It is said that the current point guard has not had time to wait for his teammates to stand firm and find the opportunity to rush to shoot, although the technical content is there, but the ornamental is extremely low, no matter how many high scores there will always be fans who do not buy it, just because they do not really play the meaning of the point guard....
So, is there a kind of immortal-level point guard template that can be called a world wizard?
Guess who the captain thought of first?
Anfinney Hardaway!
That's right, the penny.
What is a unique wizard?
With a height of 2 meters 02 and a weight of 98 kilograms, he is the perfect small forward figure data, but he is extremely fast, fast and slow, with a delicate pace and a wide field of vision, a smart and scheming style, and the traditional wind + classical beauty is vividly displayed on him.
The brain is both sober and unusual, thinking about assists and then thinking about the main attack, always cashing in on his extraordinary imagination, as if he was born for the creativity of the court.
Of course, it is too far-fetched to conclude that he is a unique wizard with this misplaced style of play, after all, there are not many stars with upper advantages in the history of the NBA.
The first point guard in history, Magic Johnson, is 2 meters tall and has a ball quotient who plays from the 1st position to the 5th position, which can be said to be an inaccessible god on the point guard, but it is also such a god, when seeing Hardaway playing, he said bluntly: This is like himself in the mirror playing.
And the most incomparable to other players is that he sits on the temperament and aura of Jordan's successor, in that star-studded 90s, Hill and Hardaway who is the real Jordan successor is probably a debate between many people that will never have an answer...
But obviously, as an early idol figure, had a more potential for had a flowing style and a superstar face, and even Jordan himself admitted: "If I had to choose a successor, then Hadaway would be my first choice!" ”
In the first three years of his career, he took two first shots, and the next year he led the team to the finals, and the popularity of the whole people was not inferior to Hill...
Look at the shoes that Nike specially designed for Hardaway that year, each pair of shoes is the best looking and most special of all the sneakers in the same period, all in detail. And it is not only Nike who spends a lot of time to praise him, basically all sponsors are willing to throw gold on him, you know, this is the next Jordan!
But unfortunately, since entering the league in 1993, being selected in the 1994 team, eliminating Jordan in 1995 to enter the finals, and the top 20% of MVP in 1996 was second only to Jordan...
Just when everyone thought that Jordan was leaving the league and the 26-year-old Hardaway was about to take over, at the end of 96, he lay on the operating table for the first time due to severe pain in his left knee...
According to common sense, it is necessary to rest for a month, but the top brass of the team who is eager to make a quick profit will let Hardaway return to the field on the 20th day, and in this way, in just one game, Hardaway fell again...
After the comeback and then injured, although in the first round of the playoffs in that year 40+ hard steel Heat, the average of 31 points per game was only lower than Jordan's 31.1 points, but it was difficult to hide the problem of tendonitis in the left knee, on this repeated pain, alive swallowing the next period of rise, originally thought it was the beginning, but it was the final peak...
In the summer of 1997, Hardaway, who had been unwell in his left knee, had to undergo surgery again, as the first NBA player to undergo minimally invasive knee surgery, but also twice in a short period of time, no matter how strong the talent could not be consumed.
But the good villain is also a super giant aura, and after being abandoned by Orlando and coming to Phoenix, there are still countless fans looking forward to his Nirvana rebirth.
However, no one expected, although there was a highlight, but in the first round of the playoffs against the Spurs, Hardaway collided with David Robinson during a dunk, and the ligament in his left knee was severely torn, which directly led to only 4 games in the 00-01 season...
Later, the aging and injured Hardaway gradually lost the main position in the team, and a generation of geniuses fell lonely, and the team could no longer play the level that people expected...
From this point of view, Hardaway has actually peaked for less than 5 years, and it can even be said that it is only 95-97 years, and finally he can play 14 seasons and persist until his retirement in 2007.
As Jordan's successor, but half of Jordan has not been able to play out, his own style of point guard full of infinite imagination space, far from the limit or even the upper limit has not been reached to the limit to hurry to death...
Once Rose fell due to a knee injury, we all said that we have only seen healthy Rose, never seen the peak of Rose, in fact, for some post-75 Chinese fans, why not the penny of the year?
Not to mention that he was only in the third grade at the time, he was selected for the league for one consecutive time + All-Star, and according to the current rules, the Rose clause had already been triggered.
But even so, people who have seen him play are all impressed by his all-round level, even after 20 years, the god in the hearts of many fans is still him, and Jordan must rank second no matter how strong he is.
Even the prototype of sawab, the first man of the dunk master, was painted by Yuhiko Inoue according to the characteristics of Hardaway, and today his sneakers and magic team jersey are still the authentic trend of the entire basketball world....
Jordan hand-picked the successor, Maddie, who wears no. 1, James' 2nd idol...
Maybe give the Magic another chance to choose between O'Neal and Hardaway, and the Magic's choice will still be the latter, but the injury shattered a beautiful fantasy in the history of basketball point guards.
This is the so-called peerless wizard, which can be called the fairy-level point guard template.