Chapter 408: Week 2 (He Xibao Ge Gets a Daughter)
"Congratulations on your victory, the next meeting won't be so easy." Nash was gracious despite the loss, and after the game he went up to Chamberlain and hugged him, patted him on the back and said, "Come on, you've started to dominate the game, I'd love to see the faces of the other teams when they face you, it must be interesting." ”
Chamberlain eats soft rather than hard, and since people save face, he is embarrassed to make it too stiff, so he compliments: "Thank you for the compliment, Steve, but you're also great, you're the best defender I've ever seen - I mean my enemy." It's a real pleasure to be your teammate, I mean, I want to be your teammate, and if you can't wait to win a championship in the future, then I'm always ready to welcome you to California. ”
In fact, he is not a compliment, it should be said that Nash's performance today really deserves such praise: 34 points, 15 assists and 5 rebounds, 4 steals, he has done everything a guard can do.
Nash Ha Da laughed, he shrugged and said, "Maybe there will be that day, but not in five years, and if I go to California, wouldn't it be better to go to Los Angeles and be teammates with KB?" The Lakers seem to have more championship hopes than you, right? ”
The Warriors were defeated 4-1 by the Lakers in the Western Conference finals last season, and they also lost to the Lakers in the opening game of this season.
Laughing with Nash, Chamberlain walked towards the others, Xiao Si didn't deal with him at all, just barely high-fived him and left immediately, not even a word, Chamberlain didn't like him, what the hell, didn't he just follow Nash to get a little light? Look at your stats, 14 points, 5 rebounds, 1 block, and an All-Star starter-caliber forward.
I can't blame Xiao Si for being narrow-minded, mainly every time he plays against Chamberlain, the latter hits him too hard: today Chamberlain cut 37 points, 24 rebounds and 10 blocks! This is the first player to win 35+20+10 since Garnett played against the Wizards in the 2003 season, and the Forest and the Wizards played two overtime games in that game!
O'Neal didn't play well, but it wasn't because he had a problem with his ability or attitude, but because he was really old, plagued by declining fitness and injuries, and he played 28 minutes in this game, scoring 18 points and 8 rebounds, and the efficiency was already good.
Chamberlain thought that with the temper of a big shark's child, he would not talk to him, but when he walked over, O'Neill directly hugged him, and said with a smile: "Little guy, you are very lucky, if I were five years younger, I would definitely beat you to tears today." ”
Hearing this, Chamberlain shrugged his shoulders and said: "I also think so, after all, five years ago I was just a high school student with a height of 1.9 meters and a weight of only 100 kilograms." ”
O'Neill grinned and pretended to be angry: "Don't misinterpret what I mean, I mean that I was five years ago compared to you now, I can beat you and can't take care of yourself!" ”
Chamberlain shrugged his shoulders again and said, "Maybe, I respect the elderly, so you can enjoy YIN, I won't care." But you're doing well today, and for an old fellow, I thought I could guard against you, but now it seems that I'm too optimistic. ”
The two of them lost a few words to each other, and began to leave the court after the most reluctance, before parting, O'Neal suddenly grabbed him again, his expression changed from the previous hippie smile, and said quite seriously: "Come on, brother, now people say that the NBA has entered the twilight of the center, many young people have not seen the real center, thinking that Howard and Yao Ming are the top guys, go and dominate the game, tell these uninformed clowns what kind of glory our center has created!" ”
Chamberlain nodded heavily and promised: "I will definitely do it, I will bring the NBA back to the era of giants!" ”
The two high-fived and separated, and a reporter took a photo of this scene, which was the last strong confrontation between the two new and old super centers, and then the big shark, which had ravaged the NBA for more than ten years, was trapped by injury and missed the remaining two games of the season between the Suns and the Warriors, and then the big shark was abandoned by the Suns and sent to the Green Shirts, and since that day, there has been no big shark in the NBA.
When O'Neal was young, he had an unforgiving mouth and a very high self-esteem, and few people were taken by him, when reporters called Admiral Robertson, Big Dream Olajuwon, and Gorilla Ewing together with him as the four centers of the nineties, someone asked him what he thought of this list, O'Neill said contemptuously: "Even Robertson's girl can enter the list, what does it mean to add me to it?" ”
This time, a reporter asked O'Neill about Chamberlain's opinion after the game, and he praised him: "It's a pity that I missed the golden age of playing against him, I really hope that Z can be born ten or twenty years earlier, so that there will really be four centers in the nineties." Z's potential is the strongest I've ever seen a big man, and he's far from the real him now, just like I wasn't the real me when I first entered the league for two years, and if you ask me my final impression of him, I think the nickname I gave him fits well - Dire Crocodile! ”
The dinosaur is a prehistoric giant crocodile, which survived in the western coast of North America during the late Cretaceous period, and fossils of this terrifying creature have appeared in many locations in California, but because of the changes in the earth's crust, most of the fossils have been broken, and people can only see the style of this ancient giant crocodile by piecing together fossils.
The adult dinosaur is more than fifteen meters long and weighs nearly nine tons, and has an extremely fierce and brutal temperament, and its main food source is actually the dinosaurs, the rulers of the earth during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods! Their mugs have an incredible bite force, more than twice their body weight, reaching a sensational twenty tons, and they like to hide near the shores of lakes, where when a dinosaur comes to drink, bite and drag them into the water, bite them to death or drown, and then eat them.
O'Neill likes to give nicknames to his opponents, but rarely does he think so highly of his opponents that he would give such an evaluation as a prehistoric behemoth.
Chamberlain's big triple-double once again sparked a wave of discussion among fans, and on many heavyweight basketball forums in Chinese mainland, such headlines were hung out: "It's time to discuss Chamberlain's historical status", and the following replies are "Ironclad 50 superstar level", "The Warriors will make a statue of him", "The player with the fastest rise in history", "The first center in history".
After winning the Suns, the Warriors flew to Sacramento to play against the Kings, but they didn't go back-to-back, and they flew to Sacramento and had a day of rest before they started.
Many people don't know that Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are all in California, and Sacramento is also the capital of California. The Warriors are generally called the Golden State Warriors, because California has a nickname is the Golden State, the Great Gold Rush era at the beginning of the last century, California was the protagonist, and a lot of gold mines were found here, but unfortunately it was swept away later, which is the origin of the name Golden State.
The Kings, like the Warriors, are veterans of the NBA, having joined the NBA since 1948, only to be on the move, moving from city to city in the United States before finally arriving in Sacaramento. When they first arrived in Sacramento, the Kings had a poor record from 1982 to 1995, only making the playoffs in 1986 and being swept out of the first round.
But since the late '90s, the Kings have made the playoffs for six consecutive seasons, but unfortunately only advanced to the Western Conference Finals at most. With the transfer of key Kings players Chris Webb, Peja Stojakovich and others, the Kings have begun to linger outside the playoffs again, and the Kings' record is still not improving this season, and this game is destined to be slaughtered by their brothers in the same district, the Warriors.
The Kings' starting lineup is: center Jason Thompson, power forward Harvey, small forward John Salmons, playmaking guard Udri, and scoring guard Kevin Martin.
The starting lineup of the Warriors is: Chamberlain + Serge Ibaka + Jackson + Billups + West.
Chamberlain showed a very strong offensive **** after the opening, but his two shots were deflected off the basket, but it was Thompson, the new center of the Kings, who gave the Kings a 2-0 lead with a beautiful hook. After that, the Warriors began to attack, Chamberlain and West scored back-to-back points, and the opposite Kings played resiliently, during which Harvey also received a pass from Yudri and came to an aerial relay over Ibaka's head, the Warriors quickly established a lead, but it was not obvious, and the Kings fell behind 8-11 before coach Reggie Sias called a timeout.
After the timeout, the Kings replaced Harvey with rookie center Spinson and used a twin-tower strategy to limit Chamberlain, but it didn't work. Although Chamberlain played a big triple-double performance in the last game, it did not cause physical exhaustion, and then he and West teamed up to play a wave of 12-0 small ****, which established a 15-point lead in one fell swoop, and forced Sias to pause again - Spinson is tall and has long arms and excellent awareness, but he is a rookie, and his style of play is too soft, this kind of person is very bad in the face of Chamberlain.
At the end of the first quarter, the Kings at home fell behind 13-26 and scored an extremely ugly score for the host fans, which was also the lowest score in a single quarter this season. In this game, the Warriors put a lot of emphasis on defense, otherwise the Kings would not be so unbearable, in this quarter, Martin, Udri, Salmons composed of the Kings backcourt only 3 of 14 shots, their team only scored 5 goals in the first quarter of the game, five starters, one shot a ball, digging a big hole for the rest of the game.
Back in the second quarter, the Warriors directly switched to an all-bench lineup, and only Ibaka, a pseudo-starter, was on the court. But the Kings were broken in the first quarter, and the offense hesitated after coming on the court, while the Warriors' bench launched a ferocious attack, and Morrow scored five points in a row to widen the difference to 18 points in the opening game.
Fortunately, Kevin Martin, who had no touch at all in the first quarter, finally found his touch, he and West entered the NBA at the same level, and there were no superstars in that level of rookies, but there were many featured players, such as retro power forward Jefferson, such as violent bench JR Smith, such as shooting machine Martin.
Martin led the Kings to a 7-0 small **** in a row to force Nelson Sr. to call a timeout, Moreau's defense really became a problem, he was simply the second Ellis, and now the outside world is discussing whether Moreau is possessed by Ellis.
After the timeout, Curry and Morrow switched defenses, only to hit another three-pointer in the face of Moro Yudri to close the gap to eight points. However, the Kings still can't get back their touch on the court, and the core Thompson not only missed shots in a row, but was also blocked by Ibaka twice for layups, and Ibaka grabbed Thompson today and played with confidence.
The players on both sides were very inconsistent, and it was understandable that the Warriors were the main players off the bench, but the Kings were the main players on the court. A humiliating performance on the defensive end spurred the highly motivated Morrow, who scored back-to-back driving layups as the Warriors re-established a 15-point lead.
At the end of the second quarter, with the excellent play of Salmons and Martin, the Kings recovered half of the difference at halftime, only 40-47 behind. The Warriors shot 44 from the field in the first half. 4% and the king only 35. 7%
In the third quarter, the Kings were still the starters, and the Warriors continued to send benches, at halftime the Kings coach Sias was furious in the locker room and redeployed his tactics, the two sides fell into a stalemate at the beginning, the Kings' interior finally found their form, Spinson hit two consecutive turnaround jumpers, and power forward Harvey also performed well, but they never helped the team narrow the difference.
Then, at the end of the third quarter, Curry hit a key three-pointer to widen the gap to 10 points, Martin made a fast-break layup that caused Curry to foul, only to make only one free throw, and failed to help the team achieve a landmark result, and the Warriors maintained a 74-65 lead at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the Kings players launched a comeback wave, and the elder Nelson had a foresight, but he still refused to make substitutions, and he wanted to train the key abilities of this group of newcomers. Udri stepped in on Curry's pass and hit a three-pointer, and then Salmons took over the game completely, scoring on consecutive shots from the outside.
With six minutes left in the fourth quarter, Yudri, who had been feeling cold, hit another three-pointer and the Kings chased the score to 79-81. With a wave of Nelson Sr., the Warriors' starting five Tigers shot again, 99-89, and the Warriors won the Kings without blood, and won all the games on Wednesday in the second game.