The Lakers won again, and this time it was very easy to score another 130 points, just like a few days ago, and this time they won 16 points, which was much easier than the last match.
James returned to the court because of a rest due to illness. Compared with the birthday night, he didn’t have to take out 47+10+9 Energy. He just easily scored 25 points and 7 rebounds, assists 10 times. It seemed that Yu yongkejia, James was still full of physical strength in the fourth quarter. He scored 8 points in a single quarter and didn’t shoot three-pointer shots once. All of them rushed to the basket.
It doesn’t look like a 38-year-old man at all. Lao Zhan knocked Hunter over and put it on the basket for a while, and his hands were buckled violently for a while. At 6 minutes 26 seconds, he played a hand-to-hand cooperation with Gabriel. The single-arm gliding fly buckle expanded the score difference to 19 points again, stunned everyone on the scene.
Now the Lakers have won 4 consecutive victories, and their defensive counterattack is so sharp that the quick attack score ratio is 26-12, leading the eagle up to 26 points. After James passed his birthday, he seemed to return to his old age. In addition to the fourth quarter, he could fly dunk like this. He took 40 + twice in the last three games.
The better James played, the more I miss someone, that is melon Anthony. How is he now? Can he come back to play basketball?
Anthony is also 38 years old, and he is half a year older than James. They both entered the NBA at the same time and took two completely different paths. Although James has been frustrated constantly, he is basically perfect. With four crowns in hand, he will soon surpass Jabbar and become the first person to score in history. Anthony was different. His first ten years were dedicated to Nuggets and Nick. In the last few years, he left and left. He didn’t join hands with James until the last year, but he failed to return and didn’t play in the playoffs.
Twenty years ago, the two 18-year-old teenagers met each other on the eve of the talent show. They sat on the steps looking up at the starry sky, looking forward to the future and making an appointment. From then on, they became good friends all their lives, even because James saved Anthony’s life, they had a friendship of life.
20 years are about to pass. James’s career is far from the end. Anthony is still waiting for the call. Any team will do. Otherwise, his career will really end.
Now Anthony still insists on training every day, but his life focus has been entirely on his son.
His son Kiyan is about to enter the university and has received an offer from his alma mater Syracuse University. Not long ago, there was a match between Kiyan’s school and Serra Valley Middle School. Anthony watched the battle with great interest, because James’s two sons brownie and bless were both in the Sera Valley Middle School team, and of course James would also be present.
Since he appeared in public, Anthony naturally could not hide from the topic of playing. He said, “I also want to come back to play. You know how much I like this sport, but I also understand, there are many things you can’t control. So I have to wait and see how to develop. No matter what the result is, I will accept it. My heart is very calm. And I have to watch my son’s game. You know I have been practicing him, staying with him and watching his game. I used to have a long time (because I had to compete) and I didn’t have a chance to do many things. Now I can feel the taste of being a father and play the role I should play.”
Obviously, a large part of Anthony’s energy is to send his son to NBA instead of returning to the stadium. “Now I go to the stadium to practice every day. If the opportunity comes, I will definitely not miss it, but I will not act too hastily.”
After entering the new year, the NBA player market has begun a new stage, because some players’ non-guaranteed contracts will be cut off continuously when the days must be guaranteed, for example, the calf is going to cut kenba Walker. After the All-Star game, before the playoffs, there will be many opportunities for 10-day cooperation. Therefore, if Anthony is determined to return to the stadium, the best time is these two or three months.
Professional athletes are most afraid of “derailment”, that is, leaving the team they have played for many years, they are likely to plummet and cannot find their own positions. Then they get worse and worse until they retire.
When Anthony left the gold digging, he was 26 years old when he was in the year of the fight. He shouldered the first “derailment crisis”. But after leaving New York in 2017, he could not continue to be the master of the country. Especially in the Rockets, he was told that he must accept the substitute role, otherwise he could not play. Finally, it was the Blazers who accepted him, and under the warmth of Lillard, Anthony finally accepted the reality. In the second season, 69 games only played 3 starts.
This mentality enabled Anthony to join hands with James in the Lakers. He felt at ease with his new role and played number 4. When he was receive the ball pitcher, he contributed an average of 13.3 points. This season, the Lakers changed their mind and stopped signing a bunch of veterans. Anthony lost his job, but there was actually oil in his tank.
This year, he had the opportunity to return to New York to join Nick halfway because the striker tuoping had a knee injury and would be out for several weeks. But New York Nick thought about it and decided not to take Anthony, because his style did not match the current team style.
In fact, NBA basketball is more tactical than before. When attacking, it emphasizes defensive counterattack like the Lakers, and many scores are completed in counterattack. When defending, the basic idea is to change at a time. More regional defense reduces the one-one-one defense of one chasing one. When Anthony and James entered NBA, they were all characters with Advanced Style. Nowadays, a large number of teams are playing forward, and Anthony fully adapted to the requirements of changing from 3 to 4 now.
Perhaps the most criticism is aimed at Anthony’s defense. In fact, Anthony changed from small forward to big forward earlier than James. He is very familiar with this position.
Some strong teams actually lack Anthony’s type, such as the Suns, which have lost 5 consecutive defeats and fell to the eighth in the West. Because of Claude’s mischief, Cameron Johnson was injured and the whole team was short. They lacked Anthony, a striker who could shoot.
The same 5-losing Clippers like to play a small squad, and Anthony’s height does not suffer at all. The main reason is that the two core Clippers George and Leonard have relatively large injury risks, and increasing the number of strikers is helpful to deal with unexpected situations.
The Mavericks have been seriously injured recently, especially Finney Smith and Josh Green. They especially need to supplement the strikers. The Mavericks didn’t work during the three-point goal, and Anthony’s stable projection was quite useful.
If these teams do not consider Anthony, then he can only obey fate and wait for the end of his career.
Fortunately, Anthony can concentrate on being a father and hope that his child will succeed. The marriage between him and Lala has reached the end. The relationship between them from 2017 to 2021was kept in chaos, and finally they decided to separate. In the United States, separation is a legal state. Although the marriage relationship is still there, individuals are free, so Lala now also makes public her dating standards.
At this time, middle-aged men generally encounter problems in their careers and families. I don’t know if Anthony can carry them over. At least, let him have a ball to play first, because if he hits the ball, he can be his original self, even if it is only a small part of the past.