Chris Paul proving that even in evolving NBA, some things still timeless
At a time when the NBA has become consumed with the idea that only shots at the rim and from beyond the arc make sense, Suns point guard Chris Paul remains a master of the midrange game.Chris Paul had a birthday approaching, and the number was no secret. In the context of what he was doing, it also made little sense.
His game was simple and timeless, and it inspired reverence and wonder in men normally uninclined to show it.“Everything he does is difficult to handle,” an exasperated Gregg Popovich conceded.Somehow, 14 years later, the glow’s still there. And what makes Paul’s prolonged playoff magnificence so striking is not that he’s adapted to a modern NBA era he once would have found unrecognizable by transforming himself into something new.With huge games on the line, he still dribbles to the same spots.
The way players and coaches in 2022 think about every sport — pro basketball in particular — bears almost no resemblance to how they thought about it in 2008, when Paul’s New Orleans Hornets traded haymakers with Duncan’s Spurs in a Western Conference semifinal series that went to seven games. Stopping and starting, keeping defenders on his hip, right where he wants them, always in control. Finding the same spot on the elbow next to the free-throw stripe, and another one on the baseline, and then calmly cocking his wrist and watching the ball float through the net.
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