Chapter Ninety-Eight: California Schedule (3)
Sacramento, a city located in central California, on the Sacramento River Basin, is the county seat of Sacramento County and the state capital of California. Built as a settlement in 1839, gold was discovered in 1848, and founded by Johnsutter in December 1849, the city grew rapidly and became the state capital in 1854. The city was established in 1863. Sacramento was originally grown out of Fortsutter, which was founded by Johnsutter in 1839. During the gold rush in the mid-19th century, Sacramento was an important population hub, and it continued to thrive as a center of agricultural trade after the gold mines were depleted. The economy is based on food processing, agriculture, animal husbandry, printing, high-tech manufacturing, computers, aerospace industry, and military industry. Production of rocket engines and fuel. It is a distribution center and trade center for agricultural products, mainly including dairy products, fruits, wheat, rice, vegetables, etc. Today it is also the fifth-largest city in California in terms of population. The Chinese call it "Sacramento" (
This is the only Chinese name used by all Chinese and Chinese-speaking media in Taiwan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, translated as "Sacramento" in Chinese mainland). And the team here is also very famous.
The Sacramento Kings joined the NBA in 1948 and won the NBA championship as the Rochester Royals in the 1950-51 season. After the Cincinnati Royals (1957-72), the Kansas City-Omaha Kings (1972-75), the Kansas City Kings (1975-85), and finally the Sacramento Kings.
In the 1997-1998 season, the team sent Mitch Richmond, an All-Star of the past six years, and veteran forward Otis Thorpe to Washington in order to get Webb. A month later, the Kings signed Peja Stojakovic and selected Jason Williams with the No. 7 pick. Head coach Rick Adelman took over in September, and the team also signed libero Divac, Vernon Maxwell and Joan Barry before the January trade deadline. When backup center Scott Pollard arrived in February, a well-rounded rotation system was finally completed. Jeff Petri was named NBA Manager of the Year for the season. The team is starting to progress towards their peak.
Relying on Jason Williams' elusive passing, and thanks to Weberley's nine-day slam dunk, coupled with Peja Stojakovic's masterful shooting, they and the Los Angeles Lakers almost held up the entire league in an era when ratings began to plummet without Jordan. They are also known to the world along with their style of play, the Princeton style of play. The team developed a unique offensive system: Jason Williams acted as the ball handler, while Chris Webber, Stojakovic, and Vlad Divac became the direct beneficiaries. Every night, Sacramento's slick fast break and flashy rotation became one of the most talked about scenes by fans, and Sacramento quickly became the darling of broadcasters. For 14 years prior to the '99-00 season, NBS trucks visited Sacramento only once a year as a courtesy. In the 99-00 season, the Kings appeared on TV 20 times.
While McBibby McBeebby "The Prince" isn't there yet, the rest of the Sacramento Kings players are starting to show what they're capable of. Chris Webber is now one of the most competitive players in the regular season MVP, while Stojakovic is competitive as the fastest improving player. Doug Christie's steals are starting to make a name for himself, while backup point guard Bobby Jackson is McGee's fierce rival in the race for Sixth Man of the Year, and the team's rookie swingman Sido Turkgrew has also been doing well. In addition, head coach Adelman is on the verge of his 100th win in Sacramento (a remarkable achievement, considering that there are four coaches in the league out there).
But the 76ers have done much better than them this year, as we all know this season, Allen's regular season MVP, All-Star MVP, plus steal king and scoring champion, the block king is Theo Ratliff, a former 76ers player (and now also), the rebounding king is Mutombo, who came later, and the best sixth man is McGee, just one championship away. Even so, the 76ers still have a hard time against the Kings, the Kings have a Jason Williams who has a somewhat similar style of play to Allen on point guard, the latter is different from the former, first of all, the skin color, the difference between whites and blacks, he has the common problem of whites and forgets the ability to break through and score points after a 3-point, and often uses breakthrough points more, but it is still very threatening on the premise of ensuring that the team has excellent scorers. Unlike others, he is more interested in using rhythm, feints and ball speed to ensure the quality of his passes, as well as his characteristic boldness. Instead of sticking the ball to his hands, he abused the floor as much as he could, gaining powerful potential energy and flicking around his body like a sucker. This made it very uncomfortable for the players who defended him. The defense will be fine, but against a player like Allen it will be no play. Small forward Stojakovic and center Vlad Divac are basically fine, both of which are the best points of the 76ers, who have four small forwards and two center block rebounding champions. The most annoying thing is the big forward. Chris Webber is a player who scares all the big forwards, and they fear anyone offensively, except for the elbow of his contemporary, older and stronger Karl Malone.
As one of the famous "Michigan Five Tigers", Weber at his peak had super attack power and was extremely gorgeous, and all offensive methods were played quite well. Very few people can prevent Webber in a 1v1 situation, and if the touch comes up, Webber can score 40+ points at any time (power forward version of Maddie). Webb's low-post technology is one of the best in the league, its small hook hand, the footsteps under the basket, are the top, it can be said that you can use low-post technology and Tim Duncan single-handedly big forward, except for Webb, can not find a second, the small hook after turning the back feels extremely good, good wrist flexibility, high ball point, large arc, small frame area, is one of the most powerful offensive means in the league at that time. In addition to the back shot, Webb's mid-range shot is also quite accurate, and I used to see Weber's fast down after blocking and dismantling, and a cross-pick with white chocolate, and then using the mid-shot to solve the problem. Due to his outstanding physical fitness, Webb's breakthrough is very explosive, with strong instantaneous start-up ability, and the strength of his breakthrough is no less than that of Kenyon Martin. Webber has a certain three-point ability near the three-point line, which not only makes it more difficult for him to defend, but also allows him to pull the opponent inside, thus creating space for other players to break through and play alone.
Because Webber has a unique ability to pass the ball with one hand, the opponent does not dare to easily contain Webber, and in most cases, Webber is the team's first choice in singles. As a Princeton player, Webb is very good at cutting and finding open space on the move. But although he has strong single-player ability, he does not stick to the ball, and his off-ball offense and ball-holding offensive ability are balanced, which makes his defenders have to pay attention to Webb's movements all the time, because Webber is not able to attack with the ball, he can attack all the time, as long as the defender is a little careless, Webber can immediately run out of the open space and score easily. Coupled with the system of the Kings back then, the mutual complementarity of Webb and Williams was very strong, and basically Webb only needed to cut out the empty space, and the ball could be delivered to his hand. Then it's scored.
In Webb, who is not injured, he has only two shortcomings, one is that he is not very accurate in free throws, and the other is that he is not very good defensively. Both are common to those with super talent, such as O'Neal, like Chamberlain, who are not very good at free throws, but no one can ignore their presence. Moreover, now Chris Webber is in the power forward position (known as "the most gorgeous power forward in history"), a position in which the 76ers are the worst, and the 76ers have suffered.
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