Chapter 417: The Third Week
Against the Rockets, Chamberlain continued to play efficiently, playing 40 minutes and churning out 32 points, 16 rebounds, six blocks and seven assists.
Chamberlain's all-round approach made him no longer have anything to hide, as New York Post sports columnist Watson said: "We have to remember that he's still a twenty-year-old guy, what are we doing at twenty?" I'm afraid they're all racing and smoking marijuana, right? But this kid is already carrying a city forward, we can't expect high from him, no matter how good he is, he's just a kid and not God! ”
At the same time, Chamberlain's brave play made him coveted by all teams in the league, although he already had Bynum, Gasol and Odom's assistance, but Kobe Bryant was still not satisfied, he wanted to get Chamberlain, because Chamberlain's growth made him feel uneasy, he praised Chamberlain several times in interviews with reporters, and vaguely said that the two were actually a perfect match.
If Kobe Bryant was still more self-conscious when he mentioned Chamberlain, then Iverson was making a big splash, and he was very unhappy with the Nuggets now, because the latter clearly planned to rebuild the team around Anthony, and even Camby sent him away, not to mention Iverson? You must know that Iverson is executing the last year of his contract this season, and his salary is 21 million!
The Nuggets will send Iverson away, and everyone knows about it, but the next family has not appeared for a long time, which means that Iverson, who was once popular in the league, has no one to accept it now.
Recently, there have been rumors that the Pistons are interested in Iverson because their team is being restructured and needs a popular superstar to help sell tickets for the time being, Iverson is a good choice, his big contract ends at the end of this season, and the Pistons can choose not to re-sign him, so that they can free up a lot of money to pick a popular star in next year's free agency.
However, the Pistons didn't have the good cards that the Nuggets needed, they originally wanted Billups, but Billups was traded to the Warriors, and then the Nuggets' uniform team thought Byron Davis was also good, and Davis went to the Los Angeles Clippers, so that the Pistons were left with some broken copper, they wanted to trade but the Nuggets were not stupid, they wanted to trade Iverson for a few good players.
Not only the Pistons and Nuggets are busy making substitutions, but the New York Knicks are making bigger moves, and they have been preparing for the 2010 rebuilding plan with great fanfare, because the league has regulations that cannot be said explicitly, but Sima Zhao's heart and passers-by know that Donnie Walsh has carried out a series of operations to clear the team's salary space after becoming the general manager of the Knicks, but Yahoo Sports columnist Andrea Wojnerowski has the title "Newleader, sameresultforKnicks" criticized Walsh's approach.
The Knicks' current operations are headed for 2010, because in 2010, most of the contracts of the elite players of the '03 Golden Generation were due to expire, and Chamberlain was also a player draft that year, as long as they could catch Wade, LeBron, Anthony, Bosh or any of Chamberlain, then the Knicks would have it.
Now their biggest targets are LeBron James and Chamberlain, the latter two are now in the limelight, originally the MVP list was the top of the Little Emperor, but since Billups injured Chamberlain suddenly broke out, the consecutive 30+20 has shown his dominance to the fullest, and now he has beaten the Little Emperor to become the new MVP top seed.
The Knicks have been in turmoil right now, and Donnie Walsh and former general manager Isiah Thomas have done different things, but they are both disrupting the team and making no difference to the Knicks. While the entire team is busy with the two goals of "Little Emperor" and SUPER-Z, which are not yet known to be achievable, the Knicks team is not much different from the era when "Smiling Assassin" was in charge.
In other words, if LeBron and Chamberlain have no intention of joining the Knicks in 2010, then I am afraid that the excellent free agents will begin to settle at that time, and even if there are good free agents left, the Knicks have nothing but money.
So far, Washh has sent off two of the team's top scorers, Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford, and the "old cat" Mobley is probably tired of even walking, and there are very few young and talented players in the team.
The league doesn't understand what the Knicks are doing now, and they even wonder if Knicks owner Dolan has a grudge against this team, otherwise why would they choose some **** general managers to manage the team? As the saying goes, a soldier is a bear, and a bad player can't hold up a position at most, but a stupid general manager can't hold up the whole team.
In this environment, the Warriors ushered in the Magic team who fought back and played their last game of the third week.
The Magic team now has no ordinary hatred for the Warriors, it is simply a desire to kill and then kill quickly, especially Howard, who was going to become the league's No. 1 center as O'Neal got old, but Chamberlain came out and took away all his glory, and now he is really bullied by Chamberlain without any dignity - it can be expected that as long as Chamberlain continues to develop like this, then the best defensive player, the best team center position, and the best defensive team center position in the next ten years will not have anything to do with him Howard, What do you think is this?
Sometimes Howard felt that there was something wrong with him that made God unhappy, otherwise why would he punish himself by lowering such a guy as Chamberlain? Yes, in Howard's view, Chamberlain came to the NBA to discipline himself.
No one is more eager to beat Chamberlain than Howard, even if he can't beat Chamberlain's death **** in statistics, but Howard hopes to lead the team to win the Warriors once, and this back-to-back gives him a chance, because Ellis and Billups are not there, because Chamberlain played hard in the first few games, and now his physical strength should be exhausted.
After the opening, Warcraft Howard showed a very strong offensive ****, and even when he jumped the ball, he won Chamberlain and got the ball, Howard took the initiative to attack the ball at the beginning of the game, Chamberlain was not strict with his defense, but his two shots were out of the basket.
Instead, a calm-hearted Chamberlain gave the Warriors a 2-0 lead with a beautiful hook, which made Howard angry and ashamed of his incompetence. What made him even more angry was that after that, Chamberlain and Curry scored back-to-back points, while Howard only received an assist from Turkoglu for a layup and scored two points, and after four minutes of the first quarter, the Magic trailed 8-11, and Van Gundy asked for a timeout.
After the pause, the Warriors replaced Azubuke with West, replaced Evans with Ibaka, and the magic was even cooler at this time, West is a well-known mad dog, only he must be a crazy attack as soon as he comes on the court, and sure enough, in the next two minutes, West who concentrated on offense and Chamberlain, who concentrated on defense, led the Warriors to play a wave of 8-0 small ****, and laid an 11-point lead in one fell swoop!
At the end of the first quarter, the Magic who were fighting away fell behind 19-26, the more anxious Howard was, the worse he played, and he only scored 4 points in the first quarter.
Back in the second quarter, the Warriors attacked Chamberlain with a skillful back to shake Howard's dunk under the basket, Howard was very anxious, Nelson reached out to ask for the ball as soon as he dribbled the ball past the frontcourt, Curry defended him with this move, Nelson Jr. was stealed by him when he passed, the Warriors couldn't counterattack quickly, and Howard finally got the ball.
As a result, after Howard got the ball, he was in a hurry and was blown away in the confrontation with Chamberlain, and the anger of the monster completely exploded, he grabbed the ball and asked the referee if he was blind, and the referee gave him a blank look and did not have the same knowledge as him, but the monster was not reconciled, and directly smashed the ball to the floor.
Now the referee is not calm, you kid is looking for death, as the old saying goes, NO-ZUO-NO-DIE, WHY-YOU-TRY? The referee mercilessly gave Howard a technical foul, and seeing that Van Gundy was in a state of disgrace, he didn't dare to complain, and after a timeout, he yelled for Turkoglu and Lewis to pull Howard down.
After the timeout, Curry hit the Warriors' free throws, Chamberlain scored on a basket, and Howard was lying on the bench with a towel on his face, and Chamberlain was amused: Is this guy playing dead?
As a result, Howard was not on the court, but the Magic's offense became a lot more ferocious, they just didn't defend, a strong onslaught, Turkoglu and Lewis felt hot, and it rained three points on the Oracle Center Court, using the three points of the two, the Magic narrowed the gap between the two sides to 2 points.
Big Van Gundy saw that the opportunity was coming, and hurriedly put the monster Howard on the court again, but today is such an evil door, Howard still can't find his touch on the court, he not only missed the shot again and again, but also was covered by the little character Ibaka with a dunk.
Up to now, Howard's muttering at the beginning of the game has directly turned into a scolding at the moment, he scolds as long as he misses the shot, and he scolds him when the Warriors offense hits, and he still scolds even when his teammates score goals, so words like 'Farke', 'shit', '**** raised', 'fucking' and the like keep ringing on the court.
With Howard's undercover performance, after the first half, the Warriors once again extended their lead to 57-50, and there was no fatigue at all from Chamberlain, as if he had not played more than 40 minutes in the past few games, and he could not see that he had been caught by the opponent in the previous games, and it seemed that he was in much better shape than Howard.
In the third quarter, the Magic still maintained the starting lineup, Nelson Sr. changed to the bench lineup, Chamberlain and Curry went off the court at the same time, and West took Evans, Ibaka, Harrington and Morrow to the main lineup of the Magic in a big battle.
Even though the Warriors only sent a bench, the two sides were still in a stalemate at the beginning, and although Howard gradually regained his touch, he was never able to help the team close the gap. The two teams continued the game with the rhythm of you scoring a goal, I dunking, and you being capped and I lost a pass, and then Morrow hit a key three-pointer to widen the gap between the two sides to 10, and the Warriors reopened the score at 80-66 after the third quarter.
The sluggish performance of the Magic starting lineup made the old Nelson happy to give Chamberlain more time to rest, in fact, the latter is not not tired, but has been restraining himself to show his fatigue on the outside, which is also what Gilmer taught him, now is the critical moment, everyone is tired after the team lacks Billups and Ellis, Chamberlain, as the only core, if he also shows fatigue, it is easy to cause an avalanche-like chain of consequences, and eventually lead to the collapse of the team.
Chamberlain is not only the Warriors' dependent, but also the natural enemy of the Warriors' opponents, the more calm and strong he becomes, the more confident his teammates are and the more panicked the opponents, so that the Warriors increase their hopes of winning, which is the role of superstars.
In the fourth quarter, the main forces of both sides returned, and Petrus hit a three-pointer as soon as he came up, and then the monster Howard and Chamberlain began a battle in the restricted area, and the two centers took over the game. Thanks to Chamberlain's third-quarter break, Howard finally found his senses, but they came a little late.
First, Howard and Nelson Jr. cooperated to have an aerial relay, and then Chamberlain received Curry's pass and hit a hook hand, Howard made a layup again and was blocked by Chamberlain, and in turn, Chamberlain's hook hand was also destroyed by Howard - he was stealed by Howard before he completed the hook, and the two big men in the restricted area came and went, and for a while, the narrow inside muscles flew and the iron elbow was rampant, and Turkogru, Ibaka and others did not dare to go in at all, so they could only watch in horror outside.
The fourth quarter became a game for the giants, and Howard and Chamberlain won and lost each other - it was only then that the Magic players were shocked to find that Chamberlain was actually tired, but he pretended to be good in front of him, and they didn't find out.
This was one of the things that made the Magic players extremely annoyed, and finally the game ended, and the Warriors took advantage of the lead in the first three quarters to laugh the most, and beat the Magic again 105-98, thus completing the double kill of the two teams this season!