You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 349 and the slime

No one expected that a bad cold could make Mo Mengchen, who had never missed a game due to injury in his rookie season, rest for five consecutive games.

It was not until January 1 that Mo Mengchen fully recovered from the cold.

In the past five games, the Pistons had three wins and two losses. Some people will use this to prove the importance of Mo Mengchen, but one thing cannot be ignored, that is, in the past five games, the Pistons only met one weak team.

Jazz, Trail Blazers, Pacers, Spurs, Kings.

The only team that is relatively weak is the Kings with Tracy McGrady as the core. The other four games were all bitter battles. Among them, the Jazz and Pacers defeated the Pistons.

It is worth mentioning that this is the third time the Pistons have lost to the Pacers this season.

The current record of the Pistons is 30 wins and 8 losses, and they can still secure the No. [-] position in the Eastern Conference. After a difficult schedule, there will definitely be an easy schedule. The outside world is generally optimistic that they can always sit in the Eastern Conference before the All-Star Weekend. Even the league's top spot.

After all, the No. 27 Jazz in the West is only 12 wins and 3 losses, [-] games behind them.

In the next battle, the Pistons will go to Boston to challenge the Boston Celtics, a strong Eastern team that has risen this season.

With Duncan as a super rookie, the Celtics completed the reconstruction overnight. The famous college coach Rick Pitino led the league's leading high salary and moved his famous full-court pressing system in the NCAA to Boston.

The core of the Celtics lineup is Duncan and Antoine Walker.With Walker around, Duncan doesn't need to think about offense. He focuses on defense just like a college. Relying on limited ball rights, he has averaged 22 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists and 2.6 blocks per game so far this season.

Moreover, the Celtics have thus advanced strongly into the top five in the East. If there were not too many top teams in the East, they could have reached the top four in the East.

In the East, the Pistons, Pacers, Bulls, and Heat are divided into the top four. It is difficult for the Celtics to hit any team in terms of record. Waiting for a group of teams that are eyeing tigers, the rankings in the Eastern Conference are from No.8 to No.5, and the competition for rankings is extremely fierce.

There are still two days before the game against the Celtics. Frauses temporarily decided to wait until tomorrow before leaving for the away game. He does not want the players to rush to the away game early and practice in unfamiliar venues, which will greatly reduce their training quality. And today is also Mo Mengchen's first time to participate in the team's joint training after he had a bad cold, so he just took advantage of today's training to see how he is doing.

"It's good to see you alive." Hill found Mo Mengchen in the locker room.

Without raising his eyes, Mo Mengchen tied his shoelaces patiently, but his mouth was not idle: "Sitting on the soft sofa and seeing you get such good statistics but can't win the game is really pleasant."

"I have good intentions, you" Hill rolled his eyes with anger.

Mo Mengchen had a sneer on his face: "Aren't I kind?"

"It seems that in today's match, I have to let you know how insidious human beings can be." Hill threatened.

Mo Mengchen was not afraid at all: "It's up to you? Heh."

On the pitch at the Henry Ford Training Center, after the players warmed up, Frauses gathered everyone together.

"Before the All-Star weekend, I only have one wish." Frouses joked solemnly, "I hope I don't catch a cold again."

The atmosphere is much more relaxed.

"I'm happy to have Mo back, but we still need to test his form, so let's play a test match next," Frouses said.

"Black Team, Grant, TR, Lewis, Chuck, and Theo."

Frouseth spoke the name of the black team first.

In contrast, the white team has a more flexible lineup. Their five-man team is Mo Mengchen, Chris Robinson, Alan Houston, Ben Wallace and Scott Pollard.

"Coach, what about me?"

Williams didn't expect that he was not selected for the black and white teams.

"Which team would you like to be a substitute?"

From this point of view, he will not be able to play the match today.

Williams took the initiative to go to the white team.

"Okay, let's get ready."

Mo Mengchen relaxed beside Dumas, only to hear Dumas say: "This grouping is interesting."

"What's the point?" Mo Mengchen didn't leave for a long time, but it wasn't short either. Many things can happen in five games.

Dumars had a very playful look on his face, and he looked at Ratliff and Wallace who were warming up seriously.

"Those two guys had a fight," Dumars said, "and a serious one."

Mo Mengchen asked: "What's going on?"

The matter originated from the previous game against the Jazz. Wallace's performance surpassed Ratliff, so he was praised by Frauses. Raisi, the two played a real fight, pushed each other, and were finally separated by teammates.

"I didn't even know that something like this happened?"

Mo Mengchen was taken aback for a moment, and said unhappily.

"It's just ordinary competition, what's so strange?" Dumas said, "Ten years ago, this kind of confrontation often happened. Those who are able go up and those who are incompetent go down. This is the law of the alliance."

The problem is precisely that neither of these two is incompetent.

In terms of career achievements, Ratliff can't compare with Wallace at all.But for now, Ratliff is definitely stronger than Wallace.

Mo Mengchen's original plan was to let Wallace enhance the basket protection ability of the second team, and then find a way to help him up after he grows up. He didn't expect these two insiders with similar styles to compete so quickly.

Competition is of course an indispensable factor in the NBA, and a good team is bound to be accompanied by fierce competition for positions.

Like Jordan's Bulls.

Jordan's military style is extremely strict, and he proudly calls it a crash course for champions. He advocates competition, and he especially likes to force those who are far inferior to him in value and strength to compete. This can lead to a good training atmosphere, because he puts others If you are forced to have no way out, you will also lose your way out.

He encourages others to train hard, and indirectly allows himself to train hard to make progress and grow with each other. This is a healthy competition.

But if two people with similar strengths and not much difference in coffee status engage in such a competition, there will be problems.

As long as Ben Wallace finds out that Ratliff isn't much better than him, he won't be willing to sit on the bench again.

This is human nature, who would want a person who is no stronger than himself to be on top of him?
"How does the coach handle this?" Mo Mengchen asked.

Dumas said, "Fifty big boards each."

"This fat man chooses this kind of time and mud?" Mo Mengchen was furious.

Fatty.
Dumas asked, "What do you want to do?"

"I want to see what these two people want to do."

Mo Mengchen walked to the field, first picked up the match ball and took a few shots.

This is also the first time he has touched the ball in nearly ten days.

"Daddy, can you pass me a ball later? I learned a great footwork from watching Hakim's video a while ago."

rookie Scott Pollard said excitedly.

Your hairstyle makes it hard for me to pay attention to what you have to say.

Mo Mengchen narrowed his eyes and carefully observed Pollard's hairstyle. His current hairstyle is a bit like Akagi Takenori, but not as straightforward as Akagi.

It’s okay to get this kind of automatic heightening hairstyle, why do you need to DIY the hairstyle?

Imagine Takenori Akagi's hairstyle with a strand of long hair protruding from the middle, which looks like a peaked cap, which can help block the light if the sun is too big.

"Isn't that my haircut?" Pollard asked confidently.

To be honest, Mo Mengchen laughed angrily at him.

Where the hell did this come from?
"We actually traded Mahon for such a thing." Mo Mengchen couldn't help feeling sad for the old hooligan who wanted to die for the Pistons.

In the jump ball, Ratliff, who could hardly beat anyone in this segment, defeated Pollard.

Very good, now Mo Mengchen knew that the few people in this league who couldn't beat Ratliff in the jump ball were actually his teammates.

Hill took the ball and attacked fiercely. In the black team, his position was No. 1, directly facing Mo Mengchen.

"Mo, I will take good care of you." Hill slowed down and started suddenly. This speed really made Mo Mengchen helpless.

In an instant, he drives in, jumps into the air, draws Pollard's defense, and passes the ball to Ratliff.

Ratliff raised his ape arm and violently dunked.

"Wow!"

Ratliff waved his arms and roared.

Xier Zan said: "Yes, we just want to have this momentum."

This idiot is still in the fire?
Wallace took the initiative to run to Pollard's side and wanted to switch defenses with him.

Pollard has no reason not to follow, and he doesn't want to touch Ratliff's brow. If the two want to fight, let them fight happily. There is no need to drag himself into the water. He just wants to be a peace of mind. The substitute became the most dazzling touch of color in the Pistons.

Looking at his hairstyle again, his wish has definitely come true.

no doubt!

"Tell me, what are you doing?" Mo Mengchen asked.

Hill was dumbfounded by the question.

What else can I do?Aren't you playing a game?
"Assists," Hill said.

So Mo Mengchen hit through the crotch, humiliated Hill, and passed the ball to Wallace.

"What are you doing?" Hill thought he shouldn't be so humiliating.

Wallace actually puts an ugly hook on Ratliff's defense, and what's even more sad is that the ugly hook still hooks in.

God wants the conflict between these two people to intensify, and no one can stop it.

Mo Mengchen said blankly: "Obviously, I'm assisting."

Unless you are blind.

"Then why did you pass the ball like this?" Hill said angrily, "I'm ashamed of you doing this!"

"I was wrong, sorry."

Hill's expression just eased.

I heard Mo Mengchen say next, "But I will pass it on like this next time."

　Thanks is the reward from my little brother.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)