Chapter 266: Detroit Pistons
The regular season continues, and this time the Bulls are on the road, but fortunately they face another team this season, the Detroit Pistons.
It was the first time they had faced the Detroit Pistons this season.
The Detroit Pistons, once a veteran powerhouse in the league, joined in 1948 and have been a part of history ever since.
This team has always had the title of superstar killer!
For example, Michael Jordan, the basketball god of the Bulls, took seven years to get the first championship ring of his career, and a large part of the reason was because of the existence of the Detroit Pistons!
At that time, the Bad Boys were Jordan's biggest sufferers, and Jordan and the Bulls hated Jordan and the Bulls in the playoffs, and it was from that time that the Detroit Pistons' style of play and team spirit was defense.
Even if it is the later civilian Five Tigers, they are more and stronger, and the place where they are stronger is defense!
Start on defense, start on defense!
So the label of this team is defense.
It was only after the Pistons' management traded the Commoners that the team fell into a rebuilding process, which seems to be very difficult and slow at the moment, because they have not yet found the right core and a completely clear direction to build the team.
There has been no significant improvement in the results.
However, the Detroit Pistons' past records and honors also gave them a group of die-hard fans early.
So even if the record in recent years is not very good, the home court of the Detroit Pistons is still full, all of them are fans who come to cheer for the Pistons, and it is difficult for these fans, knowing that the results are not very good, but they still have to maintain hope for the team!
This is probably the most self-deceptive self-deception, right?!
After the warm-up on both sides, the Bulls started point guard Li Ming, scoring guard LaVine, small forward Poundexter, power forward Mirotic and center Lopez.
On the other side, the Pistons are composed of point guard Smith, scoring guard Reggie Jackson, small forward Harris, power forward Griffin, and center Drummond.
Point guard Smith, whose full name is Eis, entered Wake Forest University in 2006.
He played in college for four years, playing in 121 games for Wake Forest, including 92 starts, averaging 92 points, 37 rebounds and 51 assists in 302 minutes per game.
He was named to the Atlantic Coast League's All-NBA Second Team for the 200910 season.
At the same time, Eissmith is the first player in the history of Wake Forest University to score more than 1,000 points and assist more than 600 times, with a total of 612 assists, ranking second in school history, playing 3,667 minutes, ranking sixth in school history, 153 steals, ranking eighth in school history, ranking 36th with a total score of 1,114 points, and in general, he has lived a very fulfilling life in college in the past four years, but unfortunately, he was also considered by experts to have exhausted his potential, and he was not even worth a second-round pick, and finally failed.
However, Smith did not give up on his basketball dreams after the loss, and he played for the Houston Rockets in the Summer League, starting five games, averaging 238 minutes per game, averaging 78 points and 48 assists.
Among them, in the game between the Rockets and the Denver Nuggets, Eissmith shot 7 of 8 and scored 15 points and 6 assists in a single game.
With this performance, he finally got a two-year contract, and then although he became a ranger in the league, he changed 10 teams in 7 years, but finally stabilized in 2016, and signed a 3-year contract of 18 million with the Pistons, which can be regarded as a counterattack!
The starting point guard was Reggie Jackson, who was drafted by the Thunder with the 24th pick in the first round in 2011.
Reggie Jackson is an instant player who played for three seasons, and 200809 season, Reggie Jackson averaged 76 points, 35 rebounds and 16 assists per game. 2
In the 00910 season, Reggie Jackson's averages surged to 125 points, 49 rebounds and 46 assists per game.
201011 season, Reggie Jackson averaged 182 points per game to become the team's leading scorer, and he was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference First Team of the Year that same year.
Reggie Jackson became famous with the Thunder and was known as "the poor man's version of Westbrook!" ”
Although it's just a poor man's version, this is also a superstar in the end!
Besides, no matter how poor we are, how poor can we be?
As a result, Reggie Jackson swelled and was eventually traded, and of course, it was because of being traded out that Reggie Jackson ushered in the peak of his career.
In his first season with the Pistons, he caused a sensation with an average of 176 points, 92 assists and 46 rebounds per game, and fans mocked the Thunder management for letting go of the stars on a daily basis.
Also at the end of this season, the Pistons signed a big contract with Reggie Jackson, 80 million for 5 years!
What a pity! After taking this contract, Reggie Jackson lost himself entirely, and there was no season that played better than his first season with the Pistons.
If so, it may have to wait until another year of his contract!
The Pistons' small forward is Harris, whose full name is Tobias Harris, who was the 19th rookie in the first round in 2011.
In 2010, Tobias Harris entered the University of Tennessee to represent the University of Tennessee in college basketball. In 201011, Tobias Harris averaged 15 points and 7 rebounds per game and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team of the Year No. 2 Team, Southeastern Conference All-NBA All-Star Team No. 2, and Southeastern Conference Rookie of the Year All-NBA Team.
is a very talented player.
Also at the end of this season, Harris announced that he would participate in the draft.
Harris started his career with the Bucks, and after completing his rookie contract, he was traded to the Magic, and similarly, he exploded in his first season with the Magic, averaging 193 points and 85 rebounds per game.
Unfortunately, he did the same trick as Reggie Jackson in the following seasons.
Fortunately, he was transferred to the Pistons after four seasons, and his state has improved a lot, and even this season he has played better than before, averaging 18,1 points and 51 rebounds per game.
So that's it! The bad team is good to score!
This performance made his four-year, 64 million contract worth it.
Power forward Griffin, the league's top superstar, but he's also a bit of a self-defeating one... actually provoked the Kardashian family, the glass man who was already becoming more and more of a glass man, was injured at every turn, and the season was reimbursed, which also made the Clippers lose patience!
Less than a season after sending Paul away, he was also sent away!
The only difference is that Paul can't keep it, and he doesn't want to keep it.