NBA: Becoming stronger starts with hard work and mastery

The season is coming to an end, but the season is coming to an end.

Han Yi: 22 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 4.3 blocks, 2.2 steals, 6.2 turnovers, 44% shooting, 33% three-point shooting, 75% free throw shooting.

These data are not much worse than Tim Duncan!

The slogan shouted by the Celtics' fanatical fans is: "Tim, don't think your best rookie is stable!"

But the Spurs fans are not easy to mess with: "We can't just look at the record, show the record if you have the ability!"

Then the Celtics fans stopped talking. The record of 5 wins and 10 losses is really not very impressive, brother!

The Celtics' record of 5 wins and 10 losses ranks them third from the bottom in the Eastern Conference and fifth from the bottom in the league.

The San Antonio Spurs are sixth in the Western Conference!

The gap is really not a little bit!

But the Celtics have their reasons for their poor record. After all, your Spurs have a real All-Star David Robinson!

And Derrick Coleman, the most experienced Celtics player, has not passed the coach's physical fitness test yet and is running hard.

No matter how strong Han Yi of the Celtics is, he is just a rookie!

Although the best rookie will refer to the team's record, when comparing the record, the comparison of the lineup differences cannot be ignored.

And more important than the team's record is the personal data!

After all, the Best Rookie Award is a personal award for the player, not a collective award for the team.

In terms of personal data, Han Yi is naturally not inferior to Duncan!

But there are still many people who question Han Yi, and even directly label him as a data brusher!

"Han Yi, as a seven-foot center, you attack the basket less than one-third of the total number of shots in each game. Aren't you not doing your job properly?"

"Han Yi, you are a seven-foot center, but you don't go to the inside to fall into the low post. You always stick your butt out of the three-point line, dribbling, dribbling, and completely disrupting the team's normal offensive operation system!"

"Han Yi, you are a seven-foot center, and you always mess around in the three-point line. What are you doing? As a center, if you stand outside the three-point line and can't make a shot, tell me how are you going to grab rebounds? Let the guard grab rebounds? ”

“Although Han Yi’s statistics are good, does he really have a positive effect on you Celtics?”

“I think Han Yi is a typical data brush. He has come to the three-point line to work in order to grab the ball.”

“Without Han Yi, will you Celtics play more reasonably this season and have a better record this season?”

These doubts first came from the fans. Later, with the Celtics’ losing streak, those media with good intentions pushed this topic to the Celtics head coach Rick Pidino.

Rick Pidino asked bluntly:

“Do you know what the record of Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in NBA history, was in the first fifteen games?”

The reporters shook their heads.

"4 wins and 11 losses!"

Rick Pidino replied with a smile:

"4 wins and 11 losses, Michael Jordan's record in the first month of his career is not as good as our current Celtics. I don't know if the media at that time also suggested that the Chicago Bulls get rid of Michael Jordan."

This sentence choked the reporter speechless, and he cursed in his heart: Good guy, good guy, what kind of person is your Han Yi, dare to casually compare him with Michael Jordan?

Rick Pidino continued:

"Han Yi is still very young. He has unlimited talent and unlimited possibilities. We will not limit his development and will not stipulate what kind of center he must become in the future. He can be O'Neal, Olajuwon, David Robinson, Mutombo, or maybe a combination of these centers."

"Of course, it is also possible that he is different from any previous center and walks out his own path, a path for a talented center that belongs to him alone. It is true that I am his coach, but I do not think I am qualified to coach such a talented player. I believe in letting nature take its course."

Rick Pidino said this with full confidence, and he stood up for his beloved disciple. I have seen people who are optimistic about their own players, but it is rare to see them praise their own players before they have achieved any results!

And it is not only the head coach who has confidence in Han Yi. O'Neal, who made drastic moves and selected Han Yi against all odds at the draft,

Compared with Pidino, the boasting of Erbach about Han Yi is only higher, not lower?

"Everyone knows that in the 1960s in the NBA, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain were a pair of famous rivals. Chamberlain was omnipotent on the offensive end. The reason why you don't have a record of him shooting three-pointers is that there were no three-pointers at that time. In that era, Chamberlain was omnipotent on the offensive end."

"Bill Russell could build a high wall on the defensive end by himself. Russell suffered a loss that he didn't have a block record at that time. If there was a block at that time, I think his block record has been passed down to this day and no one can break it."

"In the 1960s, some fans said that if Chamberlain and Russell could combine, how strong would this center player be?"

"Now, I can say responsibly that Han Yi's future is a combination of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain!"

However, the higher you praise, the harder you fall, and the more perfect the image is established, the closer it is to collapse. This truth in the Internet age was obviously not understood by most people in the 1990s when the Internet was not yet popular. But the fact that the truth is not popular does not mean that the truth does not exist.

When Han Yi was praised by the Celtics management and coaches as the unique rookie of the moment, the Celtics fans were happy to hear it, while the fans of other teams were all green-faced:

"What? Only Han Yi is the big baby? Jordan, Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain, this is nothing, Han Yi hasn't played anything yet, please, are you exaggerating too much!"

After Han Yi saw the praise and criticism of himself, he felt cold in his heart!

Han Yi felt cold in his heart not because he was scolded, but the pressure of public opinion in the 1990s was just a drizzle for Han Yi who traveled from 2024, really just a drizzle!

But there is one thing, those guys' summary of Han Yi's current playing style made Han Yi's head buzz!

What do you mean by not entering the inside line? What do you mean by crazy butt outside the three-point line?

"Oh no, I, Han Yi, have become the Embiid of the 90s?"

"Oh my god, after all these twists and turns, I have become the person I hated the most back then?"