Chapter 156: A long and terrifying road trip to the Nets
It was a place that made Luke very memorable. Because Luke's first NBA preseason game was played here.
And there is also the of this year's champion Kenyon Martin, who later came to China to mix, and Commissar Ma, and of course, the 76ers' sworn enemy Keith Van Horn.
But now the Nets are in big trouble. Nets head coach Byron Scott is under a curse that his first season at the helm of the Nets can't get the team on the track he envisioned: because everybody's getting hurt. Kyrie Kittels, Gami Fick and Keith Van Horne were all unavailable at the start of the season, and from then on, the team never had chemistry because of the need to adjust the lineup and style of play as soon as a new player was injured.
But today it seems to be fine, there are no injuries, almost all of them are the lineup before the starting season.
"Okay, let's have a good time today!" Luke thought silently in his mind.
Against the Nets, Larry's lineup is: point guard - Luke, scoring guard - McGee, small forward - Tony Kukoc, power forward - Tyrone Hill, center - Big Ben.
This lineup is terrifying for any team.
Looking at the five people opposite, Keith Van Horne, the hope of the white man, retired early and went home to pick up the child; Marbury in China; Kenyon Martin on the bench with the Knicks; As for Kyrie Kittels and Gami Fick, that's not known, even though they're All-Star calibers. This is too far from the Brooklyn Nets of later generations.
The owner of the Brooklyn Nets, a local tycoon in later generations, was Mikhail Prokhov.
Mikhail Prokhov was the richest man in Russia in 2009, the ONEXIM Group (a private investment fund with $2.5 billion in US dollar assets, founded in 2007 to invest in finance, high-tech, hydrogen fuel cells, non-ferrous metals and precious metal minerals. The focus of the group will be on mining development, energy power generation projects and nanotechnology). It is also Russia's largest gold supplier, with a total net worth of $9.5 billion, and ranked 40th on Forbes magazine's "list of the world's richest people" in 2008. Prokhov, who is 2.06 meters tall, is not a professional athlete, but he has been particularly fond of basketball since he was a child, and he can be said to be a die-hard basketball fan, and once sponsored the CSKA team, which won two Russian league championships. Prokhov was the chairman of CSKA Moscow's basketball team and has been funding the club. In December 2011, Prokhorov announced his candidacy for the 2012 Russian presidential election. But you know, he failed to defeat Putin and Medvedev, who played the "two-person turn", failed.
So, he put his energy on the Brooklyn Nets. Then, there are more teams in the world that have always been tyrants.
In the sports world, this kind of local tyrant usually goes to football, but now there are local tyrants in the basketball world!
Before coming to Brooklyn, the Nets brought in Deron Williams, and after moving to Brooklyn, the real tyrants began to throw money! The Nets signed Gerard Wallace to a four-year, $40 million contract. The Hawks traded for the Nets, who sent Anthony Morrow, Jordan Farmar, DeSean Stevenson and Jordan Williams, Johan Petro and a lottery-protected draft pick from the Rockets in exchange for Joe Johnson. Then the Nets signed a five-year, $100 million contract extension to star Deron Williams. Then he renewed Brook Lopez with a four-year, 61 million contract, and then Chris Humphries with a two-year, 24 million contract.
But that's not all, the most classic is yet to come. On June 28, 2013, just as the 2013 draft was underway, there was news of an explosion outside the court. The Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets complete the big deal. It is reported that the Nets sent Gerald Wallace and many others, as well as the next three first-round picks, in exchange for Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry. How rare it is to have a top-tier team with a luxurious roster emerging in Brooklyn, and a team with a starting lineup full of All-Stars.
But it's not over yet, the Nets have also signed a low-key signing of a man named Andrei Kirilenko, which can be said to be a super strongman.
But the Nets at this time are not the ones of later generations. Now they're not that super All-Star team either.
It's just that Luke is still very attentive to the person he is opposite - Stephen Marbury.
This player with great physical strength and extraordinary strength is the most difficult player to defend against in the entire Nets team. Marbury, who has a big heart, amazing bounces, and extraordinary strength, is the most difficult to defend.
Luke felt more annoyed defending Marbury than Allen!
Aaron is a dexterous player, in the face of the opponent will not force a breakthrough, generally choose to hit the opponent by surprise, if the opponent blocked the way to attack for the first time, Aaron will choose to change direction, or bad luck, or turn, or turn, anyway, just bypass it. But Marbury was different, no matter who the opponent was, whether it was a thin man like Allen or a strong man like Billups; Whether it was a small stealer like Stockton or a strong blocker like Gary Payton, Marbury had only one choice, leaning on his opponent and forcing a breakthrough. And instead of a tank-like straight rush like Deron and James, Marbury will choose a few tricks and suddenly have a "crossover" when he forces a breakthrough ("crossover" is derived from Marbury's "whennicross, it'sover". This sentence was included in the book "NBA Ankle Terminator", which is regarded as a classic by many streetball players), and suddenly dribbled away in an instant, which caught Luke off guard several times.
But gradually, Luke adapted to Marbury's rhythm. So Luke chose to start fighting with Marbury.
The best way to deal with Marbury is to shoot. Marbury, like Allen, is a shooting guard whose soul is in the body of a point guard. They both love to score and have very high scoring ability, but they have a fatal drawback, they are too short to be a point guard. Larry was the only one to put them at shooting guard, but for a short period of time, especially with Marbury, and the two often argued. And Marbury often sticks to the ball, which makes him more fond of point guards, plus point guards are not tall themselves, so it doesn't matter. But Luke is 2.03 meters tall, and such a tall point guard is very scary for Marbury, even if Marbury bounces well, but Luke is not without bounce. And from time to time he also shoots backwards and jumpers. Marbury ...... Looking at the pitch, what else can you do, anyway, the defense is not good.
But the offense was defended by Luke, which left Marbury completely depressed.
So the Nets without Marbury became a broken net and were directly lost by the 76ers.
The 76ers rushed to the next place - New York.
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