On the 24th, the first snow of winter fell in New York, and before Christmas, the snow made New York even more charming.

The low temperature and snow did not stop the enthusiasm of the fans, many fans wore heavy coats, masks, and hats to the court, patted off the snow on their bodies, took off their coats, and the Nets jersey was immediately exposed inside.

Now the Brooklyn Nets fan organization is getting stronger and stronger, and various flags and banners have been erected in the Barclays Center Arena early, in fact, not only the Nets, this year with the rise of the two New York teams at the same time, the basketball atmosphere of the whole New York has been improved, and the collision and confrontation between Nets fans and Knicks fans have sublimated the basketball culture in New York.

Today, the Nets are facing the Philadelphia 76ers at home.

The predecessor of the 76ers was called the Syracuse Nationals, and they were one of the "founding fathers" of the NBA league. Kauslov and Ike? Richmond bought the Syracuse National, and then the team held a meeting to change the name of the team.

Out of 500 suggestions, the team chose 76ers as the team name to commemorate the proclamation of the American Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. Steinberg also won himself a luxury trip to the West Coast of the United States with his little note and a 25-word explanation of the team's name, which is also a good story in the NBA.

For tall and strong and Chinese fans, 76 is no stranger, this is because the 76ers' ace star - "answer" Allen? Iverson has too many fans in China, and this little man who dribbles as fast as lightning and layups as fast as flying fast has snatched the titles of rookie king, scoring champion and steal king one by one in just a few seasons after his debut. The whole of Philadelphia, and indeed the whole world, fell for it.

In the 2000-2001 season, this distinctive team finally reached the NBA Finals, but ultimately lost to the Lakers led by "Big Shark" O'Neal and "Black Mamba" Kobe, but the 76ers ended the Lakers' playoff winning streak under Iverson's leadership is also a classic of classics.

In the post-Iverson era, the 76ers have always established Iguodala, known as the "little AI", as the core of the team. The little AI has indeed fulfilled the responsibilities of a leader. But he will never reach Iverson's heights.

This offseason's big trade sent Iguodala, the core of the team, away, and transformed the 76ers from a team that relied on the outside to a team with an interior core, of course, the main reason for this was the arrival of Bynum.

Bynum became a true star center with the Lakers last season, averaging 18.7 points, 11.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game this season. He became the second center in the league after Howard.

If you look at it from the perspective of the Bynum and Iguodala transactions alone. The 76ers have been extremely successful this offseason. Trading a good wing player for a dominant big man, as well as an offensive threat Jason Richardson, has given the 76ers a big boost.

In addition to the change of the core. The 76ers also have a lot of talent in other positions, point guard Holiday has shown the talent to become a first-class star, Evan Turner is steadily improving, Nick Young can provide strong firepower support on the bench, and power forward Hawes is also a very practical blue-collar player, and the strength on paper gives the 76ers the strength to make the playoffs and even better.

However, the world is unpredictable, injuries have seriously affected their preparations, and the 76ers announced two weeks ago that Bynum is close to returning to practice, and Bynum's return looks close at hand.

However, a bowling game has dramatically deteriorated the situation of the 76ers' highly-expected star, and according to ESPN, 76ers general manager Tony Dirio has publicly stated that "Little Shark" Bynum will be out indefinitely, which means that he may struggle to play a game under contract with the 76ers.

Lacking core center Bynum, the 76ers once again went back to the old way and could only focus on the outside, but unexpectedly, relying on the sharp offense from the outside, the 76ers are currently ranked ninth in the East with 12 wins and 13 losses, and it is not that there is no hope of hitting the playoffs.

"Forward, Brooklyn, Forward, Nets ......" The Nets fans at the scene were humming the Nets' team song, and the Nets' mascot, the Brooklyn Cavaliers, was constantly mobilizing the fans' emotions.

Although the 76ers team playing away from home is inferior to the Nets in terms of strength, the Nets still attach great importance to this game, and Coach Johnson repeatedly emphasized before the game that "there is no room for mistakes!" ”。

Because the Nets will be at home in two days to face the opponent of the "Christmas War", the strong opponent Boston Celtics, as the Christmas game broadcast in the United States, its importance is self-evident, so the Nets must maintain their winning streak before the Christmas game, and use it to defeat the opponent in one go.

All Nets fans can feel the team's determination to win this game, but when the team's starting lineup played, it still surprised many fans.

Center Greg Smith, power forward Tonick Shengilia, small forward Gerard Wallace, shooting guard Tall Strong, point guard Marshawn Brooks, that's the Nets' starting lineup today.

Immediately, the entire Barclays Center Arena was full of discussion, except for Tall and Strong and Wallace, the other three players in this lineup were all role players of the team, and some of them did not even squeeze into the rotation lineup.

The man who played the most minutes in the previous game was point guard Marshawn Brooks, who only averaged 13 minutes per game, and the least of them was Greg Smith, who joined the Rockets with Tall Strong, who had only played four minutes for the Nets before.

But the Nets' winning streak not only kept Johnson's position as coach but also strengthened its standing among fans, so after a brief discussion. Nets fans still give their best enthusiasm to their favorite team.

The 76ers' starters were: center Lavoy Allen, power forward Thaddeus Young, small forward Evan Turner, shooting guard Jason Richardson, and point guard Jrue Holiday .

In fact, the 76ers' lineup has a strong similarity with the Nets' lineup, the 76ers' Bynum is out due to injury, and the Nets have also lost center Lopez, the absence of these two All-Star centers has forced these two teams to move their offensive focus to the outside, but unlike the Nets, who rely on tall and strong, the 76ers rely on their outside offensive "trio":

Jrue Holiday is the 76ers' main point guard, currently averaging 17.7 points, 8 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game. The 76ers also finished in the top eight in the East at one point. It also received high votes in the recent All-Star Ballot.

However, with the team's various injury problems, the team began to drop the top 8, and Holiday began to lose the shine of the early season at this time, averaging 3.7 turnovers per game. But he still has a lot of room for improvement.

Jason Richardson. The 76ers are the main point guard. A veteran who has played in the NBA for many years, the dunk king has performed average this season, and the decline in physical fitness has affected his performance. He began to transform into a shooter, but even so, he still averaged 10.5 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game.

For the 32-year-old, we may never see him flying again, but his off-ball runs and cuts are becoming more sophisticated.

Evan Turner, the 76ers' main small forward, is actually more suitable for point guards, in the case of the team sending Iguodala, Turner from playing time to scoring assists and other statistics all hit a new high, he can average 13.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.

At present, Turner is third on the team in scoring, second in assists and third in rebounds, but it is still not enough, he still has not been able to live up to the expectations of this former top spot, although Turner's physical fitness also restricts his play, and he can't lock the opponent's top scorer like Iguodala, but the 25-year-old still has a lot of room for improvement.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

The 76ers started the season very well, but their form has slipped recently, and they have not won streak for nearly a month, but the 76ers have won six consecutive games against the Nets on the road, and they have won by more than 10 points per game on average, but those were all in New Jersey, and they are playing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the first time today.

But the 76ers still have a psychological advantage against the Nets, and this advantage is also reflected on the court.

As soon as the game began, 76ers' main point guard Holiday opened the scoring for the 76ers with a pull-up jumper, and then Turner singled Wallace at the top of the free throw line arc and scored another point with a difficult step-back jumper.

"When" the Nets' Brooks broke through and missed a layup, the 76ers grabbed a defensive rebound and launched a counterattack, but the Nets retreated quickly, dribbling to Holiday under the basket and making a return pass to Richardson, who was plugged in the back row.

Richardson got up and down with his knife and hit a half-volley with a "brush".

6：0

The 76ers got off to a great start with their offensive "trio" dominating the team's first three shots, which is the 76ers' most common offensive tactic.

Although Holiday and Turner are also young players, they have been a regular on the team early on, so they are much better than the Nets' bench players of Brooks, Smith and Shengilia in terms of pressure and game experience.

"Take it easy, the game has just begun" Gao Dazhuang, a "rookie" who has just entered the league for two months, spoke in the tone of an old player, but no one on the court questioned it, because strength determines everything.

The Nets attacked, and Tall and Strong played a pick-and-roll with Brooks, and Brooks took the opportunity to get to the basket with a pick-and-roll.

"When" but with the interference of the opposing defenders, Brooks' layup bounced out of the basket again.

But at this moment, Gao Dazhuang cut in from near the free throw line at high speed, rushed into the restricted area, jumped high, grabbed ahead of 76ers center Lavoy Allen, and gently touched the pop-up basketball with his hand.

The ball thus changed the trajectory of the flight, and with a "brush" sound, it fell into the net.

"Oh" Barclays Center let out the biggest cheer in the arena to date, and the Nets broke the deadlock with a tall and strong layup.

Then the two sides attacked and defended each other, and as the game progressed, the three bench players of the Nets gradually let go of their pressure baggage and began to actively participate in the team's offense and defense.

Nets coach Johnson stood on the sidelines and kept nodding, he saw that he was tall and strong and controlled the situation on the court, and the whole Nets team was also running very well, although the 76ers currently shot more than 50% from the outside, but the Nets, who had many bench players on the court, did not lag much behind.

24：21

At the end of the first quarter, the Nets, playing at home, trailed their opponents by three points.

Despite falling behind, such a point difference did not affect the confidence of the Nets players in the slightest, on the contrary, Brooks, Smith, and Shengilia, the three bench players, have begun to get excited, and Brooks is half-squatting next to Tall and Strong to discuss the team's skills and tactics with Tall Zhuang, and Coach Johnson is also using the tactical board to compare something to Smith and Shengilia.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Holiday forced Brooks, but under the help of the tall and strong defense, Holiday forced a pull-up jump shot and missed, but was counterattacked by the Nets, and Brooks made a layup in the fast break.

In the next defensive round, the Nets ran actively, helped defend in place, and seeing that the offensive time was about to end, in desperation, 76ers small forward Turner forced a three-point shot in the bottom corner.

When the ball bounced out of the basket again, and the tall and strong jumped up to take the defensive rebound, a smile appeared on the corner of the tall and strong mouth, and a feeling of victory in his heart spontaneously arose.

After a section of testing, Gao Dazhuang found that 76's inner line completely lacked strong offensive ability, and their offensive firepower was on the outside, but their outside offensive points had such and such defects.

Their top scorer is the team's point guard Holiday Holiday, whose physical fitness is reflected in the upper average in the game, with breakthroughs, but his ability to break through or cause damage after breaking through is not strong, and the overall view of the organization is not very good.

Holiday is still his mid-to-long-range pull-up shot, but if he is given enough pressure, his shooting percentage will plummet.

Turner plays more like a quarterback, his large disguise and dribble behind him are really super elegant, but due to his lack of physical fitness, he lacks the ability to attack the interior, and a flowing outside shooter is not much of a threat to the Nets, not to mention that his three-point shooting percentage is not high.

The last of their scoring trio was Richardson, the former dunk king, who was once a bright spot on the Nets court with a high jump after breaking through the interior line, but that was when he was younger, and now he is not as fast and bounced as before, not to mention that Richardson is now transforming into a shooter.

The three outside players who can't create inside kills, it is much easier to lock them down, "We won this game," said the tall man with a clenched fist. (To be continued......)

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