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Chapter 126 The Madman (First Order)

"Shame, shame!"

In the locker room of the home team at the Pepsi Center, the head coach of the Nuggets, George Karl, was spitting at NN Hilario and Kenyon Martin. It's up to the head coach to vent.

Before the start of the game, George Karl not only arranged for NN Hilario and Kenyon Martin to double-team Yan Hua, but also told them not to underestimate the king's rookie, but to win To deal with the end of Yao Ming and Howard, to deal with the rookie of the Kings, but in the first half of the game, NN-Hilary and Kenyon Martin, not only failed to deal with the rookie, but were also caught by that guy It was horrible to be hung up and smoked.

George Karl, who was standing on the sidelines throughout the first half, would stomp his feet angrily as long as he saw Yan Hua snatching offensive rebounds from NN-Hilario and Kenyon Martin, although NN- Neither Hilario nor Kenyon Martin is a basket maniac, but the two of you can't grab one person at the same time, and you are repeatedly robbed of rebounds from the top of your head. Are you angry? Are you angry? ?
"In the first half, I don't care about it with you. In the second half, as long as that little rookie steals offensive rebounds from either of you, after the game is over, the two of you will take the initiative. , $1000 for a front board, give it to me."

After some severe reprimands, George Karl, who had nothing to do, could only come up with a low-level trick of using fines to motivate them. George Karl knew very well that if any blind guy in the locker room After the end, if you leak this news to the media, you will definitely face accusations and doubts from the media, and even fines from the league, but George Karl can't care about these anymore. The Nuggets led by George Karl have already He has missed the first round of the playoffs for four consecutive seasons. If he falls in the first round of the playoffs again this season when he ranks second in the Western Conference in the regular season, then George Karl will definitely leave.

"Rebounds, rebounds, rebounds!" The important thing was said three times. After setting up a rule for NN Hilario and Kenyon Martin to be fined for any offensive rebounds, George Karl went to all the players in the locker room. The Nuggets player emphasized the importance of rebounding several times.

After arranging all the tactics and the list of players in the second half, looking at the seemingly strong inside twin towers, but was overwhelmed by a rookie, George Karl missed the guy he didn't like for the first time. Marcus Camby.

George Karl has always been dissatisfied with Marcus Camby, although under George Karl's command, Marcus Camby won the block leader many times and even won the honor of the best defensive player , but George Karl's attitude towards Marcus Camby has never changed. After NN-Hilario can provoke the leader, George Karl is even more unkind to Marcus Camby, and The Nuggets management also sent Marcus Camby to the Los Angeles Clippers before the start of the season.

However, when the playoffs started, the Nuggets' rebounds were maxed out, and the interior defense was like no one, George Karl really missed Marcus Camby, although Marcus Camby had many problems , the defensive end likes to get out of position, often inexplicably loses his opponents in order to block shots, and even ignores the team's tactics, but Marcus Camby's rebounding ability is unquestionable. Last season, he averaged 13 rebounds, and 11 rebounds per game for the Clippers this season.

"If Marcus Camby was still around, maybe he wouldn't have lost so many rebounds." After recalling the figure that he didn't like in his mind, he whispered to himself, George Karl got up and walked out of the locker room.

Although George Karl repeatedly urged during the intermission to protect the rebounds and protect the rebounds, after the start of the second half of the game, the Nuggets still did not improve in terms of rebounds. arrive.

"Moses Malone definitely has stronger rebounding skills than the card forward." When Yan Hua grabbed another offensive rebound from Kenyon Martin's head and increased his offensive rebounds to more than ten, Yan Hua Hua couldn't help sighing in his heart.

Steven Adams's blocking forward skills are called by the system as one of the strongest blocking and rebounding skills. After using the Moses Malone experience card, Yan Hua could clearly feel his sense of rebounding, and his ability to judge where rebounds are placed, much stronger than before. This must be because of Moses Malone's rebounding The reason is that the skills are stronger than Kafeng.

Super strong sense of rebounding, abnormal moving speed and jumping ability, so that Moses Malone can break through the siege among the elders casually, and get the rebounds in the bag. According to the system, that is Moses Malone Grab the backcourt rebounds in the backcourt, then launch a fast break, miss the shot after reaching the frontcourt, then grab the offensive rebounds, shoot, grab and shoot again, it is commonplace to grab multiple rebounds in one round, and Moses Malone's 6731 offensive rebounds in his career is more than 22000 ahead of No. [-] behind him. It is the one with the widest gap among the NBA's various data records.

However, what makes Yan Hua a little regretful is that Moses Malone's shot-blocking ability is not outstanding compared to his nearly heaven-defying rebounding ability. Fortunately, Yan Hua has already learned Alonzo Mourning's shot-blocking skills. - Malone's block is a shortcoming, but it's not a big deal.In addition to the shortcomings of blocking shots, Moses Malone's offensive methods are not rich enough. Of course, Moses Malone's offensive methods are not rich enough. It is compared with a center kaleidoscope like Patrick Ewing, but relying on Grabbing offensive rebounds and then attacking again, if you can score 20 points in half a game, no matter how many offensive methods you have, Yan Hua probably won't be able to use them.

"It seems that the Nuggets can't get it back in this game."

When the Nuggets were still unable to solve the fatal problem of rebounding, Charles Barkley, who was on the sidelines commentary, directly sentenced the Nuggets to death just after playing for a few minutes in the third quarter.

Unable to keep the backcourt rebounds, repeatedly allowing the Kings to grab the frontcourt rebounds and form a second offense, it means that no matter how much energy the Nuggets put in on the defensive end, it will be useless in the end, although the Nuggets also performed very well on the offensive end. The shooting percentage is even higher than that of the Kings, but in the case of losing more than a dozen offensive rebounds to the opponent, and the total number of shots is 15 times less than the opponent, the higher shooting percentage is really irrelevant.

In the end, when the game ended and the Nuggets lost to the Kings 91-104 at home, the entire Pepsi Center fell into dead silence. Before the game started, they were full of confidence and wanted to win the playoffs at home. The Nuggets, who got off to a good start, ended up losing to the Kings by as much as 13 points at home. If it weren't for the Kings' main force sitting on the sidelines in the fourth quarter, the Nuggets might lose even worse in today's game.

And the Kings in the away game, in the first game of the series, beat the Nuggets, the second in the Western Conference, which is absolutely unacceptable to everyone, especially the Nuggets fans in the Pepsi Center, the second in the Western Conference, They were second in the Western Conference, but in the first game of the series, they lost without any reaction, and the situation in front of them reminded them of the Diggers, who ranked third in the Western Conference in the regular season three seasons ago. King, who was undercut by the Los Angeles Clippers in the playoffs.

So when the whole game ended and the Nuggets, who had the advantage of home court, lost to the Kings, almost all the Nuggets fans at the scene were reluctant to leave for a long time. Sacramento Kings players.

Even though the result of this game was surprising, what surprised everyone even more was the technical statistics of this game. When the technical statistics of the whole game were distributed to all reporters and experts on the scene, these were still The reporters who were surprised and excited by the king's away victory over the Nuggets were even more shocked. Of course, they were even more excited after being shocked.
He made 20 of 14 shots and 8 of 5 free throws. After only playing 29 minutes and rarely attacking with the ball, Yan Hua scored a game-high 33 points and also grabbed a game-high 25 points. rebounds, and 12 offensive rebounds in a single game broke Yan Hua's career record. In addition, Yan Hua also sent 4 blocks and 7 assists.

In the first playoff game of his career, he scored 33 points, 25 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4 blocked shots. This is no longer crazy, but a lunatic. A lunatic who knows what the playoffs are!
(End of this chapter)