After winning the first game against the Spurs, the Hornets' second opponent is the Jazz, and now the Jazz is incomparable with the original double-bad era, although there are strong players such as Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap in the team, but it is clear that the Jazz are very far away from the four words of the league's strong team.

The Hornets won the game comfortably at home.

Yi Jianlian made his debut as a Hornets bench player in this game, and scored 4 points and 2 rebounds on 1 of 3 shots with free throws in a fight with Jazz bench power forward Favors.

After two consecutive wins at home, the Hornets finally ushered in an away game, No. 4, the Hornets flew to Chicago to fight with the old enemy Bulls, the Bulls with Rose, have always been one of the Hornets' fierce rivals, but last season's playoffs Rose was unfortunately injured, and even the entire regular season schedule of the 13 seasons was reimbursed.

Is a bull still a bull without Rose?

Well, even without Rose, the Bulls can still be regarded as a strong team in the league by relying on Thibodeau's strong defensive system, but in front of Wang Meng, it is obviously not enough.

At 98:87, the Hornets beat the Bulls away.

It is worth mentioning that after the game, Rose also invited Wang Meng to have a meal in the name of a person, as a strong rival, Rose invited Wang Meng to eat, of course, it was not that he was full and had nothing to do, there was a precedent for Oden, Roy and Yao Ming, and in addition to various speculations in the media, Rose was a fool, and he could guess that this matter had something to do with Wang Meng.

Rose's meaning was obvious, he just wanted to ask Wang Meng which doctor he had cleared Yao Ming Aoden and the others, and he also wanted to take a look. He didn't think about Wang Meng's revenge to cure the culprit of Yao Ming Aoden and others, which was too.

Ross wants to talk about it, how can Wang Meng say it? Besides, Ross asked which doctor went to treat Auden and others, and didn't ask if Wang Meng cured it, so Wang Meng naturally passed the matter perfunctorily with haha.

As for curing Rose, a fool would do such a thing. Wang Meng is not in the water of his brain, why is it bad to keep his skill points, to treat people who have nothing to do with him, is it good to be hairy?

The Bulls were solved, and then the Hornets faced the 76ers and Bobcats at home on November 8 and 10 respectively, and these two teams, of course, could not stop the Hornets. The Hornets started the season on a five-game winning streak. And Wang Meng also won the Western Conference Player of the Week for averaging 23 points and 9.5 assists per game in these five games.

How comfortable is it that four of the first five games of the season have been at home? At least last season, Wang Meng had never encountered such a comfortable schedule. And it's not over yet.

On the 15th, the Hornets flew comfortably to Houston after a full 5-day rest, and after easily solving the Rockets' six-game winning streak, they flew back to their home court.

Since the first game against the Spurs, the Hornets' opponents have been tepid, which is an important reason why the Hornets have been able to win six in a row so easily, but this good luck seems to have come to an end, because the Hornets' next opponent is the Thunder.

On November 17, the Hornets welcomed the challenge of the Thunder at home.

This game is regarded by many as the Hornets' revenge battle, and in the playoffs last season, the Hornets were eliminated by the Thunder without Wang Meng and ended their playoff journey.

With such hatred, the Thunder players were greeted with a very warm "welcome" by the audience when they entered the stadium. ”

"Ohio stupid pigs! Go back! In this atmosphere, veterans like Carman, who was traded before the season, don't care, but Durant, Westbrook and Gordon, who are still in their hot years, can't help it.

Westbrook's face turned even pale, because when he entered, he accidentally saw a sign that said, "Westbrook!" Wang Meng always beats you! You're always happy to challenge him! Do you have masochistic tendencies? ”

“[***]！ You're the one who has masochistic tendencies! Your whole family has masochistic tendencies! Westbrook scolded inwardly.

"It's a very good atmosphere, most of the Thunder are newcomers, although they have played a lot of time in the league, but when facing this kind of scene, there will always be some influences, and when I was with the Thunder last season, they were like that." As a Thunder player last season, Fisher was very happy to see this scene, because he is now a Hornets player.

"Whether they will be affected or not, we will win this game!" Wang Meng said firmly.

Compared with last year, the Thunder's lineup is now more luxurious, although Harden, one of the three less, left, but replaced Carman and Gordon, Gordon may not be as good as Harden in terms of strategy, but compared to shooting accuracy, Harden is not necessarily better than Gordon, and Carman is even stronger than Perkins N streets, especially Carman's rich and gorgeous interior offensive means, which just make up for the shortcomings of the Thunder's single interior offensive ability.

It is worth mentioning that after Harden joined the Clippers, he immediately showed that he was not weaker than Westbrook and Durant, averaging 25 points and 6 assists per game in 6 games, and Harden was only ranked below Anthony, Durant and Kobe Bryant in the scoring list. The Clippers are very happy to have acquired such a tough player.

Jump ball, this competition has rarely been lost since the Hornets had Oden, and in the league, the only people who can beat Oden with jump ball are a few interior spring people such as Howard McGee.

How is Carman, who has old arms and legs, an opponent for Oden? The basketball was easily dialed by Oden into Wang Meng's hands.

"Wang Meng! Beat him up! Wang Meng! Beat him up! Seeing Wang Meng receive the ball, the fans shouted in unison.

Wang Meng smiled, he looked at Westbrook, who was pale, and said with a smile: "Russell, you also know me, I am a very kind person. ”

Westbrook looked at Wang Meng, a little unclear as to what Wang Meng meant by this.

"Because I'm a very kind person, I usually won't refuse the fans' requests, so I've wronged you!"

Westbrook felt like his lungs were about to explode, this guy was too arrogant, "Give me less nonsense!" Hurry up and let the horses come! ”

"Good!" Wang Meng dribbled slightly, and then burst into the inside line with an instant explosion.

Westbrook caught up and was easily pushed aside by Wang Meng.

"Damn! It's really a memory of eating! Durant saw this scene on the side, and couldn't help but scold, Wang Meng's breakthrough, no one in the point guard can prevent it, this is already the consensus of everyone, the head coach also repeatedly emphasized before the start of the game that if Wang Meng broke through alone, how to deal with it, but when on the court, Westbrook still has to go alone without believing in evil.

didn't have time to think about it, Durant hurriedly gave up his defensive player Wallace and pounced on Wang Meng, who was moving inside.

"Huh?" Wang glanced at it and found that Durant had to choose to wrap himself in the first ball.

Without saying a word, Wang Meng passed the ball directly into the hands of Wallace on the outside.

Wallace received the ball, weighed it, and wanted to shoot three points, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the first ball was more domineering to rush into the inside and dunk. As soon as he thought of it, Wallace immediately strode to the inside.

Two steps off, Wallace was already floating in the air. "What should I do?" Wallace, who was in the air, was thinking about what he wanted to do to make a move more exciting, when he suddenly saw a dark shadow pounce on him. "Rub! React so fast! It was too late for Wallace to think about the dunk posture, and Wallace hurriedly sent the basketball to the basket with both hands, and at this moment, as long as he could put the basketball in, it didn't matter what posture.

The speed of this black shadow was a little unexpected by Wallace, and before Wallace could get close to the basket, this black shadow had already come to his side one step earlier, and at the same time slapped the basketball in his hand.

"You still want to cover me!" Wallace was indignant, and said secretly in his heart: "If you came from me to make up for the defense, Lao Tzu would have ridden you a long time ago!" "Although I think so, after all, people help defend from the side.

Wallace exerted his waist and abdomen, and his advancing body stopped in the air for a moment, and then at this time, Wallace made a cat waist, and the original dunk was changed to a layup from the side, avoiding the black shadow's block.

The block was dodged, but Wallace didn't have the level of such a difficult layup. After the basketball circled the basket, it fell and was caught by Wallace's black shadow who caught the rebound.

It was only at this time that Wallace had time to see this person's face, and it turned out that the black shadow of this defense was the Thunder's block king Ibaka.

Ibaka grabbed the rebound, and two words instantly popped into his mind, "Break fast!" "Last season, the Thunder played like that.

Without thinking about it, Ibaka immediately dropped the ball to Westbrook.

"Don't!" Westbrook was taken aback and hurriedly waved his hand, but unfortunately it was too late.

Ibaka had just passed the basketball when suddenly there was an extra figure in the empty space between him and Westbrook.

Wang Meng!

"Oops!" Ibaka was taken aback and hurriedly pounced on the king.

Wang Meng cut off Ibaka's pass, and immediately threw the basketball at Ibaka.

"What is this for? Is it because you stole me, a little embarrassed and want to give it back to me? Is it so good? "Ibaka felt a little baffled.

Before he could think about it, he found that the ball was a little high, and he raised his hand to take off the basketball, but found that the ball was indeed a bit high, and he couldn't catch the basketball just by raising his hand on the ground.

"Damn! I knew it and jumped up! Ibaka was a little annoyed in his heart, because he was too anxious, Ibaka ran towards Wang Meng just now, and he couldn't jump quickly during the run. Although he missed the ball, Ibaka didn't have much frustration in his heart, because there was no one behind Ibaka at all, and the basketball didn't touch it, so it was a throw-in, and the ball was also Thunder.

Ibaka was about to turn to serve from the baseline when he heard a cheer from the fans on the court, followed by a familiar sound.

"Bang!" The sound is all too familiar, it's the sound of players raging through the basket.

Ibaka looked back, only to see Wallace hanging from the basket with a smile on his face like Maitreya.

"It's really a beautiful aerial relay, Wang Meng's pass is very in place! Although Wallace's previous dunk was ruined by Ibaka, he immediately got a better dunk, and Ibaka, who blocked Wallace before, became a background man this time! The on-site commentator said passionately.

"Rub~! It's a background! Ibaka was depressed.

"Don't worry! I'll blow you up in a moment. When he retreated, Wang Meng said to Westbrook.

Westbrook glared at Wang Meng fiercely, reached out to take Ibaka's serve, and rushed forward with his head covered.

After halftime, Westbrook passed the ball to Durant, which was requested by Thunder head coach Brooks to fully open Durant in the game against the Hornets.

Wallace's defensive skills are very good, and he plays very passionately, and he works very hard to defend Durant, especially after just completing a hearty dunk, Wallace's enthusiasm at the moment is very high, and when he saw Durant receiving the ball, he immediately leaned in and interfered with Durant with his own hands.

Despite this, Durant seems very calm, as the star of the Thunder, Durant will receive such special care when playing with any team, but in this case, Durant can still win the scoring championship for three consecutive years, which shows that Durant's scoring ability is indeed the top in the league. Even a player like Wallace can't completely restrain him.

Durant made a slight feint to shoot, and although Wallace knew it was a feint, he had to put his weight forward, otherwise the feint would likely become a real move.

Seeing Wallace's center of gravity move, Durant immediately withdrew the ball and rushed inside, Wallace followed Durant closely, while his hands kept groping on Durant's body.

Durant broke through two steps forward, suddenly jumped up and shot, Wallace was caught off guard and was thrown a short distance, and by the time he stopped to defend Durant, Durant had already shot and hit the basketball in his hand.

The Thunder scored two points, and before they had time to be happy, they all rushed to the backcourt, they didn't want such a fast pace, but Wang Meng had already received the basketball on the bottom line at this time, Wang Meng's fast speed made the Thunder and the gang scared, it was simply a faster than the Thunder.

The game between the Hornets and the Thunder is completely different from that of the Spurs, who are defense-oriented and play at a slower pace. The Thunder, on the other hand, are the quintessential team for the league's small-ball whirlwind. These two are not as advantageous as the other, but according to most people's opinions, it is the Spurs who play better. Because the league has always had a saying that offense can win the box office, and defense can win championships. It's not that the small ball storm defense is weak, but after all, it is a fast attack play, and it is inevitable that there will be mispositions when attacking, and the defense cannot be in place everywhere.

The Hornets are completely different from the Spurs and the Thunder, the Hornets are more sleek, in the presence of Wang Meng, Wallace, Tony Allen and Roy, the Hornets want to play the fast break rhythm is very easy, at the same time, the Hornets also have a rare interior line in the league such as Gasol and Oden, and it is also possible to play a steady positional battle, compared to the Spurs and the Thunder, the Hornets are more versatile, but many times, omnipotence also means all-in-one, the Hornets' position is inferior to the Spurs, and the fast break is also checked compared to the Thunder.

But from another point of view, the panacea is not as bad as imagined. For example, now, in the face of the fast break of the Thunder small-ball storm, the Hornets began to play a positional battle steadily.

The Thunder's fast break was delayed by the Hornets' positional defense.

After coming on the bench, the Thunder was stunned to find that the Thunder, who was originally much stronger than the Wasps, lost to the Hornets in the substitute battle.

Eric Gordon ended up in defeat in the confrontation with Roy, no way, Gordon's offense is indeed very talented, even Roy's personal marking did not limit him well, but compared to the offense, Gordon's defense is completely scum, Gordon, who is only more than 1.8 meters tall, often has to work hard to score in the face of Roy's defense with a height of 1.98 meters, and Roy wants to score in front of Gordon but is like picking up something.

The Thunder had no choice but to let the defensive expert Severo come on the court to limit Roy, but the defensive experts were not only the Thunder, and the Hornets also replaced Tony Allen, and Gordon was about to cry.

The starters were slow to play the rhythm, and the benches were also at a disadvantage, resulting in the Thunder falling behind throughout the game, and until the end of the game, the Thunder did not once tie the score.

At 120:113, the Hornets won seven straight games on the Thunder's head.

In this game, the core of the Thunder, Durant and Westbrook, both scored a lot, one scored 26 points, the other scored 24 points, and the two of them combined to score exactly 50 points, but even so, the Thunder still lost to the Hornets.

Wang Meng scored 28 points and sent 8 assists under Westbrook's defense in this game, breaking Westbrook again, and Roy, as the team's best sixth man, also played under Gordon's seemingly indiscreet defense, playing 25 minutes off the bench and scoring 21 points and 5 assists, with amazing efficiency.

In the first seven games of the season, the Hornets broke into the eyes of all the teams in the league with a winning attitude. First beating the Spurs' GDP plus Yao Ming's Big Four, and then taking out the Thunder Twins, the Hornets showed quality that surprised all the teams in the league.

(To be continued)