I'm not really a role player

Chapter 351 The Only Bobcat
Compared with those opponents who kept making shots, the Bobcats also ushered in an important signing after the trade deadline-the second Hua finally returned.

To be precise, it is finally coming back.

In the morning after the Cavaliers officials announced the consecutive signing of Artest and Mike Bibby, Li Ke, who was training hard in the training hall, saw the second Hua who suddenly appeared.

"Wow, my God, Gerald!"

When he saw Hua's second child, Li Ke was stunned.

Then, he reacted, threw away the medicine ball in his hand, and opened his arms.

A very heavy hug: "You guy, are you finally coming back?"

"Fk, lighten up!"

After being hammered twice by Li Ke, the second child Hua uttered an intimate swear word, and confirmed with a painful smile:

"The doctor told me that I was cured, and Bickerstaff Jr. told me that as long as the condition of the training game is fine, I can play the game."

"Good news!"

Although Hua Er Er exploded with foul language, Li Ke happily patted Hua Er Er on the back.

Regardless of the status of the second Hua after his comeback, as long as he comes back, it will be good news for the Bobcats.

The already abundant rotation lineup is even more abundant now.

In the last game in February, against the Nuggets without Guagua, Hua Lao Er came off the bench in the third quarter and returned...

In the return game, he only scored 6 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block.

The main reason is that there is not much playing time. In the limited playing time, the second Hua's contribution is still great.

Li Ke, Rivers, Hua Er and even Bobcats are also very clear that Hua Er will not play much playing time for a long time in the future.

Because the ribs poke through the lung lobes, the biggest impact is the athlete's endurance.

From this point, Hua's second child is destined to no longer be the Bobcat's second child.

But Li Ke's nickname for him in his heart will not change, he is still the second son of Hua...

……

In the first game in March, the Bobcats played back-to-back away games against the Trail Blazers. Li Ke defended Roy, but inside, the big trainer LaMarcus Aldridge killed the Bobcats alone.

This loss, coupled with the loss against the Knicks, can be regarded as exposing the shortcomings of the Bobcats who are more afraid of heavy offensive insiders.

But in today's league, there are very few insiders with this style, and the Bobcats' problem is not big.

Two victories were sandwiched in between, and it was March 3.

The Bobcats played against the Pistons at home, Serena Williams teamed up with Ben Gordon, suddenly went crazy, and directly pumped the Bobcats out.

After losing these two games, the Bobcats completely missed the regular season winning record, because they have lost 11 games.

Even if they win all the next games, they can only get 71 wins, and they will definitely not be able to match or even surpass the Bulls' 72 wins.

Li Ke doesn't care about this, because this season, he missed 18 games.

Even if the Bobcats broke the record, later people will only say: Sheldon missed 18 games, the Bobcats still broke the regular season win record, his teammates are too good.

But now, the Bobcats have not broken the record, and people who feel sorry will say: If Shelton didn't miss those 18 games, the Bobcats would have broken the record.

In any case, the record cannot be broken.

Rivers felt very bored. He felt that this season, he seemed to have become the second child of the millennium.

After Li Ke came back, he and his team have been winning streak, all the way to 30 consecutive victories.

The 31st game was lost due to the physical impact of the Spring Festival war. They were only 33 victories away from the 4-game winning streak.

Because of the gap between these four victories, Rivers and the Bobcats can only rank second in history.

As for the regular season winning record that just missed——

"Sheldon, you have to take the blame for this!"

Rivers came to the door to question the teacher. Although Li Ke was full of question marks, he understood what Rivers meant.

"If you hadn't been suspended for 18 games, we would have lost at least half of the first 6 games!"

Half of it is 3 games, that is, minus 11 games from the current 3 losses, and the Bobcats only have 8 losses now, and the record is still promising.

Faced with Rivers' questioning, Li Ke directly replied: "Don't think too much about it, the record is gone, the championship is the most important thing, it's time to switch to the playoffs mode!"

Rivers was taken aback: "Yes, the rest of the regular season is not important, it's time to switch modes."

Li Ke was talking about switching the playoff mode, but Rivers was talking about switching the mode.

With one less playoff, the difference is still huge.

Next, Li Ke watched Rivers switch to the "unimportant regular season" mode.

Specifically-

On March 3th, the home game will be played against Pioneer. The Bobcats will start with Curry, Wesley Matthews, Li Ke, Tucker and Jordan Jr., and the veterans Captain Jack and Jamison will be rotated.

Even with this set of starters, Curry and Jordan only played two and a half quarters of the game.

Only Matthews, Li Ke and Tucker really played the full starting time.

On March 3, in the home game against the Celtics, Rivers continued to rotate.

Starting Curry, Li Ke, Captain Jack, Jamison and Tajibson.

With the score quickly opened, both Li Ke and Tajibson only played two and a half quarters.

It wasn't until March 3, when the Bobcats met the Cavaliers, that this brainless rotation stopped for a game.

After the main force kills the knights, the rotation continues...

The result of this rotation is that the Bobcats have won game after game with little waste, but also lost some games that should not have been lost.

Originally 11 losses, by the end of March, it had accumulated to 3 games.

Finally, there are the last 4 games in April. The disadvantages of the schedule brought about by the Spring Festival war are reflected here.

In less than half a month, there are 9 games to be played, and all kinds of games are full back to back.

Such a high-intensity schedule, coupled with Rivers' blind rotation, in the first 9 games of 8 games, the Bobcats' losses have further accumulated to 17 games.

In the case of securing the number one throne in the league ahead of schedule, the last game of the season was against the Knicks, who had more Guagua + Billups than in the first half of the season.

With a wave of his hand, Rivers went directly to the starting lineup of point guard Livingston, shooting guard junior, small forward Hua Er, power forward Lao Du, and center Kua No. [-].

The Knicks, who were eager to grab the ranking, did their best and quickly secured a score advantage enough to ensure the victory.

The main players of the Bobcats only played a number of games at the end of the last quarter when the score was no longer in suspense.

For Li Ke, who has missed 18 games this season, it is still necessary to count this number of appearances.

Because he missed 18 games, he just missed the competition for heavyweight personal honors such as MVP and Dpoy, the selection of the best team and the best defense team. He still has a part in playing 64 games this season.

And just like that, the regular season ended.

After failing to break the record for regular-season wins, the Bobcats played a bit like a flop.

In the last 23 games at the end of the season, they lost 7 games.

A record of 16 wins and 7 losses, with a winning percentage of nearly 7%, is actually not too low.

But considering the blessing of 30 consecutive victories, the performance of the Bobcats in the last 23 games was not so outstanding.

In terms of winning percentage, the Bulls, Cavaliers and the Spurs in the West have all caught up, and even compared with the same period, these three teams are better than the Bobcats.

Even so, the Bobcats became the number one contender for the title before the playoffs started.

The reasons given by the brick journalists are simple, crude and difficult to refute:

"Without Sheldon's 18-game suspension, and without the messy and almost crazy rotation at the end of the season, the Bobcats definitely have a chance to break the Bulls' record of 72 wins."

"A team that can break the winning record in the regular season, it is not the number one contender, who is?"

Mei Yangyang even shouted:
"If the Bobcats can really achieve 73 wins in the regular season, in my opinion, it is already the championship of the season! It's a pity that they are so short."

Beauty Yu quickly responded: "Aren't you talking nonsense when you are riding a horse? You are the championship with 72 wins. Can you still be the runner-up with 73 wins?"

Regardless, the Bobcats had a somewhat magical regular season.

The record of 64 wins and 18 losses at the end of the season is still the first in the East and the first in the league.

Rivers was overjoyed, because he knew that such a record meant that he would win the second best coach trophy in his coaching career.

Of course, the threat of former assistant Tom Thibodeau cannot be ignored, because although the Bulls this season are not as good as the Bobcats in terms of rankings, they have improved more.

There is no guarantee that the league will award the best coach trophy to Tom Thibodeau...

In terms of data -

缺战了18场的李恪出战64场，场均能够得到27.5分5.7个篮板4.0个助攻2.4个抢断0.6个盖帽。

Compared with last season, he has not improved much, except for more rebounds, steals and blocks, and even fewer points and assists.

However, considering the Bobcats' scattered ball possession, numerous scoring points, and large rotation at the end of the season, Li Ke's data said that it has declined, but it has not actually declined.

然后就是去季场均17.5分3.4个篮板5.9个助攻1.5个抢断的库里，本季出战了77场，场均能够得到20.7分3.9个篮板6.8个助攻1.7个抢断。

It can be said that Curry this season has been promoted to the ranks of the top five point guards in the league.

Li Ke was pleasantly surprised by Curry's progress. He thought it would take a season or two for Curry to become his powerful helper.

But Curry's performance this season is enough to be his powerful helper.

After Curry, there is Captain Jack who averaged 17.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.0 steals per game.

It's also surprising that the captain has become the Bobcats' playmaker.

Li Ke originally thought that Captain Jack was only here to replace Hua's second son, but in the end, Captain Jack showed his organizational ability that was much stronger than Hua's second.

The Bobcats' offensive system this season is based on the establishment of Captain Jack.

In addition to the perimeter trio, the Bobcats also have Jamison averaging 13.7 points per game, Moore with 9.1 points per game, Wesley Matthews with 9.0 points per game, and a bunch of "scorers" averaging about 5 points per game.

It can be said that this season, the Bobcats played an offense that swept through like a gust of wind.

The team averaged 112.7 points per game this season, 2 points higher than the No.5.2 Nuggets.

The era of small balls in this time and space will start with the Bobcats.

The reason why many experts believe that the Bobcats are the biggest championship favorite this season is that the Bobcats have played a much higher offense than No.2, and the defense has not yet fallen.

The average limit opponents get 99.7 points per game, still able to rank in the middle of the league.

And the average winning point is 13 points, ranking first in the league.

The ones that can get close to this level are the defensive Bulls, who scored 98.6 points per game, restricted opponents from scoring 91.3 points, and averaged only 7.3 points per game.

It can be said that from the data of the regular season, the Bobcats are the only one in this season.

The Bobcats are not so optimistic internally. The coaching staff also discussed their regular season data, and the conclusion is-

Such a huge point difference is brought about by their era-leading small ball tactics.

As for the small ball tactics, in the playoffs, the advantage is not so great.

Because the intensity of the playoffs has increased...

Of course, the Bobcats have another card - five small.

After Li Ke's comeback, the Bobcats never used the five-minor style of play. It's not that they don't know how to play anymore, but that there are very few games that need to use the five-minor team.

Even if it needs to be used, Rivers will give up using it due to physical fitness and rotation reasons.

The success and failure of using Wuxiao last season made Rivers understand that Wuxiao is only suitable for hole cards and not suitable for conventional tactics.

Therefore, he hid this hole card deeply.

Perhaps, a few coaches such as Thibodeau, Mike Brown, and Frank Vogel are aware of the existence of the Fifth Elementary School, but they don't know the power of the Fifth Elementary School, so it is difficult to respond equally.

……

The regular season is over, the rankings are released, and the matchups for the playoffs are also released accordingly.

The Bobcats, which ranks first in the East, will face the 76ers in the first round who are all soldiers.

With a regular record of 41 wins and 41 losses, a dangerous [-]% winning rate.

Put this 76ers in the West, and they can't even touch the playoffs.

Therefore, this first-round opponent is actually nothing to worry about.

emmm, the series hasn't started yet, and the Bobcats are already thinking about their opponents in the next round.

Bobcats opponent in the next round will be the winner between the fourth and fifth in the Eastern Conference, that is, the winner between the Celtics and the Magic.

After the racial discrimination incident, Li Ke's winning rate against the Celtics was almost 100%, and the Magic, once the Bobcats' bitter master, was completely turned upside down this season.

No matter who these two teams enter the second round, the threat to the Bobcats is not great.

Emmm, the playoffs haven't started yet, and the Bobcats are already considering their opponents in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The opponents in the Eastern Conference Finals will come from another division in the Eastern Conference. Specifically, the second-ranked Bulls in the Eastern Conference will play against the Eagles first, and the winner will meet the winner of the Cavaliers vs. Knicks.

Emmm, this time the opponents will be analyzed one by one.

The Hawks and Knicks are definitely not a threat, and the Bulls are not a big threat. After all, killing Rose is equivalent to killing more than half of the Bulls' offense. Li Ke is confident in his defense.

But the Cavaliers of the Big Three, after adding Artest and Mike Bibby, the overall strength of the lineup is already considerable.

Although the regular-season record is 1-3, the Cavaliers only stole one victory.

But considering the upper limit of the Big Three, if the Eastern Conference finals against the Cavaliers, there is still a lot of uncertainty.

In the West, the Spurs lost a Tony Allen Grizzlies in the first round compared to the previous life. Whether the Black Eight will be staged as scheduled, no one knows.

The Lakers faced the Hornets in the first round, the Mavericks played the Trail Blazers in the first round, and finally, the Thunder faced the Nuggets who made the playoffs despite losing Guagua and Bilu in the first round.

(End of this chapter)