Chapter 750: Milicic who broke through the shackles
The Charlotte Hornets are still not a strong team after Larry Brown moved in, but after the Bobcats moved in with Larry Brown, the whole team has changed very, very big.
Last season, when the Bobcats were also called Bobcats, the Bobcats allowed opponents to score more than 105 points per game, and this season, when the rest of the league faced the Bobcats, they averaged less than 98 points per game this season, up from more than 105 per game last season.
The Hornets have been very, very good on the defensive end this season, conceding less than 98 points per game and even better than the Seattle SuperSonics and better than most teams in the league.
The reason why Bobcats have such a poor record this season is entirely because of the offense, the opponent averages less than 98 points per game, and his own average score per game is less than 94, which is too bad.
However, although the Bobcats have not completed the rebuilding on both offensive and defensive ends, Larry Brown has successfully built the Bobcats' defensive system into a real Hornets, and this is no problem.
But such a team with a defensive system that has been established, and is better than most teams in the league, was actually scored 138 points by the Seattle SuperSonics in this game, and finally lost to the SuperSonics by 51 points in the whole game, and was almost humiliated by the Seattle SuperSonics with 58 points after only 7 points!
This result really made the members of the Tiantuan in the TNT studio feel incredible.
Not only the TNT group, but also the media reporters at the scene, the audience in front of the TV, and Jordan and Larry Brown on the scene found it incredible.
"Larry Brown's basketball is no longer suitable for the current basketball world, but Larry Brown's defensive system is still one of the best in the NBA."
"That's why Michael is looking for him, as Michael's closest comrade, I know exactly what he wants this season, and I know exactly what he's looking forward to this game, and this is the fifth time he's been here this season!"
"He wanted to see what he wanted to see in this game, and the Hornets' performance on the defensive end this season gave Michael a lot of confidence, but his big mouth after the game told me and the rest of the world how shocked and incredible he was!"
"I've never seen Michael look like that on the spot!"
"I've never seen Larry Brown look like that when he's in the dugout!"
"Yes's intelligence and intelligence in this game is incredible, as a young player who has only played in the NBA for three seasons, he directly crushed Larry Brown's decades-long basketball philosophy when he played Larry Brown for the first time with a coach who has been coaching for decades!"
"What wisdom and ball quotient this is!"
"I'm not saying Michael is an idiot, but how many years did it take Michael to break through the Pistons' defensive system with the Bulls?!"
"I'm not disrespectful to Michael, compared to Yes, Michael is an idiot in terms of his destructiveness and intelligence in the defensive system!"
TNT's post-match studio hall became Pippen's one-man show.
And in the post-game press conference, as the head coach of the Hornets, Larry Brown was also the protagonist.
For so many years in the NBA, Larry Brown has been a very controversial head coach.
There are many people who respect him.
There are more people who criticize and hate him.
But whether it is respecting or criticizing those who hate him, there is really no doubt about his achievements on the defensive end.
Even if he himself admits that he is no longer comfortable with the basketball of his predecessors, he has never admitted that his defense is out of place.
He's confident in that, and anyone who dares to question his defensive system before this game will be able to find a very, very much theory and rhetoric to get back.
But this game.
In the face of the questioning and ridicule of these reporters, he is not even able to organize the language of his own rebuttal now.
He's not an idiot, and he can see that this game wasn't because the Hornets players weren't strong enough to find all the holes in his defensive system like a scalpel.
Even if the strength of the player is not enough, his defensive system is perfect, but the defensive system he has polished for decades has really collapsed directly in front of Yes!
Larry Brown has a hunch that even if this garbage Hornet is replaced by his strongest 2004 Pistons, the result of this game may be different, but his defensive system will still be dismembered by Yes!
"Larry, is this going to be your last game in the NBA?"
Larry Brown, who was bombarded by all kinds of sharp questions from the media present, had a look on his face that was not affected by these sharp questions except for the shock that remained.
As a controversial manager, he has long been accustomed to such controversy.
But the question ......
The look on Larry Brown's face changed.
"I don't know if you heard something from somewhere, I can tell you very frankly now, according to my agreement with Michael, a failure like this game will make me automatically out of this game, I was not able to lead the team to beat the SuperSonics, the SuperSonics won this game, and held the eighth place in the West, and I didn't let Yes score less than 30 points in this game, this game Yes only took three quarters to score 40 points and 15 assists, which is a perfect performance."
"It's a big loss against Yes, but I can assure you that this isn't my last game in the NBA, it's not even my last game with the Hornets, and I believe in Michael's trust in me!"
"I believe Michael absolutely believes in my ability to build the Hornets into the Pistons of the year."
"By that time, the world may be completely different!"
Larry Brown left the press conference after answering the question excitedly.
Before this game, he didn't care if he could stay in the NBA as a head coach, but after this game was lost, Larry Brown definitely didn't want to leave in embarrassment now!
Whether this game is an accident or not, he has to build another piston to deal with Yes, and at that point, his basketball philosophy will make the whole world different again, he believes!
The pre-game game between the SuperSonics and the Hornets was too hot.
Coupled with the confident words of Jordan and Larry Brown before the game, many people think that the SuperSonics will lose this game and fall out of the top eight in the West, so the attention of this game is extremely high.
Now that the Seattle SuperSonics have defeated the Hornets away like this, how can those coconut fans who were suppressed before the game let go of this opportunity to fall into the ground, even those coconut blacks who have high hopes for the Hornets and Larry Brown Jordan will be angry at this time and will not let go of Larry Brown and Jordan Hornets.
Otherwise, Larry Brown would not have been besieged after the game.
Watching Larry Brown and Jordan Hornets being besieged like this, Yes didn't care.
Coaches such as Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Steve Cole and others are arguably the coaches he is most familiar with.
He's not sure he's proficient in Steve Kerr's five-small system, he's also proficient in Larry Brown's defensive system.
Whether it's the Hornets or the Pistons, as long as the head coach is Larry Brown, Yes feels that he can't lose, after all, he has lost enough against Larry Brown.
So, it's just an ordinary win, and it's not something strange or something to focus on.
But the win and Larry Brown's knock-out by the wall really thrilled Milicic and Quentin Richardson.
On the supersonic plane to Orlando, Milicic and Quentin Richardson were both reading the newspaper that Larry Brown had been sprayed on.
"It's the first time I've seen Darko and Quentin smile like that!"
"I used to think that Darko and Quentin didn't have something hidden in their hearts, and I always felt as if they were carrying some shackles."
"Now I don't feel such shackles!"
Malikroth looked at Milicic and Richardson, who were not far away with beautiful expressions on their faces, and there were also expressions of surprise and disbelief on their faces.
And the old Nelson next to him nodded with a twinkle in his eyes.
Has the mental barrier finally been cleared?
Yes did what he couldn't do again.
I thought that Larry Brown would cause very, very big problems for the superSonics in this game, but I didn't expect it to be like this.
Yes's tactical comprehension and IQ are truly incredible!
This is the first time Yes has played against Larry Brown!
At most, I've watched a few footage of Larry Brown's games.
"I have to say, it is really the person who can replace Master Romar to train the tactical system of the University of Washington!"
For Romar, the old Nelson is also quite respectful.
The five small ones he always wanted to play were smashed by Romar and the NCAA was the first to be used.
And the whole world knows that Maestro Romar is a very pure pursuit of basketball, does not like fame, and does not like profit, according to ESPN, Coach Romar has turned down ten invitations from Dream Team, and has rejected hundreds of invitations from NBA teams.
Master Romar also has a lot of quirks, and he likes to observe the team as a spectator when he usually trains, so the tactical system of the University of Washington is that he handed it over to Yes first, and let Yes hand it over to the players of the University of Washington, and he is observing on the side, so that it is better to get rid of the situation of the authorities' confusion and can correct and correct his own tactical system.
Maestro Romar's coaching philosophy is useful, but also extravagant, first of all, he needs to have a player like Yes who is extremely tactically intelligent.
Thinking of Yes's tactical attainments and IQ, Nelson Sr. now really feels that he may really be able to fulfill his lifelong basketball dream in his lifetime!
Of course, he's not in such a hurry now, and he's not going to do that kind of thing at the expense of a player's dream to achieve his dream.
Now it's better to fulfill the dreams of the supersonic players before we talk about other things!
After the supersonic 'accidental' defeat to the Bobcats, the record came to 11-8, still occupying the eighth position in the East, and the Trail Blazers, who had the same record as the SuperSonics, lost to the Celtics on the same day, but the Timberwolves still won, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Timberwolves' record is still the same, in terms of record, the Seattle SuperSonics still can't lose if they want to keep the top eight positions.
The current Seattle supersound is still under a lot of pressure.
On December 5, 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics continued their Eastern road trip against the Hornets, whose second opponent in this back-to-back Eastern Conference road trip was Howard's Magic.
The last time the two teams met, Howard played very, very depressed, the outside players of the Magic team couldn't stop Ye Si's sudden breakthrough of explosive power, and his defensive skills couldn't even close the door simply, which made Howard face Ye Si, and those who were broken through by Ye Si's sudden straight line burst breakthrough doubted their lives!
This game is the second meeting between the two teams this season, and Howard is ready to save face in this game.
It's just that after the game started, Howard, who wanted to take revenge in this game, soon found that he seemed to be even more miserable in this game than in the previous game!
In the last game, he was killed by Yes's breakthrough on the defensive end, and he lost all face.
That is, in the gap when Yes does not break through, he can find some face and lining from other supersonic players.
But in this game, Howard found that he didn't seem to be so easy to get back his face and lining in other Seattle SuperSonics players.
To be precise, in this game on the defensive end, he was blown up by Milicic!
Milicic has always been an opponent he takes seriously and despises quite lightly.
Because, this guy is now one of the four young centers in the league, and he is the same competitor.
The contempt is because this guy used to be his substitute, and this guy is the one who is bullied every time he meets him.
It is said that Yao Ming beats him by eating and sleeping, and he also has players who can eat and sleep to play, and there is more than one, and Milicic is one of them.
But this game ......
When the game ended and the Magic lost 98-109 at home, Howard even thought he wasn't playing a fake game.
"Yes, this guy can't be pretending to be Yao, right?"
“……”
Standing in front of Ye Si, looking at the colorful non-mainstream on his head not far away, there was a look of surprise on his face.
He did not pay enough attention to Milicic in this game, but is Milicic the kind of player who can hold on to it?
In the face of Howard's surprise, Ye Si's face was also a little curious and surprised.
In this game, Milicic's feeling in the game is indeed completely different from before, the strength may not have increased, but the mentality has indeed changed very, very much.
More proactive and more confident......
"Have you really broken through the shackles?"
After the curiosity and surprise on Ye Si's face disappeared, it turned into anticipation.
I didn't expect the Hornets and Larry Brown to have such a role.