In 30 minutes, he shot 21-of-26 and scored 50 points, 19 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks, can you believe it? This turned out to be the data handed in by a 43-year-old veteran. In the NBL1 Eastern Basketball League, 43-year-old Lauren Jackson once again taught young players a lesson. This former No. 1 center in the world women's basketball team is really old and strong, and his sword is not old. Han Xu and Li Yueru take a look, this is the real world's No. 1 center, and the performance at the age of 43 is more vigorous than that of the 23-year-old.
As for the name Lauren Jackson, most fans still know her from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when she and Yao Ming had an affair. However, it is a pity that Lauren Jackson and Yao Ming, the golden boys and girls in basketball, failed to get together in the end. As a super center of the women's basketball team, Jackson was a world-class center at his peak, with a Thanos-like presence in the WNBA, and also led Australia to win the World Championship, which can be called the biggest opponent of the American women's basketball team.
In 2016, Jackson briefly retired from the game before being inducted into the Hall of Fame. However, on the eve of the 2022 World Cup, Lauren Jackson chose to make a comeback. Due to Cambage's withdrawal from the Australian women's national basketball team at that time, which also made the Australian women's basketball team empty, Jackson, who was 41 years old at the time, had to come back again and provoke the pillar of the Australian women's basketball team.
At first, there was not much attention paid to the veteran's comeback. However, in the last two years, she has grown older and stronger, and has repeatedly played with amazing efficiency in international competitions. No, a while ago, Lauren Jackson just cut the super data of 43 points and 22 boards. Recently, she went on a rampage again, playing only 30 minutes in the whole game, and cut 50 points and 19 boards. What's more, what's even more terrifying is that she only hit 21 goals in 26 shots in this campaign, and the shooting rate is also quite terrifying.
As a player who was once a contemporary of Chen Nan and a big man on the inside, Chen Nan withdrew from the national team as early as 2016 and chose to retire soon after. You must know that Jackson, who was born in 1981, is actually 2 years older than Chen Nan, who was born in 1983. Among the women's basketball players, Chen Nan is already a top insider, and he is also a well-known old evergreen, compared with Jackson, Chen Nan is still far behind.
At present, the inside big men of the young generation of the Chinese women's basketball team, Li Yueru and Han Xu, are expected to be high, and they are regarded as the twin towers of the women's national basketball team. However, compared with Jackson, the gap between Li Yueru and Han Xu and her is still very large. Not to mention that compared with Jackson at the peak, even if Jackson is now 43 years old, her lethality on the offensive end is not comparable to Han Xu and Li Yueru. The 43-year-old veteran may become a big dark horse at this year's Olympics.