Daley said solemnly: "Zhou, when we are ahead, you should be more bold to make a move. You know, if you take one shot in a game, it works better than if you shoot ten hoops in practice. ”

"I see."

Zhou Quan nodded hurriedly, it seems that playing reasonably is sometimes wrong, and he has to be responsible for the façade of the Pistons Langtou King.

With 10 wins and 11 losses, a winning percentage of 47.6%, the Pistons are still eighth in the East, only half a win away from the seventh-place Nets and the sixth-place Pacers.

After playing the Suns, the Pistons flew to Los Angeles overnight and will face the Clippers on the road tomorrow in back-to-back games.

The Clippers were previously 11-10, with a winning rate of 52.3%, ninth in the West, and the Lakers in eighth, with only half a win gap.

So in this game, the Clippers held back their strength, and they had to take advantage of the Pistons' back-to-back physical lack of physical strength, and after winning it, they could surpass the Lakers and squeeze into the top eight.

The Clippers are known as the black hole of the stars of the Hell team, and the owner Sterling is reluctant to invest, and only thinks about selling tickets by relying on the stars, so the stars are reluctant to come.

At the time of the draft, the Clippers, who held the No. 22 pick in the first round, sent Zhou Quan an invitation to tryout, but at Philip's suggestion, he did not come.

On the afternoon of the 11th, the Pistons came to the Clippers' home court for practice.

The home of the Clippers is at the USC Memorial Arena, and Zhou Quan is too familiar with this place, because USC and UCLA are both in Southern California, but they are private universities, and he used to play here with friends and pick up girls.

In the evening, the game begins.

The Clippers' main lineup played average, but the bench played well, scoring a total of 101 points.

Charles Smith, who came off the bench and was the power forward that Pat Riley wanted to trade for Mark Jackson, was in great form, scoring 23 points on 9-of-17 shooting in 29 minutes.

James Edwards, a former Pistons championship member, also scored 14 points off the bench.

Another bench player, Doug Rivers, also scored 12 points.

The Clippers' three major benches combined to contribute 49 points, and all five benches combined to score 53 points, reaching 52.48% of the Clippers' total points in this game, but they only played 46.25% of their playing time, which is significantly stronger than the main lineup.

However, despite the performance of the Clippers bench, the Pistons still won the game.

Although it was back-to-back games, Jo Dumas was extremely brave and in great form, scoring 36 points in 43 minutes, shooting 57.7% from the field and becoming the team's leading scorer.

Zhou Quan played 32 minutes, shooting 6 of 14, shooting 42.8%, plus 7 of 8 free throws, and got 19 points, 7 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals, 1 block, 3 turnovers and 3 fouls.

Although the individual offense can only be said to be barely passing, the assist performance is very good, and it is not affected by back-to-back at all.

The Smiling Assassins came off the bench for 21 minutes and had a strong desire to attack, shooting 7-of-14, 0-of-1 from three-point range, and 4-of-6 from the free-throw line, scoring 18 points and diching out four assists.

Rodman grabbed 18 rebounds again, and his average rebounds per game has reached 17.2, as long as he keeps it up, the rebounding king is in his bag.

But the Pistons won not with rebounds, but with assists, the team combined for 29 assists and the Clippers had 18.

With 11 wins and 11 losses, the Pistons finally struggled to push their win rate to 50%.

At the same time, the Pacers and Nets in front of them both lost one after another, and the Pistons also climbed to the fifth place in the East in one fell swoop.

The Pistons are also the only team in the top eight in the East with a win rate of 50%, on which there are four teams with a win rate of more than 60%, and the other three are below 50% and above 40%.

On the 12th, continuing on the road, the Pistons came to the West and flew to Portland to challenge the Trail Blazers.

Previously, the Trail Blazers had a 13-8 record, a winning rate of 61.9%, and were squeezed from the first place in the West, and now the Jazz are squatting in the first place.

In the afternoon team training, Zhou Quan finally completed the training task of the first emergency stop jump shot, and the basic shooting skills and emergency stop jump shot were each improved by one level.

"Three thousand trainings to go up one level?"

He has some doubts, if there is no system, this training volume should also be able to be improved by one level, or even more than that, so the role of the system may be to force improvement?

Thinking about it, he couldn't figure it out, and it seemed impossible to force improvement, because there is a foundation for shooting skills, and physical fitness must be achieved, that is, if his body can't keep up, it is impossible to improve shooting skills without restrictions.

However, after the technique is practiced to a very high level, it is difficult to progress, and it is very difficult to go further, even if the physical fitness supports a higher technical level, but for some reasons, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of improvement.

He thought of a possibility, this kind of training task of the system, perhaps the more precious place, is the forced improvement after the technical level reaches a high level?

If all of them are three thousand upgrades in the future, then this kind of system task will be even more valuable.

In the evening, the Pistons fought the Trail Blazers.

In this game, Zhou Quan broke up the opposing defender Terry Porter.

Porter was the No. 24 pick in the first round in '85, and his strength was not bad, and he was an All-Star substitute in '91, averaging 18.1 points, 5.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 2.3 turnovers per game this season, with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.5.

He is 191 cm tall and weighs a lot, reaching 88 kg, but he is nothing in front of him, and he can eat hard with strength.

He first relied on defense to prevent Porter from shooting 0 of 4 in the first quarter, which messed up Porter's mentality, and finally shot 4 of 14 from the field, shooting less than 30%, one of which was a three-pointer, and only scored 9 points.

And he himself, also 14 shots, hit 6 shots, with a shooting rate of 42.8%, barely passed, plus free throws to get 16 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals, 1 block, 3 turnovers and 3 fouls.

In addition to his performance, three people on the team scored 20+, namely Joe Dumas, Isaiah Thomas, and Rodman.

With a strong offensive and defensive performance from the whole team, the Pistons defeated the mighty Trail Blazers and defeated the gliders to claim their 12th victory.

Overnight, the team rushed to Salt Lake City again.

On the evening of the 14th, Delta State Center Arena.

"I've got to play, I'm going to repay that damn brat."

"No, Carl, don't be impulsive, your bones aren't good yet, you can't play now."

At six o'clock, the home team's locker room, the postman, was among them, and he had an argument with head coach Jerry Sloan.

He was injured by Zhou Quan on the 15th of last month, exactly one month, and although he has a strong physique, there are at least three weeks before his comeback.

But this game was the last game of the season between the two teams, and he wanted to play, but Jerry Sloan didn't agree, so an argument broke out.

"Carl, don't let your revenge get in the way of your thinking. You have to be clear, if you provoke that guy again, what he will do to you, do you know? Have you thought about it? What if you get hurt again? It's quite possible. ”

Jerry Sloan said sternly.

The postman Malone said angrily: "Last time I was accidentally ......"

"No, even if you're careful, you're likely to hurt his fist again. He's in charge of fighting, knocking you out with one punch, and definitely has the level of a professional boxer, you should know that. Karl, you have to think about the whole team, you're the boss of this team, everybody is watching you, you can't be rash. ”

Jerry Sloan interrupted the postman angrily.

"Bang!"

The enraged postman turned around and slammed his fist into the tin closet, knocking a hole in the door.

He made up his mind that when the season was over, he would go boxing, and he was going to go head-to-head with that guy so that no one could stop him.

"Bang!"

The door to the visiting team's locker room was suddenly pushed open, and a Pistons staff member reached into his upper body with some nervousness and shouted, "Iron Fist, the postman is here." The momentum is violent, as if he wants to make trouble. ”

"What?"

A group of Pistons players immediately stood up and looked at Zhou Quan.