In the 1984 NBA Draft, the Jazz selected John Stockton, who was 1.85 meters tall, with a 16th place in the first round, and Stockton began his 19-year career in Utah. During this time, he became the NBA assist king, NBA steal king, and all-star lineup. He has been named to the NBA's Best Team and Defensive Team many times, won olympic gold medals with the U.S. national team, and his total number of assists and steals is currently the first in NBA history. After retiring, the Jazz retired his jersey and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
John Stockton
Stockton, who is a white man, is of average physical fitness and confrontation on the court, but Stockton's defense is very tough, and the multiple steals king is a good proof.
In addition to being good at stealing, his ball control skills and assists are all historical, the ball control skills are excellent, the assists are accurate, there are few mistakes, and his ball style is simple and unpretentious, playing steadily, no ball technology, awareness, and the details of the work done on the field are also top-notch. Chinese basketball needs point guards like "Stockton" too much!
When we think of Chinese basketball, we think of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and other people who have fought in the NBA. But none of them played in the defender position. Chinese basketball defenders are more familiar with Sun Fengwu, Gong Luming, Liu Wei, Chen Jianghua, etc. in the past, and now there are Sun Yue, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Hu Mingxuan and so on. Although these people are the top of the domestic defender line, they still have a certain gap compared with the excellent defenders of the world's strongest teams.
First of all, our defenders are physically less confrontational than those of European and American players, and the intensity of attack and defense is often not equal to that of opponents, which makes us often have insufficient equal scores when facing stronger European and American player defenders, and once the other side is opposed, our tactical organization is often very chaotic, can not get the technical support it deserves, and the players do not have their own strong signature scoring means. This is the main reason for the difference between the Chinese men's basketball defender and the world's strongest team defender.
Secondly, the basic skills of our players are also lagging behind European and American teams, there are good bodies and good technology, in the case of physical losses in the European and American guard line, our defender line players must also recognize the gap, make up for the shortcomings in physical fitness from other aspects, enhance the cultivation of their own basketball basic skills, and narrow the gap in order to break the wrist with the world's strongest teams.
Finally, our players' skills, tactics and defense also have a lot of room for improvement, improve the understanding of skills and tactics, better read the game, strengthen physical exercise, improve defensive aggression and defensive skills, in order to make our Chinese basketball go further on the world stage
The "Stockton"-style point guard is a figure that we should learn from to refer to in the cultivation of talents in the Chinese basketball defender line. I believe that with our continuous efforts, the future Chinese basketball defender line will also appear its own "Stockton", so that Chinese basketball can truly go to the world.