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Why can Chris Paul play in the NBA for so long that even if he is old, there will be a team asking him?

9:19pm, 16 August 2025Basketball

Paul's strongest is his football merchandising business, and as a mainstay of his ability to base himself on the NBA.

Especially when he led the team to the finals in the Suns, he was the second spring of Paul's career. What I admire most is his grasp of the rhythm of the game in the last quarter.

Originally, the Suns played very frivolously. During the absence of qualified organizational guards, Booker played temporarily as a point guard. He often played very fast and didn't know how to stabilize the situation.

Even if you lead your opponent more than ten points in the fourth quarter, you often take action in less than 10 seconds of the game, and then the opponent grabs the rebound and seizes the opportunity to counterattack and catch up with the score.

When Paul came and Booker returned to the shooting guard, the team's sense of offensive layering became.

Paul basically won't come forward in the first three quarters, and will let Booker, Ayton and Bridges attack and fight as much as they can. At the critical moment in the fourth quarter, all the ball rights must be controlled by Paul.

One thing he often likes to do is to "delay time". When the team is about ten ahead of the opponent, stop playing randomly, but slowly control the ball. When the time is almost seven or eight seconds left, play a pick-and-roll with your teammates, and then pull it out in the middle distance.

is not only accurate, but also particularly neat and has extremely high projection efficiency.

After suppressing time, he can still score goals, and time is spent in a moment.

This is what it is when facing the Kings in a regular season game. Facing the opponent's crazy counterattack, Paul is just not in a mess. Knowing that you want to grab time and score points, I have to play very slowly, so I won't let you push fast attacks and spend time.

failed to make a shot and grabbed the rebound, and then spent time, and finally "smashed" the Kings to death at the last moment.

In this game, many players of the Suns have injuries and cannot play, and the main lineup is uneven. But Paul can lead the team alone and lead the remnant formation to win. You have to admire such skills.

If you want to talk about who has a higher ball quotient in the organizational guard, you must not ignore Paul. He didn't panic much when playing ball from beginning to end. He knew very well when to attack and when to defend.

No wonder he was in his thirties and the team was willing to give him a high salary. He was not able to play at the age of 40 and gradually became a role player.

It is very difficult for a small point guard to achieve such achievements, and he has already achieved it to the extreme.

Here, many fans will be curious and will compare Paul with Westbrook. It is said that Westbrook is not interested, and no one has signed him yet, and Paul and the Clippers are waiting for him to still be able to stay in the NBA. Does this mean that Paul is better than Westbrook? The statement

is actually not very rigorous.

Judging from the explosive power and ability of the body, Paul is not as good as Westbrook. Westbrook is 3 years younger than him, and his playing style and physical fitness have always been very exciting and passionate. Everyone can see this.

As I said just now, the reason why Paul can win the favor of the team is because of his playing wisdom, which is very useful for team basketball.

His leadership, experience, and rationality in playing are not as good as Westbrook. Westbrook is physically compatible, but he is still slightly inferior in point guard control.

As his body goes downhill, he gradually grows old and still playing with his body, he will naturally not be able to keep up with the team's progress, which also makes it difficult for him to integrate into the team's system.

If you want to use you, you will be worried that you will destroy the balance of the team; but if you don’t use you, you will feel a pity. After thinking about it, you still don’t know how to arrange a reasonable position for you.

The signing of a free market will seem hesitant.

Paul doesn't need to worry about these factors. He has experience and can play as a substitute. He contributes to the team as a role player and has a high understanding of his teammates, which makes him very smooth to integrate into the new team.

Anyway, at this time, Paul has seen through the world and is about to retire. He is enjoying basketball. As for whether he can win the championship, he doesn't care.

This mentality is also helpful for him to play basketball.

I think Paul's playing style can inspire many point guards in the future, that is, how a player leads the team when he gets old.

Maybe you can't jump or jump, and your physical fitness is not good, but your control and grasp of the situation are something other players can't surpass you.

When you can have such skills and football skills, then you don’t have to be afraid wherever you go, and naturally there will be teams willing to ask you.

This is also where Paul plays well.

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