The Fifth Point Guard

"Hey, Shin, where are you going? Didn't you just come back?"

"I'm going to practice three-pointers."

Play for fun, make trouble for trouble, don't make fun of training.

The three-point shooting training time of the Great Wall of China is still going on, and today is the 15th day.

There are still 5 days before the day when the lower limit will be raised by 1 point.

Just looking at 500 three-pointers in one day, it seems very simple.

But if you want to complete the training continuously for 30 consecutive days, the difficulty is geometrically multiplied.

There is a reason why the Great Wall of China is called the Great Wall of China.

The Great Wall was not built overnight.

The same goes for basketball.

On December 2, a team carrying the "most stable" sign came.

San Antonio Spurs.

The name of this team must be familiar to fans who are familiar with the NBA.

In the last time and space of Shentong, this team has dominated the league for 15 years, spanning 3 10 years, and won 5 championships.

They are the embodiment of stability + team, playing the signature pick-and-roll + strong and weak side transfer to the extreme.

Tracing back to the predecessor of the Spurs, this team that entered the NBA from the ABA League originally had a very ugly name: the Dallas Bushes.

In 1973, the Bushes moved from Dallas to San Antonio, Texas, and officially changed their name to the Spurs.

The Spurs are also the only team that won the championship and even established a dynasty after entering the NBA from the ABA.

In the second year of the housewarming, they selected 4-time scoring champion George Gervin, the first guard in history to win consecutive scoring champions, and the player who has won the most scoring champions besides Chamberlain and Jordan.

He once set a scoring record of 33 points in a single quarter and an amazing score of 63 points in the game.

But Gervin's personal glory did not bring glory to the Spurs, because there was another faster and stronger team in the West at the same time-the Los Angeles Lakers led by "Magic" Johnson.

With Gervin being traded to the Bulls, the Spurs have entered a rebuild.

In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the 2.16-meter-tall David Robinson broke into everyone's attention. He has the figure of a center, but runs faster than most guards. He can be called the most athletic center in NBA history.

At that time, Robinson was touted by the media as "the Michael Jordan of centers."

The Spurs selected Robinson as they wished.

In fact, Robinson's first dream is not to play basketball.

His idol is Bill Gates.

That's right, Robinson is a man of science and engineering.

It can be called Xiuer among programmers.

Besides playing basketball, the talented and intelligent Robinson still misses his textbooks and study progress all the time.

Even, while serving in the Navy, he even edited an application software by himself-time management.

It was once widely circulated in the US Navy.

In just a few years of entering the league, Robinson won the honors of regular season MVP (1995), scoring champion (1994), best defensive player (1992), rebounding champion (1991) and a single-game quadruple-double. 34 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 blocks.

If it weren't for the series with "Big Dream" Olajuwon, Robinson's status in the league might be even higher.

But he was still honored as one of the "Four Great Centers" in the 1990s.

With the joining of Duncan in 1997, the San Antonio Spurs entered a new historical position.

Duncan is like the gear that the Spurs need most, making the Spurs' precision unparalleled, and every part that matches it seems to have been carefully crafted.

No matter who his teammates are, the Spurs' tactics are undoubtedly based on Duncan's huge influence on both ends of the offense and defense.

When they won the championship in 1999, the Spurs played the twin-tower combination of Tim Duncan + David Robinson, with outside shots like Elliott and "Little General" Johnson.

So far this season, the Spurs' record has been ranked third in the Western Conference. Although they have not occupied the top position in the Western Conference, they have always been firmly behind the Kings and the Lakers, and have never fallen behind.

Now the team's starting center is "Admiral" David Robinson, who is 2.16 meters tall, fit and slender. He was the No. With a strong body and a strong will, Robinson can still contribute his light and heat on the court.

Last season, Robinson averaged 14.4 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game. The statistics are not top-notch, but they are still comprehensive, especially the blocking ability, which has not declined significantly.

But this season, Robinson's decline is very obvious.

With 12.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.8 blocks, Robinson can only be regarded as a qualified inside center, but even so, he is still the spiritual anchor of the Spurs. To a good example.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope of winning, he will do his best.

As for the power forward, there is another No. 1 pick in 1997 known as "one of the twin towers", Tim Duncan.

Robinson's era has passed, and the Spurs are now in the Duncan era.

After only playing in the league for 2 years, Duncan won the championship in the third season.

Duncan has played in the league for 5 seasons so far, and none of the seasons has been lower than 20+10.

Even in the immature period of his rookie period, Duncan averaged 21.1 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game.

Duncan's stability is even scary.

He is often expressionless, but he is familiar with all the secrets in the basketball world.

He's not a nerd, he just can't laugh

Duncan's strength has gone further this season, averaging 25.5 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game. The defending champion Lakers.

The starter at small forward is named Bruce Bowen.

With a height of 2.01 meters, a thin body, and an undrafted player, these conditions seem to be incomparable with the two No. 1 picks in any case.

Then why can Bowen be the team's starter and appear with Duncan and others?

defense.

But his defense is different from the average defensive player.

Steals are not very good, the highest season of his career is only 1.4 steals, hovering below 1 per year.

Blocking shots is even worse. Bowen has almost no jumping ability, and his career high is 0.6 times per game.

Such a player turned out to be a defensive expert?

Are you afraid you made a mistake? ,

Not really, Bowen's greatest strengths are his absolute focus when defending on the court, his tough personal interference, his tremendous sense of oppression on the receiving players, forcing his opponents to make mistakes, and his blackouts. Cough cough cough.

foot.

His defensive secrets are actually brown sugar defense, which is called small moves in vernacular.

He is the kind of player who is hated by opponents, but he is the best teammate.

The two guys on the perimeter are a combination of one old and one young.

Shooting guard Steve Smith, with a height of 2.01 meters, was the No. 5 pick in the first round of 1991. He played hard and rarely made mistakes on the court.

The perfect court screw, and Popovich's favorite type of player.

Point guard Tony Parker, from France, with a height of 1.88 meters, is the No. 28 pick in the first round of this year.

As soon as he joined the NBA, Parker was entrusted with the important task of the team as the starting point guard.

Although it is actually because last season's starting point guards Johnson and Porter left the Spurs.

Before the game, Popovich, who has always been reticent, released a "smoke bomb" rarely.

"The New Jersey Nets, they are all young players with no experience. I watched them play against the Kings. I already know how to deal with them. Look at us. We will take a victory from New Jersey."

Uncharacteristically, there must be fraud.

Everyone is waiting to see how the Spurs snipe the Nets in the limelight on the court.