Ray Allen's regret is going to be repeated in Clay

Great shooters, all exaggerated paranoia.

In his prime, Larry Bird insisted on building his mother's house (85-86), which caused his back injury to worsen, and he has been at the top ever since.

Reggie Miller likes a manic atmosphere, choking the Knicks' neck against Spike Lee at home, retching nervously when he falls behind in the '98 East finals, and then pushing Michael Jordan away for a three-pointer.

Ray Allen has been sticking to his pre-match habits for 20 years. Every game day, I take a nap until 1 p.m., eat chicken and rice at 2:30, go to the arena at 3:45 to stretch and shave my head, and go to the court at 4:30 to practice shooting alone.

Their faces are as heavy as water, but their hearts are wildly rebellious, they believe in all their ways of doing things, and they are absolutely confident inside.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to score those breathtaking killer goals again and again in that era of logging.

Understand what it's like to be a great shooter, and you can understand Klay Thompson as a person.

He was a big fan of Kobe, and growing up in Southern California, he regarded the Black Mamba as an idol. In 2022, he regained the championship and won the "All-American Comeback Speech Award", but he still thanked Kobe.

In his bones, Clay is as unruly as Kobe.

When he was a sophomore, he was sprayed with "You kid have to pass the ball" by then-team boss Monta Ellis, and when it came to the game, he still went his own way and started with a three-pointer.

Dream once told him to see his teammates, but he replied, "The Warriors gave me so much money to let me shoot." ”

He is like Kobe Bryant because of his absolute confidence in himself and is not disturbed by external remarks. At the same time, when his hands are hot, any line of defense is wiped out in front of him.

37 points in a single quarter, 60 points on 11 dribbles, 11 three-pointers in 16 Western Conference finals, and 14 three-pointers in a single game.

Klay Thompson is actually the craziest scorer and the most explosive scoring man since Kobe.

Some people say that he is "top 3D", but if he is classified in the ranks of 3D, it is undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow, or the ceiling of the industry.

But the truth is that Klay Thompson's entire career certainly deserves the level of a "top star".

For most of his career, he was the dream partner of almost every superstar.

Top-notch defensive matchups, expansive coverage from one to four, plus always-on three-point threats, and scoring explosiveness that will blow up the charts one day.

Imagine that James, Harden, Durant and even Paul stood next to Klay, how much history will be rewritten?

His greatness also lies in his selflessness.

used to be called the "Splash Brothers" with Curry, but in the 12 years of the partnership, there has never been a jealousy or competition for the limelight. Durant joined in 2016 and is now singing the praises of Curry's sacrifice.

But the fact is that in the three seasons of 16-19, it was Klay who ceded the most shots and tactical positions, and replaced Harrison Barnes on the defensive end as the number one outside lock and took on the heaviest defensive tasks.

When he focused too much on the defensive end chasing the opposition's top cards, causing his offensive efficiency to drop, no one cared about his feelings.

Remember how many doubts he had because of the inability to shoot 3 points against the Bulls on 10/30/18 and he scored 52 points on 14-of-24 three-point shooting?

Nobody remembers.

Just like now, many people default to Dream Chaser as the team's "No. 2 man", and he is just an "old 3D" who is exhausted, has inaccurate projection, and occupies the pit and does not.

Now that he is old, he can't vote, or he can't vote for the time being, but he has begun to suffer a lot of criticism.

Today, the Warriors lost 109-128 at home to the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Klay Thompson made 1 of 10 shots, 5 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, ranking eighth on the team in scoring, once again pushing him to the forefront.

For the sake of big contracts, he did not hesitate to brush data and shoot wildly,

Suppressing young people, regardless of the life and death of the team,

Declining status, corpse vegetarian meal

This time I put up five fingers, because I only scored five points.

All the vicious banter can be found in his post-match comments.

At first glance, it seems that it was Clay's ugly performance that led to the team's loss. But in fact, the team was pulled away by the Thunder after more than half of the first quarter, once trailing by 19 points, and although the score was chased to 83-84 in the third quarter under Paul's tandem, the Thunder pulled away again with Isaiah Joe's three points, and finally won 128-109 by almost 20 points.

Such a big defeat, is it really Clay's pot?

Or, it seems that fans have misjudged the opponent who is now 8-4 and in fifth place in the West. On November 4, against the Thunder, who lacked the core Alexander, the Warriors, who were all on the line, only won by 2 points at 141-139, relying on Curry's final kill.

And today, Curry was sidelined due to injury and was suspended for Dream Chaser. The only one in the Warriors team who can really carry the team's firepower is Klay, and the Thunder's blockade of him, especially the connection with Paul, is almost crazy, even Kerr admitted after the game

"They (the Thunder) played a focused defense against him (Klay) and it made him very uncomfortable. Dort was always there for him and did a fantastic job and we couldn't create any space for him. ”

Although the Warriors scored in double figures with seven players today, only Kuminga scored 20+ (21 points). Thunder's thinking is clear

Without Curry and blocking Klay, the rest of the Warriors can't beat us.

Even the opponent understands the truth, but in the eyes of some Warriors fans, Klay is no longer the craziest firepower of the team other than Curry, who has saved the team countless times.

Now he is a crazy and clumsy old man who puts the interests of the team out of the way for a personal contract extension.

Where does he still deserve a 40 million contract, he is nothing when he leaves the Warriors!

The same plot was played eleven years ago in another great shooter, Ray Allen.

In the 2011-12 season, the 36-year-old Ray Allen was unable to renew his contract with the Celtics, and his position in the team was challenged by newcomer Avery Bradley. Although he can still shoot 14.2 points and shoot 45.3% from three-point range, his situation is not the same as five years ago when the Big Three first became an army.

Coupled with the conflict with Rondo, KG and Pierce, the two old guys, also stood by lukewarmly.

Finally, at the end of that season, Allen, whose contract expired, rejected a two-year, $19 million extension from the Green Army, and instead joined the Miami Heat, where his old rival LeBron was located, for two years and six million.

Why ask for a lifetime of negative energy!

We all know what happened later, in the sixth game of the 12-13 Finals, Allen used a goal that can be called the best three points in the Finals (I am afraid that only Irving beat the Warriors in 16 years), stifled the Spurs' dream of winning the championship at home, won a precious seventh opportunity for the Heat and LeBron, and finally defeated the united Spurs after seven games.

LeBron won his second championship + FMVP, and Ray Allen also won his second championship.

Since then, the conflict between him and KG and Celtic has continued, almost never contacting each other, until KG's Celtics jersey retirement ceremony in March this year.

Will the equally conceited and arrogant Clay follow the old path of Ray Allen?

I hope that the Warriors management and some fans will not force him to take this step.