High school star
Since the establishment of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, people seem to have to face the problem every year: a player should have been inducted into the Hall of Fame years ago, and a player who has just been inducted really does not have such qualifications.
Although such claims will always cause all kinds of controversy, both sides have their own reasons, but in Chris. Everyone was unanimous on Weber's issue: He should have been in the Hall of Fame hall eight years ago when he was qualified, not waiting so long. People who have not watched Weber's game may not have the most intuitive understanding of his basketball style, in short, he is a well-deserved "future player", and his way of playing can even be called a preview of the future situation in the NBA.
"I still remember the first time I saw Chris, in a videotape of a middle school game, a skinny junior high school junior who made 19 dunks in one game, literally abusing his opponents," said Weber, a coach at Detroit High School, Coote. "Normally, a kid his age and this height doesn't have that kind of coordination, but Chris isn't, and his technology is at least an era ahead of his peers," Kinner said. ”
Weber showed his talent for possession in high school, and when his position was fixed, he did even better. Keener wants to make him a player like the "Magician," Michigan Coach Jude. Heathcote added to his abilities by putting him in line with the four weakest players on the team.
Webb had to string his teammates together with passes while scoring his own points. In shooting training, coaches will also constantly interfere with Weber's shots with soft sticks, forcing him to shoot more arcs, which makes Weber's basketball skills more sophisticated.
A celebrity in high school basketball before Webb entered the University of Michigan, he was a three-time state champion who averaged 29.4 points and 13 rebounds per game in his final year of high school and was named Gatorade's All-America Player of the Year. But it was his experience at the University of Michigan that made him a true star player. Weber and Jaren. Ross, Zhu Wan. Howard, Jimmy. Kim and Ray. Jackson's "Michigan Tigers" became the best college group in the early 1990s, reaching the NCAA Finals twice in three years, and although they failed to win the championship, they created a myth in college basketball.
The reason for this is simple. College basketball is like professional basketball, and people who walk in will definitely need time, waiting for seniors to leave or be in poor shape to get a chance to play.
If you look at the 1992 draft, it's mostly juniors or seniors, which means there are very limited opportunities for high school students who became freshmen in college in 1991. It is possible that there will be one main freshman on a college team, or even two, but three or four is already unimaginable, and it is simply unprecedented for the University of Michigan to have five star freshmen at a time.
At the start of the 1991-92 season, the Tigers didn't have many chances to play at the same time, but after a few months, the group was fixed. "In the process of observing them, I kept imagining the five guys playing together, and in the end, I decided on this lineup," said then-Michigan coach Steve. Fisher said, "They all have a strong desire to win, everyone is willing to sacrifice for the team, and so is Chris. He will control the rhythm of the game and give his teammates breathing time without affecting the team's scores. ”
Weber at the time was known as "potentially the strongest NBA player," and his back-to-back defeats in the NCAA Championship game became the strongest testament to his career, as the University of Michigan's main roster at the time consisted of freshmen and sophomores.
They lost to Duke University, led by Hill and Leitner, in 1992 and North Carolina in 1993. Weber's famous misstep became a classic moment in NCAA history: He called a timeout at a crucial moment when the team was behind, but Michigan had already used up the number of suspensions. Surprisingly, no one underestimated him because of such achievements and experiences, and Weber is still a representative of genius. His flamboyant style of play, black stockings and loose shorts also made him an idol for children.
Webb and his teammates helped the school set a merchandise sales record, even higher than when they won the championship in 1989. This culture has also influenced the NBA — few players have brought college fame to the NBA like Webb, and few college combinations have made it into the professional league with a strong whirlwind like the Michigan Tigers. The only thing that can barely match them is the University of Houston", led by Olajuwon and Drexler.
Right place
Webb's career also had a start that looked a little crazy. He was the perfect choice for the team in the 1993 draft, but the Orlando Magic, who had just picked O'Neal the year before, felt they should give me a backcourt partner for the best center in the team. So the Magic sent the title to the Golden State Warriors, swapping back four first-round picks and Anfine. Hardaway, the Warriors also naturally chose Weber.
Webb's rookie contract with the Warriors also shows how different he is. He has the right to choose to end his contract at the end of his rookie season. That's because he didn't like then-Warriors coach Don. Nelson.
So after he led the team to 50 wins in his rookie season and won the Rookie of the Year award, Webber decided to leave, and he forced the Warriors to send himself to the Washington Wizards with a first-and-then-trade deal.
This move caused a discussion in the media at the time, and many people felt that the star player was spoiled. More dramatically, shortly after Weber left, Nelson Sr. was also fired by the Warriors, and his next base was the New York Knicks, only to be fired again less than a year after the conflict with the player, and it was learned that Weber's hostility to Nelson Sr. was not personal discrimination.
At the Washington Wizards, Weber met his old teammate Juwan. Howard, while he did well, averaging 20.9 points, 9.7 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, the team failed to achieve a single playoff victory in four seasons. In May 1998, the Wizards traded Weber to the Sacramento Kings. As Webb, 25, sat on a plane to Sacramento and looked out the window at the cows in the fields, his mood hit rock bottom because it wasn't where he wanted to go.
"When Billy, Owens came to pick me up, I was sitting in his car in tears," Weber said, "and I felt like I was being banished by the NBA." Mitch Richmond, who was traded to the Kings before Weber, made similar remarks, when the team was not only a weak team in the NBA, but Sacramento's agricultural attributes also made NBA players who are accustomed to modern cities feel like they are in hell.
When Webb came here, the Kings had made just one playoff in the last 12 seasons. When Weber arrived in Sacramento, he complained frequently, and everyone knew he didn't like playing in the Kings, and he really looked like a "spoiled child" at this time. "I kept saying to him, if God let you go anywhere, there must be his reason, you just need to find out the reason." 」 Weber High School coach Kena's wife Nedra. Kina said. She had a similar conversation with Weber when he was in high school, because he wasn't happy at detroit's rural day school, and he always wanted to go to Southwest High School with his friend Rose.
A brilliant start
Just as his experience in Detroit changed, Webb changed his mind after arriving in Sacramento. Because he found that the Kings were a very special team, and Vlad. Divac, Jason, Williams, McBeeby, Peggy. Stojakovic's days together with Tkogru will be the best time of his career when their combination played the most gorgeous game of their time.
At the height of the Kings, it was widely recognized that their offense was the best-looking and explosive in the league, at Rick. Led by Adelman (who was also inducted into the Hall of Fame with Weber), their game was as spectatorlike as harlem basketball, and Princeton's offensive reputation resounded throughout the league. Webb, Divac and White Chocolate are the leaders of this team.
Weber was initially worried that his style would not be accepted by the simple Sacramento, but the Kings fans gave him tremendous support. At the Kings, he took more triple-doubles than any other big man. Of all the players, only Jason, Kidd has more triple-doubles than he has, and for five consecutive seasons, Webb has been at the top of the MVP charts. Use his teammate Joan. Barry said, "No one loves Sacramento more than Chris, and no one loves Kings fans more than he does." ”
The Kings have won more than 50 games in five consecutive seasons, and in the 2001-02 season, they achieved the league's best 61 wins, and from 2001 to 2005, they made a total of 280 regular-season wins, ranking second in the NBA (the first was the Spurs' 292 games). In 2002, they lost to the Lakers, who later won the championship, in the most controversial divisional finals, and many called that series the "real NBA Finals." The Kings have made only one playoff since Webb left Sacramento in 2005, and now they've set a tie for the longest playoff record in NBA history for fifteen seasons.
In 2008, Weber's basketball career officially came to an end, and like many retired players, he chose to be a game commentator. At that time, he would watch the video with Coach Kina in the office after each day of training, commenting on what was happening on the field, which was very interesting and allowed Webb to watch the details of the game more uniquely.
"Everybody said it was us who were some of the coaches who let Chris. Weber grew into a great player, and Kier said, "Actually, when I got him, he was already a diamond, and all I did was polish the diamond a little bit brighter." Back then, Weber had shown people what basketball should look like in the future. ”
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