Chapter 596: I definitely don't accept a losing streak
Osborne knew that the current Pistons team was in a period of decline, but he didn't expect the Pistons players to decline so quickly, and it was in such an important period that a team aiming for three consecutive championships must change its lineup from time to time, if the lineup has not changed, the players of this Pistons team have tended to age, and it is very likely that people will find flaws. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This game not only aggravated Osborne's worries, but Pistons head coach Larry Brown was also a little dissatisfied with the current situation of the team, such a team does not look like a team that can win three consecutive championships, it is very embarrassing to be beaten by a single-core team, and it is not in line with the Pistons' consistent defensive tradition, "It seems that it is imperative for the Pistons to trade players, and if they don't trade, the Pistons' broken car is likely to overturn because of the aging of parts, but who can the Pistons trade?" Others don't have much trade value, Osborne, the absolute core of the Pistons can't move, Chauncey Billups Pistons' brain, can't move, Ben Wallace Pistons' interior core, can't move, only Richard Hamilton, Tysha Ann Prince and Rasheed Wallace can move, but it's a pity that the Pistons team he finally formed started the five. ”
Just when Larry Brown was thinking about it off the court, the game on the court was still very close, Osborne just scored a difficult two-point shot, LeBron James also immediately responded with a two-point shot, to say why Osborne didn't shoot a three-point shot, because he didn't have a chance to shoot a three-point shot at all, LeBron James sometimes helps to defend Osborn in person, which makes Osborne very uncomfortable, he doesn't want to break through or shoot, there is a guy secretly ambushed on the side.
In fact, several of LeBron James' chasing hats are done through co-defense, such as blocking Derrick Rose's layups, and several times someone in front of him blocked Derrick Rose's breakthrough layup, and LeBron James chased after him wildly, and in the end, Derrick Rose was always chased by LeBron Rolls.
So Osborne is also playing more carefully now, because he doesn't want to be blocked, so there is a very funny scene on the court, every time Osborne shoots, he will subconsciously look around to see if there is LeBron James, a hat-chasing maniac around him, ambushing him, if there are any, he would rather not shoot, because of such scruples, Osborne's shooting percentage has dropped a lot, resulting in many missed shots.
And the Cavaliers don't have such concerns, they don't worry about whether they will be blocked at all, they have a chance to rush inside, anyway, they still have a second chance to attack if they don't get in.
And LeBron James broke through with the ball, and Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace stood up early to block LeBron James's breakthrough route, but this kind of defense did not stump James, because he also has passing skills, Ilgoskas, as the starting center of the Cavaliers, receives the most passes from LeBron James, because he is much taller than Ben Wallace, so LeBron James and his cooperation are also very tacit.
LeBron James relied on his personal strength to play and passed several wonderful passes to Ilgoskas, raising the score to 78:71 in one fell swoop, leading the Pistons by 7 points, which is a nearly ten-digit gap for the Pistons, which is simply unacceptable and unimaginable before.
Originally, in the second quarter of the game, the Pistons were still able to take the lead, but since the start of the third quarter, the Pistons players seem to have collectively fallen into a period of fatigue, everyone's state is not very stable, and the offensive success rate has dropped a lot.
In the third quarter of the game, the Pistons were in a very bad situation, and in these twelve minutes, the other players of the Pistons team fell into an embarrassing situation of scoring drought many times, if it wasn't for Osborne supporting the Pistons, maybe the Pistons would have collapsed.
LeBron James continued his supernatural state in the second quarter of the game, fortunately Osborne also felt back, and the two played the game into a two-person match, but it was also at this time that the Pistons fell into a precarious situation, thanks to Osborne's three-point shooting also began to supergod, the Cavaliers did not pull the score too big, and when the third quarter of the game ended, the Pistons actually trailed the Cavaliers by 11 points at 78:89.
Seeing such a humiliating score, the Pistons players are really a little guilty, they have been the top team in the league for a long time, but since they were broken by the Heat, their competitive state has declined significantly, and this state makes them unable to score unscrupulously anymore, and there is no way to defend as tightly as before, as if from that moment on, the Pistons have become a team that has fallen off the altar.
Osborne was very dissatisfied when he saw that the Pistons played like this in the third quarter of the game, how could he not have thought that the Pistons, who had both offense and defense in the past, would suddenly become a team that could not attack and defend?
The Pistons' rest area was silent, and all the Pistons players were basically bruised and didn't know what to think there.
Larry Brown didn't say anything, and just like the game was about to start in the final quarter, the Pistons were still silent, as if the game had nothing to do with them.
At this time, Osborne stood up directly and said: "Everyone cheer up, we just lost an ordinary regular season, but you are acting like we lost the finals, if you can't even accept such a small setback, then we just give up the game, to be honest, we have wasted a lot of time in this game, we should have ended the battle in three quarters, but we played three quarters of the game and were still behind, I really can't accept this kind of Pistons team, if you don't want to lose in a row, just cheer up, leave the last quarter of the game to me, you just take care of the defense. ”
After Osborne finished speaking, he turned around and went on the court, the Pistons players didn't react much when they heard Osborne's words, they just silently followed Osborne on the court, the Pistons lineup did not change much, and the Cavaliers did not change much, it seems that LeBron James also wants to end the game in the last quarter.
Osborne walked up to LeBron James after coming on the court this time and said very deeply: "LeBron, I must win this game, because I will never accept a losing streak." ”
After finishing speaking, he didn't pay attention to LeBron James's expression, and turned around directly to signal that his teammates could start, Rasheed Wallace handed the basketball to Chaunci Billups, and Chaunci Billups handed the basketball to Osborne, and they all knew that Osborne was definitely angry this time.