Chapter 30: Consecutive Road Trips (Ask for Recommendations!) )
If you talk about the super bad team, in the past few years, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely not the Knicks, but the Portland Trail Blazers.
The owner of the Portland Trail Blazers is a big money, one of the richest owners of the NBA teams now, and Bill Gates created the existence of the Microsoft myth together, spending money out of the middle, all the players he fancies, will be smashed with a lot of money, Portland used to be like this, but after the money was thrown out, the Trail Blazers did not become a strong team in the league as he thought, but became one of the super bad teams in the league......
Locker room incidents, marijuana smoking, fights, strikes...... Almost everything that rotten people should do, they did.
In the end, the owner of the Trail Blazers, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and started the rebuilt hotel with Roy as the core of the young man, although it took him a lot of energy and money to get rid of those big contracts, but finally threw all this garbage out.
Portland, with the help of young men like Roy and Aldridge, began to grow rapidly.
By this year, the Trail Blazers had become one of the strongest teams in the league, with Portland going 16-10 before that.
The rankings are much higher than the Kings, and Greg Oden, the champion who returned from injury this year, All-Star level power forward Aldridge, Brandon Roy, who has become an All-Star, and the veteran Blake, plus the energetic Batum.
In addition, Fernandez and other very good substitutes, in the Rose Arena, welcome everyone, even if they face the league's popular Celtics, Lakers, Cavaliers and other teams, they will never be restrained, not to mention facing the Kings who are many below them! Amid the boos of the away fans, the Kings started the day's game.
It was also their first game under the command of a new coach......
The battle only lasted for two quarters, and then the king was finished, the defense couldn't keep up with the opponent's offense, the offense couldn't penetrate the opponent's defense, and in such a situation they still wanted to win the game, it was simply in vain, after the game started, Salmones hit two goals in a row, the king played a good start, 5-0 start, but then Aldridge also hit two goals in a row, helping the team quickly enter the game, the Kings Salmons is unstoppable today, the inside is heavy, the outside three points are omnipotent, The Kings stretched the difference to 14-6, in the middle of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers began to organize counterattacks, Batum, Oden and Roy, one after another, the Trail Blazers after a wave of 9-0, the score was overtaken in one fell swoop, the two sides launched a pull battle at the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers relied on the power of the home court, a slight advantage, Stephen Blake received an assist from Joel Pulzmilla, hit a jumper from 19 feet out, and with Salmons hitting a layup in the final moments, the first quarter ended, The Kings trailed the Trail Blazers by just one point at 27-28.
However, at the beginning of the second quarter, Roy was not used to the Kings, when the two sides fell into a bitter battle, Brandon Roy began to exert his might, in the second half of the seventh half, the Trail Blazers three military life, suppressed the Kings again in momentum, Roy began to play tricks, leading the offense, even shooting and free throws to cut ten points in a row, the Trail Blazers also extended the lead to more than ten points, at the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers led the Kings 54-42, and the offense on the King's side obviously had problems.
Salmons is the kind of player who can burst out in a short period of time, and you can't expect him to burst out all game.
At the beginning of the second half, Roy made consecutive breakthroughs and layups, Oden made a strong dunk, and the Trail Blazers kicked the Kings directly into the abyss with a wave of 6-0 small **, and without Zhang Kong's defensive core, the Kings' offense also came to a standstill, Roy, an All-Star, let Aldridge and Oden and others play bravely, and the Trail Blazers had a wave of 13-2**, which directly turned the score into 73-51, and there was no suspense in the game here! At the end of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers extended their lead to 81-60 and led the Kings by a full 19 points......
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Kings were already sleepwalking, and the Trail Blazers relied on more points to blossom and play a wave of 14-2 attacks**, completely establishing the victory, and with 6 minutes left in the game, the score had become 95-62, and there was no point in struggling anymore...... Miller and the others sat on the bench on the sidelines, looking at Kenny Knight in front of them a little strangely, they really couldn't understand why Zhang Kong was not allowed to play in such a situation.
Zhang Kong just sat next to him in the team's clothes, watching the game all the time, and didn't say a word.
"Okay, the game is over, let's go back and rest, I'm going to fly to Houston tomorrow!" This was the only thing Kenny Knight said when he came back after going to the press conference, and Miller and the others didn't know what to say when they heard it.
Kenny Knight is no stranger to them, one of the boss's loyal lackeys, and now he has replaced Reggie Cias, but he doesn't know? If the team's record is not good, then he is the next Reggie Cias.
But only Kenny Knight and Zhang Kong understood that if he let Zhang Kong play, then he probably didn't need to command the next game, and there was no chance of winning against the Trail Blazers...... What if you don't let Zhang Kong play! Who called this player to dare to yin himself.
"Zhang!" Salmons, who performed bravely today, walked next to Zhang Kong, this player has always had some opinions about Zhang Kong, because when he first came, Zhang Kong obviously took up a lot of his playing time, but since he helped the team win the game against the Knicks, the rest of the team will not be bad even if they have a bad relationship with Zhang Kong.
Who wouldn't love a player who likes to defend and doesn't have the right shots, and who can help them?
There are so many shots in a game, and Zhang Kong doesn't occupy it once, such a person, everyone likes it.
And there are not many top players in defense, even in the league, Bowen, Bale, defensive experts like them, may not be liked by others, but in their own teams, these people are very popular.
And Zhang Kong is as good as Bowen and Bell...... Even a player like Salmons now knows the value of Zhang Kong, patted Zhang Kong on the shoulder, Zhang Kong just smiled at him, he had already guessed that he would not play, and if Ma'rouf still let him play, he would not arrange any good work for himself.
Roy's strongest thing is his rhythm and balance, the offense is not particularly strong, if Zhang Kong is sent, it is really possible to defend the opponent, so Zhang Kong has already thought about it, in this game, Ma'auff will never let himself have a chance to play.
As for the next game against the Rockets, it will depend on the state of the Rockets! The Rockets have Yao Ming, Maddie and Artest.
Needless to say, Yao Ming is also the scoring champion of the year, Artest is a defensive tough guy, and the existence of the Rocket's Big Three may really make Zhang Kong play......
Just after everyone got back to the hotel in the team's bus, Kenny Knight received instructions from owner Marouf on what to do next.
"For the rocket, to see whose hand is hot, is to let Zhang Kong go up to defend against whom!" That's what the owner Ma'ruf meant.
Now he still owes Zhang Kong $2.85 million, and he doesn't want to pay it back, so he needs to let Zhang Kong pay it back.
There's Artest and Maddie on the Rockets' side, and as long as one of these two people has a hot hand, then they have to send Zhang Kong.
"Got it, boss!" After Kenny Knight heard Marouf's instructions, he said respectfully, accepted the phone, and looked at Zhang Kong, who was carrying his luggage into the room, Kenny Knight was also quite helpless! It seems that Zhang Kong, this young man, has really offended the boss very much!
On the morning of December 17, Zhang Kong came to Houston with the team, and just checked into the hotel, the phone in the room rang......
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A change in the middle of the night, ask for recommendations, ask for collections! Xiao Fei went to sleep immediately after sending this chapter...... Thank you here, Kesa and Aiguo Kang said a big reward, as for the silver bag...... I guess he won't read my novels, so I won't thank him! Hey!
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