Chapter 237: Battle Wizard
The emergence of Li Ming has brought back the quantile of the early decade of the 21st century.
A versatile arsenal of weapons plus all-round skills.
And so it is, more and more people are saying that the next Jordan of the Bulls has appeared...
Is Li Ming the next Jordan?
Many people say yes ...
Li Ming wanted to say no... He's who he is, not next, but now he's not qualified to say that, he needs to do something weighty, to do something that Jordan hasn't done.
Then he could say... I'm not Jordan, and I'm not next.
I'm Li Ming... Huaxia Li Ming.
Li Ming, who is no worse than any big old black.
This is what he will say sooner or later, even if he can't say it now!
"Huh!"
Another three-pointer, and after this three-pointer, the Wizards' hard-fought third-quarter deficit was stretched back to more than 10 points.
At this time ... There were 4 minutes left until the end of the game.
If there is no particularly morale-boosting performance.
Then this game, maybe that's it!
Li Ming was the number one contributor because he scored 15 points in a row and single-handedly destroyed the Wizards' defense.
In the end, there were no surprises.
The Bulls won!
They won the Wizards on the road.
In the post-game interview, it was inevitable that Li Ming defended Wall several times in the second half of the first quarter.
"It can be seen that these defenses are all about forcing Wall to pass the ball and break the offensive rhythm of the Wizards, and the final effect is obvious... Didn't know if this was Hoiberg's arrangement? However, there was no pause ... ”
Li Ming smiled: "You don't have to guess, it was indeed my own idea, and the facts have proved that my idea is not a problem, Wall and the Wizards have been affected!" ”
"We won!"
This game also caused heated discussions on the Internet, and everyone gave Li Ming a new nickname, Director Li, which echoed Director Long.
Everyone was waiting for the day when Li Ming grabbed the tactical board to design tactics.
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The regular season continues, and in the next game, the Bulls meet the Trail Blazers.
The Polish Trail Blazers joined the league in 1970 and are the league's out-and-out veteran teams, winning the first and only championship trophy in history in the 1976~1977 season.
Polant has many nicknames, such as "The City of Tears".
Their vet team is well-known and has a long history, not to mention the Trail Blazer at the time of the first championship trophy, and the core Bill Wharton fell quickly due to injury.
Not to mention later, Roy and Oden, needless to say, these two talents, but the final result... Mess.
Multiple injuries that led to the inability to cash in on the talent, and eventually... Regret retirement.
This is more or less due to the great work of these veterinarians.
In recent years, the Trail Blazers' veterinary skills have improved, and there are no longer cases of core injuries all the time.
And this situation has also made the Trail Blazers a playoff-level powerhouse.
The Bulls are away again this time, and the interest of the Polante fans is definitely no less than that of the Wizards fans, and they can even drive to the Seattle Key Arena to watch the Polant Trail Blazers game.
The degree of die-hard fandom of these die-hard fans can be seen.
The Bulls came to this away stadium and obviously had to be prepared to be booed.
The race is on soon!
Starting on both sides, the Bulls still have the same five: point guard Li Ming, scoring guard LaVine, small forward Poundexter, power forward Mirotic and center Lopez.
The Trail Blazers started with point guard Lillard, shooting guard CJ McCollum, small forward Evan Turner, power forward Aminu and center Nurkic.
Starting point guard Lillard, the league's top point guard and the star of the Trail Blazers, entered the Trail Blazers with the sixth pick in the first round in 2012.
It can be seen from the order that the Trail Blazers still attach great importance to him, and Lillard is also very competitive, and he has been a top point guard in the future since he entered the league.
First of all, without saying a word, he won the MVP of the summer league.
Later, in his debut in Game 1 of the regular season, he scored 23 points and 11 assists against former regular season MVP Nash.
This statistic also became another debut of Big O and Smiling Assassin Thomas, with 20 plus 10 stats.
From the moment Lillard's name entered the league, he was associated with the big names in history.
But in his rookie season, the madness was far from over, Curry's rookie season high three-point shooting of 166 was also broken by him, and Lillard made a total of 185 shots.
He also won the All-Star Skills Challenge.
He made a career-high seven three-pointers against the Warriors, showing his ability to hit the Warriors as soon as he hit them.
In the end, he was unanimously voted Rookie of the Year in 2012.
This is another historic record, becoming the fourth best rookie in history to be unanimously elected.
Lillard has left his mark in the league since his first season.
The shooting guard is DJ Mike Collum, compared to Lillard's attitude of being a future superstar when he entered the league, Mike Collum is much more ordinary, although he is also a high pick, the 10th pick in the first round of the 2013 season, but his rookie season only has 5.3 points and 1.7 rebounds.
Looks... There are some signs of parallel imports.
In the second season, the statistics were still very ordinary, with 6.8 points and 1.5 rebounds.
It's been this data for two consecutive seasons, and if it's an average team, it's estimated that it will be thrown away!
The Trail Blazers, who have been doing stupid things, are finally much wiser this time.
They still gave Mike Collum plenty of trust and playing time.
That trust paid off, and in his third season, Mike Collum had a career explosion, averaging 34.8 minutes per game, and he was able to cut down 20.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists.
Playing time has doubled, and his stats have more than tripled.
With that performance, he won the Most Improved Player of the Season award, which became the heart of the team the following season.
Like Maddie, and then like Tekglu.
And, of course, DJ Mike Collum.
The most intuitive performance is that after the end of this season, the Trail Blazers management took out a 4-year, 100 million contract to renew him early.
The small forward position is Evan Turner, which is a player with a lot of potential, and the big potential refers to his draft pick, the second pick in 10 years, and the first pick that year was against Wall in the last game of Li Ming.
And he almost snatched Wall's place.
The ability is visible.
It's just that... THE ABILITY ... Most of the references were to his abilities in college, and after entering the league, he was a little lost.