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Chapter 404 Breaking the record, the era of small balls!
After the game, Danny Green still looked at his basket in disbelief. How did he get into that distance and rhythm?And the commentator also said with a look of shock: "The Pelicans team is really amazing. I won't feel strange if anything happens here in the future!"

Another commentator smiled wryly: "How many of them are normal in their team? Curry's three-point shooting rate is almost the same as other people's overall shooting rate. The 28-foot three-pointer is the first in the league. Thompson's three-pointer is even more explosive. There is no way I can only use the word explosive. Have you ever seen a team throwing 10 three-pointers? Davis is a center, and his ball-handling skills are better than many small guys..."

Of course, the most restless is the media!Now the Pelicans only lost one game at the start, and they only lost to the Eagles. Facing the mighty Thunder, Spurs, and Cavaliers all won, they thought that the Pelicans would be very strong, but they didn’t expect that they were already so strong. The Thunder and Spurs, who were able to play 7 games with the Pelicans before, were all defeated by it!It seems that there is no suspense again this year!

After entering December, the Pelicans did not stop their winning streak and defeated the Jazz, Warriors, Nuggets and Lakers one after another!
And the Pelicans' offensive and defensive efficiency are all the best in history. Almost all the media and fans have already believed that the Pelicans will be the champion of this season!Now the Pelicans' offensive efficiency has reached a terrifying 114.9 points, while their defensive efficiency has reached 103.2 points!In fact, the defensive efficiency of the Pelicans is actually higher, because many teams are often defeated in three quarters when playing against the Pelicans, and in the fourth quarter, Presti is the experimental lineup, and the defensive strength during this process is far lower than the first three quarters.

On December 12th, the Christmas game came. This year, the Pelicans still played away at San Antonio. On the day before Christmas on the 25th, Presti flew all the players' families to San Antonio by plane, allowing the players and their families to reunite and spend Christmas together!

And Presti's behavior also made the players' gratitude to Presti reach the extreme. Among them, the most felt are of course some veterans, like Boozer, Basabo, Carter, etc. They have never been in such a humane team, and have never encountered such a boss!At that moment, there was an idea of ​​staying here forever. Of course, they also thought about it. Now the Pelicans are the team that veterans in the league most look forward to going to, especially those without a championship.

On the evening of the 25th, the Christmas battle between the Pelicans and the Spurs began!The Spurs were very unwilling after losing to the Pelicans before, so today I can clearly feel the high emotions and determination of the Spurs players to win.

At the beginning, Presti let the team focus on the high pick-and-roll of Curry and Davis, while Popovich's tactic against the Pelicans was to let Parker and Danny Green go around the screen to chase Curry, and Duncan slowly retreated to the penalty area, putting Davis and Curry in the middle distance,
This bold defensive strategy actually worked!Popovich's idea is very simple: "If you have the ability, you can shoot me to death. You can do whatever you want, but if you want to connect the whole team, that's impossible!"

Presti certainly didn't want Curry to be isolated and divided, so Presti used Curry's breakthrough threat to attract the Spurs' weak side to shrink to protect the basket, and then found Paul George and Thompson in an ambush on the outside to grab a three-pointer, and Green cut into the wing to attack the basket!
In response to the Spurs' poor peripheral rotation and Duncan's lack of mobility after recovering the assist defense penalty area, Splitter's defense is insufficient!
But tonight's Pelicans obviously didn't feel good. They only scored 6 sports games in the first 5 minutes of the first quarter, and they shot 33.8% in the first quarter!At this time, we can only reciprocate and kill the Spurs penalty area more!But Duncan in the penalty area turned several offenses into iron strikes like a gate, but even so, the Pelicans stood on the free throw line 12 times by constantly hitting the penalty area, while the Spurs only had 2 times!But tonight's Spurs started with 8 of 6!

After the second quarter, the Spurs' feel began to decline. At this time, Popovich also decisively changed his tactics and asked Leonard to attack the Pelicans' penalty area, and this achieved results. Leonard stood on the free throw line 4 times!
Presti changed his tactics in the second quarter: After Curry + Davis high pick-and-roll, Curry no longer directly attacked the basket with the ball, but called Duncan or Splitter out of the penalty area and forced a one-on-one from outside the three-point line!
This adjusted contact is Duncan's 16 fouls in 3 minutes, and Splitter's 11 fouls in 3 minutes; on the defensive end, he began to expand defensively, put pressure on the line, and cut the pick-and-roll passing line between the Spurs guards and Duncan.
But tonight obviously belonged to the Spurs, Parker and Ginobili stood up to save the Spurs who were plagued by mistakes!
Every time the Pelicans tied the score, Ginobili responded with a powerful three-pointer!The same is true for Parker. The two hit 4 three-pointers in one attack. The first two hits suppressed the Pelicans' two-round counterattack momentum, and the third shot directly helped the Spurs blast the Pelicans 9-0 to stop the Pelicans!
In the decisive period of positional warfare, the two sides focused on star misplacement heads-up with different routes to the same goal: Curry misplaced and chased Duncan and Splitter from outside the three-point line; while the Spurs were Duncan's low position and forced Curry or even Davis! , Leonard misplaced and beat Thompson, or directly backed up and slammed Paul George-pure superstar heads-up to decide the game!

Presti used Curry + Thompson + Paul George + Middleton + Davis to maximize the space advantage at the last moment, while the Spurs were Duncan + Splitter + Dior + Leonard + Ginobi!
As a result, at the last moment, the Spurs scrambled to the frontcourt in a row and got several second chances to attack, while the Pelicans had a lot of space tonight, and there were even vacancy in the two offenses, but they missed the shots!
After the game, Presti said bluntly: "This game was my mistake, especially the lineup at the last moment, which made us lose rebounds. The Spurs played very well tonight. Congratulations to them!"

After the Pelicans lost this time, the fans of other teams and the media finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the Pelicans can still be defeated. The Pelicans' starting performance this season is stronger than that of the 73-win season.This has to make many people think that the Pelicans are going to break the record again this year, and now they have finally lost. This also gives confidence to other teams, especially those teams aiming to win the championship!

The Christmas battle on the other side is also good, especially the game between the Heat and the Cavaliers!The league specially chose the Heat's home court for this game, in order to push the game to a climax and maximize the ratings. Of course, it did, because in the Christmas game that day, the ratings of the game between the Cavaliers and the Heat exceeded that of the game between the Pelicans and the Spurs!
During the game, the Heat's home court was full of boos. As long as James took the ball, the boos seemed to set off the arena. The Heat wanted to win this game to prove that James was wrong to leave, and James wanted to win more to prove that he was right.

The game was very anxious, but obviously the Heat's home court, the Heat's players were united as one, and the Cavaliers were obviously a little hypocritical amidst the boos all over the sky. In the end, the Heat won the Cavaliers by 101 points 91:10!
After the game, fans of James or the Cavaliers said: "James is staying motivated, for Wade's face!" However, James Len scored 40 points and 30 assists in 8 minutes of this game!

On the opposite side, Wade also scored 31 points, and Ruhr Deng scored 25 points!And the second star Bosh is not on yet!It was really embarrassing to lose.

Immediately after the game, Presti flew back to New Orleans with the team, and asked a special plane to send the players' families back. The players were obviously not in high spirits on the way, and it was really a bit uncomfortable to lose in this kind of Christmas game.

Presti got up and clapped his hands, drew the players' attention, and then said with a smile: "It's normal to lose. If you always win, who would want to play with you, right? Don't make the whole league boycott us!"

The haze of the players dissipated immediately, and Presti continued: "Since we lost this time, let's win back points in the next game!"

"Oh! Oh!" The players started howling.Seeing this, Presti could only mourn in silence: "Sir, don't blame me!"

On December 12th, the Pelicans really beat the Jazz 27:125 at home. The game was suppressed from the beginning to the end. Then Presti was worried that the point difference was too large, and he replaced the substitute at the end of the third quarter. It turned out that the substitute could not hold back. He had to replace a few veterans to restrain his team's offensive. Otherwise, there might be a 91 tragedy.

On the 28th, the Pelicans easily defeated the Pacers back-to-back at home. This season, the Pacers no longer had the glory of the past. Hibbert in the team was a bit sluggish before. The highest scorer in the team was actually CJ Myers.

On the 30th, the Pelicans beat the Raptors in an away game. This season, the Raptors have officially entered the top teams in the Eastern Conference. They are currently ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference. However, in Presti’s view, they are just paper tigers. , while the Pelicans launched a running and bombing offensive in an instant, and the game was spent after a rain of three-pointers!
The first game after entering 2015 was an away game against the Portland Trail Blazers. This season's Trail Blazers are still very good in terms of lineup. Power forward Aldridge averaged 23.4 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, Lillard grew up with 21 points and 6.2 assists, and Wesley Matthews 15.9 points!
After Wesley Matthews left the Thunder, he was reused, and of course he did not live up to expectations. He played the best statistics of his career. This also made many Thunder fans complain about the current Thunder management. Some people even said: "The current Thunder management is squandering the wealth left by Presti."

Presti laughed secretly when he saw this. If the current Thunder fans knew that they replaced Harden in the previous life, wouldn't they vomit blood in exchange for Martin?
After the start of the game, the Trail Blazers flanked Curry. Curry had been flanked too many times. When the Heat flanked Curry and lost the game, Presti told Curry that this is necessary to become a real superstar. Since that day, Curry has been working hard to train himself!

After Curry double-teamed, he quickly found a gap and passed the ball. There is no doubt that there is an open space and a hit!

The Pelicans' defensive tactic is to use Paul George and Thompson to defend Lillard in turn!Lillard's height made him very restricted. In his previous life, Lillard was defeated in the playoffs because of the physical oppression that made him very uncomfortable. All kinds of irons!And it's the same now, after Lillard was choked to death, he can only play Alder, and the Pelicans also have a player of this level, Davis!

And Davis is better than Adelaide in one thing, and that is defense.Davis is excellent both in defending the low post and assisting in defense!And because the Blazers are the most stable point of Adelaide, Presti decisively uses double-teams!
After spending a while, Presti directly used Green to defend alone, and the effect was of course very good. In the playoffs between the Warriors and the Spurs in the previous life, it was difficult for Alder to play Green in the low post.

The starting lineup was restricted, not to mention the substitutes, who were directly blown away!In the end, the Pelicans won the game again!
Soon the Best of the Month in December came out, and Curry was undoubtedly elected in the West. Although they lost the Christmas game, the Pelicans still achieved the best record in the league in December, and Curry averaged 12 points, 12 rebounds, 24.4 assists and 4.2 steals per game, shooting 7.9% from the field and 1.1% from the three-point range!
Curry's three-pointer is even more terrifying than his previous life. He reached a terrifying 46.2 last month. His ultra-long three-pointer has made many teams a little suspicious of life. Currently, the best guards in the league, Westbrook shot 42.6%, Wade 47%, Harden 44%, Paul 48.5%!And Curry is of course the one who made the most three-pointers!

Presti can also feel Curry's excellent state, so in the next game, Presti began to let Curry be himself in his previous life, and gave him the authority to let him show off all kinds of ultra-long three-pointers!

And the next game against the Nuggets was really fun. Presti directly said to Curry, Thompson, and Paul George: "Three-pointers are still strong!" At the beginning of the game, Curry singled out Lawson and hit a three-pointer. This three-pointer also kicked off the next three-pointer rain!
Ty Lawson directly missed the screen shot, Davis took the rebound and threw Thompson, Thompson took the ball and threw it quickly!Hit!
Paul George steals Gallinari, advances one-stop, and hits a three-pointer at the top of the arc!
Curry is more direct. After passing the LOGO with the front court, he opened his hand and threw it!Swish, the goal is scored!
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At halftime, the Pelicans scored 18 three-pointers and led the Nuggets by 28 points at halftime!It directly broke the previous record of 4 three-pointers in the half held by the Pelicans themselves!Fans watching this game exclaimed: "Is this God possessed?" And the coaches who were watching this game really realized the power of 3 points!It can be foreseen that the era of small balls will come early!
(End of this chapter)