pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 396 Against the Alliance

In Mu Chenfeng's heart, he has already prepared for the first matchup with William in the NBA.

Through the record-breaking 59-point performance in the last game, Mu Chenfeng has also become the research object of various teams. The Utah Jazz also studied his technical characteristics before the game, but William did not participate in the "mobilization meeting" before the game.

He had already grasped Mu Chenfeng's characteristics thoroughly, and those theoretical things hardly played any role in defending Mu Chenfeng.

During the meeting, William and assistant coach Rivers were conducting one-on-one confrontation training in the arena. William only defended but did not attack. As a result, Rivers did not score a single goal in the 30-minute confrontation.

William's defensive ability is the first among rookies in the same class. Rivers even feels that he has a chance to impact the defensive lineup this season. With his level, he has the possibility of entering the third team.

Few rookies can rely on defense to make fans remember. William did it. The players who played against him in the game were all players with good scoring ability. William was able to use his defense to stifle their offense.

The reason why William's defensive ability is so good is because of his excellent physical fitness.

With a height of 2.01m and a weight close to 200 pounds, he has an advantage in the confrontation. In addition, his defensive awareness and sense of rebounding are also very keen. He is a rare rookie who has clearly defined his role when he entered the league.

Defense is William's way of basketball.

If Mu Chenfeng's 59 points prove that he is the sharpest spear among rookies, then William is the strongest shield.

William is also an iron man in the team, averaging 38 minutes per game, which ranks first among rookies, and even in the league, he can rank tenth in such playing time.

And his opponent, Mu Chenfeng, averaged only 28 minutes per game, but Mu Chenfeng's efficiency was astonishing.

In terms of efficiency, William is +5 and Mu Chenfeng is +3. This is a very rare result for a rookie. Only 7 rookies in the league have a positive efficiency value.

The Utah Jazz is a team in a small market. The team’s exposure and popularity are not as high as those of major international markets such as Miami, Los Angeles and New York. However, it has the most loyal fans in the league. Since the old Sloan era, Salt Lake City has been absolutely loyal to its home team. It has been with the team for decades. From peak to trough and then to peak, Jazz fans have never left.

And they treat their players like family members. William gained a group of loyal fans when he first arrived, which made him feel the warmth of home here, which also laid the foundation for his performance on the court.

William and Rivers ended one-on-one training, and the team's memories were also over. Jr. Sloan deliberately called William aside.

"Tomorrow your task is to completely restrain Mu Chenfeng, and leave the rest to other people. Is there a problem?" Little Sloan asked.

"No problem." William agreed very readily. This arrangement was exactly what he wanted. He wished he could face off against Mu Chenfeng and let him lose a single point.

"That kid broke the record because of good luck." William sneered at the fact that Mu Chenfeng broke the record. The opponent was the Magic, one of the worst teams in the NBA. If he had met the Jazz instead of the Magic, then Mu Chenfeng would have no chance of breaking the record.

However, breaking the record is already a fact, and Mu Chenfeng's name has already been written on the No.1 position of the historical rookie scoring list.

It is an indescribable "humiliation" for the NBA that the record belonging to the Americans is broken. In the NBA, almost all records are monopolized by the Americans themselves. They also use these records to show the world their basketball level. However, after Mu Chenfeng broke Chamberlain's record, there were more and more discussions about this Chinese player, and it occupied the highest heat for a while. With Mu Chenfeng becoming famous together with the domestic CBA league, many foreign players began to pay more attention to the CBA, and saw the basketball talents of domestic players, and even wanted to Follow the example of the NBA and introduce Chinese players.

You must know that the attention of Chinese players has always been the highest in the world. If there are Chinese players in the team, then this team will definitely make money without losing money.

This was unimaginable in the past. Due to the lack of understanding of domestic players, many foreign leagues, especially European leagues, are very resistant to Chinese players. However, as domestic players began to play in European leagues in recent years, they gradually opened the door to European leagues. Mu Chenfeng's fame in World War I raised the attention of CBA to an unprecedented level.

"You know what the record broken by Mu Chenfeng means to us." Little Sloan said softly to William, "He is likely to attack more odds, so we must stop him."

William is a native American player. In their world, honor and records are the most important existence. When a Chinese player's name appears on the American leaderboard, he will naturally be contradicted.

Not only the Utah Jazz, other teams in the league are also disgusted by this. They failed to prevent Mu Chenfeng from breaking Chamberlain's record, but they can prevent him from breaking more records.

For a while, Mu Chenfeng has become a public enemy of the whole people.

"Don't forget, this is the United States, our home stadium, and everything here will be on your side." When Little Sloan spoke, a "sinister" smile crossed the corner of his mouth slightly.

The implication is very clear. Now Mu Chenfeng is not only on the opposite side of William, but on the opposite side of the entire NBA league. Moreover, certain unspoken rules about yellow races in the NBA have been around for a long time. From Yao Ming to Yi Jianlian to Jeremy Lin, these players have to face not only their opponents, but also many other factors on the field.

On the one hand, the league is using their status as Chinese players to make money, and on the other hand, it is using unspoken rules to hurt them. What Chinese players can do is to run hard and survive in the cracks.

Mu Chenfeng is lucky, he is not as lonely as Yao Ming and others, because there is a Chinese boss standing behind him.

From the moment the draft announced that Mu Chenfeng was selected, Black Lee was equivalent to "declaring war" on the alliance. Both he and his team would become Mu Chenfeng's strong backing.

The battle with the Magic team made this mentality more serious. Miami wanted Mu Chenfeng to break that record, and this was just the beginning.

(End of this chapter)