Michal Jordan to the Max

前几日看了一个关于乔丹在NBA最后一个赛季的纪录电影Michal Jordan to the Max。如乔丹的教练菲尔·杰克逊所言，乔丹最弱的一项是跳投，他便不断地训练跳投；有人说他防守不好，乔丹却得到过NBA年度防守球员奖项。在乔丹还是北卡罗来纳大学的新生，就在最后一刻投中致胜一球，带领北卡罗莱纳大学队以63∶62击败乔治城大学队，获取NCAA总冠军。

1993年8月，乔丹的父亲遭到谋杀身亡，带给乔丹毁灭性的打击。父亲从小希望乔丹去打棒球。1993年10月，乔丹做出了退役的决定，参加芝加哥的棒球队。据当时的棒球教练所言，乔丹每天最早到球场，最晚离开球场，不断练习，努力使自己精进。当一天结束时，乔丹会向教练提出再练一会儿。人们并不看好乔丹的棒球事业，运动杂志甚至以他做封面，标题写着“Michael Jordan has embarrassed baseball”。后来乔丹意识到篮球终归是他无法割舍的最爱，在篮球上的天赋异禀有多难得。1995年3月，乔丹复出。

1998年是乔丹在NBA的最后一个赛季，也是乔丹为自己划下美好句点的机会。此前，公牛队已经赢得五座冠军奖杯。第一场，公牛和爵士打到加时赛，爵士赢得第一场胜利；公牛赢得第二三四场。卡尔。马龙和爵士队找到对付公牛队的方式，公牛输掉第五场；第六场在犹他举行，公牛只要赢了这一场就是冠军。在季后赛长久的疲累煎熬下，公牛渐渐跟不上爵士，比赛节奏被爵士队牢牢掌控，到第四节时，公牛仍然落后。但乔丹仍努力夺回比赛的掌控权。在这最后一场，乔丹几乎打满全场，全场攻下45分，得分超过队友得分的一半。在第四节的后面部分，乔丹似乎筋疲力尽，命中率开始下降，但他仍未放弃，继续出手，继续站上罚球线，让公牛还有机会赢球。最后阶段，公牛以86:85落后一分。当马龙与丹尼斯对抗时，似乎忘了保护手中的篮球，乔丹抓住机会，果断从身后将马龙的手中的球拍掉，此时离比赛结束还有16秒，公牛落后一分。最后，乔丹单打拉塞尔，切入、突然变向急停、甩开防守，为自己赢得一个很好的空间，起身跳投，篮球划过漂亮的弧线，应声入网。公牛再次赢得冠军！！乔丹第六次选为NBA总决赛MVP！艰难的比赛，伟大的胜利。这充满戏剧性的一幕，像极了英雄主义电影中的场景，可它却真实地发生在NBA的赛场。

Michal Jordan to the Max

乔丹右手稳稳地持球，左手迎着防守人员，眼睛寻找着机会，运球、双手持球、转身跳投，一个漂亮的Fade-away!这个慢动作太帅太帅了！反复看着这个片段，流出泪来。面对强敌，无所畏惧，沉着以对，严密防守之下寻找突破。在最后的十几秒，全场突然安静，身后巨大的红色计时表前，乔丹感受着属于自己的最后时刻，弯身运球，直视前方，那个画面简直太美太帅了！！

乔丹是鱼儿最崇拜和热爱的篮球运动员，以前也和他一起看过许多关于乔丹的片段。这样的一部纪录片，看得伪球迷的我热血沸腾。话说，我是有太久没有打篮球了。认识鱼儿以后，才跟着他学打篮球。那时候，鱼儿总是骑车带着我，穿过玉泉路那条美丽的boulevard，到中科院练习篮球。下了班的傍晚，我常常到科院的球场边看鱼儿打球，然后一起骑车回家。无论是繁花盛开的清晨、炎炎夏日的正午或是雪后的寒冷深夜，我们在篮球场上度过许多快乐的时光…那时候，我也有了一种难得的对篮球运动的激情，有了一种别的运动未曾带来的感受。我自然不会有什么大的建树，只是学学简单的运球和上篮，但很多时候投篮却是奇准，好像总有一种神奇的手感和“天赋”。即使很长时间不投篮，只要拿起篮球运球、尝试几次，手感很快就会降临。

乔丹谈父亲遭到枪击身亡：

When my father died, I had him for 32 years, I was very lucky. I looked at it as being lucky, not as being disappointed that he wasn’t around anymore. I was lucky that he was there when I needed him. That he could influence my life to look at situations that I use to help make my decisions to this day. Some kids never have that. Sure, I would love to have him now, but people are put on this earth for a reason, and you utilize the time that you’re here.

You never know when that’s going to be taken away from you. But while he’s here, or while they’re here, they should make an impact on someone’s life. And he made an impact on my life.

Everyday that I stepped on the basketball court, even though I was on top of the world,

I felt like I had something to improve Michale’s love of the game was born in his hometown during long afternoons on the playground. But Michael’s first hard lesson would come when he tried out for the varsity team at Laney High.

乔丹未能进入大学校队时：

The disappointment was so deep, like a cut, it struck the fire in me to make sure that I never endure that type of pain again. I’m crying, I lost my emotions totally. My mother came to me and said, “Use that energy to prove to the coach and your peers and your classmates that they made a mistake.”

乔丹母亲的话：

You give it your best. You try so hard and you get to the point.

If you try one more time, you are able to achieve it. It’s going one step farther. That’s not giving up, it’s giving your best. I only will walk away when I know I do not have anything else to give.

乔丹谈自己的弱点：

“Those are my weaknesses. I’m going to figure out how to make those my strengths.”

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

If we sit here and worry about what people think of us, then we don’t have a chance.

The level of faith that I have in anything in my life is taught by my parents, it is a trait that I would never trade anything for. If I can ever pass anything on to my kids, it would be to be optimistic about everything in life.

如果将来能够为孩子留下些什么，我会告诉他们要乐观积极地处世。

He’s the type of man that could get you to jump off a bridge or at least think about it for a few seconds. He has such a will to accomplish a mission after everyone follows him.

Our hearts are not fatigued. That’s the most important thing.

乔丹谈棒球：

People were basically saying that I didn’t have a reason being in the sport and I was degrading the sport. When those negative things started to happen, I wish my father was there to give me the reinforcements that I needed.

I get up before the sun comes up, and I make myself some breakfast by myself. And I get in the car. And I’m driving to spring training. There’s no one out on the roads yet. And I look at the seat next to me and I see my dad. I talk to him. I think to myself. Pops, we’re doing this. We’re doing this together.

乔丹谈禅师教练：

I’ve experienced a lot of coaches, but he gave me the understanding about life in a whole different frame.

It was as if everything he had ever accomplished had led Michael to this one moment. And in the final minute of the game, at the final minute of his career, he would need everything he had learned along the way.

乔丹谈98年总决赛的关键时刻：

Crowd gets tired. The moment starts to become the moment, you know, for me. Once you get in the moment, you know you’re there.when I saw that opportunity to take advantage of it, I never doubted myself, knowing that this was going to be the last opportunity to either win the game or lose it.

乔丹谈希望：

Ten years from now, twenty years from now, what I hear people saying or I want people to say, and it’s simple, that if Michael Jordan was still playing the game of basketball, he would dominate. No matter what happensin this business of basketball, if we didn’t get paid a dime, you still would play the game of basketball somewhere. Somewhere there’s a kid working, he won’t skip any steps, he will learn from my example, just as I have learned from others. There will be a player greater than me.

影片的片尾曲歌词：

If you believe, I know you can. Make it happen for yourself. I can see it in your eyes. It’s in your hands. So don’t ever stop. This is your destiny. It’s meant to be for you to have what you want. So let all your dreams help you succeed to another way of life, the one you long for inside, the one you thought you’d never lead.