To Min Congda's surprise, the Hornets really stood up in this game and started a big battle with the Clippers.

It may have been that Min Congda's motivation at the dinner table at noon had a certain effect, with the Hornets taking the lead at the start and Barang Davis winning back-to-back attacks.

Pau Gasol also hit back-to-back singles to give the Hornets a starting lead.

The Clippers started to fall behind in the first quarter.

After some adjustment, many players compared the player who was in the best form tonight: Harden!

Harden has been in the doldrums for several games before, and has always been weak when targeted by opponents.

Because the Clippers have a large number of players who can score, once Harden is not in too good shape, he begins to pass the ball, organize, and stop shooting.

This season, Harden is averaging 16.7 points per game, which is not a lot, but Harden often has the kind of games where he scores 4 or 5 points and 7 or 8 assists a game.

Correspondingly, there are some games where Harden feels good offensively and scores high.

For example, against the Suns, he scored 43 points in a single game, a career-high single-game high.

And if Van Harden scores high scores, his efficiency must be very high.

Because if the start efficiency is not good, Harden will be assisted by paddling this time.

Tonight's backcourt beard vs beard, Harden did not coerce, and even shot free throws in the first quarter and scored 12 points.

So the Clippers entered Harden mode in this game, Harden controlled the offense, and Curry was willing to run and not the ball to assist Harden.

When Harden is attacking with the ball, Gasol Jr. will appear much less in the high post, but more in the low post, forming a double low post layout with Randolph to attack the Hornets' interior.

The Hornets can really play the inside line of Gasol, but Gasol is really a bit of blood suppression in the face of Gasol Jr.

Gasol Jr. pressed his younger brother in the first quarter, hooked a shot and scored 10 points in the first quarter.

The Hornets and Clippers tied 30:30.

The Clippers are clearly not as prepared as they were against the Thunder.

After all, it's impossible to give it your all in every game of the regular season.

There are always some games where you will play more casually against the weaker team.

Leave the game to the players to play freely and control the game.

And the Hornets, who are sitting on their home court, will naturally not let the victory slip away from their eyes.

You can lose away from home, but you still have to fight at home.

In the first half, the two sides were inseparable, and the Clippers were 58:61, and they also trailed the Hornets by 3 points.

In the third quarter, the Hornets unexpectedly continued to play back and forth with the Clippers.

The key is still in the point of Gasol Jr., which completely suppressed his younger brother Gasol.

Pau Gasol was more experienced, and he had a great touch tonight.

The Clippers didn't defend Gasol from start to finish.

Tyronn Lue said to Xiao Jia during the timeout, "Get your brother done." ”

This is what little Gasol should do, and it is what he has been pursuing since he was a child, to surpass the benchmark in front of him.

In the third quarter, the Clippers trailed the Hornets by 2 points at 78:80.

The Clippers scored just 20 points in the third quarter, with Harden scoring 15 points alone.

It wasn't a bit like the Clippers.

But in the fourth quarter of the game, the situation on the court changed dramatically.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Clippers, led by Harden, played a wave of 12:0 offensive climax.

The difference between the two sides was instantly stretched to 10 points, completing the counterattack, and a wave of efforts to wipe out the Hornets' entire court.

The Clippers suddenly showed a strong scoring explosion, and no one in the Hornets could step up and respond.

Gasol da is steady enough to let him break out and score in a row, which is not what he is good at.

And Barang Davis no longer has that kind of super-scoring explosiveness to support the team.

In the first three quarters, he was able to rely on experience to score points, use smart methods to help the team attack, play slowly with the Clippers at a slower pace, bite the score, and even take the advantage.

But in the fourth quarter, the Clippers suddenly used a small lineup of Harden, Curry, Gasol Jr., George and Jeremy Lin to start the crazy offensive mode, and the Hornets suddenly couldn't stand the collapse.

The Clippers are now getting more and more perfect, and Gasol Jr. finally turned over in this section.

In the offense, he made a series of wonderful passes, withstood the pressure of his brother in the defense, and helped the Clippers break through the Hornets in a wave.

Min Congda shook his head when he saw the Clippers' offense, and the Hornets really couldn't defend it.

Like this, the opponent must have a very targeted small lineup to deal with.

In the current league, small lineups are a trend, but they haven't fully spread yet.

Most teams are far from adequate in terms of personnel and tactics.

The Clippers are different, and such lineup trials have been going on for at least two seasons since the Dunleavy era.

Now is the time to blossom, and Steve Cole is becoming more and more proficient in the training of one big and four small.

The pass cut is paired with a high block in the middle, which is simply invincible in attack and extremely difficult to defend.

"This kind of big and four small, a lot of running, covering, passing, the ball is moving very fast, and opportunities can be generated at any time between the runs. After two seasons of running-in, these dogs are becoming more and more proficient in using this set. If you want to crack ...... I think the best way should be to do a lot of defensive changes, and change every block and cover to buy time, plug all the loopholes and gaps, and force this group of dogs to fight alone......"

Min Congda racked his brains and thought for a long time, thinking that the best defense against the Clippers' big four small offense was to change the defense a lot.

"It's better to have some strikers in the front and back, who can be inside and out, like that...... it! A striker who can be inside and out, not too much, this... Aren't these people on my team? ”

Min Congda suddenly found that the selection strategy he formulated three years ago seemed to be based on a functional front.

In fact, he did the same, and Leonard, George, and Butler were the products of this strategy.

As a result, this group of people can target the Clippers' increasingly aggressive passing and cutting offense.

"Am I against myself?"

Min Congda suddenly found that many of the things he did were aimed at himself.

This made Min Congda feel devastated, how could this be?

It can only be said that when Min Congda made this strategy, the alliance was not what it is now.

In just three years, the NBA game is moving in a very different direction than it used to be.

With the rise of a group of super small forwards such as Durant and James, the scoring guards represented by Kobe Bryant will gradually fade out of the top ranks, and the role of the No. 3 position on the court will become more and more prominent.

The era of super point guards, starting with Michael Jordan, is transitioning to the era of top small forwards + super point guards.

In this situation, the quality No. 3 position will become more and more important, and the Clippers have unwittingly collected the best potential small forwards in the league.

The game quickly lost its suspense, and the Clippers played with the Hornets for three quarters, and finally took the Hornets away.

After losing this game, the New Orleans Hornets are in the second-to-last place in the West and are likely to pick up a high pick in the '12 draft.

Min Congda was very flustered, he thought to himself: "No, the facts have proven that any operation and decision I make in basketball will be counterproductive in the end!" So, by the end of the season, I'm going to stop meddling in the team's draft and let the team go on like that! ”

"I should still put all my energy into investment, and I should pay close attention to the construction of the stadium. Let's go straight to Charlotte tomorrow and talk about the boss first. Damn, this operation is really troublesome, but fortunately I have my hands and eyes to the sky, and there is nothing in the world that cannot be done! ”

After thinking about this battle, Min Congda decided not to interfere in the team's basketball affairs anymore, especially the draft!

Starting from Curry, there are too many pitfalls to eat, why bother in the first place?

The draft history of the Clippers is obviously a history of blood and tears.

Just let the Clippers' draft team toss around on their own.

Why bother to go out in person, the result is lucky, and the people selected are not bad.

On the contrary, it is an investment matter, and Min Congda feels that it is becoming more and more dramatic.

As the new arena plan took shape, the blueprint for bankruptcy became clearer.

At the moment, Min Congda still has to give the clippers a cage to change birds, and the doves occupy the magpie's nest.

When the Clippers complete the change of hands and obtain the support of the president of the alliance and the chaebol and the syndicate, they can start the road to big infrastructure.

In the next three years or so, the new stadium will cost the team a lot of financial resources and resources, and overspending is inevitable.

Then, the Clippers will face huge pressure to renew their contracts in the coming years.

Curry's contract, Harden's contract, George's contract, one after the other.

These people Min Congda will sign all of them, and the luxury tax will definitely explode at that time.

With high loans on the one hand, ultra-high salaries and luxury taxes on the other, the Clippers will face extremely huge cash flow pressure.

All it takes is a small financial problem and the Clippers could be bankrupt.

If there is a little more turmoil on the outside, the team will die faster.

There are countless examples of this in the business world, and how many companies die from liabilities and cash flow.

In Min Congda's view, although this set of plans is a bit complicated, it is man-made!

The first step is to talk to a potential new owner to convince them to invest in the Clippers and bring Min Congda on board by the way.

From Min Congda's point of view, Sterling is a good boss, a complete puppet, and absolutely obedient.

At least until now, Min Congda has not been dragged back, and Min Congda has been making money for him.

If there's anything wrong with Sterling, it's that he's too obedient, and he's not at all the same disruptive boss he used to be.

There is no way, affected by the system, and there is no way to do anything.

As a result, when Min Congda needs his boss to step up and help him, Sterling will not cooperate.

It is impossible for Sterling to sell shares to Min Congda and make him a shareholder, and the system is very dead.

However, if the operation of changing the boss is carried out, the system clearly states that [you can buy shares].

This is also a point that attracts Min Congda, and when he becomes a shareholder, he has completed a class leap.

From the working class to the evil capitalist class!

Of course, he can only be a small boss, and the big boss is very important.

Ballmer's kind of money is too much, and it's too hard for him to go bankrupt.

Schultz's kind of proficient in sports industry management can't either, and when the time comes, he can easily increase the market value of the Clippers, and he will go bankrupt.

It must be the kind of kind that has enough money but not enough, is a dish and loves to play, and it can't be a big injustice in the end.

And such an injustice is the strongest player in basketball history, the undisputed first, Michael Jordan!

If you want to say that Jordan is bad as a boss, Min Congda didn't know it long after he first entered the league.

Later, I learned about his deeds during his time as a prodigy, and thought that God was indeed fair.

opened a busy door for Jordan on the basketball, and then welded all the windows in the house shut.

In the draft, he selected Kwame Brown, a parallel top pick, and later Jordan came back as a player and sold his stake in the Wizards, but when he wanted to buy it back, the Wizards owner changed his mind.

So, Jordan turned to buying the Charlotte Bobcats.

But the Bobcats really don't see much future.

If you want a market, you don't have a market, and you don't have a record.

The Bobcats joined in the NBA expansion in '04, and they are far less influential than the younger teams such as the Heat, Timberwolves, Magic, and Grizzlies, let alone those old teams.

I've made the playoffs once in those years, and the iconic Gerald Wallace is the representative figure.

There is no attraction in every aspect of the team, but it is the owner Jordan who has the most famous name.

Everyone cares more about the team owner than the team itself.

Every time the Bobcats team played badly, the fans joked that "it is better to let the boss play".

Jordan certainly has the ambition to lead the team back to the top of the NBA, after all, he is a very good and competitive guy.

It's a pity that the team's management is completely different from the game on the court, Jordan didn't start at all, and he didn't seem to have the talent to run the team at all.

This made Min Congda very satisfied.

The god of basketball, not the god of management.

Especially his draft skills, which made Min Congda very greedy.

How on earth can you do it, choose one wrong one?

Why can't I? Why do I always look at the right eye?

God is so unfair.

So, after the game, the Clippers took a plane back to Los Angeles.

Min Congda, along with Ada, boarded a flight to Charlotte.

Silva has already made an appointment with Min Congda that he will have a relatively secret meeting with Jordan.

On the plane, Min Congda asked Ada, "Ada, how is your father now?" Have you recovered from your injuries? ”

Ida nodded and said, "He's much better, thank you Mr. Smart, thank you so much." ”

Min Congda said: "Verbal thanks are not enough, are you right, Ida?" ”

Hearing Min Congda say this, Ada's face suddenly turned slightly red, her eyes flickered a little, and she bit her lip and said, "That... How can I thank you, you say? ”

The plane was already in the air, the cabin lights were turned off, and the two sat in a small compartment in the first class cabin, covered by a curtain.

Min Congda couldn't see the expression on Ada's face clearly, and Ada's heart suddenly pounded, and a lot of images suddenly appeared in her mind that shouldn't have appeared.

For example, those small movies with airplanes as the background, flight attendants and guests as roles, can be played by two or three people.

In this small compartment covered by a curtain, it seems that something interesting can be done.

"Well, when I get back to Los Angeles, let him treat me to dinner, I may have something to ask him for, and I'll trouble you."

Min Congda's words suddenly poured a bucket of cold water on Ada's head.

"Ahh Oh, oh, okay, okay, I know, I'll say to him, I'm sorry... Not, thanks... Hey..."

"Why do you say sorry and thank you? Fool, get a good night's sleep. ”

Some people died, but not completely......