NBA opening draw to twilight Shaquille O'Neal

Chapter 446 NB's life, never disdain if

"Superstar Card: Arvidas Sabonis (Euroleague version)

Team: Real Madrid/Portland Trail Blazers

Age: 31
First position: Center

Second position: power forward
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body hidden properties

Lower Body Strength: 90
Upper Body Strength: 88
Speed: 65 Explosive Power: 66
Agility: 74 Bounce: 62
Bullet speed: 72 Physical energy: 75
Injury Resistance: 72
Offensive ability
Relay: 96 Layup: 98
Mid-range: 88 Long-range: 72
Dunks: 70 Passes: 92
Ball possession: 82 Free throws: 76
Breakthrough: 75
defensive ability
External Defense: 70 Internal Defense: 91
Rebounds: 86 Blocks: 80
Steals: 74
Comprehensive evaluation: 89 (quasi superstar)

Talent skills:
Terminator (Purple Diamond)

The movement is less deformed when making a layup or dunk, which can offset 30% of the hit rate interference caused by physical contact with the opposing player
Miao Chuan Tian Wang (Purple Diamond)
Greatly enhance the passing vision and stability, and increase the chance of triggering fancy passes by 25%
Team Leader (Gold)
For 10 seconds after a brief possession of the ball, all teammate's offensive ability is increased by 5 points

Sharpshooter (Gold)

The difficulty of shooting after receiving a pass from a teammate will be reduced by 7% within three seconds
Defensive Pillar (Silver)
After colliding with the opponent within the three-second circle, increase all defensive attributes of oneself and teammates by 3 points in the current round of attack"

……

What the hell!

Cap off my old baby!
After watching all the ability values ​​of "Roof of the World" Sabonis, Wang Ze Forest Farm fell into a long silence...

It took a long time before I could barely suppress the shock in my heart.

I have to admit that I seem to have underestimated Sabonis a bit too much.

Especially when he saw the system's specific career description of Sabonis on the lottery panel, various complex emotions such as shock, regret, respect, and regret rushed to his heart.

This is a monster for no reason at all!

In 1982, the former Mao Bear National Team visited Mimi, and the United States sent many university teams to compete with the former Mao Bear National Team. The two sides conducted a basketball diplomacy.

Most of the national team players sent by the former Mao Xiong are much older than the college players in the American NBA, but among the bunch of uncles, there is a young boy who is actually younger than the students in the United States.

This is the 17-year-old Sabonis!

Immediately afterwards, the underage Sabonis scored 25 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks in the next game against Indiana University, which can be described as a real battle to fame!
After the game, Indiana University head coach Bobby Knight specifically mentioned Sabonis:
"That kid is the best basketball-playing non-American I've ever seen!"

By the way, Bobby Knight, nicknamed "The General", is a famous basketball coach in the United States. He once coached the US national team and led the young Jordan. It is said that he once scolded Jordan to tears.

There is another interesting piece of news about Bobby Knight.

Before the 84 draft, Inman, then the general manager of the Blazers, asked Bobby Knight who he should choose, and the latter replied without hesitation:
"You must choose Jordan!"

Immediately afterwards, when Inman repeatedly emphasized that they needed a center forward, Bobby Knight shouted out the well-known sentence regardless:
"Then pick Jordan and let him play center!"

Closer to home.

Back to Sabonis.

A few days after the game against the Indiana Pacers, Sabonis met a native American super giant.

The next year's NBA No. 20 pick, as soon as he entered the NBA, he averaged 10+[-] inside giants-Ralph Sampson.

At the time, 22-year-old Ralph Sampson had just led the University of Virginia to a 25-5 record in NC.

But in this game, Mao Xiong relied on Sabonis' 21 points to beat Sampson's 13 points and successfully defeated his opponent.

The monster is growing, his footsteps are rumbling, and the bear's ground begins to shake!
……

Four years later, Sabonis, who was under 4 years old, received the following honors:

European Player of the Year, Mr. European Basketball, European Championship MVP, Champions League Scoring Champion, FIBA ​​Intercontinental Cup Champion...

The young man in fresh clothes and angry horses has long since aspired to the throne of the king of Europe.

In 1986, the final of the Men's Basketball World Championships.

America vs Mao Bear!

One of the high-profile duels between the two teams is undoubtedly the contest between David Robinson, the strongest center in the university forum from the US Naval Academy, and the most mysterious monster outside the US basketball world.

One is about to be selected as the No. 7 pick in the NBA, and the other is assisting a Lithuanian team to smash the Quartet in Europe, and the birthdays of the two are only more than [-] months apart, so they can match up.

Combined with the situation of the two rounds at that time, this game was extremely exciting.

The final result was that the United States won by 2 points, and there was no danger.

However, people pay more attention to those two talented young people.

David Robinson had 21 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks. The potential talent of the No. [-] pick is undoubtedly revealed!

Sabonis had 16 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks. As far as this game is concerned, Sabonis also showed too much.

However, due to five years of endless and uninterrupted campaigns since the age of 17, injuries finally found their way.

With the erosion of the years and the onset of injuries, Achilles tendon problems and knee problems have gradually reduced Sabonis' mobility to zero.

Once majestic and heroic, due to the sudden increase in weight, his appearance has also begun to become seriously uncle.

But this does not affect his ecstasy in autumn and his strong rule in Europe.

When the time came to 95, Sabonis achieved European dominance at the Real Madrid Club, and won the European champion, MVP, and scoring champion, so there was the following sentence:
"There is nothing in Europe worth pursuing!"

Therefore, the Portland Trail Blazers used a first-round No. 24 pick at the cost of waiting for the king of Europe for 9 years, and finally decided to prepare to land in the NBA when he was 31 years old.

After nine years, what they waited for was no longer the monster boy.The traces of time are also ruthless enough, but compared with that damn injury, it seems so insignificant.

At that time, when the Blazers team doctor Don Robert got the film of Sabonis' physical examination for the first time, he said the famous sentence to the Blazers general manager Bob Huitehit:
"You can take this photo to apply for a parking permit for the disabled (you can park for free with a disability permit, and now there are such policies in many places in China), it's good that his legs and feet can run, playing basketball? I think it's better to forget it."

In this way, Sabonis started his NBA career in the report of a professional team doctor that was equivalent to a death sentence.

In the 1995-1996 season, the 31-year-old "rookie" with infinitely close to zero mobility embarked on what may be the cruelest basketball arena on the planet.

第一个赛季，萨博尼斯每场只能出战23分钟，却能够场均贡献14.5分8.1篮板1.8个助攻和1.1个盖帽。

This super-old "rookie" does not seem to live up to the 9-year wait of the Blazers.

However, what followed was more dreamy.

In this year's NBA playoffs, in order to deal with the difficult Utah Shuangsha, the Blazers tried to increase Sabonis' playing time.In the 2:3 loss to the Utah Jazz in the series, Sabonis averaged 23.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. The price was that his average playing time in the playoffs was 12 full minutes more than in the regular season.

Considering Sabonis' physical condition, it is no wonder that countless media criticized at that time: "This is a murder!"

After the end of the first NBA season, Sabonis taught excellent transcripts, but considering his 31-year-old age, people would rather believe that this was just a flash in the pan.

If this is the season performance of the 21-year-old Sabonis, I am afraid that the outside world has already included him in the ranks of the league's super centers... It is a pity that the monster boy is gone forever.
but,

NB's life never disdains what if!
People still underestimated Sand Glass's love for basketball and his extremely strong will.

He landed in the NBA at the age of 31 and played 7 seasons.No one knows how he survived the 7 seasons, but it is undeniable that the arrival of the 2-meter giant has indeed brought a unique landscape to the entire NBA.

There are statistics.

In the first 5 years of the Trail Blazers, Sabonis, the oldest in the team, ranked first in the team for 4 years, and all of the PER values ​​exceeded 5 in the first 20 years.

What made the older generation of Trail Blazers fans even more memorable was actually the 99-00 millennium season.

In this year, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers met in the Western Conference Finals.

The 35-year-old Sao is still the starting center of the Blazers. He played 66 games this season and started 61 games. In an average playing time of 25.6 minutes, he contributed 10.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1 block and 0.7 steals.

The overall shooting percentage is still over 50%, and the three-point shooting percentage has also reached 36.6%. Considering the background of the era at that time, Sabonis's three-point ability is definitely not bad.

It's a pity that before this group of Western Conference matchups started, no one had the slightest hope of winning for the Blazers...including the Blazers themselves

Just because standing in front of them is the Zijin Legion that is about to start a dynasty.

The same is true.

The 35-year-old Shaquille was unable to resist another super monster, Shaquille O'Neal, who was ushering in the peak of his career.

But the Blazers still gave the Sharks the most uncomfortable series experience. In this series, O'Neal averaged "only" 25.5 points and 12.1 rebounds per game, and his shooting percentage was only a "poor" 53.7%...

en, considering O'Neal's 30.0+16.2 in the previous round of the series and O'Neal's 38+16.7 in the finals, Lao Sa and the Blazers have done well enough.

How good is it?

The two sides fought fiercely to grab 7, and at the end of the last 10 minutes, the Blazers led the Lakers by 15 points, and half of their feet had already stepped on the floor of the finals.

And then, the most classic collaboration shot of the OK group seemed to emerge as the times require:
At that time, No. 8 Kobe, who still had an afro, was double-teamed by two people and made a false pass. The next moment...

The shark suddenly surfaced!

After the suspense of the game was completed in this space, it came to an end.

The Sharks finally achieved a shocking reversal, advanced to the finals, won the championship, and established a dynasty...

As for the Blazers and Lao Sa?

Sorry, but it is most appropriate to borrow a classic quote from an old blacksmith:
"No.2 is the number one loser!"

In the sports arena, not many people will care about what you have paid before reaching the final goal.

Only by winning the first place and winning the crown, is it worthy of being remembered by the fans, the media, and history!

It's cruel, but true.

If the Blazers hadn't been reversed back then...

In an interview with ESPN, Drexler said of Sabonis:
"If in 1986, after Avidas was drafted, he could come to the Blazers to play immediately, would the Blazers have won a championship at that time?"

"We could win four, five or six titles together! I promise you, man, he was that good!"

This is actually not without reason.

The Blazers reached the finals in 90 and 92. What if they add a Sabonis who is younger?
If he hadn't been forced by the former Maoxiong system to fight continuously with injuries...

If only he could receive a more scientific treatment...

If he can stand on the NBA court at the age of 21, represent the Trail Blazers in the league, meet flying men and magicians, collide with big dreams, generals, orangutans...

If the Big Four centers become the Big Five...

If the later fans can witness through the video, there was such a super giant with top passing, outstanding running and jumping, back and back, and even three-point range in the NBA in the past.

Speaking of ifs, the Portland Trail Blazers have had too many "ifs":
If Bill Walton, the leader who led them to the championship in the 70s, was not seriously injured;
Had they drafted a shooting guard named Michael Jordan with the second pick in 1984;
If they don't trade away another European talent Petrovic;

If they don't send away the potential Jermaine O'Neal;
If Greg Oden failed to be out of the game due to a damn injury, he would naturally become the first emperor;
If Brandon Roy did not fall due to injury, he would become a high school coach with the same head as Gordon in advance;

If they hadn't planned to hire those unreliable veterinarians at all...

Unfortunately not if!
After reading the entire resume of Sabonis' NBA career, Wang Zelin couldn't help but feel emotional:

NB's people, after all, are NB's!
Take Sabonis, for example.

He has played around in the NBA, experienced a wave of NBA direct-to-West finals intensity with his aging body, and confirmed people's speculation about his peak health with a series of real performances and impeccable high-level data.

By the way, he also became the enlightenment idol for Chairman Yao to choose the path of basketball, and even played against Yao Ming several times after he landed in the NBA in 02.

It seems fantastic, because in the impression of many fans, the two are not players of the same era at all.

But this is what actually happened.

But who made Sabonis work until May 2003, 5, until the Trail Blazers lost the playoff tiebreaker against the Mavericks, and then officially announced the curtain call of his career.

However, after retiring from the NBA and returning to his hometown of Lithuania, the itchy Sabonis couldn't help playing for another year, giving back to the fans with a season-long retirement tour.

There is no doubt that his retirement tour has made Lithuania and even the whole of Europe seething.

Of course, this guy is not limited to just playing around.

In the 2003~2004 season, Sabonis led the team to win the Lithuanian League Championship!

In the same year, he was crowned the European League regular season champion, the MVP of the top 16, and the European team!
In the same year, he was crowned the European league regular season rebounding + blocked shot champion!
In the twilight of his career, Sabonis once again announced to the European basketball world:

Your emperor is back!
After reading all the career history of this senior, Wang Zelin became more and more convinced:

All encounters are destined.

Since God asked him to draw Sabonis among the 8 superstar cards, the number one center in FIBA ​​history and the former Trail Blazers star, he must not live up to the latter's great name.

Lao Sa failed to complete the journey in the NBA, let him help complete it!

Championship, I think it's time.

(End of this chapter)