Chapter 381: Elegance
In many people's images, most basketball players should be pure manual laborers with brute force and low IQ, who eat youth, earn enough money to spend a lifetime early, and then lie on the past credit book and wait for death.
This is indeed the current situation for most players in the NBA league in this time and space.
There has always been a kind of anti-intellectualism in North America, and many teams in the league also flaunt iron and tough guys, so in this environment, there are many pure muscle power players, who play the roughest basketball, and some even only dunk, shooting more than three meters away even if no one is defending.
So a lot of black players with amazing physical fitness are developing in this direction, because it seems easier to do "physical work" that doesn't require much mental effort than honing skills, and black players are also very good for muscle training, and they are inherently easier to build muscle than yellow and white people.
And muscle training is easier than more professional basketball skills training, and many blacks who love to show up on the street can use telephone poles and the like to put on a rather good "performance".
However, there are not no technical flow teams in the league, like the Dallas Mavericks last season, although they are the core of the twin towers, but these two interior stars are players with technical flow labels.
Although "Cuckold" Bout Cole was cheated on by his wife, he has to admit that this muscular guy also has very good basketball skills.
When he first entered the NBA, Bout Kerr was known for his strong defense, blocks and rebounds, but over the years, Bout Kerr has developed a footwork that surprises everyone and his longer and longer shooting range.
Many black muscular players simply don't have a good grip on their shots, which makes their mid-range shots and free-throw shots extremely inconsistent, let alone beyond the three-point line.
And what makes it amazing is that this guy not only has a muscular club, but also has a very inadequate mid-range shot, and last season, Bout Cole's range even reached beyond the three-point line.
Bout Kerr is already very good, and with John Larson, who also has range and good playmaking ability, it can be said that last season's Mavericks definitely played the league's top technical flow play at the time, and two interior twin towers that could go inside and out changed the whole team.
It was precisely because of the excellence that led to the eventual breakup of the Mavericks, and although John Larson's behavior was absolutely unethical, it is undeniable that there were definitely hints from the league's top brass that exposed the matter.
The Twin Towers have been torn apart, coupled with the team's internal management chaos and player departures, the Mavericks have completely lost the limelight of last season, and although Bout Kerr is still trying to support the team alone, he is still too small alone.
However, the Mavericks' style of play has not changed, and Bout Kerr seems to have had an epiphany after the ups and downs of his life, and he is now playing more and more elegantly.
Yes, it's elegance, imagine a big man who is two meters tall and weighs two hundred and sixty pounds with an extremely gorgeous foot movement to shake all three players caught by the runners, and then easily make a layup with a low hand, this kind of scene can only be described by the word elegance.
The Runners were challenged by the Dallas Mavericks on their return to Satra.
The Mavericks have now played 15 regular season games with a measly 5-10 record, which still keeps them from falling out of the top 10 in the West, but compared to last season's regular season 67-15 losses, the Mavericks are definitely in decline at this time.
But even so, the heart of the Mavericks, Bout Kerr, gave the young Runners a good glimpse of what it means to be the league's top interior lineman.
Calm mid-range shots, gorgeous footwork, wonderful dunks, and rare three-point shots.
Bout Cole's all-round performance stunned the Runners' players, imagine a big man who is 2.16 meters tall and shoots three points outside the three-point line, and he can actually carry a little back, how can the Runners' outside line be defended?
Salish even complained during the timeout that Bout Cole's shot with a back-up was a waste, after all, even Runners center Elvin Butler pressed closely, and Bout Cole didn't need any dodge to shoot.
But that's all the Mavericks have to offer, because with the exception of Bout Kerr, everyone else is basically not on the ball right now.
After the Mavericks won the championship last season, many veterans who aspired to the championship chose to take the basic salary to join the Mavericks to hug their thighs, but now it turned out to be good, but they did not hold the thighs, but became firefighters, which made some veterans of the Mavericks very unhappy, after all, if they really want to play, any team can find an opportunity, and why bother with money to come to the Mavericks to get a base salary, the most important thing is to win the championship, but now the Mavericks have no hope of winning the championship.
Under the fluctuation of people's hearts, the attitude of playing is also loose, and Bout Kerr has been lacking in prestige because of previous events, coupled with the confusion of the team's management, the Mavericks are basically coping with the general game.
So even though Bout Cole blew up all of the Runners' interior line by himself, it was still the home team Runners who were in the lead.
Back at home, the Runners players were feeling good as the pitching team of Turgun, Salehi and Stephen Chambers came together for the game today.
Salish hit four three-pointers in the first quarter and scored 18 points in the quarter to give the Runners an eight-point lead at 37-29.
In the first half of the second quarter, Stephen Chambers played just seven minutes and hit a staggering five three-pointers.
By halftime, the Runners had a 16-point lead over the Mavericks.
Entering the third quarter, Turgun dominated the entire game, although Bout Kerr scored 29 points alone in the third quarter, almost all of the Mavericks' points, but Turgun also broke out in the third quarter, he and Bout Kerr formed a pair, also cut a staggering 28 points in a single quarter, and also had 4 assists and two steals.
In the third quarter of the game, the Runners won the Mavericks by 14 points in a single quarter, plus 16 points in the first two quarters, and the Runners led the Mavericks by 30 points in the fourth quarter, and the entire fourth quarter was almost garbage time.
After the game, Bout Cole, who lost the game, praised the Runners for having some of the best young players and pitchers in the league, and that this player who had experienced a lot of right and wrong had become an "iconic" player in the league by this time, and although his reputation was not good, most teams still recognized Bout Cole's ability.