Hello everyone, I'm Jimmy Butler, I got 40 points today and grabbed seven rebounds in the frontcourt, but the happiest thing for me is because I hit the killer and helped the team win, and there's nothing more fun than that. Because victory gives me a sense of presence, it fills me up, and I love that feeling.
No way, who made my life miserable when I was a child, and I was kicked out of the house by my mother at the age of 13. Even the last words before parting were so cruel, "I don't like your looks, you go." ”
In the next four years, I was upside down, old sofas, old mattresses, I slept, as a teenager I experienced the taste of being in a precarious place, so I had to try my best to seize every opportunity I could, and at this time I only had basketball in my life. I didn't stay at Leslie's house until I was 17 and I loved the feeling of home.
Actually, I didn't play basketball that well when I was a kid, at least at Tombol High School. I was lucky enough to meet Coach Williams, who had just taken over, and thanks to his help I was able to join Marquette University, I thought it was probably all predestined.
But Coach Williams was really tough, and I'll never forget the last training session before the season.
The coach asked us to contact the sprint run. It was almost the last set of sprints, I gritted my teeth, and finally reached the standard. However, due to the excessive force of the last step, the soles of the sneakers were worn. As a result, the coach looked at the tired lying on the ground and said, "You're not up to the mark." ”
"But I've put all my shoes on, what do you want me to do?"
"Don't talk nonsense, start all over again." The coach simply ignored my request.
So I had to change my broken shoes and go back to the court.
A new round of sprints has begun.
That's what the coach taught me, no matter what happens, no one cares about you, only the result matters, it makes me better and tougher. No matter where you are, when the ball rolls on the field, even if you know you don't have a chance to get the ball, you have to chase, to grab, you have to try to get the ball.
It was this indomitable strength that helped me survive marquette. Just the other day, Wade, the big brother who just joined the Bulls this year, set a new goal for me, the Hall of Fame.
In 2011, as an older rookie (22 years old), I had neither superior speed nor impressive height and arm span. After waiting for 29 picks in the first round, he was selected by the Bulls in the last signing, becoming the last first-round player to be selected that year. I guess they were just looking for a guy who could drain LeBron's physical strength. To fight physically, I will not lose.
However, the Bulls were still a strong team in the East, with a record of 50 wins and 16 losses in the 2011-12 shrinkage season, ranking first in the East. Maybe my estimates were still too optimistic at the time, and after a season, I didn't get any opportunities to perform.
But I have to fight for every goal and never be lazy, and Coach Thibodeau agrees with this from time to time. In the 2013 playoffs, I finally waited for my chance.
They let me stare directly at each other's arrow figures, from Joe Johnson to LeBron James. In the last seven playoff games, I played 48 minutes in five of them and did a good job. He also averaged 14.9 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. I knew that my opportunity had come.
Over the next three seasons, I became Coach Foil's most trusted defensive player, making me a second-team member of the league's All-Defensive Team for three consecutive years. At the same time, due to the good physical fitness I practiced in college, I ranked in the top three in the league for three consecutive seasons. I think it was the college coach who helped me shape such excellent physical fitness and attitude, tenacious and indomitable.
But defense alone wasn't enough to help me get to where I am today. According to Hamilton, the "king of the middle shots", at first, my shooting posture was almost like throwing a dart. The eyesight of the CIC master will naturally not deviate. With the sharp increase in playing time, my bottleneck on the offensive end was still revealed. In the 2013-14 season, I shot less than 40 percent from the field and shot less than 30 percent from three-point range.
I guess the only solution is to practice, practice, practice again! Since my rookie season, I've been practicing with Lol Deng after games, and it was he who helped me grow into a true professional. In 2014, after an awkward blacksmithing season, I found a secluded place, cut off all contact with the outside world, and practiced three times a day to strengthen my shooting skills.
In the 2014-15 season, I came back from practice and became more confident and decisive in shooting. But I also have my own trick, which is to use breakthroughs to go to the free throw line to improve efficiency. I also stepped up the number of attacks under the basket and the number of back-punches. Over the course of a season, my shooting percentage (46.2 percent) and three-point shooting percentage (37.8 percent) have improved dramatically, and my average score per game has increased to 20 points.
At the end of the season, I received my first award of my career, the most improved player of the year. I'm also the first guy in Bulls history to win the award. It was only then that it dawned on people that I might really be a genius. Hard-working genius!
I don't want to be short-lived. In the 2015-16 season, I built on the previous one. On January 3, 2016, in an away game against the Raptors, I scored 40 points in the second half, breaking the team's half-time scoring record held by Michael. Just ten days later, on Jan. 14, I scored a career-high 53 points. The last time a Bulls player scored 50 points was back in 2004, and even Rose failed to do that.
At one point this summer, the Bulls had rumors that they wanted to trade me. I also expressed my helplessness, am I going to be abandoned again?
But now it seems that maybe when I played that crazy series of performances in January, the team's management already knew that I was the person they were looking for.
Eventually, they sent Rose and Noah away, and brought in Rondo and my brother Wade. I thought it was time to prove myself.
Recently, when facing the media, the brother talked about his experience of partnering with the "big shark" O'Neill when he was young. Shaq was an alliance boss at the time, but he also cared for a new person like him, and Shaq also compared himself and his brother to "Superman" and "The Flash". Now that my brother has returned to his hometown, he told me that he saw in me what he looked like when he was younger.
After being an All-Star for two consecutive seasons, I think I'm already one of the strongest guys in this position in the East.
But this season I'm averaging a new record number of points per game (24.5 points per game). Everyone has always been not optimistic about the bulls, but we are still firmly ranked eighth in the east.
To say that I may not really have any particularly powerful weapons now, counting is dribbling breakthroughs, using large strides to occupy space, breaking through layups or making fouls, using blocking and demolition emergency stop jump shots, and three threats to break through baskets or throws. There are not many tricks, only familiar.
Probably for this reason, many fans can't even say what my signature move is. But that's okay, I'll keep making progress. After all, I am a genius, a genius of hard work.
Today's game, the coach arranged for me to finish the final blow at the last moment. I made a tentative step first, then withdrew and made a jump shot. The moves are not complicated but work. Bogdanovich couldn't do anything about me. Bingo, Jedi. This feeling is cool.
I think I'm still getting used to my new role, but I'll be getting used to it very quickly. Well, that's it for today, I'm going to practice.