. And his block, moisture is even higher than rebounds. In the game, he often puts the opponent in a single step to seek to interfere with his long arm, but this somewhat gives the opponent the opportunity to easily take the ball and turn around; And the points lost by the back door caused by repeatedly letting go of the counterpart and throwing out the cap will naturally not be recorded in his personal statistics.
Teammates defended weakly, opponents came in, inside assisted defense, there was no problem at all. But how much to move and what kind of movement needs to be made is a science. The immobile Duncan can make a minimal move to influence the opponent's offensive choice without revealing the back butt for people to poke; With his bullet speed and agility, Howard can even interfere with the front of the body and then make up for the back; Root. Wallace doesn't take either end, but his grappling before receiving the ball is impossible to see in the Nuggets game.
Isn't that the level of the best defensive player?
Marcus in its original form. The days that followed Canby were no more glamorous than the '07-08 days, just like Whiteside in previous years, and his value was embarrassing when everyone knew what was going on with him. If it weren't for the recovery of Camby in the second half of '10 to help the injured City Blazers enter the playoffs and get a two-year, $21 million contract, he would have immediately entered the base salary status.
But that wasn't the case at first, and neither was Campby.
In 2011, when Kentucky coach Kalipari first met Anthony. Davis, his eyes were full of excitement and hope, and he immediately called Camby: "I seem to have found another you!" ”
In 1995, the University of Massachusetts rose a monster junior, he reached 211 cm tall, but he was extremely flexible, thanks in large part to the fact that he was only 188 cm when he first played basketball in high school, and has grown to 208 cm three years later. It stands to reason that the age of 21 has slowly left the "formative years", but this year he has truly become a national superstar.
Look at the December 1995 article, you shouldn't have any doubts about this. "Alcindor (Abdul-Jabbar) and Hayes in 1968, Ewing and Sampson in 1983, and now? What we see is Tim. Duncan vs Marcus. Camby! ”
Yes. That's how it was then.
Five days before the showdown between Camby and Duncan, on December 2, 1995, University of Maryland head coach Williams was watching the Massachusetts State vs. Kentucky game and wanted to figure out how to target his opponent in Game 2.
Then he was frightened.
"No one can play better than him," Williams said. "If you don't know he's 211 centimetres tall, you'll think he's a defender. There are too few people who can do this at this size. ”
On December 7, 15 scouts from all over the league visited the Mullins Center to watch the Duncan vs Camby Titan match, and the atmosphere of the game was rendered less like an ordinary college regular season, annoying both managers.
Prior to the NCAA season in '95-96, no one paid particular attention to Camby. And now, he has become a name that every scout can't get around. "In the summer of this year [1995], we generally believed that Camby's draft pick was 6-10." Grizzlies Scouting Director Larry. Riley said, "But as the new season began, we changed our minds. If both he and Duncan play in next summer's draft, Camby could challenge Duncan's first pick. ”
In fact, the matchup between the two sides in the game is not so good-looking. The score was 60-46, and Massachusetts had the last laugh, with Canby having 17 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks suppressing Duncan's 9 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks, shooting 6-of-19 and 4-of-18 from the field.
Coupled with the fact that the styles of the two sides are not consistent, Duncan was already a 4/5 swing man at the time, and Canby had more attributes, he was more like a striker, but he had a 211 cm body, and his last warm shot in the first half and the initiative to go around the front in the second half caused a lot of trouble for Wake Forest. Although there are only 2 assists in technical statistics, the passing ball also shows that Camby is not that kind of reckless man.
Coupled with the fact that the styles of the two sides are not consistent, Duncan was already a 4/5 swing man at the time, and Canby had more attributes, he was more like a striker, but he had a 211 cm body, and his last warm shot in the first half and the initiative to go around the front in the second half caused a lot of trouble for Wake Forest. Although there are only 2 assists in technical statistics, the passing ball also shows that Camby is not that kind of reckless man.
If you don't know I'm talking about Canby, you might think we're seeing Garnett and Duncan. It just so happens that they are still two No. 21s.
Compared to his old rival Duncan, the urgent need for money is why Campy is running. Canby was in the Hartford slum and wanted to get his first contract for his mother and two younger sisters. In fact, in 1995, the incomplete Camby wanted to enter the draft, but was stopped by Calipari. Coaches of famous schools will not want their mature disciples to go to the profession in advance. Apparently, he had no reason to stop Campy again this year.
An incident illustrates Campby's market: Both Ronesbury and Spears hooked up by giving Massachusetts a little spare money, with the aim of getting Campy to hire them as his agents after playing professionally. One of them gave Canby $280 million and some jewelry, and the other simply gave a luxury car with Ji on it.
In the 1996 draft, only Philadelphia may not buy into Camby. Armed with Coleman and Weatherspoon, they decided to make a fuss on the guard. That's just cheap for the Toronto Raptors, who are last year's Rookie of the Year Stadameier, who are missing an interior core, and since Duncan decided not to run, it's up to you, Camby.
To put it absolutely, many people feel that Camby is not worthy of being the leader of the golden generation of '96, in fact, if Philadelphia, which holds the champion, is a special case, Campby would still be the champion of that year.
But in fact, the excessive pressure and the repayment of the college period basically made the first two years of Camby basically wilted.
The first was the illegal recruitment incident, which caused Campy not only to return his illegal gains, but also to the alma mater being canceled from the previous year's NCAA Final Four record and paying the 150,000 fine. Faceless, Kanbi, who faced alumni, could only deduct 150,000 from his own annual income to reimburse the school.
The second is that the illegal driving was caught by the traffic police and found that the hemp was hidden in the box. In order to avoid guilt, he had to go to the community for 16 hours.
Back to a step back, look at the Toronto Raptors, which Canby joined: a freshman army formed in 1995, everything is new. There is nothing else, that is, there are many draft picks and more talented men. Stadameier, the 7th pick in '95, the 96th pick, and Maddie, the 9th pick in 97, all converge here. But the truth is that Stadameier never came as close as the Assassins had hoped to be when he was a player, and our protagonist Camby? Three days and two heads need to rest because of this pain, do not participate in training, play five games to rest. And his performance is a lot less flavorful than when he was in college.
Generally speaking, finding a few experienced players with rings with supernovas can do more with less, but the Raptors are poor. Nothing is not said, head coach Darrell. Walker or Isaiah. The younger brother of Thomas during the piston period. By Isaiah. Thomas's level of operation, he is also crony, what level this coach is can be imagined.
At the end of 1997, Isaiah . Three months after Thomas resigned as general manager, Walker was also swept away and replaced with Butch. Carter. And the team lineup side. It's all talent, and there's always something to give up. It's normal for Stadameier to commit homesickness in '97, but '98 with Vince 's. Carter was drafted into the Raptors, and they had to cut another talent. Canby was ruthlessly abandoned.
Interestingly, just two days before the trade, Butch. Carter also pulled Cambie in and talked to him and John. Wallace said: "You two are the cornerstone of the team's future and we will definitely keep you here. ”
After the transaction, Camby decided to change his past mistakes, and the tattoo on his right shoulder "Mian" was both a reminder that Campy would always work hard for the family, and it was like an oath to his mother and two sisters.
It's not that simple. And Camby was exchanged for Charles of the Knicks. Oakley, the Raptors need this Knicks Titan to lead the youngsters. And there is also a story in New York, manager Grenfeld and coach Van. Gandi had a gap in his heart, and sending Oakley away was done by Grunfield. Of course, this matter was also clearly opposed by Coach Xiaofan, who believed that the deal was simply stupid, and Oakley's fighting spirit and leadership skills were necessary for the Knicks. This also caused Camby's playing time to slip significantly during the '99 season. But having a playoff game is never a bad thing.
The New York Knicks in '99 were a team full of wonders. Houston defeated the Black Eight Heat in the first round, and they faced a powerful Pacers after sweeping the Hawks. Although they cleverly stole home field advantage, the injury of spiritual leader Ewing made it seem as if they were on the point. After all, when the Knicks were at their peak, fighting the Pacers to reach the Finals, they were beaten back by the Pacers immediately after they slipped in '95. Last year, the Pacers were in high morale and cleanly carried the Knicks 4-1. Well, now that even Ewing, the treasure of the town team, is gone, the Knicks are all killed by the Pacers. And Canby, who waited for his chance, made the Pacers' journey to the Finals once again come to naught.
The buried Golden Generation list accidentally became the Knicks' secret weapon against the Pacers, and he did it with ease, whether it was inside or outside. Like the third game, Larry. Johnson's final 3+1 sucked all the spotlight, but the hero behind the scenes did 21+11+4 steal + 2 blocks of Camby. In the last four games without Ewing, Camby averaged 19+12+2.5 steals + 3.3 blocks per game.
Always a walker coach with a unique vision, Larry. Bird's mouth after the game was one thing: Camby eliminated us.
When he met Duncan again in the Finals, the two were no longer in the same position. Canby has had a good half a month, with the demeanor of college. Cotim. Duncan, let's just say that something from college may barely be worth mentioning in his basketball achievements.
But the New York Knicks, no shame.
But even this good performance did not save Coach Xiao Fan's stubborn mind. Before the start of the 00 season, he still said that he will still be the first core of the Knicks after Ewing's return.
'01 Canby angrily hammered Van Gundy (actually to beat Ferry, Van. Gandi was injured in order to protect the Kanbilla frame. He's still very good at that. After the game, Camby also squatted in the parking lot for 20 minutes on the grounds that "the car was blocked by other cars")
The other teams should be thankful for this because it was Van. Gandy's stubbornness allowed Campby to stay on the bench for another year, witnessing the birth of Ewing's law of one in and one out.
In the '01 season, the starter Camby gave the Knicks the league's best defense (third in defensive efficiency and first in the league in suppressing opponents), just as he was expected. A year late, but not too late. The 26-year-old Canby has finally taken the starting position of the Knicks, and he will be in the same position as Nash, Ben. Wallace forged another pinnacle of the golden generation.
In fact, Camby's disobedience in the NBA is not without roots. His main selling points in the NCAA are flexibility and defensive coverage, and Camby's autonomous offensive ability is almost unusable in the NBA, which is far from being a team. To put it bluntly, even if Campy brings the NCAA offensive level to the NBA, he will not have the ability to lead the team with the matching of his personal ability.
Inside spider people almost have this drawback, height and arm length is not fake, but the skeleton is too narrow and there is no big ass, naturally can not make space into the paint area, can not output the dominance of the traditional inside, then the natural record needs to rely on the quality of the outside player. Scoring ability year 20 Anthony. Davis alone leads the team as a lottery regular, and Garnett, who can win the MVP, is the only one who walks out of the first round before going to the Celtics, next to the roles of Cassel and Sprewell, and Camby's ceiling can be imagined.
In that meeting, he suppressed Duncan so badly, but after the game, his voice did not completely overwhelm the opponent. Bullet chief assistant Douglas said: "Marcus is more well-rounded, and his height and arm length can cause a lot of alignment problems. But Duncan will be higher in priority, he is only 19 years old, and there is a real shortage of centers in the NBA. ”
Back to reality, even if he wasn't as good as these historic stars, Camby became a Tyson. Chandler-like characters are also self-satisfied, and his level of performance in the Knicks is no worse than that of Chandler in the time of the Wasp, Mavericks, and Knicks. But he is in an era of fierce interior, not to mention Duncan, O'Neal, Garnett, Mourning, etc., even Mutombo is a well-known defensive master, and Camby cannot take advantage of them. The ability is not mine, the momentum is not mine, then the natural award cannot belong to me.
It's not that Campie is too weak, it's that the opponent is really too strong. But the media that only looks at the data won't even vote for him for the best defensive team, which is a bit excessive. Camby was about to sulk in the playoffs, when an unexpected event put an early end to his prime.
In Game 1 of the first round, Camby was still showing his skills, and he got a playoff-high 18 rebounds to help the Knicks win over the Raptors. When he returned home intending to sleep peacefully, a police summons came. It is estimated that Kanby himself wondered that he hadn't done anything wrong recently, and everything in the parking lot jam had passed for a month, which shouldn't be the case.
After listening to the policeman's briefing, Campy's expression slowly changed from doubt to shock. His sister, who is seven years younger than him, was abducted at home by her ex-convicted boyfriend QJ and with a knife, along with his mother and another sister.
After an 8-hour standoff, the criminals were taken away, but Camby, who had been experiencing both mental and physical torture at the scene, left the stadium together. A game of 2 points and 2 rebounds, a game of not playing with the team, a game of 4 points and 4 rebounds, the confident Marcus suddenly became a high circle thirteen years later.
The next season, the Knicks took a sharp turn. Aging personnel is one aspect of new coach Don. In order to keep his record, Cheney kept increasing the playing time of his players. In the context of 32-year-old Spreville and 31-year-old Houston playing 79 minutes per game, coaches and fans naturally do not think that 27-year-old Canby has an excuse to recuperate, which is also due to his previous conviction in Toronto.
In the end, the injury-averse Canby suffered a hip contusion in a collision with O'Neill Jr. early in the following year, and a complete muscle tear was reimbursed for the season. Merciously peddled by New York. Similarly, in the Nuggets' first season, Camby was still plagued by injuries, playing only 29 games throughout the year, and his old club New York was not much better, and McDeis was shut down by a knee injury as soon as he landed.
The waiver by the Knicks also became a turning point in Kambie's career technique, and from the 04 season, Canby's data heart became bigger and bigger.
Love looking at data, right? 20+ rebounds, 7-8 blocks in the game.
Say I'm rough and can't shoot? The more you throw in the middle distance, the more you throw.
From 05 to 06 to 07 and 08, the reality-changed Canby went further and further in his thirst for data, and a 96 golden generation list that was feared by the Knicks and praised by Byrd Series MVP became a data brush under the snowy mountains of Colorado.
He got as much as he wanted, but it was a bubble after all. Carr's muscular basketball wasn't stalled by the lack of the best defensive player, and the Clippers didn't get a boost from getting the best defensive player.
From Mr. Kambi's experience, we can also find a route. Camby in New York was like a young man who had just washed away his youth, perhaps the hardest and hardest period of his career, and he would give 120% to his job, the game. But at this stage, fate did not take Campy's side, and Campby was despised, then I will reflect on my "way of working".
Isn't that normal? When you feel that you have worked hard, but this return, feedback and effort are completely disproportionate, you ask your old-timers, what should you do? He will definitely make you change the way you work.
So, we probably shouldn't blame Kambi for anything, he didn't give up on himself at the macro level, he developed a good working model, and he brought honor and contract together, which is a good way to work.
As for team results, with me Marcus. What does Kanbi do? Improving the environment in the circle and increasing the benefits of the collective, just like team defense, this is everyone's business!