This article was written almost after Yao Ming’s injury in 2009, and the data was only up to that time.
At that time, the concept of “load management” should not be popular, so I can only explore by myself.
The fate of NBA giants is related to weight and playing time.
Until 2009 — I didn’t count the later tabits — there were 15 super giants over 221cm in NBA history, 5 of which were like Halbrook and the stream of Hesheng town, it is basically impossible to play.
People who can count numbers can be divided into two categories.
The first is the fairy wind bone type: 231cm Manut Bohr, 229cm Sean Bradley, 221cm Randi bulloor and so on. These people have been thin since they entered the industry and retired.
The second is the bear-in-the-way type, such as Mark Eaton and Sabonis, which are their own strong physique.
Another type changes from the fairy wind bone to the bear, which is called fafengtu fat type for short, such as Yao Ming, Smith and ilgoscas:
All three of them are non-black centers, all of whom have good jump shots and have been trying to become a tougher Center all their lives.
All the big men with thin bones have relatively healthy careers, but they are often buckled by the media with a “soft” hat.
Xiong Xiaoxiao was the powerful leader of Kong and Wu. Mark Eaton only defended and did not attack, so he was healthy and died. Sabonis was injured all over his body since he was 25 years old. When I arrived in the United States, I was 31 years old and said that my knees were 131 years old.
Yao Ming and Big Z have frequent injuries.
In Yao Ming’s later period, his legs were thick and thin; Irgoscass’s legs were covered with broken bones and steel nail, so that his doctor was surprised at first sight: “What’s going on?”
Ilgoscas smiled lightly: “It’s a long story……”
NBA has its physical scale. For example, 190cm in the first line, players weigh more than 80 to 90kg; 200cm in the first line, 100kg is counted as standard; 210cm players look thin without 120kg; more than 220 giants are in a dilemma: if they do not have more than 140 kilograms, they will appear fragile; If they exceed this weight, their knees and ankles will not be able to support them.
After all, basketball needs to run and jump. Muscles can be strengthened, but muscles and bones have their limits.
Probably, to be a super leader in NBA, you either float and play for a long time.
Or be a tough guy in everyone’s mouth and get hurt.
If you don’t mention Yao Ming, the most successful player over 220cm in NBA history is also a thin man, that is Ralph Sampson, who is famous on the rocket young pioneer team history. But his career has the following similarities with Yao Ming:
In the first three seasons, the number of appearances was 82, 82 and 79 respectively. In the rookie season, he won the title of the annual Rookie every month, with an average of 21 points and 11 rebounds. In the third season, he even formed two towers with olajuwang and knocked down the Lakers, enter the 1986 finals. However, from the age of 26 to the age of 31, the total number of six seasons retired was only 213 fight in a war.
His playing time in the first three seasons was 2693 minutes, 3086 minutes and 2864 minutes respectively, and since then, the most season was only 1663 minutes.
The performance of the first three seasons with an average opening of 35 minutes overdrawn his health.
I have concluded that in NBA history, there is a timeline for the appearance time of Giants above 221cm:
Their appropriate and healthy playing time ranges from 1500 minutes to 2300 minutes per season. If it is converted into 75 games, it will be about 20 minutes to 30 minutes per game.
Say Yao Ming.
From 2002 to 05, Yao Ming was a healthy, flexible, thin and accurate young Center of China Investment Corporation. His foothold in NBA is smart moving, soft hand feeling, plus the big dream signboard of “left lumbar support pillow outer back receive the ball immediately turn over the bottom line. At the beginning of this trick, NBA is shocked by heaven, but it is actually a kind of helplessness: The strength is not enough, and if it is not low, it has to rely on pace.
2002-05, just like the propaganda video of Tai Chi when he first joined the league. He played Jet Li in “The death squads”. Facing his tall and powerful opponent, he played the leading role with his wisdom, humor, lightness and skill, as if he were in various furniture, corridors, floors, between helicopters fly over the eaves and run on the walls Jackie Chan. He was very clever, four or two thousand Jin, and then he was installed, “he always jumps, why not dunk directly?” “He has insufficient strength” as the reason for “Yao Ming’s soft egg.
2005-08, Yao Ming is overbearing, thick and hurt a lot.
In those years, he was one of the most terrible Western low-level attack weapons in the West. The shark rushed to the east, Duncan went to play the block and split, and buze walked high and low in the UCLA system. Dirk was still playing the noodle basket at that time. Yao Ming is almost the last backbody singles giant in the West. Behind 20+10, continuous injuries.
In the 2002-03 season, the game averaged 29 minutes and 82 appearances; In the 2003-04 season, the game averaged 33 minutes and 82 appearances; In the 2004-05 season, the game averaged 31 minutes and 80 appearances. Best performance: 18 points and 8 rebounds per game.
In the 2005-06 season, the game averaged 34 minutes and played 57 times; In the 2006-07 season, the game averaged 34 minutes and played 48 times; In the 2007-08 season, the game averaged 37 minutes and played 55 times. In the past three years, he has averaged 20+10 levels.
2008-09 season, a perfect season. The health game played 77 games, the second round in the West. This is his first and only season that integrates insider rule and health. But as you know, this is the end. On May 4, 2009, he was the most gorgeous light. Since 1997, the Houston Rockets played the first Western semi-final. At the home of the Lakers, he scored 28 points and 10 rebounds. At the last moment, the king returned and walked back from the aisle.
That was Yao Ming’s actual farewell war.
Yao Ming from 2005 to 09 was not so smart.
From 2002 to 05, his problem was not in place; In 2009, his problem was to reach the deep position but to be bypassed.
During 2005-09, he used his power to hard pillows to the position, relying on, squeezing, turning over, and casting. Tough, strong, commanding. However, during this period of time, the criticism against him was “much hurt, heavy and ugly, not as flexible as in 2002”. Wait, wait.
Yao Ming’s movement, bounce and arm show are not as good as Da Zhi. His height advantage hides the weakness of injury. If 2002-05, he is still relying on talent and intelligence, then 2005-09 is his incredible diligence and fortitude. He played the Olympic games with injuries in 2008. On May 4, 2009, he returned from the King in Los Angeles. His hardiness reached the peak.
His injury history:
In the NBA from 2002 to 05, Yao Ming only missed two games and has not been healthy since then.
The bone spur of the left ankle was removed in the summer of 2005, and the left toe was injured in December, 2005.
In 2006, the left toe was injured in turns, and then the right leg was fractured in December, 2006.
In 2008, the left foot suffered a stress fracture, and then the Olympic Games forcibly returned.
In the summer of 2009, the left foot of the Lakers was broken, and then a major operation was performed in the summer to rest for a year.
Stress fracture in December 2010 (the second time).
In December 2006, his right leg fracture was hit, which was considered as “hard injury”. 2008-10 these left foot injuries are two stress fractures (2008 and 2010) and one fracture (for the Lakers in 2009), which are caused by fatigue and wind erosion, and are considered as “soft injuries”. If you have better luck, you can hide from hard injury, but you cannot avoid soft injury.
He came out to play the Asian championship after the operation of the left foot spur in 2005. Champion.
He came out to play the World Championship after his left little toe operation in April, 2006.
In 2008, he returned early to play the Olympic Games due to stress fracture.
What is the weight of the word pure center?
Before the shark entered the game in 1992, in NBA, Jabbar’s lightness beautiful sky hook, the pace of big dreams, the left waist turn-over shot, Ewing’s jump shot, David Robinson’s Sikma step, the standard Center routine is McHale’s step up and down, and the Willys Middle Road turns over a small hook.
When the shark’s strong button and forced bottom line turned over, it was considered as a strange trick against the trend, just like the world’s sword fighting, only the purple gold hammer with Li Yuanba shouting the wind.
In 2002, when Yao Ming entered the stage, the Chinese investment center, turning over and striking were exactly the skills of NBA textbooks. However, those who used to shark purple gold hammer would regard this whole set of moves as soft eggs, it’s a flower fist embroidered leg, and it’s a heresy of “why doesn’t he force dunk like a shark.
In 2009, Shark said that he was the last pure center and the last big man.
In fact, Yao Ming from 2005 to 09 also did the same.
The giant who also carried the name of “heterodoxy center” at the beginning became the template of “the last pure center of the era” in the end.
Strength, keep healthy, move in position, take the ball, lean, turn over, Hook, shoot, middle pitch, skillful pace, read bag clip, divide the ball, protect RIM, card position.
Throughout the NBA career, the change of Yao Ming’s football style, the process of changing from light to heavy, from elegant to hard, from intelligence to hard work, from health to injury. His responsibility reached its peak from August, 2008 to May, 2009.
He added weight, played like a man, did not hesitate to get hurt; Took so much time, so many games.
It’s like a deal of fate:
“You can play healthy, but play a supporting role like 2002-05; Or become the core like a man, but you will experience injuries from 2005 to 08.”
Yao Ming exploited his potential to the maximum and almost overdrawn with the “most diligent alliance” praised by Van Gandi.
He must know his injury situation better than anyone else, but he still chose this path.
So in 2009, Yao Ming carried the three towers of the Lakers to the Lakers, and the battle fell. He must know more about his body and what his choice means than us.
Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of Yao Ming’s retirement.
