Legend within legend, mysterious and real old school BUG,
—Wilt Chamberlain.
2W, 100, still unbelievably average of 50 points and 25 rebounds per game in a single season in the year of data explosion,
Keywords: Monster physique? Free throw dunk? Data brush?
Fifty years ago, when my father was born, Chamberlain was killing in the alliance.
Speaking of which, Burren and the fans of our generation are really two generations behind.
In terms of age, that is really the generation of "called Grandpa".
Spanning 50 years,
Even across the development of video technology,
Spanning the history of basketball from barbarism to the streets,
Chamberlain's figure is surrounded by 100 points, 2W chop figures,
Behind the ambiguity, some people sing, some people doubt.
Let's take a look at Chamberlain's static data:
He is 2.16 meters tall.
Arm span 2 meters 33 (measured live on March 11, 1967 when recording the show with boxing king Ali).
He weighed 226 pounds in his rookie period (about the weight of three of the four centers), and 272 pounds in the Lakers period (heavy C, but still lighter than O'Neal's 294 pounds).
"Calm down" look, tall, long, strong, even if it is placed in next year's draft is also amazing hardware.
But such hardware can only be said to be rare, not nothing. Gobert has been quite good in recent years.
Then look at dynamic data – bouncing.
In the 1960s, there was no such sophisticated high-end high-precision measurement equipment as it is now.
At that time, people didn't care so much about physical testing now, not bad, see you on the pitch.
How strong? How fast? How high to jump?
Long eyes, look at the game.
About Chamberlain's bounce, there are very detailed side data:
When he was in college, Chamberlain loved to play athletics, and the results measured on the track and field were all solid results.
In the High Jump competition at BigEightConference, he used the belly roll to jump out of the IAAF-certified 1m 98 (1m99 on the ATHLETICS Federation website) and won the championship twice.
It is said that the skills are average, but this height is very pompous to jump like this.
90% of the Chamberlain videos that can be found on the Internet are "color sheets" after 1968.
That's all his business after he was 32 years old.
Chamberlain in the Lakers period also had some very sci-fi shots.
The "no cover" sky hook was only hated by four people (there is a video record), which is:
2m 24 God Taraf Sampson, 2m 18 was blown interference ball Artis Gilmore, took advantage of the sky hook has not yet shot directly pressed Down Bill Willoughby,
The only one who has been hooked for many years and can wear a hat is Chamberlain.
During the Lakers period, 270 pounds.
How did Chamberlain bully his opponents of that era?
In fact, it was not until the 73-74 season that the NBA began to count the "block" data.
At that time, Lao Zhang had already retired.
In 2015, the NBA official was quite attentive, found some surviving game videos, and counted a wave of 112 games in Chamberlain's career.
In those 112 games, Chamberlain averaged 8.8 caps per game.
That's more than Aegis Russell averaged 8.1 in 135 games...
If the NBA had started counting blocks early, Chamberlain's caps might have been more
- The reason is said later.
After bouncing, let's take a look at Chamberlain's power.
Chamberlain is the national collegiate shot put champion with a score of 17 meters, which is also a Kansas school history record, and is certified by the university of Kansas.
Buddies who play regularly should know that the power thing on the court can only rely on "feeling", and the visual bounce is not so obvious.
"Chamberlain is very energetic (a little strange to pronounce)."
This is the part that Chamberlain's acquaintances/opponents/teammates talk about Chamberlain the most.
Remember that in 2008, IT WAS VERY POPULAR TO LEAVE AN "IMPRESSION" ON QQ,
After watching a lot of interviews, if these people are also on QQ, Chamberlain's "impression" there should be all:
"Zhang Dali".
Characters who have personally admitted to having been easily "lifted up" by Chamberlain include:
"Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger (thanks to the JRS subtitle group),
Arch-rivals Celtics named Hafricheck, KC Jones (KC Jones said that after a blocking and disguising, he was easily "moved" to the side by Chamberlain, and his legs were shaking in the next round when he took the ball),
Star striker Paul Silas (picked up by Chamberlain with both hands),
Bob Rainier (2-meter, 11,240-pound 70s All-Star center, writing in "NBA's Most Memorable Memories" that "every time the card slot, Chamberlain put me aside like a coffee cup").
Phil Jackson (was hung off the ground by Chamberlain's arm while committing a shooting foul on Chamberlain).
In 1976, 40-year-old Chamberlain, without bending his knees, directly "picked up" comedian RedButtons.
There are also very detailed data about Chamberlain's speed,
The speed data recorded in the athletics competitions during the college years is
100 yards (91.4 meters) 10 seconds9.
440 yards (402.3 meters) 49 seconds.
A person of 2 meters and 16 meters, the front acceleration is actually quite difficult, and it seems that it can really run in the race.
Or the video material of the late 50s and early 60s - Chamberlain's real mythical beast years.
Chamberlain's physical strength:
He averaged 48.5 minutes per game in the 61-62 season, 48 minutes on the field, and played a few extra hours to give 30 seconds per game.
Willis Reed had this to say about Chamberlain's physical strength:
"His physical strength is basically the opposite of Abdul-Jabbar (Jabbar's durability is great but his physical strength is average),
He can play for 48 minutes.
Drink a large bucket of Qixi (the shuai's favorite drink is Qixi / Legend has it that he ate a roast chicken at the midfield meeting of Qixi), and then dried it for another 48 minutes, relaxing and enjoyable. ”
From '96 to '08, Ironman Iverson averaged almost all of his playing time in more than 40 minutes.
Why?
No, the players of the 60s did have individual privileged players such as Russell who averaged 40 minutes per game.
But ninety percent of the players have a rotation time similar to the one they have now.
Chamberlain, who used to play a full field, is this one in history.
Look at it this way,
Chamberlain's physical condition is not "cross-era" at all,
Because which era to cross,
Nor can I find such a body.
My NBA Strongest BODY List:
Flyer - Floating Moment - Jordan
Emperor - Flying Tank - James
Sharks - Big Macs - O'Neal
Goliath - The Perfect Elder - Chamberlain
Epic within epic.
Small pick-and-rolls are the main means of Oxlade-Chamberlain's attack on the edge of the three-second zone.
In front of Kobe, the Lakers' favorite celebrity to turn over and lean back is also Burren.
His rebounding pass was even one of the strongest in history.
The one-handed work he practiced on the Harlem basketball team made his passing full of rage.
Some people adapt to the rules, some people challenge the rules, and some bugs can change the rules.
In 1955, Chamberlain went to college.
According to the rules of the NCAA that year, freshmen cannot play official games.
So Chamberlain led a group of freshmen who could not play in the intramural training game to abuse the seniors.
He himself got 40+30+15.
Chamberlain's performance on campus scared the NCAA,
Because before Chamberlain, there was no such person in the basketball world.
A generation of McCann has not been so fierce.
Chamberlain became an unpredictable BUG — how would he affect college basketball or even professional basketball?
So in 1956, the teams sat down with the NCAA Referees Association:
"This kid is so powerful, what should I do?"
Before Chamberlain rose to sophomore year, the NCAA hastily revised a bunch of rules. Everyone was tongue-tied, each tailored to Chamberlain according to the "undefendable situations" they saw.
Some of the rules are a little ridiculous against Chamberlain.
For example, the rule that "it is forbidden to throw the ball from behind the rebound when the bottom line is served in front of the court",
It is to prevent Chamberlain from taking off the basketball at the height of "no one can touch it" and directly connecting it.
The most ridiculous rule change is a penalty rule,
The NCAA Rule Modifier Association puts "when a free throw is taken, no one can step on the free throw line before the ball touches the rim or rebound",
Changed to "When making a free throw, no one can put their foot inside the free throw line before the ball touches the hoop or rebound."
What's the difference? Looks like crap.
However, this rule adjustment was later brought into the NBA with Chamberlain.
Why?
This leads to one of the most incredible legends:
Chamberlain can complete the free throw with a dunk.
In the first dunk contest, 2.24 meters Ralph Sampson used a short running assist and followed the free throw line with his feet to dunk.
As for whether Chamberlain can use a dunk to make a free throw, many brothers may feel:
"This wave is about to be debunked."
But this is basically certain, it is true.
- "Triangle Offense" master, Hall of Fame coach, then president of the Basketball Rules Recommendation Association, and rule-changing participant Tex Winter personally proved that Oxlade-Chamberlain, a freshman, would take three big steps outside the top of the arc (not in place), use shorter run-ups, and dunk on free throws.
Because his foot stepped on the penalty circle when he "shot",
After the ball was dunked into the basket, his foot stepped within the free throw line,
Therefore, this method does not violate the previous basketball rules at all, and is a BUG that is "completely unimaginable" in the rule setting.
I'd love to know what the feelings of the players who stood on both sides of the three-second zone and watched Chamberlain take off...
After the invincible dunk penalty was banned by law, the penalty also became a hard injury for Chamberlain.
He shot just 51.1 percent from career free throws.
That's worse than O'Neill's 52.7 percent.
Celtic star Heinthorne said he had seen Chamberlain entertainingly score 25 goals and score 20 in the midfield. This is an untestable rumor.
But Chamberlain during the Lakers did hit three modern three-point hookers in a row on a team video.
Chamberlain's turnaround shots and picks are so stable, how can he not score?
Except for the years when he was twenty years younger, he had been "holding penalties" and had not practiced free throws very seriously.
Another reason is probably his excessive power.
Basketball was too light for him.
When he was with the Lakers, Chamberlain tried to stand at the farthest position to take the free throw, and then retreated to the outside of the free throw circle.
In the early middle of his career, Chamberlain also tried to control his free throw strength with the "end urinal" method, and the effect was the same.
Chamberlain later said in the interview program that how he practiced the free throw thing was useless, and there was a doctor who practiced with him for two weeks and punished him more accurately.
The NBA later adjusted a number of rules for Chamberlain:
The most primitive three-second zone is this: flasks.
The toughest of these rules is to expand the three-second zone again, keeping Chamberlain as far away from the basket as possible.
The NBA expanded the three-second zone from 12 feet (3.66 meters) in the McCann era to 16 feet (4.88 meters) to prevent Chamberlain from standing under the basket and not coming out.
In addition, the NBA also refined the rules for attacking and defending interference balls in Chamberlain's rookie season, preventing Chamberlain from scoring/covering all the balls.
Did these rules stop him?
No. We all know this.
100 points/55 rebounds in a single game
Averaged 50+25 per game in a single season.
Career averages of 30+20 per game.
An average of 1.4 girls slept with 1.4 girls a day (15 to 55 years old who didn't stop every day / although Burren himself admitted that 20,000 numbers he just wrote casually in the book).
Omnipotent led the team to the 1967 championship.
At the age of 45, he also received a contract from the Cavaliers.
So, an ultimate question:
Such an invincible player, why "only" won two championship trophies, why can he run over Russell's dunk but be defeated by Russell's team 7 times?
Chamberlain's rival + friend Russell wrote this passage in his autobiography, which I think is the most perfect answer to this question:
"To me, Wilt often seems confused about what he wants out of basketball.
A person who has changed his playing characteristics and style many times in his career will surely feel hesitant and conflicted about what he hopes to achieve.
A player's first choice is likely to be something other than victory – money, records, personal fame, one-man monopoly – and I often feel that Wilt has eagerly and deliberately made many choices. ”
In other words, there were times when Chamberlain didn't want to "win" at all.
Why did Chamberlain get such exaggerated data? Although the NBA has accelerated in 1962, Chamberlain's data is still three notches ahead of his contemporaries.
Take a look at two real-life examples from The BasketStone (author Bill Simmons is the first Burrenhei in the universe):
Chamberlain, who has a very good temper, will jump like a thunderbolt because of being blown foul.
Chamberlain is obsessed with all kinds of data records, yes, maybe more than we play the 2K positive career mode.
To give a more partial example,
Chamberlain has a record of "never being sent off", and in order to continue this record,
When he committed four or five crimes, he deliberately avoided physical contact, and even wanted to be replaced.
In 67, Chamberlain covered the sky with his hands, subdued the Celts, and led 76ers to win the championship.
Since then, Chamberlain has been almost satisfied with the "win" thing
Anyway, no one dares to call him a "loser" anymore.
He needs to find something else to have fun with.
So Chamberlain was hooked on passing, the blocks were not counted, and the assists were statistical.
He discovered a new "data continent." Then, in '68, he averaged 8.6 assists per game, becoming the only center assists king in history.
It is said that he used to run to the technical platform that season to see if his assists were written down.
Yes, he was willing, and never hid it.
The data that no one else dared to think about, he did so easily.
The stats, the fame, the dollar, the beauty, what he wanted, not bad, all got.
When Russell was plagued by racial discrimination, Chamberlain was indifferent, walking among celebrities, and his self was larger than the territory of the United States.
Pleases.
At the 1964 All-Star Game, Chamberlain appeared wearing Russell's jacket.
One last bit about Chamberlain,
Although Chamberlain looked fierce on the field,
But off the field is a gentle and delicate person (not just to the girl),
"Caring about the feelings of others", "being educated", "respecting everyone's opinions", people who have been in contact with Chamberlain have given him such an evaluation,
Chamberlain is said to have deliberately given up dunks for fear of injuring his opponent
Basketball may not really be the most important thing for him.
Across the rivers and lakes, unparalleled in the world, wild and bold, iron man tenderness.
To borrow a line from "Old Cannon":
Before I met you, I thought this kind of person was just written in a book.
After meeting you, I believed.