I'm not really a brutalist striker

Chapter 106 106. Contract Reinforcement!

On February 2, local time in the United States, the Eagles will fly to Minnesota, an extremely cold place, and will challenge the Minnesota Timberwolves, which ranks first in the league, in an away game.

This game was originally a very interesting focus battle. Even the Timberwolves' home tickets were sold out as early as a week ago. Three days before the start of the game, it has reached the point where tickets are hard to find.

According to the Minnesota Trail media broke the news, it is such an unremarkable regular season, and Minnesota's home tickets have been fired to more than three times the normal ticket price.

But even so, the tickets for this game are still priceless, which made many fans who didn't get the tickets look distressed, and even made many scalpers take the opportunity to send out a lot of money.

However, as Suter fought Chris Webber in the game against the Kings, he was later suspended by the league for two games, which also made Suter's gimmick of facing "Wolf King" Garnett come to nothing .

The fans who bought the tickets basically wanted to watch the duel between "The Beast" Souter and "Wolf King" Garnett, but as Souter was unable to play due to the suspension, the highlights of this game were instantly non-existent .

It is said that on the afternoon of the day when the league announced the suspension of Suter, the Timberwolves ushered in a large-scale wave of ticket refunds at home, which made a lot of tickets that were originally priced and unmarketable instantly vacant, and the overall popularity dropped by about 30%. .

In fact, Suter's current popularity is far from being so exaggerated, but the head-to-head confrontation between Suter and "Wolf King" Garnett is really interesting.

If this game does not see the matchup between Souter and Garnett, the viewing experience of the whole game will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

Garnett is a player who is very good at creating personalities for himself. From the perspective of personal style of play, Garnett's style of play is far from being tough.

But Garnett's actions on the court and his roar of tearing his jersey at every turn left fans with the image of a "tough guy".

In the fixed impression of the fans, Garnett is one of the toughest tough guys in the league. Although he has not had any "violent examples" in his career until now, he has not had a brilliant fight with players.

But this does not affect the fans that Garnett is a real tough guy on the court.

As for Suter, needless to say, since the day he entered the league, Suter has been dominating the hot searches in the NBA sports sector.

Almost every three or four days, Suter's name will appear in large and small newspapers, making it even more difficult for fans not to pay attention to this wild rookie.

Suter's reputation in the NBA has reached the point where he can help children stop crying.

If someone's child is disobedient and cries endlessly, the parents will say, if you cry for a while, the vulture will come and beat you!

As long as these words are uttered from the mouth of the parents, the child will stop crying immediately, and his eyes will have to look around carefully for a while to see if the vulture devil is really coming to kill him!
Before Suter used his iron fists to make a name for himself, Artest, who was not emotionally stable, Kevin Garnett, who created a tough guy image for himself, Karl Malone, who elbowed at every turn, and who looked like Ben Wallace, a hell boy, these guys are definitely tough guys recognized by the league.

But as the vulture's name became more and more famous in the alliance, the word tough guy seems to have become the vulture's personal exclusive.

It's not that there are no tough guys in the NBA except Suter, but whenever fans mention the title of tough guy, Suter's name will always appear in the fans' minds for the first time, allowing fans to subconsciously substitute into Suter's personal role.

In the second half of January, the Timberwolves played well for half a month under the leadership of the "Minnesota Three-Headed Monster".

With their outstanding performance during this period, the Timberwolves also successfully surpassed the San Antonio Spurs and the Indiana Pacers, reaching the top position in the league for the first time this season.

As of now, the three-headed monsters teamed up and averaged 64 points per game, which is definitely one of the best Big Three combinations in the active league.

You must know that the league in this period is not the era of small balls in which scoring blowouts will usher in later generations.

There are only three teams in the entire league, the Mavericks, Kings and Eagles, who averaged triple-digit points per game. As for the other 26 teams, the average points per game are around [-]-[-].

And in this league where scoring is extremely difficult, the Minnesota Three-Headed Monster teamed up and averaged close to 65 points per game. This is definitely a very exaggerated and terrifying scoring statistic.

In addition, the Timberwolves' defensive efficiency this season is also very good, currently ranking fifth in the league.

And the three-headed monsters averaged more than one steal per game, and the head star Kevin Garnett can send out comprehensive data averaging 1.7 steals and 2.2 blocks per game.

It is no exaggeration to say that although Kevin Garnett's league status cannot be compared with the Spurs' Tim Duncan for the time being, Garnett is definitely one of the most comprehensive superstars on both offense and defense in the active league.

值得一提的是，本赛季凯文-加内特凭借场均24.6分、14.2篮板、5.3助攻、1.7抢断和2.2封盖的全面数据，已经连续多期领跑常规赛MVP榜单首位。

Even if the "big shark" O'Neal, Tim Duncan, and Allen Iverson behind him performed equally well, Garnett's position as an MVP candidate is still unshakable.

Not long ago, some media launched a voting activity on the Internet. The content of the voting was which player fans are more optimistic about winning the MVP of this season.

Fans who answer correctly can share a high prize of 50 US dollars after the announcement of the MVP results of this season.

There is no doubt that Kevin Garnett's name not only ranked first in the MVP voting activity, but Garnett's final voting support rate was as high as 72.24%, which was higher than the combined votes of the other nine players behind him. The sum is about twice as high.

Although the results of this event cannot affect the MVP announced by the league, the call for Garnett to be elected this season's MVP has become louder and louder.

No matter which angle you look at, as long as the Timberwolves can finally stabilize their record in the top three in the league, then Garnett's chances of being elected as the regular season MVP are undoubtedly 100%.

In addition, Kevin Garnett, who has been selected to the best defensive team for four consecutive years, also has the opportunity to challenge for the best defensive player this season.

Once Garnett can win the regular season MVP and DPOY at the same time, Garnett will become the third player in NBA history to win both the regular season MVP and DPOY in a single season after Olajuwon and Michael Jordan.

Of course, compared to the personal advantages of the regular season MVP, it is not so easy for Garnett to become the best defensive player of the season.

After all, the defensive efficiency of Ben Wallace, Artest and Tim Duncan is also very efficient. With the additional bonus of the team's overall defensive efficiency, it is still very difficult for Garnett to be elected as the best defensive player. big.

Knowing this well, Garnett also kept his mentality very stable, and did not conduct some gambling steals and defenses on the court to increase his defensive data.

It would be a lie to say that Garnett is not tempted, but before the regular season MVP dust settles, Garnett's primary goal is to hit the regular season MVP this season.

The regular season MVP is the most gold-rich award in NBA history, and there is absolutely no one after this.

No regular season MVP can also be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame after retiring.

But as long as players who have won the regular season MVP add a little bit of other personal honors, the chances of being selected into the Hall of Fame after retirement will undoubtedly increase greatly, and it is not too much to say that it reaches more than 80%.

Garnett knows better than anyone the weight between regular-season MVP and best defensive player, so it's not a multiple-choice question at all for Garnett, if possible.

The number one scorer of the Eagles in this game, Suter, was unable to attend due to suspension. This sudden situation not only greatly reduced the heat of this game, but also made the chances of the Eagles defeating the Timberwolves very slim.

And the fact is indeed the same. After the game started, the Timberwolves quickly took the lead in establishing an advantage under the leadership of the three-headed monster.

Eagles player Derek Anderson continued to sit on the sidelines due to a left knee injury and did not follow the team to the away game against the Timberwolves.

The absence of Derek Anderson also means that the veteran Person on the bench has to continue to serve as the team's starter.

Person's offensive efficiency is not bad, but Person's defensive ability is definitely a defensive black hole darker than Nash.

Facing the "madman" Sprewell, one of the three-headed monsters of the Timberwolves, the veteran Person was beaten in less than half a quarter, and he couldn't even tell the difference between the south, the north, and the north.

At his peak, Sprewell was a man who could compete with Jordan in singles.

Although Sprewell's age has also reached 33 this season, and his athletic ability has long since disappeared, but so far, Sprewell can still average 18 points, 3.5 bosses, 3.2 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

Facing a rising star like Kobe, Sprewell does not have much personal advantage.

But against the veteran Person who is basically as airy in defensive ability, Sprewell doesn't even need any fancy skills. He only needs one step of acceleration to easily go straight to the basket, bringing a devastating disaster to the Eagles' penalty area defense.

At the end of the halftime game, the Timberwolves were in the lead without any surprises, and the Eagles who played the away game had no strength to fight back.

The player who performed best throughout the first half was not Timberwolves star Kevin Garnett, but the leading outside scorer "Madman" Sprewell.

In the first half, Sprewell played a total of 18 minutes. Faced with the alternate defenses of veterans Person and Stephen Jackson, the crazy man who felt hot was like the real Jordan on the court in person. Basically, everyone was in a team. No suspense dislocation attack.

In 18 minutes of playing time, Sprewell was full of firepower in this game, dominating the game with a data of 26 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the half, leading the Timberwolves to lead the Eagles by as much as 16 points in the half.

As the most balanced offensive and defensive team in the active league, the Timberwolves not only played very smoothly on the offensive end, but also limited the performance of the Eagles on the defensive end.

Souter's absence is like the eagle's wings were forcibly broken in mid-air, turning the eagle from a crap stick that can beat any team in the league into a real crap crap in an instant. shit stick.

To paraphrase the words of the on-site commentator Tom Horvath, the Eagles played in this game was really embarrassing, and the overall offense was like constipation, which made people look very irritable.

Can't break through inside, can't make shots from outside, the whole team can only rely on the individual singles of Steve Nash, Stephen Jackson and Rasheed Wallace.

It is completely impossible to see that this is a team that ranks fourth in the league in assists per game this season.

At the end of the game, the Eagles, without Souter, surrendered in less than three quarters and swallowed their 25th loss of the season in Minnesota.

And this defeat not only allowed the Eagles to fall back to eighth in the Eastern Conference, but also allowed the Eagles to once again swallow a two-game losing streak in the season after briefly experiencing the fun of winning streak.

In the postgame press conference, Hawks head coach Mike Woodson was frustrated by the team's loss.

Sitting in the speech booth, he criticized other players mercilessly, saying that the Eagles left Suter like a bad team that can't play, and even the tactical execution of those teams in the Development League is not as good.

Facing head coach Mike Woodson's merciless criticism, Nash and Rasheed Wallace sitting next to Woodson consciously bowed their heads.

He didn't feel angry because of Woodson's words, but a sense of guilt arose in his heart.

Although what Mike Woodson said is really ugly, this is a fact that people have to admit on the bright side.

The Hawks with Souter and the Hawks without Souter look like two old teams.

You know, no matter how strong Suter's personal strength is, he is only a rookie who has just entered the NBA this year.

As a result, a team that planned to hit the championship became unable to play after leaving the rookie.

The overall efficiency of the team's offensive and defensive ends has declined visible to the naked eye. No matter who happens to this kind of thing, it is a deep shame, enough to make people feel ashamed.

In addition, Mike Woodson also used the press conference to euphemistically point out some of the team's current shortcomings, which can be regarded as using the power of the media to put pressure on the management.

After all, Woodson's coaching position has not really been firmly established, and it is not easy to directly express opinions to the management regarding the team's reinforcement.

But it would undoubtedly be nice to be able to convey these words to general manager Rick Sander through a press conference.

The media believes that the Eagles have some disadvantages in the lineup, and that the Eagles need to strengthen before the trade deadline. What do these things have to do with me, Mike Woodson! !

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After the away loss to the Timberwolves, the Eagles will get a period of up to five days of rest, and this period is also the longest period of rest for the Eagles this season.

For a team that has come to the second half of the regular season, it is definitely something that people can't wait to set off firecrackers to celebrate if they can get five consecutive days of rest at this time.

Even during the period of rest, the team will still organize players to conduct in-team training, but no matter how exhausted and painful the in-team training is, it is always better to go to the real game field to fight against opponents.

Especially when the team's No. [-] scorer Suter still has one game suspended to return to the game, the Eagles really don't want to listen to the fans' complaints and criticisms after the game.

The Eagles are not a team belonging to Souter, but there is no doubt that Souter has gradually grown into a representative figure of this Eagles team.

Although there is still a very, very big gap with Wilkins, the team's totem "Human Movie Essence", Suter is definitely the biggest surprise for the Eagles in recent years.

No one knows what kind of height a fully grown Souter will reach, but these problems have not affected the fact that the Hawks management began to rebuild the team around Souter.

In other words, a rookie who can beat the No. [-] pick LeBron James in his rookie season, how bad can his future prospects be?

Who is LeBron James, a talented player known throughout the United States as early as high school.

Even before James made his debut, some media believed that James is likely to challenge Larry Bird's status as the number one small forward in history in the future.

It is such a talented rookie who is unanimously optimistic by everyone, and in his rookie season, he was able to hand over a comprehensive data of 25+5+5 per game, but he was beaten by Suter in the rookie rankings this season.

Even though Suter was about to be suspended by the league for nearly 20 games, Suter still occupied the first place in the rookie rankings, leaving LeBron James, a genius, to compete for second place.

As for Carmelo Anthony, who can also score 23 points in his rookie season, he has long been calm.

At the beginning of the season, Carmelo Anthony still wanted to compete for the best rookie of the season.

But as LeBron James and Souter showed more and more strengths than the other, Anthony suddenly found that he didn't seem to have any advantages in other areas except scoring methods.

It was even unsurprisingly suppressed by James and Souter, especially the defensive efficiency of the three, which even Anthony himself couldn't bear to look at.

Even if there are 1 people in his heart who don't want to admit it, Anthony must accept the cruel fact that the best rookie of the season is destined to miss him.

Since no matter how hard he tries, he can't compete with James and Souter, the two monsters, then Anthony will simply put his mentality on a flat (salty) stable (fish).

It is this change in mentality that makes the current Carmelo Anthony feel no pressure at all, and even has a tendency to play better and better on the court.

On February 2, local time in the United States, just as the Eagles fans were looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to Souter's return to the game as soon as possible, the Eagles officials suddenly released a news.

It was announced that the team officially used the last spot on the 15-man roster to sign former NBA draft pick Smash Parker.

The signing of the Eagles did not attract any attention and splash in the NBA, and it did not even cause any large-scale commotion in Atlanta.

After all, Smush Parker is just a 2002 undrafted pick, and his personal data in the NBA is very bad.

This season is even more depressing to the point where he has to play in the Italian league to make a living.

The Eagles chose to use the last spot to sign such a point guard from the street league. Fans really can't find a reason to pay attention to the news of this signing.

Even after the team officially announced the signing, some fans made a special trip to scold them, thinking that the Eagles management was not willing to spend money, so they knew that it was really cold for the Eagles fans to use these trivial signings to fool the fans The determination to hope that your child will become a dragon.

However, just as the outside world automatically chose to ignore this signing and didn't care at all, Su Te, who heard the news, raised his eyebrows subconsciously.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that Suter was sure that the team had actually signed "Reaper" Smush Parker by mistake.

In the eyes of people now, Smush Parker is an undrafted rookie whose personal strength hovers between the NBA and the second-tier league.

And because Smush Parker was born on the street, he has many bad habits that can't be changed.

He couldn't adapt to the confrontation in the NBA, which became the root cause of Smush Parker's inability to integrate into the NBA.

But at this time, Suter knew better than anyone else that although Smush Parker was not a very good player, he was definitely capable of playing the role of a sixth man in the NBA.

As a street player, Smush Parker has a very strong desire to attack and the ability to fight chaos.

In the small ball era where scoring is the main focus of later generations, this is definitely a bench gangster.

Just like Clarkson, you don't need to do other things on the court, you can use all your firepower when you get the ball, and you don't need to think about how to distribute your physical strength.

Anyway, he only plays about 20 minutes in a game. As long as his physical strength allows, the head coach wants to see a lot of killing intent.

However, today's NBA is still in an era where offense can win and defense wins championships.

No team likes a player with poor defensive efficiency and equally poor offensive execution like Smush Parker.

The Hawks can sign Smush Parker at this time, which undoubtedly makes Suter take a high look at the team's general manager Rick Sander.

Smush Parker is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 86 kilograms. He can play both point guard and shooting guard positions on the court. He can be regarded as a combo guard with poor organizational skills and strong scoring ability.

However, since Smush Parker did not receive professional physical training since he was a child, Smush Parker's strength is much weaker than that of players of the same tonnage, so Parker's most common position is still the No. [-] who focuses on offense bit.

巅峰时期的斯马什-帕克场均可以交出11.5分3.3篮板、3.7助攻和1.6次抢断，投篮命中率为44.9%，三分球命中率为36.6%。

Looking at personal data alone, even Parker, the "Grim Reaper" at his peak, was not that good.

However, because Smush Parker often played in various street games in the United States when he was young, this also led to Smush Parker's offensive desire and determination being very strong, and his dribbling skills far surpassed those academic point guards.

How powerful Smush Parker is in the local street courts in the United States, the title of "Reaper" is the street court's affirmation of Smush Parker.

Of course, compared with "Streetball King" Alston, Smush Parker's offensive ability is indeed inferior, but since the establishment of the NBA, there has only been one "Streetball King" Alston .

If Alston, who can start in the NBA, is the god of the street court, then Smush Parker is undoubtedly the most ruthless player from the street to the NBA!

Because he has experienced failures, Smush Parker knows better than anyone else that if he is a street player, if he wants to gain a foothold in the NBA, hard work is the only shortcut on his road to success.

As long as Smush Parker is given enough chances to perform and the ball, Parker can bring more lucrative returns to the team.

The signing of the Eagles is not enough to usher in an essential change for the team, but it can make up for the lack of the team's rotation to the greatest extent.

At least when the Hawks' main players are off the court, Smush Parker can still become the team's offensive option.

"Reaper" Parker may be the undercover agent on the basketball court in a game, but at any time, Smush Parker will maintain a daring heart.

Even though Smush Parker had only shot 120-for-[-] from the field, Parker would resolutely take the eighth shot and put in [-]% of his energy on the defensive end.

Just like during his playing in the CBA, Smush Parker was never the best foreign player in the CBA league, but no matter where Smush Parker went, the local fans would willingly say that "Reaper" is the most respected player in the history of the CBA. The foreign aid of the game!
No matter what the circumstances, Smush Parker never wavered in his commitment to taking the game seriously.

The Eagles don't need Parker's arrival to provide the team with any kind of offensive firepower. They only need Smush Parker to be the pawn to break the deadlock when no one on the bench dares to stand up and shoot.

Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, so they beat the master to death with random punches.

Perhaps, this is why Eagles general manager Rick Sander chose to sign "Reaper" Smash Parker!
(End of this chapter)