Card Bishop of Basketball

Chapter 6 Michael Finley

For Michael Finley, this player Meng Yifan is quite fond of. Like Harprin, he belongs to that kind of team spirit player. They are all passionate on the court and can appease the army and encourage teammates off the court.

This kind of player gives the coach a special feeling of peace of mind. Even if he doesn't have much effect on the court, as soon as you see him play, you immediately feel that the team is confident on both offense and defense.

Finley is also considered a fossil-level player. Born in 1973, he was still able to secure the Spurs' starting small forward position in 2008. He averaged 28 minutes per game and scored about 10 points steadily. He became a good championship jigsaw puzzle .

Of course, there is one thing to say, people will always get old, even James, a player with a bug-level physical talent, will show fatigue when he gets old, and the playoffs that fans are looking forward to, Thanos Zhan, still failed to appear in the end...

When the old Finley was in the Spurs, it was indeed easy to be targeted as a defensive weakness. This is true. At the age of 35, he can't keep up with the breakthroughs of young people. On the defensive end, he is often bullied by young people with good physical fitness.

This is different from the previous Paul Grant. Grant is a real talent and can find faults at will, but Finley is capable but underestimated.

At his peak, Finley was selected as an All-Star, which is the greatest recognition of Finley by fans.

Some people say that Finley's NBA career went smoothly. Although he was selected low in the beginning, he was assigned a lot of ball rights because of the departure of the team's outside stars. He was later traded to the Mavericks and became the soul of the team.

Later, Finley was old, joined the Spurs, won the championship, and then slowly became a marginal player in the NBA, and finally retired quietly.

But in fact, Finley's career is more tragic.

When I first joined the Suns, although I did have a lot of outside ball rights, with Barkley at my head, bullying newcomers was commonplace.

Later, the Suns rebuilt. In order to get Kidd, they directly dumped Finley to the Mavericks, where Finley dedicated all his youth and glory.

Finley was very conscientious during his years with the Mavericks, but Cuban, the boss, is no different from a lunatic.

During Finley's peak period, he was surrounded by Nuo Tianwang, who had just emerged, Uncle Huo who was still at the tail end of his peak period, Nash, the "son of the wind" with a start and a sensational start, and former Lakers star Madman Fan...

These are big names
Of course, you can see that this weird idea of ​​team building and all offensive players are synonymous with strong offense and weak defense.

They only attack and don't defend. The record of the Mavericks team in those years can be seen, but they were always beaten in the playoffs. They knew that the Lakers O'Neal was unparalleled at that time, so they refused to find human shield players.

The team's record was poor, and the boss began to think about how to save money. At that time, the NBA officially announced the salary cap of each team. Cuban saw it: Keep you Finley, and my whole family will have to drink Mistral. What kind of team spirit, I don't want it.

In this way, the old captain who had been working hard for the Mavericks for many years was ruthlessly forced to buy out. At that time, the fans were filled with righteous indignation, angry that Cuban cut Finley.

After being waived by the team that he devoted all his youth to, the old Finley was also heartbroken. He turned around and signed with the Spurs at a low price, wanting to try to compete for a championship again.

When they first signed the contract, they were all applauded, saying that the Spurs exchanged a small amount of money for a big name. As soon as the game started, Finley, who was topped as the starter, became a breakthrough for the new generation.

Originally, Finley came to support the champions, but he was forced to start the game. The Spurs lost.

Let's go back to Cuban. After the old driver led the team to win the championship in 2011, everyone thought that the Mavericks would continue to win the championship. As a result, they made one or two insignificant small signings, and the team's strength did not improve at all.

At that time, the Mavericks still had salary space, and the team's core veteran driver was full of ambitions, aiming for consecutive championships, but encountered the magic operation of teammate Cuban, who almost didn't apply for a trade in anger.

Cuban can't be considered a good boss. He gives all his human touch to the old driver, but he is very cold to other players. This makes people wonder whether these two people have any strange relationship habits.

After roughly recalling the Mavericks in his previous life, Meng Yifan felt a little more sympathetic to Finley's experience. If he could change Finley's fate and let him enter the NBA with a different pick, he might also be able to become a one-man player. City legend.

Picking up the keyboard, Meng Yifan started a new round of code words...

At the same time, the "Washington Post" newspaper office not far from Georgetown University also received a submission. To the newspaper office, Meng Yifan did not hide his identity, but only asked that his pen name be Mr. M.

After reading Meng Yifan's analysis of Paul Grant, the editor-in-chief of "Washington Post" just smiled. He heard about the game between Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin two days ago. In his opinion, this is Meng Yifan's match against Wisconsin University. revenge.

However, considering that their own newspaper does not have much achievements in sports, and that everyone is looking for a living in Washington, and they don’t look up and down, giving favors may be an extra channel. Considering these, I decided to help publish this player analysis.

As Meng Yifan expected, the release of this player analysis immediately aroused widespread discussion. Some people read the analysis and said that they didn't understand anything, and it was impossible for a savage to be more professional than an NBA scout.

There are also some people who think this analysis is worth referring to, and let the scouts under their hands observe and observe this Grant to see if it is really as bad as it is written in the analysis.

After writing the analysis, Meng Yifan was about to check on his team's training when he suddenly received news that Florida State University, which had previously agreed to play a friendly match, would be visiting in two days as scheduled.

Well, the former old coach Thompson arranged his opponents for a season early. Apart from the usual Big East civil war, there will be friendly matches between schools with different strengths every week.

After receiving the news, Meng Yifan non-stop went to introduce the Florida State University team. The head star Bob Sura, a player with a relatively tragic fate, helped the team reach the playoffs during the Rockets period. There are still.

However, due to injuries, he soon announced his departure from the NBA and failed to provide much help to Dayao.

The three musketeers once helped Florida State University become famous, but because of the grade difference, they participated in the draft one after another. It is a flash in the pan but performed well.

Sam Cassell, nicknamed "Alien" by the Jianghu people, helped the Rockets win the championship. He was once selected to the All-Star and the All-NBA second team. He has strong offensive firepower and a solid mid-range pass full of imagination. With his own understanding and reading ability of the game, he was picked by the Rockets with the 1993th pick in the first round in 24.

Charlie Ward, the point guard who helped the Knicks reach the Finals, worked hard on both offense and defense, was good at drawing offensive fouls from opponents, and had good three-point ability. He was a qualified role player. He was selected by the Knicks with the 1994th overall pick in the first round of 26. Si chose to go.

Fortunately, the three of them left, and there is only one Sura left in Florida State University. Otherwise, Meng Yifan felt that his football brothers might not be able to beat the three musketeers.

(End of this chapter)