Dong must have stopped James year after year. Where did the former "black Yao Ming" hibbert go?

The NBA is a place full of talented people. Every day, the most exciting games are staged, which devours some people's talents, so there are only a few people who can stay there for nearly 20 years like Duncan, James and Kobe.

The star introduced today is the post-80s generation. He is a center and is a household name in China. He is a famous teacher, tall and good at basketball; He plays hard and keeps a cool head. He is a good basket protector. He is a strong contender for the championship. Although he didn't do this, he stopped James in the East for many years. However, because of his tall figure and slow movement, he was abandoned by the current basketball. He is roy hibbert, known as "Black Yao Ming"!

Hibbert was born in1986 65438+February 1 1 in an immigrant family in Queens, new york. His mother is from Trinidad and Tobago, and her height is 1.85 meters. His father is from Jamaica, and his height is 1.88 meters. Although he is not a sports family, he passed on the highest gene to hibbert.

Compared with many immigrant families, hibbert is happy. His parents have stable jobs and their family conditions are already very good. When hibbert was 6 years old, his parents sent him to a private school in order to expose him to elegant sports and music, such as tennis, golf and piano.

"My parents always think that basketball is a sport for people with simple minds and developed limbs."

However, hibbert did not follow the path planned by his parents. He loves basketball that his parents despise. When hibbert was in the third grade, his parents suggested that he choose tennis or golf, but in the end hibbert chose a junior basketball team in new york.

At that time, hibbert, a little boy, had grown up. He looked depressed, so the coach of the basketball team often arranged for him to play with those senior players. But after all, his body is not fully developed, his coordination is poor, and his physical strength is poor, which still can't support him to walk the whole game. The coach uses him by playing only about one lesson in each game, while cultivating and protecting him.

Despite the lack of playing time, hibbert still likes to compete with his senior classmates, knowing that he can make faster progress. In the sixth grade, hibbert could dunk in the competition; By the ninth grade, hibbert's height had grown to 2.08 meters. Hibbert was favored by Georgetown Preparatory High School because of his excellent height talent, and entered this high school at the age of 14, where he met the first Bole in his basketball career-Kobe Bryant, then head coach of Georgetown Preparatory High School basketball team.

However, shortly after entering high school, hibbert found it difficult to concentrate in class, and the teacher was not satisfied with his state, thinking that he suffered from "attention deficit disorder". From then on, hibbert's classmates began to laugh at him, saying that he was a big wooden man. Hibbert, who was hit, attributed this state to his "abrupt" height, so he began to resist height and basketball.

Coach Bryant noticed this problem. When he learned that hibbert was afraid of his height, he encouraged hibbert to have confidence on the basketball court. To this end, he took hibbert to Washington to watch WWE, which made him feel brave and powerful. In addition, coach Kobe also asked hibbert's parents to take him to consciously release his nature, such as going to the big city of video games to "kill time"; At the same time, hibbert's mother, then the human resources manager, arranged for hibbert to have "close contact" with NBA stars such as O 'Neill, Juwan Howard, Duncan and Mutombo.

With the joint efforts of coach Kobe Bryant and hibbert's parents, hibbert began to accept his height and became more brave and confident. In addition, during his four years in high school, hibbert maintained an annual growth of 2-3 cm, which laid a solid foundation for his later basketball career and won him the opportunity to enter Georgetown University.

However, hibbert's college career began with setbacks-first of all, strength. In high school, hibbert relied on his unparalleled height advantage to run inside, while in college, the confrontation between adults relied more on strength, and the empty and tall hibbert could no longer stand out from the crowd. At that time, hibbert couldn't even complete the push-ups and skipping training, let alone run on tiptoe. ...

Secondly, tactics, Georgetown University has always followed the Princeton system, which requires very high running without the ball. But hibbert, as a big man and a traditional center, often makes him the target of opponents on the defensive end.

Sure enough, in his freshman year, hibbert averaged only 15.8 minutes of playing time, only four shots per game, and only contributed 5. 1 minute and 3.5 rebounds. Hibbert didn't shy away this time. He took the initiative to find two coaches, Kobe and maurer, and asked them to do special training for himself. In addition, coach Bryant invited Ewing, Mutombo and Mourning to give hibbert special training.

When these trainings and humiliations were over, hibbert replaced the original center Darrell Owens and became the main center of the school team in the following sophomore year. That season, hibbert's average time increased by 9 minutes, his shooting percentage soared by 13 percentage points, and his average score increased from 5. 1 to 1.6. Georgetown University led by hibbert also achieved a record of 23 wins 10 losses, and returned to the NCAA championship stage after many years.

Junior year is the most wonderful and regrettable season in hibbert University. At that time, Georgetown University beat North Carolina by 12 to advance to the NCAA semi-final, but unfortunately, it lost to Ohio State University led by Auden the Great and Conley in the semi-final and missed the final. However, this is the best result of Georgetown University since the 84-85 season, and hibbert was also selected as the best team in the division by averaging 12.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.4 blocks.

In the following senior year, hibbert led Georgetown University to a record of 28 wins and 6 losses, and advanced to the NCAA championship again. But in the knockout match against davidson college, hibbert fouled and Zhong davidson college scored 30 points and 5 assists, so Georgetown University was eliminated.

Although the team didn't go any further, it didn't affect hibbert's draft. He was selected by the Raptors with the handwheel 17 in the 2008 draft and traded to the Pacers, where he started his career.

In the 2008-09 season, the Pacers' star player was changed to Granger, and the team's offensive focus gradually shifted to the outside. O 'Brien tried different combinations on the inside. Several centers of the team got the starting opportunities, and hibbert got the most opportunities, with 42 starts. Although he started the most and hibbert played the least, averaging only 65,438+04.4 minutes, his average score of 7.65,438+0 was better than the other two.

With the deepening of the rookie season, one of hibbert's big problems is gradually exposed: he can't play for more than 20 minutes in two consecutive games, and hibbert's physical strength is too poor. Throughout the rookie season, hibbert only played 30 minutes in one game, but after that game, he averaged only 13 minutes in three consecutive games. Such playing time is really embarrassing for an NBA player.

In order to solve hibbert's physical problems, the coaching staff gave him the most comprehensive physical examination during the offseason in 2009. The results show that hibbert suffers from exercise asthma, which is the fundamental reason that restricts his physical strength.

Fortunately, this problem was discovered earlier, and the walker made a special recovery plan for Albert: after getting up every morning, breathe for an hour with a respirator, and then eat a nutritious breakfast; After training every day, drive to the aerobic training center for cardiopulmonary training. Hibbert has been recovering from this boring state all summer. Fortunately, he survived. Hibbert, who gradually recovered from asthma, averaged 65,438+00 minutes per game in the following season. He appeared as the starting center in 85% of the games.

Moreover, this summer, hibbert also met vogel, the second-best basketball player, when he was a defensive assistant of the Pacers. In order to improve hibbert's defensive ability, vogel asked hibbert to do two things:

The first thing is to study Howard's game video. Vogel showed hibbert all the videos of Howard's game he could find, and then he had to report to vogel.

The second thing is to let hibbert take part in a special training, let hibbert defend in the paint area under the basket, while Jeff Foster and brandon rush play two-on-one, and Rush completes the layup, while hibbert is required that hibbert must complete three blocks in a row without foul, and keep his body vertical and his arms up all the time during the defense. Cover and protect the basket.

After 09- 10 season ended, hibbert had high expectations for110 season, but in the summer of 20 10, he had an argument with the head coach at that time, because the head coach wanted hibbert to lose weight, but hibbert thought that excessive weight loss would cause his physical reserve. When the head coach made their dispute public to the media, hibbert was isolated and depressed because of the pressure, and he even began to want to escape from the Pacers.

However, things soon improved. After losing six games in a row in the new season, the Pacers chose to let O 'Brien leave class and let vogel be the temporary coach, which made hibbert happy, because vogel knew himself better. After vogel took office, hibbert scored in double figures in six consecutive games, including 20+ 10 in three games, and scored a season-high 29 points against Ben Wallace.

That summer, vogel gave hibbert Duncan's contact information and asked hibbert to train with Duncan. The coach gave hibbert a bold suggestion. He gave Tim Duncan's contact information to his lover and asked him to train with Duncan all summer, but that's what hibbert did. He learned a lot that summer, including autumn and mentality.

1 1- 12 Before the start of the season, the Pacers successfully recruited david west, a free agent, which made up for the biggest shortcoming in the team and made the Pacers a strong contender for the championship. That season, the combination of West and hibbert brought out the best in each other, and hibbert was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career. That year's playoff was also the first time that hibbert played James. Although he lost all six games, hibbert has accumulated rich experience and demonstrated his ability to the outside world by averaging 1 1.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game.

In the summer of 20 12, the rookie contract expired and was chased by the blazers. The Trailblazers offered him a huge contract of $58 million for four years, and the pacers eager to recover did not hesitate to match the contract. The team hopes to see a star player trained by himself lead the Pacers back to the top.

After the accumulation of last season, Pacers are eager to make further progress in the 12- 13 season, and hibbert has set himself a higher goal to become the best defensive player. That season was destined to be an extraordinary season for the Pacers. Granger, the boss of the team, was reimbursed after only five games. They thought they would be devastated, but they created their own miracle. Paul george, the new star of the team, took over the banner of Pacers and led the team to continue its competitiveness together with hibbert.

This season, the Pacers entered the playoffs with the third place in the East. In this final, they beat the Knicks led by Anthony 4-2. Hibbert played a great role in this series. Average 13.3 points 10.3 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game, supporting the Pacers inside.

At that time, the decision was made in the east, and the Pacers once again faced the penalty area guarded by James and hibbert, which hindered James' impact again and again. In this round of series, both sides have been fighting for the tiebreak, and hibbert has played his peak: limiting Bosh who is good at breakthrough to 1 1 point, limiting Flash who is good at breakthrough to 15.4 point, and cutting himself at the same time. If it weren't for James' superb performance (29.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists), maybe hibbert would have won the championship.

In the summer of 20 13, hibbert and teammate Masinmi found Duncan for special training again. That summer, hibbert gained weight 15 Jin, and her arms were stronger than before. The following season, the Pacers made a comeback, becoming the first in the East with a record of 56 wins and 26 losses, defeating the Heat, and the two teams met again. After being ravaged by hibbert last year, the Heat was well prepared. They treated hibbert with targeted tactics, which obviously accelerated the speed of the offensive and defensive conversion, forcing hibbert to turn back and run, while they made empty three-pointers and free throws through a lot of cover and empty cuts. This time, hibbert, who was deliberately targeted, failed to restrain Wade and Bosh, and the team had no choice but to fall in front of the Heat Big Three again.

Although he failed to cross the Heat mountain, his two-year confrontation with James, Wade, Bosh and others on the Eastern Conference stage has proved hibbert's strength. That season, hibbert was selected as an All-Star again and was selected as the best defensive team at the end of the season. This season has become the peak season of hibbert, regardless of honor or record.

In the summer of 20 14, paul george, the new core of the Pacers, suffered a serious leg injury in the national team competition, and the Pacers lost their backbone and competitiveness. In the new season, Pacers can only be led by hibbert.

However, hibbert has also been impacted by the new basketball rules and new era basketball. 14- 15 season, the league revised the "vertical take-off rules". The new rules encourage offense, limit the defensive action of defenders in the inside, and forbid defenders to turn around in the air to stop attacking players, which leads to a great increase in the foul probability of tall players like hibbert. From the general direction of basketball development, encouraging attack increases the excitement of the game and the score of the team, but weakens the antagonism of the game to some extent.

14- 15 In the difficult season, leaderless walkers failed to enter the playoffs, and the data of hibbert declined without help and unable to adapt to the new regulations.

On the 20th15th of the following summer, the Pacers chose the potential center Miles Turner in the draft and signed monta ellis, who is good at attacking. Eager to speed up and adapt to the ball, the Pacers traded hibbert to the Lakers, thus ending hibbert's seven-year career as a Pacer and starting his wandering days in the league.

15- 16 Lakers are not normal Lakers, because all their attention was on Kobe's retirement that year, and the whole team was accompanying Kobe on the tour. Although Kobe deserved this treatment, he was tortured by young players and contract players, including hibbert.

That season, hibbert was the starting center of the Lakers, but he averaged only 5./kloc-0 shots per game, which was lower than that in the rookie season. After a short trip to Los Angeles, he became a blue-collar player and a free agent.

After that, he reached a contract with the Hornets with an annual salary of $5 million, but here, he can only be the third choice for the center position of the team. Only half a year later, he was packed by Harvey and sent to the Bucks, while he only stayed in the Bucks for half a month, and hibbert was sent to the Nuggets. In Nuggets, hibbert still can't be reused. He only made six appearances for the team, and the average data per game was negligible.

In just four years, hibbert has gone from being an all-star player and a top guard in the league to being an unwelcome waste. Maybe he can't accept the gap. On July 20 18, hibbert, who was only 3 1 year old, announced his retirement. The speed at which he fell was embarrassing!

Looking back on hibbert's short career, his success is inseparable from his two mentors, coach Kobe and coach vogel. Both of them have made great efforts for the growth and development of hibbert. Now retired hibbert decided to train the next generation of players like his mentor. So in 20 19, hibbert, who retired for one year, joined the Philadelphia 76ers as the team's player development coach and continued to shine in his favorite basketball field.

Hibbert has experienced so many ups and downs in his life. I'm sure he can pass on what he has learned all his life to his students. I believe there will be more "Black Yao Ming" or "Little hibbert" in the NBA in the future. I hope hibbert will take his own basketball road in the future!