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Far beyond basketball: Stephen Kerry manages to deliver fine sports moments
True, this is just the normal season, we're already used to "monstrous" numbers, but what Stephen Kerry does this season is a special charm, which makes the numbers meaningless: these are the lightness and the smile, the little miracles and the astonishment, and the feeling that it's a transcendence worth stopping everything
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Paz Hasdai
Saturday, 20 November 2021, 10:01
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Doron Sheffer and Oded Katash, The Union (Photo: Danny Maron, Editing: Nir Chen)
The problem is that in the end you get used to everything. Things that happen almost every night, sometime are taken for granted. So Steph Kerry does what he pleases on the field, scoring 9 threes per game, sniping like a psychic from every corner - and a person may watch him indifferently, naturally, as if it is not a completely disturbed sporting phenomenon, as if a historical sling that once appeared in a generation is not raging. Another three from an impossible angle without him seeing the basket; Another ball thrown from ten meters away, released from the hand quickly, without calculation, without effort, and sucked into the ring - and everything seems normal, normal, reasonable, without anyone getting up and screaming in our ear - wake up, it's crazy. It does not make sense. what is going on here?
The problem is that the regular season in the NBA is a joke.
It's not serious.
Everyone already knows the problems, the games that are thrown away even before they start, the impossible load, the lack of commitment on defense, players who are no longer sure what city they are in, the Thanking.
And along with the high scores in the games, the personal performances, the "monstrous" numbers - it's already hard to get excited about the personal ability of the actors.
There is a lot of talent.
They are all athletic, jumping to heights, the best of the best.
A player who scores 40 points is no longer an impressive thing.
Trey Young and Devin Booker also score from the logo.
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No, do not get used to it, it is rare and high quality.
Kerry (Photo: Reuters)
Nothing in the regular season is no longer surprising, especially given the gap between it and the playoffs. Contempt becomes rigid. Apathy is replaced by determination, by intensity. Everything that was before the playoffs seemed light and ridiculous. Just a few weeks ago, they were proud of the fact that "Abdia stopped Antocompo", and forgot that this is the man who scored 50 points in the championship game, that when he really cares, he looks different, even against the outstanding defensive player of Washington. And if Stephen Kerry used to disappoint in the playoffs, how can one get excited about his performance in the regular season? who cares? And so Adam wakes up in the morning, sees that Steph has scored 37 points and 9 threes, and flips on.
But this is of course a mistake to underestimate in the regular season. She's still the one who decides the fate of players. Beyond the fact that it sets positions for the playoffs and gives a home advantage, where their numbers are recorded, from where the MVP is selected, from where the top five of the season and outstanding of the year are selected, it is still their career, their livelihood, their life dream come true. There are puzzling, ridiculous basketball moves in this league, and yet it is the real, only, top thing.
And among all these, Stephen Kerry stands out this season exceptionally.
Given what he does on the field, the numbers are not interesting.
The averages.
The percentages.
The statistical backing for what we see and feel.
It is clearly more impressive when it is accompanied by victories, but the balance is also pushed aside.
LeBron James will be remembered as bigger than him, probably Kevin Durant as well.
But Stephen Kerry's last month is a special occasion.
Something every amateur must dedicate themselves to.
Stop for a moment, take a break from the flood of events and games, get up especially in the middle of the night, look for summaries, videos, understand that something unique is happening here at the simplest, most basic level: the way a basketball player puts the ball in the basket.
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What fun with Steph (Photo: GettyImages)
We've already seen the rings, the flies in the air, the winners, the clutch, the snipers, the players who can both, Durant and LeBron are really athletic lifters, we've seen Jordan and Magic, we've seen it all. But I do not remember anyone or anything like Steph, who runs so far from the basket, and suddenly throws and hits, without warning, without warning, releases shanty banon bombs, goes on the attack and shoots in three seconds from 11 meters because he feels like it, because it's the right thing, Because he sees the basket clearly and feels it coming in, hitting like it's a computer stunt, a Japanese robot, magnetic forces. Throws while falling backwards, over two guards, tall and archery balls that make a long trajectory and miraculously land inside the ring. And every one of us who has ever thrown a basket knows how delicate a thing it is, how unobtrusive it is to score, how much it gets harder as the distance increases, with every slight tilt of the angle and power taking the ball aside, while Steph releases it so beautifully, accurately and elegantly, hundreds Small miracles performed in such naturalness.
No, no matter the explanations, it's not interesting for the old men to say "it's not basketball", to say he is selfish, that if Larry Byrd had thrown 20 threes in a game he would have scored like that too, everything is marginal compared to the bottom line: These days Stephen Kerry is in a rare top sport.
Like Federer at his best, Messi and Xavi in the Pep season, Simon Bales in Rio, athletes in the zone, in peak moments, such celestial transcendence, high quality of material, something rare, a must-catch.
This is no longer a breakthrough, there is nothing more to say about the way he and Golden State changed the game, there is no point in professional analysis and detailing the exercises or compliments to Steve Kerr.
It's just Steph, the ball and the basket.
No legacy, no lineage, no list of degrees.
Just the experience.
Sometimes a list of titles and terms like "heritage" are overrated.
Sometimes small moments of happiness and amazement are enough.
LeBron vs. Steph (Photo: Reuters)
What stands out is his enjoyment. That everything is done with a smile, lightness and bouncy, with real playfulness. Fun to see him score, fun for him and fun for us. This is especially noticeable from the videos outside the game. In practice, in the warm-up, in time-outs, after an offense has been whistled and the game has been stopped, he just throws and throws and hits and hits. And what to do, in the Israeli viewer's still engraved Dovi Gal in his role as postmaster Samson, and since Steph also enters everything as if a spell was cast on him out of his control - with every shot he all stares at the ball and his trajectory, and feels great satisfaction when he meets the net, a sense of magic.
Of course Kerry is not alone, it's a league full of talent, everyone is wonderful, James Harden and Luka Doncic are also great guards and scorers, but when they dribble and throw it looks selfish, while with Steph like the right thing to do, you do not want to give up, pity Every second the ball is not in his possession.
It may not last long, that in the playoffs he will disappoint again, maybe his percentages will drop, the team will fade, Yannis will wake up and take over, who knows with how many championships he will finish, how many MVP titles in a final series.
But who cares about all of this as long as a person wakes up in the morning, watches the synopsis and misses a beat.
Smiles to himself, and realizes he must enjoy the moment.
This is the maximum that can be asked of a sport.
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