Chapter Seventy-Seven: Marlon and Barkley
(NBA has a game on Thanksgiving after David Stern became the owner in 1994, the two sides are the Warriors and the Pacers, which is the first time that the NBA has challenged NF1, the first professional league in the United States after the maturity of business, but it has not been successful since then, NF1 is too strong, it seems that NBA Thanksgiving has not been held in recent years, I remember that there was no game on NBA Thanksgiving last season, of course, this Thanksgiving game was not carefully checked, but it should be generally not wrong)
As the time comes to the end of November, most of the NBA teams have played nine games, although for the NBA with 82 regular season games in a season, this can still only be said to be the beginning of the season, but even so, when all the teams in the NBA have come out and slipped around, it is clear who is better and who is inferior, which team is most prepared and which team is not.
This year's NBA is a very special season, because of Jordan's departure, almost all the heroes in the NBA have seen their hope of winning the NBA championship, so, as one of the favorites considered at the beginning of the season, whether it is the Rockets or the Sun New York and other teams, they are extremely combative, such as the New York Knicks in the East, this team has won a wave of 7 consecutive wins, and the Houston Rockets in the West have come up to 9 consecutive wins, and they still have not tasted defeat, As for Yin, the team that won the Western Conference Finals last season is 8-1 this season, except for one loss to the Jazz.
As the biggest favourites of the year, these teams have had a terrible start, and it can be seen that these teams are indeed aiming for this year's championship, but one of these favourites is not among them.
Although the Rockets and the Knicks and Tone are the favorites to win the championship this year, after all, none of these teams were Finals teams last season, in addition to the Bulls, the only Finals team in the league is the Phoenix Suns, and the Suns have not weakened after losing to the Bulls in the Finals, the core players of the team, whether it is Barkley, Kevin Johnson and Dan Marley, have not left, especially Dan Marley, the upstart of the Suns also signed a big contract with the Suns in the new season, and the annual salary has come to close to 3oo thousand, With the addition of former Lakers champion interior AC Green in free agency this year, it can be said that this team really wants to make a big splash this year.
And this team really has such strength, but in the end, it is disappointing that the start of this team really makes people feel that the fighting spirit or mental preparation of this team is too bad compared to other championship favorites.
That's right, the Suns are the biggest favorites to win the championship because they have a new MVP and have reached the Finals, but obviously, the entire Suns seem to think so, and seem to think that they only need to go through the NBA championship to be their own, so this team's season start is very strange.
In terms of their 6-2 start, in addition to losing two games to the Rockets, the Suns are the favorite team, it is really hard to imagine that this team lost another team, this team actually lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, one has been rebuilt, the whole team is mostly new veterans, and the Lakers who have gone AC Green, of course, in addition to the two games lost, this team won six games is not so convincing.
For example, in the game with the Warriors who are in infighting, the Warriors used to be considered heroic, but this team can only be said to be a fish belly team now, and it is also a fish belly team in infighting, but what makes people spray rice is that in the face of such a fish belly that is basically about to collapse, the Sun almost lost again, and the process of the game is simply speechless.
Because of the past of Barkley and Chris Webber in the 1992 Olympic Dream Team training camp, Barkley finally waited for this newcomer who had 'gotten' himself in the training camp that year, so before the game, it was natural to shout all kinds of crazy shouts to give Chris Webber a lesson to tell him what the NBA is like, of course, as the biggest player in the NBA now, he is naturally qualified for the regular season MVP, didn't Jordan like to play rookies before.
It's just that qualification is qualification, it's hard to say whether you can do it, if Barkley does it, then it's a good story, but Barkley can't do it, then it's a joke, and Barkley almost fell in front of Chris Webber again to become a joke, the Suns, who lost the game with a clear advantage, were bombarded by the Warriors 39-27 in the first quarter, although the old Nelson's team is in the midst of infighting, Chris Webb, the second-year teenager, and the old Nelson have been irreconcilable, but the contradiction is no matter how intenseIt is also internal, as long as there is a huge pressure from the outside, such a contradiction can still be temporarily calmed.
So in recent times, Chris Webber, who has been driven crazy by Nelson Sr. and Lynham Hardaway and Mashburn Ryder, can be regarded as waiting for the opportunity, and Barkley's showdown, this popular young power forward taught Barkley a lesson again just like he taught Barkley in the Dream Team, although Barkley is very powerful, but his three short height made Webb 15 in 2o in that game, with a shooting rate of 75%, when the league was crazy about the four small swing people to occupy the headlines, If it weren't for the fact that the overall strength of the Suns is indeed much higher than that of the Warriors, Barkley, who was 15 of 33 in this game, would really be humiliated by Webb again, although his score of 4o points is one point higher than Webber, but anyone with a discerning eye knows who is better in this game.
Therefore, it can be said that at the beginning of the season, such as the New York Rockets and the sound are crazy and hurricane, but this Sun, the biggest favorite to win the championship, is to give people a feeling of distrust, as a championship team, not only can be strong in the face of strong teams, which the Suns have done very well, the season began to abuse Mutombo's Nuggets to kill David Robinson's Spurs, and met Price's led Cavaliers Barkley also taught this Eastern powerhouse the same lesson, but in addition to facing the toughness of a strong team, No team can guarantee that they will always win, but at least they can ensure that they make as few mistakes as possible and despise their opponents, but the championship favorites like the Suns who were almost killed by many weak teams as soon as they came up can't be reassured.
Therefore, in recent times, the Suns have been tormented, and after Jordan left, the current number one star in the entire league is Barkley, and Barkley is the focus of the media, which makes this team even more depressed, and even everyone is comparing the Jazz and the Suns with the incredible start of the season to mock Barkley and the Suns.
There is no doubt that this year's Jazz is definitely a big dark horse, although no expert still believes that the Jazz can be qualified to win the championship, after all, this team has too many shortcomings, but there is a consensus, that is, although the Jazz are not qualified to win the championship, but they have the qualification to test the championship.
Especially in the face of the Suns, the Jazz's weakness is actually not a weakness, for example, as the Jazz's current interior pillar Malone, when facing the three major centers, because of his height, it is possible to be abused by the other party, but in the face of Barkley and the Suns, Malone can not be scared, last season the Suns and Jazz played four games, everyone's record was tied, and the number of individuals was similar to that of Barkley and Malone, if you push forward two more seasons, the 76ers' Barkley was abused by Malone. Malone has maintained a double kill against Barkley for two seasons, and Malone is also comprehensively dominant in terms of numbers, although Malone is also the inside line of the three short figures, but standing in front of Barkley is a giant.
Moreover, Barkley and Malone are not without competition, these two big forwards who are not good people have been together for so many years, how can there be no conflict? When Barkley was in the 76ers, Barkley in the 87-88 season can be said to have reached a peak of his career, was selected to the best team for the first time, won the Player of the Month for the first time, and the average number of games reached a terrifying 28+11, which was a time of pride for a young man who had just entered the league for four years. McHale had been squeezed out of the first team by him that season, so at that time, as Ma Long, who was also aiming for the first big forward, Malone naturally could not lose to Barkley in this regard, after all, Ma Long's number jù that season was also 27.7 + 12, not only was the number Jù not worse than Barkley, but the team's record was also leading, the key is that Malone is also young and vigorous.
In this case, it is conceivable that after the two met, Malone directly sued Sù Barkley that he was the league's good power forward, and after speaking, Barkley cut 43 points and 14 rebounds in 15 of 2o in that game, and Malone who was ruthless in the game was abused to death.
So in the 87-88 season, although Barkley had poor team results, his average number of games was not much more than that of Malone, but Barkley became a big forward, and Malone, who was in second place.
Barkley was naturally very cool after abusing Ma Long, this big fat man really felt that he was a class higher in front of Ma Long, so that Buckley, who would lose his character, was quickly retributed, and he was complacent in the next 88-89 season, when he faced Ma Long again, Ma Long exploded him a 44 + 13, and the number of these two people who exploded against each other was about the same, which can be said to be quite fateful.
Of course, when these two were young and vigorous, they really didn't like each other, but now, both of them are in their thirties, although they will definitely converge a little, but at this special point in time, who knows what the two best power forwards in the league will be like.
In particular, Lin Han knows that Malone is very unhappy with Barkley grabbing the title of No. 1 forward position after winning the regular season MVP last season.
It's really hard to say about this game, and the game on November 25 is not an ordinary regular season, November 25 is this year's Thanksgiving Day, and the NBA never scheduled games on Thanksgiving before, because every year Thanksgiving is arranged by the football league.
Just like the NBA has a Christmas war every year, the football league has a Thanksgiving war every year, everyone enters the water and does not violate the river, and this year's NBA is involved in Thanksgiving, naturally David Stern thinks that the time is ripe to expand his territory and break hands with the football league, so this year's Thanksgiving arranged two games, namely the battle between the Jazz and the Suns' first forward, the former first team and the current first team between the Bulls and the Lakers, just because of Jordan's departure, Naturally, this game is not as good as the game between the Jazz and the Suns.
So, for many players who want to be in the limelight, this Thanksgiving battle for the first time in NBA history is definitely the best stage!
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