As a person who loves basketball, someone who has been following the NBA for many years, someone who can treat basketball as his own life, and someone who is disappointed by the over-commercial league... I think this film tells what I want to say : Basketball should be like this!
Maybe you don't know anything about aba, maybe you don't care about nba and don't like basketball, but the essential charm of all competitive sports is actually reflected in this movie. Looking at the current sports world, excessive commercialization is not only in NBA, Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, and almost all leagues. As long as you have money, you can form a Big Three and turn from the league to the championship within a year. , As long as you have money, you can form the samba striker of Kaka, Ronaldinho, Pato... If everything is rich, what is the meaning of competitive sports itself?
When players transfer became commonplace, when Iverson left Philadelphia, when Garnett was no longer the Wolves, when Brand gave up the crew for 100w... They, once a team leader, a city hero , Or being sold mercilessly, or being seduced by fame and fortune. "Betrayal" has become their common choice, and everyone will tell you that the NBA is just a business.
If basketball is just a business, does it have any meaning? Most players no longer train hard for the championship, and some coaches no longer study tactics hard for winning, because there is an easier way to win the championship, which is trading!
The environment depicted in the film is not like this. A group of people have achieved their dreams with their own efforts, everybody love everybody. Such a process will also drive everyone crazy, maybe they are only fourth, so what? In my eyes, this is more meaningful than the Big Three championship; in my eyes, the moment Kranes stood up from the Spurs bench, it was more exciting than Kobe's 81 points; In my opinion, the insensible Tropical Alley Oop is more shocking than O'Neal dunking the rebound (I know that is funny, alley oop is indeed invented by a player who has never played in the NBA).
These are what basketball should have, and it is also its most attractive place. Unfortunately, these beautiful things no longer exist.
Poor basketball as it was, now maybe only some clues can be found in the movie or on the basketball court on the street.
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