Chapter 256: Curry's rookie wall
Many teams in the NBA have their own culture. There is an old Chinese saying: "Those who are close to ink are black, and those who are close to Zhu are red", and the influence of team culture on a team is far-reaching. And the team culture that Li Zhi believes is often born because of one person, who is either a coach or a player.
The Rockets, which are most familiar to Chinese people, before Scola and Battier came, the whole team didn't know what fake falls were, but after these two players came, even the honest Hayes, Lloris, Martin, etc. interpreted fake falls to the top.
Barkley said, "If you play with the Rockets, you're probably going to have the urge to fight at any time." He said that the fight was not because it was dirty, but because it faked too many falls. Although Barkley is a famous fire black, what he said is still more reasonable, it's okay to fake a fall once or twice, and people who often fake a fall and get an offensive foul will be very angry, and it's normal to want to fight.
Just like last year's West Finals Jackson and Barnes played Kobe Bryant Jr., many fans were dirty with the Black Warriors, but in fact, it was not the Warriors team that was dirty, but a certain player, such as Jackson......
After Battier's transfer, the Rockets have a lot less fake falls than before, while the Heat basically everyone will fake falls, and they are more frequent. The funniest thing is that Wade himself went out of bounds in the game and pretended to be pushed out by the Pacers players with the ball, and because he did not graduate, the referee did not bird him.
The other is Junzi Lei, what is a "gentleman", this no one needs to explain. But after Ray Allen joined the Heat, he actually learned to elbow ...... The target of the elbow was Stevenson, but the latter dodged it.
In the later Warrior War, James angrily sprayed Green after the fifth game of the Finals, but if fans have the heart, look back at the period of the Heat Big Three, they will find ...... Norris Cole and Sean Battier are the originators of egg picking, and it's no wonder James is so sensitive to egg picking.
Of course, most of the team culture is good, such as James learning Ray Allen's free-throw posture, which is a subtle influence.
One of the teams that Li Zhi admires the most is the Spurs, and the culture of this team is a bit bullish, and it has been the same for more than ten years...... Sullen.
The Spurs were a relatively clean team before Bowen arrived, and Horry learned most of the legends of Big Dream, but after Bowen arrived, they changed. Horry is most famous for his masterpieces against Nash and West, and Bowen will not list them all, and the most important thing is that many of them are premeditated, for the two teams, it is a third-class horse PK to a first-class horse, the American NBA version of the field bogey horse race.
Many fans have never played on an orthodox team, so their understanding of the team's culture is limited to the positive, positive. But the communication between teammates of professional players is often ball skills, trash talk, and small actions. Otherwise, Jackson wouldn't be so popular with the Warriors. Now it's because Jackson taught a lot of people small movements, and many people admire him, and small actions are not seen by fans, which is also a kind of strength.
However, the team's culture cannot be achieved overnight, Li Zhi can only use his own actions to influence his teammates, the Lakers have Kobe, the Cavaliers have LeBron, the Celtics have Pierce, the Mavericks have Nowitzki, and when others mention the Warriors in the future, what comes to mind is Li Zhi.
The Warriors face Paul's Hornets at home. The Hornets are a team with no culture, and even though this team has an MVP-caliber player, Chris Paul, there is still no team culture. Paul is a quality player, but he is too well-rounded and too lacking in personality, which limits his impact on the team to a certain extent.
This season, the Hornets sent away Tyson Chandler in exchange for Okafor, but mainly relied on Paul and West. Originally, the Hornets introduced Marcus Thornton in the previous life, but now Thorton has been cut off by the Rockets, and the Hornets' swingman Butler last season has also left, and the swingman position is extremely weak.
Last season, it was not so easy for the Warriors to play the Hornets, and they were also anxious when they met the opponent, but this game was one-sided as soon as it came up. Yesterday, the Hornets also lost to the Lakers, and now they are playing the Warriors back-to-back, and the players don't have much stamina.
In order to consume the Hornets to the greatest extent, Nelson sent a "Death Five Defense" lineup at the beginning, Beverley, Jackson, Rich, Barnes, Jordan Jr., and the opponent started a war of attrition in the first quarter, and the Hornets' offense played extremely difficult.
On the offensive end, the Warriors were bombarded with a blistering pace, and Lee was misplaced to attack Paul. The Hornets were still able to consume with the Warriors in the first half, but Paul was too much in the second half and collapsed in the third quarter. In the end, the Warriors won the game 120-89 and won eight consecutive victories, and Li Zhi scored 33 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.
On November 13, the Warriors defeated the Thunder away. This season, Durant has improved significantly, ranking second in the scoring list after Rich, Westbrook has grown a lot on offense, and his cooperation with Durant has become more and more tacit. James Harden, the selected star this year, plugs and plays, perfectly playing the role of the sixth man, and the combination of the Thunder's three young people has begun to take shape, and now the Thunder is ranked fourth in the West with 9 wins and 4 losses, and Durant's wish to enter the playoffs is finally coming true.
However, the Thunder still can't beat the Warriors, their defense is too poor, center Kostic was abused by Jordan Jr., Ibaka is still a blue-collar jumping man, Jeff Green was forcibly promoted to the starting power forward, and he is not David Lee's opponent.
The Warriors hit the Thunder with a bombardment until the fourth quarter, and then maintained a death defense for a quarter, and the Thunder immediately couldn't stand up.
Jordan Jr. scored a career-high 26 points, and Li Zhi scored 29 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists. Under the defense of Li Zhi, Durant, who averaged 29 points per game, was defended with only 18 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. He wanted to attack when he saw Li Zhi, but he didn't play well, but after the game, Durant still shook hands with Li Zhi very cordially, and since he entered the league, he has never won against Li Zhi, and he is almost used to it.
Curry was sanctioned again, facing Wei Shao, lost the whole game, made 1 of 8 three-pointers, and got 6 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists.
Many experts analyzed that Curry encountered the rookie wall, his main means was shooting, and when he encountered a point guard with strong defense, the shooting efficiency was extremely poor, and some people suggested that Curry change his shooting posture. Fans sprayed him, saying that his shooting posture was like a sissy, and it was normal for him to shoot inefficiently.
Curry himself has doubts about himself, does he really need to change his shooting posture? Looking at the data, he seems to be really inferior to Beverley, who scored 12 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals in this game, and Harden was 4-of-15 from his defense and scored 10 points from the free throw line.
Li Zhi patted Curry on the shoulder on the sideline and gave him affirmation. "Cast it, don't be afraid!"
Curry nodded vigorously, he still had a long way to go.