Chapter 733: The Battle for Points

Not to be thrilled, halfway through March, Chamberlain was elected the Western Conference Player of the Week twice in a row, the number of 35+20 is a bit terrifying, Kobe, Durant and other outside killers are ruthless, Oden, Duncan These inside lines are also murderous, but in the face of Chamberlain's number jΓΉ, there is really no motivation to compete.

Now it is James who is holding his breath to compete with Chamberlain for MVP, and the little emperor has been becoming more and more vigorous recently, O'Neal has also begun to habitually exert his strength, and the Cavaliers' record has suddenly risen.

In the first half of the season, O'Neal was often suspended, either with leg pain or brain fever, and not long ago when the old Nelson and Riley had a verbal fight, O'Neal also made a reason for his lack of strength in the first half:

"Riley's devilish training program is really hurtful, especially for the veteran players, he hurts my vitality, otherwise why would I be missing so many games? I'm still recuperating, and you can see how badly I was. ”

It's a pity that Riley is old now and Miami is a little far away from Cleveland, otherwise the old man would have heard this, and he would really have slapped the horse and beat O'Neal hard: This bastard still has the face to say devil training? Did you train in the first place?

O'Neill has always been the most active person to resist the devil's training, Riley asked him to control the fat rate below 13%, he never cared, and even once told reporters: "Mourning's fat rate is very low, his figure is like a robocop, but there is a bird?" I can always finish him in the ring! ”

Especially in the 2006-07 season, when Riley once again sacrificed the devil to practice, O'Neal began to lead the team to resist him, the big-mouthed Mapperton, Anthony Walker, who likes to throw ultra-long three-pointers, and the "white chocolate" who passes too freely, this group of old guys can follow O'Neal anytime and anywhere to pose as a squeezed dead look, no matter how Riley screams at this group of people no longer cares.

It is precisely for this reason that Riley gritted his teeth and sent O'Neill away, and the two became friends directly.

Now in Cleveland, the cooperation between the Cavaliers and O'Neal is entering a honeymoon period, and there have been disputes between the two sides in the first half of the season, because O'Neal's injuries from time to time have caused panic among the Cavaliers.

O'NEAL HIMSELF IS NOZUONODIE, IF HE WORKS HARD THIS SEASON, IT WILL BE NO PROBLEM TO BE SELECTED AS AN ALL-STAR IN THE EAST, AND THE REASON WHY HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO THE BENCH IS NOT BECAUSE HIS STRENGTH IS NOT GOOD, BUT THAT THE HEAD COACHES ARE ALSO WORKING TOGETHER TO SANCTION HIM.

The head coaches are killing chickens to show the monkeys, so that the little guys in the team can see clearly, and whoever dares to learn from the shark to fool the team in the future will end very miserably.

The Warriors and the Heat, Chamberlain and James, the current record and individual results between the two sides are in the middle of the middle, for the MVP, Chamberlain and James are now starting to sprint, a month away from the playoffs, the time to decide the glory, has come.

In this way, when two people encounter a strong team, they try their best to help the team win, and when they encounter a weak team, they start to brush up on the score.

Chamberlain was embarrassed to be too obvious at first, but when James scored 40 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists against the Nets, he knew he had to do it.

After the crushing defeat to the Cavaliers, the Nets are getting closer and closer to setting their worst record in the NBA.

The worst NBA record in history was a 9-73 record by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1972-73, and the Nets have only 17 wins this season with few games remaining.

They certainly won't be the NBA's worst record holders, but if you narrow it down and compare it not to NBA history but to the last three decades, then they have a chance of setting a zΓ o record.

Originally, the Nets played well in the first half, Frank threatened Yi Jianlian, Harris and Lopez to work together, and once won four consecutive wins, but then this team collapsed, which can't be blamed on the players, this team has problems now.

From top to bottom, the Nets are a little absent-minded in their approach to the game, and the team's uniform team now has New York on their minds. One of the biggest things for the Nets this season is a successful relocation, which they will move to Brooklyn, New York in 2012.

This move first made the players lose the sense of pride of winning for New Jersey fans, and secondly, it also made the popularity of the IZOD Center drop significantly. According to official statistics, the Nets were the team with the lowest attendance this year, with an average of only 13,068 spectators per game. In addition, the arrival of Russian billionaire Prokhorov has not boosted the team's morale, and the team's shooting percentage has remained at a league-worst 42. 7%。

The team's poor record also has to do with the lack of a boss who can make the final decision in chaotic moments.

As the saying goes, there are three pounds of nails in a broken ship, and now the Nets don't even have rotten nails.

In the team's big trade this summer, the Nets traded Vince Carter to the Magic, which left the team without a "helmsman" at a critical time. This season, the Nets have always lost close games, and even when they play against a bad team like the Washington Wizards at home, they are always quite hesitant.

This is also related to Nets head coach Frank, the pseudo-triumvirate combination of Yi Jianlian, Lopez and Harris is too watery, it's okay to play tailwind, all three of them can hello, hello, hello, everyone.

But once they encountered a crisis, the three of them did not take the initiative to get up and lead the team to work hard, the three of them thought very clearly, the rafters at the beginning rotted first, and the wood show was destroyed by the forest wind, and it was okay to lead the team to win, but what if they couldn't win? That will definitely be scolded, which will naturally be very ineffective for them to compete for the leadership of the team in the future.

This is to blame Frank and the uniform team, they should make a decision immediately, and the general must also choose a team boss, instead of blindly making mud, so as to get the best, Yi Jianlian and the three of them reconciled on the surface, but secretly they are still competing, and it is vicious competition.

That is, this young team is now lacking a core.

Unlike the 76ers in 1972-73, the Nets are supposed to be full of energy and energy, with a promising rookie option this summer.

It's just that their players are still struggling to wait for the end of the season, as they are the youngest starting lineup in the NBA this season, so their table has been up and down a lot, and the team has lacked the right direction.

In addition, everyone knows that there will be a big difference between the Nets today and the Nets next year, with only five of the 14 players on their contracts remaining until next year, and that premise is still based on a no-trade scenario.

Therefore, for the members of this team, the battle for the number is more important than the team's victory, and they care more about their own interests. The Nets will have $23.3 million in salary space this summer, and they want to attract LeBron James right now and don't care much about the current players.

But James made the Nets uniform team sad, or more excited, and for some reason, every time James met the Nets, the small universe exploded, and this time was no exception.

Seeing James explode into the small universe, Chamberlain felt that he had to explode once, and he couldn't be said that he was inferior to the little emperor.

The Warriors began to pick, and then the Toronto Raptors, came into their sights.

The strength of the Raptors is actually good, and the record this season is also very good, and it is no problem to expect to enter the playoffs, so that at least fourteen teams in the league are not as good as them, and the Warriors do not seem to have chosen a soft persimmon.

But in the eyes of the Warriors, this is indeed a genuine soft persimmon, and the reason why it is called a soft persimmon is that the Raptors are too soft.

Whether it's Bosh, Banjani, or Calderon, they are all relatively soft players in their respective positions, and they even struggle to grab enough frontcourt rebounds.

And the Raptors are obviously aware of their problems, and in the first half of the season, they averaged the league's lowest number of frontcourt rebounds per game, and the first place happened to be the Warriors.

Generally speaking, dissatisfaction with the team's style often leads to two ways to correct it: one is to correct it in the opposite direction, such as the Los Angeles Lakers who couldn't beat the Boston Celtics in the '60s, and they thought they were weak and no one could subdue Bill Russell. So the Lakers poached Wilt Chamberlain in the early 70s and successfully won the championship.

Another plan is to strengthen the original style, for example, at the end of the last century, the San Antonio Spurs built a team based on the inside line, but found that one David Robinson was not enough to dominate the league, so Tim Duncan was selected.

For the Raptors, the second option they chose was to strengthen their style. The style of the Raptors is European style, everyone's skills are good, but the confrontation ability is really poor.

This offseason, they simply poached the playmaker Turkoglu to further improve the technical content, and hope to really cast a three-high forward line in the frontcourt, and at the same time use Turkoglou's scheduling ability to further activate the firepower of Banjani and Bosh.

It's a good idea, but after the start of this season, the Raptors' uniform team was stunned to find that they had been tricked, and Turkoglou was so good last season that it could even be said that the Magic team could reach the Finals, and half of the credit was on the military medal.

But Tekoglou did so hard, he just wanted to mix up a big contract in the contract year, and then the stupid Raptors got together, and the money was stupid Toronto, which really makes sense.

Throughout the history of the NBA, it's been a constant truth that defense wins championships.

And a team that is good at defense, no one has a style as weak as the Raptors, especially when it comes to the fierce and domineering Warriors, this kind of team often does not resist, if you want to come to play, you can play, I don't resist, and I still enjoy this feeling.

Although the Raptors have a record in the middle and upper reaches of the East, they have a very poor reputation, they like to bully the weak, once they meet an opponent with a stronger record than themselves, they play dead, once they meet an opponent worse than them, then attack hard.

That's why the Raptors can make the playoffs.

The Raptors' strength is shooting β€” from point guard to center, they have the league's best shooting ability at almost every position, and in the current NBA, which is increasingly focusing on body hair fouls, accurate shooting is also a shortcut to scoring, as long as you don't run into the Warriors.

The Warriors' defense isn't the best in the league, but they have a lot of promiscuous masters, and they like to deal with this kind of opponent who can only shoot the basketball, and as long as they stick to this kind of opponent, they are finished.

On March 18, the Raptors entered the Oracle Center arena, and the elder Nelson explained the weaknesses of the opponent to the players one by one.

Nelson Sr. obviously didn't want to see this, and he warned everyone: "There are no weak teams in the league, you be careful, our opponents are not a bunch of hens, they are part of the Eastern Conference playoffs!" Also, watch out for Jack, who just came to the Raptors this season, this honest-looking guy is a rare all-around defender among scoring guards, and his fundamentals are solid, don't let him open it! ”

After thinking about it, Nelson Sr. really doesn't have much to say, who else on the Raptors should pay attention to?

Boss Bosh? It's all right, Chamberlain can handle him himself.

Andrea Banyani? The Italian champion is also a good player - he played only half a season last season and won a five-year, $50 million contract, which is really eye-catching, but he is not good at playing.

Banyani is now a shame for the Raptors, as a center, this guy has averaged less than five rebounds per game this season, and I don't know how he has the face to face an opponent like Chamberlain, let alone how the Raptors were blind back then and chose such a champion!