Iguodala retired. Nineteen years of NBA career.
All started in the previous ten years, and did not play a single substitute.
He started only 26 regular season games in the last nine years, but started 33 in the playoffs, won four championships, and was known as the 2015 Finals MVP.
I also think the 2015 Finals MVP should go to Curry. But because the substitute turned over the starting lineup in 2015 and won the Finals MVP, Iguodala's fate is interesting.
Iguodala was born in Illinois in 1984, just as Jordan arrived in Chicago, Illinois. Iguodala, like all local youth, wanted to be Jordan, but when he went to college, he loved Arkansas, "where the 1-3 system allowed me to play playmaker regularly."
He ended up in Arizona, where he entered the draft using the adjectives "extremely athletic" and "amazing ability to learn," and the problem was: "I don't shoot well from the perimeter and prefer to be a playmaker than a scorer."
- In other words, didn't you want to be Jordan when you were a child?
During the 2004 tryout, the Chicago Bulls wanted to pick him, but hesitated during the Q&A session. They felt that Iguodala was too calm and exemplary youth, but not aggressive enough. So he went to Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, he was compared to another AI. 183 cm Allen Iverson, the playmaker has the heart of a shooting guard in his body; At 198 cm, Iguodala, the shooting guard's body was stuffed with the soul of the playmaker. In his first year, he averaged 7 baskets in 33 minutes per game, with 9 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals per game.
- "I want to be a playmaker rather than a scorer." ”
After Iverson left in 2006, the third-year Iguodala became Philadelphia's ace, but he was not actively an ace.
In those years, it was Andre Miller who was on the same team that slowly urged him to the position of leader of the 76ers. By the 2008–09 season, Iguodala had reached his first peak. He still doesn't like to create his own shooting space and often seems selfless, but he is a good teammate: a good young man who accepts everything and works hard. He often cedes offensive dominance to Miller and Tedus Young, but he doesn't lack responsibility: he fills the data sheet with rebounds, assists, steals, and fills the floor with his long arms and runs. He went fast, broke through the score, organized the big picture, cut into one-on-one, and made a strong three-pointer. In third grade, he played 40 minutes each. In the fifth grade, he played first in the NBA.
但是除了偶尔的反击扣篮、偶尔奋起血气的中场三分球，其他时候，他还是宁可让队友，让路威出风头。
He only made the All-Star once, in the 2011-12 season. He averaged only 12 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists that year, but that's what he loved: fast break and open space to do other things. That year, he took the Philadelphia 76ers to the Black Eight and took out the Chicago Bulls: but he was only the team's fourth scorer.
He has been selected for the U.S. National Team more than once, and has won both world championships. Old Coach K does not rub sand in his eyes, and understands the value of people like him to the team:
Don't fight for data, fill in all the roles, and calmly do everything the team needs.
In the summer of 2012, he went to the Denver Nuggets, who posted a team-high 57 wins at the time, improved their defensive efficiency from 20th in the league last season to 11th in the league, and lost to the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs.
He left the Nuggets in the summer of 2013, where the Nuggets dropped to 36 wins and 21st in the league in defensive efficiency.
In the 2013 Nuggets vs Warriors series, Coach George Carr encouraged his team to play hard against Curry. Iguodala was very unhappy with his own method, and hinted at the Warriors, reminding Curry to beware.
He left the Nuggets and went to the Warriors.
At that time, the Warriors auctioned 48 million for four years, and the Nuggets had the right to give Iguodala 57 million for five years. But Iguodala chose the Warriors. He said he couldn't imagine playing in his fifteenth year and facing the possibility of being cut and traded, and he wanted to find a team that suited his ideals.
He played for the Warriors in 2013-14, and although he averaged 9 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in 32 minutes per game, but:
In his 63 games, the Warriors went 41-22. In the 19 games he didn't play, the Warriors were 10-9.
The Warriors' season defensive ranking has risen by ten, which is directly proportional to the Nuggets' fall. He is the Warriors' panacea: counterattack arrows, part-time playmakers, open cuts, weak side raids, co-defense chains, rotation, pinching pass routes, single defense of opposing aces, one by one. He literally wrote on his forehead:
"We don't care about our score; We can do a little bit of everything, but we don't want to brush more; We just want to run, let the team win, and then hide the fame."
But after the 2014-15 season, he was on the bench after playing for ten years as a starter and never coming off the bench.
On the last day of training camp, Coach Cole told him that he deserved to start, but the team needed him to play sixth, and the team's second team could not do without him.
Iguodala, who had never sat on the bench after entering the industry, sat on the bench.
In 2014-15, Iguodala averaged 8 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in a career-low 27 minutes per game.
Then came the 2015 finals.
In Game 1 of the Finals, he scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting, and scored a thunderous dunk late in the first quarter and late in the third quarter, reminding the world that he was, and still is, the league's most thunderbolt dunker — he just kept a low profile.
But this is just the beginning.
In Game 4 of the Finals, Coach Kerr made him the starter. He started for ten years, substituted for a full year, and started when he fell 2-1 in the finals. Face LeBron.
Death Five debuts.
At that time, the knight had to use the 216 cm giant Mozkov to face Iguodala, standing in the restricted area and watching him. And so, Iguodala's moment came.
- He doesn't lack killer desires, it's just that he's always preferred to be an organizer. After he finally started, Iguodala shot 8-of-15, including four three-pointers, for 22 points. The Warriors went 2-2.
- In Game 5, Iguodala had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.
- Game 6 of the Grand Final.
When the Cavaliers led 7-2, Iguodala caused two consecutive offensive errors by LeBron, making a mid-range shot, assisting Curry and making a three-point shot himself. Iguodala had seven points and three assists in the first quarter to give the Warriors a 23-15 lead. In the third quarter, when the Cavaliers rebounded by two points, Iguodala copied the ball, countered the dunk, made a three-pointer, and made a mid-range shot, and opened the score again. In the fourth quarter, his three-pointer sealed the victory for the Warriors. Tied with Curry for a team-high 25 points.
The Warriors won 4-2, and Iguodala was the MVP of the 2015 Finals.
After that, three more championships.
After Game 1 of the 2018 Finals, Cole said in an interview that Iguodala knew "no less about the game than anyone else" and later said he was his best teammate.
And Cole has said that Pippen is the perfect teammate, "he's the best defender in the league — far more than everyone else."
Coach K Sr. summed it up more when he took Iguodala with Team USA:
He is Pippen.
What Pippen and Iguodala are most similar to:
They all had little interest in taking over out of thin air, but putting them on teams full of offensive firepower — the United States in 1992, 1996, 2010, 2012, the Dynasty Bulls, the Wheel Wars Trail Blazers, the Nuggets in 2013, and later the Warriors — they all got it all done without the limelight:
Move, defend, move the ball, pave the way, stabilize the army.
Iguodala said that every time Cole sent him on the field, he had to "find the rhythm." And he did.
But he wasn't always smooth.
Forever dunk king Carter, who played 1541 regular season games in his career, dunked 941 hoops.
Bryant played 1,346 regular-season games and dunked 1,001 baskets.
Maddie dunked 732 baskets in 938 regular-season games.
Neither Hill nor Pierce, no more than 500 dunks.
Wade dunked 1,098 baskets in 1,054 regular-season games: The Flash, after all.
Vigorous as a mighty few, 614 dunks in 1094 games.
Duncan played 1392 games and deducted 1145: after all, it is the elder.
KG of the same age is a little more vigorous, 1382 games, 1344 deductions.
Iguodala 1,231 regular-season games with 1,506 dunks.
Sullen, selfless, doesn't want to score when a starter, is willing to be a substitute, and plays more for defense + control of the court, Iguodala has the top dunks in NBA history.
Why dunk more? On the one hand, his explosiveness is excellent until he is old, and on the other hand, he (and Livingston) know how to move cunningly and wait for the right moment. In their bones, they are both old-fashioned, and when they don't have the ball, they participate in the team's offense by walking (rather than standing in a corner and waiting for a fixed basket).
His dunks, often not hanging on the top to force it, but after the dunk, the opponent reacts, "Oh, there is a gap here!" ”
Iguodala has a keen sense of smell: players like him who are excellent at defensive anticipation have amazing reactions. On the offensive end, his timing, big-picture and patience are excellent, although the side effect is that he often has open opportunities in the later stages and does not shoot: he always wants to wait for better opportunities.
He is an organizational defender at heart, but not a creator, but like an arranger. He does not rely on the ball to break through, but on timely open cuts, standing passes, and quick shots to make the attack run smoothly.
So, the 2015 Finals MVP should go to Curry, but after Iguodala got it, it seemed that this fate was interesting:
Dunk King level body, but want to be an organizer.
As a teenager, he was given the duties of a star, but he was happy to be a team player.
After ten years as a starter, he changed to a substitute, but returned to the starting savior at a crucial moment in the finals.
Pose as a role player and help the team win the championship.
When he entered the industry, he was questioned for not being competitive enough and was abandoned by Chicago, but he relied on this selfless integration into the team by the Warriors, playing a role similar to Pippen's time with the Portland Trail Blazers, taking four rings - and even unintentionally inserting the willow into the willow and winning the Finals MVP.
Born in Illinois when Jordan arrived at Illinois, Iguodala also thought about being Jordan as a child - but ended up being Pippen on the bench.
Of course he was a little luckier than Pippen:
He really has a Finals MVP.