You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 959 The Butterfly Effect
The 76ers couldn't stop moving forward and encountered a black start to the new season. They desperately needed a victory to restore morale.

Three days later, they traveled to Salt Lake City to challenge the Jazz away.

What observers and commentators are most concerned about is, what kind of starter will the 76ers come up with after Hayward is injured?
Sure enough, the flanks withered, and they had to temporarily abandon the 41 system that made them famous all over the world.

In the game against the Jazz, the 76ers started with Brandon Jennings, Kobe Bryant, Wesha, Mbah a Moute, and Cousins.

This is not a fixed starter, Jennings into the starting list, the significance of the experiment is greater than the significance of actual combat.

If the starting effect is not good, someone else will start next time.

In order to test a reliable starting lineup, Wright doesn't mind spending an entire regular season training and testing the lineup.

The Jazz have always been a team with backbone.

Decades after Jerry Sloan took over, even though Sloan has stepped down for several years, they still retain a certain old-school vibe.

If the lineup is poor, try to find a way to tap the potential. Over the past few decades, there have been only a handful of unrestricted performances.

Now they play in earnest with a lineup that looks like it has no prospects.

Jennings' strengths and weaknesses were exposed in this game.

He still retains the aggressiveness of scoring 50 points from Curry in his rookie season, but his peak period remained in his rookie season. Over the years, he has not achieved substantial growth, just like Tyreke Evans in the same class.

Obviously, he was the one who took the furthest step in his rookie season, but in the end he was overtaken by the pursuers, and he was thrown off, and he was nowhere to be seen.

His offense is so aggressive that he can't see his teammates once he starts playing.

It is difficult to coordinate the offense, and it is even more difficult to expect him to play well.

Wei Xia and Kobe were forced to be green leaves, and they opened the three-point line to give him a stage, hoping that he would return to a cloud.

It's a pity that lack of strength is one of the cruelest things in the NBA.

You can become a superstar and be the protagonist in other countries' leagues, but in the NBA, who is not a basketball genius in a broad sense? Even, from the perspective of the NBA as the first league, everyone here is a genius among geniuses.

Reckless action without strength will drag down the team.

After half a quarter, Jennings was replaced.

In the game dominated by him, the 76ers trailed the Jazz by 7 points 16-9.

"Is the defending champion going to suffer a two-game losing streak away from home?"

"If they can't even beat the Jazz, we may have to re-evaluate their combat power!"

Even the opponent of the 76ers, the Jazz's second-year forward Rodney Hood, laughed and said: "I didn't expect that you only have this strength. It seems that the championship is not so difficult!"

Wei Xia and Kobe looked at each other. These two rings can be worn on both hands, and there are some messages in the eyes that only they can understand.

15 seconds later, Kobe got the ball in the low post, turned over and threw Hood in the face.

After the goal was scored, Kobe sneered and said, "It's because there are too many players like you that Coach Sloan will retire!"

Kobe's words are unreasonable. Rhodes was not in the NBA at all when Sloan retired.

But then again, when did Kobe make sense on the court?
Originally, this was a boring game. The 76ers were trying the lineup, and Wei Xia and Kobe played lifelessly.

I must thank Hood, his words made Wei Xia and Kobe harden their fists.

They carried out an orderly division of labor around how to torture Hood.

Wei Xia tried his best to defend as much as possible, and he and Mbah a Moute are still in the running-in stage.

In the starting lineup, the two of them have the best defense, but Mbah a Moute just joined the team, and he doesn't know Weixia's defensive habits like Faried before.

Even so, Mbah a Moute still blocked Hood's breakthrough with a beautiful position.

Wescia staged a hyena behavior, attacked the egg from the back, and fumbled the ball.

Wei Xia is not greedy for merit in taking the ball, and long teleports it to Seth Curry, who replaced Jennings.

Curry, like his elder brother, is a guard who is good at shooting. At this time, the frontcourt is 1-on-0, and he also came to chase three-pointers like his elder brother.

"Shh!"

After Wei Xia passed the ball, he didn't pay attention to the offense, but stayed in the backcourt and said to Hood earnestly: "The championship may really not be that difficult, but it's not something you can despise for a 38-year-old man who can't even defend."

Kobe looked over suddenly. Wei Xia spoke softly enough, but he had good ears, and his words seemed to be heard.

"Say what?" Kobe asked.

Wei Xia's face was rosy and said: "I'm complimenting you."

Tormenting the Hood became the theme of the game.

Wei Xia's words made Hood want to guard against Kobe even more, but Kobe's hands are hot today, and the 76ers are no better than the Lakers, so he will never be allowed to take on tasks outside the scope of his duties.

Some troublesome tacklings are always taken over by Wei Xia.

All Kobe had to do was to hit his back when he was physically strong, and shoot three-pointers with running tactics. Even so, he also scored 30 points from Hood's head in 30 minutes.

Kobe tortured Hood with offense, and Wecha tortured Hood with defense.

Wei Xia caused Hood 7 turnovers in the audience.

From the moment Hood spouted that disparaging remark about the champion, he was in hell mode.

Trapping the Hood is the theme, and leading the team to defeat the Jazz is a side task for it by the way.

"Some young people have a lack of respect for champions."

After the game, Bryant criticized the young Jazz.

"They have no idea what it takes to win a championship!"

In the next game, the 76ers' starting lineup changed again.

Curry Jr. replaced Jennings. His problems were not as prominent as Jennings, and his characteristics were more pleasing than Jennings. However, it is not as simple as shooting three-pointers to become the starting point guard of the 76ers.

Again, organizational skills.

This has become more and more neglected in recent years, and it is becoming more and more scarce in the NBA.

With the rise of Rose, Westbrook, Wall, Irving, Curry, and Lillard, the younger generation of point guards will either seek to fly higher, run faster, and shoot farther.

However, this is also the mission given to the new generation of players by the times.

After all, this is an era where the ball handler is above all else.

The Celtics were not affected by the chain reaction of Wesha's rescue of Kobe's Achilles tendon. Embiid is still in their formation and has already shown the strength of an All-Star center.

Cousins ​​was in a bad state today. He played halftime, made four fouls, got two T's, and was off.

Embiid is like the new generation darling of the league. With just a touch, the whistle comes, and 23 free throws in a single game shocked Kobe.

"Is this fucking basketball?"

"Who told you to touch him?" Wei Xia sarcastically said, "Who allowed you to touch him? What if you break his body like crystal glass?"

Kobe said righteously: "Are you ashamed to say it? DeMarcus committed so many fouls because of your excessive defense!"

This is a story that can be thrown infinitely.

Wei Xia didn't argue, Embiid's body whistle was four meters long, and he did what the Seven-Star Warriors couldn't do at the beginning-to light up the 76ers' inside line.

Since there was no inside line available in the end, Wright replaced Wang Zhelin in despair.
The 76ers' penalty area immediately encountered horrible penetration and breakthroughs, countless attacks at the basket, Wang Zhelin's average jumping and extremely poor wingspan, unable to provide any aerial defense.

When he protected the rim for the 76ers, the Celtics shot a terrifying 90 percent from the paint.

The 76ers were completely unable to fight and were defeated by a round.

Kobe couldn't bear the humiliation later, and took the initiative to receive six fouls and went to rest.

Wei Xia persisted until the end and scored a meaningless 36 points.

Reporters in Boston asked Kobe Bryant what he thought of the defeat.

"You ask me?" The older the man became, the more tempered he became. "That Cameroonian made more free throws than our entire team. What do you think of me?"

Wei Xia wanted to follow Yin Yang, but Kobe fired too hard. He turned into a firefighter in the interview room from the state of being loaded and ready to fire: "Kobe means that Joel's free throws are too accurate. They are all Cameroonians. Our team's Luke doesn't have his free throws."

Wei Xia sincerely hopes that Kobe will be more professional if he wants to spray, and don't use map guns. Mba Mott is his innocent!

"Where did Luke get the free throw? He touched the young man six times and was sent off!" Kobe almost lost his mind, "Where did he get the free throw?"

"Doesn't this just show that tonight's referee is conscientious? When does basketball allow touching others while defending?"

After all, Wei Xia couldn't hold back his yin and yang words.

Thinking back to the finals of last season, it was so iron-blooded, it was both confrontational and entertaining, but so far in the new season, not only the 76ers have played against the Celtics, but also in other games, one player has surpassed the opponent's team in free throws.

What Wei Xia didn't know was that it was precisely because of the defeat of the 74-win Warriors that the first god-making movement in the Xiao Hua era failed perfectly, which made the president who was as serious as the sudden death of the whole family when awarding the FMVP trophy to Wei Xia ordered the referee association to ask the referees to tighten the restrictions on physical confrontation.

This kind of thing is like the zero tolerance at the beginning, and the referee and the teams need a period of time to adjust.

During the period, it is inevitable that some referees will go online, and some teams are not used to it.

With the deepening of the season and the in-depth exploration of the rules and standards, both sides will find a balance point that everyone can accept.

There are no dead rules, only flexible ones.

It's just that the current defending champions, who lost two generals at the beginning of the season, buried the number one offensive team in history with the most primitive hand-to-hand combat last season, and of course they will be tightened by the league.

In the next game, he returned home.

Wei Xia went all out on the young and talented Bucks.

He accidentally discovered that one of the knock-on effects of saving Kobe's Achilles tendon-Jabari Parker is not with the Lakers, but with the Bucks.

"Long time no see, Jabari." Wei Xia greeted.

Parker responded enthusiastically.

It seems that their relationship is still very good, but Wei Xia has no impression of other things except Parker's memory with the Lakers.

(End of this chapter)