Chapter 240: Ten Consecutive Wins (Guaranteed Three Updates 1)
Rose Garden Arena.
The Trail Blazers are at home tonight against the Miami Heat, a powerhouse in the East.
To Richard's surprise, the Heat's big muscle stick Mourning didn't appear on their activation list, and it looked like he was injured.
This is also normal, Mourning's attendance in the last two seasons is not high, and the number of appearances in forty or fifty games is ......
In the most glorious season of the future, that is, the 99-00 season, he averaged 21.7 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game......
What's even more embarrassing on the Heat's side is that not only Mourning is on the injury list, but even their three-in-command Jamal Mashburn is also on the injury list in this game......
Bad luck can be said to be very bad.
Mashburn, a player who is similar to Mourning, is also a super player delayed by injuries, nicknamed Monster Marsh!
Throughout the history of the NBA, at this point in time in 2018, Durant is said to be the most offensive small forward in the entire NBA history, which should be unquestioned......
But before Durant, from '95 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, there was only one answer to the league's most offensive firepower No. 3 position, and that was Mashburn.
Even with top small forwards such as Grant Hill, Pierce, and Pippen in the same era, Mashburn's offensive firepower is enough to be king.
Basically, you can think of Mashburn as the melon Anthony of the 90s, the offensive kaleidoscope of the 90s......
In fact, Marsh was born in the wrong era, he entered the era of the league, the defensive confrontation was too strong, and the chance of injury was naturally greater, and by the time the league canceled the hand-check and the defensive intensity was reduced, he was already retired......
In the last season of his career, he only played 19 games and averaged 21 points and 6 rebounds per game.
The reason why the Heat are strong is because they have these top players in the league, but these two players are not very healthy, which is why the Heat have not been able to go further in the playoffs.
In this game, the Heat only has one second-in-command Tim Hardaway, his strength is naturally quite strong, and he has been selected as an All-Star many times, but it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to expect a Tim Hardaway to defeat the iron-like Trail Blazers.
Tim Hardaway is a player that a small group of fans will confuse and think it's Penny Hardaway, but it's not.
Tim's nickname is "Little Bug", which is the same as Tini Boggs's nickname in China.
The nickname Penny is Anfernee Hardaway......
The two pennies are swingmen on the swing guard, and Tim is a pure point guard......
However, Tim Hardaway Jr., the core guard of the Knicks who is more familiar to future fans, is the son of this Tim Hardaway.
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The Heat sidelined the big man Mourning and the three-man Mashburn, and were easily defeated by the Trail Blazers.
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In the blink of an eye, the Trail Blazers have played a wave of nine consecutive wins, with a team record of 11 wins and 5 losses, directly squeezing out the Suns and Spurs, and are now ranked fourth in the West, leaving only one win gap from the third-place Lakers.
The next two games are still the home of the Trail Blazers, against the Bulls and the Knicks.
Originally, Richard was thinking about this wave of devils, and to test the current strength of the pioneers......
As a result, in the first two games, there was no hair at all, the Suns were defeated by Tianke, the Heat was short of soldiers and major generals, and the Trail Blazers won without any pressure at all.
In the next two games, what made Richard speechless was that the opponent was also a major general who was short of soldiers......
The Bulls' Pi Erye was injured and missed, and the Knicks' big man Ewing had suffered a serious injury not long after the start of the season, and it is unknown whether he will be able to return this season.
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This season, Pi Erye also suffered from injuries, and only played more than 40 games in total, which affected the Bulls' record and only won a total of 62 games......
Compared with the 72 wins in the year when Jordan first came back and the 69 wins last season, it is a lot down.
It can be seen that the absence of Pi Erye has a considerable impact on the Bulls, and in this game against the Trail Blazers, although Jordan has played quite well, they still lost to the Trail Blazers by five points in the end.
Throughout the game, the battle between Big Ben and Rodman has almost entered a white heat.
Rodman's rebounding strength is definitely stronger than Big Ben's, and he scored a crazy 22 rebounds in this game, while Big Ben only scored 14 rebounds.
But that doesn't mean that Big Ben's performance forced Rodman to be bad, because Big Ben still had four blocks in the net.
On the whole, the performance of these two people on the court is almost comparable, Rodman rebounds better than Big Ben, but Big Ben's defense is stronger than Rodman.
This makes the Trail Blazers fans very happy, Big Ben can be regarded as growing up now, with Rodman as a reference, Big Ben's current strength can really rank among the top in the league......
Last season's Trail Blazers were embarrassed not to be selected as All-Stars.
And this season, with the growth of several new stars, fans are looking forward to such a good record, it is expected that one or two players should get the chance to be selected as an All-Star, right?
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Next against the New York Knicks, who were absent from Ewing, everyone thought that these two well-known gangster teams would fight on the court.
The result was unexpected, the two teams were quite harmonious during the game, and no one even sprayed trash talk.
Maybe it's two gangster teams, sympathetic to each other?
It could also be that the good relationship between Big Ben and Oakley has caused both parties to converge a lot......
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What was even more unexpected was that the Trail Blazers, who had won ten in a row, lost to the New York Knicks on their home court.
You must know that the Trail Blazers even killed the Bulls and lost to the Knicks who were absent from Ewing?
Richard also felt a little unacceptable, originally he was still looking for a wave of 20 consecutive wins, because after this wave of devils at home, their next schedule is relatively easy, if they are lucky, it is really possible to win 20 consecutive games.
But it was planted in the hands of the Knicks......
In this game, the Knicks' outside accuracy was a little scary, and the three-point shooting rate of the whole game reached an extremely amazing point, close to sixty percent!
The Knicks themselves are not the kind of team that likes to shoot threes, but after Allan Houston, the shooting king in the first quarter, scored two three-pointers in a row, he may feel like he had an explosion, and then made various three-point shots......
I really dare to vote, I really dare to enter!
Led by Alan Houston, Starks, who already likes to shoot three-pointers, is even happier......
Under the three-point rain, Richard could only cry out in vain, and the fiery momentum of ten consecutive wins came to an abrupt end.
However, Richard is still quite satisfied with the record played by this wave of devils, with 3 wins and 1 loss, which is already beyond Richard's expectations.
Originally, Richard estimated that it would be good to win two games......