Exclusive interview with McGrady: Remembering the courageous preacher who came later

Legendary superstar McGrady, who has been away from the court for 6 years, has not really left the NBA. Now as an ESPN basketball commentator, he is still paying attention to the league's trends. McGrady, who is 40 years old, still has blurry eyes, but his views are direct and sharp. Facing the Xinhua News Agency reporter, he said that he could easily average 35 points per game in today's league; he said that the intensity of the CBA games surprised him; he also said that he did not think Westbrook and Harden could bring the Rockets a championship, but there were other teams that he was really optimistic about... Today's league's style of play is soft and Kobe can score 100 points. In McGrady's view, the style and scale of today's league are very different from those of his era. If his peak self were placed in today's game, McGrady feels that he can easily average 35 points per game, and Kobe can even score 100 points in a single game, breaking the record of "Daishuai Zhang". Today's game is "softer" than it was back then. You can't interfere with too much hand defense when defending face-to-face. Many standards are beneficial to the offense, and more and more three-pointers are being shot. McGrady said that there are many talented offensive players in the league today, such as Harden. But he may not have had such an opportunity in our era. We were very defensive at that time and our defense was very fierce. ” In McGrady’s eyes, Kobe is the most difficult player to guard, with a variety of offensive methods, but who is the real McGrady terminator on the defensive end? He raised his head and thought seriously: Well... The Pistons and Spurs were very good at guarding me back then. Their defense was very holistic, but there was no single player. ” In 2012, at the end of his career, McGrady traveled across the ocean to China and played for the CBA Qingdao team for a year. Talking about his experience in China that year, McGrady said that he enjoyed and missed that time very much. Because he has come to China from time to time for activities since 1999, McGrady said that he did not encounter much cultural shock during that CBA trip, but what impressed him most was the competitiveness of Chinese players and the intensity of the entire CBA competition. I didn't know before that the competition in CBA is so fierce. Many Chinese players are also very unwilling to admit defeat, which surprises me. McGrady said that if he were a few years younger, he would still be willing to return to the CBA to play.