Defending champion

Chapter 43 Killing the Warriors, Killing the Celtics, Kicking the Knicks

The more the media were like this, the more exciting Jack's performance was, and he made those media reporters and so-called experts mad.

Jack slapped those reporters and so-called experts in the face with wonderful games and gorgeous statistics.

After the Hornets finished playing the Sonics, they will go through three consecutive away games.We made him a three-linker again.

The first is against the Golden State Warriors, followed by the Celtics in Boston, and the final road game is the New York Knicks.The Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, and New York Knicks are all underdogs in the league. If the Hornets want to enter the playoffs, the Hornets must win these games.If you don't win, it will be difficult for some powerful players in the league to win the game.

The Hornets maintained a very good winning streak, and it did not end because of consecutive away games.

Even if they played consecutive away games, they still played triumphant songs.

First, they beat the Memphis Grizzlies 112 to 103, and then they beat the Celtics 103 to 95. In the last away game, although they played stumblingly at the beginning of the game, the Hornets behind The team made timely adjustments, played an overtime, and finally won the New York Knicks 112 to 105.

After winning the New York Knicks, the Hornets have achieved 5 consecutive victories, and, very coincidentally, Jack participated in these five games.In other words, the Hornets won every game Jack played.

The Hornets have a game in which Jack participates, and the probability of winning is 5 wins and 1 loss.From this set of data, it can reflect the value of Jack in the current Hornets.

Because of this wave of 5 consecutive victories, the Hornets' ranking has also risen from the original 21st in the league to the current 19th.

The Hornets are ranked 11th in the West, ahead of the Hornets are the Utah Jazz, Portland Trail Blazers, and Kobe-led Los Angeles Lakers.They are at least three or more games ahead of the Hornets.So if the Hornets want to advance to the playoffs this season, they still need to work hard.If the Hornets want to surpass them, they must win, and they must win continuously.

In this series of away games, Jack responded to people's doubts and denials with a series of wonderful performances.

Jack averaged 15 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks per game.Even though, Jack averaged 3 turnovers per game.

In that game in New York, Jack even scored a career-high 23 points, 19 rebounds and 6 blocks.Moreover, all of Jack's points came from dunks.In this game, Jack seemed to only be able to dunk, constantly wreaking havoc on the Knicks' basket.

Dunk after receiving a pass from his teammate, Jack actively followed up and took a rebound to supplement the defense.Jack also angered the New York fans because of this, causing the Knicks fans to come up with their ultimate move. As long as Jack got the ball, they would boo him very mercilessly.

However, booing like this has no effect on Jack at all. On the contrary, it will only motivate Jack more.

After the game against the New York Knicks, Jack got his hands and was red and swollen.

But Jack decided that there was nothing to make those arrogant fans shut up.

However, from these few away games, Jack himself and very big problems have also been reflected.

In these few games, Jack scored very good points.But, if you think about it, who is Jack's opponent?The Knicks, Warriors, and Celtics are not the bottom teams in the league.None of them has real insiders. If Jack can't score these points, is it abnormal?
From these scores, Jack also exposed a lot of problems.Jack's main scoring method is obtained through the assists of his teammates, which means that without Jack, he has no ability to attack with the ball.Also, most of his offense is close to the basket, mainly based on rebounding and dunking under the basket.

What White said is not wrong, Jack can only be regarded as a dunker now, as long as his points are obtained through dunks.

You can score points by dunking against underdogs, but how do you dunk against super strong teams?This is indeed a very serious problem for Jack.

The NBA is a worldwide stage, and Jack's shortcoming will be infinitely magnified.

In the past few days, Jack's limelight has been very strong, and it seems to be continuously rising.Some media began to recognize the situation, began to reverse their vane, and stood up to speak for Jack.

They published a few articles to make their position clear.

"Large double double, Hornets dunk will wreak havoc on New York basket"

"Jack and New York's Basket Have a Date"

"Jack is not so simple, maybe he is really not talking out loud"

"New Orleans Buckle Will Turn Out, Ravage New York"

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Even if someone stood up and topped Jack.However, that was a minority after all, and the voices of scolding and questioning Jack still accounted for the vast majority.

The most serious of these is Barkley with a big mouth. His mouth is still as cheap as when he was a player.After the game, he said in an interview: Jack can have today's performance is completely blinded.Playing two or three 10 minutes in each game, who can't score this kind of score?What's more, he can only play against weak teams.It was able to score these data entirely because he hadn't met a real power forward yet.

Not only is Barkley not optimistic about Jack, but some other so-called celebrities are not very optimistic about Jack. They also think that Jack can achieve today's results entirely because the Hornets' schedule for this period of time is too easy for him.

Moreover, Jack's technique is very rough, which is another reason why they are not optimistic about Jack.A power forward who only relies on his body to play, a power forward who only has offensive power at the basket, how much can you expect him to do?
Michael Leaf, a columnist for the Orange County Register, also wrote a special article expressing his own views on this matter.

In the article, I wrote: As a power forward, if it is not supported by technology, it is difficult to stand firm in the league... Historical experience shows that as an excellent power forward, his inside line The back technique must be very good.Karl Malone, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, isn't that one? ... From this, it can be seen that it is difficult for Jack to become the most powerful power forward in history; the discipline of success is only 1%.
There are also basketball magazines such as Yahoo Sports News, ESPN, etc., who have also expressed their views.They all have one thing in common, they are not optimistic about Jack.

They don't think Jack can become one of the great power forwards in history.

(End of this chapter)