shooting guard era

Chapter 43 50. The Former Charlotte Team
The Hornets, a team that makes Charlotte people love to hate.

Why love turns to hate?Because they moved away and moved to other cities, abandoned the city that loved this team, and moved to New Orleans, another small city in the west.

It was later revealed by the media that it was because of the discord between the management and the fans.

Wow, what a fresh and refined reason, just because the team's management and fans have conflicts, they moved the team away from this city where almost every home game ticket is sold out.

If they moved away because of the bad ball market, the fans would still be able to figure it out, but Charlotte fans in North Carolina have always been the most enthusiastic, maintaining the top attendance in the league all the year round, unexpectedly because of this reason Move away, no wonder fans hate them.

If there is a certain opponent in a certain game, Charlotte fans will boo the visiting team at the beginning of the game, only the Hornets.

The thing that makes Charlotte fans happy is that after the Hornets went to New Orleans, their performance plummeted. After a season, almost all the stars are gone.

By this season, they have not yet tasted a victory, 0 wins and 9 losses, the last in the league, Charlotte fans booed more confidently, although the Lynx performance is not good, but 3 wins and 5 losses are better than 0 wins and 9 losses But much better.

Bickerstaff had a headache before the game, and it was another game that had to be fought to the end.How can a new team have so many games to fight? Isn’t it because the team that just joined the NBA has accumulated talent because it has been at the bottom of the league for two or three consecutive years and has received high draft picks in a row?

Who told the Bobcats to build the team with the name of "inheritance"? It is said that the Hornets have been thinking about changing their name since they arrived in New Orleans. Fans hope that Charlotte can still have the Hornets, and there is a feeling in it.

Here's how Charlotte fans feel about the Hornets.

It may be difficult for non-Charlotte fans to understand their feelings. Ordinary fans have only one impression of the Hornets, the team that traded Kobe.

Yes, that's all. Even though they were a top team in the Eastern Conference and reached the second round for several years in a row, they didn't have a strong sense of presence. People remember them only as No.1996 in the 13 NBA draft. Picked Kobe Bryant and traded him.

Then the 17-year-old high school student who was traded later became one of the top players in the league. He started the All-Star starting in the second season and has won three championships and several best teams until now.

I have to say that the Hornets are really sad. Now that the attendance rate in New Orleans is almost the bottom of the league, I wonder if they will miss their days in Charlotte. If they don't move, there will be no Bobcats.

Fortunately for Bickerstaff, the opponent who has to fight with all his strength is really not very strong, and the lineup is comparable to the Bobcats.

In fact, the Hornets are a bad team, waiting to select the core from the university's major point guards next year. In order to get a high-ranking player, they will send away all they can, just like the Eagles. Only the former core of the team, Baron Davis, is left.

If Baron Davis plays well, the Hornets are still strong, but since the start of this season, his state has been very bad, which has further strengthened the team's idea of ​​changing the dynasty and replacing the core.

Baron Davis possesses first-class speed and strength, and has super scoring ability. Last season, he was one of the few point guards in the league who averaged more than 20 points and 7 assists per game. The Hornets made it to the second round for several consecutive years. He deserves it.

This year, Baron Davis' level has dropped sharply, averaging 15 points and 6 assists per game, and his performance is extremely poor.

But no one would think that Baron Davis, who is only 25 years old and in his golden years, has declined in strength. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has a deep conflict with the team management and doesn't want to play in this team.

This is also understandable. At the beginning, a top team in the league, which could even wrestle with the original Raptors, 76ers, and Nets, actually moved away directly, and moved to the West. Baron Davis of the Tran family was extremely upset.

But in order to get that salary, he had to accept his fate.

But after moving to a new city, the team's record plummeted and they couldn't even make the playoffs. This made Baron Davis's only patience completely disappear. When the Hornets chose him to go to Charlotte, he was not willing to go. , and then finally got used to it, settled down there, got married and had children, who knew that after three years, they would actually move, and they would come to another small town to play the worst game.

After the end of last season, Baron Davis applied to the team for a trade, expressing that he did not want to continue playing for the Hornets.

Just yesterday, Baron Davis' wish came true. The Hornets management, who wanted the team to rot to the end to compete for the No. [-] pick, made a one-to-one deal with the Warriors, a deal that seemed like a robbery by the Warriors.

The Hornets traded Baron Davis to the Warriors for point guard Speedy Claxton and power forward Dell Davis.

This transaction caused a small sensation, for nothing else, even if the Warriors get Baron Davis, they are still far from the playoffs.It is mainly the people the Hornets got, and many fans don't know them.

Dale Davis, the last pick in the lottery in 1991, is now a veteran who is about to retire.

Clarkston, a substitute among the substitutes, scored the highest in the four years in the NBA with only 6.3 points, and the year with the highest assists was less than 3. This year, he didn't even have a chance to play because the Warriors had Fisher.

Just to get these two people and send away an All-Star point guard, the Hornets are really determined to be bad.

Today, everyone in the Bobcats team looked like they had been beaten, which made Ye Han very surprised. When did these teammates become so motivated?

After asking, I found out that it turned out that there was a soft persimmon, and everyone wanted to feel proud.

They have been treated as soft persimmons for so many games in a row, and today there is an even softer soft persimmon, why don't they make good use of it.

That's what they thought, and they did it when they got to the court.

Compared with the Bobcats' complete starting lineup, the Hornets can't even make up the starting lineup.Claxton at point guard, rookie JR Smith at shooting guard, soon-to-retire Jamal Mashburn at small forward, second-year player David West at power forward, talented, skilled but playing center Passive Canadian center Jamal Magloire.

This lineup is even worse than the Bobcats, that is, JR-Smith and David West can sell potential, and everyone else is very poor.

(End of this chapter)