Chapter 150: Motor City Detroit, Meet Youth Idol (Happy Valentine's Day)
Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, USA, is located in the northeastern United States, and is an important port city, the world's traditional automobile center, and music capital. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoDetroit is also known as the Motor City because it is an automobile center, but the name Detroit is not related to cars, but is derived from the French word meaning "river of the straits".
Due to the direction of the development of the city of Detroit, most of the people who do the work are ordinary labor workers, so the city is also known as the "blue-collar city". This also makes the Detroit Pistons, the city's NBA team, more work-class, hard-working, brave, iron-blooded and hard-working.
As a Motor City team, the Pistons have won a total of three NBA championships and reached five Finals in history.
In two consecutive seasons, 1954-55 and 1955-56, the Pistons reached the Finals, but lost to the then Syracuse Nation and the Philadelphia Warriors.
In 1981, the Pistons drafted Indiana University guard Isaiah Thomas with the second pick in the first round, and under Thomas's leadership, the team swept the Lakers 4-0 in the 1989 NBA Finals to win the championship. In 1990, the Pistons successfully defended their title by defeating the Portland Trail Blazers 4-1 in the Finals.
In the 2003-04 season, under the command of coach Larry Brown, the Pistons reached the finals again with a civilian lineup of Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Tyxiaan Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Ben Wallace, and returned to the championship team with a 4-1 victory over Gary Payton, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, and Shaquille O'Neal. This trip to the finals also allowed everyone to see the unique worker spirit of the Pistons - teamwork, hard work, and iron blood!
But after '04, the Pistons, although they were also the giants of the Eastern Conference, never won the championship again. After the Auburn Hills Palace brawl and Ben Wallace's four-year, $60 million contract with the Chicago Bulls, the Predators began to fall apart.
But last season, in the 2009-10 season, Ben Wallace returned to the Pistons, and on August 10 of this year, the Pistons also reached an agreement with former NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady, who is a free agent in the transfer market, to join the Pistons on a one-year contract with a $1.35 million veteran base salary.
In the current Detroit Pistons team, the center position is naturally impossible to fall into the hands of others after the return of "Big Ben", and Greg Monroe, who was selected with the 7th pick in the first round of this season, is the first substitute for the center position. The Pistons hope that Monroe can quickly grow into an interior star with the help of Wallace.
At the power forward position, the Pistons are full of players such as Charlie Villanueva, Chris Wilcox, and Jason Markhill, who are about the same strength, so the coach of the Pistons, John Kuster, adheres to the principle of who is in good shape, and currently has a slight lead among the three is "No Eyebrow" Villanueva.
There is no doubt about the selection of small forwards, as long as the appearance must be the starter, the "little prince" Tayxiaan Prince unsurprisingly occupies the starting position. No matter what happens to the team, Prince's play will not be affected, and he still contributed 13.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 37% three-point shooting per game last season, plus he has played for the Pistons throughout his career, so Prince is now the most beloved favorite of the Pistons team.
In addition to Prince, the Pistons stuck in the doldrums with Richard Hamilton, another mid-range sharpshooter after Alan Houston, who averaged 18.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game last season, and remained a difficult starting point guard for others after returning from injury.
In the playmaking guard position, after Chauncey Billups left for Denver, Rodney Starkey finally stepped in, the 1.96-meter-tall two-way guard has a strong style of play, often putting on a brilliant performance of breaking through to the interior and dunking, but poor shooting and three-point shooting are his obvious shortcomings.
Overall, although Pistons fans are reluctant to admit it, the team is already on the road to rebuilding, and there is still a glimmer of hope that the team also has a former league superstar - Tracy McGrady, and fans who come to watch the game also expect to see Maddy's wonderful performance every game, such as 35.13 seconds or something.
Before the start of the game, the Basketball God mission system is refreshed.
Mission Name: Remembrance of Victory
Description: Win a match against the Pistons and score at least 10 points with the "Virtual Turn" skill.
Rewards: 3,000 XP, 1 ticket, Diamond +1: Block +2.
After reading this task, Yuan Shu understood that while winning, he needed to use this new skill to shoot at least 5 balls, which didn't seem to be too difficult.
On the evening of December 9, 2010, Yuan Shu's Cavaliers will take on the Pistons, who are currently ranked 11th in the East, at the famous Auburn Hills Palace Stadium in Detroit.
At noon on the same day, the NBA broke the news that the Houston Rockets held a press conference, at which it was officially confirmed that Yao Ming, who injured his ankle on November 11, suffered a stress fracture and was reimbursed for the season, and is currently being consulted by experts in Germany for surgery.
Although Yuan Shu had already experienced this news in the last time and space, and he had already prepared in this time and space, but when the news was officially announced, Yuan Shu still felt a sour heart, the MM combination of the year, Yao Ming will be reimbursed this season, and he will confirm his retirement next season, and Maddie is also approaching the end of his career, and he is full of emotion, not to mention, he has not had the opportunity to play against Yao Ming on the court yet, and he seems to have no chance in this life.
At 7 p.m., at the Auburn Hills Palace Arena, according to the pre-game starting list, Yuan Shu learned that Rodney Starkey sprained his ankle in training before this game and will be out for 4-6 days, so Maddie will replace Starkey and become the Pistons' starting point guard for this game.
Cavaliers starters: Vallejo, Yuan Shu, Moon, Parker, Williams.
Pistons starters: Wallace, Villanueva, Prince, Hamilton, McGrady.
When the familiar figure with the arm guard on his left arm was standing less than 2 meters away from him, Yuan Shu seemed to see his hot-blooded youth, the team boss standing next to Yao Ming, and the man who was even moved by God that day!
"Yuan, why are you crying?" Moon, who was standing on the side of Yuan Shu, asked with wide eyes.
"Whoever cried, the sand scraped into the eyes."
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