Chapter 246: Public Enemy of the Alliance, Intra-Team Competition
The defending champion Bulls won the opener, and Doon recorded a triple-double in the opener.
In the past, these topics were in the headlines.
However, the Bulls just won 73 last season, and Doon also won the FMVP.
Outside fans' views of Doon and the Bulls are obviously different from other stars and other teams.
Therefore, after the opening game between the Bulls and the Heat, almost all the media touted Wade as the loser.
Although Wade lost, he still did not give up on fighting against a strong opponent like the 73-win Bulls when the championship squad was aging and becoming weaker and weaker.
Instead, he fought to the death, carried the team forward alone, and even played the best performance of his career.
There is no doubt that the Bulls in the new season have become the public enemies of the league, and the Bulls boss Doon has become the big devil in everyone's minds.
And Wade, a stunned young man who knows that there are tigers in the mountains and prefers to go to the tiger mountains, has become a warrior who sacrifices his life for righteousness in people's minds.
It is also a pair of big demons and warriors like Doon and Wade, who are both in the East and are both rookies in the 03 class.
Some basketball commentators have begun to predict that the next league will soon become a pattern of strong East and weak West.
After all, the 03 platinum generation, in addition to Doon and Wade, there are also many talented rookies.
Seeing James, Anthony, Bosh, and Howard in the next class, this group of young players are also beginning to make their mark in the league.
And these stars are concentrated in the east.
It can be seen that in the coming years, the talent-rich east will become more competitive.
And Wade and Doon have already won the championship and FMVP at a young age, which has also given many people the illusion that the 03 platinum generation has replaced the 96 golden generation.
In fact, the 96 golden generation is generally about 30 years old by now, which is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Normally, there are still three or five years to compete for the championship, but in the 03 platinum generation, Doon and Wade became famous too early, and they both won the highest honor of NBA players early.
Especially Doon, who has even won the MVP of the regular season, which gives people the feeling that Doon has been playing in the league for a long time, and now he is twenty-eight or nine.
In fact, Doon is only 22 years old, and his peers should have just graduated from college.
The situation of Doon and the Bulls today is somewhat similar to Duncan's situation with the Spurs.
The three major illusions of Texas, the Rockets are strong, the Mavericks are weak, and the Spurs are old.
The Spurs won the championship early because of the team Duncan, played in the league for many years, and won many championships, giving people the feeling that the Spurs' core lineup is very old and useless.
However, what people didn't expect was that Duncan, who was old and strong, was able to play at a rookie level every year and become the eternal No. 21 rookie.
Doon's strength was also fixed early, and like Duncan, he won the championship, FMVP, and regular season MVP honors early.
Fortunately, the Bulls are a youth army, and Doon has no teammates around him to combine with baldness, otherwise Doon will be mistaken for a little old man.
However, to become a public enemy of the league, even if the Bulls are still strong this season, Doon has to lose some more hair.
The Bulls had a good schedule at the start of the season, but most of the opponents they met wanted to bite a piece of meat off the bulls.
Doon is unlikely to find the opportunity to clock out of work in three quarters as easily as he did last season.
The main players of the Bulls basically have to play the full four quarters of the game before they can officially call it a day and go home.
In this way, there are a lot of young players in the Bulls' bench who want more balls, play better performances, accumulate more gorgeous statistics, and fight for big contracts.
After all, no one is going to have trouble with fame and fortune, and even if they are doing well with the Chicago Bulls, the people behind them will be anxious for them and give them advice.
Especially the players who are in their contract years!
However, for the time being, the Bulls relied on a winning streak at the beginning of the season, and the locker room did not have any major problems under Doon's control.
And Doon, relying on his excellent team record, was not surprisingly named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week in the first week of November.
For these small honors, Doon doesn't care so much anymore.
The chances of Doon being the regular season MVP this season are slim to none, so it doesn't mean much whether it's the best of the week or the best of the month.
At most, it's just supporting Doon to get the best team for a while.
And the best of the week and the best of the month honors, Doon has also accumulated a lot, and he doesn't care very much.
Just as superstars usually don't care how many points they accumulate in the regular season, Doon won't think about making an all-time king of the week or the all-time king of the month ten or twenty years later.
Now that Doon is in charge, it is natural that the championship is the most important thing.
Wait until the end of your career to compare the all-time accolades with other all-time superstars, and once you don't have enough championships, you don't have to talk about anything else.
Therefore, Doon has great ambitions, and it is naturally best to win at least six championships and six FMVPs at his peak.
If you can't, getting a few more championship rings at the end of your peak or before retirement is another option.
Of course, more than a decade later, Doon could not have predicted.
What Doon can fight for now is to take advantage of the fact that his rookie bonus period is not over and the Bulls' salary structure is still relatively healthy, and win that damn championship.
However, nothing is smooth sailing.
On November 9, the Bulls traveled to Cleveland against the Cavaliers.
Although the Bulls, under the leadership of Doon, won 33-20 in the final quarter, and finally won by 5 points.
However, in the third quarter of the game, Byron Davis became unwell after breaking through to a layup for a physical confrontation.
The injuries that tend to occur on defending champion teams were exposed early in the season on the Bulls.
Considering that Byron Davis himself is a heavy defender, and at the same time the style of play is dominated by breakthrough and back play, which is very physically draining.
This summer, Byron Davis not only played the playoffs, but also participated in the World Championships.
Therefore, it is relatively normal to have some minor symptoms at the beginning of the season.
And for the Bulls, that's not really bad news.
There are too many players on the Bulls team, and the ball possession is not enough to score.
If it weren't for Doon's plan to reduce the right to shoot in advance and make a peace, the Bulls would inevitably have some conflicts in order to fight for the ball.
Now that there is such a thing as Byron Davis being injured, it is natural to take care of the injury and give other newcomers who want to contribute to the team some opportunities.
Of course, for Byron Davis, the champion, the Bulls have no intention of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and directly trade him.
Now that the Bulls' salary structure is healthy, it's perfectly fine to be on the bench.
It's just that when Byron Davis returns from injury, it is unknown who will be the second leader at that time.
It can only be said that this year's Bulls have a lot of competition with the outside world, and the competition within the team is also not small.
(End of chapter)