Scottie pippen was born in 1965, and Jordan Jr. was only two years old. Born in the southern countryside, his family was poor, and there were twelve brothers on it. Racial discrimination in the south of the United States is more cruel than in the north. Old Pippen had to work hard in the paper mill, and then when Scotty was a sophomore, his father was paralyzed by a stroke. In the third year of senior high school, scottie was just a child with 175 cm legs as thin as a pencil, who could only take care of the towels for the team.
At that time, his biggest dream was to become the director of a paper mill and own a second-floor RV-perfect!
He didn't join the basketball team until his senior year, so thin that a gust of wind would blow him away. He plays point guard and gets along well. No university gave him a basketball scholarship when he graduated from high school. Finally, the University of Central Arkansas asked him if he would go. He thought it was a pie in the sky: Pippen's family can finally go to college!
He didn't even think about NBA when he was a freshman. He was lucky to join the school team after two players were injured. He is determined to finish college, find a job and send some money to his family. Then God took care of him: in the second year of high school, he grew to 15 cm, which was 36 kg heavier than that in high school. 20 1 cm，99 kg。
Everything has changed.
He has the skill, speed and agility of a defender, but he is a big man. He began to play confidently. In his junior year, he averaged 23 points per game. Jerry Krause was moved and sent his assistant Billy McKinney to Arkansas. McKinney brought back this comment: "Long arm span, fast running, big hands." The only question: can Pippen withstand the pressure of NBA level?
Just as Klaus hesitated, Pippen ended his senior season, averaging 24 points 10 rebounds and 4 assists, shooting a horrible 59% and stealing 3 times per game. Every time he went to training camp, he shocked everyone. Pippen knows very well that God has opened a window of fate for him, but only for a short time. He can get rid of poverty and possibly realize his dream-a paper mill!
At the 1987 draft, Jerry Krause and Seattle reached an agreement. The fifth place in Seattle chose Pippen, and then the eighth place in the Bulls was Alden Polloni. Even Pippen himself was shocked: chose such a high position?
Jordan was even more shocked: Who is the breadcrumb? Never heard of it!
Pippen accepted the Bulls' No.33 jersey. Pippen signed a six-year, $565,438+contract. Pippen's mother admitted in the summer of 1987 that the children didn't particularly like playing basketball at first. He signed this long-term contract now to protect his old age. Pippen sent back most of his salary and carefully deposited the rest in the bank. He is a millionaire. He took a fancy to a Porsche, but was afraid to buy it. He is afraid of poverty.
Pippen volunteered to defend Jordan when he first participated in bull training. Just like a boy who just joined the army and was criticized and suspected by veterans, he decided to fight a tiger alone. He must prove that he deserves the No.5 draft pick. After the first training session, Pippen said:
"Michael didn't do anything to others ... nothing to me."
A little modesty tries to suppress pride, and a little ostentation tries to gain recognition.
His rookie season averaged less than 8 points per game. It was not until that year that the first round of the fifth life-and-death war in the East began to shine. With 27 seconds left in the third quarter, Pippen stretched out an incredible long arm, broke Harper's ball, took his long legs and scored a layup. Bulls lead for the first time, 78-77. Twenty-two seconds later, Vincent missed the layup, and Pippen flew up, showing the bounce, long arm and explosive power that everyone praised in the draft, and a quick chase. The Bulls scored 80 to 77. With 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Pippen completed a series of gorgeous performances: a jump shot and a success in the basket.
Pippen scored 24 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals from 20 shots 10, and finally graduated with 6 fouls. Importantly, he showed many possibilities: jump shot, passing, rebounding, defense, layup and breaking the ball. He is everywhere on the court, and he chose a suitable time to shine. The bull faced the possibility of being reversed. When Jordan couldn't support it, Pippen came over. Bulls backup guard Spyro said:
"This is the best rookie playoff performance I have ever seen."
This battle was the foundation of his later success.
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Pippen didn't get star status until he won the championship in the fourth grade, when he was almost 26 years old.
He is very talented. Height and arm length are obvious. You can also dunk at the free throw line. There is evidence of his running and jumping speed. In an interview in May, Jordan joked about Pippen. "Who runs fast, Jordan or Pippen, and whose breakthrough is poor?" "This question is very difficult. Almost. " Jordan finally decided: "Me! I dribble lower than Pippen. " -But get Jordan's approval, you know.
On the defensive end, he is the best defensive peripheral player in history, maybe not one. The eighth annual first defensive lineup. It was the golden age of the NBA's iron-blooded power forward. Do you know who he squeezed into the second defensive array? Buck Williams, Derek McKee, Larry Nance, Anthony Mei Sen, PJ Brown at the peak, Rodman-think about what kind of murderers these goods are.
Pippen's defensive technique is very, very perfect. Single defense against the ball can prevent 1 to position 4. For example, in the finals 199 1, he and Jordan take turns to deal with the magician, and he can grow on the magician's ass from the middle court. Careful pace, good at using long arms, perfect baseline defense, no swaying, and balance ability. Now only Sofrosa in the league can match it-by the way, Sofrosa was really praised like Pippen when he first went to the Bulls. In other words, Pippen is a model of not losing his position.
Besides, Pippen didn't lose his position when he took the stolen king. One of the best steals in the NBA. In the first six years of the 1990s, he averaged nearly three steals and/kloc-0 blocks per year. Moreover, Pippen's sealing style is very special: he likes to play from the side and likes to "fix the board".
His rebounds: 9 1-95, averaging at least 7.3 and at most 8.7.
Finally, the data cannot be displayed. When Pippen was an All-Star, why did Dad Chuck Daley have to take him to the Olympics? Dad's original words: Pippen is the perfect filler.
I wrote a long article about "filling", so I won't quote it. Simply put, it is cruising around, filling every space, double-teaming, and rotating and sweeping like separation. For example, in the finals of 1986, Larry Bird also ruined his sophomore dream with his double-team and steals. The media praised Bird so much: "Football security." For example, KG for the Celtics. For example, LeBron and Wade's Heat System. Pippen and Jordan are such two goods. They lock defenders and double-team, rotate and fill the whole three-point line at any time.
Say offensive end.
Pippen 199 1-92 averaged 22 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists per game-in the final analysis, it is very LeBron's data, but it is a little less.
Add two points:
Triangle attack is limited to holding the ball, so in triangle attack, the number of assists is not easy to look good.
He is the second-in-command in the team, and there is another person in the team who averages 30 points per game.
In the first year, 1993-94, the Bulls won 55 games, averaging 22 points, 8.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists. I want to add that he averaged 22 points per game, ranking eighth in the league. The people who scored higher than him included: the four centers, the postman (above the inside player) Wilkins and Richmond. It's gone.
In all fairness, Pippen's offensive end is omnipotent, which is actually "positional omnipotence". He has dribbling and a point guard vision (he did play point guard in the Trailblazers in his later years); He has shooting protection range; He has the flexibility of a small forward; But in details, he has something to be picky about. Few people have noticed:
His free throws are average.
CIC is impure.
There are good fixed-point shots, but there is no "stop shooting" with the ball outside.
It has amazing walking ability without the ball and layup ability on the weak side.
It's good to turn over after hitting the little man on the back.
Therefore, he is not an excellent singles scorer, but the overall integration system scoring ability is still good.
If he and grant hill catch up with the punishment rules after 2005, the score data will look much better.
His character was mentioned earlier. Therefore, he is really not a person who leads the way to great things.
So in terms of historical ranking, four small forwards will definitely be above him: Havlicek, Bird, Dr. J (counting ABA career) and LeBron.
He is unique in two aspects.
First, he may not be the most versatile player in history (even in small forwards, rick barry, LeBron and Bird can compete with him), but he is almost certainly the greatest and most successful second-in-command in history. Worthy of sam jones and Tian Gou, but mchale can't compare with him.
Second, like Buckley, mchale and the postman, he is a player who "becomes a model in this technology and body, and there will be no second one"