This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 210 The Bobcats' March Madness (2)

"Our momentum is strong. After March, we will definitely be in the ranks of the playoffs. We have won five consecutive victories. We will win many games this month."

"Zhou Lin?! There is no doubt that he has crossed the dividing line between ordinary players and stars. He is the present and future of Charlotte."

Since Capel took over the coach of the Charlotte Bobcats, he has played 46 games, 20 wins and 26 losses. A team that is in turmoil and change can achieve such a record under the leadership of his interim coach. He is fully qualified to be proud. Unlike Bickerstaff, he is now supporting Zhou Lin.

After winning back-to-back games with the Washington Wizards on the 8th, the Charlotte Bobcats are currently 26 wins and 37 losses, only half a game away from the eighth in the East.

This year's top two teams in the Eastern Conference are too fierce in the upper half, which will inevitably cause many teams in the lower half to have a low winning percentage. Therefore, even if the Charlotte Bobcats' winning percentage is not as high as last year, they still have a chance to enter the playoffs.

The current Eastern Conference standings are as follows.

The No. 49 Celtics in the East have a record of 12 wins and [-] losses, and they have already confirmed their place in the playoffs even two games ago.

The Detroit Pistons, second in the Eastern Conference, won 45 wins. As long as they win one more game, they will also determine their qualifications for the playoffs many rounds in advance.

The third place in the East is the upstart Orlando Magic. They have won 40 games and tied last year's total wins 18 rounds ahead of schedule.

The fourth place in the Eastern Conference is the Cleveland Cavaliers. They have a record of 35 wins and 28 losses. As last year's Eastern Conference champions, the performance of the Cleveland Cavaliers is completely inferior to last year.

The Toronto Raptors, fifth in the East, are 33 wins and 28 losses.

These are also the only five teams in the East with a winning percentage above .5.

The Washington Wizards, sixth in the East, are 30 wins and 32 losses.

The Philadelphia 76ers, seventh in the East, are 29 wins and 33 losses.

The Atlanta Hawks, eighth in the East, are 26 wins and 36 losses.

The New Jersey Nets in the ninth place in the East and the Charlotte Bobcats in the tenth place are both 26 wins and 37 losses.

The No.11 Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference have already started to perform poorly this season, currently 25 wins and 37 losses.

The No. 12 Pacers in the East are 24 wins and 37 losses.

The No. 13 Milwaukee Bucks in the East are 23 wins and 39 losses.

The No. 14 New York Knicks in the East are 17 wins and 46 losses.

The No.15 Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference has 11 wins and 50 losses. It was the league champion two years ago and is now the last in the league.

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Capel's idea of ​​rushing to the playoffs immediately is a good idea, but the upcoming schedule is not friendly to the Charlotte Bobcats.

In the next three games, the Bobcats will face the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, and Cleveland Cavaliers in turn.

三支球队截止到3月8日，目前战绩分别是40-23，41-20，和35-28。

Among them, the most powerful is the Houston Rockets, who are also the hottest team in the league today.

They are already on the way to making history. You must know that they have not lost since the first 8 games of the All-Star Game.

And Zhou Lin, who came from the upstream of history, knew that the Houston Rockets would also create a record of 22 consecutive victories, which was second only to the 1971 consecutive victories of the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1972-33 season before the Miami Big Three assembled.

After all, the Charlotte Bobcats still failed to beat the mighty Dallas Mavericks. The arrival of Jason Kidd also made the Mavericks a lot more stable. Nowitzki scored 26 points, Josh Howard scored 24 points, Kidd An understatement, the 6+7+8 data helped the team defeat the Charlotte Bobcats at the American Airlines Center. Although Zhou Lin scored 21 points, the shooting rate of 22 of 7 shots was really horrible.

On March 3, the Bobcats went to Houston, and Zhou Lin also visited Yao Ming in person.

In fact, Yao Ming was injured in the 13th game, McGrady became the biggest contributor to the other nine victories, and everyone knows that as long as the defense becomes McGrady, the Rockets' record will be interrupted.

The entire Toyota Center was filled with bright red, and the singing of ROCKET.MAN continued to sing loudly. Although the team lost the star Yao Ming, the fans in the entire Houston home field believed that the Houston Rockets would beat the Charlotte Bobcats. Achieved 21 consecutive victories, which is also the second longest winning streak in history.

The Houston Rockets, which currently have 44 victories, are only 1 game behind the Los Angeles Lakers, the No. [-] in the Western Conference. They have every chance to reach the top of the Western Conference!
In history, the Houston Rockets indeed defeated the Charlotte Bobcats and achieved their 21st consecutive victory.

But the current Charlotte Bobcats are completely different from the Charlotte Bobcats in history.

The reason why the current Houston Rockets team can still win consecutive games depends on their momentum and hard work, and this is also true of the Bobcats in order to fight for the playoffs.

Perhaps, changing history is just tonight.

Tonight, the Charlotte Bobcats are going to be the villains of history!
CCTV-5 also broadcast the game live, and reporter Wang Meng based in Houston interviewed Zhou Lin.

When Wang Meng asked about Zhou Lin's mentality in this game, Zhou Lin said relaxedly: "It's up to each other. I went to see Dayao yesterday. He recovered well. We also talked about the problems of each other's teams. In this situation, for this game, I can only say that I will try my best to win this game, after all, our Bobcats are also competing for the key moment of the playoff tickets.”

Zhou Lin is very clear that the current Charlotte Bobcats have finally condensed a fighting spirit due to the winning streak in early March. Once they suffer a losing streak, this fighting spirit may be vented.

In this game, Capel also started to use the knife against the first.

Raymond Felton is the No. 2 position, Mike Dunleavy is the No. 3 position, as the high fortress, Zhou Lin is the No. 4 position, Emeka Okafor is the No. 5 position, and Nazr Mohamed De hit the [-]th position.

Once Yao Ming was injured, the Houston Rockets' proud No. 5 position became the team's weakness.

I don’t know how old Dikembe Mutombo is, he is in his last NBA season, and Luis Scola is only playing in his first year in the NBA. Chuck Hayes, Karl .Landry, all of them are ultra-short insiders.

Combat power is really rare.

However, Tracy McGrady was in a super state during this period, and it was a coincidence that in early March, he was awarded the best player at the same time as Zhou Lin, and he was awarded by the more intense Western Conference.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a Mutombo in his forties still uses his long arms to pass the ball into McGrady's hands, and McGrady directly controls the ball to the frontcourt.

The game officially started.

As the core player of the team, facing Mike Dunleavy's defense, McGrady scored two points with his iconic pull-up jumper in the first round.

There were also violent cheers at the scene.

But soon, Zhou Lin and Emeka Okafor's pick-and-roll worked. Tombo just couldn't make it up.

Looking back, McGrady tried an outside three-pointer, but failed to put the ball into the basket.

Raymond Felton quickly took the defensive rebound, launched a fast break, and gave the ball to Zhou Lin. Facing Sean Battier's defense, Zhou Lin gave the ball to Mike Felton on the other side. Dunleavy, the latter fired a cannon from the bottom corner and hit the bullseye directly!
Turning around, McGrady gave the ball to Sean Battier who cut inside. Battier missed the layup, but grabbed the rebound in front of Zhou Lin and made up again.

Sean Battier is indeed a jack-of-all-trades player, and his real strength is definitely stronger than most players imagined. His wingspan, his strength, his consciousness, and even his jumping are better than most players. The NBA players here are good, and his golf quotient is also a must.

To be honest, Zhou Lin felt very uncomfortable every time he faced Sean Battier.

It's the same this time.

And Sean Battier also has a precise corner three-pointer. In the era when the league has not yet formed 3D players, Sean Battier is definitely the pioneer of 3D players.

The Houston Rockets, who have won 20 consecutive victories, are much more exhausted than everyone thinks, but the winning streak is like a stimulant for the players, allowing them to continue to play chicken blood.

The current lineup of the Charlotte Bobcats is much better than the Charlotte Bobcats in history.

Among them, Mike Dunleavy, who should not have appeared in the Charlotte Bobcats, is a key point.

There is one thing to say, after Mike Dunleavy joined the Charlotte Bobcats, not only did his scoring average not decrease, but he also increased by 0.2 points, and his shooting percentage became even higher.

Someone always finds him at the right moment, and he always gets an open shot.

Because in the team, except for the point guard, there are very good partners in the starting and sub-stages, either Zhou Lin, or Boris Dior, a yellow magician, and a French magician.

Mike Dunleavy just needs to wait quietly for an opportunity to put the ball in the basket.

In this quarter, Mike Dunleavy once again made three three-pointers and scored a team-high 3 points. The Charlotte Bobcats also led by 11 points 24-18 in the first quarter.

Although McGrady, Battier, and Alston all played the first quarter.

In the substitute stage at the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, Boris Diaw and Brandon Roy also fully supported the team's bench lineup.

The Rockets' obsession with the winning streak is really strong, and McGrady is the same. In the second quarter, he played the whole quarter again.

But in the second quarter, the Houston Rockets still lost 20 points in a 25-5 single quarter.

At halftime, 49-38, the Charlotte Bobcats took a double-digit lead.

McGrady fought alone and scored 14 points on 6 of 15 shots. He has worked hard to lead the team to victory.

At halftime, Zhou Lin also saw Sean Battier shouting loudly to his teammates, encouraging him. This player, nicknamed 'President', is also an out-and-out chicken soup master. The team has filled up the BUFF again.

Not long after the opening of the third quarter, Sean Battier set an example. He got entangled with Mike Dunleavy during a fight for the floor ball. With this wave of ball possession, he is trying to use his performance to wake up his teammates who seem to be a little tired.

And the Houston Rockets finally launched their counterattack. As the leader, McGrady began to attack the inside line continuously. Mike Dunleavy obviously couldn't keep up with McGrady's footsteps. After being passed twice in a row, Zhou Lin took the initiative to switch to McGrady .

McGrady's scoring pace temporarily stopped.

But soon McGrady found a way to help the team in another direction, and he began to continuously deliver shells to his teammates.

This also led to other players starting to perform well.

Among them, Luis Scola's performance in this quarter was particularly eye-catching. Although it was only his first year in the NBA, he showed several tango moves in the face of a traditional American insider like Emeka Okafor. Okafor himself also looked confused, and several times when he turned his head and wanted to reach out to defend, Luis Scola shook his head and threw his long hair in the face.

He even found the referee to talk about Scola's hair.

At this time, the league is still dominated by big bald heads, followed by Yao Ming, Zhou Lin, Yi Jianlian, and short inches of European men, as well as individual hairstyles with ditch braids represented by Iverson and Anthony. Of course, in addition to this In addition, there are also Mohawk, cockscomb and other unique shapes.

There are really very few people with shawl-length hair like Scola's who don't use rubber bands and don't do styling.

I don't know if Scola washes his hair diligently or not.

Of course, the referee ignored Okafor's intentions.

In the third quarter of the game, Scola, who has long hair growth, scored 11 points alone, 7 of 5 inside.

And McGrady's 8 points, Battier's 7 points, Alston's 5 points, the Houston Rockets scored 31 points in the third quarter, while the Charlotte Bobcats only scored 23 points.

72-69, the Charlotte Bobcats were chased to a 3-point advantage.

Not surprisingly, McGrady played the entire third quarter again, and looked at the posture and did not plan to go on in the fourth quarter.

The entire Toyota Center was chanting Come on, Rockets.

They also want to see the Houston Rockets continue their winning streak.

周林在前三节出手11次只进了4次，得到11分5助攻3篮板，同时还有4次失误，也是近期以来最低迷的一场表现了。

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, McGrady's long-range three-pointer directly evened the score.

This time Zhou Lin played very decisively, almost walking in against Sean Battier, and finally hit a limit hit and drew a foul at the same time, laying the foundation for the Charlotte Bobcats in the fourth quarter.

The extra penalty hit was a response to McGrady's three-pointer.

In the next few minutes, the Houston Rockets, McGrady, Scola, Battier, and Alston all lost power.

The Charlotte Bobcats relied on the opponent's consecutive missed shots. Brandon Roy and Boris Diaw each scored 4 points, and a wave of 8-0 attacks once again opened the point difference to 11 points.

83-72.

Although Mike James stood up from the bench and scored 10 points in a single quarter, McGrady also made consecutive breakthroughs to the basket to create kills, scoring 9 points with sudden penalties.

But at the last moment, Zhou Lin made a fatal three-pointer, which opened the gap to 94-91.

During the 17-second countdown, the Houston Rockets adopted foul tactics and sent Zhou Lin to the free throw line. Zhou Lin scored the 18th and 19th points in consecutive hits amidst the boos of Houston.

Sean Battier failed to hit a three-pointer, and the Houston Rockets had no choice but to withdraw.

In the end, the Charlotte Bobcats won the away game 96-91.

The Houston Rockets' winning streak also stopped at 20 games!
In this campaign, Zhou Lin had a poor shooting percentage, only 17 of 6 shots, scored 19 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds, but the 5 points at the critical moment helped the team win the final victory.

In addition, Brandon Roy scored 22 points and Mike Dunleavy scored 27 points.

McGrady scored 48 points in the game, and scored 35 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in the end!

(End of this chapter)