In the new season’s Knicks lineup, a familiar face of Chinese fans appeared: Isaiah haltenstein. He signed a contract with Knicks this summer, totaling 2 years and 16 million years.
The annual salary of this contract, which is less than the middle class, has exceeded the sum of his previous career-before that, he signed the basic salary and was still insecure.
In fact, he also received a better offer, but considering the relatively weak insider of Knicks, Hartenstein thought he could have enough time to play. For this big German boy, making money is really the second, what he wants is to show himself in the highest basketball palace in the world, for himself and for his father.
In fact, it was because he didn’t care too much about salary and only thought about more important positioning that haltenstein took a lot of detours: a year ago, he performed well in Knight and once occupied the position of little Nance, the Cavaliers intended to renew him for a long time, but he was unwilling to replace jarred-Allen and the flower show Evan-Mobley, so he declined the Knight’s contract.
However, Harten, who was waiting for the contract for basketable nets, did not expect that basketable nets suddenly changed its strategy and signed Milsap, Griffin and Aldrich successively. Finally, haltenstein paid a price for his haste, it was not until half a month before the start of the training camp that he reached an agreement with the Clippers and signed a basic salary of 1.7 million years, which was still insecure.
Fortunately, one year later, he made everyone remember him: he played 68 games, all of which were Substitutes. 27 games filled the data list, ranking first in the team; the 17.9-minute data is only 8.3 points 4.9 rebounds 2.4 assists 0.7 steals and 1.1 cap, converted into 36 minutes, which is a considerable 16.7 points 9.8 rebounds 4.7 assists 1.5 steals 2.3 cap, all-round higher than the starting zubatz, even including the hit rate.
The 23-year-old haltenstein convinced the Los Angeles home fans in this way, while he convinced the Clippers teammates and only used one training class.
Tyron lu was not present that day. It was kennard who called specially and told him that he must see how hartenstein passed the ball with his own eyes anyway. The background sound of the phone was very noisy, kennard said that it was George who was so excited that he was screaming.
A few seconds later, Tyron Lu received a small video from the trainer. Haltenstein was omnipotent in the half-time offensive and defensive battle: he could not only put an empty cut in his hand, but also actively look for bag clip anytime and anywhere, then quietly sent out a backdoor assist.
These assists are all the same way: passing the ball and leading the teammates forward.
Good passing skills were shown in The Rocket Summer League before.
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These two balls in the Clippers can be regarded as showing all his characteristics.
Haltenstein’s passing skills may come from his father, who once served as a center at the University of Oregon and later returned to Germany to Coach Flo haltenstein, dad will ask him to ban shots in a competition, even if he had already opened the space under the basket-this was to make halten, who grew up among a group of American children who flew around holding the ball and never gave up, realize that basketball is a team sport.
In any case, haltenstein became a self-taught person and studied how to pass the ball to his teammates in the crowd. However, he stressed that his current passing skills were achieved not only because of his father’s teaching, but also because of one of his teammates last year: yokiki.
“In the past, you would see our own players and other players on the court,” Hartenstein said, “but yokiki told me that it was not necessary to worry about how many of them were, what you need to be familiar with is where everyone is. I think this is the way he often passes through the back door. You can use your eyes to make the opponent judge wrongly, and then send out the pass without looking at others according to your impression, I think his idea has a great influence on me.”
Later, halteng was on the top of the Clippers. Ibaka’s injury was certainly an opportunity, but Tyron Lu believed that even if the team was well-equipped, haltenstein can also gain playing time by virtue of his technology, and he is not only skilled, but also has concentration and efforts beyond ordinary people.
And these abilities really come from his father’s careful cultivation and route selection.
In 1998, haltenstein was born in Eugene, Oregon, where he spent the first 10 years of his life. His father chose to return to Germany to play basketball after finishing his four-year college career, my mother stayed in the United States to take care of Harten Stein and his sister.
You may not believe it. Halten can actually be counted as a black man, and his black blood comes from his father from Europe-Flo-haltenstein is German, he came to the University of Oregon to play center and met his mother Teresa during his school days. Flo’s father, haltenstein’s grandfather, was actually an African-American, at that time, he met his grandmother when serving in the US military, so haltenstein was exactly a quarter of the black people, but his skin color was much whiter than that of ordinary black people.
Ha Teng and his black father
Originally, the plan of the Harten family was to let little Harten Stein stay in the United States to study and play basketball, and cultivate his talents by means of American players. Therefore, when Harten Stein was young, he could only communicate with his father through his mobile phone, I only fly to Germany every holiday. But this kind of growth mode made everyone very tired. They finally decided to return to Germany together. In 2008, the whole family moved back to Germany together. Haltenstein also began to learn German from that time, learn to get along with German children.
In a remote farm town in Germany, sports is the best way of socializing. Hartenstein, who grew up with basketball, not only inherited his father’s height, but also inherited his father’s excellent basketball talent. At the age of 15, he played the first professional competition in his career in the local league-but with a clear career plan, he chose not to get his salary for the time being, in this way, he can choose to play NCAA in the United States or stay in Germany.
But in the end, the Hartenstein family decided to let him stay in Germany. His father’s experience and analysis made him make up his mind to save the country-in those years, harten’s father Flo played at the University of Oregon for four years. 53 of the 112 games were the first, but the average data was only 3.6 points 3.7 rebounds, which belonged to the blue collar. Flo told his son that in the tactical system of American universities, the center has no chance to get the chance to hold the ball. You can only be trained as a blue collar. They train big men in the assembly line, only looking at physical talent, regardless of the mind.
Flo wants his son to be a seven-foot center with basketball IQ-the favorite European player in NBA. So in 2015, 17-year-old Hartenstein signed the grand and strong Kaunas team in Lithuania and completely ruled the youth group. One year later, he rose to the adult team.
There is a very important contract between him and Kaunas, and the team should support him to participate in the draft and other trial activities. So he got his wish, participated in basketball borderless activities, and also played Nike Summit in 2017. In that game, he played 19 minutes and took 10 points and 3 rebounds.
At this time, haltenstein was completely an incomprehensible alien to American basketball and Scouts: he was born and raised in America and can speak fluent American English, however, there is almost no American basketball experience, but as a European player, all its attributes are completely different from the stereotypes of the Scouts-he is not good at fighting against the tough, but not very good at shooting from long range; he is seven feet tall, but he is not very good at using his height advantage, and his movement is a bit slow.
As a result, this game led to the decline of Hartenstein’s draft prediction all the way: The reason is very simple, he did not play what American scouts expected, not to mention that there are already so many inside lines of body animals in the United States, why should Scouts pay attention to an American center in European skins?
After the game, haltenstein didn’t stay to continue training with the Scouts, but flew back to Lithuania that day. He said to his father that he was very disappointed and doubted himself for the first time since he grew up: why do those children from America run so fast and jump so high? I am not a genius, what do I compete with them?
Of course Flo knew, but he seldom told his son before. He felt that some things were born and could not be compared with others. But if you work hard enough, you can have your own day, so when haltenstein made up his mind to regard NBA as the ultimate goal, A brand new haltenstein appeared-he spent 6 hours in the training hall every day, neither smoking nor drinking, neither playing PS nor looking for a girlfriend.
“I don’t have time to find a girlfriend,” he said. “If I go out for a day, the guys in the gym will be stronger than me for a day. I have to keep my feet on the ground and stay focused.”
In fact, the results of the draft did not exceed haltenstein’s expectation. The 43rd round in 2017 was the same as Zhou Qi a year ago. However, unlike Zhou Qi, who held the guarantee contract, Harten had never signed a contract with the Rockets. The team only retained his right to sign the contract and directly assigned him to the development league for his own survival.
In the end, halteng stayed in the brutal competition. After a season with an average of 9.5 points and 6.6 rebounds, he got the formal contract sent by the Rockets-compared with Zhou Qi, who had a slow transition compared with the slow progress of hard shooting, harten did not cherish his life and occasionally had the vitality of passing the ball. Instead, it was more suitable for the needs of the rockets. But even so, most of the time haltenstein was trained in Viper. He won three pairs here, was selected as the best team, and also helped the team win the championship. He played a three-point goal in the Development League. In the finals, he scored 8 points in a single game and was elected as the MVP of the finals.
Haltenstein has become stronger, but it doesn’t seem to matter to the Rockets-in the place where NBA opportunities are more precious than anything else, strengthening alone may not be able to compete for anything, therefore, in order to find new opportunities, he gave up the contract guarantee and took the initiative to find the management and asked to cut himself off.
It was the first time he sought a way out by himself, so what happened this year was also in line with his style. Fortunately, his clips of playing poisonous snakes have been noticed by many scouts, and at this time, his movement, shooting and passing after hard practice are no longer short boards, instead, it became a selling point under the height of seven feet.
He signed a contract with the Nuggets and became the stand-in of plamley, who left the team, standing behind jokedge. At that time, both Monte Morris and PJ Dozier in the Nuggets had cooperated with him in the Development League and were full of praise to him. However, under Malone’s center response system, haltenstein’s style can be seamlessly connected. What he lacks is only the experience of competition.
“They really want me to come over,” he felt flattered. “It’s so happy to learn to play with Millsap who has played NBA for 15 years. I know what I know is not enough, but I am willing to learn.”
Haltenstein compared joki to “an open book”, because joki will explain to him patiently as long as he asks questions. Haltenstein’s outgoing personality made him quickly get along with his teammates, and everyone was willing to teach him his own experience voluntarily.
“Yokiki is the best center,” he said. “the way he looks at the game, his ability to analyze the game, it is difficult to imitate, I can learn a little, it is very satisfied.”
Tyron Lu called him “Swiss Army knife” because at any time, he can make the most needed contribution for the team. Although it is only a dozen minutes, when he is defending, the hit rate of the other side will drop by 16.8%, which is the best in the league.
Many people think that if it weren’t for his injury, the Clippers would have won a playoff quota last season and might have gone further. This time, haltenstein’s self-worth was realized. He was not buried, got a satisfactory contract and reward, and more importantly, he became stronger.
At this moment, haltenstein’s career has taken a new step. “I have to continue to become stronger. Every day I have to be better than the day before. I will live up to everyone who is optimistic about me.”
However, the seemingly “wrong” choices will not defeat you again and again-as long as you don’t give up hope, you will always see the arrival of light. Harten Stein is like this, Zhou Qi is like this, and so is you and me who are in internal friction.
On the road to getting better, your goal is only yesterday’s self.
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