After DeRozan’s three penalty scores, there were still the last 0.5 seconds left in overtime, and the Bull led the eagle by 1 point.
Jay Johnson threw sideline ball to the basket. On the 14th, AJ Griffin turned his back to RIM. Facing the interference of Derek Jones, the league’s most promising striker, twisted his body 180 degrees, you can pick the ball into rim……
The ball enters the light and goes off, pressing the whistle to kill.
This is the 6th zero-second kill this season, among which AJ Griffin himself did it twice: for raptors and Bulls, both of which were difficult to lay on the empty basket.
“I also immediately thought of the last ball. Everything came so fast. The coach made a great tactic and JJ gave out a perfect pass.” Griffin said, “they are all giving me confidence. Even if I feel bad, they also choose to believe me. Come on, who is next?”
On this day, AJ Griffin was only 19 years old and 109 days old.
In fact, AJ Griffin is not a genius. In the pre-season draft prediction, his draft has declined all the way, and many people think that he is slow and short (198cm played No. 3). However, AJ Griffin is a very few double stamped warranty products, some of which come from coach Lao K: Griffin won high praise from Lao K for his freshman season in Duke, he said he had absolutely excellent professional qualities. The other part comes from his father, Adrien Griffin, a professional model among many players.
As AJ’s father, Adrien Griffin is now the most popular top teaching assistant in NBA. In 2018, he was seen by ujri to assist nasus, who had just turned positive, as a result, he won the championship ring with the team in the first year, and now he is also the chief assistant in raptors. Many experts and executives believe that he has long been qualified to be the head coach of NBA teams.
Old Griffin’s career as a player is not brilliant. After losing the election in 1996, he joined the Continental League (CBA) for three seasons and was invited by Celtics in 1999 to sign an unguaranteed base salary. Fortunately, the first two teams he met, the Celts and the Mavericks, were particularly willing to give the underlayer the opportunity to play the defense, so after the transfer rocket became Yao Ming’s teammate for one year (at that time, the rocket had another Griffin: Eddie Griffin), he was signed by the Mavericks again in the summer of 2005, he also played in the 2006 finals as the starting score and became one of many group actors in Wade’s glorious moment.
9 years of NBA career, a total of 477 regular season games 48 playoff games, average 4 points, a total of only 2 times to break 20, obviously, old Griffin was a typical defensive engineering in NBA at that time. However, diligence, studiousness and high self-discipline are also the consistent evaluations Griffin got in the alliance. As the coach guide of old Griffin, sibodu once praised old Griffin for saying that this was the best coach with the best professional attitude he had ever seen, excellent communication skills and leadership ability to lead by example, there is also inherent affinity, which are the most precious wealth.
Now, old Griffin is still studying for a doctor’s degree in his spare time. He has only one idea to set a correct example for children.
“I can’t let the children think that you are just a player,” Old Griffin said. “It’s your job to be a coach. Let them understand how to take work seriously, keep learning all the time, and there is room for progress every day.”
Under his subtle influence, Griffin Jia’s children have achieved quite good results. The youngest son AJ-Griffin is one of the most successful. He perfectly inherited his parents’ physical conditions and gradually stood out and grew into a qualified team player.
In fact, AJ Griffin was originally a selling point with extremely strong physical quality. His excellent bouncing and explosive power, plus his excellent height and arm show, made him extremely aggressive on the defensive end, in high school, as a backcourt player, he was once the team blocked shots. He only needed to launch an attack in the backcourt and accelerate the sprint, and he could perform a violent deduction by one train.
AJ has been favored by scouts for a long time, but in the senior four season, a big injury came unexpectedly. At that time, AJ’s high school coach described the injury as “gruesome”. At that time, his knee was severely twisted, and then he was diagnosed with a tear of the anterior cross ligament, it directly led to his absence for the rest of the season. Although the season ended earlier because of the epidemic, the recovery period was still an insurmountable barrier, which meant that he needed to enter Duke University with injuries, sit on the bench and watch the teammates train.
“It’s too difficult. I have the best college teammates and the best college coaches. This is an opportunity that children all over the world desire,” he said, “but I need to be patient and continue to wait.”
But Duke never snubbed him. On the contrary, the rehabilitation department kept communicating with him about the recovery situation every day, and suggested him to look at other players’ matches during the recovery period and think about how to change the style of play. The first thing AJ Griffin thought of was his favorite player in the league: Jimmy Butler.
When AJ Griffin started playing basketball, his father had retired as a coach. In the 2005-10 season, old Griffin served as the chief assistant under SIBO Du, and his family also moved to Chicago, so AJ and his brothers and sisters played more often in the Joint Center. Naturally, he liked Jimmy Butler, and he always used the 21st as his jersey number in high school and college.
AJ Griffin still remembers the scene when he first met Butler. He was only 10 years old at that time. He told Butler that he liked him very much and wanted to be a player like him in the future.
Butler didn’t talk much at that time, but just looked at him with a smile, but Griffin had already felt inspired, because Butler’s starting point was not high, relying on defense, willpower and constantly polishing technology, the bull fans, especially the coaching staff, watched Butler grow into today’s superstar step by step.
Therefore, during the later recovery period, AJ Griffin knew clearly that Butler would be his future learning goal:
“I also want to do the same thing.”
Therefore, as a former genius, AJ Griffin in recovery began to practice from the most basic shooting, set three points and withdraw one step and three points; He obviously felt that the speed of the first step slowed down because of knee injury, but he didn’t feel sad. He just allowed him to practice the ball and attack well. He also began to learn how to find teammates in fengshui ball and play like Butler. Don’t care about the gains and losses in front of him, make yourself a better player.
“Work hard so that every day is full,” Griffin’s speech was very positive before the draft. “devote yourself to it and train hard every day, we are already doing what we want to do most, so why do we work hard happily?”
This process inspired his team attributes. Although his physical quality performance was far inferior to that of the past, experts believed that AJ-Griffin’s team play was the biggest difference between him and other players. After being chosen by the eagle on the 16th, he soon made all veterans like him.
“Sometimes I want to tell him not to practice too hard. He is like this every day with the same smile before every day,” Trey Yang said. “No matter how many minutes each game is played, he will really feel happy. For this, I bet he will have a super rookie season.”
“As you can see, he is trying hard to win the playing time,” Eagle coach McMillan said. “His enthusiasm is affecting the whole team, whether it is playing for 5 minutes or 10 minutes, in the next 15 minutes and 20 minutes, he will give all the energy, which is what we want.”
On November 7, AJ Griffin won more than 15 minutes for the first time against the Bucks and scored 24 points. As he said, he would not waste any chance.
“I really enjoyed all this. At the beginning of the season, everything was brand new. 82 games were very intense, but every day I felt different. I continued to work hard, I began to know when to go to the gym, when to rest, how to take care of my body…… Whether I play for 10 minutes or 20 minutes, the coaching staff and trainers take good care of me. We make all preparations on the training ground, no matter how long I play then, we are not afraid.”
On November 19, the eagle was at home to the Raptors, and he was ordered again in danger. As soon as he came up in overtime, he scored 6 points in a row. In the last 3 seconds, Trey Yang threw the ball at the opponent’s rim. Griffin followed up at high speed, caught the basketball in the air and put the ball in.
All his teammates rushed up, watering his head and singing to him together. At this moment, he was the most important existence in the spotlight.
After winning the game, he walked out of the court and saw a familiar figure in the garage: The assistant coach of the Raptors, his father.
“Son, today is great.” Old Griffin came over and gave him a high-five hug.
“Think about it afterwards, if I look at him as soon as I score the goal, the effect will be there. I guess when he watched the replay later, his heart must be mixed.”
“Thank you, Dad.”
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