Chapter 138: The Opening Battle

Several media outlets have released their predictions for the team's record for the new season, with TNT predicting a 23-59 record for the Bobcats, who are at the bottom of the league. After all, except for one rookie Wade, who is a starter in their opinion, the other Evans, Alston, Wallace and Dazhi are all players that no one wants.

Of course, it's not that no one wants it, and it won't be Hu Qingniu's turn to Taobao. And it is said that this 23-59 record was predicted by multiple experts, and Barkley, the fat man, gave a good score of 50-32 to pull it up, otherwise the situation would have been worse.

In response to his colleagues unanimously giving the Bobcats the lowest win, Barkley praised Hu Qingniu on live television.

"Doctor is a great coach, you'll never get to know that, and I'm adamant that his team won't be at the bottom. He has more magic in him than all the other coaches I know combined. ”

Kenny Smith saw that Barkley had fallen off and seemed to have the script in place.

"Sir Charles, how about we make a bet. Bet on whether the Doctor can get 41 wins, and whether the Bobcats can win more than half of the season. If the Doctor's magic had earned him 41 wins, then I, Kenny Smith, would be willing to kiss Sir Charles' ass. If not, then you have to do the same. ”

Barkley scratched his head, realizing that things were not so simple, why did it always feel familiar. In this life, because Hu Qingniu pulled him back, Barkley avoided the embarrassment of losing the donkey's butt in a bet. But now, God seemed to come full circle and remembered that Barkley hadn't kissed the donkey's ass yet.

Seeing that the director on the other side kept nodding and winking at him, Barkley could only endure the grievances and agreed to the gamble, and for the sake of the show, Barkley let it go. In fact, Barkley doesn't think Hu Qingniu can get such a win as 50 wins, he predicts 50 wins just to raise the evaluation of wins. People like Kenny Smith have given 12 or 13 wins, and some experts have only given single digits, and there are no more than 15 wins anyway.

But if it's 41 wins, Barkley feels that there is still a 2 or 30% hope, at least not necessarily a dead end, if the prediction is really correct, it is that he Sir Charles NB is a big deal.

TNT's 23-59 prediction has already made Hu Qingniu angry, and the next CBS and ESPN predictions have simply made Hu Qingniu angry, 13-69 and 11-71 respectively.

The difference is that ESPN, which has always been a pioneer in the basketball review industry, did not count the number of wins by manual voting this time, but modeled the wins of each player through a mathematical model, and yes, the Bobcats' lineup is worse than people judge in the face of science.

The Bobcats' low prediction of wins should have been a trivial matter, but it has been widely discussed because of the bet he personally promised on Barkley's live TV. Even not only the topic of the Bobcats' victory, but also Hu Qingniu.

People argue, what kind of coach is Hu Qingniu?

Looking at the resume, Hu Qingniu has only been an assistant coach for most of the season, and although the Wizards actually won the championship under his command, there are still many fans who don't buy it.

Some fans think that Hu Qingniu is just a doctor, and the reason for winning the championship is only that Jordan, Barkley and other old masters played well, and at this time, a grandmother with O'Neal in the coach's seat can also win the championship.

Of course, this argument has won the approval of a large number of fans, and it is also the biggest argument for people to doubt Hu Qingniu's coaching strength.

This part of the fans also believes that Hu Qingniu, who has now left the Wizards, will inevitably show his feet, and people will recognize the fact that he is just a team doctor. Losing back-to-back games would also cost him his job.

There is also a kind of fans who call themselves "sensible", they are actually and mud, although they are not as extreme as the objections, but they also think that Hu Qingniu's real coaching level is not high, roughly equivalent to the level of the league's 15-20 coaches, but it is undeniable that Hu Qingniu's medical skills are strong, which is very helpful for the players.

They also think that the Bobcats will be at the bottom of the league in the new season, because the quality of the players is also very poor, except for Wade. But they think that Hu Qingniu will not be fired, according to their observation, Jordan and Hu Qingniu have a good relationship, no matter how bad Hu Qingniu's record is, he will be coached until the end of the season, after all, the Bobcats have no record pursuit. This is actually one black and three black.

Of course, there are also very brainless fans of Hu Qingniu, but they are all drowned in the voice of "reason".

Reason is originally a compliment, but if someone takes the opinion of the mean as reason, and regards himself as the only smart person in the world, it is a big mistake, smart people will never be with the mud, Hu Qingniu's coaching level is good, not good is not good.

But whether it works or not, it is not a sentence or two of fan arguments that can come out, the opening game is about to start, Hu Qingniu as the team's head coach in the first game, although there is no nervous feeling, but last season's best coach was awarded to Doug, Hu Qingniu thought that next time he must take one himself. And now this season, he's fighting for himself in every win.

The Bobcats' opener game is set at the Charlotte City Coliseum, and the opponent is the defending champion Washington Wizards who Hu Qingniu has not seen for a long time.

Just because the Wizards didn't keep him at the end of the season, he has no feelings for the entire Wizards management, and of course he has to kick their ass well this time.

But before the game, Old Man Doug still praised Hu Qingniu's performance with the Wizards last season and thanked him for helping the team win the championship. But then the conversation changed, and Old Man Doug said that Hu Qingniu's tactics he had already studied thoroughly, and the current Wizards team was as strong as the Wizards team last season, and the Wizards team was determined to defend the title in the new season.

Hu Qingniu doesn't have so much nonsense, in a word, see the truth under his hands.

The current Wizards' championship champion team 5 veterans have all retired, but the remaining players Penny and Hill are in their prime, and may be slightly inferior to Jordan, but now that Jordan has retired, there are almost no outsiders in the league who dare to say that they are better than them.

Kwame Brown has also become a reliable starting center through a season of grinding, and he is physically strong, and he is a top 10 player in the preseason. But after leaving Hu Qingniu and Ewing, Kwame's low-post progress has stagnated, and now he is still going to the path of Jordan Jr., protecting the frame, rebounding, cutting into dunks, and nothing else.

Jeffries was the first young player to be changed by Hu Qingniu, who should have been a qualified NBA rotation player in the future, retiring with honor after 10 years in the NBA. But now Jeffries can 3 and 4, in the small forward position, he is taller than others, and his shooting is accurate, and in the power forward position, he is faster than others and has a strong sense of cutting. Jeffries' current strength is already a qualified NBA starter, and the physique that has been strengthened by Hu Qingniu still has potential to be tapped.

The Wizards started the new season two days ago, and not only did they pick up their championship rings in that game, but they also defeated last season's Eastern Conference Finals opponents, the New Jersey Nets, 112-90.