Chapter 166: New Signings Report

The day after the trade closes, the Hawks will take on Eastern Conference powerhouse Miami Heat on the road.

This forced the Hawks to practice offensive and defensive tactics with a few new signings who were traded, so they hurriedly prepared them to face the Heat.

At this time, the Heat is no longer the team that the Hawks faced in the preseason, and their center "Big Shark" Shaquille. O'Neal returned last month and has shown his hot form, averaging 23 points and 11 rebounds per game.

And the Hawks just traded the team's interior barrier - Pachuria, and the other interior lacks the tonnage to compete with the big sharks. Blunt was deployed as a starting centre-forward.

Including Mark. There is no problem with the physical strength of the three new signings, including Blounte, who did not continue to play for the Celtics yesterday, and the NBA trade stipulates that once the two teams complete the trade, the players involved will not be able to play for the original team, so the three of them can no longer play for the Celtics yesterday.

Therefore, they have not participated in the competition for four days, but the training has not been left behind, and the physical strength is naturally not a problem. But the problem is, they haven't practiced with the team yet, and they start directly as soon as they come to the Eagles, doesn't it seem a bit of child's play?

Woodson said that it doesn't matter, anyway, the Hawks are not a team that pays so much attention to discipline and technical and tactical cooperation like the Spurs and Pistons, as long as the players dare to play, dare to shoot, dare to rush, and have the awareness and athleticism to play fast, this is enough, and with Sun Yue combing the team's offense on the offensive end, Woodson is not worried about the team's offense at all.

So surely some people will ask, what about the defensive end?

Woodson also said that there is no hindrance, the Eagles' defense has always been based on single defense, and the number of joint defenses is very rare, and the players rely on individual defensive awareness to pack and assist each other.

Woodson's idea was good, but the outcome of the game clearly didn't go as smoothly as he expected.

The first problem was that Mark was playing as the starting center. Blunt simply couldn't contain the big shark, Mark. Although Blunt has a lot of experience, his style of play is soft, and he is a little afraid of physical confrontation, and he is completely inferior to O'Neal who is infinitely powerful, and can only watch the big sharks take what they want in the penalty area.

It's Al, who is also a new signing. Jefferson played brilliantly, with well-rounded offensive skills, and he took advantage of O'Neal's slow-moving weakness to finish with 15 points and seven rebounds on 6-of-8 shooting.

The Eagles' problem today is that they can't play a scoring climax, and no one has staged an outburst at a critical moment, including Sun Yue, who feels very average on the offensive end today, and the "glove" Gary in his thirties. Payton limited Sun Yue on the defensive end, using his rich defensive experience to allow Sun Yue to score only 13 points and 11 assists on 4-of-14 shooting.

Joe. Johnson had the same problem, he was completely suppressed by the physical "Flash" Wade on both offensive and defensive ends, only handing over 10 points and 5 rebounds, while Wade easily got 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists.

In fact, except for Sun Yue and Qiao. Johnson, the rest of the Hawks' players are playing well, Josh. Smith had 14 points and 9 rebounds, Childreis had 16 points and 4 rebounds, and Mark Smith had 16 points and 4 rebounds. Blunt 10 points and 4 rebounds, Tony. Allen had 8 points and 3 steals.

The Eagles players are in full bloom today, and they have a good performance on the defensive end, but no one in the team has scored 20, and the scoring champion of today's game is actually Childis, which makes them lose the biggest magic weapon in the past.

The Heat are different, O'Neal was a powerful man on the inside today, single-handedly slashing 33 points and 12 rebounds as a top star, and it was his explosion of 7 consecutive points in the fourth quarter that single-handedly brought down a team of the Hawks.

'Our new signings are just arriving, we haven't gotten used to it yet, we don't have enough chemistry between the players, we don't have a consistent scoring output, that's why we lost games. Woodson was straightforward about why the team lost the game.

Of course, this phenomenon is not uncommon at all, there are three more players at once, and they have never practiced with the team.

Fans and media are also very tolerant of the Hawks losing this game, the Heat team itself is strong, and the lineup is equipped to restrain the Hawks, the Heat team has one of the league's biggest sharks in the center position, and the Hawks center position is the weakest link.

And the strongest point of the Eagles is Sun Yue and Joe. Johnson is a backcourt pairing, while the Heat have defensive expert "Glove" Payton on the point guard, and the league supernova Wade, Sun Yue and Joe on the scoring guard. Johnson was restrained.

As for the contrast of the forward line, Childes and Josh. Smith meets Anthony. Walker and Haslem don't have much of an advantage either.

Coupled with the fact that the Hawks have just undergone a big trade and the players lack enough tacit understanding between them, Atlanta fans have no problem with the Hawks' loss to the Heat.

The media is divided in their opinions, with the mean-spirited Yahoo Sports pointing out that Mark Murphy. Blunt simply couldn't beat the starting center of an NBA-caliber team. Jefferson's stellar performance was short-lived, the Hawks made a loss-making trade, and the loss to the Heat was just the beginning.

ESPN disagreed, suggesting that Woodson let the younger, more energetic Al Anderson get a younger and more energetic Al Brown in response to the performance of the three new signings in the Hawks' first game. Jefferson plays as the starting center, and Jefferson's low-post singles skills and mid-range shooting ability will be a good complement to the Hawks. Blunt was even more likely to steal points during the rotation time as a microwave scorer on the bench.

As for defensive expert Tony. Allen, let him deal with top scorers like Kobe, Maddy, and Iverson is the best arrangement.

The local Atlanta media is still confident about the Hawks, and they are ready for the slogan "New signings in place, ready for the playoffs."

However, most people still look at the Aging Hawks, and the largest casino in Las Vegas has picked the odds of the Hawks to make the playoffs from 1:1.6 to 1:1.8.

After the Hawks finished playing the Heat, they could only rest for one day in Miami because the team faced a tough back-to-back schedule on the road. The opponents were the Orlando Magic first, and then the New Orleans Hornets, both of whom were not easy to deal with, and if one was not careful, a three-game losing streak would be in front of them.