Chapter 15 Derby
Night, Bradley Center.
The Bucks, who only joined the NBA in 1968, reached the championship podium in just three years, becoming the shortest time to win the championship after joining the NBA.
However, in the 2001-02 season, many players of the Bucks were plagued by injuries, and the entire team did nothing and withdrew from the championship ranks; Even George Carr, who successfully joined the "Dream Five", also failed in the World Championships and lost again and again. Several seasons with Michael Reid at the core, but the results were not ideal.
Although the Bucks have always been a playoff team, the attention in China has not been high, and it was not until this year that the Bucks selected Yi Jianlian with the No. 6 pick that they became the focus of Chinese fans.
And tonight's media publicity gimmick for this game is the Chinese derby between Yi Jianlian and Gu Fei, as early as Gu Fei has just made some name for himself in the preseason, the media has been hyping the derby between Yi Jianlian and Gu Fei.
Some people will ask why these media don't promote the Chinese derby between the two of them and Yao Ming?
That's because Yao Ming is not a player at the same level as them at the moment, Yao Ming is one of the best interior players in the NBA at the moment, and Yi Jianlian and Gu Fei are both rookies this year, and they can also match from the current table, plus Stern has always wanted to work hard to open up the Chinese market, so after Yao Ming, he has been looking for Chinese players, and this year's Yi Jianlian and Gu Fei meet his standards, so he has also been speculating on this Chinese derby, Coupled with the media's encouragement, this originally ordinary regular season game has attracted much attention.
"Hi Gu Fei, welcome to Milwaukee."
"Hello UAE."
"Are you used to the NBA? I'm not used to anything in the U.S. now, I don't understand the language, I don't get used to the food. â
"I'm fine, after all, I've been living in the United States for a few years and I'm used to the American way of life."
"yes, I forgot you went to college in the United States."
"Look, that big Chinese guy and the bull's god shooter are chatting together, as if they know what they're talking about, is it talking about Chinese food?"
"Charles, look at the fat of your life, why are you still thinking about eating, today we are here to explain the game, can you have a little professionalism?"
"Kenny, I just want to know what they said, why they didn't have professionalism anymore, and besides, the game hasn't started yet."
For this commentary** fielded their ace commentary duo, our great Mr. Flying Pig and Kenny Smith.
Ignoring the bickering between Barkley and Smith on the commentary table, Yi Jianlian and Gu Fei cheered each other on after a few words of greeting and returned to the Bucks, while Gu Fei was chatting with Noah at this time.
"Gu, what did he tell you just now?"
"Nothing, just a greeting to each other."
"Oh, so do you think we can win today?"
"Of course, we're going to win this game."
Soon the game started, Gu Fei was still sitting on the sidelines, and Yi Jianlian over there was also off the court.
The game was uneventful, not intense and not much turbulent.
"Kenny, I'm sorry to be commenting on this fight, I'm about to fall asleep, it's one of the ugliest fights I've ever seen."
"Yes Charles, the game was really boring, today's basket seemed to have a lid, and the sound of iron almost destroyed my ears to the point of deafness."
Now that the score is 18-14, the Bucks are ahead, and the first quarter of the game is about to end, Kenny Smith said that today's basket is covered, and the game is really boring.
Both teams are playing the game one by one, and both sides do not have the kind of players who have the kind of creative zĂ o force, so both sides are simple offensive and defensive, and even if they play tactics, they don't use very beautiful cooperation, the most important thing is that the success rate of both teams today is too low, and everyone has seen low scores, generally speaking, sometimes it is normal for a team to feel bad, and generally the score of a team is relatively low, but there are indeed very few cases where both teams can not score, and the defense is not good, so it is not to blame Barkley for saying that he is going to fall asleep.
Now it's rotation time on the court, Gu Fei and Yi Jianlian have been replaced, and the first quarter is over with 3 minutes left.
"Mr. Flying Pig, look, those two Chinese are on the field."
As soon as he heard Smith's words, Barkley came to his senses, and he didn't even notice that Smith called him Flying Pig.
However, what disappointed Barkley was that the UAE and Gu Fei did not show much after they came on the court, and until the end of the first quarter, Gu Fei scored two points in three minutes, and Yi Jianlian got a rebound.
"I'm so disappointed in the current game, I hope the coaches of the two teams can make adjustments during the break and give a wonderful game to the spectators, otherwise even if they win the game without spectators, I don't think the owners of the team will agree."
"Kenny, you're right, if the game is still so dull, I don't think the crowd needs to be out of the stadium at garbage time."
Aside from Barkley and Smith's dissatisfaction with the game, Scott on the sidelines was more satisfied with the player's performance, although the game was ugly and the team trailed by two points at 20-18.
"The first quarter was good, although we were behind but we played at our own pace, and then we still played like this, but we should pay attention to improving the success rate of the offense, if the Bucks adjust to the game first, it will not be easy to play"
In the following time, Scott did not arrange any tactics, and encouraged the players a few more words before letting the players rest on their own.
Five minutes passed quickly, and the players were back on the pitch.
The main players were still sitting on the sidelines to rest, and Gu Fei got playing time again.
On the field, Gu Fei was a little anxious, he didn't get the ball in these few rounds, he kept running back and forth on the court, although he was anxious, he couldn't help it, he also asked for the ball once, but no one gave it to him, and now he didn't have the ability to distribute the ball, so he didn't touch the ball for a few rounds.
"Charles, that Gu from China hasn't touched the ball in the past few rounds, is this the case?"
"I think it may be because Gu Fei's ability is on three points from the current point of view, and he has not had good vacant opportunities in these rounds, and he himself has no ability to hold the ball, so he did not participate in the attack."
"Maybe, then who do you think Gu Heyi has the better number in this game?"
"I think it will be Yi, you see that he has 6 points and 3 boards now, and Gu Cai has 2 points, 1 board and 1 assist."
"That's not necessarily, have you forgotten that the last time the Bulls scored three three-pointers in the last minute, and they also hit the final shot?"
"It's going to be easy, maybe it's luck."
"Oh? So how about we make a bet? â
"What to bet on, how to bet?"
"How about betting on who has the most points, rebounds, and assists after the game?"
"Okay, you're ready for a hundred dollars, Kan Yi got another rebound, haha."
Gu Fei didn't know about Barkley and Smith's bet on himself, and he was now helplessly looking at the Bucks players defending him in front of him.
Now the Bucks are defending Gu Fei on the court is Charlie Bell, a player who was also a talented player in high school, Charlie Bell graduated from Flint Southwestern College in high school. In the 1996-97 season, he was named Mr. Michigan and was the all-time leading scorer at Southwestern College, scoring a total of 2,252 points. Charlie Bell averaged 30.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game in the 1996-97 season. He was also a very good player in the NCAA, scoring 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against the University of Oakland on November 19, 2000, becoming the first Michigan player to score a triple-double in a game after "Magic" Johnson. In the 2000 NCAA semifinals and finals, he averaged 6.5 points, 8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game to help Michigan State win the NCAA championship.
However, he was undrafted in the NBA Draft, and was not selected in the 2001 NBA Draft, after which he played in five Summer League games for the Phoenix Suns, averaging 8.4 minutes and 1.6 points per game. Charlie Bell played four games for the ABA's Phoenix Eclipse after being waived by the Suns, averaging 19.3 points, four rebounds and 6.3 assists per game. Charlie Bell signed a 10-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks on January 10, 2002, and signed a contract extension with the Mavericks on January 15, 2002, but Charlie Bell only made two appearances for the Dallas Mavericks in total.
After a short career in the NBA, Charlie Bell signed with Treviso Benetton in the Italian league in March 2002 and helped Treviso Benetton win the Italian league championship.
In the 05-06 season, Charlie Bell played 82 games and started 64 games, and was the only Bucks player to play 82 regular season games, averaging 13.5 points and 3 assists per game, both career highs. Career total points exceeded 1,000 points.
The defense of such a player is not very good, at least it is easy for Gu Fei to get rid of him, but now there is no one to pass the ball to him.
From the game to now, many media, fans and even experts who have paid attention to this game have no expectations for this Chinese derby, not to mention that the two have not faced each other directly until now, Yi Jianlian is better, and Gu Fei is now more invisible on the field.
On the other side of the ocean, Chinese fans have not paid much attention to this game, because most of their attention is not Gu Fei, and Chinese fans still like Yi Jianlian who came out of China.
In this case, is the "Chinese Derby" still a real Derby?