On January 10, 2004, Liu Han set off for Detroit with the Mavericks. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Mavericks' game was originally scheduled to be held on January 11 to challenge the Detroit Pistons, who are first in the East, but due to heavy snow in the Great Lakes region, the Mavericks left the game a day earlier.

Liu Han, who arrived in Detroit, felt a little decay here, Detroit has long since lost the prosperity of the "Motor City" of the past, and now they only have nostalgia for the past and a different kind of sustenance for the past prosperity.

The Pistons have been locked in a rebuild for several years since Chuck Daley's departure, but since the 01-02 season, Rick? After Coach Carlisle took charge, the team gradually re-emerged, and this year the team changed its head coach and hired the famous coach Larry? Brown is the manager, and the team is looking forward to a championship.

So far, the Pistons have been solid and in first place in the East. Brown's coaching style, while a little too harsh, is a good fit for the defensive-minded Pistons, and while their results are slightly worse than those of the Lakers and Mavericks, there's no denying that the Pistons are gaining momentum right now.

Contrary to the team's hot momentum, Milicic, the star of last year's draft, was in extreme depression, and he was quite unhappy with the Pistons.

With blonde hair, fair skin, a delicate face, a strong body, and a very good basket technique and a very good mid-range shot that are quite eye-catching among rookies, coupled with a height of two meters and a weight of two hundred and fifty pounds, Milicic looks like the "other people's child" who has been called since he was a child.

Although born in turbulent Serbia, Milicic did not spend his childhood there, fate favored him in the first eighteen years of his life, and in the nineteenth year, he was thrown in his favor.

Milicic, who was originally the star of the list, should be reused in the Pistons, his basket offense and high mid-range shooting can be the most effective antidote to the Pistons' offensive weakness, but unfortunately he met Larry? Brown.

If Milicic had entered the draft a year earlier or a year later, his fate would never have been like this, as long as he can join the team that has always been fishy, he can be reused, and then hone his team and eventually lead the team to rise, Milicic has such potential, but fate really played a big joke on him.

The Pistons' draft pick last year was traded, and their management took a fancy to Milicic, but after Larry Brown came to the team, Milicic met the man who changed his fate.

Larry Brown is one of the best coaches in the league, and there are many coaches who are taught by him, emphasizing defense and valuing the discipline and talent of players, but Larry Brown also has a major flaw, that is, he has never been good at training rookie players, and he naturally has a distrust of rookies.

The partnership with Iverson took a toll on Larry Brown, an unruly young man who made Larry Brown lose face when he left the Seven-Sixers, so now Larry Brown follows the iron-clad philosophy of obey or leave.

The sad Milicic grew up in praise from others, he was good at attacking but lazy defending, which in the eyes of Larry Brown is a sign of depravity, and he doesn't want another Allen Iverson under his command, even if the young man is so talented.

And Milicic is not a person who is good at expressing his emotions and opinions, he has been proud since he was a child, and he does not bother to communicate with Larry Brown at all, so as a top show, Milicic has only a handful of playing time in the Pistons, and his performance naturally cannot be compared with James, Anthony and others in the same class.

And there are some people who have evil thoughts about Milicic among his teammates, he is an interior player, and the interior player who has obtained a vested interest naturally does not want him to have one more competitor, and Milicic is also not good at communicating with his teammates because of his personality problems, so he is almost in a state of dissociation with the Pistons.

No one on the Pistons estimates the emotions of a non-existent person, and their most important thing now is to prepare for the game against the Mavericks, after all, the opponent is the first in the league, and the two teams have very different styles, and naturally have a conflict between spear and shield, whether the spear is sharp enough or the shield is strong enough, both sides want to prove themselves.

Larry? Brown is not a stranger to Liu Han, when Liu Han was in the Lakers, he had played against Larry Brown, who coached the Pacers and the 76ers, at that time, Larry Brown had never won in the hands of Liu Han, and he was also quite interested in coaching a player like Liu Han, but now it seems that the opportunity is not too big, since he can't coach such a player, it is also a pleasure to beat him, Larry Brown has such an idea, and he has the capital to put it into practice, He has a very good perimeter defender among his players.

Both Billups and Prince are the main defenders on the outside in the Pistons' system, and both of them have good defenses, Billups is steady, and Prince, who has an amazing armband, is a little thinner but still has his own unique skills on the outside.

Plus the two-time Defensive Player of the Year Ben? Wallace, Larry Brown is confident that they can limit Liu Han's play in this game and limit the Mavericks' offense.

The team is practicing defensive tactics against the Mavericks, and Milicic is in a daze on the sidelines like a fringe figure, no, he is indeed a fringe figure in the team now, the manager's distrust, the isolation of his teammates, and even the slackness of the staff, this young man who came to the land of self-chaos has completely fallen into a low point in his life in Detroit, just like Detroit's declining automobile industry.

The Mavericks are also actively preparing for the game after coming to Detroit, and the opponent's defense is still very strong, and Nelson suddenly became interested in Milicic, he actually had an observation of Milicic for a period of time, but unfortunately this young man has too few opportunities to appear, and he can't see anything at all, but Nelson has seen a period of this young man's performance in draft training camp, which is indeed very suitable for Nelson's tactical system, but now it seems that this young man may sink in the Pistons.

"Liu, what do you think of this young man?"

In addition to training, Nelson also had a lot of exchanges with Liu Han, he asked Liu Han how he felt about Milicic, and Liu Han also watched Milicic's video with Nelson.

'Very good young guys, with a solid foundation, a spirit in attack, which suits our system very well. What, Don, are you going to bring him in? ”

"You have a good eye, Liu, haha, introduce? Wait, he hasn't been sharpened by that stubborn guy yet. ”

If Milicic had known that Nelson valued him so much, perhaps he would have begged to take him to Dallas, and Detroit had had had enough.