Chapter 274: Broken Jar Broken!
After the Knicks' 24-game winning streak, American bookmakers even offered odds, and the Knicks' 34-game winning streak was generally priced at 10 to 12 to 1. In addition, the bookmaker has adjusted the odds for the Knicks to win the title this season at odds ranging from 2.5 to 3 to 1.
"As a result of their winning streak, the Knicks got a lot of bets, pulling down the overall odds. Although their current odds to win the title have risen to 2.5 to 1, which is temporarily the first in the league, there are still many people betting on them," a bookmaker's general manager said in a statement.
The Knicks take on the Cavaliers on the road today in back-to-back games on the road, and they will be on their way to a 25-game winning streak.
It is said that only the newcomer laughs, but the old man does not cry. This summer, the Miami Heat became the hottest team in the league because of the Big Three; The Cleveland Cavaliers, by contrast, have lost a core player they can rely on for a decade, and their future has become bleak as a result.
Although the Cavaliers were outright losers this summer, for example, a large number of fans left the Cavaliers in China, but James was by no means a winner, and there was no winner in the summer of Cleveland.
First of all, since it is said that "fans are God", then James really shouldn't choose the way to hurt the hearts of fans when he leaves the Cavaliers. Originally, with the progress of the summer of 2010 and the Cavaliers failing to win the league as expected, Cleveland fans secretly wondered that the situation of the emperor's stay was not good. It's normal for them to have emotions about it, after all, after spending so much effort in the past few years to support the home team, it doesn't feel good to fall from the clouds to the ground. It's just that James is too high-profile, and he specially opened a show to announce his whereabouts, which has become a nightmare for many Cleveland people for more than an hour.
But as the saying goes, "a gentleman can't make a bad noise", originally the knight was a very sympathetic weakling, and if the boss Gilbert did not move, at least the moral high ground was on the side of the knight. However, the old club couldn't hold back his indignation, and wrote ****** accusing James of betraying his lord for glory, and telling others that the emperor had a negative game. That's good, the public was originally very sympathetic to the knights, but now it has become a public case with fifty boards each, and the knight boss's reaction this time is really too much.
Wu Huang felt that the knight boss should be lacking in heart, he didn't have to go into battle to scold James himself, there are countless people who lack virtue in this kind of thing are willing to work for him, for example, Wu Huang is very willing to participate, at this time, the knight boss just keeps crying to win sympathy, it's right, it's best to say two good words for James, and then recall the sweet past, when James will be attacked more fiercely!
And yet the naïve Gilbert said in the ******, "We're going to win the championship faster than 'him'"? The industry's reaction to this is to scoff, at this moment you can't help but believe that this is a league of the jungle, and you must admit that the gold standard for determining whether James and the Cavaliers are wise to separate is actually whether they will live well in the future, and who has the confidence to say "I will live happier without you".
A former sports journalist said that no matter how complicated the situation is, history will put everyone back in their rightest place. 5 years later, let's see if James is too close to success, and whether the Cavaliers' pattern can be enough to accommodate big stars, and the perspective we get will definitely be much clearer than now.
But at least this season, the Cavaliers have rotted into a pot of porridge, they have almost retained most of last season's roster, and there are some additional reinforcements, but the difference is that this Cavaliers team does not have James, so they suddenly fell from the first in the regular season league to the bottom of the East and the bottom of the league. Such a gap has made many of James' embraces more convinced of the little emperor's ability to lead the team, at least Kobe Bryant can't bring the original Lakers into the playoffs after breaking up with O'Neal, let alone the league's No. 1 record, which is also the most effective evidence that they think James is far stronger than Kobe, although who is strong and who is weak has nothing to do with them.
Wu Huangcai didn't bother to care which of the two was better, he felt that he was the strongest, and now he no longer has any idols, because he himself is the idol of many people, and he is qualified to compete with Kobe Bryant and James, who needed to look up to two years ago, for the title of the first person in the league.
Although the Knicks played back-to-back games, it was not much of a problem to defeat a team that was second to last in the league, even if they were still three points behind the Cavaliers after the first three quarters, but when Wu Huang turned on his own individual singles mode in the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers immediately couldn't resist.
Wu Huang could rely on his personal ability to kill the pinnacle of the Big Three in the last game, even if his state is not so good today, and his physical strength is a little not very abundant, but it doesn't take much physical strength to kill a team like the Knights, and his energy reserves are enough for him to complete a single kill.
Xiao Mo scored a high 28 points on the Cavaliers today, this is because Wu Huang did not spend too much energy on the defensive end, and in back-to-back games, he chose to give up defense and concentrate on offense, so in this game, Wu Huang gave Mo Williams the opportunity to attack him, but the final result was 41 points VS 28 points, Wu Huang's offensive firepower was a notch higher than Xiao Mo even in back-to-back games.
The final score was 107:99, and the Knicks didn't win much, but in terms of the ability to shoot key shots, the current New Yorkers obviously won too much against the Cavaliers, and in the key rounds, the Cavaliers didn't know how to play at all, because they had no backbone, no soul of the team.
Wu Huang scored a game-high 41 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, and Xiao Si had 20 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists.
Now the positions and roles of the two are completely distinguished, Wu Huang did not say "I am the boss of the team, you must listen to me" in this process, and D'Antoni did not say "Hugo is the core of the team, you must obey him", but after playing nearly 30 games, the question of who is more capable has been perfectly shown to everyone through games and data.
Many times, when Xiao Si can't lead the team to win on his own, Wu Huang can always do it. So who is the soul of the team, he is naturally the boss of this team, he is naturally the core of this team, in fact, these things don't need to be said at all, the performance on the field will tell everyone the answer.
Xiao Si completely extinguished the last bit of his mind to compete for the boss after the Heat, and began to rest assured as the second leader to assist Wu Huang, this process is much slower than the process of David Lee giving up the fight for the top last season, when Wu Huang only took less than ten games to convince David Lee, but this year it took almost three times more time to convince Xiao Si.
Look at the Heat's side, Wade and James have not yet decided the winner, James's free throw miss in the last game, although the whole Heat team hated Wu Huang so much, but it also made James himself very embarrassed, especially Wu Huang's spicy ridicule afterwards, which made James's reputation drop greatly in the league and the team.
Wade also has some slight remarks in his heart about James's missed free throws at critical moments, although Wu Huang's words are difficult to listen to and hate, but what he said may not be ignored, even if Wu Huang's actions are shameless, but in the end it is James who can't score, or he himself failed to grasp the opportunity to win, otherwise it will be Wu Huang who will be ridiculed afterwards, and in the final analysis, it is just a king and a loser.
James lost more than just one game in this game, and even his title of "Emperor" was unstable. Previously, Wu Huang's titles were "Emperor of New York" and "Holy Sect Master", and the second nickname was because the nickname at the beginning collided with James, so his fans thought of another title for him.
This is good intentions, but Emperor Wu doesn't want to give the nickname "Emperor" to others for nothing, even if he doesn't like this nickname himself, but he has to snatch it from James first, even if he loses it after getting it, but he can't let others get it, so he must defeat James head-on.
This time, he just made James's title of "Emperor" unstable, but if he wants to really take this title into his own hands, he needs more victories, 1, 2...... But a regular season win isn't enough, he also needs a playoff win...... and winning the championship earlier than James, this is the decisive bargaining chip!
The Knicks will get three days off after playing the Cavaliers on the 18th, and the next game is on the 22nd, against the Thunder, who are upstarts in the Western Conference this year and have a large number of high-quality young players.
The Oklahoma City Thunder won more than 50 games last season and caused big problems for the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs. Few people remember the dismal start of the 2008-09 season with a 3-27 record, and there were even voices doubting that they would have the worst record in history. ESPN commented on the Thunder's quick approach, and throughout the league, only the Knicks and Heat "know better how to complete the transformation into a strong team in the shortest possible time."
The Thunder's 2007 pick on Durant is self-evident, and he became the youngest scoring champion in league history last season - in a sense, Durant can't be described as a potential stock on a game level, he is a real superstar.
At present, Durant still wants to surpass Wu Huang in the scoring title, but now it seems that this hope is getting smaller and smaller. The first is that the Knicks' offensive firepower is too amazing, the New Yorkers can average 113.8 points per game this season, you must know that the crazy Suns, who were once good at shelling, can average 110 points per game even at their peak, but the Knicks have carried forward the power of the bombardment, they have created the NBA team's highest points per game in the 21st century, if they can maintain this data until the end of the season, they will become the team with the strongest offensive firepower in the 21st century.
Well, the reason why they are the most offensive firepower in the 21st century is because in the eighties and nineties there were a bunch of teams that averaged more than 115 points per game. The new millennium's defense and a series of new rules have limited the number of points a team can score in the NBA, and it is now difficult for any team to average more than 110 points per game, and the Knicks' points per game are already the highest since the 21st century.
Speaking of the Thunder, the problem that this team is facing now is not that there are not enough talented players, on the contrary, they have hoarded too much talent in some positions, and even to the point where they have to trade to slim down, because their interior defense has now become a shortcoming, the Thunder team has a high percentage of points under the basket this season, and many people point the finger at Jeff Green, thinking that the Thunder should trade this potential rookie who is not the top on the offensive end, but has a lot of shortcomings on the defensive end.
Green has been regarded as an excellent young power forward for the past three years, and as a "close comrade-in-arms" of superstar Kevin Durant, who joined the team in the same year, Green is also regarded by many as the league's first-line power forward - or at least has the potential to be a league's first-line power forward.
But it turns out to be an absolute overestimation of wishful thinking. What kind of player is Green? On the surface, he seems to be an all-around warrior similar to Durant - he can shoot three-pointers, break through, have good physical fitness, and have some defensive skills. But in fact, Green's strength is not only not all-round, but not even comprehensive.
From an offensive point of view, although Green averaged 15.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, he could actually only contribute 14.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per 36 minutes, which was only 6th in the Thunder team, less than James Harden and DJ White.
At the same time, Green is also very weak on the defensive end - not to mention the disadvantages of rebounding and blocking - ESPN expert John Hollinger put it bluntly: "Opponents will find that the easiest place to score against the Thunder is actually under the basket." Green's problem is that he is not tall or weight, and partnering with Durant at forward will make the wing very weak, so the Thunder must put Sephorosa, who has little offensive ability, in the starting lineup, and reduce Harden's playing time. Compared to Green, Ibaka is undoubtedly a better defensive player, and his offense is not much inferior - 12.5 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per 36 minutes, shooting 54.3% from the field. Although Ibaka doesn't have the ability to shoot three-pointers, the defensive ability he provides can allow the Thunder to free up more playing time for Harden, and the gap in three-point shooting ability can be completely filled.
The Knicks naturally plan to make some fuss from near the restricted area for this team with a lot of flaws on the inside, and Green is their first breakthrough, this young star with a bit of ability and talent is not a good match, and it really doesn't match the current lineup of the Thunder. If he is transferred to a team that lacks talent, or in the old army, he may be able to make more use of his strengths, such as the Green Shirts, who need such a sixth man role to fill the missing talent.
Wei Shao shouted before the game to make Wu Huang look good, during this time he was also the main force to criticize Wu Huang, as his fame grew, Wu Huang's reputation became worse and worse, especially many young generations looked at him very unpleasantly, even Durant did not have a good impression of Wu Huang, Westbrook and Harden did not hide their dislike for Wu Huang.
In this game, Wu Huang was targeted by all the players of the Thunder team on the court, and he could often be seen as many as three people entrapping and encircling him. However, this kind of defense can't stop the Knicks' tactical operation, and the Thunder's group of young people are more than aggressive, but they seem to be a little brave and unscrupulous, and they don't let the Knicks players and Wu Huang feel the defensive pressure against the Heat Big Three.
Wu Huang's feeling is the most obvious, if Wade and James's bag is fast and deadly, then Wei Shao, Durant, and Ibaka's bag on him is obviously a horseman's courage - their timing of the bag, the speed of returning to the defensive position, and the tacit understanding of the position are very flawed, and for an excellent point guard, these holes are good opportunities to assist teammates to score, so Wu Huang only scored 4 points in the first half, but he handed out 11 assists, and the Knicks also led 68-55.
The Thunder had a bit of a broken jar in the second half, and it looked like they were going to ruin Wu Huang's scoring streak and double-double record.
Wu Huang has never scored less than double digits in a game since he entered the NBA, and there was nothing at the beginning, but if he can continue this performance for two or three seasons, or longer, it would be terrible, and no one in history has ever done such a thing.
In fact, many media have long analyzed Wu Huang's record, and now this record has been exclusive to him, because no one has ever done this kind of thing before him, if he can extend this kind of record for three or five seasons, or more than ten seasons, then many experts can't judge the weight of this performance.
Therefore, the young players of the Thunder team really want to end Wu Huang's record, because they find that they want to beat the Knicks team who have been full of energy on the road, and there should be little hope, so they might as well choose a goal that can disgust Wu Huang himself to implement it with all their might, and hand over the task of ending the Knicks' winning streak to the team behind.
"They want me to score less than doubles!" Wu Huang has already seen the opponent's intentions after the first half, and it looks like his 26-game winning streak has arrived, but his own record may not be guaranteed, but if he is too entangled in his own score, it is easy for the team to lose.
This should be the Thunder's roundabout strategy, in their minds, if Wu Huang insists on scoring under the three-man defense, maybe he can end up scoring in double digits, but his scoring efficiency will be greatly reduced, and if he doesn't do well, the team will lose, and he will definitely be criticized by many media and fans for his selfishness after the game - this is a difficult two-choice question, which is made by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
"Neurotic, if you want to use this trick to make it difficult for me to ride a tiger, I think they don't know how to write dead words!" Wu Huang secretly despised the naïve idea of the Thunder team in his heart, although the three-person defense is not good to score directly, but it may not be easy to do things with more people, the disadvantage of this kind of defense is that it is easy to foul, as long as he gives full play to his ability to hold the ball, find an opportunity to seek physical contact with one of them, and do not believe that the referee will not give him a chance to make free throws. You know, he's a popular fried chicken now, isn't it easy to cheat a few free throws?
Soon after the start of the second half, Westbrook was found by Wu Huang, which was a European breakthrough, Wu Huang raised his hands and took the initiative to collide with Wei Shao for a foul, and after hitting both free throws, the score came easily to 6 points.
Let Wu Huang score 4 points and 6 points are completely different things, if the Thunder team still wants Wu Huang to score less than double digits, their next margin for error will be very small, and they can hardly give Wu Huang this kind of free throw opportunity, but this is not easy to say.
Five minutes later, Wu Huang repeated his old trick, this time Wei Shao was so frightened that he quickly dodged to the side, but he and Durant's bag suddenly leaked a flaw, and Wu Huang accelerated in the direction of Westbrook to break through, and easily completed a hand-stealing layup.
This goal brought Wu Huang's score to 8 points, and there was still a quarter and a half left in the game time, and it was almost impossible to limit his scoring at this time, Wu Huang only needed to score two more points to bring his score to double digits, and the Thunder team now didn't even have a chance to make a mistake.
After this goal was scored, the morale of the Thunder team dropped greatly, they were already 15 points behind in the score, and the task of limiting Wu Huang's score also failed, and neither of the two tasks was completed in the end, and they all lost!
Wu Huang took advantage of the low morale of the Thunder players, and hit a three-pointer with an elevator tactic less than half a minute later.
The Thunder team was finally defeated by the Knicks from the inside, Durant scored 31 points, Wei Shao scored 25 points, both of them scored higher than Wu Huang, but Xiao Si cut a game-high 34 points and 9 rebounds, Wu Huang got 14 points, 7 rebounds and 18 assists, today the Thunder was defeated by Wu Huang with a Nash data, and his style of play with the ball is also like the son of the wind, after the game, Knicks fans will Wu Huang with three Thunder players who chased and intercepted him as a "orangutan".
Of course, this taunt has nothing to do with James, as the Knicks' winning streak continues, and they have completed a 26-game winning streak after the win over the Thunder, just seven games away from the Lakers' 33-game winning streak.
The next game is the Christmas War, and it is very reluctant for Wu Huang to play on Christmas Day, although the Chinese do not value Christmas as much as the white people, but Wu Huang also wants to take this opportunity to go home and reunite with his parents. As his fame grows, and now there are fewer and fewer opportunities to meet his relatives, and he has the idea of bringing his parents to New York, but unfortunately his parents' careers are in Los Angeles, and the two have not reached retirement age, so they don't plan to retire so early.
This year, Wu Huang's parents couldn't get away from Los Angeles and couldn't come to New York to spend the holiday with him, so Wu Huang became a loner this year's Christmas. Don't look at the members of his harem, but the girls have to go home to reunite with their relatives at Christmas, little Hermione returned to the UK after watching him fight with the Heat, little Carrot, little singer and Christine have also returned to their hometown early, Chloe Moretz is pestering his parents in Los Angeles, and he will be alone in New York this year. (To be continued.) )