He was a center, 2 meters tall and 13 meters tall. He was selected by a super team who had won the championship with a ranking sign and sat on the bench to get the championship ring. Everyone thought he had amazing talent, but he never played the level people wanted to see.
He is……
Dakota-Milisic.
Time always makes people’s memories less credible, just like “Being Human” and “Being Human”. In the 2003 draft conference, why did the piston choose Milisic instead of Anthony or Bosh and Wade? In the past many years, it gradually failed to find the truth and even evolved into ramen.
Larry Brown, the then coach of the piston, said in an interview a few years ago that he only wanted to choose Anthony and even hoped to let several players who predicted Gao Shun have a big fight to try to find out the best, but this suggestion was rejected by the piston and the agent kostern of Milisic at the same time;
Anthony himself said that before the draft, the management of the piston promised to him that he would be chosen, “but it suddenly changed at the draft Conference”.
But before 2005, the media reported like this–
Joe Dumas, then the general manager of the piston team, announced publicly after the trial training of Milisic at the end of May, “This child is too outstanding”, and promised to Costen privately that he would be selected by ranking;
Chuck Atkins, the substitute guard of the piston at that time, decided Milisic before the draft, “he is the most suitable candidate, and we just need a buddy who can score on rim”;
Chatte-Ford, a former ESPN talent show expert, broke the news in 2006. The general manager of the Nuggets, Chichi van der Vich, who owns the flower search sign, also submitted a transaction application to Dumas on the eve of the talent show, hoping to use the flower search sign to change the piston’s list sign, used to choose Milisic, but was rejected flatly.
As for ESPN, Sports Illustrated and New York Times, Milisic was considered to be a better player before the draft, with a height of 2.13 meters and excellent ball control and organization ability, the range reached three point line of NBA, and Sports Illustrated also specifically quoted an NBA scout, “Milisic has the potential of the most dominant center in Europe after Sabonis”. The Scout also said, he didn’t know whether it was right or wrong to put James in front of Milisic.
For Milisic, being selected by the piston was a turning point in his life. He played black league matches for a season at that time and only got 20000 dollars, while the first contract signed in NBA exceeded 10 million dollars.
But just as that sentence has been chanted by countless people, every gift of fate has won the price secretly.
Brown always told the media that he wanted Milisic to play and told a story. In the 2003-04 season, every time he drove home, he would turn on the radio station. “many fans called the host and hoped to see Milisic play. That’s what I thought”.
But actually? Playing time can prove how harsh Brown is to Milisic. In the rookie season, Milisic played only 159 minutes in the regular season. Throughout the season, including Rashid Wallace, who was traded halfway, 17 players played for the piston, and Milisic ranked 16th. He never entered Brown’s tactical system.
You can’t say Milisic didn’t train hard enough. Billups described him as a diligent child, and every time he trained, he would take the initiative to fight against Ben Wallace, watching this 18-year-old boy ravaged by Big Ben, billups also comforted him, “If you can fight against Big Ben, no one in this league can defend you any more”, and Milisic’s progress is obvious to all, Billups said, “They couldn’t fight at all from the beginning, and then they came back”.
You can’t say that Milisic hasn’t grown into a man yet. He is not a weak white European in the black American prejudice. Rashid once described Milisic like this, “he is a Serbian gangster, the kind of person crawling out of the pile of dead”.
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But Brown will always give Milisic a chance after the overall situation of the team has been decided. So Milisic had a nickname, “human flesh victory cigar”. In Auburn Hill Palace, as long as the fans shouted, “We want Milisic”, everyone knows that the piston will win this game.
Can you imagine? In 2003, he won the first point in his NBA career until the 24th goal of the piston and the 9th goal he played in the rookie season.
Maybe we can’t just condemn Brown, because from the beginning, the piston didn’t think how to use Milisic. Dumas’s decision at the draft conference is more like having the present and the future. After choosing Milisic, besides Ben Wallace, the inside line of the piston also included the center Veteran Campbell, the fellow of Milisic and the 30-year-old reblaka at that time, and the budding Turkish newcomer Oku, and the former best sixth person Collis Williamson.
In February, the piston pressure whistle trade was exchanged for Rashid. The price they paid was very small. The inside line only sent away the reblaka, there was another mountain in front of Milisic (a year later, the team added mcdeiss…).
Outside the stadium, Brown’s dislike of Milisic can also be seen everywhere. He told a story with ESPN reporters, “We went to Los Angeles to play away, on Romeo Avenue (a street of luxury goods), can you imagine? Milisic’s expression was dull. He had never seen such a scene “.
On June 15, 2004, in the fifth game of the finals, the three-to-one piston led the Lakers by 20 points at the last 1 minute 59 seconds, and the bronzes were on the “human flesh victory cigar”. However, for Milisic, this was an unfortunate experience. In just one minute, he was fouled and his palm was broken.
What was even more chilling was that Milisic covered his hand and told Brown that he was injured, but he was pushed back to the court by the latter. And this injury also brought a chain reaction, because Milisic had already applied to the coach not to play the Summer League in 2004, and he wanted to rush for the quota of the national team. Because of the injury, everything was ruined.
In the second season of the piston, Milisic was interviewed like Sister Xianglin, saying back and forth, “I need playing time”.
No response.
In the second season of the piston, Milisic played 37 games, adding up to 254 minutes. After this bitter season, Brown left and Sanders took over. The same promise, “We will give Milisic more playing time”; The same deal, 2005-06 season, he played 25 games before being traded to magic by the piston, the total is only 140 minutes.
The difference is that no Piston fans called him to play any more, instead, he was labeled as “parallel goods.
A parallel goods partition Alonzo-Morin
Does Milisic hate piston? It should be.
In 2007, in the first round of the playoffs, magic met the piston in the first round of the playoffs. The strength gap between the two sides was obvious. Magic won 40 in the regular season and the piston won 53, but in terms of experience, it was even worse.
Milisic could have avoided war. In the last game of the regular season, Magic beat the Wizards. Milisic sprained his right ankle in the first half. At that time, the reply given by the team doctor was that he would miss the first game of the playoffs. The day before the playoffs, Magic coach Brian Hill tried to ask Milisic, “Can you play?”
Hill later recalled the situation at that time, “he (Milisic) muttered a few words, no one could hear clearly, but I knew that he wanted to fight very much”.
So he played with injury, which was his best playoff trip-he scored double in four consecutive games, and Milisic scored 12.3 points and 4.5 rebounds, with a hit rate. In the fourth game of the series, Milisic scored 10 points in the last quarter, with jump shots and hooks. He played Rashid a “2+1” and once helped magic to surpass the score, however, the steady free throws of Billups and Hamilton ended the young’s path of revenge.
This year, he was 22 years old and stayed in NBA for four seasons. Many people at his age, NBA career has just begun, and he seems to have gone through half a century.
Both are Gao Shun’s “parallel goods”, and Billups is full of sympathy for Milisic.
Back, he was like a lottery ticket. There is always a team hoping to scratch a grand prize, just like grizzly bear, Knicks and Timberwolves, but they lack patience. They just scrape out the lottery and throw it into the trash can before they see the patronage.
On December 18, 2012, Milisic, who played for Celtics at that time and was only 27 years old, knocked on the door of Coach Rivers’s office before the match, “I won’t play anymore.”
He stopped playing, not just this game, but farewell to NBA career.
No one knows the ultimate form of Milisic. He never shows his talent, but only stays in several collections and people’s word of mouth.
His characteristics, such as holding the ball in high positions and shooting at downtown, were not linked with another player, also from Serbia, but also his little brother jokiki many years later.
Look at this passing awareness and precision
In 2017, jokki showed his strength. Milisic, who was far away from Serbia, sent him blessings and gave advice. Don’t be like I screwed up everything “.
Jokiki is not another Milisic. He didn’t mess up anything and became the best center in NBA in active service and got MVP.
And Milisic’s words should be given to another person. Of course, you know who we are talking about.
If you ignore nationality and skin color, you will almost think that fate is a kind of reincarnation. The top shows in 2003 and 2020 are like two ends of a mirror.
But Wiseman is far more lucky than Milisic.
Cole was not Brown, especially Wiseman’s rookie season. Cole let him play 39 games, with an average of 21.4 minutes, which was beyond Milisic’s desire. In the NBA debut of Wiseman, he scored 19 points in the basketable Nets game on December 23, 2020. In January, the Warriors beat the Timberwolves. Wiseman met the champion of 2020, Edward. Although there was no match, he scored 25 points in the 14-shot 9 to help the Warriors win a valuable victory.
Cole said: “I once tried to imagine that I endured everything he experienced at the age of 19. Everything was incomparable.”
But the good days are always too short. Injuries are one reason why Wiseman can’t show all his talents, while another reason is that he and Curry don’t call. In his rookie season, Wiseman played 424 minutes with Curry and green, and the Warriors lost 8 points. However, Curry and Green played 1314 minutes without Wiseman, won 11 points.
Wiseman’s adaptation time is too short. He was forced to drop out after playing only three games in college. In fact, he was a high school student.
Can it really make big smart people better without a real playing time?
It is hard for us to imagine that Wiseman would be better if he didn’t miss the whole season because of injury last season? No one knows the answer, but it can be expected that in the journey of hitting the championship, Warriors can’t stand any wind and rain. They may be able to wait for Green and Thompson, but they won’t stop to wait for Wiseman.
There is no doubt that the two great intelligences, Milisic and Wiseman, are both models of the management’s “both need and need”. The Championship + future makes people excited. But in the past two decades, never has the championship team achieved such a smooth and successful transition. Is this accidental? Maybe it is inevitable.
Milisic screwed up everything, not only the poor performance of the stadium, but also his emotional control. The most intense time he was defeated by NBA was the summer league in 2005. At that time, he was the biggest player of the piston team and the most eye-catching star of the whole summer league. He got the desired playing time and played 29.8 minutes in 5 matches.
But what kind of data did he hand over?
With an average hit rate of 36.7 percent per game, 9.8 points and 5.8 rebounds, it is one of the most disappointing players in the whole summer league, ranking 40 miles away in the average score per game, the average rebound in the game was only 20 places, and the overall data was not as good as the former CBA foreign aid aojie who played on behalf of the cavaliers-the average rebound in the game was 20 minutes, with a hit rate of 61.8% to get 9.2 points and 7.0 rebounds.
After repeated disappointment, Milisic began to drink heavily, roared at the referee, and went home to hit the wall. He once recalled with a smile that in the American city where he stayed, the most familiar person was the local decoration company, because his wall is always a piece of gray and white, he needs a decoration company to brush the wall.
Where is Wiseman? When he stepped off the court and ignored Curry’s hands of high-fists, his position in the minds of fans, coaches and even old players had dropped significantly. Can he still control his emotions after his unsatisfactory performance, waiting anxiously for playing time and disappointment again and again?
The data may explain some things: in October 2022, Wiseman played 14.6 minutes on average, with a hit rate of 62.5 percent, and scored 8.7 points and 4.4 rebounds on average, in the first four games in November, he played 11.3 minutes on average, with a hit rate of%,3.5 points and 2.8 rebounds.
Comprehensive regression.
Photos can’t explain everything, but Wiseman has been photographed before the competition in this manner many times this year, which proves some things.
Maybe Wiseman doesn’t know how dangerous the environment he is facing. In the era of Milisic, the center was still the favorite of NBA, and there was always a team willing to give him a chance. When he left NBA, Milisic’s total pre-tax salary was 52 million dollars, which enabled him to buy a farm worth 8 million dollars in Serbia, grow fruits and calmly enter another stage of his life.
Milisic originally thought that only the piston was hell. Later he found that every NBA team was hell, while Wiseman, if one day he left the Warriors, it is uncertain to find that this team, which currently suffocates him, will instead provide him with the most fresh air.
Most of the time, the birth of tragedy is not someone’s problem, perhaps because of the changes of the times, or because of various strange coincidences, but the final result is often the same, it is someone who bears the tragic ending.
Did Wiseman screw everything up? Maybe not yet, but at the age of 21, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for him to squander.
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