Chapter 29 Back to the original starting point

Sura's body was still quite strong, and Big Ben finally left his hand, and he only stood up tremblingly after lying on the ground for more than ten seconds.

The referee didn't say anything after confirming that Sura could continue the game, but only blew the whistle to signal the game to restart.

Big Ben's cap was clean, and there was nothing to sympathize with for Sulla's actions as a result of his own death.

Although Coach Stokes felt that Sula's brain was somewhat wrong, it was not good to replace him directly, and the most important thing the Hawks needed to lose this game was to score.

Sula is at least a little eager to score, Dior's bastard gave him 2 points in 20 minutes in the first half, and the pastors of the church are not so Buddha-like.

Fortunately, Larry Brown also knows the sophistication of human feelings, and after the team took a large lead in scoring, he replaced them one by one and began to play tacit balls.

After the game, the Pistons had one of the few 7 people to score double-doubles, Mo Wen scored 15 points in the second half, and got a total of 19 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals in the whole game.

However, considering that the Hawks have been abused recently, if it weren't for the explosive stats in the game against the Hawks, basically no one would care.

Just last week, Da Yao was still in front of this eagle, and he played a super data of 41+16, which is also the highest score in Da Yao's career in his last life, and the domestic sports world has been excited about it for a long time.

The Pistons ended their February game after this game and ended their good time in the East.

Entering March, waiting for the Pistons is a wave of Western five-game travelers.

The Clippers, the Jazz, the Nuggets, the SuperSonics, and finally the Lakers.

The first four teams are okay to say, either they can't make the playoffs or they are on the fringes of the playoffs, and the probability of overturning is not large.

Only the Lakers, and only the Lakers, are qualified to be the main goal of their trip to the West, which will be the last time the two teams meet before the playoffs or possibly the Finals.

The Pistons and Lakers met for the first time this season at the beginning of the season, and the Lakers relied on four healthy superstars to put Larry Brown up and couldn't stop the Lakers' offense.

Big Ben has struggled to defend one O'Neal, Malone can only hand over to other insiders, veteran Campbell is experienced, but physically he is crushed by Malone who is older than him, and Oku's body can barely defend Malone, but the experience is much worse than Malone.

In the end, it was only by relying on the outside players to share their energy to help the defense that they stopped the crazy division of the Lakers' two interior superstars.

But the Lakers who were let go are not vegetarians, Payton and Kobe Bryant averaged 50 points per game last season, and if they don't give them a bag, they will definitely be punished if they dare to help defend them.

Fortunately, the three points of the four superstars of the Lakers are very average, and the offensive range is either mid-range or under the basket, otherwise, if one of these four people has a three-point point that is a little more reliable, the Pistons will be slaughtered in that game.

In the end, the Pistons 92:106 Lakers, there was nothing to fight back in the whole game.

Now that Rashid has been added, Larry Brown naturally wants to see how the full-fledged Pistons can play up against the Big Four.

Although there are many people who rely on their regular season performance to evaluate the Spurs in the West, the Timberwolves, and the Kings are also very strong.

But both the Pacers and the Pistons have always believed that if there are no major injuries, the only way to finally break out of the West is the Lakers.

The playoffs test a team's stability and offensive ability more than the regular season, and it has always been a stage for superstars and big-hearted players.

With four Finals experience, none of them could imagine how the Lakers would lose.

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The Pistons' five-game road trip in this round started and ended in Los Angeles, and compared to the Lakers, who were driving full throttle on the way to the championship, the Los Angeles Clippers were a bastard with nothing to do.

Sterling, the owner of the Clippers, is a very pure businessman, and after buying the Clippers, he moved to Los Angeles with a fine just to make money for tickets. Don't talk about team results, what team development and all that mess is messy. He just wants to make money!

Raheem Sterling rejected all unnecessary inputs, and in order to save costs, the Clippers' total salary has been on the verge of the poor line (the team's total annual salary is not the poor line, and the difference must be paid to the NBA official), and the team is naturally unlikely to produce anything.

For the Pistons, it is easy to play this kind of weak team, and a few are not easy, because his opponent is "Corry" - Corey Margety.

Margeti, like Big Ben, is a fitness expert in the league, and he was given the nickname "Los Angeles Devil Muscle Man" by the ball.

But if you are confused by his muscles and think that he is the same as Ben brother, he is a muscular hunk who can only be reckless, and this thing likes to break through the inside line and rely on his strong upper body strength to create damage to the defender in the confrontation - make fouls.

In addition to encountering it twice in the dungeon, Mo Wen's deepest impression of this guy is that in his previous life, the "old Ko" of the Clippers once won 24 free throws in a single game in a game with the Lakers. Forcefully led the team to win Kobe, who scored 50 points and 9 rebounds, with "1 point of rain".

The Clippers didn't surrender because of the Pistons' strong team's record, especially Margety, who showed a strong desire to attack against Mo Wen.

Clippers head coach Dunleavy had previously studied the Pistons' game footage, and he observed Mo Wen's characteristics - good technique, poor talent, for the Clippers with a tank man like Margety, Mo Wen is a good breakthrough.

Margeti also thought that this match would be his cool game at first, and playing against an Asian who didn't seem to have much muscle, wasn't it easy to crush?

But when it came to the game, he found that this Asian was much more difficult than he imagined, and Margeti had the advantage in physical confrontation, but Mo Wen did not give him a chance to face it head-on.

In the absence of physical contact, Mo Wen's accurate judgment of his offensive options is scary, while in the case of physical contact, Mo Wen is doing all kinds of small movements for him while retreating, making it difficult for him to concentrate on the attack.

On a few occasions, Margeti wanted to put aside his technique and use his physical advantage to run him head-on, but neither sideways breakthroughs nor back-to-back hits were inefficient. The two Wallaces on the Pistons' interior are not vegetarians, not to mention their defense, but those two faces that don't look like good people already make people panic when they pounce.

And the ability to make fouls, which he is most proud of, seems to have failed in front of Mo Wen.

In the dungeon, Mo Wen had experience with Margeti, and he knew that this guy liked to find a confrontation to ask for a whistle when he was going to the basket, so he was quite conservative when defending under the basket, either sealing the eyes to defend or blocking the layup path in advance, so as to avoid the exchange of sweat between the two arms as much as possible.

This defensive strategy made Margeti, who was used to playing under the whistle, very uncomfortable.

Margeti made a lot more successful shots in this game, but the shooting percentage was not impressive, hitting only 7 goals in 20 shots.

He only made five free throws, three of which were made by the Pistons' interior players, which is a big drop compared to his 8.5 free throws per game this season.

In this game, Mo Wen mainly focused his physical strength on the defensive end, but the data was not much worse, playing 32 minutes and shooting 4 of 9, 1 of 1 three-pointers, 2 of 3 free throws, and got 12 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.

Brand, the interior core of the Clippers, was only able to shoot outside by Big Ben, and the efficiency was not guaranteed, and by the end of the third quarter, the Pistons had a 16-point lead, and the start of the fourth quarter clocked out directly.

In the first three games, Mo Wen averaged 15.6 points, 5 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 2 steals per game, which even surpassed Prince's previous performance when he started.

Just when the coaching staff was relieved by Mo Wen's "barely qualified" performance, Hamilton suffered his third injury of the season at the Jazz's home stadium in Salt Lake City after three days, hitting a defender's shoulder with a facet during a breakaway in the third quarter, and then a contusion to the bridge of his nose.

His first two injuries were also related to the bridge of his nose.

Hamilton took on his later iconic mask after injuring the bridge of his nose on the first two occasions, and it is unknown if it was the quality of the mask or because the force of the collision was too strong that caused him to injure it again this time.

The good news is that the injury is not too serious and can recover after about four or five days of rest, while the bad news is that the Pistons have no one on the outside.

Mo Wen, who had just put the No. 3 starter in the hot position, was going to top the No. 2 starter again, and he felt that he had lost too much of the draft contract this time.

Hamilton's unexpected injury caused the Pistons to lose the game against the Jazz, but the Pistons did not give up in the next two games.

The Nuggets and SuperSonics are not strong teams, and they are confident to fight even if the lineup is inconsistent.

In terms of record, the Pistons are only 7 wins ahead of the Nuggets, and in the case of more than 60 games, the difference of 7 wins is not much.

Coupled with the loss of two more starters by the Pistons, and with both offensive and defensive ends downshifting, the Nuggets' victory is not secure?

"Melon" even let out wild words in front of the media - they won the game.

However, the cheers at the Pepsi Center in Denver only lasted one quarter, and after the two teams tied in the first quarter, the Pistons, who were in the middle of the second quarter, beat the Nuggets 35-16.

After Mo Wen switched back to the No. 3 position to replace the veteran Ham to defend Anthony, the confident Anthony made 11 crazy shots in the second quarter, hitting 2 goals and successfully killing the Nuggets.

Of course, the Pistons' lead is not only Anthony's credit, after getting used to the Nuggets' rough offensive tactics, the Pistons have increased their intensity in the second quarter as a whole, with 4 blocks, 4 steals, and 7 frontcourt rebounds to the Nuggets players in the first quarter. Billups' backup is only 1.88 meters, and Mike James even caps the Nuggets' power forward Nene (Hilario).

On the offensive end, Mo Wen also encountered one of the few players he could bully with his strength, and the Nuggets defensive guard Vosh Leonard was a pitcher-type player who weighed only 90 kilograms, 10 kilograms lighter than him, and his strength was weaker than him.

It's simply the perfect backdrop.

Mo Wen demonstrated the back beating, breakthroughs, and even the inner steps he learned in the dungeon space on this unlucky guy.

Looking at Mo Wen's smooth use under the basket, his dreamy steps shook off Leonard and Nene (Hilario) who came over to make up for the defense, and the two interior "Wallaces" on the court covered their mouths in surprise.

No, how can you, an outside player, practice our inside stunts better than our inside? Do you know that you're going to make us lose face!

After this ball, Nuggets head coach Bdrick reacted and quickly took off Leonard and replaced him with the more physically gifted Rodney White to defend Mo Wen.

As for why Anthony is not allowed to defend Mo Wen, Anthony is shouldering the difficult task of defending Hamm, who can "burst" 2 points per game, and Mo Wen is naturally handed over to his teammates with this kind of little garbage in the end of the order.

After halftime, Anthony, who only scored 6 points in the first half, still wanted to continue to play to save the team, but the head coach of the Nuggets did not stop him, but just pointed to the scoreboard on the big screen above his head, asking him to lead the team in a different way if he couldn't take it easy.

Looking at his "explosive" record of 2 of 16 shots, Anthony followed the advice of the head coach, but Anthony, who mainly played the ball in the third quarter, decided to take a break after playing halfway through.

There was no way, the basket was going to be smashed by his teammates, and the Nuggets scored 7 points in 7 minutes, and Anthony couldn't believe that the team in front of him was just a remnant Pistons.

Until the end of the game, Antony, who was sitting on the bench, was still hatefully facing Milicic.

If it weren't for this guy, he would have joined this kind of strong team.

Anthony's goal in the draft was the Pistons, and after being drafted by the Nuggets, Anthony complained that it would be nice if it was the Pistons who drafted him.

Mo Wen, who scored a career-high 24 points after the game, took the water handed by Hamilton from the bench.

Take a sip and feel refreshed.

"I thought you kid was going to rob the 'little prince' of his job, but now it seems that you are going to rob my job too?" Hamilton quipped.

"Not necessarily, if something goes wrong with Chauncey (Billups) one day, maybe I can still grab his job." The corners of Mo Wen's mouth were slightly crooked, showing the true colors of the Dragon King.

"Bastard, right next to you, are you still trying to usurp the throne? Believe it or not, I'll abolish you first. Billups laughed and kicked over.

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The next day, the supersonic game was easily won by the Pistons.

Ray Allen deserves the title of gentleman Ray, and the Pistons gave up two starters, and he gave himself up.

Ray Allen, who was still the day before yesterday and the Lakers fought until the last minute, felt his thigh strain after the game.

It's not that he was injured to the point where he couldn't play, but when there was no hope of making the playoffs, Ray Allen simply rested and recuperated.

Originally, Mo Wen was still a little nervous, and the strongest score outside of the "big four" like Lei Allen was not something he could handle now, but he didn't expect the problem to be gone.

The Pistons easily took away the victory from Seattle at 84:65, and Mo Wen only played 28 minutes, easily mixing 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.

Finally, the Pistons' trip to the West is back to its original starting point.