Christian Braun went to the front court to face Jimmy Butler’s defense. At that moment, the command given by his brain was not “retreat”, but “strong kill”.

In front of Butler, who was famous for being “hard”, Braun chose to be harder. He took the initiative to find some space to fight against his opponent and then finished throwing.

Anyone who knows Braun will not be surprised to see this scene, because this is the most real Braun. From childhood to adulthood, Braun has always been a “ruthless person” under the cultivation of tiger mother Lisa “.

Don’t be fooled by his skin color and appearance. Braun can go all the way to the present as a “super winner” and win the trust of Michael Malone in the finals as a Cainiao, in the third game of the finals, he became a substitute for the Qibing. He scored 15 points in the 7th of the 8th vote, relying on his ruthlessness.

Everything has to start with Braun’s grandfather.

Braun’s grandfather used to be a soldier. After he retired, he applied military management to the cultivation of his children, and the effect was remarkable. There are 7 Lisa brothers and sisters in total, all of whom have excellent sports talents. In addition to their father’s military management, all 7 of whom have won sports scholarships and entered the university. Among them, Lisa became a basketball star at the University of Missouri. In 2019, seven brothers and sisters were selected into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and a perfect sports family.

Braun’s father Tang also played basketball at St. Louis University. Braun began to form a team with his friends in the third grade to participate in the official competition. At first Tang served as the coach of the team, but soon Lisa couldn’t stand her husband’s coaching style. She thought that “my husband’s coaching is much softer than mine, so it won’t work”. Therefore, Lisa replaced Tang Cheng as the coach of the team with a “flash aside.

Lisa is so competitive that she has only one goal to win. Lisa was very strict with Braun. Many ball dad mothers only asked their children to score more, but when Braun played, it was often said that “keep the defensive position in front of the opponent during defense”, “You should have grabbed that rebound” and other shouts, Lisa asked her son to do dirty work and work hard, paying attention to all details.

“My mother has never given me any constructive criticism. She is more critical to me. She is definitely the one who censorious most.” Braun once smiled.

But Lisa, who was “critical”, trained Braun as a super winner.

Braun played tour in the sixth grade and won the national championship of the same age with his teammates. Braun High School went to Blue Valley Northwest High School and won the Kansas 6A state championship for three consecutive years. Its high school coach Ed fleetz did not praise Braun for his strong scoring ability when he mentioned it, but praised his willingness to defend cap and pass the ball once more. In college, Braun went to the University of Kansas. Braun helped Kansas win the NCAA championship in his junior year.

In fact, if it wasn’t for the epidemic that caused the cancellation of the “crazy March” Championship in 2020, Braun had a chance to win the championship in his freshman year, Kansas was the No. 1 seed in the United States that year.

Braun is the kind of tough person who can not only speak hard but also play hard. He is not modest, but once he steps on the court, his “wild” in his bones is nowhere to hide, that kind of wild is also a driving force for him.

Braun had a playoff game in his senior year. Originally, the coach’s arrangement was to start with the tactics led by the control guard, but Braun went to the coach and applied: “Don’t set cover for me, I don’t need it.” Then Braun got 10 points.

For example, in 2019, Kansas fought with Villanova. Braun, a freshman, defended against the impact of Jeremiah Robinson Earl under the basket and shouted to his opponent, “Don’t play this thing under my eyes”. The two narratives of Kansas looked at each other, and they all sighed with emotion that “this child is really imposing”.

Braun was never afraid of playing the role of public enemy. In December 2021, Kansas played against the University of Missouri. University of Missouri is Lisa’s alma mater, but Braun didn’t give his mother face at all, because his brother Parker had a bad experience in the two seasons there and had to transfer to another school, braun decided to kill the University of Missouri to avenge his brother from the beginning. Shortly after the start of the game, Braun hit three points. He stared at the board of Missouri University with ferocious eyes.

Half is tough, half is hot, this is Braun.

Facing North Carolina in the 2022 NCAA final, Braun scored 12 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists, helping Kansas complete a 16-point reversal and win the championship. When Kansas fell behind, Braun was the most heart player on the field. He used scoring and assists to help the team score 4 goals in a row. A few minutes later, Braun helped Remy Martin hit a three-point attack. Braun shouted at the North Carolina fans crazily, and the broadcast camera captured the scene of his fierce muscles.

Braun’s temperament, which is not afraid of the world, has excellent height and athletic ability as a flank, and is willing to defend and do all kinds of dirty work and tiring work, attracted Calvin Booth, general manager of nuggets. In the 2022draft Conference, Booth chose Braun with the 21 signature.

In the regular season, Braun averaged 4.7 points and 2.4 rebounds in 15.5 minutes. As hailander applied for the transaction to leave, Reggie Jackson and Thomas Bryant didn’t perform as expected, and Braun gradually became the main rotating member. Yorkich recognized Braun and praised him for both talent and hard work.

In the playoffs, Braun’s playing time was unstable and would even be abandoned when Malone shortened the rotation. But as long as Braun comes on stage, he can always make some positive contributions. In the first round of playing the Timberwolves, Braun once finished the forced layup with Gobel. In the third game of today’s finals, Braun had a counterattack after the snatch, and an empty cut for judging the situation.

This is Malone’s demand for Braun: aggression, urgency and confrontation. At this stage, the Nuggets don’t need Braun to wave his hand and open all his teammates to execute singles, which is not the style of the Nuggets. As long as Braun fights according to Malone’s requirements, actively cuts the air, fights back fiercely, completes the attack basket under the confrontation, and occasionally throws a hollow position of three points, it is a great achievement to do well the small details needed to break joint defense.

One data:

In history, only five players won the NCAA championship the year before and then won the NBA championship the year after that. They won the NCAA and NBA back-to-back championships, namely ANI-Feilin (the University of Utah won the championship in 1948, the Lakers won the championship in 1949), Bill Russell (The University of San Francisco won the championship in 1956and the Celtics won the championship in 1957), Henry Bibi (the University of UCLA won the championship in 1972 and the Knicks won the championship in 1973), magic Johnson (Michigan won the championship in 1979 and the Lakers won the championship in 1980) and Billy Thompson (Louisville University won the championship in 1986 and the Lakers won the championship in 1987).

Can Braun become the sixth man in history? He is only two victories away from this achievement.