Challenging the limits of physical fitness is the art of top athletes / "Best Scout"

Probably since Michael Jordan retired from the NBA, I haven't watched a full NBA game. It was the end of the last century when leisure and entertainment were not as diverse as today. "Basketball" should be a sports activity that teenagers in that era had encountered a lot, and stories about sports players are always full of infinite legendary dramatic effects, like Sakuragi Huadao's Beginning as a rookie, like Wang Jianmin, who led the trend of getting up early to eat breakfast to watch the game, like Michael Jordan, being put on by the youth of that era, it seemed that he could fly.  …

Even though I am now like the scout Stanley in "Best Scouts", with a middle-aged figure that can no longer run and a declining physical strength, every time I hear the sound of a basketball landing and hitting the ground in my ears, I still feel Thinking of the feeling of running, catching, dribbling, and making a pull-up jumper on the basketball court to draw a parabola from your fingertips, whether it hits or not, it belongs to the rhythm that remains in the body on the basketball court, even if it is only in the mind Looking back, I can also feel the rhythm of the body jumping and falling. (But in reality, it can't keep up with the youth in my mind!)

A movie about players, scouts, coaches, and operators like "The Scout for Sure Win" will appear in front of the audience every day. Those who stand up for the competition, those who are gifted, those who are slumped and the prodigal sons turn back, those who wait for the opportunity... The stories are similar, there are always some good times and then bad times, or finally return to the battlefield but meet again At the low tide of injury and poor performance, you clearly know that the plot is like this, maybe there is nothing new just by changing the sequence! But it's the same as every game: you clearly know that there is a reason why you lose or win, it's just that who can seize the opportunity and play the best state when you play, and every game ends is the next time The beginning of the infinite loop!

Even if the ball is not played, I don’t watch it, but these kinds of movies can always teach people to keep up with the rhythm with enthusiasm and rhythm with the practice of the protagonist. You know that in the end of the story, they will all stand on that stage and perform a show. Exciting games, you still can't help but click on it and watch the same story, like a youth who is still holding a basketball on the court: "Play!" Now that you have all stood up, even if your opponent is the same every day, you are always the same. I want to keep playing!

"Best Scouts" is divided into two main axes. It seems to be telling the story of scouts looking for players, but it uses a long training process to describe athletes challenging the limits of physical fitness to show top athletes in their own requirements. The exercise of physical fitness and willpower; it is a process that requires extreme concentration. Every movement and every detail affects every muscle, every tissue and every cell in the body... Even if it is only slightly off by 0.1cm, it will If the movement is not accurate, even if it is only 0.01 seconds slower, it will fall (miss) when confronting the opponent. Just looking at Bo's training process, even if a lot of details have been removed through editing, it is still closely related to the challenge of physical fitness and Challenge yourself to the main axis, let people watch and focus on it, I am afraid that if you miss a second, you will miss the next opportunity to play!

To say that the beauty of this movie lies in the twists and turns that often appear in the stories of these athletes, the more exciting thing should be the running from the top of the mountain in more than two minutes, and the progress day by day to the final result of one minute and forty-five seconds. . Coupled with the live broadcast culture at this moment, it has repeatedly created the possibility that "everyone can be seen", and there have been many surprises and surprises, and it has also drawn the audience into the "mass participation" scene, as if they were also there. The scene of the embarrassing ball. (The Taiwanese movie "Second Half" also has scenes of street basketball going viral on the Internet. It really is a product of this generation.)

Athlete stories, whether made into movies or in the real world, those who can be at the top are bound to have very exciting stories to tell, especially those outside the dazzling field, the endless self-challenge, all like It is an art that can be tasted carefully.

People who love sports, even if they don't become real athletes, may reach the state of "Ah! I am faster, better, and better than yesterday" at a certain moment in sports, and they feel in their hearts that they are interested in that sports. love! Also because of the existence of that moment, I am willing to enjoy the lonely self-defense in every dull training!

Winning Scout Hustle/2022
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Writers: Taylor Materne, Will Fetters
Starring: Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster, Juancho Hernangómez, Robert Duvall, Anthony Edwards, Heidi Gardner

Image source: Screenshot of the Netflix page of "Best Scout"

A friend asked me: "How many NBA players do you recognize?" I laughed: "I only recognize O'Neal and Barkley." (I may have only watched Jeremy Lin games after Jordan? Maybe you ask me about HBL players? I may be more impressed.)