At the Nike Basketball Summit in 1998, the 19-year-old Dirk Nowitzki showed his extraordinary basketball talent, and he was destined not to stay in the second tier league in his hometown Germany, and the NBA was the stage he was going to.
Young Nowitzki showed his soft touch and shooting talent, 6 '11 "height combined with such incredible shooting ability, so that the team's scouts noticed his existence, that game, Nowitzki scored 33 points and 13 rebounds, most of the scores in the second half, he almost single-handedness to reverse the situation of the game. With this performance, Nowitzki was undoubtedly elected the MVP of the Nike Basketball Summit.
What few people know is that at that time, Nowitzki's second-division hometown team Waltsburg was in the playoff process, and had the opportunity to impact the first-division league, and he and his assistant were secretly running out to participate in the Nike Summit game and did not tell the team. It can be said that Nowitzki gambled his future in order to make it to the NBA.
Holger Gersiewidner is Nowitzki's mentor, he has been with Nowitzki for a long time since he was an assistant coach in Woltzburg.
At the age of 16, Holger Gersiewidner created a set of basketball formulas belonging to the disciple, and calculated the most appropriate shooting Angle exclusive to Nowitzki: "The higher the arc, the better, but not too high, the best shot Angle is 60 degrees."As Nowitzki's exclusive coach, throughout the entire career of the old driver can see his active figure. With his help, Nowitzki has scored 31,560 points in his career, ranking sixth on the NBA's all-time scoring list, behind Wilt Chamberlain and second only to Michael Jordan.
What makes Nowitzki so unique
In the 1998 draft, the Dallas Mavericks selected Robert Traylor, nicknamed "Tractor," with the sixth pick and traded him for Dirk Nowitzki. Traylor is 2 '3 "tall and weighs 129 kilograms, he is strong but slow, and soon he will be among the league. In contrast, Nowitzki, with his technical flow, has stood firm and gradually moved toward greatness.
Once the fourth position was a blue-collar position on the court, known as the "second center", usually responsible for defense and rebounding tasks. But the emergence of Chris Webber, Kevin Garnett and Rasheed Wallace during the same period redefined power forward and ushered in a boom at the No. 4 position.
Nowitzki, by contrast, is so different, he is good at luring these star power forwards to the high post and tearing up the defense with his delicate mid-range shooting. The defensive players at the fourth position are used to defending in the post, and they are not used to guarding Dirk in the high post. Nowitzki is the era of big space and leader, almost no one can guard him, of course, he is difficult to guard those star big men in the low post.
Accumulation of honor
When Dirk Nowitzki began to succeed in the league, the league also subtly changed, and the league demanded that the big man also need to have the ability to shoot, and the three-point shot was more valued than ever.
Nowitzki with a steady scoring and playoff breakthrough, began to accumulate their own honor, and continue to improve their historical status. In 2006-07 season, Nowitzki led the team in the regular season with 64 wins, and he was also honored with the regular season MVP title. In 2010-11, the Mavericks defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, last season's champion Los Angeles Lakers, and the talented Oklahoma City Thunder in the playoffs, and defeated the Big Three Miami Heat in the Finals.
Nowitzki, who led the team with a single core, accomplished the nearly impossible and was undisputed named the Finals FMVP. The championship in 2010-11 season can also be called the most fantasy championship in the NBA after entering the 21st century. With this title, the old driver has thoroughly established his historical position.
The Dirk Nowitzki effect
Although the German had already announced his retirement from Dallas after 21 years in 2018-19, his legacy is still changing the entire NBA landscape. Such a special inside line came out, people began to think about how to reallocate the floor space, after all, today's NBA players are faster, taller and stronger than 20 years ago, the three-second zone has been too crowded.
Although Nowitzki is not a traditional four player, he has changed the definition of a four. With his shooting ability and ability to space the floor for his teammates, the space four position is starting to take root and proliferate in the league, and every team dreams of having a big man like him. For example, Wood of the Houston Rockets, Gallinari, who played for the Hawks last season, and Anthony Davis, the most perfect interior player in the small-ball era.
Previously, we have high hopes for Laurie Markkanen, that he is expected to become a "Finnish small driver", but it turns out that in addition to a long shot, he almost has no intersection with Nowitzki, even so, Markkanen still in the Cleveland Cavaliers to harvest four years 67 million large contract, visible in this era of space type of interior line desire.
At present, the most like Nowitzki in the league is probably in the Nets from time to time by the top of the interior Kevin Durant, his athletic ability is stronger, with a full range of no dead corner offensive Arsenal. Nowitzki looks more like a KD prototype.
