Chapter 49: Son Beats Lao Tzu
After defeating the Seattle Supersonics, the Clippers have won two consecutive victories. After the captain is reimbursed and the team can still get this start after a series of trades, the Clippers fans are already very satisfied.
Next, the Clippers will have a back-to-back appearance, playing away against the Chicago Bulls on November 7, and then playing away against the Indiana Pacers on November 8.
Both the Bulls and Pacers are weak teams in the league and are difficult to enter the playoffs in the East. You can imagine the strength.
Although these two games are the most difficult away games to play back-to-back, their opponents are very weak, and the Clippers' schedule is pretty good.
The Bulls' staffing configuration this year looks pretty good. They just made an appointment with the defensive sharp knife Nosioni who is good at kicking open shoulders and dark elbows, and then... this guy is depressed. Obviously, his outstanding performance last season was purely to cheat the last big contract. Anyone who encounters such a birdie incident will have a much greater impact on the entire team than fans estimate. The Bulls now have the desire to vomit and learn.
Put yourself in your shoes, your teammates are paying much higher than you, but they don’t make any contributions on the court. However, because of his high salary, this guy can easily grab more playing time from you. So the question is, what would you feel if you were the unlucky guy who was stolen from time?
The Bulls have more than this bad luck. The worst thing is Ben Wallace, who has a 15 million contract but has degenerated into an ordinary blue-collar worker. This is the thing that makes the Bulls vomit blood the most!
Big Ben accepted a four-year, 60 million contract issued by the Bulls last season, but once he arrived in Chicago, the four-time best defensive player never got rid of the trouble of injury. The once proud defense disappeared, and the offense that he had not been able to be found.
To be honest, Da Ben helped the Bulls improve their defensive strength in the first season and allowed them to enter the playoffs.
But is Ben Wallace really worth 15 million that much now?
Especially this season, Ben Wallace is in a worse state, and his competitive state has declined extremely seriously, and his effect on the team is limited, but the Bulls have to reuse him. Could it be that he spent 15 million to buy a substitute?
The two brothers faced the inside line composed of Big Ben and Joe Smith today. The "United Center Arena" with No. 23 God Clothes hanging above this stadium, which beat the inside line that the Bulls spent a lot of money to introduce!
Big Ben is only 201cm tall. Facing Ji Guochou, who is 10cm taller than him, he obviously has no choice but to play with injuries. Ben Wallace is proud of his athletic ability, and has no physical fitness to make up for his height defects. This has completely degenerated into a blue-collar player like Hayes, with an amazing decline speed.
Of course, it is not appropriate to say that he is similar to Hayes. At this time, Ben Wallace was much better than Hai Ye, but without the piston system and strong physical fitness, Ben Wallace faced Ji Guoqiu, who was faster, more flexible and higher, and was at a disadvantage in the whole game.
Ji Guoqiu always responded at a high position today, pulling Big Ben out of the paint area, clearing the Bulls' basket, so that his teammates can break through the inside without any scruples.
Ji Guomeng's counterattack player, Joe Smith was originally a promising All-Star seedling, and he became famous before Garnett and was even more favored. Unfortunately, his bright future was ruined by his agent, but this is all old news. Now Joe Smith is no longer as brave as he used to be. He is as helpless as his rookie Ji Guomeng and his partner.
The two brothers made some contributions on the offensive end, but the difference between their performance was still on the defensive end. The two lowered the Bulls' basket score to a very low level. Today, the Bulls scored only less than 20% of the total score at the basket. Unless they exploded on the outside, it would be a complete dream to win.
Normally, the NBA team scores within 5 feet of the basket should account for 30% or more of the total score, because the shooting percentage here can usually reach 60% to 70%, which is the area with the highest and most efficient shooting percentage. The more the shooting area extends, the lower the shooting percentage.
The Bulls relied on Ruhr Deng and Ben Gordon's outstanding performance on the outside and dealt with the Clippers for three quarters.
In the fourth quarter, both sides' physical strength began to decline, and the Bulls' outside star quickly slid. When they found that they could not get points from the outside shooting and began to increase their breakthrough, they immediately got hit by the twin brothers who were guarding the basket. The two of them used their consecutive big hats to tell the Bulls players that since you can't get in the first three quarters, you still want to make a fuss if you don't have the strength at this moment?
In the last quarter, the twin brothers worked together to send out five big hats, which made the Bulls embarrassedly fall into scoring drought at critical moments, thus losing the game.
The final score was 92:84, and the Clippers defeated their opponents by 8 points. When the Bulls felt nowhere on the outside, they actually lost the game.
Ji Guochou scored 6 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks in this game. Although Ben Wallace's level has declined seriously, his own offensive ability is not much higher. He only has mid-range shooting and small hooks in the penalty area that are not very smart. In terms of rebounding, Ben Wallace can also influence him by relying on his experience and strength. Ji Guochou's data in this game has dropped significantly compared to the previous game.
Ji Guomeng is relatively better. Joe Smith is also a veteran with a serious decline in ability. It is difficult to face Ji Guomeng, who is much more flexible and quicker than him, on the defensive end, allowing Ji Guomeng to score 16 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks.
After defeating the Chicago Bulls, the Clippers temporarily ranked first in the Western Conference with a three-game winning streak. This really made all the media not expect it. However, after careful analysis, except for the Warriors, it is normal for the Clippers to defeat the Supersonics and the Bulls in the other two games. One of these two teams is a bottom-up and has always been a weak team in the Eastern Conference. Their own strength may not be stronger than the Clippers, and it is normal for both sides to win or lose.
The Los Angeles Clippers have a good schedule in the early stages of the season. They can win three consecutive victories, which is a lucky component and their opponents are too weak. The media believe that the Clippers will soon face a failure, such as tomorrow's away game back-to-back, and the bloody scene of their son beating me will be staged.
The old Dunleavy vs. the young Dunleavy is a big news in the United States.
Mike Dunleavy, the Indiana Pacers Jr., is the son of Clippers head coach Dunleavy, who reached the peak of his career this season at the Pacers - and then faced his own.
This game is full of highlights. In addition, the inside combination of Troy Murphy and O'Neal Jr. vs. the Chinese twin brothers, this is the strongest inside combination that the twins have encountered this season.
The two brothers performed very well in the first three games of the season, and they were so outstanding that they didn’t look like rookies!
The American media believes that the team the Clippers encountered in the first three games was too weak, and they also happened to be the kind of team that had outstanding outside and weak inside, which allowed the twins to perform so well.
However, many reporters still lack confidence because O'Neal's decline speed this season is not smaller than Ben Wallace. Logically speaking, insiders like O'Neal, who are tall and long arms should have a longer shelf life. But O'Neal obviously didn't think so. He dropped from an All-Star to an ordinary player level in just one year. The key is that he is less than 30 years old, so it is obviously too early to start to decline so early.
Since O'Neal Jr. has dropped to the level of an ordinary player, the question is, can ordinary players beat twin brothers?
This question is really hard to answer. After all, many American media are unwilling to admit that the two brothers are all-star seedlings. They deceive themselves and believe that these two people are just a flash in the pan and will soon hit the rookie wall and be beaten back to their original form!
"Chinese players are not the material for playing basketball at all." This is what most American media and fans think. In fact, to put it bluntly, they discriminate against Chinese people.
In the absence of Clippers fans, the whole United States is singing the off-court atmosphere of the two brothers, but the game is beyond everyone's expectations. They think O'Neal Jr. should teach the two brothers a painful lesson, at least it can make the two brothers look like rookies. However, the result is just the opposite. Ji Guomo directly sent O'Neal Jr. back to the locker room with one elbow, and simply KO the opponent.
Ji Guomeng’s style is so similar to the boss, with strong lethality and high concealment. Even fans of his mortal rival Lakers couldn’t help but praise this elbow!
The referee on duty did not punish Ji Guomo for a malicious foul, and even a technical foul. It was because Ji Guomo was too concealed and didn't look like he was intentional. If it weren't for the Pacers' home court, there would probably be no foul.
Ji Guoqiu was relieved immediately after he was relieved, but his brother Ji Guoqiu was not very happy. His opponent Troy Murphy was an excellent white big man without any injuries. In this game, he defended Ji Guoqiu's mid-range shooting and tried his best to force him out of the paint area.
In this way, Ji Guochou's offensive power is minimal and he can only support his teammates.
On the offensive end, Murphy used his excellent shooting ability to frequently lead Ji Guoqiu out of the basket, creating breakthrough opportunities for his teammates, making the Clippers' defense not as tight as the previous game.
The Pacers obviously put some effort into the two brothers and made targeted arrangements for their different technical characteristics. Unfortunately, Xiao Ao died before he could succeed. Before he could even make a few moves, he was killed by the "Los Angeles Elbow" in seconds!
In this matter, Ji Guomomori quickly regretted that he shouldn't have caused O'Neal to be the end of this matter, because the new Jeff Foster is obviously much more difficult to deal with than O'O's. This guy has a strong rebounding ability and his physical fitness as a BT-level among white people, with outstanding predictive ability, and is simply a white-skinned blue-collar player.
The two brothers actually let Jeff Foster grab four frontcourt rebounds at the basket today, which shows how brave this person is!
Today, neither of them did much on the offensive end. Ji Guoqiu had average offensive ability, while Ji Guomo was limited by Fords. Fortunately, they were still outstanding on the defensive end. The Pacers didn't score much in the inside today, and the scores of the two teams were always in a stalemate.
Chapter completed!