The NBA regular season continues.

The Hornets, as the hottest team in the league at the moment, are also the most watched team, and their record has stood at the top of the entire league.

With such a situation, the Hornets embarked on two road trips.

It's just that these two road trips have not been so smooth for the Hornets.

First, the Hornets are in Indiana and take on the Pacers on the road.

The Pacers in this era are indeed a rather strange team - they often surprise people against some weak teams that seem to be relatively easy to beat, and end up losing games inexplicably. And when they face some strong teams, I don't know why...... In short, they tend to win in the end.

Such a team has indeed been dubbed a 'weird team' by many fans.

Indeed, this team really feels a little weird.

It's because they specialize in strong teams! Many underdogs found their confidence in them, while many of the strong teams fell to the Pacers and reaped a few embarrassing defeats.

As a result, this team is becoming more and more wicked.

This season, the Celtics and Lakers have lost to them, and now, it is the Hornets' turn to lose.

I don't know if the Hornets should be sad or happy for this game...... Sadly, they ended their winning streak here, and on the Pacers, their winning streak, and the sound of horses' hooves on a 12-game winning streak came to an abrupt end before they could actually step on it.

Happily, first of all, the Pacers, a team that specializes in strong teams, let the Hornets deflate on their bodies, which proves that the Hornets have stepped into the ranks of real powerhouses...... Although there is some idealism in this, everyone can still think of these things, and think that the Hornets have proved by another unconventional means that they are now a strong team that should not be underestimated...... Of course, such a statement is more or less a bit of the ridicule and self-deception of the Hornets fans themselves. Then, the other one is indeed more reasonable.

That is, the Hornets really let go of their baggage after losing the game against the Pacers. Prior to this match, the Hornets had won eleven games, beating their opponents in every single one.

This has brought them more fame and has also made many of the Hornets' players more and more recognizable based on such victories...... The entire Hornets and the entire Hornets players have benefited from their winning streak in a way that has not been experienced before.

However, it put a lot of pressure on them, as if it would be a great sin to lose an innocuous game even a little. Hornets fans with this mentality can't play their true level as a matter of course, and when they really play, they often face some constraints.

And now, the Hornets have finally lost a game, and perhaps the word "final" shouldn't be used...... But it is true that the loss of this game allowed the Hornets to finally take off the shackles on their bodies and no longer be on the cusp of the storm as before.

Maybe this will make the exposure of the Hornets and the Hornets players decrease, and many players will be beaten back to their original shape, returning to the point where their father didn't love their mother.

But, what matters more to them is that now they can put a lot of the pressure off because of their previous winning streak, and they can really go out there without any shackles and work hard for the team to win after that.

In this way, the Hornets lost a game, which in a way is indeed a good thing.

After losing this game, the Hornets players felt a little relieved.

Jongwook patted Paul on the shoulder and said, "We've done our best in this game...... Unfortunately, I still didn't win. ”

"I tried my best...... But our team, it's not playing very well......," Paul said.

Yes, yes, the Hornets didn't hit the ball well in this game, and the players didn't feel too good. And the Pacers' defense got stronger and stronger, and in the end, many of the Hornets' players played out of order.

At the end of the game, Zhong Yu scored 27 points, and Paul only got 11 points and 6 assists, and the abnormal performance of the two was also an important reason for the Hornets to lose.

"Even though we lost...... Scott said with a bit of a heavy face, "Seriously, in some ways, it's not necessarily a bad thing that we lose a game, but it may help us win later." It's just that after losing the game, we may also face more doubts and pressure. ”

Everyone also nodded thoughtfully, standing on the cusp for too long, and suddenly falling, naturally there will still be strange words.

That night, many news reports also expressed their own opinions on the Hornets' game - "The Hornets finally lost the game for the first time after a long winning streak and a record that made it difficult for the Hornets' juniors to talk about it...... However, so far, they still have an 11-1 record, ranking first in the league and the Western Conference. No one is going to think that the Hornets are out of the ranks of the strong teams just because they lose a game...... Instead, throwing away the baggage of a winning streak, the Hornets were able to travel lightly and charge without reservation for victory. Such a Hornets team may be even more terrifying. ”

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Most of the media maintains this view.

Really because of a defeat of the Hornets, they lost confidence in this team, thinking that the Hornets had broken away from the ranks of the strong teams, and the fans who finally showed their surnames were a minority after all.

Most people still have enough sanity.

Many people think that the Hornets have thrown away the shackles of their winning streak, and then they can really travel lightly and create more brilliant results.

Such reports, under the influence of the alliance, occupy the mainstream of public opinion. It is conceivable that the league's protection of Zhong Yu and even the Hornets is not low, especially for Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu scored 27 points in the loss to the Pacers, which is actually more or less abnormal compared to his previous performance.

However, under the deliberate guidance of the alliance, almost no one has cut on Zhong Yu's body.

The Hornets are on their next road away to take on Joe's Bobcats.

In this game, the Hornets did not lose a game and no one paid attention to it in front of the goal, but because many people wanted to witness the victory of the Hornets.

There are a lot of people who pay attention to this game, and a bad team like the Bobcats, in fact, the main thing that really attracts attention is when playing against strong teams such as the Hornets and teams with high attention, so that they can get a certain amount of exposure.

As a result, something surprising happened......

The Hornets capsized in the gutter during the game against the Bobcats!

Although in the final moments of the game, Zhong Yu suddenly broke out and scored 7 points in 30 seconds, but the Hornets were still unable to recover the defeat in the end...... Losing to a bad team like the Bobcats suddenly made the Hornets' reputation sink to the lowest point since the beginning of the game.

In this game, the Hornets lost the game, which can indeed only be described as capsizing in the gutter. The Hornets faced the same situation as the Pacers at the beginning of this game - a low shooting percentage and frequent turnovers...... In doing so, the Bobcats seized an opportunity and started to take the lead over the Hornets.

Then, the Bobcats began to play downwind, and the Hornets were forced by them to be really helpless, and they played fast. It's just that as soon as the game was played quickly, the problem of the general bad hand feeling of the Hornets players today was exposed, and by the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Hornets had fallen behind the Bobcats by many points.

In the final quarter of the game, the Bobcats seized the opportunity and scored frequently, and how to shoot jumpers outside the three-point line...... With 30 seconds left in the game, the Hornets were still 11 points behind their opponents, and Zhong Yu scored 7 points in a row to finally get some points back, but the Hornets still lost the game in the end...... At 108:104, the Hornets were unwilling to lose this game.

Jongwook scored 35 points and 5 rebounds in the game, but the team still lost helplessly...... I have to say that this is something that makes people feel quite depressed.

If after the last game, many people thought that the Hornets should also lose a game, so there were not many objections to their loss, then in this game, the Hornets lost and suddenly faced a different situation...... Now, the Hornets are suddenly back in the limelight.

However, such a cusp is different from when they won eleven in a row, and now they are sinking to the bottom... The Hornets lost two games in a row, and after an eleven straight win streak, it was a two-game losing streak, which made a lot of Hornets blacks jump out.

Because of the loss of the game with the Bobcats, the Hornets' current record has fallen to the point where they share the first record in the league with the Lakers and Cavaliers. In the Western Conference, the Hornets and Lakers currently have 11-2 records, ranking first in the Western Conference.

In this way, the Hornets' two consecutive defeats have changed their situation dramatically.

Moreover, a lot of criticism has also sounded.

"The Hornets started the season with a strong 11-game winning streak that made many people exclaim that the most powerful Hornets had been born...... The Hornets also soared in popularity during this time, becoming the hottest team in the league. It's just that, after a wave of 11 consecutive wins, they lost to the Pacers and Bobcats in a row. If the Pacers are still a playoff team, then a team like the Bobcats has made the Hornets lose...... We have to ask, is the Hornets' previous 11 consecutive wins just an illusion of their own making? In fact, the strength of the Hornets has not changed much? ”

After the Hornets lost two games in a row, their morale has indeed sunk to a low point now, and many people who doubted them have now found organization and started to question a lot of similar questions -- "From the beginning, the sudden rise of the Hornets had a bit of a pompous flavor...... They seem to have suddenly become the top team in the league after getting Zhong Yu. But essentially, the Hornets still lack the foundation that many strong teams should have, and they are not mature enough to deal with some situations. The two consecutive defeats are likely to be the beginning of the Hornets' collapse...... Seriously, I don't think we can hope too much for a team like this......"

Of course, there are many people who help the Hornets speak, they believe that winning and losing is a common thing, and even the Bulls in their heyday dare not say that they can beat any team in the league at any time, let alone the Hornets.

It's just that such voices are usually drowned out in the sea by more questioning voices, and in the information age, the speed of transmission of many things is too fast...... So, the Hornets are now at a crossroads once again.

There is no way back for them...... In the next game, they finally returned to their home court to face the Kings.

If this game is not yet won, the Hornets' prestige could drop even further.

The Hornets are also in a more delicate place now.

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After the defeat of Charlotte, everyone sat on the plane, because they had just lost to the Bobcats, the atmosphere in the plane was not very harmonious, everyone was busy with their own things, and at the same time, it was rare to see smiling faces.

"Meeting, meeting!" Scott thought for a moment and shouted, "Come here." ”

The players also came over, but most of them were a bit listless.

"Look at you guys like this...... Really. Scott said with a bit of hatred: "As an NBA player, you don't just have yourself now, you should also think about the team behind you, and the fans behind the team. ”

These are clichés, and not many people listen to them, Scott said, "Also, you may be able to feel the difference between our eleventh winning streak and the two losing streaks of this damn humiliation. We used to be the proudest team in the league, but now what have we become of being vilified? They think we're just a bunch of fictitious guys...... Many people think that the Hornets are finished...... But I don't believe ......"

That's when the players started to get serious.

Indeed, after this humiliating two-game losing streak, the Hornets are on the edge of a cliff, and if they can't win yet, it is likely that what they have gained from the previous eleven consecutive wins may be wiped out.

When it comes to these, everyone is also more concerned.

As an NBA player, maybe the bench players have to run around for their livelihood and contracts, but no matter who you are, deep down, there is something called honor that is burning.

"This game! Guys! Scott patted his thigh and said, "We can't lose!" We are not qualified to lose again! We need a win! A hearty victory. ”

(To be continued)