Iron is hard to accept and soft, and people are hard to move.
The vaccine farce that Owen was involved in just ended a few months ago. Seeing that the new season was about to start, Owen once again made anti-vaccine remarks on social media, causing controversy. From beginning to end, Owen’s attitude towards vaccines has not changed.
Owen’s attitude towards vaccines is right or wrong, and people with benevolence and wisdom see wisdom. But one thing is certain. When Owen keeps distracted from these off-site affairs, it is not helpful for him to do his job as a basketball player. In a competitive sports league that talks about strength and competition ability, the role of anti-vaccine pioneer has no bonus to his promotion status.
One evidence is that in ESPN’s newly announced ranking of the top 100 players in the new season, Owen only ranked 33rd, down 13 places from the 20th last year, he is one higher than the Celtics 3D defender Marcus Smart and one lower than Andrew Wikins. This position is equivalent to the all-star edge level. If you rush up, you may be able to enter the All-Star substitute. However, if there is no strong play, it is not surprising that the All-Star is lost.
Looking back on Owen’s ranking in ESPN’s player rankings over the years, his status in the country has declined significantly since joining basketable nets. In the offseason of 2019, Owen left the Celtics to switch to basketable nets, when ESPN ranked him 11th based on Owen’s performance in the Celtics in the 2018-19 season. At that node, the outside world was full of expectations for Owen’s performance in the new environment, believing that he had the opportunity to raise his star level again in basketable nets, in the previous season, he entered the second best team for the first time in his career.
But unexpectedly, in the following three years, Owen ranked 25th, 20th and 33th respectively. He only scored one All-Star, one best team or three teams.
Looking into the reasons, uncontrollable injury factors only play a part of the role, and various problems caused by their confusing character are the main reasons for their ranking plunging to 30 places.
Not many people have denied Owen’s basketball talent, especially the attacking end. Even in the season where Owen played only 29 games, his offensive influence advanced integration data can also rank in the top 10 in the league. During basketable nets, Owen scored 27.1 points, 6 assists and 4.7 rebounds on average, reaching 49 percent in field goal percentage and 40.6 percent in three points. In the three stages of his career, Owen left the highest attack output value and the highest attack efficiency value to basketable nets.
“Owen is one of the most attacking defenders in history,” ESPN reporter Fredel wrote. This evaluation is not exaggerated. In the past seven seasons, Owen has scored more than 1 point in each round of singles in five single seasons and 0.95 points in the lowest season. During the same period, Owen scored more than 0.95 points per round in a single season for six seasons, with the only exception being the 2015-16 season. On the attack with the ball, Owen has the top level of the league with both output and efficiency.
In addition, if the frequency of use is not particularly high but the efficiency is extremely high, Owen can be at least the top 20 in the league only by attacking. The problem is that if you are strong, you must be able to play first. Owen played for basketable nets for three seasons with a attendance rate of only 45 percent. He missed more matches (126) than he attended (103).
The 2019-20 season is the transitional season of basketable nets. Durant’s reimbursement for injuries has long been an established result, and basketable nets has no desire or desire. Owen suffered from shoulder injury and was reimbursed early. He only played 20 games this season. This season can also use “luck” as an excuse. From the 2020-21 season, Owen’s personality problems began to emerge. I couldn’t imagine that I spent 0.136 billion dollars for 4 years on basketable nets and bought a thorn.
In January 2021, Harden joined basketable nets through trading. At that time, Owen was leaving the team. It is reported that Owen left the team without even asking for leave, and he was photographed appearing at the party to celebrate his birthday to his sister. The insider revealed that Cai Chongxin, the boss of basketable Nets, was dissatisfied with Owen’s practice. Because he left the team for no reason and triggered health and safety regulations, Owen missed seven consecutive games and missed Harden’s first show in his basketable nets career.
During the season, “leave” was Owen’s key word. He missed 18 games in total, and only 3 of them were really absent due to injury.
The 2021-22 season was even more outrageous. Because of the well-known rejection of vaccination, Owen was first banned from the first 35 games of the season in basketable nets, and once he could only play away after returning, it was not until March 28, 2022 that the first game against the Hornets won the first show at home. Owen missed 53 games this season.
Owen was not idle during the off-season this year. After the negotiation with the basketable Nets contract renewal was not close, Owen applied for a deal, hoping to sign first and then leave the team. After finding that he had no market, Owen could only choose the executive player option to stay in the team.
Judging from the comments of insiders on Owen, in fact, journalists who pursue objective have been very tolerant to Owen, and few people have questioned Owen’s anti-vaccine behavior and speech. After all, Americans pursue freedom of speech. Although Owen’s behavior of burning Salvia officinalis in the dressing room was strange, including that he would celebrate Ramadan every season, they still respected Owen’s faith.
Public opinion did not require Owen to shut up or change his faith. Their demands on Owen were actually very simple. For example, Fredel wrote in the article: “Owen was absent from too many games because of the messy non-basketball reasons before. He had to prove that he could play at a high level every night and stop being distracted.”
Zac Lowe, another expert including ESPN, also said that his requirements for Owen were two points: being able to play and not distracted. No matter how strong a player is, Yogueta can’t stay focused, maintain a stable attendance rate, and turn his ability into contribution, then his so-called strong power can only stay in theory.
For any professional player, it should be his job to do these two things, and there is no need to remind him at all. The difference between Owen was that even though there were media reporters chasing him to remind him, he was still doing his own thing and being the only one. In turn, he attacked the media to smear him without giving him a fair evaluation.
For Owen, the new season is crucial. Even if he doesn’t consider the ranking and reputation of players, he has to consider the future contract. After all, 30-year-old Owen is not young, and it is time to fight for a long-term top-salary contract.
But then again, the immortals of Europe, who can guess clearly what he will choose to give up the master who dares to give up more than 15 million dollars in salary for anti-vaccine?