Chapter 109: Falling Chains Again
Losing to the Spurs is okay, losing to the Timberwolves, who were at the bottom of the West last season, is a bit undeserved, and it was overturned with a big lead......
Morale was high when the team won nine in a row this season, but due to the state of the team in the previous two years, everyone did not overestimate their strength, did not get carried away by the winning streak, and did not create any burden when the losing streak ended with the Spurs.
However, when the team won 5 consecutive victories again, and has always occupied the top spot in the league since the start of the new season for 1 month, they began to overestimate the strength of the team, thinking that the team should play an unimaginable record, after all, it is the first in the league! When losing to the Spurs again, the whole team clearly showed a kind of conceit, we are currently the first team in the league, losing to the same team in a row is obviously not their true strength, from the post-game interview Tyrek can also get a glimpse of the team's internal atmosphere, is the pride brought by the victory......
When facing the Timberwolves, under the rendering of the outside world, the Kings appeared in the target center arena with a condescending posture.
The game did start as everyone thought, and the Timberwolves were powerless in front of the overall strength of the Kings, who took a huge lead early. However, when the Timberwolves fought back under the leadership of Love, the Kings' mental gap caused them to panic, which ultimately led to the defeat......
The Kings, who have lost two in a row, will have to adjust, and with their inexperience in the face of difficult situations, that experience will take time to build, and the immediate priority now is to get the right mindset for the next game.
The next opponent to face at home is the visiting Milwaukee Bucks, and now the strength of the Bucks team with 6 wins and 10 losses is also average, the middle and lower reaches of the league, the Kings team playing at home is logically stable, but something unexpected still happened......
This game is the big boss of the Kings Vivek. Ranadave also came to watch the fight, but Angeli did not come with her father. After all, An Jiali is still a college student, although she usually has a lot of free time, but because of her studies, she can't come to the scene too often to watch the game.
Anjiali and Terrick are in regular contact on weekdays, and the mutual affection between the two is already tacit, but Terek is still an emotionally blank Chinese college student in his mind after all, and he is still a little shy in his heart, and he is also looking for an opportunity to express it.
Facing a team of ordinary strength like the Bucks, and at their home court, with the team's big boss watching the game, the Kings are naturally going all out. Brandon. Jennings, Carlos. Delfino, Stephen. Jackson, Eisen. Ilyasova, Andrew. Although the starting lineup formed by Bogut is there, it is still quite mediocre. Now the most outstanding player in the Bucks team is Brandon in the class of '09 and Tyrek. Jennings.
Jennings is also in the third year of his career this season, although he is not as bright as Tyreck, but he is steadily improving his level, and his average points per game have improved every year, and as the offensive core of the Bucks this season, he is expected to average 20+ points per game.
The strength of the Bucks' lineup is balanced, but it is not the opponent of the Kings at all on paper, this game is the same as the last game with the Timberwolves, the Kings also took the initiative on the court early, Tyreic took the initiative at the beginning of the game, and won in all aspects of the confrontation with Jennings, the two had their own highlights in their rookie seasons, but after entering the third year of their careers, Tyreck's personal strength was significantly higher than Jennings.
However, although the Kings dominated the court, they could not completely open the score gap, which also gave the Bucks a chance......
Also in the second half, the Bucks suddenly came on to the bench with Mike. Under the leadership of Dunleavy, he brought out a wave of 15-3 small climax, turning the score around in one fell swoop.
From this turning point, the Kings gradually fell back into blind self-confidence, and as with the Timberwolves, the players remained convinced that a team like the Bucks would not be able to beat them. If the Kings can start the season against strong teams like the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Lakers, and Los Angeles Clippers, can't they still deal with mediocre teams like the Bucks?
What if they are behind the score, they can even reverse the Clippers by 20 points, and what is the point of falling behind the Bucks?
Self-confidence is a good thing, but it is not blind self-confidence, it is based on the self-confidence that you have strength, and the Kings at this time have changed from when they started the season with just nine consecutive wins, and this kind of winning streak that should not appear on them has gradually had a negative effect on the Kings. At the beginning of the nine-game winning streak, the team was still able to recognize itself, but now with the emergence of defeats, the sense of expansion caused by the psychological gap has made the team lose ......
After falling behind the Bucks, everyone thinks that the team is currently the first in the league, and they must be superior, as long as they play at a high level, they can solve a small role like the Bucks in minutes. As a result, the Kings had more and more irrational singles, with no tactics to speak of, and the team's mistakes began to increase, while the Bucks played steadily, taking advantage of the Kings' mistakes to constantly widen the score gap, and the mood of the Kings players gradually began to become irritable.
At one time Cousins and Drew. In Gooden's physical collision, Cousins got angry and pushed Gooden, and both of them were ejected from the game after receiving a second-degree malicious foul, and Cousins received a second-degree malicious foul for the second time this season!
In the end, the Kings were powerless to return to the sky and hated the home court, the Bucks scored 6 double-doubles in the game, Tyrek scored 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists while also having 8 turnovers, and the Kings shot only a pitiful 37% of the whole team......
The 14-1 loss in the first 15 games, and the current 3-game losing streak, not only the mentality of the Kings has created a huge gap, but also the fans. As the Kings lost the game at home, there was a flurry of boos in the Sleep Train arena, and the team's big boss Vivek watched from the sidelines. Ranadave couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the fans' reaction.
At this point, everyone seems to have forgotten that two years ago the Kings were only the second-to-last team in the West......