Richard knew very well that Barry's heart was on that West Lafayette gold medal!

Iverson has all four of them, but he, a player who entered the league a year earlier, has not......

No wonder Pierce recognized Bibby and Hamilton, the two newcomers of West Lafayette as players, but did not recognize Barry Jr.!

You're in the NBA, but you don't have a gold medal, which means that Richard doesn't treat you as a West Lafayette player!

Otherwise, why not give you a gold medal?!

……

Richard checked their Trail Blazers' schedule and found that their next match with the Nets was in March of next year!

Although the game has just been played, Barry Jr. has not left Portland......

But in such a short period of time, where did Richard order the gold medal, you must know that it took half a month to order the gold medal last time!

Let Big Ben transfer the message to Barry Jr. first, let him rest assured first, order the gold medal on his side first, and then wait for the All-Star time, or the next time he plays against the Nets, and then give the gold medal to Barry Jr.!

This will definitely solve Little Barry's heart disease!

……

The game is over, and the Trail Blazers have won......

But Richard was a little bored in his heart!

Mainly because of the matter of Barry, Richard didn't expect that his unintentional actions would bring such a heart disease to Barry......

It seems that the saying that the stronger the ability, the greater the responsibility, and it really makes sense.

At the moment, it's just a small Barry, and there will be countless West Lafayette players entering the league in the future, and the responsibility of himself, the head of West Lafayette, will become heavier and heavier!

……

In the regular season, the Trail Blazers have played 8 games and have an excellent record of 5 wins and 3 losses.

This record is really outstanding, at least for a rebuilding army.

You must know that after the Lakers got O'Neal, their current regular season record is only 5-3.

The records of the Trail Blazers and Lakers are currently ranked fourth in the West!

The Jazz, who are first in the West, are currently 7-1 and lead the league with the Bulls in the East.

The second and third in the West are rockets and hypersonics.

It is not easy for the Trail Blazers to tie with the Lakers for fourth place in the West, at least the Trail Blazers and fans are extremely satisfied with such a start.

But behind this glorious record, there are actually certain problems!

Of the five games won, except for the Cavaliers, who were a playoff-caliber team last season, the remaining four were all fish belly teams!

Even the Cavaliers certainly won't make the playoffs this season......

And the three games lost, not to mention the tough superSonics, the Suns and Hornets, the two playoff goalkeeper players, the Trail Blazers lost all of them......

It's all about the belly of the fish that wins, and the Trail Blazers can't win the games they lose, even if it's just the playoff goalkeeper......

Richard should now actually thank them for an easy start.

If the league had arranged a bunch of sub-playoff teams, the Trail Blazers' record would have been quite miserable!

Even if he loses all eight games in the opening game, Richard feels that there may not be such a possibility!

Of the twenty-nine teams in the league, sixteen of them are playoff teams and only 13 are non-playoff teams!

In the first eight games, the Trail Blazers encountered most of the teams at the fish belly level, and their luck was really good!

……

After eight games, the entire league can see the strength of the Trail Blazers' newcomers more clearly.

After scoring 18 rebounds and 6 blocks in the game against the Cavaliers, Big Ben added 14 rebounds and 3 blocks in the game against the Nets!

He currently averages 2.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal per game!

And this doesn't seem to be the limit of Big Ben, at least in terms of rebounding data, Big Ben will definitely improve this season!

It's like a super blue-collar data!

Many people have begun to compare Big Ben with Rodman, after all, there are too many similarities between the two!

There is no doubt that the Trail Blazers chose Big Ben with a second-round pick, which is undoubtedly a big profit!

And the other second-round picks, not to mention mixed starters at the moment, did not even have players who played more than 20 minutes in the first eight games!

It's hard to compare these people to Big Ben!

O'Neal Jr.'s performance was up and down, and he scored 20+ points in the first game of the regular season, but then the score was up and down.

Especially against the SuperSonics, he played 26 minutes but only scored 7 points.

It's really miserable......

At present, he averages 10.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1 block per game, which must not be said to be very strong, but can only be said to be worthy of his draft pick.

This is also something that can't be helped, the phrase that the inside line is late still has a lot of truth, and if O'Neill Jr. wants to gain a firm foothold in the inside line, he must still need to go through a lot of games!

As for Kobe, his performance is decent, not as amazing as Big Ben, but it is also better than O'Neal Jr.

Twelve shots per game, which has become a label on Kobe......

When many Trail Blazers fans checked the technical statistics of the Trail Blazers' first eight games, they discovered Kobe's "characteristic".

12 shots in exchange for an average of 13 points per game, which is decent, not so brilliant!

There were occasional bright performances on the offensive end, such as the game against the Cavaliers, where he scored six points in the first two offensive rounds, but there was also an embarrassing situation of two three-draws in one game......

On the organizational side, it can only be said that it is decent, and the current average of 6.5 assists per game is not particularly outstanding.

Only on the defensive end, the young Kobe Bryant, really surprised those despised team management and fans!

One word to describe Kobe Bryant's defense right now......

That's a mad dog!

The word may sound insulting at first, but on the pitch, the word mad dog is a compliment!

Defending like a mad dog is the best compliment for a defensive player!

Besides, Lao Mei rarely uses the word dog to insult people, otherwise, wouldn't the nickname of Big Dog be unhearable......

Kobe's defensive performance on the court may have gone too far at some moments and will send the opposing player to the free throw line, but his positive defensive attitude and top physical fitness in the point guard position are undoubtedly eye-catching!

This further strengthened Zhang Weiping's insistence that Kobe Bryant is a superstar embryo.

He is more attentive to Kobe, and during the daily training process, Zhang Weiping has been cheering Kobe, and even opened a small stove for Kobe Bryant, and specially took Kobe Bryant to train privately......

The sun at four o'clock in the morning in Portland, Kobe Bryant has seen it, and Zhang Weiping has also seen it!