Climbing Pol George

Indiana Pacers led by Paul George are currently the best team in the NBA, and a quiet California man has even become a MVP player.

There are not a lot of good things that can be written in the current NBA season. There are numerous injuries and really bad basketball. A bunch of teams that have no identity or selfishness and bad chemistry prevent them from playing in harmony with the potential.

A couple of days ago, Charles Barkley made a public apology to fans because they have to watch and pay tickets for the "basketball basket that is currently playing". At this moment the Eastern Conference has three teams with a positive ratio of victory and defeat. Brooklyn and New York, as the two most expensive teams in the league ($ 101 and $ 87 million for this season) together have 11 wins and 28 losses.

One of the rare positive stories is Indiana Pacers. The best league team with a 18-3 ratio. The best defense of the league that keeps opponents below 40% of the game's shot. Perhaps the best starting five in the NBA at this time.

Many were inclined to say that the key to this is the Pacers defense and the protection of the ring offered by Roy Hibbert, but after Nikola Pekovic dropped Hibbert in the fight for a position in a match with Minnesota, it was clear that Pacers's answer should be sought at the low wing position.

The return of the low wings in basketball is something that especially rejoices. After a period in which duels were played by Larry Bird, James Worthy, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin, Bernard King, Mark Aguirre, Alex English, Dominique Wilkins and Adrian Dantley, the low wing position generally suffered in the second half of the 1990s and early 2000s. quiet. There were Grant Hill, Glen Rice, Glenn Robinson, Jamal Mashburn, but none of them dominated for a long time in continuity for various reasons.

Now we enjoy the quality of the game from a low wing again. LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Paul Pierce, Luol Deng, Chandler Parsons, Nicolas Batum, Rudy Gay, Josh Smith, Kawhi Leonard and a guy in front of whom Durant and James, Paul George.

George College's career began where the man who was biting the towel, Jerry Tarkanian, finished his legendary coaching at the University of Fresno State. A college that was cleaned from a series of types that only Tark was prepared to give a fourth or fifth chance (Roberson, Herren, Forney, Young, Alston, Alexander) went back to basketball oblivion by going to the famous retirement coach. The investigation conducted on setting the results of this violent behavior of most players led to the NCAA sanction. New coach Steve Cleveland failed to achieve any significant result, but the game was brought by a guy who is just becoming one of the greatest stars of the NBA and exclusively interested in the field.

It was always easy to maintain Paul George. A decent family that was not separated, two sisters, a normal father and an even more normal mother. The carelessness of Paul's growing up was only disrupted by the fact that he could not get an older sister in the game "one on one". Teiosha threw Paul on every occasion ...

"I wanted to crazy, he got me and then he continued to play with dolls as if nothing had happened. It killed me," recalls George, who made the first training of organized basketball in trimmed jeans, while not explaining to him that it's not really adequate equipment for this sport.

George did not stand out in the high school, nor later on Fresno State. In order to get him to shoot more, his high school coach summoned a meeting with the players where he asked the rest of the team if they would have any trouble if George was more shots in the continuation of the season. Since nobody objected, the coach told Paul: "You see, now you can shoot more!"

George's desire was to play at nearby Pepperdine, where his sister Teiosha studied. However, after coach Vance Walberg (inventor of the dribble drive motors, the attacks celebrated by John Calipari and partly George Karl in Denver) resigned, George left no option for college. Calls did not arrive, and he wanted to stay in California. At the last moment, their offers were simultaneously sent by Georgetown, Arizona State, and Fresno State, and young Paul, without much dilemma, chose - Fresno State.

In two years spent in college, about an hour's drive away from his home, George did the same things as in high school, he slid aside and allowed the quality of many weaker players to kick him out more. Only in the second year, when most seniors left the team, George started looking at the basket more. A few dancers would end up among the best moves on the ESPN, but many were again skeptical of his capabilities in the NBA.

George had a height, hand range, quick legs, a reflection and a quality defense game, but most scouts were suspicious of the possibility of a player who could not be constant and dominant in such a weak competition.

One man is not