inspire-indiana Chapter 1064 The whole league remembers the fear of being dominated by rebounding idiots
Chapter 1064 The whole league remembers the fear of being dominated by rebounding idiots
Chapter 1064 The whole league remembers the fear of being dominated by rebounding idiots
After the outside world boasted about the gold content of the Blazers' ten-game winning streak, their eyes turned, and more and more people suddenly noticed that the Blazers' current record of 41 wins and 4 losses is exaggerated...
When the Trail Blazers finished their first 45 games last season, what was their record?
Soon some omnipotent netizens made the answer to this question public:
上赛季开拓者队打出了史无前例的26连胜开局，之后的19场比赛里，开拓者总共输了3场。也就是说上赛季的前45场比赛，开拓者的战绩是42胜3负！
In the end, by the end of the regular season of the 2015-16 season, the Trail Blazers had a record of 75 wins and 7 losses, the first in history!
Now the Blazers' record is 41 wins and 4 losses, which is not much worse than last season. This can't help but make people have infinite reverie about the Blazers winning 70+ games for two consecutive seasons.
That's two consecutive seasons with 70+ wins!
If you really want to do it, there is a high probability that a new record will have to be added to the list of the most difficult records in NBA history.
You know, after the Bulls achieved the record-breaking record of 1995 wins and 96 losses in the 72-10 season, the regular season record in the 1996-97 season, although still the league's first record, was still inevitable. It fell to 69 wins and 13 losses, one win away, to achieve 70+ regular season wins in two consecutive seasons.
As we all know, when people want to achieve a certain achievement or achieve a certain goal, the most difficult thing is often to stick to the word.
The historical experience of various countries tells us that from ancient times to the present, the most indispensable thing is the example of walking a hundred miles and a half and ninety. It is obvious that many people are only one step away from success and greatness.
The outside world does not expect the Trail Blazers to break the record of 75 wins in the regular season set last season.
Once it is done, the Blazers are really qualified to aspire to the number one team in history.
After all, the regular season wins exceeded 70+ for two consecutive seasons. The great teams that once dominated an era, such as the Celtics Dynasty, Lakers Dynasty and Bulls Dynasty, have not done miracles.
But now, maybe the Blazers can really do it!
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After the game with the Lakers, the Trail Blazers continued their unfinished January schedule.
They have 5 games left in the next game. There is no shortage of Grizzlies, Warriors, and strong opponents like the Thunder. Will they continue the madness in January?Or the winning streak ends here...
Everyone is looking forward to what kind of performance the Blazers will show to everyone.
Although there are many strong opponents in the remaining 5 games, the Blazers still have a certain advantage, because they will usher in a wave of four consecutive home games, and they will go to the Oklahoma City to play the Thunder in the final game at the end of the month.
With a geographical advantage at home, the Trail Blazers players don't have to be tired of running around. As long as they have a good physical reserve, they have the confidence to win the tough battles that follow.
Two days later, on January 1, the Blazers faced the Grizzlies at home.
Different from the constipation-like game rhythm 10 days ago, the Blazers showed a strong offensive aggressiveness at the beginning of the game tonight. Wang Zelin reduced his long-range shots today and chose to attack the basket to finish in a large number.
In some rounds, even if he encounters both black and white bears entangled at the same time, you still choose to bite the bullet and force your shots.
Its intention is also obvious, that is to make as many fouls as possible on the black and white bears.The entire tactical system of the Grizzlies team is actually built around Gasol and Randolph.
So as long as Gasol and Randolph are dealt with first, the Grizzlies' system will be self-defeating.
At the tactical meeting before the game, Coach Terry noticed this, so he made relevant arrangements to let the players attack the basket crazily tonight.
This trick worked quickly. Just after the first half, Gasol had 4 fouls. Although Randolph had one less than him, but don't forget that the Grizzlies are a team that focuses on defense.
Otherwise, where would he get so much energy to focus on offense? !
Less than 3 minutes into the second half, Wang Zelin and Lillard caused Gasol's defensive fouls one after another, and the speed was so fast that Grizzlies coach David Fizdale did not expect it.
When he came back to his senses, he only saw Gasol holding his head in his hands on the field and communicating with the referee. In the end, the communication was fruitless, and he could only return to the bench with a look of frustration.
Without Gasol Jr.'s celestial white jade pillar, the overall defense of the Grizzlies immediately dropped by one level, and the defensive quality of the inside dropped by at least two levels.
Under the leadership of Wang Zelin, the Blazers launched an unstoppable attack. After three quarters, the Blazers cut through the mess quickly and expanded the score to 18 points.
The Grizzlies are not a team that is good at chasing points. For them, falling behind by 18 points is basically equivalent to announcing the death penalty in advance.
In the end, the Blazers completely disrupted the original defensive system of the Grizzlies by relying on the preemptive offensive strategy, and easily won the Grizzlies 117:91, achieving 11 consecutive victories!
Two days later, on January 1, the Trail Blazers ushered in their third match against the Warriors this season.
Whenever there is a battle of bravery, it will definitely cause a sensation in the entire basketball circle. Before the game between the two sides starts, various discussions on the Internet have long been raging.
The Trail Blazers attach more importance to the Golden State Warriors team than any current team. Even the Cleveland Cavaliers, their opponents in the finals in the past two years, are not as threatening in their minds as the Warriors.
At the mobilization meeting in the afternoon, the whole Blazers team was ready for a desperate fight at night.
But when the game started at night, everyone was dumbfounded...
"Did the Warriors get their heads lowered tonight? Or did the Blazers' rim suddenly cover them? It's so hard, tsk tsk..."
After the first half, watching the Warriors team make 17 of 4 three-pointers and only 23.5% of the "Omega" hit rate, the on-site commentator couldn't help laughing.
In the first half, Durant made 6 of 1 three-pointers, Thompson made 5 of 1 three-pointers, Curry made 4 of 1 three-pointers, Green... Well, the three thighs in the team are all like this, how dare he make a shot?
If this was against an average team, Cole would still be able to maintain a calm attitude. The Warriors' third-quarter run is a well-known Kazakh...
However, what they met today was the Portland Trail Blazers, the strongest opponent on the road to the championship. They played such a poor offensive performance against the latter, no less than the French army who chose to raise the white flag in advance before Paris was captured.
Entering the second half, Durant gave up three-point long shots and continued to pull up in the middle distance. He made 6 of 4 shots and 2 of 2 free throws. He played an efficient performance of 10 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist in a single quarter.
But how can Wang Zelin allow his opponents to be so presumptuous at home...
Playful, right?Playing without solutions, right?
I am more savage than you!More incomprehensible than you!
Since you Durant chose to give up the three-pointer, but I will focus on the three-pointer attack and come to a wave of shrimp and pig heart.
In the third quarter, Wang Zelin started to shoot a lot of long-range shots, using his height and size advantage from outside the three-point line to constantly seek misplaced singles, and hit three-pointers on the heads of Curry, Thompson and Green one after another.
Still the same sentence, what we want is a pork heart with shrimps!
"Don't you guys claim to be the strongest three-point team in the league? Why are you intimidated now? Come on, continue to compete for three-pointers!"
After another three-pointer on Curry's head, Wang Zelin, who had already hit four three-pointers in a single quarter, began to speak provocatively, looking at the Warriors' shooters with contempt.
But who makes the Warriors shooters feel collectively cold now?
Durant, who is the only player who has recovered, can only seek shots from mid-range for most of the second half under the various crazy targets of the Blazers.
Shoot threes?Don't even think about it!
In the end, the Blazers beat the Warriors 135:112 at home with 23 points.
Such a point difference makes the two teams not at the same level at all.
I really answered that sentence, I will have to pay back sooner or later when I come out to hang out!
I still remember the night of January 1st, when the Trail Blazers shooters were the same as today's Warriors shooters. They felt collectively cold. In the end, Wang Zelin could only score a large double-double of 1+40.
As a result, after the game, Green uttered nonsense and seized the opportunity to mock Wang Zelin and the Blazers.
Zi once said: "How do you repay virtue? Repay grievances with honesty, and repay virtue with virtue."
Feng Shui took turns in this game, and it was the Warriors' turn to be unlucky, and the Blazers who won a big victory will naturally not let them go.
At the press conference after the game, Wang Zelin and his teammates expressed a wave of yin and yang in an interview with the Warriors' performance tonight.
This made the reporters who were bent on fighting the fire very happy.
Miss Wanwan thought, before we could make a move, you guys had already heated up the enthusiasm so much, that's really... Yuan, it's amazing!
They rubbed their hands quietly, as if they saw the money beckoning to them.
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After avenging the Warriors, Wang Zelin and his teammates breathed a sigh of relief, and the morale of the whole team reached an unprecedented peak.
On the 27th, against the Hornets again, at 141:101, the Blazers frantically swung their knives, creating another major tragedy of the season.
Playing against the Mavericks on the 29th, it was polite during the warm-up. In the game, Wang Zelin never let up.
After three quarters, at 84:65, the Mavericks are temporarily behind by 19 points. In theory, there is still hope of overtaking the score and upset the Blazers in the final quarter.
But Mavericks is very knowledgeable. To use an old Chinese saying, it is Wei Junjie, the Westerner.
In the final quarter, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle won all the starting five tigers and replaced them with substitute players to play and enjoy themselves.
The Blazers are too embarrassed to kill them for such a face.
Two minutes later, Coach Terry also called a timeout to take down the starting lineup and play against the substitutes.
The substitutes on both sides had fun at the end of the quarter. The Blazers' bench lineup scored 37 points and it was already very efficient. The Mavericks were even more exaggerated, and a bunch of substitutes scored 43 points!
In the end, at 121:108, the Blazers played against the Mavericks and won 14 consecutive victories.
On January 1st, the final battle at the end of the month.
The Blazers went to Oklahoma to challenge the Thunder.
"Triple-double Turtle" Russell Westbrook, as Wang Zelin's actual strongest opponent in this season's MVP competition, should not be missed in every match against the Thunder.
As long as Westbrook and his Thunder team are all defeated in the 4 regular season matches, he, Wang, will not believe it. With such a record, the media will vote for Westbrook against their conscience.
It is true that Westbrook's triple-double performance this season can be described as quite explosive. Looking at history, they are all phenomenal performances, but these triple-double data must not be a reason to smooth the gap between the two.
Strong is strong, weak is weak, if you can't beat it, you have to admit it!
As teammates, Lillard, Jokic, and Batum are all very aware of how eager Wang Zelin is to successfully defend the title, so they have pushed aside all trivial matters in the past two days and devoted all their energy to preparing for the game.
That night, the Trail Blazers team rarely displayed the playoffs... No, to be precise, it was the intensity of the finals. During the regular season of this season, apart from the games against the Cavaliers and Warriors, I am afraid that they will only show such a game attitude when they are against the Thunder.
When the Trail Blazers suddenly pulled up the intensity of the game, Westbrook suddenly found that he couldn't play anymore?
In previous games, the assist data that he could easily get with a simple breakthrough has become extremely difficult today. Several passes were ruthlessly intercepted by the Blazers who were in place in time.
The expected assists were not obtained, but the turnovers continued to climb.
In addition, he also found that tonight's rebounding data is not so easy to catch.
So far, Wang Zelin has averaged 17.8 rebounds per game, which seems very high...well, it is indeed [-] million points high.
But the point is not this. The point is that Wang Zelin has not had a single game of 30+ rebounds for a long time. The game with the most rebounds this season was 29 rebounds in a single game against Mosaic.
You know, the rookie Wang Zelin had several games with 30+ rebounds in his first season. Why are there so few nights when he becomes a "rebound idiot"?
Is his rebounding ability weakened?
No, on the contrary, his rebounding ability is actually getting stronger every year, especially his rebounding attribute has reached 99, and there is an absolute ceiling in the rebounding field.
The main reason is that Wang Zelin didn't need to be a rookie anymore, and he worked so hard during the season. At that time, the overall strength of the Blazers could only be regarded as a strong team in the playoffs in the league, and it was far from the championship level, let alone the current dynasty level.
Even in the regular season at that time, in order to win, Wang Zelin had to do his best every night, and as a big center, the two statistics of rebounds and blocks undoubtedly best reflected his defensive value and deterrent ability on the court.
Therefore, in his rookie season, he came to several nights of 30+ rebounds in a single game.
Today is different from the past, the overall strength of the Blazers is strong enough, at least during the regular season, he no longer has to try his best without rushing.In ordinary games, he always plays back a little bit, and he will stand up and take over the game when the real quality game is played.
For example, the previous game against the Celtics.
Moreover, according to the "Zen Master" Phil Jackson's concept of dividing the cake, if you want to maximize the strength of the team, as the core of the team, you must transfer some benefits to ordinary role players.
In other words, try to let the relatively average role players play some "easy balls", and discount the difficult attacking balls to the superstars who are far stronger and role players.
In this way, the role players can also share part of the cake, and when they are full, they will have the strength to work hard for the team.
Therefore, for the long-term interests of the team, Wang Zelin will consciously control his desire to perform in many regular season games.
He himself almost forgot that when he first entered the league, the first step to becoming famous was to break a series of rebounding records of the ancient rebounding beasts, set up a "rebounding idiot" person, and then harvest the first wave of fans and achieve rapid growth in strength.
Now that many people have said that they have become accustomed to his various scoring performances, and even began to feel fatigued. 35 points and 15 rebounds are not enough to be named the best player in the game, so let the change start from this game...
Comparing data and spelling records, right?
35+15 is not enough, then 35+25!
If it is still not enough, then 35+35!
This is not enough, then 40+40!
Until... the entire league remembered the fear of being dominated by rebounding idiots!
(End of this chapter)