Jim Boeheim

May 26, 2023

Text/Xiaotie On May 22, 2023, U.S. time, two major events occurred in the U.S. basketball circle. First, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 113:111 in the Western Conference Championship Game. In the playoffs, it was also the fourth time the two teams met in the Western Conference championship game. championship game. Second, there is a player who happened to have some connections with the Nuggets and the Lakers. He announced his retirement before Game 4 of the Western Conference Championship Game, ending his 19-year NBA career with 28,289 points in his career. In fact, he and the most senior player in the league this season LeBron James joined the league in the draft in the same year, but this season LBJ is still struggling, but he has not received any contract from an NBA team throughout the season, so the last season of his career is the 2021-22 season. When LBJ wrote this season In the 20th year of his career, the veteran who was on the same ladder as him only kept his seniority at 19. . 🔥More latest sports vision selected good articles: . With his name, there is really no need to make a fuss. This veteran who is on the same ladder as LBJ and teamed up last season is Carmelo Anthony, who was also known as the peerless double pride with LBJ. With his status, he can announce his last season. , Meet a little tour that may not be as good as Kobe Bryant, but it is still enough to get compliments, but after he finished playing for the Lakers last season, even though many voices thought he could still play, there were news of his own training from time to time, but there was no such thing as a whole season Melo, who signed with any team and turned out to be a famous player of the 21st century, announced his retirement on social media. The discussion of the so-called “Golden 03 Ladder” seems to be not long ago, but 20 years have passed since the current point of time. Back then, the young man who was so powerful and had the identity of Tanhua had already gone through 20 winters and summers, and even his son was about to die. Go forward to the professional basketball dream. In the past 20 years, Melo may not be as good as those winning teams that can win the championship, but it should never be forgotten or ignored. “The best freshman life in history” good time When it comes to Melo, I have to mention the year when he made his name in NCAA history. As mentioned above, Melo and LBJ were the peerless twins in the United States as early as high school, but because Melo is a little older, he chose to join NCAA Syracuse first. University, but everyone knows that Melo and LBJ will still report for the draft on time when the 2003 draft arrives, but when LBJ is still the big devil in high school basketball, Melo will face the challenge of the NCAA. It turned out to be a journey that is considered classic and epic by the NCAA. . 🔥More latest sports vision selected good articles: . In 2012, the media listed the top 50 freshman performances in NCAA history, including Jason Kidd, who led his alma mater to the Sweet 16 in the past 32 years with all-around performance in his freshman year at the University of California, “Michigan Five Tigers” Chris Webber, the leader of “Georgia Tech”, the talented point guard Kenny Anderson who wrote the semifinals for the first time in the history of Georgia Tech, the super center Greg Oden who helped Ohio State win the championship, and Michigan, which pushed “March Madness” to the United States with amazing performances All-round state star Magic Johnson, the ultimate scoring weapon of the University of Texas, Kevin Durant, etc., but the 2003 Syracuse University superstar Carmelo Anthony ranked first. Melo averaged 22.2 points and 10 rebounds per game in his only year on the NCAA battlefield, leading Syracuse University all the way to the NCAA tournament and winning the championship. He scored 33 points and 14 rebounds in the final four against the University of Texas. Kansas still had 20 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists under the restrictions of Kansas. There is no doubt that they also won the Most Outstanding Player Award of the Final Four. After Pervis Ellison in 1986, it was only the second time that the NCAA looked back nearly 60 years. The award was won by a freshman, and Melo’s outstanding performance also helped Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, who was well-known in basketball for many years at the time, finally won the first and only NCAA championship in his personal coaching career after 27 years of coaching Syracuse champion. When Boeheim later mentioned Melo’s performance that year, he gave an extremely appropriate evaluation: “I always believe that Syracuse is a good team. I believe that my players and I are always on the right path. We will all admit that without Melo, the 2003 championship journey would not have happened, when we knew that in our system, we could add this player who could carry the whole game and make all his teammates trust, even if he was just a big player. All our lives, we have believed that he can change the world. Maybe you have questioned whether these changes will happen in one year, especially if Melo will stay in the second year of school, but we, or say Melo, is what makes this year the best story ever.” And when we saw many talented high school dropouts who were still struggling with technology or court intelligence after entering the professional arena, it was even more difficult for people to appreciate Melo’s almost seamless performance with almost no downturns. Give praise, maybe LBJ has a higher talent than Melo, but once Melo stepped into the profession, people can see his stable attack ability with few dead ends, and the ball quotient for interpreting the game. It is generally believed that this is based on his With the good education in Syracuse that year, Melo did not rely on talent alone to pass the NCAA. He studied under Boeheim very seriously, so that many NBA players later had to re-run and adapt to the FIBA ​​rules in the international arena. In the rhythm of the game, only Melo is always like a plug-and-play USB, becoming the most stable and important player of the US team. continue reading the report . Perhaps in the later various “One and Done” fashions, and when many schools are moving closer to talent and matching that kind of freshman talent, there may be more super freshmen who will challenge the influence of freshman Melo data, but from the high level The data, the excellent cooperation with the team, the perfect mentoring relationship with the coaches, and the classic level of winning the championship, Melo and Syracuse, or Melo and Boeheim, are definitely rare and wonderful chapters in the history of the NCAA. The Imperfect King Melo’s rookie year has undoubtedly been a success. The 2003 draft, or the 2002-03 season, was very delicate. In the 2003 draft, the Cavaliers in the Eastern District won the No. Although the Grizzlies were lucky to get the No. 2 pick, because of the previous trade, they had to hand over the No. 2 pick to the Pistons, who are still relatively powerful in the Eastern Conference. In the 2002-03 season, the Cavaliers and the Nuggets, both with 17 wins, can be said to be two obvious bad teams. They turned over in one fell swoop. The result is that the Cavaliers and the Nuggets got what they wanted. LBJ and Melo, the peerless twins of the United States, and the Serbian genius Darko Miličić each occupied one side and became the Big Three in the draft. At that time, the Pistons made a surprise in the playoffs After Tayshaun Prince, the first to third positions of the main lineup have been considered stable, so it is not unreasonable to covet the talent of Miličić, but such a choice makes the Nuggets miss the No. LBJ, but still received Melo, is expected to add boost to the barren firepower. . . At that time, the Nuggets’ backcourt was even more dilapidated, but strictly speaking, except for the second-year player Nenê in the frontcourt and the easily injured center Marcus Camby, any reinforcement would be useful. Melo also signed with the two inside helpers and the Nuggets in the free market Together with Andre Miller, he helped the Nuggets increase from 17 wins the previous year to 43 wins, and returned to the playoffs in one fell swoop. Although Melo lost to LBJ in the rookie king competition that year, Melo scored, rebounded, and hit percentage that year. Both are higher than LBJ. The growth rate of the Nuggets’ record is better than that of the Cavaliers. The Nuggets made the playoffs but the Cavaliers missed the playoffs. The two teams played against each other in the regular season. , 2 assists, and significantly lower than LBJ’s 13 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 6 assists, so that when the rookie king vote was announced, many people questioned that Melo should not lose to LBJ. But this does not detract from Melo’s good performance. When the Nuggets fell to weak teams in the second half of the 1990s, it was Melo’s joining that opened up their return to the playoffs and an era of competitiveness. It is still difficult to compete against the powerful powers with background or the ability to build a more solid system. The Nuggets only played in the Western Conference Championship once in 2009. The other seven years of the “Melo Era” only ended in the first round of the Western District. The Melo Era In the past eight years, it is the NBA’s current regulations that a rookie and his home team can basically maintain cooperation space without accidents. After the rookie contract ended that year, Melo was different from the other three stars in the 2003 ladder. , he chose the full five years, so in the ninth year of his career, which was also the last year of his contract with the Nuggets, he refused to discuss the contract extension with the Nuggets, hoping to be traded back to his hometown of New York, and the trade ended in the middle of the season. Join the Big Apple on a one-to-one-for-many-daily deal. This is another glorious moment for Melo, strictly speaking, but it may only be for him, because Nick was not a strong team before getting Melo, and the price of trading Melo greatly affected their lineup depth. Of course, Melo, Amar The base of ‘e Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton still allowed them to make the playoffs, but apart from winning the second place in the Eastern Division and the leader of the Atlantic Group in 2012-13, the Knicks’ “Melo era” was not too bright. However, during this period of time, apart from the slightly poor attendance rate, Melo was probably at the peak of his personal skills. He was selected to the All-Star Game in all seven seasons with the Knicks. He won a scoring title and proved it many times. His evaluation of “offensive kaleidoscope” is true. It’s just that whether Nick’s background is insufficient or Melo’s own influence is not enough, Nick’s combat power is limited, and Melo is naturally completely unable to become a strong competitor in the league like LBJ chasing the championship. Even the aforementioned Nick’s only good record in 2012- 13, and only lost to the Pacers in the second round, and missed the Eastern Conference Championship stage. And when Melo was sold to the Thunder by the Knicks in the summer of 2017, he was 33 years old and had 14 years of experience, but he was no longer regarded as an assistant to the team’s ace, but was first a player with limited influence in the Thunder. The youngest of the team, was then sold to the Eagles by the Thunder and then was waived, and then successively stayed for the Rockets (then was traded to the Bulls, and was released a week later), the Trail Blazers, and the Lakers. Being able to stand firm in rotation is already the last afterglow of polishing one’s own brand. . . In the end, even Melo’s expectation of finding LBJ and the famous Lakers to get on the car was buried in the most tragic season of the Lakers in recent years. In the end, he still missed the championship in his career, and he didn’t even play in the championship game. In terms of statistics, he currently ranks first in the league. The accumulation of ninth in the scoring list is definitely worthy of recognition, but not to mention the fact that he has never played a championship career without a championship. Even in the playoffs, he only had a story about the 2009 Western Championship matchup with Kobe Bryant. The gold nugget was also the loser, and the rest of the time did not leave any achievements. That is to say, in terms of technology, Melo is indeed not worthy of the golden 03 ladder. In his 19-year career, he is indeed a generation of stars, but throughout his career, he has never had any achievements in the playoffs, and he has no crown. Sorry to retire. Mid-range artifacts, evaluations from all parties other than the offensive kaleidoscope Long before the draft, Melo had witnessed his retro-style large attacking forward routine in the NCAA. Throughout his career, he was indeed famous for various offensive skills in the middle distance for most of his career, but he was only famous in the second half of the league in the 2010s. The “magic ball” thinking that was once set off, the middle distance is regarded as a less efficient offensive method. This trend has not been slightly reversed until the various roll call tactics of the playoffs in recent years to test the singles ability of the ace, but it is almost exactly like this. The direction of the wind has transformed Melo from the trump card that the team regards as a guest of honor to a lucky bag figure who is gradually marginalized and finally reduced to a basic salary. However, in terms of mid-range, Melo is undoubtedly the best of the contemporary era. If Kevin Durant uses his proud body talent to ignore any defensive opponents on the flanks, Melo uses footsteps, fake moves, and temptations to create time and time again. In terms of jump shot opportunities, take LBJ, an inescapable comparison object in his career, Melo has a better shooting rate than LBJ in shooting areas such as 10 to 16 feet, 16 feet to the three-point line, and beyond the three-point line, and the percentage of shots is completely higher. It can be said that the destructive power of LBJ’s cuts is superior, but Melo’s various traditional shooting skills are indeed worthy of recognition. His singles ability is completely worthy of any of his reputation. It’s just that we can’t ignore that, of course, we can’t walk on the road of chasing glory like LBJ or even Dwyane Wade who is on the same ladder (of course, we can’t deny that a large part of the glory of LBJ and Wade was established when the two were in the LCD Big Three. ), partly due to the establishment of the Nuggets and Nick’s team, but compared to other stars chasing “greatness”, Melo’s independence at certain times is not groundless. He had disagreements with coach George Karl more than once during the Nuggets period , and although he gradually moved closer to the trend of the times at the end of his career, reducing mid-range singles and increasing his moves and shooting from outside the three-point line, he did seem to be an old product that was about to be eliminated by the times in the Thunder and Rockets periods. , and his investment on the defensive end has been limited throughout his career, and it is inevitable that he, as a star player, cannot play a role in both offense and defense. . Perhaps it was these turning points in his career. At the beginning of his career, Melo was the one who could still face the NCAA competition scene with a smile, just like the descriptions of Eiji Zebei and Kaede Rukawa in “Slam Dunk” saw that it was worth the challenge It is the same situation that he smiles from time to time, but in the latter part of his career, Melo’s smile is less, maybe he is no longer the boy who simply enjoys the challenge, but maybe, after experiencing these situations, he can be like the one in the retirement video. In that way, he is willing to see through everything, let go of his obsession on the court, and instead bet his emotions on basketball on the challenges of his children. In the twinkling of an eye, twenty years have passed. When talking about the past twenty years in “Surprise at Two Moments”, he said, “Sure enough, time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly quickly. In the blink of an eye, Jia Lianfang has passed away. After 20 years, Jia Chengzhi can get rid of his father’s bad reputation and rise to the top, while Melo has gone from a hero in Syracuse to a full career, and retired to the mountains after the prosperity. The smile that used to be happy on the court and sympathetic after completing the challenge has become a shallow smile when I describe my career experience 20 years later. From the beginning to the end, it really makes people sigh. take a bow. But maybe everything is not over yet, at least for the Nuggets, not only is their playoff journey continuing this season, but they have already embarked on the first NBA championship game in team history, and they have to challenge the first NBA championship in team history. The champion, who leads the Nuggets forward, is the ace who wears the same back number as Melo, and his number one assistant, the backcourt scorer, was selected by the 2016 draft pick when Melo was traded to the Knicks that year. Melo and the Nuggets broke up badly, but he is still an important page in the history of the Nuggets. Perhaps this is the normal metabolism of the team. The Nuggets made steady progress in the playoffs in the Melo era, and the assets exchanged for Melo also maintained. Competitiveness, followed by reconstruction, and the assets left by Melo have accompanied the growth in recent years. Perhaps before the Nuggets really used this system to win the championship, everything seemed unimportant, but on the same day that Melo retired, the Nuggets moved forward An important step in the history of the team has been taken. Perhaps this kind of rendezvous is just the right place, and it is also full of penetrating meaning. Twenty years have passed, and the Nuggets have opened a new page. Melo, who represents a large part of the history of the team, has retired. Perhaps it is the end of another era. The last step of the “Golden 03 Ladder” is at the feet of LBJ. The new era of the NBA is coming soon. arrival. Perhaps it is appropriate to use the phrase “the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle” here. . 🔥More latest sports vision selected good articles: