Chapter 396: Sinking Team

"Whew!" A figure, inserted into the inner line at a very fast speed, directly dodged the defense of a person wearing a white sè jersey next to him, jumped high, and when the opponent did not react, he directly held the ball in one hand, and slammed the basketball into the basket, with a huge impact, so that this person pulled the basketball and swayed back and forth.

"Oh...... Oh...... River! Ocean! On the sideline commentary bench, Kenny Smith couldn't help but exclaim.

"The current Jiang Yang is really too powerful, I really don't know, who can stop him?" Looking at Jiang Yang who came down from the basket in front of him, Kenny Smith couldn't help but smile and said that now he is a fan of Jiang Yang.

"Although I'm sure there must be someone in this world who can stop Jiang Yang, but the current piston doesn't seem to have such a person!" Charles Buckley, who was next to him, heard Kenny Smith's words and couldn't help but say sourly.

"I think I was flying around like this in Phoenix......" Speaking of this, Charles Buckley's face showed a look of nostalgia, this 'flying pig' didn't give Jordan a lot of trouble, and he almost won the championship.

"Okay Charles, just don't sensationalize there, don't you know it's disgusting? Ha ha! "At this time, Kenny Smith is not going to let Charles Buckley continue to incite, otherwise this guy will have to say what happened to him in the first place.

"Now the game we are watching is Jiang Yang's game, beautiful! Jiang Yang blocked Greg Monroe's layup again, the Raptors broke fast, Jiang Yang made a long pass, and handed it to DeMar DeRozan, DeMar DeRozan rushed across the three-point line, and stepped inside the free throw line, DeRozan jumped up, big windmill, DeRozan jumped up and played a big windmill in the free throw line, and dunked the basketball into the basket! Oooh...... It's so beautiful! Looking at the situation on the field, Kenny Smith on this side couldn't help but exclaim.

"It seems that he sprinkled his resentment about not winning the championship in the dunk contest into the regular season, haha!" Looking at the ball, Charles Barkley couldn't help but laugh, in fact, DeRozan didn't make it to the final, which was a bit disappointing.

But who told the Griffin to occupy the geographical advantage, and it was cultivated by the alliance? So DeRozan, the stepmother, gave birth to it, and can only go to the back row! A glance at the current score on the court is 102-87...... There were six seconds left in the third quarter.

The Pistons have become another great ghost under the Raptors! There is still a quarter to go, catch up with fifteen points, this is easy to talk about!

"Jiang Yang is still on the court, and the Raptors can celebrate the victory in advance!" With the end of the third quarter of the game, Charles Buckley couldn't help but say helplessly, watching the Raptors game, it was so enjoyable and decaying, but the opponent's ball mi didn't think so! The Raptors are no longer the Raptors they used to be, and the Pistons are no longer the Pistons they used to be.

If the Spurs were the most successful team in the first decade of the 21st century, the Pistons were the second most successful team, because they couldn't help but take out the Lakers' four kings and successfully sent the Lakers into the abyss.

The Pistons have been a very famous and powerful team since a long time ago, and the bad boy army that stopped Jordan and won the championship for two years can be said to be famous all over the world, and then under the coaching of Larry Brown, they rewon the NB championship in 04, with the name of the second bad boy army, and in the next few years, they entered the Eastern Conference finals every year.

Almost before the start of the season, they had booked a spot in the Eastern Conference Finals, but since Sanders took over, he drove out Big Ben, and then began to reform the team, and the original defensive team was turned into an offensive team by him, and it turned out that the Pistons are not suitable for offense! So when they were in 07, they were defeated by the Cavaliers led by James in the Eastern Conference Finals, although they won the league's first regular season result that season, but this result did not let them stand on the stage of the Finals! In the end, the Pistons lost in the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Pistons began to decline.

And the decadence is very fast! From 07, the team that still had championship hopes, in 08, fell directly to the eighth place in the East, and still barely squeezed into the playoffs, and then in 09, it didn't even enter the playoffs......

In 10 years, their core, Rasheed Wallace, was traded to the Celtics, and the Pistons officially started their rebuilding journey, and the team's poor results are one thing, and the city's ball market is not good, it's the other side!

Since the beginning of the financial tsunami in 08, Detroit, the motor city where the Pistons are located, is considered to be the most severely affected city, with a large number of auto factories closed, leading to the employment rate of the entire Detroit, which has been declining.

And those who have been swept out of the factory have to immigrate to other states and counties to find jobs if they want to get jobs.

It turns out that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and even if the Americans run away again and have no jobs, their social security groups give them the services they deserve, but the whole of Detroit is miserable...... In the past, the bustling Detroit train station was like a ghost town at this time, and when you pass by here, you will wonder if you will suddenly encounter some monsters such as zombie dogs......

The ball market is not good, the team's results are not good, such a double pressure is on the shoulders of the Pistons owner, I heard that the owner of the Pistons team recently intends to sell the Pistons, and the owners of the other two sports teams in Detroit want to keep him in Detroit, listen to the media, they have been discussing the buyout with the owner of the Pistons recently!

Another point is that the Pistons' arena is too biased...... Other teams' stadiums are built in the city center.

That's okay, because here, there's a lot of traffic, and when it's a game, even if the tickets don't sell, you can reduce the price, and there will always be some people who are interested in this thing and then go in to see it, but the Pistons' home stadium is near Auburn Hills......

In the big suburbs, it's an hour by car! If Detroit's economy is okay now, their team is still relatively strong.

It's still possible to drive there every few days, but now these people can't even eat, and the team is still playing so badly, no one wants to go to this crime...... Just look at the home attendance......

After Rasheed Wallace announced his retirement this summer, the Pistons took their former big center out of the way.

Ben Wallace was invited back to the team, although Big Ben has always wanted to retire, but for the sake of the team's top management, it has not been implemented! This year's starters on both sides are as follows, center Ben Wallace, who looks old......

The power forward is rookie Greg Monroe, this guy is not bad, but it is still difficult to take on the heavy responsibility.

Small forward Tyxia Ann Prince, who was once called the Little Prince, has now become one of the two sharp knives in the team, and the other sharp knife is Richard Hamilton, who is still known as the No. 33 run, this guy's mid-range shot is still the same sharp! Point guard, who was supposed to be the centerpiece of the team's future, Rodney Starkey.

But now this Starky's level is really ...... It's bad enough, so Maddie, who was selected as a veteran with a base salary, was replaced.

I have to say that even if Maddie is bad, his level is still there, his height, dribbling, and shooting are all good!

In the Pistons, he also staged some 20+5+5 performances from time to time, of course, if he can maintain such a result, he may be able to rejuvenate the second spring of his career, but this guy's injury makes his ups and downs particularly big.

And I was very unlucky to run into Jiang Yang today...... The Raptors basically didn't defend much today, but Jiang Yang's defensive strength was not ordinarily strong! So even if he didn't defend much, it wasn't something Maddie could eat.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the difference between the two sides slowly stretched from 15 points to 20 points, and the Pistons officially had no chance, and the Raptors replaced all the main players, allowing Barbossa to take the benches to score points on the court.

It turns out that Barbosa is now brushing points, and brushing is very comfortable! A 'squeak' rang for a piercing bell.

The game between the Raptors and the Pistons officially ended, and the Raptors finally won the Pistons 113-100.

Jiang Yang still maintained his style of stringing teams, and once again only scored more than 20 points, with a total of 7 of 11 shots in the game, scored 24 points, plus 10 rebounds, 17 assists, 4 blocks, and 2 steals, and only played for a few minutes in the fourth quarter, and the rest of the time was given to the benches, Jerry Bayless, who has been very happy recently!

In addition to Jiang Yang, the Raptors also had five players score double-doubles, Andrea Banyani scored 20 points, DeMar DeRozan scored 16 points, and Mark Gasol scored 10 points, but the rebounds were relatively few, only 6, Andrei Kirilenko also scored 10 points, and the performance was quite good, the starting five all scored double-doubles, and on the bench, Leandro Barbosa scored 15 points, and now he is playing better and better, Leandro Barbosa is known as This year, the Raptors have the most successful recruitment, as for Jiang Yang...... That can't be described as a success anymore.

The rest of the players also scored in their accounts, and their performances were quite outstanding! As for the Pistons, three of them scored more than 20, and the rest of the players didn't even score double-doubles, Richard Hamilton got the whole team, which was also a game-high 24 points, the same as Jiang Yang! TayXia Prince scored 22 points, Greg Monroe had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and the Raptors are on the inside, mainly defensively, but you can't expect a team to be perfect, not even the Raptors.

After the Pistons were eliminated, the Raptors returned to Toronto the next day for their penultimate home game of the month.

After playing this home court, the Raptors will not play at home again until March 30th, when they were against the Heroes, and now they are against the Wizards! It's also interesting to count the Wizards, has the Wizards ever been brilliant? It was also brilliant, of course, not when the Wizards were still called the Bullets, at that time they won their first and only championship, and after changing their name to the Wizards, they also had a glorious time, when Arenas was at his best.

Arenas, this guy, is known as a model of the second-round miracle, the league's lore king, Jiang Yang once remembered that there was a season when this guy was infinitely lore, and he could hit any three-point shot thrown at halftime! Others are like Crawford, like Jr Smith, they pump, and the most powerful thing they smoke is the feel, hitting consecutive three-pointers, this is the feel of pumping.

And Arenas, the most powerful, is also pumping, but it's not the feeling of pumping, his hit rate has never been high! He voted for distance.

You don't give him a chance, otherwise, half-time, maybe half-time, as long as he catches the ball, he can hit the killer in any position! This is the most buggy part of him, in order to match the big general Arenas, the owner of the Wizards, he was equipped with the best lineup at the time, three All-Star level players, the all-around big forward Antoine Jamison, the desperate San Lang Caron Butler, and Arenas together form the legendary Wizards Big Three, and the other lineups can be comparable to the original Nets, but unfortunately Arenas and the three of them are not competitive...... There isn't a season in which three people are healthy! But there is no problem with Baba's entry into the playoffs, but last year, Arenas had a gun case, which directly depressed the Wizards, a former playoff-level team, if the Pistons' sinking has a season buffer, then the Wizards' sinking has not been for half a season, and the sudden death method is directly used!

Last season, they didn't even have a playoff threshold, but fortunately, they got a lottery and signed this year's champion Wall.

So the recent Wizards are also on fire, the first fire is their champion, John Wall, but now Wall is a little stunned when he sees Jiang Yang, and the second fire is Javier Mickey, who performed quite brilliantly in the slam dunk contest, although Jiang Yang and Blake Griffin covered the light, but in terms of talent, his talent is really good.

The third fire is, Yi Jianlian! Because for Yi Jianlian, this may be the last chance to prove himself.

Main power forward Andre Braci is injured, while newly traded Rashard Lewis is also injured...... This gave Yi Jianlian a chance, even if Yi Jianlian's level was poor, it would not be a problem to play a third substitute in the team.

Therefore, in today's game with the Raptors, Yi Jianlian became the starter on the court, replacing Andre Blatche.

This Chinese derby has naturally attracted countless foreign and domestic media attention, but no one thinks that the Wizards may win on the home court of the Raptors! Today's starters on both sides will not be introduced on the Raptors' side.

On the Wizards' side, center Javier Mickey, power forward Yi Jianlian, power forward Trevor Booker, scoring guard Jordan Crawford, and their main point guard Nick Young are also injured...... Point guard John Wall.

This game has just started, and the second offensive point of the Raptors, Bargnani is very excited, and his favorite thing to do is to bully such a weak team! So at the beginning, he played very well, at the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the Raptors have been pressing the opponent to play, but did not open the score, and with 3 minutes left, the Raptors began to exert their strength, Baniani first received Jiang Yang's back pass, and scored three points on a jumper, and then made two consecutive opponent fouls, four free throws, and then scored two points on the inside three meters, and the jump shot scored two points, helping the Raptors to attack directly and beat the opponent to méng, He led the opponent by six points at 33-27 and entered the second quarter of the game, and Banyani also scored 12 points in the first quarter, which was quite good!

At the beginning of the second quarter, the main players of the Raptors were all resting off the court, and none of the five starters were on the court.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the main players of the Wizards began to attack, and John Wall was stunned when he saw Jiang Yang, which does not mean that he was also stunned when he saw Jerry Bayless...... So he took Trevor Booker to score back-to-back points, and the Wizards tied the score at 37-37 after the first three minutes! Then they overtook 43-40, and at this time their morale was high, and they wanted to kill the Raptors directly, but they were too naïve...... With 8 minutes and 18 seconds left in the second quarter, Jiang Yang and Banyani came on the court, and as soon as they came on the court, the offensive initiative returned to the Raptors' side, Jiang Yang first hit a three-point shot in front of John Wall to equalize the score.

After then blocking Krevor Booker's dunk, he passed a long pass to Banjani, who hit the basket and dunked.

Then Jiang Yang broke through again, causing a foul on Krevor Booker, and pulled and scored, making a 2+1 again.

The Raptors scored eight points in a row, and after overtaking the score in one fell swoop, they won back five points! Then the rest of the Raptors were not to be outdone, attacking the Wizards' defense one by one, and the Wizards' defense was like a boat in a storm.

As the storm continues to sway, the ship may capsize at any time...... At the end of the half, the Raptors were as many as 12 points ahead! In the third quarter of the game, Jordan Crawford became a lifesaver for the Wizards, scoring 10 points in a single quarter.

However, the Raptors, under the leadership of Baniani, Jiang Yang, and DeRozan, still have a huge lead, leading the opponent by 18 points at 95-77 and entering the final quarter of the competition! In the final quarter, the Wizards still wanted to fight back, but the hole in front was too big, although they scored 30 points in this quarter, but the Raptors also scored 28 points!

With a total score of 107-133, the Raptors are at home, and the Wizards are bloodied, but the next game will be difficult to play...... ro@。