115-100, the Bobcats beat the Cavaliers at home. James clung to the score in the second half, and Gerard Wallace defended well, but James, who found his touch, was difficult to defend.

LeBron James had 33 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and 4 blocks. But Hayes' 19 points, 17 rebounds and seven assists made James' efforts come to naught. The Bobcats won the game by the Cavaliers' Larry Hughes, who was known as the steal king and made just 2 of 13 shots. Even though his play was terrible, the Cavaliers had to use him because they really didn't have anyone available at the guard position.

The Bobcats have a 17-1 record. At this time, people began to talk again about whether the Bobcats would break the Bulls' record of 72 wins. In addition to whether the Bobcats can break the record, there is also whether Hayes can become the new "God of Basketball"!

Some fans even suggested that Hayes was greater than Jordan back then. Jordan is also accompanied by Pippen and Rodman, who is next to Hayes?

Although the role players drafted by the Bobcats are all very potential, only Hayes knows the future of these people, and in the eyes of others, Hayes has achieved an extremely terrifying record with a motley army that does not know how to put together.

In the Bobcats' lineup, Gortat, Weaver, Barnes, Landry, Sessions and others are second-round rookies; Moon, Azubuuk, Calderon are non-draft NBA players; Kurt Thomas, Humphries are garbage contracts for eating idle meals; Bobcats' three original core players, Okafor, Wallace, and Felton, have limited ability, just look at the Bobcats' record last season.

The Bobcats' starting lineup is the shooting softboy Bagnani, the in-form Gerard Wallace, the Raptors' former backup guard Calderon, and the draft-losing Azubuike. How can you achieve the best record in the league like this?!

After analyzing the Bobcats' lineup and looking at Hayes's data, no one thinks he is brushing the data.

Hayes has done too many people's jobs. He is the first in the team in scoring, rebounding, and assists, ranking 11th in the scoring league, fourth in rebounds, and 5th in assists, only behind Chris Paul, Nash, Deron Williams, and Jason Kidd.

Hayes has also ranked first on the team in defensive efficiency this season. After he switched to playing inside, the strong interior lines he targeted were all data plummeting, and the scoring rebounds were in the single digits. On the Bobcats, Hayes was both Jordan and Rodman.

There are also quite a few people who think that the Bobcats can only play well in the regular season. Because their offense was sharp, their defense was terrible, and even with Van Gundy in charge, they didn't show effective defense in the regular season, giving up an average of 104 points per game. In the playoffs, can the Bobcats still attack like this? And the bobcat is more advantageous in the east. Although the Hawks and Magic in their region are relatively strong, they only play two games a season with the Western Spurs, Mavericks, Suns, and Timberwolves, and there are always too few strong teams in the East and lack competitiveness.

When interviewed by reporters, Barkley said: "I think the Bobcats have a perfect lineup right now, they play very sharply from the outside, and Chuck has a very secure rebound. The Bobcats' biggest enemy should be injuries, and as long as they keep their roster intact, they could win the championship this season. Don't compare them to the Suns, the Suns do play a run-and-gun tactic, but the positional offense is not strong enough, the Bobcats can play positional offense, Chuck, Gerard Wallace and even that Bagnani can attack with the ball, and there is Weaver on the bench who has practiced tricks, they have a clearer division of labor and are stronger than the Suns. ”

The Bobcats players were happy when they learned Barkley's assessment. Because basketball celebrities are optimistic that they can win the championship. However, Barkley's words are more like "crow's mouth", and when playing the Pistons on the road, the Bobcats were unlucky.

The Pistons' trade this summer was very unsuccessful, only signing a rookie who was not of much level Bailey Neri, the interior strength was further weakened, Chris Webber retired, McDies switched to the Timberwolves, and the current roster has begun to age, Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace are no longer as brave as they used to be, but their iron spirit is still there. As long as they breathe that way, they are not an easy team to deal with. The Pistons have a 10-8 record this season and are in sixth place in the East.

Rashid Wallace, a veteran defensive, used his unique trick "trash talk" in the opening game, and Bagnani was foaming at the mouth. Bagnani was aberrated in the first quarter, shooting 0-of-5.

With the addition of Biedlings, Rasheed Wallace has a more relaxed defense, as Biedlings does not have the ability to shoot from mid-to-long range.

"Andrea, don't be affected by his trash talk, Rashid is old now, and you are much stronger than him. Even if you break into the inside line, you can eat him hard. "D'Antoni encouraged Bagnani, but it didn't work, this champion was originally a fragile type, his mood affected his feelings, and he didn't work when he failed. For the rest of the game, he was sleepwalking all the time.

Billups' 18 points and five assists in the half broke Calderon, who had been playing well lately, and the hapless Calderon poked his finger in a groundball scramble. The nails flew, the blood flowed on the spot, and he didn't play in the second half.

At the beginning of the third quarter. Rasheed Wallace took the initiative to defend Hayes and began a "trash talk" attack in his ear. As a result, Hayes was not idle and kept talking to Wallace without the ball, not trash talk, just nagging.

"Rashid, what do you want to do? From a Buddhist point of view, if you talk trash all the time, you will definitely go to hell when you die. Don't look at me like that, I'm just stating a fact that I am not cursing you, you must not be angry, being angry will be a crime. Rashid, I'm doing this for your good, how many times have I told you not to talk nonsense, why did you start again...... You see I haven't finished talking about it and you're starting to attack me with my family again, even if I don't say that my family says Taylor, Van Gundy or something, it's not good, I don't care what you say, it's just that you curse others like this, and it seems that you are a special person who has no quality, quality, pay attention to your quality. Do you want to guard against me? Rashid, if you want to defend me, you can keep up, don't talk so much, how do I know if you want to defend and not talk to me? Are you trying to talk to me? Although you look at me with sincerity, how do you know you want it if you don't tell me? Do you really want to defend? Then you follow me! You don't really want to defend me, do you? Do you really want to? ……”

As a result, Rashid Wallace was almost nagged into a neurotic by Hayes in turn.

Hayes is the main attacker on the inside, and neither Mohammed nor Rashid Wallace can do anything about him.

The Pistons were blown up by Hayes inside, and he scored 36 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists in the game, but the Bobcats still lost to the Pistons 95-103, which was also a rare game for the Bobcats to score less than 100 points. The Bobcats, with the exception of Hayes, played out of style en masse. He shot just 31 percent from the field. That's the biggest problem for teams that rely on outside offense, and once they don't feel good, they're in trouble, and the Bobcats' players are obviously not comfortable with the Pistons' home basket.

Bagnani scored just eight points on 4-of-13 shooting from the field and 0-of-5 from three-point range, and he didn't make a single free throw. Played badly to the limit. Gerard Wallace also played erratically under Prince's defense, playing like crazy and scoring just 10 points.

If it's just a loss, the Bobcats don't care. Unfortunately, Calderón was examined after the game and found that the injury to his right ring finger was more serious than expected, injuring ligaments.

Calderon has two options, one is to continue playing with an injury, which Kobe Bryant has done, but it will be painful. Another option is to undergo finger ligament repair surgery, and then he will need more than six weeks to recover. The season has only just begun, and Calderón is not a good idea to play until the end of the season with an injury, and it is unknown how much he will be able to perform. With little to no consideration, Calderón decided to undergo surgery as soon as possible so that he could return early and make the playoffs.

Calderon's injury didn't matter, the Bobcats' point guard was the only one left, and the Bobcats quickly recalled second-round rookie Raymond Sessions from the Development League to "put out the fire".

On December 13, the Bobcats beat the Clippers 121-94.

The Clippers have had more serious injuries this season, and they have become a fish belly team. Elton "Captain" Brand ruptured his left Achilles tendon during a training session in August and underwent surgery on his injured left foot.

Although the injury of Achilles tendon rupture is more serious, it can be repaired by surgery, but the recovery period is longer. If the injury is mild, you can start training after 4-6 weeks, but a more serious Achilles tendon injury like Brand will take a longer time to recover, and it can take 3-6 months or even longer to fully recover and play on the court, and it is unlikely that the bounce will return to its previous state.

The Clippers are almost a single-handedly supported team by Brand, who averaged 20.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2.2 blocks per game last season. Livingston, the other starting point guard, is also injured. The Clippers were so tragic that they could only use 38-year-old veteran Cassel as the starting point guard.

Felton, who returned to the starting lineup, used his speed to frequently break through the Clippers defense. He finished with 28 points and 8 assists. Having lost Calderón, their lineup doesn't look too affected yet.

But even worse was to come, when at home against the Magic, Bagnani was tripped by Magic backup guard Bogans during a breakaway, injuring his left knee and being stretchered off the court.

Calderon was injured, and there was a good Felton who could top the injury, but as soon as Bagnani was injured, the Bobcats' outside firepower immediately weakened. After Biedrins came on, he couldn't get Howard off the line, and the rest of the game became very tough. The score was 104-115, and the Bobcats players hated at home.

After an MRI test after the game, the results showed that Bagnani had torn ligaments in his right knee, which required surgery in 6-10 days due to the severity of the condition, and after a comprehensive review of all aspects, Bobcats general manager Rod Higgins immediately announced that the team's newly traded champion Bagnani will miss the rest of the season.

The news came as a bolt from the blue for the Bobcats, as Bagnani was injured and the Bobcats reverted to the lack of offensive strength and outside pitchers at the beginning of the season. And it's worse than then, Okafor has been traded, and the Bobcats' interior defense has become even worse.

Hayes wished he had misheard, and he had already started to like the "parallel import" champion. Bagnani can't afford to hurt, he can't afford to hurt!

(To be continued)