Chapter 168: The Future Is His
LeBron James suffers a pole-and-pole review flip. The Heat also welcomed their next opponent at home:
New Jersey Nets.
Last season, they stepped on the team that made it to the Finals two years in a row, and reached the final Eastern Conference Finals.
It also allowed New Jersey to be completely torn down and rebuilt.
But this tear-down rebuild isn't what the Nets want to accomplish.
Instead, Kenyon Martin's rookie contract ended, and the Denver Nuggets offered a seven-year, $91.75 million contract, and the Nets couldn't afford to match it, so they had to sign and trade him away.
To say that this Kenyan Martin is still quite valuable, Denver ended up giving three first-round picks!
That's already the price that only an All-Star level player can have.
It is widely believed that this deal for the Nets is not a loss!
This is also due to the change of the league's official rules, which frees up the hands of outside players, making the league more mobile for interior players.
Kenyan Martin is precisely such a player, coupled with his own status of only losing to Woody and "sitting on two and looking at one" among the same type of players in the East, which makes the Nuggets willing to pay such a large price to snatch him away.
After getting Kenyon Martin, the Nuggets formed a terrifying mobile interior duo of Martin plus Marcus Camby.
This brings us to the Pistons' championship in June this year.
The idea of "one generation of one generation of gods" is common to any sport.
For NBA team general managers, if they want to win the championship, the shortcut they can take is to copy someone else's "championship lineup".
The Pistons' "double Wallace" lineup has become popular, making the league even more valuable for the "double mobility" interior combination.
The same goes for the Nuggets' rush to Kenyan Martin.
At the moment, it seems that the overall chemistry of the Nuggets is not bad, they have only lost one game after the first four games of the new season, and they are currently in fourth place in the West.
Otherwise, why would LeBron be under so much pressure with the Cavaliers!
Fortunately, Carmelo Anthony has reached the "rebel period", and at the beginning of the new season, it was rumored that he had some uneasy things off the field, resulting in his entire statistics not changing much compared with last season......
Otherwise, LeBron James at this time would have to pull his group to a meeting all day long.
But even so, after the game against the Bucks, there was gossip that LeBron James began to be dissatisfied with the Goodman brothers and was considering changing his agent team.
Together, this incident temporarily covers up LeBron James' 1-4 record in the first 5 games of the new season with the Cavaliers.
The Nets completed a wave of "win-win" deals with the Nuggets, but the team also entered a transition period because of the loss of Kenyon Martin.
Some people feel that he is very important when he is there, and once he is gone, he feels even more important.
For the Nets, Kenyon Martin's performance on the offensive end was originally thought to be given by Jason Kidd, but now it seems that his ability to cut through the basket and catch opportunities is really not comparable to the average interior player.
That's true on the offensive end, let alone on the defensive end.
Kenyon Martin's ability to protect the rim can make the Nuggets willing to give a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, which shows how beneficial his defensive ability is.
In terms of the results of the whole game, the Nets mainly lost in these two aspects.
Without Kenyan Martin, no one on the inside to eat the pie, and no one to help the outside to check and fill in the gaps, the Heat grabbed these two points, and easily had the last laugh with a 100-86, 14-point difference.
Woody was a game-high 30 points and 15 rebounds under the basket.
In this game, facing the Nets' weak interior line, he was cool in the low post!
He also had eight assists.
He almost got the first "triple-double" of his career.
If Wade's shot tonight wasn't so outrageous!
Shaq O'Neal only played 30 minutes tonight, and he also had fun scoring 19 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks, and then sat down early to rest.
He's clearly at another stage of his career, and there's no need for data or anything.
Just kidding, the big contract he just signed didn't expire until 2010, and now it's only 05 years, and he was almost 38 years old at that time.
As a professional footballer, when he doesn't have to think about his next contract, his fighting spirit is more than half. At the same time, the degree of concern for data will also plummet.
Plus he told Woody in the summer, it's your team.
There is no desperate will!
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that he was still holding his breath in his heart, and he had been with Kobe Bryant for a long time, I am afraid that he would have been lying flat a long time ago.
Of course, this is also the reason why the Heat dare to want him!
It's a terrible thing for a professional player to have no heart.
"Heat Double C" played happily tonight, and several others, Alston made 2 three-pointers, scoring a total of 12 points and 6 assists; Gerald Wallace had 15 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and after Woody reduced his role on the defensive end because of the offensive end, he began to take on Woody's role on the defensive end last season, and it was extremely eye-catching; Jones came off the bench and also scored 11 points, the fifth Heat player to score in double figures......
Everyone had a great time.
Except for Wade!
It's really "people and ghosts are showing, only Wade is being beaten"!
Kidd Plus Jefferson......
The Nets' "outside duo" treated him obediently, without half a word of.
Wade, who played 34 minutes and 15 seconds in the end, only got 9 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
But as soon as he gets the ball, he will inevitably encounter the opponent's "double core" of the outside "left and right men", Woody can get 8 assists in this game, and a large part of the reason is that the team needs him to stand up and hold the ball.
Barkley's explanation for this is: "When a team has two players who are destined to be limited easily, coaches naturally look to players who are relatively important, but not that tricky, and Dwyane Wade is in that role with the Heat!" ”
Shaq O'Neal is clearly not something that can be easily limited, especially for the Nets this season.
Woody is the same thing.
So, what can the Nets do?
They are also helpless!
Dwyan, don't blame the "brothers"~
That's how the Heat won five in a row, and gained an even harder Dwyane Wade!
In fact, if it is just hard work, it is nothing, but the problem is that there is no end in sight to this hard work, Wade is very distressed, and he can only find his life mentor Pat Riley again and ask him about the recent hardships he has encountered.
Pat Riley only said, "As long as you don't die, you will die!" ”
Wade is enlightened!
It's not that he didn't react, every time Pat Riley used similar words to perfunctory him, but every time he heard Pat Riley say something similar, he always had new insights and regained clarity about his direction!
Win 5 in a row at the beginning!
When the Heat took down the Nets and looked at the league, the only team left to be like them who hadn't tasted their first loss of the new season was the San Antonio Spurs in the West.
Other teams, including the defending champion Pistons, have lost at least one game.
The Heat's next opponent is none other than the San Antonio Spurs, who are as undefeated as them.
Whoever can be the team with the longest unbeaten run in the new season will also have a final result in this game.
Of course, there is an even bigger gimmick that will attract the outside world, and that is that Woody will face off against the current number one forward Tim Duncan in this game!
In terms of data, there are actually two others who can catch up with Tim Duncan, such as Kevin Garnett of the Timberwolves, and Nowitzki of the Mavericks, but with all the honors on the table, it is really difficult to match the No. 4 position in the entire league.
Not to mention the active player, even if it is a big forward in the entire history of the NBA, there are few who can be put together with the current Tim Duncan.
No way, it's a hard position.
The No. 4 in the '90s, represented Barkley and Karl Malone, was undoubtedly not the runner-up for the highest achievement and the MVP of the regular season for the highest individual honor......
And Tim Duncan not only won the regular season MVP, but also won two championships and two Finals MVPs!
It's not an exaggeration to say that he's the guy who raises the ceiling for power forwards.
It is also for this reason that many media outlets say that even if Tim Duncan retires now, he is undoubtedly recognized as the No. 1 forward in history.
You must know that he entered the league in 98, and Tim Duncan has only played 6 seasons now!
In 6 seasons, the NBA power forward position was cleared, and the "full level" is so terrifying.
It was also back at this time that everyone remembered that there is a real "Shuangwen male protagonist" here.
Jordan's start is really weak if you compare it to Tim Duncan.
However, if you really want to say it, Jordan really can't compare to many historical players in the NBA in the first 8 years of his career, but the series that happened in the 90s is too magical and legendary.
Now, the appearance of Woody has made many media begin to think that a new legend will be born in the fourth position.
He also had a phenomenal rookie season, but Woody was four years younger than Tim Duncan, a talented high school player who entered the league at the age of 18. Even in his second year in the league, he developed his ball-handling ability.
The energetic junior met the legend who was already the first big forward when he was still at his peak.
You say, just this title, what kind of gimmick like "who is the latest team to get the first defeat in the new season" is really weak!
The league also set the game to be broadcast live across the United States before the start of the season.
It is worth mentioning that the Heat have 35 "national live broadcasts" this season, which is the first team in the entire NBA to have "national live broadcasts". However, with both topics and popularity, it is indeed difficult for them not to become David Stern's "favorite".
On the other hand, the Pistons, even if they won last season's championship, they only had about 10 "national live broadcasts".
No way, the defense is really not good-looking!
Especially now, there are still a considerable number of fans who have watched the 90s, in terms of personal ability, this era can compare to Jordan, no, and there is no defensive intensity that can compare to the 90s scuffle.
That's why David Stern listens to the opposition from the outside and wants to free his hands for outside players, replacing defense with offense, renewing the freshness of the league's old fans, and cultivating new ones.
Anyway, the NBA is a circle, and when these people get tired of watching offense, he can also change the rules again to bring quality defense back to the league.
That's why this league has a lot of rules that don't fall under the rules of international competitions.
What "three-second zone" or the like, to put it bluntly, are rules that can be removed in the future.
If you can add, you can go.
This is David Stern's blueprint.
As long as you jump sideways repeatedly, then this alliance will always be full of freshness.
In fact, it's not just the rules of the league that are a circle, the style of the league is also a circle, and the Suns who came out of nowhere this year are fierce, right?
But in the history of the NBA, the Nuggets and the Warriors have more firepower, soaring 120 points in a single game, and they still honestly started to play positional offense in the 90s?
From the start of the league with the title "All-American Live", it was clear that the league was looking forward to the collision of Woody and Tim Duncan, and they believe that fans will enjoy the matchup.
However, they should not have imagined that Woody would change so much this season, and there would be so many changes at once.
After killing Kevin Garnett and Chris Webb one after another, Woody already has the right to challenge Tim Duncan, including Nowitzki, the ranking of the four major forwards in the NBA, after Woody was born, ushered in challenges and turmoil.
It's time to change the name and ranking!
Popovich said enough attention when talking about Woody: "All that has happened to the new season so far is that Woody has brought a big explosion to the league, and he has improved faster than anyone imagined, and no team dares not to pay attention to his defensive arrangement!" It's going to be a good game, and Tim should see how fierce the young guys in this league are! ”
The last sentence caused laughter from the audience.
Everyone's eyes looked at Tim Duncan, who was sitting next to Popovich, he seemed to be thinking about where his "big windmill in place" needed to be improved, and he didn't hear everyone discuss, and when the reporter asked him to talk about Woody, he came back to his senses, thought about it very seriously for a long time, and finally said only one sentence:
"The future is his!"
In fact, there was still half a sentence of these words, which was suffocated back into Tim Duncan's stomach, and he muttered silently in his heart very sullenly:
But now it's still mine! (End of chapter)