Maybe some angry Spurs fans will label him "traitor".
after all, what kind of person is Cowie Leonard?
is Leonard a boring person? I don't know where to start, "fun" has become a very valuable social quality in the eyes of most aspiring young people, a hard currency in social activities and a threshold for social circles.
Maybe everyone will say that he is an "interesting person" when introducing himself, and he will write "He is interesting" on his signature on social media. Obviously, Leonard, who is taciturn, can't be regarded as an interesting person by the standards of China or the United States, especially when America attaches importance to cheerful social interaction.
In Pierce Skills Training Camp in p>28, there were 25 high school strikers, and Leonard was one of them. Fran Fraschella (ESPN analyst, draft expert and former college basketball coach), one of the young people who participated in the inspection and training at that time, was deeply impressed by Leonard, partly because of his skill and partly because of his dullness.
"At that time, there were about 25 children. I'm not going to see their national rankings and materials, but I'm going to see their abilities in the training."
"After the first morning, I was impressed by a young man. He didn't speak at all, but he was very competitive on the court. When I asked others about this child, they told me that this child is a native of Los Angeles and we were going to give him a chance."
"And he played for three days and really didn't say a word. I don't remember any communication with him, or even his voice." Needless to say, this must be Leonard, which fits our impression of him completely.
Until now, Leonard has been well known, and it is difficult for us to see his reports on Leonard outside the basketball field. In the era of "fun" as a hard currency, the commercial value of a tweet by James in 215 was as high as $14,, TACO TUESDAY! ! ! It can become the golden stalk of the hot network in an instant, and Leonard, who is far away from social media, seems a little bored.
Is Leonard really a log?
However, Justin Houstoun, an assistant professor at Leonard's University of San Diego, used "interesting" to describe Leonard ... Is this person crazy?
"It's actually interesting to talk to Leonard, but it's not easy to talk to him".
Huston said that he was just being cold and humorous. Leonard's former teammate Kyle Lowry said the same thing about him.
In fact, Leonard is not so boring. He was a college student who played basketball and spit garbage. According to his teammates, when Leonard scored a goal, he would say, "Goin, Goin".
He will say the rubbish in a cold and simple way like a robot, "Go in, layup".
When defending, he simply said one word, "No". This "no" is equivalent to Gandalf's YOU SHOULD NOT PASS.
Besides, Leonard will say, "Rebounder, I am a Rebounder" and "Rebounder will be rewarded" when he rebounds.
Leonard's rubbish sounds really strange, and he himself explained what these strange rubbish words mean, because Leonard was only a blue-collar striker at that time, and getting more rebounds could help the team win and help him enter the NBA.
"I really used to say this when I was in high school and college, because I wanted to enter the NBA. These rubbish words reminded me to work hard and go all out in front of every opponent."
Moreover, a boring person should not eat bullwhip for entertainment on the show. But Leonard did it on the food show of former teammate "Chef Ibaka".
He said, "If you are on the last program, you obviously have to do something eye-catching, such as eating some special food".
I believe Ibaka will not only thank Leonard for bringing him the first championship trophy in his career, but also thank Leonard for his contribution to the program effect.
Moreover, Leonard's "boring" is a kind of "interesting" in itself. Why do you say that? Because this is an unintentional coincidence-because Leonard is far away from the spotlight, it has spawned many urban legendary false jokes, but it sounds very consistent with Leonard's cold humor.
For example, a joke is: Leonard, who likes apples, once took out 12 apples from his bag during a dinner in the Spurs. Popovich asked him what this was for, then he said it was apple time, and then he ate 12 apples with a knife and fork.
extremely cold, very Leonard. But this is made up, and it's quite interesting.
is Leonard a good guy or a bad guy?
When Leonard first went to the Raptors, something happened: Norman Powell, a new teammate, tried to fight him, but Leonard ignored Powell and was recorded by the camera.
Of course, Leonard explained it later. He said that he didn't realize Norman Powell wanted to fight with him at that time. He just wanted us to get out of here.
If boredom is Leonard's stereotype, then Leonard, who looks harmless, brings us another symbolic image-he should be an obedient person, right? A man like him must be a good gentleman.
The fact that Leonard doesn't fight Powell should be explained, which is actually a strange thing.
Although I don't have enough facts to support this association, I think this symbolic association led to the attack on Leonard's behavior of leaving the Spurs, because Leonard's symbolic image of Mr. Nice guy was shattered in the hearts of fans, and fans could not accept that Leonard had become a "bad guy", and Mr. Nice guy even had shortcomings.
"You are the perfect flag for the Spurs! You are Duncan's perfect successor! How can you leave the Spurs? "
To tell you the truth, this reminds me of a classic passage performed by Wong Tze Wah in Donkey Laughter-"He is very funny on TV. If you go over there and photograph his head, he won't be angry".
Some people may say that Leonard's way of leaving the Spurs is not "decent", but how to define "decent departure"? In the final analysis, we think this decency is based on the premise that Leonard belongs to the Spurs, and that "how can Leonard with silver and black blood leave the Spurs?" His ass determines his head.
Staying in the Spurs does not mean that Leonard is a good person, and leaving the Spurs does not mean that Leonard is a bad person.
Just like the protagonist in the movie "Full Metal Jacket", as an American soldier who participated in the Vietnam War, he wrote "Born for War" on his helmet, but he wore an anti-war badge; Exposing the ugliness of war can also kill the enemy on the battlefield without blinking an eye. The protagonist (or director Kubrick) explains it this way-it reflects the duality of people.
I think Leonard's departure from the Spurs can be summed up in a simple sentence-Leonard himself said, "I want to play where I like, not where I don't like you."
But he felt unhappy in the Spurs, so he chose to leave, which cannot be used as the basis for public opinion to judge him morally, nor can it be the basis for him to be a good person or a bad person.
is Leonard worthy of fans' love?
Popovich said Leonard was not a leader. But someone will definitely tell you that Leonard led the team to win the first championship for the Raptors. He is the leader.
Obviously, it is difficult to generalize the definition of a leader, because everyone has different definitions in their hearts, and each team also has its own positioning of a leader. For example, the leader of the Lakers is James, but the leader of the Heat can be Haslem who basically doesn't play.
I can't tell you whether Leonard meets the standard of a leader in your mind, and I'm not going to convince anyone with such rhetoric as "Leonard is a leader because he led the team to win two championships", but what I want to say is that Leonard is at least becoming the most important person in the Clippers.
why do you say that? Leonard won two championships in the Spurs and Raptors respectively, and these two teams have something in common in their respective championship periods-they both have a perfect and powerful system, and they can be called strong teams because of the system rather than simply because of Leonard, and Leonard is just the icing on the cake in the system.
But Leonard of Clippers overthrew this point. He directly affected the Clippers' playing style and system, and also directly affected the clippers' team-building cycle. The whole Clippers revolved around Leonard, in other words, Leonard decided 8% of the Clippers' foundation.
In terms of playing style, Leonard of Clippers is still like the young man who studied shooting with England. Every year, he overturns his past self and increases more skills and possibilities, from a scorer to an organization forward, from a dependent system to a self-contained system. Mentally speaking, Leonard is ready to take on more responsibilities, otherwise he won't take the initiative to choose a team without any championship experience to compete for the championship. I know that the Clippers have the eighth team in the West and Paul George's pitch, but in essence this is a new team that starts the new team cycle, and it is not easy for a new team that starts the new team cycle to win the championship-just look at the Nets this season.
Sometimes, it's not unreasonable to compare Leonard to Duncan's successor. Although they are different, they are essentially the cornerstones that the team can rely on and don't have to worry about "self-driving".
Leonard took Harden, the top player in the United States, as his goal when he was in college, and while demanding himself strictly, Leonard even complained to the coach, "Why can't my teammates help others?" Ariza once had training experience with the unknown Leonard, and he recalled, "I was always proud that I was always the first to go to the arena, but once when I got to the arena, Leonard was already there. He had finished all the training and was going to practice more."
"When I saw his work attitude, I knew he was a special person."
Duncan, a talented player, will lose weight and transform into an auxiliary center after his athletic ability is degraded. Leonard has been adding skills to himself little by little since he played basketball and walked out of his comfort zone. This self-driving force is also a lubricant for the team in a sense, helping the team out of the comfort zone. Because the core is what the team is-so Celtic fans don't like Owen. So, there should be no team that doesn't like Leonard, right?
But there must be people who don't like Leonard.
Some people may say that Leonard is not perfect and too egoistic. All decisions he makes revolve around self-satisfaction rather than the overall situation, including the feelings of fans. Leaving the Spurs is a move to destroy the trust of Spurs fans.
But you know, Leonard is just a player. He is not the president. He doesn't need to be measured for everything. It's good to cover everything, but it's not a necessary condition.
Even if some of his actions hurt the fans who supported him, choosing to support Leonard is only the independent behavior of the fans, and there is no binding relationship; It's more like a deal. I make my behavior and you choose whether to buy it or not.
what I said earlier-"There should be no team that doesn't like Leonard" is an objective judgment of Leonard's player status, because we can talk about the performance on the court.
The last sentence-"There must be people who don't like Leonard" is a subjective judgment of Leonard, and you don't need to like Leonard because he is a good player.
furthermore, whether you support Leonard or not, whether you like Leonard or not, and whether you hate Leonard or not are not right or wrong.
Of course, all my knowledge about Leonard comes from online information and my understanding of his game and the role of the team is, after all, second-hand information.
I have no intention of revealing the truth or correcting the audition. I just provide a personal perspective to make some explanations.
My observation of Leonard, or a series of events dominated by Leonard, can be summarized as follows: when you know little about a vague image and want to describe it, you will always use montage-like clips and associations to construct various related fragments and try to enrich it.
The fans' vague image of Leonard, who is alienated from the spotlight, is the same. They pieced together all kinds of messages to make him become another James, another Durant, and another NBA player we imagined ...
The media did this, the fans did this, and so did I.
but in the end, we may all be doing meaningless over-interpretation. Because our understanding as an outsider is one-sided after all. Take Leonard for example, what he shows is only what he wants to show to the outside world, and we can't present a complete picture of a person through such one-sided information.
Leonard drives an old car, signed a big contract and bought only an ordinary SUV, which became the talk of fans. This is not tacky Leonard in the eyes of fans.
However, there is also a luxury sports car in his mansion, which is what an NBA multimillionaire should look like in our traditional cognition.
Even when we talk about Leonard's fun or boring, there is a frame of reference. The object of this reference may be James, Durant, or any player ................................................................................................................................ Of course, I think it's good to express my personal opinion and have something to say. But as enthusiasts, we should be more concerned about things and not people, and evaluate how his work is done, instead of subjectively evaluating whether a person is a good person or a bad person as a third party-but I'm not saying this as another subjective moral judgment, just promoting the spirit I support. After all, this is still an article from a subjective point of view. Whether you support my opinion or not is also your own choice.
"You know that others can always describe yourself better than yourself, right?"