Chapter 104: Alexander
Summer league is something that Horn could or may not have participated in. But Nets head coach Avery Johnson thought that playing in Summer League would make Horn fit in better, and Horn had to play in Summer League.
Although Horn knew that the Nets were in a bad situation, but now once he entered the team, he immediately knew that the Nets' situation was worse than he imagined.
This team really wants nothing, Williams is unwilling to bear the responsibility on the offensive end, Lopez can't bear the responsibility, the offensive arrow is not forgotten, and the system is extremely loose. Williams doesn't have the ability to bring a system like Paul, and he can't organize a team by himself. Williams who left the Jazz is really not that Williams anymore!
Lopez's state can be described in just three words, unstable! The offense is unstable, the defense is unstable, the rebounding is unstable, the playmaking ability is unstable, including the health is also stable, and Lopez is unstable everywhere.
The two main players inside and outside the team are not in charge, and the rest of the role players cannot be meshed with the whole system.
Jr. Avery Johnson We all know players who came out of the Spurs and then became head coaches.
Those who come out of the Spurs have made achievements in defense and teamwork, but the weakness of the junior general is the tactical system.
The Hornets' Ball is a general manager as the head coach and the junior general as the player as the head coach. The little general pays too much attention to the player's heads-up many times, and when the Mavericks coached, the little general had this weakness, allowing all the players under his command to go heads-up, and now when it comes to the Nets, he still gives players a lot of heads-up opportunities.
But the situation of the Nets and the Mavericks is different, when they were in the Mavericks, the Mavericks' players were all sharp, and now every player here in the Nets is tepid, and the little general still attaches importance to singles is useless.
The Nets are now a system without offense, and there are no offensive people, and the Nets don't have anyone to take advantage of on the defensive end. Lopez's defense is slow, he can't control the inside of the box, and the Nets lack an outside defensive maniac outside, and the Nets' defense can't get up.
There is no offense, no defense, the current situation of the Nets is not as good as last season's Hornets, Horne really regrets coming to such a team at this time, I don't know if I don't see it, I am shocked when I see it! The Nets are in really, really bad shape.
Horn is in the summer league, mainly familiar with the team's routines, and does not play too seriously, so the data is not very good.
Horn's stats are not good, and the media and fans didn't say anything at this time, because the summer league stats have always been inaccurate, which is something that everyone knows.
Summer League Horn isn't playing very well, and this little general and Williams Lopez don't have much to say yet.
But when they arrived, they found that Horn's shooting was not so consistent, at least not as consistent as last season's game, which made them a lot of concerns.
The little general felt that the team might have been deceived, and Horn might really be the type who fell silent after a good season, and the team spent too much money.
Williams watched Horn train hard, but his shooting was really not very consistent, and he also felt a little regretful.
Only Lopez saw that Horn couldn't shoot, and he was happy because he himself was extremely inconsistent in shooting, so Horn couldn't threaten his position.
With the end of the summer league and the start of the regular season, the fans are about to get out of the birds after a summer of silence.
At this time, the season is finally about to begin, and all the fans are looking forward to that wonderful day like a virgin who has been holding back for a long time.
The Nets touched a tough guy in the first game of the game, the Atlanta Hawks, the Hawks have been a tough guy in recent seasons, the team's style of play is tough, solid inside, and stable shooting ability on the outside.
You don't have to look at the Hawks who can't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals and can't win the championship, but this team still has the strength. The defense was developed by Woodson with infinite rotation, and Joe Johnson was very consistent offensively.
This kind of team can be said to be the most feared team in New Jersey at the moment, because the Hawks are very stable both offensively and defensively, while New Jersey is not stable at all.
New Jersey is clearly facing a formidable foe, but its fans and the New York media, including New York critics, are unaware. Before the start of the competition, various media began to look ahead.
The New Jersey Sports Illustrated wrote an article looking ahead to the season before the start of the season: "This summer we brought in two All-Star players like Horn and Gerard Wallace, both of whom have strong defensive ability and all-round skills, and this season our defense will inevitably go to the next level, and the offense will be sharper." Today's game against Atalanta was our first step in previous years, and I believe we will play even better this season! ”
The New Jersey Daily also wrote: "With the investment of the Russian boss regardless of the cost, the strength of our team has improved again this season!" Horn and Gerard Wallace are our new strengths. With them, we believe we can play better! ”
The New Jersey media is excited and looking forward to Horn and Wallace helping the Nets take it to the next level.
The New York media, which is very close to New Jersey, heard these words of the New Jersey media, and inevitably said sourly: "The Nets think it is useful to add two senior role players, and our biggest problem is that we don't have absolute main players!" ”
When the New York media says this, they are saying that Williams is not playing well, and Williams has really played badly recently, so New Jersey can only hate it secretly, but it can't say anything.
The media is looking forward to it, and the fans are even more looking forward to it, the Nets, the team's most glorious time in the past decade. Or the era when Kidd brought Martin and Jefferson, and the Nets entered the Finals two years in a row, although they were abused by the Lakers.
But the Nets of that era brought fans unparalleled fast-break enjoyment, and this combination of Kidd, Martin and Jefferson at that time, the fast-break dunk was quite beautiful. So at that time, the Nets had a lot of fans, and in the post-troika era, although the records of Carter, Kidd and Jefferson teams were not as good as before, they played better, and the fans did not lose too much. The current Nets have neither ornamental nor record, and it is impossible to attract Shenma fans to watch the game.
Fans made all kinds of predictions before the game, and there was a lot of speculation about the team's chemistry.
Gerard Wallace is a standard athletic player who can give the team more confrontation and mobility. Horn is a point that can shoot and pass, and when he played with the Thunder, Horn even made a big axe, so Nets fans gave Horn high expectations.
In the midst of a lot of speculation and predictions, Horn has a lot of status, which also makes Horn compare Alexander.