Chapter 105, The Dilemma.
The second day of arrival in Atlanta.
The Trail Blazers had a recovery session as a team.
Unfortunately, the Trail Blazers' injury woe seems to be continuing.
During training, Mills suffered a severe sprain in his right foot.
Then Outlaw, who was already injured, announced that he would undergo surgery.
For a while, the number of injuries on the Trail Blazers' list directly reached seven.
It doesn't matter if it's a small injury, but all of these people are big injuries...... That's fucking up.
Combined with the Trail Blazers, the number at the start of the season was originally only 14.
So in fact, there are only 7 of them who are healthy enough to play now.
In desperation, they had no choice but to put the observed Fernandez on the list of eight to sign up.....
"The worst team in the NBA this season is born!"
NBA teams can report a maximum of 15 players per season, but a maximum of 12 players can be played in a game.
The other three are the so-called injury list, of course, in this list is not necessarily the injured and sick, it may also be a reserve player, when one of the 12 players in the rotation is injured, put the injured player in the injury list, and then activate one from the original list and put it into the rotation.
So in a complete NBA team, there are 5 starters, 7 benches, and 3 injury lists.
But in addition to the fact that the starting line-up must be 5, the other numbers are not absolute, and 7-man rotation is OK.
Now it's really unmanned.
When it came time to train, there was no full-court matchup, and the quality of the Trail Blazers' training was so bad that almost everyone lost their rhythm.
As a last resort, McMillan announced that he would stop training in the morning and everyone would rest!
The players rest, but the coaches can't.
They are using all the time to prepare for the next game.
They want to watch the video of the players in the Development League, and they hurry to find someone to come over and go to the top.
Otherwise, if they get injured again, they won't even be able to make up the number of applicants.
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In the afternoon of the same day.
The media and fans have made a summary analysis of the Trail Blazers' injury situation.
Everyone agrees that the Trail Blazers' team doctor has a big responsibility.
First of all, Oden and Roy already had knee injuries before the draft, but the Trail Blazers still insisted on choosing, were they ignorant or overconfident in their medical level?
In addition, the Trail Blazers' team doctor has also been questioned in the player's recovery from injury, such as Roy in February 2008, when he injured his left knee in the final game before the All-Star Weekend, but the team still encouraged him to participate in the All-Star Game, and Roy ended up playing 29 minutes in this inpractical game, leading all the players of the Western Conference All-Star Team.
In the summer of 2008, Roy underwent 20 minutes of minimally invasive surgery in Washington, D.C., where Roberts personally removed a piece of cartilage from his right knee, and then Roy appeared in the opening game of the new season against the Lakers.
In April 2009, Roy suffered surgery on his right knee again, but returned to the court in Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs. These two early returns, which were not well rested, are also believed to be the cause of Roy's recurrent knee injuries!!
Batum, Fernandez and others are similar.
At this time, there was another wave of injuries, and for a while, the Trail Blazers team doctors became the target of ridicule.
Domestic fans are praying to God and worshiping Buddha, hoping that Xue Ding will not be affected!
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In constant pity, the league's No. 1 Trail Blazers game against the Atlanta Hawks begins on the road.
Fans expect that today's Xue Ding and Ade will continue their glorious legendary road with the remnants.
8 wins in a row.
But there was no one available.
If you win again, it will really be a victory for man!!
It's a pity that this kind of man-conquering script usually exists only in fairy tales, and today's pioneers don't go against the sky.
The Trail Blazers played their worst game of the season so far on the road.
Throughout the game, the Hawks' inside and outside line exploded the Trail Blazers.
The smooth offense and the extremely tacit transfer of the ball made the Trail Blazers' defense completely collapse.
The Eagles used their exceptional talent to finish off the remnants of the Trailblazers.
They smashed $74.5 million to re-sign Mike Bibby, Marvin Williams, Zaza Pachuria, and played an important role, plus the newly introduced outside heavy gunners Crawford, veteran champion Joe Smith and others played together.
All seven of the Eagles scored in double figures.
Even though Xue Ding used his powerful impact to cut down 20 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds, and Ade hit 8 mid-range shots in a row to score 30 points and 15 rebounds, neither of them could help the Trail Blazers continue their winning streak.
Two fists are hard to beat four hands.
90 to 118.
The Trail Blazers suffered their worst loss of the season!
As soon as the game is over.
Xue Ding was in a very bad mood, and he refused all interviews with reporters.
McMillan's post-match press conference was also very perfunctory to reporters, and a few simple sentences dismissed the media.
The back-to-back away games have made everyone at the Trail Blazers feel tired and tired.
After this game, they also ended their journey of 5 consecutive visitors!
The whole team departed for a flight back to Portland!!
The Trail Blazers have a 4-1 record in a five-game winning streak, and in the eyes of many experts, the injury-ridden Trail Blazers are respectable.
But the loss was a big blow to the Trail Blazers.
Their invincibility was breached.
Xue Ding didn't think about it so much, he was also using as much time as possible to rest, victory was the best antidote to the team's predicament!
Don't think it's too complicated.
Just win the next game.
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After the game against the Hawks, the Trail Blazers had a three-day vacation.
On November 17, CCTV sent a reporter to conduct an exclusive interview with Xue Ding, and this interview will be placed in "Basketball Park".
The interview is not long, mainly to understand Xue Ding's current mentality and the like.
Xue Ding showed his attitude to the CCTV camera.
'We're in a lot of trouble but we're all together now and I'm sure we'll get through this.'
"No. 1 in the league is an honor for us to fight hard some time ago, and we care about that, but we also know that there are a lot of teams that will challenge us in the future, come on, we're not afraid of challenges."
'I'm going to step up and take responsibility to help the team get through it, I never felt like a rookie and that's what I should do.
"Racial discrimination? I've met it, I don't care, do you think anyone would discriminate against Jordan, James, Kobe Bryant? In the same way, when you are so strong that other people's discrimination can only be held in your own heart, it will be funny. ”
"Those dunks? I'm just trying my best to contribute my performance to the audience, and maybe a lot of people will fall in love with basketball, right? ”
Xue Ding's self-confidence in talking eloquently in front of the camera infected many domestic fans after watching the interview.
Very confident, sunny, full of fighting spirit in the face of difficulties.
Xue Ding is harvesting waves of fans with his unique personality charm!