586. Why is it so hard to take the penultimate place?
Coming to the seaside city to play, especially the warm south coast, Sun Ce was in a good mood.
New Orleans is a great place to be, and at the end of the last century, it was ranked among the four most livable cities in the United States, along with Austin in Texas, Portland in Oregon, Atlanta in Georgia and Des Moines in Iowa.
The Hornets owner had to move from the East Coast to the South Coast to get a piece of New Orleans' GDP per capita, which was one of the highest in the country.
However, in the years when I moved to New Orleans, the record was not good, the ball market was still average, I survived for a few years, and finally got Paul in 2005, but the good guys, Paul's rookie season has not started yet, the hurricane is coming, the Hornets owner has been hoarding the real estate in New Orleans for several years, the deeds of the tourism industry, and the title deeds have become piles of waste paper overnight, the Hornets owner is about to go bankrupt, New Orleans is still rebuilding, and the team can't be sold.
Now the Hornets don't even have an owner, and after the league bought the team from the former owner of the Hornets and took it into custody by the league, the only instruction the general manager of the Hornets got - to save money.
Sun Ce got the information from the scouting report that at present, the Hornets only have 13 players with contracts, with a total salary of 36 million US dollars, the lowest in the league, which also includes David West's 8.3 million US dollars, Emeka Okafor's 14.12 million US dollars, and Peja's 5.7 million US dollars.
Even potential young players such as Marcus Thorton, Gallinari, and Wilson Chandler were packed away because of their salaries of more than $3 million, and they cleared up space with little to no return.
And sometimes it's not that you have potential players, people will use draft picks to trade with you, but directly ask people from you, knowing that you want to save money as much as possible, no one will be stupid enough to trade with you at the same price, and it is already very "benevolent" if you don't form a group and don't trade with you.
The Nuggets gave them a little compensation and gave the Rockets a future high pick to protect draft picks.
At 8 p.m. on the 10th, the Grizzlies' away game against the Hornets began.
Willie Green, a C-level ability review, a 2003 second-round pick, an eighth-season veteran, was waived by the 76ers in the summer, played a few games in the Development League, and was signed by the Hornets for a seven-year veteran minimum salary of 1.13 million US dollars.
Marco Belinelli, the B-level player with the highest trade value rating for the Hornets, is in his fourth season of career, shooting 38 percent from three-point range at his lowest rate in four years, and is the only player the Hornets general manager to have been approved by the league to renew his contract.
Peja, C+ Level Competency Assessment...... I want to buy out, but the price is not negotiable.
David West, an A-level ability evaluation, a quasi-All-Star level player, the strongest player on the Hornets, the only player who averages more than 15 points per game, averaging 17.8 points, 8 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, the Hornets can still get 3 wins so far in the new season, basically pointing to him breaking out alone.
The key is that David West has no trade value, he is an expiring contract, and other teams just wait for his contract to expire and then sign it, and the three major outside lines on the 76ers' side praised David West after playing with the Hornets last time, and it is difficult to say that there is no instruction from management.
Emeka Okafor...... So far in the new season, he has averaged 12 points and 9 rebounds per game, and he still has strength and good defense, but he has a salary of 14.12 million US dollars, and he has a total of three years of contract this season...... As high as Wade's salary for the first three years of his new contract!
Looking at the lineup opposite, Sun Ce really didn't know how to start.
It sucks!
4 wins, 18 losses......
Sun Ce is even more curious that this is actually only the second-to-last in the league, how did Lefou's Timberwolves currently have 3 wins and 19 losses?
After the game started, the Grizzlies quickly gained the upper hand, playing a wave of 9-4 in the first half of the first quarter, and the Grizzlies only scored 9 points in 6 minutes, and there was no one, Sun Ce and Randolph grabbed 3 rebounds, Sun Ce 3 defensive rebounds, Randolph 1 defensive rebound and 2 offensive rebounds, if Randolph hadn't scored two baskets, the Grizzlies and the Hornets were as bad offensively.
The Grizzlies had terrible shooting overall, so the defense played brutally, and the Hornets scored just four points in six minutes......
After the official timeout, Sun Ce, Battier, and Gasol Jr. were replaced, and the Grizzlies scored only 5 points in the 6 minutes of non-secondary offense, and only scored a non-secondary offensive sports goal, which had a lot to do with these three, and the three of them combined 6 of 0.
However, the defense was very good, and Sun Ce hated Willie Green, who only knew how to rush, twice in 6 minutes.
Sun Ce knows why Willie Green was known as the biggest missing pearl in the 03 generation of second-round picks, mainly in the 03-04 season, when he was in his rookie year, in March, Iverson was reimbursed for the injury season, and Willie Green took the starting position, averaging 13.9 points and 7.5 assists per game in the last 12 games, and helped the 76ers play an 8-4 season at the end of the season, helping the 76ers from the bottom third in the East to the tenth in the East.
Willie Green Son Ce was very impressed, when the 76ers formed a young backcourt combination of Willie Green and Iguodala, they began to prepare to sell Iverson, that is, they took a fancy to Willie Green's talent, and also gave a five-year contract extension at the then mid-range price before the start of the 04-05 season.
As a result, he didn't play for seven years and was finally waived by the 76ers.
Willie Green is very impactful, and he was the key to leading the team to average 7.5 assists per game at the end of the season, but he only has impact, and after seven years, he still only has impact, and now he still only has impact.
Since the state is not good, he will be replaced first, and the combination of Conley, Morrow, Paul George, Randolph, and Yi Jianlian will play.
Not to mention, as soon as this bench lineup went up, the shooting ability was greatly improved, and the offensive efficiency was also raised all of a sudden.
However, there is a key point in this, that is, Yi Jianlian was targeted!
The Hornets are miserable, the Hornets have only higher attendance than the Nets this season, the second-to-last in the league, and the attendance is quite high today.
Because New Orleans has been engaged in tourism activities in the past two years, if other countries want to travel to New Orleans, the difficulty of visas has been greatly reduced, although it has led to the flood of illegal immigrants in New Orleans, but it has also allowed many more tourists here and increased a lot of local income.
And which continent has the most people in the world?
Asia!
A lot of Chinese fans came today, because the Hornets tickets are cheap, and they can also watch cheap NBA games when they travel to the beach.
However, Yi Jianlian has unexpectedly exploded in the past two days, especially in Asia, where "Slam Dunk" is the hottest animation, Yi Jianlian has become the hottest professional athlete at present, as soon as Yi Jianlian came on the court, he received cheers from fans from Asia, and the local fans at the scene ...... He didn't have much of a sense of belonging to the Hornets, and Paul didn't leave any fan base here, he played in Oklahoma City for the first two seasons of his career, and at the peak of his 07-08 season, the Hornets had the lowest attendance in the league, and the whole city was like a ghost town, and the ghosts would come to see the game.
In the 07-08 season, Paul averaged 21 points, 4 rebounds, 11.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game, and his performance was better than that of James, Wade, and other top superstars of his generation.
It's because there is no local fan base at all.
So, when the foreign fans cheered for Yi Jianlian, the local fans on the scene also defected, Yi Jianlian was also very popular in the United States in the past two days, and he felt that the whole stadium was Yi Jianlian fans.
The Hornets players can stand this, so Yi Jianlian is targeted, whenever he finds an opportunity to cut in, the Hornets will be a group of people to come in, at this time Conley is very calm to distribute the ball to the outside vacant teammates, Morrow and Randolph, Paul George got a lot of vacant mid-range shooting opportunities, they feel much better than Sun Ce, Gasol Jr., Battier, and the offensive efficiency has suddenly improved.
Hornets head coach Monty Williams hasn't stopped this behavior either, and he has been given a job to mess up the new season, they need a high pick to trade, and they are even ready to trade a couple of draft picks from the Knicks and a Rockets pick from the Nuggets in the hope of getting the top pick.
But God knows why the Timberwolves, who seem to be so talented, are actually ranked at the bottom of the league this year.
With Yi Jianlian enjoying the superstar treatment, the Grizzlies led the Hornets by 9 points at the end of the first quarter.
The Grizzlies played very badly today, after Paul George, Morrow, and Yi Jianlian went up, their offensive efficiency improved, and they scored 14 points in the first quarter, but the opponent's defense was already bad, and there was nothing to show off about in the first half of the quarter, and the opponent has conceded an average of 106 points per game this season.
But it's good to have an advantage, and it's all about winning the game.
After establishing the advantage, the Grizzlies played very relaxed, and after relaxing, the combination of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Morrow, Yi Jianlian, and Jordan Jr. went up in the second quarter to play a wave, and Sun Ce had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in a single quarter.
In the second half, Sun Ce went up in the third quarter to play a 2+1, and after improving his data to 11 points, 6 boards, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 3 steals, he was replaced by Coach Hollins.
Sun Ce now wants to brush data in garbage time, but Coach Hollins doesn't allow it!
Sun Ce, very melancholy, sat on the bench and watched the lineup of Jason Williams, Paul George, Battier, Yi Jianlian, and Haddadi pecking each other on the field.
Gotta have some fun!
Sun Ce glanced at his teammates sitting next to him, there was something to play, and he leaned over to Little Jordan and whispered a few words.
Little Jordan listened to Sun Ce's words very much, and although he didn't know why he did it, he did it anyway.
Little Jordan came to Coach Hollins and sat down, and Coach Hollins saw Little Jordan who suddenly moved next to him, and asked suspiciously: "Deandre, is there something wrong?" ”
Little Jordan didn't know why he said this, but he still said, "Coach, I want to play basketball!" ”
Coach Hollins stared at Jordan Jr. for a long time, didn't this girl go up and play 9 minutes in the second quarter and deduct two?
What Coach Hollins wants to do in the second half is to let Yi Jianlian find more running feeling in the game, and let Haddadi play more, there will be three back-to-back in the second half of this month, and he will definitely have to take turns to rest at that time, and Haddadi's tall height can be used.
At this time, Coach Hollins found Sun Ce sitting next to Little Jordan snickering, how could he not know that this was instructed by Sun Ce?
But why is that? Why did Little Jordan say this, and Sun Ce smiled so happily?
After thinking about it for a while, Coach Hollins didn't understand it, and said directly to Jordan Jr.: "You and Noah are both out of the way!" ”
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