Chapter 260: Losing streak

After a two-game losing streak on Nov. 19, the Wizards arrived in Detroit, Michigan, on a team plane, where they will face the Detroit Pistons at Auburn Hills Palace on the 21st, who are currently third from bottom in the East with a 4-8 record.

Although the current record of the Pistons is not very good, the Wizards still dare not take it lightly, after all, even the Bobcats dare to lose, what team can't lose?

Lose to Boston first, Boston loses to Grizzlies, Grizzlies loses and loses to Charlotte Bobcats, and then there is no loss, what else can I do? I don't even want my face.

Fortunately, NbA does not have a relegation system like football, otherwise according to the meaning of online fans, the Wizards would have been sent to cbA long ago.

Due to the team's poor performance in two consecutive games, Li Kaiming also trained hard in the past two days, focusing all his attention on the next games, and at the same time letting the players in the team focus on training hard.

Since Boston, he has rarely spoken in pre-game or post-game press conferences, mostly answering questions in the same way that reporters do.

Li Kaiming doesn't have time to look at what kind of evaluation he and the Wizards are on the Internet now, but with his understanding of those brainless sunspots, if he thinks about it with his toes, he can think of anything good that those guys can't spit out of their mouths.

So Li Kaiming just covered his head and pretended to be dead, not to understand the comments on the Internet, as if these things had not happened yet.

Rashad Lewis arrived in Washington after playing Boston, but because the league officials wanted to conduct the necessary medical examinations on the players who were traded, Lewis did not play in these two games, but the latter had already contacted Li Kaiming, and said in the news that he would closely focus on the Wizards team with Li Kaiming as the core, and put all his attention on winning for the team.

For such a veteran, Li Kaiming naturally also makes friends with a respectful attitude, veterans are called veterans, not only because they have more experience on the field, but also in the locker room There will be a majesty that those rookies do not have, Li Kaiming needs such a veteran to help him suppress the locker room, after all, no matter how strong he is on the field, in the final analysis, he is still a young player who is only 20 years old.

According to Sanders, Lewis will be available after they return to their home court again, which is the next game against the Philadelphia 76ers on the 23rd, and it can be seen that Sanders is also very much looking forward to Lewis's appearance, after all, he can't wait to experiment with his tactics in the official game.

After more than half a day of hard training, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, in the holy place of "the most notorious brawl in NbA history", in the palace of Auburn Hills, as the referee on duty blew the whistle and then threw the ball into the air, the Wizards' 12th regular season game of the season kicked off.

As soon as the first quarter came up, the Wizards showed a very obvious advantage inside, Li Kaiming and Bradge scored 7 and 5 points respectively in a single quarter, and the shooting rate was extremely high, the defensive effect brought by the Pistons' Ben Wallace's height of 206, in the face of Li Kaiming, a player who throws sudden passes without dead ends, can't be stopped at all, let alone Li Kaiming, even Bracy can make a few hooks on Wallace's head, and he can also hit.

Although the Wizards' side has a significant advantage on the inside, but when it is the turn to compare the strength of the outside players, the outside of the Wizards is a little insufficient, although the guard combination of Hinrich and Nick Young can be regarded as reaching the point of not dragging its feet, but if you take a closer look, one is old enough to shoot but not to break through, and the other is too young to only know what to do with the ball, and can't see his teammates.

Looking at the Pistons on the opposite side, just one mask man Richard Hamilton can top the effect of Hinrich and Nick Young combined, in addition, several other outside players on the opposite side also broke out, Rodney Starkey did 7 points in a single quarter, and gave Li Kaiming all the money, after changing to the bench lineup, the Wizards team can't watch it at all, basically to see when Li Kaiming will come back, so as to barely keep up with the offensive intensity of the opposite side.

Under such circumstances, the Wizards came up behind in the first quarter, falling behind by seven points at 17-24.

Seeing that the team was about to repeat the previous mistakes, Li Kaiming couldn't help it in the second quarter, and simply broke out with all his might, facing the two dwarfs of the Pistons inside, Li Kaiming scored 18 points in a single quarter, while the Wizards team scored 38 points in a single quarter, and after halftime, the score was overtaken by 3 points, 55-52!

But Li Kaiming's outburst is also more palpable, sometimes the feel is so confusing, if you keep playing on the court, maybe you can keep the hot feel until the end of the game, but as long as you take a break for a while, the body temperature will drop, and even the feel will drop.

Li Kaiming in the third quarter encountered this kind of problem, even if he subjectively wanted to shoot more and expand the lead as much as possible, so that when he got off the court, he could buy more time for the team's weak substitutes, but God stood on the opposite side tonight, and after a break of about 20 minutes, the feeling of how to shoot in the second quarter completely disappeared, so Li Kaiming tried a few times on the outside, and after finding that the hand was not good, he immediately changed his style of play, focusing on breaking through and driving his teammates.

Fortunately, the Pistons on the opposite side are not the kind of team with a strong offense, so after the end of the third quarter, although the point difference was chased back by the Pistons a little, the Wizards still led the Pistons by 1 point at 78-77.

Li Kaiming didn't want to try the taste of losing streak, so at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he applied to play again and led the team to fight against the opposite side, but unfortunately, the outbreak in the second quarter seemed to completely consume his hand tonight, even if he had not tried the outside shot in the first quarter, but the outside projection in the fourth quarter still did not find his state, so he could only barely use the breakthrough to play an equal with the Pistons.

I don't know if the team and him are dripping blood to admit the master, in the second quarter, when Li Kaiming feels good, the team's outside Hinrich, Nick Young and Alsolton and others also feel very good, but in the second half, when Li Kaiming's hand is not good, these people can't even throw, Li Kaiming even doubted whether these guys were negotiated, and were bought by Arenas and deliberately embarrassed him.

But as soon as this idea appeared in his mind, it was directly abandoned by him.

What are you kidding, if he Arenas can have such great powers, he can still be traded?

The result of a 48-minute battle between the two sides was a 102-all, so after a short intermission, the two sides went into five minutes of extra time.

Because Li Kaiming's hand in the second half is really bad, so even with the bonus of the key shooter in the [Outside Offensive Badge], he only scored 4 points in the five-minute overtime, while the Wizards only scored 8 points for the entire team, when you only score 4 points in overtime, and these 4 points are still half of the team's total points, it is difficult for you to win, and the Wizards are no exception.

The Detroit Pistons on the opposite side showed a trace of the defense of the team that won the championship in overtime, and Richard Hamilton was on fire in overtime, scoring 12 points on 5-of-6 and 2-of-2 free throws, one person scored more points than the Wizards combined, so it is not surprising that the Wizards lost.

At the end of the game, the Washington Wizards lost 110-115 to the Detroit Pistons after an overtime game, suffering three consecutive defeats.

Li Kaiming played 42 minutes in the whole game, scoring 36 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal, the data is very luxurious, but in Li Kaiming's view, no matter how luxurious the data is, it is useless.

Maybe Li Kaiming himself didn't expect that he would have the same opinion as his black fans on this topic.

Li Kaiming sunspots on the Internet, seeing that after the Wizards traded Arenas, they directly came to a wave of refreshing and crisp three consecutive defeats, and they were almost grinning to the back of their heads!

"Look at it, I'll just say it, the Wizards team was able to win so many games before, it must be because of Arenas, but it's a pity that this Li Kaiming not only didn't know how to be grateful after eating Arenas's benefits, but also swept the former out of the house, no wonder Arenas was so angry, and directly scolded him by name on his personal Twitter, if it was me, I would also scold!"

"Arenas is really miserable, he worked hard to lead the team to the first place in the East, but the credit became a rookie, and he was kicked out by the management when he was finished, where can I reason ......"

"The Wizards have lost three in a row, and the exploits of Arenas are almost finished by this waste, alas! What did Wizards management think? ”

"Don't ask, ask is the league's scoring champion, a rookie at the all-time level!"

"Whew! Who wouldn't score points if they don't defend? You can't even win, and an average of 100 per game is a waste! ”

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On the night of the 21st, in addition to the Wizards' game, the Orlando Magic, which is also in the top four in the East, also had a game, and the Magic won the game that day, so after all the games on the 21st, the Washington Wizards slipped directly from the first place in the East to the third in the East through a three-game losing streak.

After losing to the Boston Celtics, the Wizards have given up the first place in the East, with an 8-2 record and the same record as the Orlando Magic, but because the Wizards and the Magic have won and lost each other The Wizards lead 1-0, so the Wizards temporarily retain the second place in the East.

But then the Magic won a winning streak, and after the end of the 21st, they officially surpassed the Boston Celtics with a 9-3 record and became the first in the East, followed by the Celtics 9-4, the third Wizards 8-4, and the fourth Bulls 7-4.

Except for the first Magic team, which is temporarily stable, the other three teams, the two adjacent teams have a win difference of 0.5, and a single game can make a big difference in the top four seats in the East.

If the Wizards are still in the same state after that, two more losses will directly fall out of the top four in the East, and the fifth-place Miami Heat has a record of 8-5 after the 21st, and can reach the top four in the East at any time.

And the Heat team wants to enter the top four, and the current top four will naturally be squeezed out of an unlucky egg, and the remaining three teams are in relatively stable condition, with only one unlucky egg who has lost three in a row, who will go out if you don't go out?