Chapter Seventy-Nine: Three Consecutive Defeats

"And how are you going to trade?" Scott thought for a moment and asked another question.

"I don't have a specific plan yet, you can also think about how to trade better."

"Then you always have some ideas, don't you?"

"I want to get an interior line that can attack, and now we only have Noah and Big Ben on the inside, but their role at the moment is all defensive, we lack an interior line that can attack, so using our crowded guard line to change the offensive interior line is what I think is what we need at the moment."

"Do you have a goal?"

"Didn't I say it just now, I don't have a goal now, after all, Gu's injury happened just now, and at the beginning I was struggling with who to trade, but now Gu's injury makes me have little choice, and trading Gu is the best plan in my opinion."

"Okay then, then I'll do as you say and find if there is anyone who is suitable for your requirements."

Next, the two stayed in Paxson's office for two hours, and the two had a careful discussion around Gu Fei's possible trading plan, although Scott has always been optimistic about Gu Fei and can be regarded as discovering his Bole, but now the general manager of the team has made up his mind to trade Gu Fei, and he has no choice, since the matter has become a foregone conclusion, he has to do his best to maximize the interests of the team, this is because of his professional quality, and at the same time, out of his own feelings, he also hopes that Gu Fei can go to a good team suitable for him, This can be regarded as him doing something for Gu Fei, so although he himself does not want to trade Gu Fei, he is also trying his best to discuss the trading plan, he knows that this is good for everyone.

This is the fourth day that Gu Fei has been in the hospital, and tonight the Bulls will play again after a three-day rest, and they will face the Bobcats at home.

For this game, the entire Bulls are not worried about losing, the Bobcats are now the youngest team in the league, they only joined the league in 2004 and belong to the same East as the Bulls, this is the fourth season of the Bobcats, the current situation of the team and the Bulls is somewhat similar, there is no real core, there is the "dunk king" Jason Richardson on the outside, and Emika Okafor is the same young as the team on the inside.

Jason Richardson is known to be a well-bounced wing player with a strong dunk ability, a precise three-point shot and a decent breakaway, but a terrible ball-handling offense; Jump with both feet and pause under the basket. Good rebounding; Bad defense. Lack of traversing. Better suited for defensive small forwards. Overall a good success.

Emika Okafor was drafted by the Bobcats with the second pick in the first round in '04 and won the NBA Rookie of the Year title in 2004-05 with an average of 15.1 points, 10.9 rebounds, 1.7 blocks and 0.9 steals per game. On offense, he mainly lays and dunks, supplemented by jump shots and mid-range jumpers in the restricted area, excellent frontcourt rebounders, and poor free throw shooting standards. But he is a low-post defensive demon, with a strong blocking deterrent, averaging more than ten rebounds per game, and is the backbone and barrier of the interior. The average of 4.1 blocks per game in college is the best among college students in the country. Okafor has had high hopes since the day he joined the Bobcats, and his average of two double-doubles in each of his three-year career is a testament to his quality. And the Bobcats have always been cultivating with him as the core, but so far Okafor has not made great progress, although he has maintained a double-double per game in the season for three years from the beginning of his rookie season to now, but it is not enough to become the leader and core of the team, in general, Okafor's defense is better than offense, and his ability to protect and block defensive rebounds is among the best in the league's power forwards. In terms of offense, Okafor is more likely to use his strong body to attack or secondary offense on the inside, and he can be regarded as a senior blue-collar who is average offensively.

As night fell, the game started on time at the Union Center.

Okafor and Gordon, who had lived in the same dormitory before the game, were still chatting cordially together, while the other two teams were also very friendly, and it was not at all clear that the two teams were about to start a big game soon.

The friendly atmosphere just now when the game was played was completely gone, and Okafor did not give Gordon face as a roommate, and at the beginning of the first quarter, Gordon was hit by two big hats when he entered the interior, which bit blinded Gordon, and the next few offenses ended in failure, while the other Bulls players collectively forgot their feelings at home as if they had agreed.

Of course, the Bobcats will not give up when they see such a good opportunity, Richardson and Okafor worked at the same time, and opened the score with a wave of 12-4 in the first quarter.

In the next game, the Bulls' bench performance was better than the starter, but it only ensured that the score was not further stretched.

The starter returned to the court in the third quarter, Gordon's convulsive player seemed to have found his touch again, Richardson was successfully broken by Gordon several times in a row, and Okafor, who performed well in the first quarter, was limited by Big Ben in the third quarter, after all, Big Ben's defensive experience is not comparable to Noa'a.

At the end of the third quarter, the Bulls chased the deficit to five points, only to be broken by the Bobcats again when the Bulls saw hope of victory.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the success rate of the Bulls and Bobcats offense was not high, so the score did not increase or shrink, but with 8 minutes left in the game, the Bobcats' point guard Raymond Felton suddenly exploded.

Felton is only 185 tall but weighs 93 kilograms, but that doesn't affect his pace, with a turnaround run of 10.5 seconds, a three-quarter sprint of 3.06 seconds and a 10.8-second speed in the 100m.

In this way, Hinrich, who has a good defense, suffered in strength and speed in the face of Felton, who was much shorter than himself, and Felton successfully broke through Hinrich in succession, and caused a lot of fouls on the inside, the same as Gordon's performance in the second quarter, but Gordon was closing the score, and now Felton is pulling the score.

At this time, Scott, who was off the court, missed Gu Fei's three points very much, because he knew that as long as he created a three-point opportunity for Gu Fei, and then gave the ball to himself, he could rest assured, especially now chasing the wind, the team does not have a really good pitcher.

In the end, the Bobcats won the game with Felton's sudden outburst in the fourth quarter to open the score and win the game against the Bulls 98-78, which was also a big upset.

Gu Fei watched the live broadcast of the game on TV in the hospital, and he also felt a little helpless about this game, in his opinion, this game should be able to be won, but today the bulls all felt bad and the bobcats felt better before they lost.

"If I was here, I would have won the game, and I don't know how long it will take to get back on the pitch."

Gu Fei also knew that he couldn't help it, even if there was systematic help to shorten the recovery time to half of the previous and there were no hidden dangers, but according to what the doctor said in two to three months, Gu Fei would need more than a month to recover.

Now although Gu Fei feels that he may be traded, now he still thinks about helping the Bulls win, after all, he is still a player of the Bulls, and the work ethic still has to be there.

After losing at home, after a day of rest, the 4th faced the challenge of the Mavericks at home, and the Bulls lost the game again with a five-point difference, but those who watched the game knew that the game was not intense, in fact, the Mavericks were far ahead from the beginning, and it was not until the fourth quarter that the main force of the Mavericks basically went down and the Bulls began to chase back points, but it was too late.

Gu Fei was injured and the bull's three consecutive defeats made some people who supported Gu Fei put forward the argument that Gu Fei was the core of the bull.

But Gu Fei, who was lying on the hospital bed, didn't know all this, because these arguments did not appear in the media and the Internet on a large scale, of course, Gu Fei didn't care about these, he knew that he was not enough to become the real core of a team, which Gu Fei was more self-aware than many stars.