Juan Hernan Gomes made an NBA-themed movie leave allowances, which tells the story of a scout who dug into an overseas genius and led him into the NBA. The plot is more conventional, and it is a typical grass-roots anti-attack inspirational movie, exaggerating part of the content of basketball matches for the dramatic tension. Whether it is for movie fans or basketball fans, this movie does not have too many surprises. The point is to see all kinds of star eggs. For example, you will get to know Huazi’s mouth gun skills again. What satisfied me was that the film reflected the pride and prejudice of some senior members of the team. In the story, although the role experience played by Juan has artistic exaggeration, it is indeed a reflection of the fate of NBA marginal characters. Whether a bottom player can stay in NBA or not, sometimes it depends on whether one or two opportunities can be grasped or not, as well as the difference between big shots.
Reality never lacks inspirational stories. Watanabe Xiong is not a construction worker and has never delivered takeout, but this is his fifth year in NBA. For the unguaranteed drop draft, it is not easy to stay in NBA for five consecutive years. The average career of NBA players is less than five years. What is even more difficult is that Watanabe Xiong has mixed up with the positioning of the Dragon-running suit until now. In the grizzly bear, he took a two-way dragon-running suit and made a slight improvement in the Raptors, but the positioning was still the same. The non-guarantee contract given to him on basketable Nets would not have exceeded the expectation of running a dragon.
Why do I say Watanabe’s role is running a dragon?
This not only means that he has less playing time and less plays, but also emphasizes that there are too many players of his type. So far this season, Watanabe has shot 20 three points with a hit rate of 55.6 percent, which seems to have officially incorporated the shooting skill package into the Arsenal. But before that, Watanabe’s positioning was difficult to be called a shooter. Of course, there was no play with the ball. He was more like a flank jumping man who provided enthusiasm and vitality for the game. This kind of players, one catch, they are potential 3D seedlings, but rarely can grow completely at both ends of attack and defense. They are usually taken as lottery tickets and scraped. Most of them end with thanks, then fade out of the NBA stage.
The Asian face made before Watanabe is not this style. So far, only big Yao and Lin Shuhao, the yellow stars who have been standing in NBA for a long time, are the main attackers. Behind them was Yi Jianlian, who played for more than 6,000 minutes in NBA with a round share of. His draft ranking decided that there would be no shortage of opportunities.
None of the yellow stars who can log in to NBA have a talent base. This kind of players will certainly be trained as core players in their growing environment. This is the mode of play they are familiar with and the positioning they are more likely to play, because this is “technical activity”. On the contrary, it is more difficult to mix up with the pure blue collar line. The reason is also very simple. How can Asian players with top physical talent have any advantages over arm show compared with black players on the edge of NBA? A “black and tough” who relies on primitive talent, it is not difficult for him to mix a blue-collar meal in NBA, and the team is willing to believe their potential in this field, but it is hard for them to imagine a picture of Asian faces running fast, hitting rebounds and chasing large hat on this stage.
And this is what Watanabe Xiong is doing.
Watanabe attracted my attention for the first time as a member of nasus crazy anti-reverse basketball experiment group. I don’t know whether the style of Watanabe is suitable for the Raptors, or whether the Raptors deeply depict Watanabe. At least in the “noodle man” brigade that has been running all the time, his existence is not against peace. Extreme, extreme, desperate, the desire to snatch the ball right overflow, bite at any cost, and Sprint physically. Watanabe, together with this Raptor, is full of blood every night. Nas’s unique anti-Japanese concept also provides an unexpected appreciation of the game, but it is hard for you to say that this is a “normal” team. The Raptors in the transition period have neither a strong internal pillar nor a reliable solution to positional warfare. To win, there is only one way to fight desperately. NAS inspired every player to “move forward, move forward, move forward at all costs”, while every Raptor player who tried to win the trust of the coach, they also took out the attitude of “This is my highest light moment.
For Watanabe, being in this “burning basketball” environment is actually an opportunity. After all, no one can substitute Hanamichi Sakuragi more smoothly than Japanese players. But SAKULAKI of the play is to regard yourself as consumables, and for the Raptors, Watanabe is also such a role. The Raptors gave Watanabe a formal contract and let him play for 723 minutes a season, which was a step further than playing “Soldier B” during the grizzly bear. But Raptors never lack energy characters. They will continuously introduce and replace long flanks of sufficient size. You can be the one who works best and can’t fight hard, but it depends on hardware.
This is the most embarrassing place. Watanabe is 2.06 meters tall in shoes and 2.07 meters in arms. Its static size is good enough for Asian players, but it is equivalent to Griffin’s proportion in NBA. Watanabe’s running and jumping ability is good, but it cannot be compared with the really excellent Accu-Chek Active players in NBA. More importantly, Watanabe’s defense cannot be widely recognized because of stereotypes in this snobbish alliance. The coach did not take the player who led the opponent, and Lillard also wanted to catch him to name at the critical moment of the game. In fact, Watanabe’s technical actions that can keep up with Lillard are no worse than the average player of this size.
As mentioned above, sometimes, a little prejudice will influence the fate of the marginal people. If the league generally does not think Watanabe is a defensive player, as a blue collar, a running suit, a consumable tool, what is his competitiveness in the market?
Fortunately, in this alliance, not every voice tube will ignore Watanabe’s advantages. Watanabe received extensive attention from the comment Circle, about because of the relocation of weak side defense points this time:
Every Game Night, NBA players will complete countless similar relocations, which is not unusual. However, if you look at Watanabe’s technical actions carefully, you will lament that Watanabe’s defense is so accurate that it will be passed a little slowly, and if it is a little fierce, it may be foul, control the body properly. It was no accident that Watanabe continued to play such a position control in the basketable nets competition with the Blazers:
Pu Fang is about the most subtle technology. You know it is useful, but who will notice it at ordinary times? We discuss the projection and transmission control of players and their sports data. Who cares about their precise control of body movement. Watanabe had beautiful capping rate, snatch rate and rebound rate during the Raptors period, but NBA did not lack only sports boys who could send out these data, competing with a group of guys playing on the third floor, you have to think about those “details”.
“Temporary actors are also actors. Even if they play a-B-c-d, there are lives and souls.”
This is Watanabe’s attitude towards the competition. He said, “there is no word junk time in my dictionary”. This is not to say beautiful words to the media. As long as you watch his game, you will know that this is the secret that he can survive in the league. When dealing with every trivial thing, Watanabe will try his best to do them well in detail. He won’t rush up with a brain. He moved himself by his warm blood alone. In addition to his desperate efforts, there are perseverance, resilience and self-control, which are the common qualities of all the guys who try to survive on the platform of leaping.
Now Watanabe can score more three-point goals. In the 5th of the 7th in a game, the key moment is to attack and defend and become the winner of the game. Distance becomes a complete 3D forward, all he needs is more time to prove.
Wait until a real line, background the role of the story, for this moment, Watanabe ran long enough dragon sleeve. Perhaps Watanabe’s original dream was to play like fairyland and take a step back Yogueta, which was not difficult to realize. The salary of the Japanese league was not low and there was no need to leave home. In NBA, Watanabe’s ultimate goal is just to become Wu Teng Zheng or Hasegawa with clear ceiling. In order to pursue this ceiling, the sweat he has to pay has doubled, and the risk of youth passing is not low. As “consumables”, one injury is enough to end all dreams.
I don’t want to say Watanabe sacrificed too much. He earned money, and his salary was negligible compared with the advertising fee. I also don’t think there is any problem with those people who are so called “difficult to get out of the comfort zone”, because I know how difficult human nature is to overcome.
I just admire Watanabe and envy Watanabe. He really did it.
In Norwegian Forest, Yongze and Watanabe said separately:
Don’t sympathize with yourself. Sympathy for yourself is what despicable people do.”
Watanabe would not agree with the latter sentence, just as he had reservations about Yongze’s identity. But the first half of the sentence is the key to Watanabe’s new life.
The two dimensional Watanabe is probably the same.
