Most of the time, the darkest days in life are exactly the starting point for a person to stand out.
Once, Jordan Poole was satirized as “the warrior put up a rotten artifact”, and a large number of experts and fans attacked the warrior for taking the first round of signing and selecting Poole in 2019 to “look around”. As a result, it took less than three years for poole to grow into a champion of warriors.
Not long ago, Poole was hit on the ground by the heavy punch played by Raymond Green. After the nightmare incident, Poole was calm and calm.
In the preseason match with the lakers on october 10, beijing time, he took part in the match for the first time after the conflict between poole and poor. He only took 23 minutes to score 25 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, kevin Durant, Chandler Parsons and others gave praise one after another.
Cole mentioned “tenacity” and “confidence” when praising poole after the game. These two qualities are the key to poole’s arrival today. In the face of adversity, Poole has a strong heart, can struggle, can also endure. It is quite rare for a 23-year-old young man to have such a state.
Before the 2019 draft, it was hard to find the name of poole in the first round of various versions of the simulated draft. Kevin Pelton, an ESPN data analysis expert, did not put Poole in The first round. The ESPN list ranked Poole in The 51st place, while The Athletic ranked Poole in The 50th place. In the eyes of authoritative media, poole, who focuses on attacking and defending lightly, is a second-round show.
But in the eyes of warriors, Poole is the first round of standard. The warriors gave two trials to poole, and poole withstood the pressure to play perfectly on the spot. Just when Clay Thompson confirmed early reimbursement for knee injury, the warrior decided to use the No. 28 sign to pick Poole who had projection ability and could attack independently.
Originally, the Warriors did not intend to put it up in the 2019-20 season, but as Curry was injured, the Warriors lost hope early. The Warriors simply entered the mode of putting it up, and Poole became a “putting it down artifact”. The Unmanned Warrior gave Poole a large number of offensive plays with the ball, but this kind of heavy burden is obviously not affordable for Poole who just walked out of the university. The average score of poole was 8.8 points, field goal percentage 33.3%, and the hit rate of three points was 27.9%.
Accustomed to witnessing the great Warriors fans, how can they stand the performance of their own key training objects? For a time, they questioned that they hit Poole like hail.
“They accused me of bad shooting choices, no passing, no fengshui ball,” Poole recalled.
If you change to another rookie, it may have been defeated by these questioning voices, but Poole is different. Poole said, “I’m not worried! I know my ability. I won’t go to the media to talk a lot. I just shut up, let my performance speak for me, and let those who question me swallow their words back. When I do this, that feeling is really cool.”
In March 2020, the epidemic stopped NBA, causing everyone to panic. After the initial fear, poole calmed down and contacted the trainer demack. The two wore masks almost every day to carry out special targeted training in the open warrior training hall. No teammates, no coach, poole can resist loneliness and constantly polish his skills such as speed, flexibility and fengshui ball.
What Poole practiced was something he was not good at. In some training days, he would burst his mouth because of his poor performance and even kick the ball. But after venting, poole will return to the training and continue repeated boring training.
During the suspension period and the break period, it takes 9 months for Poole to practice. Poole said that it was usually only two months off-season, but because of the epidemic, he had seven more months to train, which benefited him a lot. In the 2020-21 season, when Poole appeared in the training camp, the pot of Pu’er tea was brewed. He not only upgraded various technologies, but also became stronger obviously. It was said that he had increased at least 10 pounds of muscle.
At the beginning of the season, Poole didn’t have much time to play, and he was also downgraded to the Development League in February 2021. After returning from the development alliance, Poole broke out. In the last 36 games of the season, Poole scored 14.7 points, field goal percentage and 43.3 percent, with a three-point hit rate of 35.4 percent. In the last 9 games, Poole scored 17.8 points, up to 49 percent field goal percentage.
Ordinary people always see what his current life is like, while successful people focus on what life may become.
In Poole’s view, he is far from the limit in the 2020-21 season, and he still has more room for improvement. During the off-season period, Poole gained further weight. He improved the confrontation through a lot of strength training, and he could lay down and throw after finishing the confrontation during the march. Poole also expanded the range, following Curry’s development of super far three points. Many technical moves that Poole once couldn’t complete had become his kill in the 2021-22 season.
Last season, Poole completed the second evolution. Only 11 players in the league broke through, receive the ball shots, and dry shots all reached 300 points, and Poole was one of them. Among the other 10 players, Durant, Tatum, enbide, Booker and Curry are top-wage players. Jay Brown and Taylor Croal have all received contracts totaling more than $0.1 billion, ramello-Bauer and Anthony-Edward may get the top salary in the future, while Rochelle’s contract will reach 97 million dollars. From this perspective, Poole’s 100 million yuan contract is indeed deserved.
Throughout the season, Poole’s strong confidence was impressive. Greencare don’t mention three games. The first one was the first battle between warriors and nuggets on march 11. Poole cut 11 points in the fourth quarter. Curry and thompson were both present at that time, but it was poole who stood out to take over the game. The second game was the first battle between the Warriors and Spurs on April 10. In that game, Poole felt cold and threw 3 out of 19 shots, of which 11 shots made 1 out of 3, but he made 11 free throws all hit, at the critical moment, he killed the spurs counterattack with free throws. The third game was the battle between the finals and the Celtics at Mount Tianwang. Poole hit the super-far pressure whistle in the last moment of the third quarter. Three points helped the Warriors to surpass.
“No matter what happens, no matter how bad the state is, Poole can always find a way to bring the team victory. When we need him to score, he can send the ball to rim. When the opponent launches a counterattack, he can kill the opponent’s counterattack, and the great player has such a performance.” Green once praised zannip.
Green once said a lot of good things for poole. He also won the fastest progressive player award for poole, who regarded green as a good brother. However, green lost his calm and waved out a punch, which caused a rift in the relationship between the two, pushing poole to an embarrassing situation.
Today’s first world war with the Lakers is just a preseason match, but it is the most stressful first world war that Poole has faced since the finals. After the conflict, everyone stared at him to see if his performance would be affected. In the end, Poole gave the full score answer sheet, the forced shooting after blocking and dismantling, the throwing shot completed by the defender who wore flowers and walked through the breakthrough and swung around the ball around his waist, none is not the embodiment of its confidence and tenacity.
This kind of strong confidence and tenacity is the key to Poole’s ability to step on the court calmly after getting a punch from Green and perform well. It is also the key to Poole’s ability to keep calm in the stressful contract year, the key to calm response.
“As far as Poole’s overflowing confidence is concerned, Warriors cannot lose him,” Warriors accompanying reporter Marcus Thompson II wrote.