basketball king lunatic

Chapter 80 Unsettled Detroit

On April 2004, 4, the NBA playoffs officially started. On the first day, the first pair of eighth and the fourth pair of fifth in the East and West started.

The Bulls took a break after watching tapes of several games between the Pistons and the Bulls under the organization of coach Cartwright.The Bulls players need to keep up their spirits, after all, tomorrow morning, they will leave for Detroit.

At this time in Detroit, the Pistons players are not very calm.

For the basketball fans in Detroit and Chicago, the past 20 years have been full of entanglements.

In the 1985 All-Star Game, the fledgling Jordan was played by the assassins with a bunch of old fritters, just because Jordan didn't recognize him in the elevator and didn't say hello to him.

In the following years, the Pistons stood in front of Jordan's Bulls like a mountain until the 90s came.

Jordan is not easy to mess with.Throughout the 90s, the Bulls never let the Pistons touch the floor of the Finals.And the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the real dream team.Jordan even used his influence to leave Thomas with eternal regret.

Joe Dumars, the No. [-] on the Pistons, is now the general manager of the Pistons.

Dumars never imagined that the Bulls would find the core of rebuilding the team in such a short period of time.

King Arthur, the Chinese who gave himself an extremely arrogant English name can be said to have attracted the attention of the entire alliance.

Maybe his stats are not as bad as Jordan's back then, but anyone with a discerning eye can understand that it's just because the king didn't adapt to the rhythm of NBA games at the beginning of the season and deliberately lost at the end of the season to avoid falling to seventh. The cause of the piston.

Throughout his rookie season, Wang Shipeng scored 50+ twice, 40+ six times, and 30+ times needless to say.Dumas can say with certainty that King Arthur's combat power is definitely not what his current data can reflect. If he doesn't pay attention to Arthur, he will inevitably pay a price.

Sometimes Dumars is thankful that his team is not a star team like the Lakers.Since the 80s, even if the Pistons won the championship, the Detroit people have never been regarded as a star team.

Just like the current Pistons, the five main players are all powerful stars.But in terms of popularity, I'm afraid only that guy Ben is stronger.These guys got together just to get that ring.

So they can listen to different opinions, just like Dumas repeatedly reminded them to pay attention to Wang Shipeng.

For Wang Shipeng, the Piston Five Tigers value him the most is Prince.As the hardest shield for the Pistons outside, Prince has an intuitive understanding of Wang Shipeng's terrifying progress.

The first time he met the Bulls at the beginning of the season, Wang Shipeng could only run and catch and shoot.Under the siege and interception of Prince's long arms, Wang Shipeng made only 14 of 5 shots and scored only 12 points.

When he met the Bulls for the second time, Wang Shipeng already had a skillful step-back shot, especially the step-back three-pointer, with a high hit rate.Although Prince can still restrain him, he can no longer do it so easily.In the final 38 minutes, Wang Shipeng made 18 of 9 shots, including 6 of 3 three-pointers and scored 25 points.

Meeting the Bulls for the third time, Wang Shipeng added a mid-range fadeaway jumper to his arsenal.I heard that it was personally taught by Jordan, and the rich arsenal made it difficult for Prince to restrict Wang Shipeng.It can only be anti-shot but not anti-burst.

It was the fourth time that he met Wang Shipeng again at the end of the season. Wang Shipeng's European breakthrough was also very good.Wang Shipeng, who generally scored 41 points in cutting melons and vegetables, could have brought back a victory for the team.But unexpectedly, at the last moment, Ben Wallace, who was least able to attack, used a method that no one expected to kill the Bulls with a three-pointer.

Prince still remembers that when he sent the ball to Ben, he intended to let Ben pass the ball.But I didn't expect that there was not enough time, and I had no choice but to throw the ball to the basket after receiving the ball.

Unexpectedly, the ball that hit the basket heavily fell into the basket at the last second.

Although the Pistons beat the Bulls 4-0 in the regular season, these four games became more difficult as Wang Shipeng grew up. This is what all Pistons players have experienced.Therefore, the Pistons, which are aiming to win the championship this season, are also preparing very seriously to prevent things from capsizing in the gutter.

Compared with the players of the two teams, the war of words between the fans and the media is also vigorous.

Both Chicago and Detroit have been the dominant teams in the East in the past 20 years, and each has accumulated a fairly strong fan base.Especially in their respective cities, there are many supporters.

And similar to Los Angeles and Boston, the two cities have also left deep contradictions due to historical grievances.

So when it was heard that the Bulls played against the Pistons in the first round, fans in both cities were excited.

The Pistons have completed their rebuild and are back in contention.With home court advantage again in the playoffs, Detroit fans are confidently taunting the Chicagoans, declaring that they will not be able to win even a single victory in the playoffs.

Although the Chicagoans don't have the confidence to argue with the Detroiters about their results.But they have the best rookie, or the best rookie of the golden generation, even if they are tied.

With the best rookie, there is a future, not to mention that Wang Shipeng is not yet 21 years old, and his style of play is very beautiful. As long as he is given time to grow up, it may be impossible to become the next Jordan.

The fans of the two teams were hyped vigorously on the emerging social media, and the media on both sides also made this war of words lively.

The Chicago media accused the Detroit Pistons of being a dirty team that would only ever play basketball in the same way as rugby, without the slightest understanding that basketball is actually an elegant sport.

The newspapers in Detroit fought back fiercely with Chicago's record in recent years, claiming that the Chicagoans lost Jordan's people and did not deserve to retire Jordan's clothes.

Some aggressive fans are even going to give opposing teams a hard look when they visit.

"The treatment that Michael enjoyed back then should let these bull cubs experience it again." A white man with a big beard and a fierce face said in an interview.

The ferocious expression made the young Bulls chill all over.

That's how the Bulls got off the plane and headed to Detroit.

(End of this chapter)