NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 93 Everything is going smoothly
April 11

The Bobcats travel to Boston to challenge the Celtics.

In the preseason, the two teams were quite close.

Because of dissatisfaction with the final whistleblowing scale, Bobcats coach Liu Rui was once expelled.

And with the Celtics' free throw and Wallace's final three-pointer, the team also ruined the victory of that game.

But no one expected that the fight again in a short period of time would be different now.

The Bobcats' main lineup is basically on the sidelines, while the Celtics still maintain a complete lineup.

And at the beginning of the season, the team showed a strong desire to win.

The opponents encountered in the early stage are generally not very strong.This brings the Celtics' current record to three wins and one loss.

In this game, the Bobcats still lost the game without much suspense.

Throughout the game, the Bobcats took

80:92
Lost to the Celtics by 12 points.

Faced with Pierce's rich offensive methods, there is no player on the front line of the Bobcats who can limit his performance.

皮尔斯全场比赛仅登场31分钟，17投11中，三分球6中3，高效率贡献出25分4篮板3助攻。

Kapono was also a bit skeptical of life. Ever since Wallace couldn't play because of the suspension, Kapono deeply felt what despair is.

In the preseason, if the offensive firepower of the opponent's front line is too strong, Liu Rui will generally arrange Wallace and Kapono to take turns to defend.

And Wallace's defense ability is definitely the top of the league, which allows Kapono to play with ease in the preseason.

The pride on the defensive end also allowed him to focus more firepower on the offensive end.

But with Wallace suspended, Kapono had to put in more effort on the defensive end.

This also led to a struggle on the offensive end.

And after this game, after the Bobcats defeated the Wizards in their own game, the team's losing streak came to a three-game losing streak.

And in the next three games.

The Bobcats were then slaughtered by the Jazz, Cavaliers and Knicks.

The team's losing streak continued to six consecutive kneeling.

The current record has come to 1 win and 6 losses, ranking first in the East.

And during this period of time, Bickerstaff also got in touch with Liu Rui intermittently.

But Liu Rui's mind is obviously not on this at the moment, and he just told Bickerstaff to pay more attention to the statistics of Tron Smith and Robinson.

Try to give them more playing time in the following games.

Because as the regular season continued, the number of banned games for White and Brezek gradually decreased.

Liu Rui also wanted to reach a deal between Du Hong and Ariza as soon as possible before his comeback.

Because the current defense of the Bobcats really makes people feel broken at a glance.

The Knicks have the offensive firepower of Marbury, Alan Houston, Hardaway and Crawford this season.

Although the team's current record is only three wins and four losses, it is far from ideal.

But their goal this season is definitely to hit the playoffs.

As a second-round pick, Ariza averaged only 8.5 minutes of playing time in these games.

And the shooting percentage is only 37.5%.has been gradually marginalized.

The Bulls are currently a brand new team, and their team's head star is actually a second-year rookie Hinrich.

But it is in this situation that the Bulls are eye-popping and currently rank among the top spears with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses.

In these few games, although Du Hong played as a starter.

However, in the 29 minutes he averaged, he could only contribute 39 points and 5 assists per game with a shooting rate of 3.7%.

If it weren't for his defensive ability, the Bulls coach would have put him on the bench long ago.

However, with the deepening of the game, the overlapping positions of Duhon and Hinrich have been gradually exposed.

Hinrich's current backcourt combination with Ben Gordon has clearly become the core of the Bulls' reconstruction.

As a traditional point guard, Hinrich not only has an excellent pass and overall view, but also has a good shooting ability.

Very good at pick-and-roll tactics with centers in the high post.

But a player who must have possession of the ball to be effective.

And Ben Gordon is currently used as the team's sixth man, continuing to fire for the Bulls as a bench bandit.

But Ben Gordon can play off the ball on the court as a catch-and-shoot option, and his main scoring method also comes from three-pointers and mid-range jumpers.

This also made Du Hong's position gradually awkward.

The management has long asked the Bulls coach to focus more on Hinrich and Ben Gordon.

But because the Bulls were thinking about rebuilding at the beginning of this season, but so far, the team's momentum is pretty good.

Duhon's defense is only clear to Skiles, who is the head coach.

That's why Du Hong and Hinrich have always been the starters against all odds.

But this has already planted the seeds of conflict between him and the management.

And that is indeed the case. After a few seasons, he was dismissed by the team.

The Bobcats teenager Robinson has gained a lot of playing time and shot rights in these games.

Although his personal ability is not very outstanding, but all the training of the whole team has allowed him to play an average of 28 minutes per game.

Able to average 11 points and 4 rebounds per game, and has a shooting percentage of 40.00%.

And because of Liu Rui's arrival this season, Bobcats players have more choices to shoot from outside the three-point line.

The teenager Robinson currently also has a 37% three-point shooting percentage.

It is really rare in this era, not to mention that he is only a first-year rookie.

As a second-round pick, he has gradually been favored by the media, and many people believe that he has a chance to enter the best rookie team this year.

And Tron Smith's performance on the three-pointer is still a bit struggling.

In fact, in these few games, the team gave him a lot of shots, but his three-point shooting percentage still can only be kept at about 30%.

Although there are always gambling steals on the court, Bickerstaff, as the acting head coach, has never complained about him.

Because Liu Rui once explained that if you want to get a good stat for him, you have to let him play the game with the most familiar style of play.

Anyway, the Bobcats' defense is already so bad, so they don't care if it's a little bit worse.

Troon Smith has averaged 32 minutes per game in recent games.

Although he can only contribute 10.1 points on the offensive end, his excellent fast break speed and steal awareness also allow him to have 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 steals.

The current 2.7 steals are second only to Kidd's 2.9 in the league, temporarily ranking second in the league.

Of course, if you look at the defensive efficiency value, the two are simply one in the sky and the other on the ground.

But if he is only used to trade Ariza of the Knicks, it is still more than enough.

Because the Knicks are aiming for the playoffs this season, they have no time to take Ariza's growth into account.

And Ariza's low shooting percentage has become a drag on the team.

Besides, for a team that has the lone wolf Marbury, Crawford and Hardaway at the same time, how to cultivate rookies? ?
Stop making trouble, it doesn't exist at all, well, who do you expect from these guys to give the rookie the ball? ! !

For this win-win situation, the general managers of both parties have already talked on the phone.

Preliminary discussions are underway to facilitate a deal.

　Thanks to the 22 brothers of Jiupin for their reward! !

　　Thanks for the support! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)