In the buyout market after the transaction deadline, the Dallas Mavericks and so on came a qualified front line: Justin hollerdi. This will be the 9th NBA team played by holerdi. In addition, there are 2 development league teams, 1 Belgian team and 1 Hungarian team.
His growth process is very similar to Dorian Finney-Smith who has just left the team. The game styles of the two are generally similar, but his career is more tortuous and difficult, full of ups and downs. But one thing is certain: 33-year-old hollerdi is a very qualified NBA player, and he is the professional model that the whole NBA hopes to get.
Compared with his two younger brothers Zhu and Aron, Justin hollerdi’s career was bland. After graduating from high school, he joined the University of Washington, growing from a water dispenser player to a starting and core step by step. In his senior year, he and Isaiah Thomas are the double captains of the team and have been nominated for the defensive player of the year in the Pac-10 division, but such a result is not enough to make him a member of the NBA.
As the first post-90s player in 2009, Zhu hollerdi’s brother did not touch the light like his younger brother on the way to the NBA draft.
Hollerdi lost the election in 2011 for a simple reason: a striker with only 10.5 points and 5.2 rebounds in the fourth season, with a height of 1.98 meters and a weight of 82 kilograms, can’t hold the ball, and there is no three points. And his teammate Thomas Junior just got the 60th position. If in the next six or seven years, hollerdi may become a two-way contract player of a team, put on NBA jerseys, take half of the base salary, go to the development league for the next two or three years, and then disappear, it became a common name passed by word by mouth by the loyal fans of rare teams and Star Card fans who mixed up their names, but it was a shutdown in 2011, and the league wished to downsize the big list to 12 people, hollerdi lost the election without any suspense. That year, there was no summer league.
During the days when NBA was suspended, holerdi joined okapisthal in Belgium, a completely unknown team to play. Here, he met a really good teammate, who was also his model and benchmark: Chris Copeland.
Copeland is also a drop draft. He came to Europe and played in various small clubs for five seasons. He won the scoring king of the season in Germany. Copeland was the ace star of this Belgian team that year. He finally led the team to win the Belgian League Cup and became the MVP of the season. Then he was signed by the Knicks, A year later, the Walker gave him 6.13 million dollars for 2 years.
When he returned to NBA, Copeland was 28 years old.
Hollerdi realized that age was never an obstacle to go to NBA. The only requirement given to himself was to become a qualified NBA player. Even if his ability was not enough, he could at least accomplish all the tasks required by the coach. After playing this year, he played the summer league with the Knights and entered the training camp, but did not stay.
The Blazers signed him into the development league team, Idaho Pentium team, and he was waiting for an opportunity in the Development League. During the period of development alliance, holerdi carefully observed those devolved genius scorers. He realized that maybe he could not reach this level in his life than attacking, but basketball is not only offensive.
His desperate defense surprised the Scouts. That year he became a member of the third and second defense teams of the Development Alliance. On April 1, 2013, I believe that the 76-player team in the process is riddled with holes. Find someone to fill the team in the last half month and finish the rest of the game. They thought of the team’s all-star hollerdi and a brother who signed Justin hollerdi by the way.
76 people on the 14th, this is his first jersey in NBA. Because of his younger brother, he became a member of NBA and played the next 9 games, up to 15.8 minutes per game, the game averaged 4.7 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists.
Will this keep him in NBA? Of course not.
On the draft day of 2013, Zhu hollerdi was sent to Pelican by 76 people in exchange for Noelle and a future first round; His brother Justin was also conveniently cut off after playing the Summer League. After the Jazz played preseason, hollerdi realized that he had not reached the threshold of NBA.
The next stop is Hungary.
This time, the opportunity of the summer league was seized by him. In the 2014-15 season, holerdi finally stayed in the lineup from the summer league to the preseason. This very thin defensive player was greatly appreciated by Cole because he was always unable to step in defense. He was placed on a small forward with 82 kilograms in the Warriors, 11.1 minutes per game, the number one scorer in the second squad used to consume the other side.
No matter the dragon suit or cannon fodder, NBA never lacks such an unimportant role, but hollerdi knows how he got here. He said that he saw a lot of things that the outside world seldom saw in Curry, clay and Green: their leadership temperament, their cohesion, their meticulous training on the field, and, their spirit of facing difficulties.
Only when you are strict with yourself consistently can you have a long career.
Hollerdi is of course an unknown role. He played only 5 games in the playoffs in 2015, with an average of 2.2 minutes. After winning the championship, he added “champion members” to his title, but in fact, it has nothing to do with him.
The Warrior didn’t keep him. The eagle gave him a basic salary for two years, but he traded six months later. In the past two years, he moved the Eagle, the bull and the Knicks, in the 2016-17 season, it became the main rotation of the Knicks with an average of 20 minutes and 82 games. In the next year, the bull signed him back and asked him to play the main small forward.
In the 2018-19 season, holerdi continued to experience trading. Both the Bulls and the grizzly bears started, adding up to 82 games, with 77 starts, 31.8 minutes per game. Perhaps hollerdi, who just went to Belgium, never expected that he would become an NBA starter at the age of 29, but now he believes in himself. He is the oldest player in the youth army, he has experienced the playoffs and finals, and he also knows how to help young people adapt to different situations.
In 2019, Pacers gave him a copy of 3 years and 18 million years, and he and his brother Aron holladey became teammates. This is the first time that he has been in the same team for more than two full seasons. Of course, trading still inevitably happens, but for him, being traded is not a shame, but a common adaptation to the environment, help the team and the people around you.
Originally, the rockets intended to keep him, and he was ready to guide the young people, but he had the opportunity to join the playoff team. After seriously negotiating with the rockets, he decided to buy out the contract and join the mavericks.
“I think for me, the biggest gain in my whole career is that I have been using my story to motivate myself, reach a level, and try to improve another level, I know there will be many people who look down on you and define you in a tone of pejorative. Don’t care about them or take them seriously, because they have a long time to say a word, maybe they don’t remember how many people criticized themselves, and they won’t care about being refuted by facts later, but what you can do is, don’t look down on yourself, you have to trust the teammates and coaches around you. They will help you become a better person. Then, you have to put the good things you have learned from them, tell more young people who are eager to grow up.”
“I am used to seeing everyone’s advantages. He is so good that I can be as good as him.”
82 kilograms, holerdi, who can’t shoot, has become a qualified 3D player in NBA. The efforts do not need much description, nor does holerdi’s game data need to be analyzed, he is not a player who can get beautiful data, but he must be a person who can make the team positive.
Even if he is not young.
“My brother won the Championship in Milwaukee really inspired me,” he said. “I am proud of him. Although I have won the championship, I am not mine, I just got the trophy with the champion members.”
He also hopes that he can do his best to bring the next team to the next level.
Before hollerdi arrived, I didn’t have his interview, his declaration to the next family, and I didn’t know what percentage of DFS could be achieved with his current physical and competitive state, but one thing, you can have a little extra confidence in him–
It was a season before Carlisle came to Pacers, and 32-year-old hollerdi was the oldest player in the team. The head coach of the Pacers that year was Nate buyorkgren, a coach who had only been teaching for a short year. During his coaching year, according to the Pacers and some people in the team, the coach was too harsh and mean, and he often scolded the players and insulted them inexplicably. At that time, many young people couldn’t bear the pressure, and the players also had many psychological problems.
And holladei is as usual.
“I believe my leadership will have a certain weight,” hollerdi said. “I told the young people my story, the trivial things in front of me, and I fought for this whole career, I believe that after hearing this, they will feel that playing hard may be the easiest thing in front of them. I believe that they respect me. I am older than them and the difficulties in front of them will always pass.”
“No matter on or off the court, as long as you need me, I will always be next to you.”
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(Text/Dallas Notes)