Chapter 667: The Intermediate God-Making Quest Begins
After four games, the Pirates maintained a winning record, and the next three games, because they were all away and were all Western teams, Richard took O'Neal Sr. off and only took Oden a center to start the away trip.
To be precise, it can't be said that there is only one center for Oden, after all, Marc Gasol is not unable to play center, and maybe even his power in playing the center position is stronger than that of a big forward.
Three consecutive away games, the first game was played by the SuperSonics.
At the end of this season, the SuperSonics will officially change their name to the Thunder.
Originally, the SuperSonics still had a Durant support scene at hand this season, averaging 20 points per game, but now that Durant has been snatched away by the Trail Blazers, the SuperSonics are really miserable now.
If you want to talk about the stars in the team, the only one who can be called a star is probably Szzebiak.
However, Szczebiak's form has declined quite badly in the past two or three years, otherwise, the Timberwolves will definitely be reluctant to sell Szczebiak.
After Szczebiak, no one on the SuperSonics team has ever been selected as an All-Star.
With such a belly of fish teams, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they are the most rubbish team in the league.
And tonight's opponent is the strongest team in the league, the pirates, and the game hasn't started yet, but the result is no longer suspenseful.
At the beginning, with Oden as the center of gravity, the Pirates directly played a small 12:2 climax of the SuperSonics.
The SuperSonics' lineup is just too bad, and their starting lineup may not be much better than the Heat's lineup in the preseason.
Their starting center is Nick Collisson, who is still a bit legendary.
In 04, he was selected by the SuperSonics with the 12th pick in the first round, and then spent the next 14 years of his career playing for the SuperSonics or the Thunder, representing the United States team in international competitions, being selected for the Dream 5 team and the Dream 6 team, and his No. 4 jersey was also retired by the Thunder.
In the fifteen years since the Thunder changed their team name in '08, they have only retired one jersey, which is Collisson's jersey.
It seems that this Collison should be a big player inside, but in fact, his strength is a bit watery, and he has never had a season scoring double or rebounding double in his career......
Defensively, it's not outstanding, it's below average.
Attacking, there is no long-range shooting ability, and due to height and tonnage, the low-post singles ability is also relatively poor.
I don't have much organizational skills......
Anyway, I can't see anything outstanding in this player, but it is such a player's jersey that was retired by the Thunder.
In fact, Richard also knows very well that the Thunder's retirement of Collisson's jersey is not because of strength, but to reward Collison's loyalty.
More precisely, the Thunder were there to disgust Durant......
Durant ran to join the Warriors, directly vomiting blood from the Thunder management, and they simply retired the jersey loyal to Collison to make Durant ugly.
Auden's current opponent is Collison, and it can be clearly found that the gap between Collison and Auden is too big.
At the moment, Collison may not be able to solve the newcomer Howard or Joakim Noah, let alone Oden, who beats the two with one hand.
Paul is completely happy, and he, like Rondo, loves to work with this kind of super center, which can make their assist stats skyrocket.
Before the end of the first quarter, Paul had already scored a magical 8 assists and 2 steals on the outside.
As for scoring, Paul's desire to attack tonight was not strong, and after a three-way no-stick in the opening game, he simply stopped shooting and concentrated on making the ball for Oden.
Eight assists in a single quarter seems amazing, but in fact, it is not a too dazzling record in NBA history.
Players who have played 10+ assists in a single quarter throughout NBA history can't be counted in a single slap.
The current single-quarter assist record is Knicks legend Jerry Lucas, who is a real big guy.
played the inside position, but he held a record of 14 assists in a single quarter, which is really a bit scary.
Lucas has a lot of labels, such as the top 50 superstars, the Hall of Fame, etc., and even made a name for himself as a memory master after retiring, and co-authored a book about memory.
However, that record was later equaled by Trail Blazers guard Blake......
Therefore, Paul's 8 assists in a single quarter is not a dazzling statistic.
However, Paul's eight assists are quite stable, not the kind of assist data that suddenly bursts down, as long as Oden is on the floor, his assist statistics are definitely not much less.
Sure enough, Paul easily scored 7 assists in the second quarter, and 15 assists in the half was a bit amazing.
And with Paul's assist, coupled with the fact that the opponent is really weak, Oden also played quite comfortably, and after half the game, he had already entered the data of 24 points and 13 rebounds.
If nothing else, Oden can also play a staggering statistic of at least 30+20 tonight.
Now Richard is worried about what would happen if the SuperSonics surrendered early, and Richard naturally thought that the bigger the player stats under him, the better.
But what Richard didn't expect was that Supersonic head coach Callesimo seemed to be distracted, as if he didn't pay much attention to the fact that they were already 37 points behind at the end of the supersonic half!
Callesimo is a coach, Richard is naturally no stranger, this is the earliest NBA head coach he contacted in addition to Larry Brown, and Richard's position as head coach of the Trail Blazers was taken over from Callesimo.
Over the years, Callesimo has had a rough time, and he hasn't been given the opportunity to be head coach since he was fired by the Warriors in '99-00.
That is, this year's superSonics are too weak, and he seized the opportunity to return to the head coaching role.
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At the end of the half, Richard smiled wryly at his top players.
"Guys, play this kind of fish belly team and save some face......"
"I don't think you want to go into garbage time too early."
"The goals that should be scored, naturally we still have to score, but the defense is a little looser, don't be too cruel."
Richard, this can be regarded as a disguised release of water.
It is really impossible not to release the water, the opponent is behind by 37 points at halftime, and it stands to reason that it is very likely that the supersonic will give up the game directly in the second half.
Richard is thin-skinned and embarrassed to let players rub time on the field to brush up on data, so he can only think of such a rogue trick to release water to the opponent and let the opponent hold on for a while.
After the start of the second half, Callesimo still looked stupid.
He was not stimulated by the difference in strength on the field, but by Richard.
I think that at the beginning, just more than ten years ago, I was almost at the same starting line as Richard, who had just entered the league.
But now? I can only be a bad coach in a bad team, and I don't have a good meal......
This is not a joke, the probability of a bad team coach like Calesimo not being able to last for two seasons can even reach more than 70%.
There's no guarantee of a stable job!
And what about Richard? At the same starting line, Richard has now become the strongest and most famous head coach in the league!
He may not even be as good as Richard's heel skin now......
This huge gap made Callesimo completely unacceptable, and his eyes were glazed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
At the start of the second half, Oden and Paul continued to contribute wonderful performances.
Richard has a hunch that something big may happen tonight, because the data of Auden and Paul are really a little too strong.
Not only are these two strong, but Roy continued his strong performance in the previous games tonight, and there was some inexplicable momentum on the offensive end.
Richard is not a manager like Popovich, and he enjoys the feeling of his players being in the limelight.
In Richard's view, if his players are in the limelight, it is equivalent to being in the limelight, and he is also doubly face-saving.
Since all three of them were in excellent shape tonight, and Callesimo had no intention of surrendering, Richard simply let these three stay on the court all the time.
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"Doot toot!" The referee blew the whistle for the end of the match.
The final score of 132:81 made supersonic fans feel sick and want to vomit......
They already knew that the supersonic were going to change cities next season, and they originally wanted to take a good look at the supersonic game before the supersonic left, after all, there was one less game.
But now it seems that this kind of thinking is unacceptable.
This kind of game looks really hot, but it's a pity that the ticket money is paid, and after entering the stadium, it is completely to watch your home team being beaten.
This is still the second half of the game, the Pirates have a bit of a rhythm to release water, only lost by 51 points, if the Pirates don't release the water, the ghost knows how many points the supersonic can lose, maybe break the historical record.
The Buccaneers scored 132 points in the game, and if you think about their style of half-court positional battles, this style can play such a high score, and you can know how horrible their shooting percentage is in this game.
Oden exploded with 47 points and 28 rebounds, almost hitting a 40+30!
It can be said that Collison, who has 10 points and 7 rebounds, is clear at a glance.
This is the talent gap of Chi Guoguo, which cannot be made up by hard work.
Oden's data directly made O'Neal, who was far away in Charlotte, dumbfounded.
Because even O'Neal, a big killer who is at the peak of his debut, has never played such luxurious data in his rookie season!
O'Neal in his rookie season has played 40+20 data, but he is not as luxurious as Oden, he only has 46 points and 21 rebounds, which is definitely not as gorgeous as Oden's 47 points and 28 rebounds.
Thinking that he had said in front of Richard that Oden couldn't catch up with himself at his peak, O'Neill was a little embarrassed now......
It's not that Oden in his rookie season is really more dominant than O'Neal, tonight's game is really a bit special.
First of all, the opponent is too weak, and the team that is recognized as the weakest chicken in the league does not even have an All-Star level player in his playing year.
Other teams may not have All-Star players that season, but almost all of the big leaders of these teams have All-Star level standards.
For example, the Bucks, big man Eddie didn't make the All-Star last season, but no one doubts that he has an All-Star level.
The SuperSonics, on the other hand, don't really have an All-Star caliber player on their team.
In addition to the reason why the team is too weak, the superSonics did not voluntarily surrender tonight is also a very important reason, if the superSonics surrender in less than three quarters, Oden will definitely not be able to play such a statistic tonight.
And in O'Neal's rookie season, if he can encounter such a good thing, he is estimated to be able to play 50+30 level data.
O'Neal's 40+20 rookie season against the Detroit Pistons......
At that time, the Pistons, the Bad Boy Army had not yet been disbanded, and there was still a Ranbir on the inside.
In this case, O'Neill can play 40+20, which is obviously not at the same level as the gold content of Oden's data tonight.
Of course, Paul also has at least one-third of the credit for Oden's data, and although O'Neal in his rookie season has a good point guard teammate like Skyles, he is obviously not far behind Paul.
A high-quality traditional point guard can at least increase the strength of a traditional center by 10 percent.
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Oden's 47 points and 28 rebounds were kingly, while Paul's stats tonight went to the extreme.
10 points, 1 rebound, 26 assists and 4 steals, this is the amazing stats that Paul played tonight.
It's quite weird, and Richard doesn't know who has played similar data in NBA history, anyway, if you talk about strange data, Paul's data tonight may be on the list.
It's a pity that Paul's 26 assists in a single game tonight failed to break the NBA single-game assist record, which is the 30 assists held by O'Neal's former teammate Skyles.
If he can break this record, Richard may be able to get some special system rewards tonight.
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Roy continued to play his strength on the offensive end tonight, with 32 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in the whole game, in terms of data luxury, it is certainly not as good as Oden and Paul, but considering that Roy has averaged more than 30 points per game in five games since the start of the game, this is quite terrifying.
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The moment the referee blew the end of the game, a system prompt sounded in Richard's head.
"Congratulations to the host, you have met the conditions for opening the Intermediate God-making Mission, and the Intermediate God-Making Quest has begun!"