You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 976
Chapter 987 The Raptor Who Lives in the Collection

The 2017-18 season is over.

韦夏出战78场，场均得到26.4分10.4篮板9.4助攻1.6抢断1.7封盖，三项命中率为55%、45%、92%。

A few years ago, Curry was unanimously elected MVP with a shooting percentage of 180. Now Wei Xia, at the age of 33, has played an even more terrifying performance from a statistical point of view.

This is the era of small balls, the era of data supremacy.

In terms of efficiency, this is the best stat in Wei Xia's career, but his average playing time is the least in his career.

这个篮球运动越来越数字化的时代，科比出战74场，场均出场29分20秒，得到22.3分4.4篮板和4助攻。

He may be direct evidence of the increasingly low intensity of the game in today's league.

This year, Kobe played an efficient performance that has never been seen in his career: 47% of his field goals, 39% of his three-pointers and 85% of his free throws.

Previously, the best years for Kobe's shooting rate were the years when he accompanied the Sharks to achieve dominance, with an average shooting rate of 46%.

That was the most energetic Kobe, and the most athletic Kobe.

The current Kobe is an old man who often helps his opponent direct traffic on the defensive end. As a result, he played the best efficiency of his career.

He proved that, in a perfect system, he can still be an efficient scorer on nearly half of his three-point attempts.

If you don't count his three-pointers, just count his two-pointers, which is close to 49% of [-]%.

In addition to the two of them, there is also Cousins' steady average of 20+10 year after year.

As a result, the 76ers had three players who averaged 20+ points per game.

The record of 72 wins and 10 losses looks a bit retro, reminiscent of the 96 Bulls.

In the first round, they met the Toronto Raptors.

The team from the North has entered the first echelon since Kyle Lowry joined.

It's a pity that Lowry's own talent is limited, and DeRozan has the advantages of height and physical fitness. He likes two-point jumpers and he is incompatible with this era when even Popovich's old-fashioned embraces three-pointers.

This year, the Raptors encountered some problems. They originally had the strength of the top five in the Eastern Conference, but they went to eighth in the Eastern Conference.

This is not good news for the 76ers.

Because this Raptors is not the eighth strength in the Eastern Conference. Although they have a shameful tradition of entering the playoffs since the Bosh era, no team should be willing to meet a team whose strength exceeds its ranking in the first round.

"I like playing against the Raptors very much. As for why, I think you know."

Before the first round of Game 1, Kobe was smiling.

"I know he's going to bring up his old history of scoring 81 points against the Raptors again." Blacking Kobe at the camera may have been the muscle memory of Wei Xia's entire mouth, "Please understand, the older people are, the easier it is to immerse themselves in the past."

Cousins ​​​​is not as tactful as Kobe, and he is not as direct as Wei Xia to "create friction" in the team. He just opened his mouth casually and made Toronto people full of indignation.

"Even if we lose a game, it can be regarded as our failure." He is so crazy and doesn't know how to take care of his opponent's emotions.

In recent years, the Raptors have been miserable.

In terms of lineup, they are not bad.

In terms of depth, it is the team with the best depth in the East besides the 76ers. Unfortunately, Lowry and DeRozan, who lead the team, are not dominant.

In the first game, in less than half a quarter, the 76ers made three-pointers like rain.

20 is better than 10
This beat the Raptors.

Next, the Torontonian in front of the TV had a nightmare.

Kobe's outside three-pointers, high singles, and low backs against DeRozan were obviously disturbed to the point where he couldn't see the basket and still made shots.

DeRozan's face was ugly the whole time.

He was blown up by Kobe, so that the 76ers' flank defenses didn't know what the basket looked like.

The 76ers don't need Wei Xia to deal with him, but Siakam, Robertson, Oubre and other flanks take turns to serve him, leaving him in the dark.

This season, DeRozan was trapped by family affairs and his parents were seriously ill. While he was playing games, he had to take his parents to see a doctor. He ran back and forth, and even suffered from depression. Although there are angels like Lowry around him, if he continues to be blown up on the field, doubts from fans and distrust from management may aggravate his condition.

To put it bluntly, these problems require DeRozan to fight back.

Unfortunately, he couldn't make it.

They had no excuses in this game, and they were beaten one-on-one by Kobe.

Kobe Bryant scored 16 points in the half, smiled and said to the reporter: "I feel a lot younger."

A guy like Cousins ​​who doesn't speak lightly or seriously is more straightforward: "I can't wait to play 82 games with the Raptors, and we won't lose a single game."

The two teams are playing against each other, and it is easy to arouse the resentment of the fans if they say this kind of defeat.

But the Raptors are called "Menglong" for no reason. In the second half, they did not show the slightest belief in winning.

Trailing by 15 points at halftime and 25 points at the end of the game, he was beaten by the 76ers from the beginning to the end.

Wei Xia got off work after only playing 26 minutes, and got a triple-double of 18+11+11.

"DeMar looks wrong." Wei Xia noticed DeRozan's unsmiling face, which is not normal. "I'm sorry that I can't do anything for him on the court. We are professional players. Our purpose is to let the team we represent win, but I will still pray for DeMar and hope he is all right."

Wei Xia's words can be regarded as recovering the lost character of Cousins.

The two sides rested for a few days before fighting again.

Same venue, same opponent.

But there is a different start.

An unknown coach left a wise saying in the league: A team that tries to beat the opponent can only see hope when they win the away game.

DeRozan may not recover, but the entire Raptors team wants to win, and Cousins' words angered them.

The Raptors' coaching staff activated a bench as long as Toronto's Center Street.

In the first quarter, their high-intensity rotation allowed Kobe, who has always liked to play the Raptors, to score only 4 points, or even only 2 shots. Even in the second quarter, he started to break through and score, and more often he just stood at the top of the arc and passed the ball to his teammates who kept cutting.

Things got interesting, the Raptors wanted to get serious and took off the word "cute" on their heads with their own hands.

Wei Xia hasn't played yet, and Rose is surrounded by the Raptors' iron barrel and it is difficult to score.

In the second quarter, Wright replaced Teodosic and insisted on letting Wei Xia rest. He believes that there is no need for Wei Xia to play too hard against the Raptors.

This kind of self-respect, which is very offensive to opponents, does not come out of thin air.

In the first half of the second quarter, the 76ers had this lineup: Teodosic, Oubre, Robertson, Siakam, Cousins.

Then there was an exciting relationship between Cousins ​​and Teodosic.

He scored 18 points in a single quarter, including a terrible 3-of-3 performance from outside the three-point line, which made the Toronto people wonder what to do with him.

They know that if Cousins ​​gets the ball in the low post, no one can stop him, so every time he comes out to pick and roll, the Raptors coaching staff hopes that the players will block the space and let him stay on the outside.

The logic of this expectation is that they believe that Cousins ​​​​does not have a stable three-point ability.

Then, they underestimated Cousins' self-righteousness and were sanctioned.

The 3-for-3 three-pointer may make them more sad and sad than being blown up by Wei Xia and Kobe.

At the end of the half, with Weixia and Kobe scoring 12 points together, the 76ers led the Raptors by 9 points.

The head coach of the Raptors, Dwayne Casey, threw out a very lethal sentence: "Facing these strong teams in the Eastern Conference, we always behave as if we are going to the execution ground!"

Casey forgot that blaming the players in that situation wouldn't make things better.

In the second half, they were 76-8 by the 0ers. Casey changed his lineup for the first time, removing Ibaka who made a mistake and missed a shot.

On CJ Miles, and then the 76ers extended the point difference to 19 points through counterattacks and three-pointers, and Casey called a second timeout.

He switched back to the main force and let Lowry and DeRozan play the planet.

As if satirizing him, the 76ers' reaction was to let Wei Xia and Kobe open up space and give Siakam a chance to actually fight.

Siakam's agility has been known by the 76ers coaching staff, as long as there is a chance, he must play a few balls for exercise.

Even if he doesn't score, Cousins ​​is quite sure about grabbing offensive rebounds.

On the Raptors side, Lowry’s smiling face could not be exchanged for DeRozan’s fiery touch. He shot the ball with an autistic expression, and the arc of the shot looked like an autistic one.

The next changes in Casey are a bit confusing.

They put on three point guards and replaced the disappointing DeRozan, as if to counterattack with speed and three-pointers.

Wei Xia and Kobe began to turn over and shoot backward jumpers continuously. The entire three-point line seemed to be a restricted area for their back-up work. Behind each hit, there seemed to be a long sigh from their young self.Their fadeaways are ridiculous to the point of being boring, turning a game into a long shot collection.

You know, things like collections always report good news but not bad news, and the Raptors today or for a long time live in this kind of collection.

This massacre, which lasted no more than half a quarter, was no longer playing basketball.

Wei Xia and Kobe were just using repeated postures to show off their skills, as if hitting some hidden boring Guinness record. As the Raptors howled lower and lower, "76ers really can't do it here", they ignored them and cruelly deprived their opponents of their remaining consciousness.

The only feasible way for the Raptors fans in front of the TV is to turn off the live broadcast, and if they continue watching, they may become DeRozan's patients.

(End of this chapter)