NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

After Li Kaiming saw Sanders' hand movements, he felt a little relieved. As long as the coaching staff and uniform staff were fair, without any human sophistication, and purely compared to basketball level, then he would not be afraid to compete with Arenas at all.

The Cavaliers have narrowed the point difference to 4 points in just three rounds, but Arenas still does not seem to realize it, and still does his own thing on the court.

Originally, Arenas was a relatively independent player, but now he happened to be competing with Li Kaiming, so naturally he would not give up every opportunity to prove himself. Besides, if he made a forced shot and couldn't collect the data, wouldn't it look like Even more rubbish!

He absolutely does not allow himself to become a cancer and a brush in the eyes of fans!

McGee served to Arenas, and the latter dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. However, after several consecutive offenses that failed to score, Arenas, as a former All-Star player, still has the ability to adjust. This time he no longer Forcibly relying on his own personal ability to break through Mo Williams, but called McGee to come up and hang a pick-and-roll.

With the help of the cover, Arenas finally increased his speed and got rid of the entanglement of Mo Williams. The Cavaliers' backup center Ryan Hollins is a more traditional insider who is proficient in various inside skills, but his movement speed very slow.

When Arenas picked up his speed, Hollins was passed by with one step, but the Cavaliers small forward Joey Graham in the other corner immediately made up his defense. , but in order to avoid the defense, the latter also lost the ability to control his body in the air. Coupled with the impact of injuries, this attack did not jump very high.

If it was Arenas in his peak period, even if Graham defended well, he could score this goal, but now Arenas can't do it.

The basketball hit the neck of the rim, bounced up and was picked up by Hollins who followed behind, and the Cavaliers immediately launched a fast break.

Mo Williams ran at the front, and after receiving a pass from Hollins, he dribbled the ball into the three-point line of the front court like lightning.

The rest of the Wizards helped Arenas block Mo Williams, who came late and kept his body in front of Mo Williams.

Li Kaiming watched with fear from the bench. If the Cavaliers scored this goal again, based on his knowledge of Sanders, it would definitely be called a timeout adjustment this time, but he didn't know what Sanders would tell Arenas.

Sanders was able to remove Arenas from the starting lineup and let him lead the bench alone. It seemed that Li Kaiming won the first confrontation.

Bringing Arenas to the bench will neither affect the performance of the starting lineup, but also avoid the conflict between Li Kaiming and Arenas. The most important thing is to allow Arenas to control the ball without any scruples, so that the latter can find his status.

In fact, this operation is very beneficial to Arenas. As a team coach, the first task is to ensure the team's record. Sanders can think of this method in such a short period of time, saying that he did not use his brain last night, Li Kaiming I don't believe it.

Sanders' idea is very good, but the premise of this idea is that Arenas' state cannot be too bad, at least he must be able to reach the average level of the starting players and not hold back the team.

But in the first few rounds of the second quarter, Arenas' performance was not only holding back the team, but it could even be said to be holding back the Wizards' bench lineup.

As the head coach of the team, Sanders can naturally see that the current state of Arenas, as long as he is on the court, he will hurt the team!

Although Sanders has not seen the real-time technical statistics at present, he can understand that Arenas' current plus-minus value of 100% is the bottom of the team, and he is still the leader of the No. 2 who can't see the taillight.

Plus-minus is a measure of a player's contribution on the court. The general meaning of the data is how many points the team can score or lose during the player's presence on the court.

For example, now that Arenas started playing in the first quarter, the Wizards fell behind. At that time, Arenas' plus-minus value was negative, and the plus-minus value of starting players such as Li Kaiming was also negative.

But after Arenas left the field, Hinrich returned to the starting lineup to overtake the score again, and the plus-minus value of Li Kaiming and others will become positive. As for Arenas, after the second quarter, he gave three consecutive Round to fill a firewood on his positive and negative value again!

Mo Williams' fast break was blocked, so he started running tactics again. The Cavaliers were limited by the team lineup, and another team core, Jamison, was absent due to injury, so the rest of the team could only play off-ball tactics .

There is only one Williams holding the ball, and the rest run without the ball. The Cavaliers' three-point shooting is not good, so even if they run without the ball, they are all concentrated within the three-point line.

Williams used the pick-and-roll to the free throw line, and a chance came from the backup forward Graham, who started cross-running from the horn position. Williams hit the ball to the latter, and Graham rushed around the screen. Wizards player shot.

The Wizards' backup small forward is Trevor Booker. It has been more than a week since the start of the season, and his average playing time is still less than 10 minutes per game.

Because Al Thornton and Li Kaiming firmly occupy the forward position in the starting lineup, and Sun Yuexian has gradually gained the trust of Sanders, it is not necessary for Booker to play less for several consecutive games.

Booker has a sense of crisis in his heart. As a first-round pick, he naturally has relatively high expectations for himself, but now even Sun Yue can see obvious progress, but he has not yet adapted to the intensity of the NBA.

Booker, who rushed towards Graham in the air, was thinking about other things, and he didn't notice that his defense jumped too much this time!

Just as Graham's ball was shot, Booker's arm rushed over immediately and overturned the former directly. The referee whistled. At the same time, Graham's mid-range also bumped a few times on the basket, and then fell into the up the basket!

2+1!

Trevor Booker's face was pale. Although he didn't play many NBA games, he had a lot of experience as a professional player. He naturally knew what it meant to score this goal!

As expected, next to the Wizards bench, Sanders finally couldn't help it and directly applied for a timeout!

Obviously, their own substitutes are not weak at all compared to their opponents, and even Arenas is a strong point, but after going up, they didn't get 1 point, and they were beaten 7-0 by a group of rotten fish and shrimps on the opposite side!

Ever since the team selected Li Kaiming, only the Wizards have ever defeated the strong with the weak, and there has never been another weak team that turned over and became the master to overwhelm the Wizards.

But today, he was called to a timeout by one of the worst teams in the league. How could he bear it?

As soon as Trevor Booker was on the court, he was scolded by Sanders, which made Li Kaiming, who was watching the excitement, feel a little distressed.

Booker's mistakes are easy for rookies to make. In fact, they are not a big problem at all, but Sanders' attitude seems to be that Booker has lost the O'Brien Cup he is about to get.

After criticizing Booker, Sanders turned his head to Arenas, a look of regret flashed in his eyes.

Then he directly said to Li Kaiming, "Li, you will play with the starter later, if you can't lead by double digits at halftime, don't come back to see me!"

Li Kaiming stood up confidently, "Don't worry, coach!"

Arenas, who took the initiative to sit in the corner, had an unbelievable expression on his face after hearing what Sanders said to Li Kaiming!

When did Sanders get so crazy?Isn't he very humble and low-key?

Moreover, listening to their tone, it is easy to lead by 10 points at halftime?

Arenas only felt that his world view had been impacted. Sanders never said such words to him when he was at his peak. Although the Cavaliers are indeed not strong, they now think that a rookie can bring the momentum of the game to a halt. move back?

Are you kidding me?

Arenas covered his head with a towel, but quietly looked at the court through a gap in the middle.

At the same time, the corner of his mouth slowly raised an arc...

I'd like to see how you bring the game back...