"West about East Ba", West Jokic and East Jimmy Butler can be called the only king of this year's playoffs.
Jokic's stability, comprehensiveness and efficiency are impressive, while Giba's toughness and tenacity are even more moving. This is closely related to Jiba's ups and downs, which can be called a farce life.
In this article, we focus on the toughest man in the league, Jiba, in order to present it comprehensively, truthfully and objectively.
1. Growth chapter
If, since you were a child, you have never seen your father,
If, because of "ugly appearance", the mother is thrown out of the house,
Can you still stick to your purity and love, and walk your life strongly?
Unfortunately, this is the case with Giba's upbringing.
Fortunately, Jiba took a moving turn in his life.
When he was still an infant, his father decided to abandon his wife and son, run away from home, and no longer fulfill his maintenance obligations.
In 2002, his mother, who had long disliked him, ended with "You look so ugly!" For this reason, he threw 13-year-old Jiba out of his home.
If he hadn't made friends by playing basketball in Tombar, he wouldn't have known how to barely feed himself during his days living in carriages, parks and iron pipes.
Of course, he sometimes borrows a day or two at a friend's house, but only for a day or two. He also needs to work odd jobs to earn money and support himself. All this continued until the third year of high school.
On the high school basketball team, Jiba can be described as a one-handed cover. This caused a strong dissatisfaction from athlete Jordan Leslie. Although the main sport is rugby, Leslie is confident of beating everyone in everything and he does not allow anyone around him who is stronger than him.
So, after a game, Leslie found Giba. The result was obvious, and Leslie was defeated. Fortunately, Leslie is not a small-bellied person, and Leslie and Jiba become good friends.
After learning of Giba's tragic experience, Leslie made up his mind to bring Giba home, and Leslie's mother recognized Giba as her godson. Jiba finally has a home of his own, a house that he can go back to after school.
With the backing of his home, Gibba began to gradually go on the road to the NBA...
Second, basketball enlightenment
By the year he graduated from high school, he had become a well-known singlet player in the school, but it was clear that the little school and the little stars were not attracted to scouting.
When he once logged on to the website to check his basketball rating, it took him more than 2 hours to accept that he was only a two-star high school student.
Two stars, which means that not only does he have little hope of hitting the NBA, but even the NCAA has a hard time throwing an olive branch at him.
After graduating from high school, he waited more than two months for an invitation from a "junior college," which was frustrating.
After his freshman year, he met the second nobleman in his life, Lantz Williams, a teaching assistant at Marquette University. Butler was outstanding in the game against NCAA stars at Giba's junior college, scoring 33 points that impressed Lantz. After returning home, he checked Jiba's information all night, and at 2 a.m., he called Jiba:
"Hey, boy, do you want to come to us?"
Apparently, he couldn't have been more willing.
Coach Lantz originally wanted to find a flank attacker for the team, but he found that Giba's defensive ability seemed to be better and his will quality was extremely strong. Coupled with the fact that he was transferred from a junior college, the ball style was actively desperate, just like a drowning youth grasping a life-saving straw.
In his junior year, Giba completely transformed, averaging 18+6 per game, named to the best defensive team, and contributed two whistle-blowing kills in one year.
In his senior season, when he saw that his apprentice was selected for the All-NBA team, Lantz patted him on the shoulder and said, "You should try it in the NBA!" ”
However, the bias from scouts continues. On the eve of the draft, Giba read a scouting report with all kinds of disapproval of him. On draft night, the predicted top 15 pick also became the 30th pick in the first round.
But fortunately, he entered the NBA, and that is what matters.
This is 2011, he graduated from his senior year and participated in the draft, and he is already 22 years old!
Third, the bull chapter that sets sail
When he got into the Bulls, when he saw Derek Rose's performance, Gibba realized that he was too far from the NBA.
"When I saw Derek on the pitch, in that moment, I was like an unknown fan. It seems that I am very small, but no way, I am too far behind! In a later interview, Giba recalled the time when he first joined the league.
Can't the road of counterattack be staged on Jiba?
In the 2013 Eastern Conference semifinals, when facing senior Wade and the mighty Jen Sr., the Heat sent the Bulls home 4-1 without bloodshed.
But Jiba became one of the protagonists of the arena. He played 48 minutes in all four games, and while averaging fewer than 16 points per game, his main task was not to score, but to keep an eye on James. Death entangles, rolls, trips, and does everything to defend James, and the defensive effect is obvious.
Although he lost, Jiba died standing up!
The day after he was out, he ran to the suburbs, rented a house with training equipment, isolated all contact with the outside world, and every day was to eat - train - sleep - eat - train - sleep.
And just like that, it lasted a whole offseason...
After Ross quickly withered due to injury, Giba successfully took over the baton, which was bought by his hard work, but became a crime. But he didn't care, after all, Ross was also his idol, and he understood the feelings of those fans.
But those two geniuses in Minnesota really made him unbearable!
4. The Timberwolves of the Hurrying Guest / 76 Chapter
Downs and Wiggins, twins with talent that Gibba can't match.
One is seven feet tall and has a historic level of offensive means, the other is known as the Canadian James, speed, explosiveness, reach, bounce, what do you want!
The two of them are simply heavenly rewarding food.
But they couldn't make the playoffs once, not even once! It has even become a laughing stock for opponents.
In cold Minnesota, Gibba took the two to fulfill their playoff wishes.
But he wanted to leave, because he couldn't bear it anymore!
"They have amazing talent, and the salary in the first year of rookie is the sum of my four years. Who has amazing offensive means? It's Downs! Who has an enviable talent? It's Wiggins! Who is training and playing hard? It's me! ”
"I'm sorry, although you are talented, if you don't change, you are still waste!"
He joined Philadelphia.
After a short time together, he found that this is a live "Timberwolf copy"!
Embiid's offensive talent is higher than Towns;
Ben Simmons is known as "Western Emperor" and is comparable in comprehensiveness to James.
But again, they all only treat playing as a job, clocking in and out at the point.
So, he left again!
At that time, he would never have imagined that the next stop would be the perfect destination he dreamed of!
5. The hot chapter of the ultimate destination
Before coming to Miami, Giba's reputation hit rock bottom.
In Chicago, he was the villain who took Ross's core;
In Minnesota, he was a bad boy who insulted two geniuses;
In Philadelphia, he was a fool who blew a bull for a year, but was killed by Xiaoka.
Unexpectedly, the fourth stop of his career, the Heat, who regard blood and hard work as the core of the team, is the perfect place to match Giba.
Upon learning that Gibba wanted to leave Philadelphia, senior Wade called him, recommended Miami on the South Coast to him, and detailed why the Heat were a perfect fit for his style of play.
It turns out that being a leader here, reaching the finals, and competing for the championship is completely possible.
There is a group of undrafted drafters, with average talent, but all tenacious and hard-working.
It turned out that the Heat were the biggest "fraudsters" in the regular season, and Gibba played dead in the regular season.
Can you imagine the steady, unhurried temperament of an eighth-placed team in the Eastern Conference against the league-leading Bucks in the playoffs?
In the second round of the Eastern Conference, the Heat are obviously crushing, especially the temperament of the game, which is more than two notches stronger than the Knicks, who are fifth in the East. Almost with a slight effort, he took down the Knicks.
The word "hard" to describe Jiba has been said a little lacklusterly. When the team is in trouble, Giba always steps up and hits those damn balls. It is to hit you closely, and then press you to hit hard, so that you can't breathe.
On the offensive end, Jiba is a god of war, and on the defensive end, he is also a demon god. The overall defense of the Heat itself is hard enough, and there are few joint defenses in the league today, and the Heat are still in use, which is quite classical and out of place.
The Heat give a feeling of being terribly stable.
Against weak teams, such as the Knicks, it is to grasp and crush steadily, and there are few times when the horse loses its front hooves and plays abnormally.
Against strong teams, such as the Bucks and Green Kai, I can fall behind the whole game, but I am not in a hurry, not in a hurry, in the last quarter, in the last moment, I always believe that I can catch up, and I can indeed catch up!
This is terrible! This temperament is terrible!
Even if the opponent leads by more than ten points and twenty points in the final quarter, he still plays a drum in his heart: "Will the heat catch up?" ”
At the end of the quarter, when opponents are out of breath under the intensity of short rotations, they still have endless energy to run, to scramble, to shoot. The sluggishness and despair of the opponent's final section contrasts sharply with their final full energy.
In this team that lost half of the rotation, everyone showed a terrifying physical reserve, and the whole team also showed strict discipline.
10 people rotated 5 undrafted to eliminate the first place in the East;
Totaled a net win of more than 50 points at the end of the second round, crushing the Knicks;
The East Conference G1 won by 21 points in the third quarter to achieve a big comeback.
You must have a lot of questions in your head:
Why does this team have so many big bad picks?
Why are they still tireless machines late in the race?
Why do they have such a tough style?
All these questions are hidden in the daily training of the Heat. They have the largest training volume and the strictest training discipline in the league, they strictly control the body fat rate of players, and they will be severely punished if they do not meet the standard.
O'Neal did not dare to renew his contract with the team because of the team's strict requirements for body fat percentage, and Janway also lamented the horror of the Heat's training volume many times.
A lot of players will be deterred by this, but the undrafted ones won't! They have experienced the darkest moments in life, they regard every opportunity as a treasure, they want to squeeze all their talents out and only seek a chance to make a living. Their desperate drive coincides with the Heat's culture.
Strus, Vincent, Martin, Robinson, Smith, these are the five undrafted picks in the Heat's current rotation. They do not have the gift of fate, but they have cultivated the most courageous and persevering character in the confrontation with fate.
Although Giba is not a loser in the draft, but a group of teammates with such an experience, why is he not once down?
A group of passionate lions, and a male lion who dares to go wild on any occasion and confront any strong enemy.
How can such a team fall down easily?
【Final Conclusion】
The first round of black eight, the second round of crushing, the East final G1 steals the home stadium.
Where do they end up this season?
Or, stop at the end?
Or, to reach the finals?
Or, to win the championship?
I don't know the ending, but deep down I hope they can go as far as possible, even to the end!
Personal preference aside, we think the Nuggets and Lakers, whoever advances, is the champion!
I'm Huan Xiaochen, thank you for reading
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