Standing pretty old

Chapter 451 He's Not Harry

The day after Er Niu finished speaking, major sports media rushed to report on the new season goals of the Celestial Superstar.

There is agreement, there are doubts, but no one feels that it violates the harmony.

Normally, a second-year player who says he's going to be the MVP of the regular season should be criticized immediately, but the fact is, everyone thinks it's normal, well, that's probably the biggest abnormality.

However, turning around and thinking about it, is it a problem for a player who scored 29+20+5 in his rookie season, a superstar who broke the FMVP age record and just led the relatively weak Chinese men's basketball team to beat Mengba? ?

This is indeed a very normal thing.

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put it this way: "The biggest debate right now shouldn't be whether Kraft Nguyen can win the MVP, in fact, he should have been last year.

The problem now is that his salary of 403 million yuan is a BUG, ​​and the league should introduce new regulations. Players who won FMVP and D-POY in one rookie season should be eligible to re-sign the contract.

It's so unfair that the Atlanta people can still use a cheap rookie contract to trap a superstar for three years! "

Cuban's mouth has never been small, but this time, many people think he has a point.

The existence of a superstar in China is nothing in itself, but thinking that the Eagles can still use him for three years with such a low salary, almost everyone thinks this is too tough (IMBA, unbalanced).

However, the Hawks will not have time to express their opinions for the time being. They are now flying to Phoenix, the second visiting team city in the preseason.

The Phoenix Suns were the only team that knocked the Hawks out of temper at home last season.

No, strictly speaking, if the Suns can maintain a high shooting percentage, they can beat all the teams in the league without temper. Of course, this was before O'Neal and Marion were swapped.

The current Suns are no longer the running and bombing team. Mike D'Antoni has been fired, and the new head coach is former Trail Blazers star guard Terry Porter.

This is another stubborn coach. In his thinking mode, there is only one mode of offensive and defensive positions.

If Shaquille O'Neal is still in his prime, it seems that there is nothing wrong with doing this. Unfortunately, the Shaquille O'Neal is no longer as brave as it used to be.

After the game started, Ruan Erniu immediately faced off with O'Neal in the low post.

Last season, O'Neal, who was in decline, could no longer stop the fledgling Ruan Erniu. This season, Ruan Erniu is faster and stronger, and O'Neal's weight has exceeded the standard again after a summer of recuperation.

Besides, it's only a preseason game now, so Uncle Ao's ability to play is already giving him enough face. To expect him to seriously defend is just wishful thinking.

Ruan Erniu held the ball in a low position, turned around and passed O'Neal, and scored an easy layup.

After finishing the attack, Er Niu even subconsciously glanced at O'Neill, did O'Neill move just now?

The Suns don't fight, run and bomb, and the overall offense has become very twisted.

After the old man (Nash) dribbled the ball across half court, he subconsciously wanted to play a pick-and-roll with Xidi (Stoudemire).

After thinking about it carefully, it was wrong. The coach now asked to play a position, so after wasting a few seconds of attack time, the old man sent the ball to O'Neill.

Oban didn't have much desire to attack, he threw the ball to Stoudemire in the middle distance.

Xi Di is also twisted to death. Under normal circumstances, he should now cut the basketball and fly into the air to attack the basket, but now he has to make a mid-range shot from an awkward position.

"boom!"

Sure enough, I missed it!

Er Niu took the rebound from the backcourt and dribbled the ball directly across the half court, then passed the ball to Mike Bibby, who made a three-pointer and hit it!

If you are a senior fan and have watched the game between the two teams more than a season ago, you will definitely think that the two teams have exchanged jerseys.

One or two rounds of offense and defense basically became the epitome of the offense and defense of the two teams throughout the game, but the Hawks, who led by a big score at halftime, almost lost.

Because after O'Neal left the field, the overall offensive and defensive rhythm of the Suns was significantly accelerated.

Although Boris Diaw, the Gallic magician, couldn't stop the two bulls on the defensive end, he still gave the Suns a lot of help in attacking.

Woodson was not obsessed with winning anyway, and he then sent a large number of substitute players to play.

Now that the Eagles have become the defending champions, they have enough confidence to lose in the preseason.

Because they have become the championship, they don't have to care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. This kind of confidence also needs to be cultivated. The fact that the Eagles can behave so calmly has nothing to do with them being used to big scenes.

Even the unfavorable situation of the main point guard being injured and absent in the finals has survived, and a small stage like the preseason is no longer important to them.

In this game, the pure substitute lineup composed of Goran Dragic, Ronald Murray, Steve Novak, Chris Anderson and Zaza Pachulia played at least 20 minutes time.

Under the leadership of Dior, the Suns' substitutes once chased the score of the two sides to only 1 point. At the last moment of the game, Dragic, who was robbed by the Hawks, stepped forward.

The Slovenian supernova is indeed a guard favored by the Suns. Even though his physical strength is not enough for the Eagles to start, at critical moments, he used the cover of Birdman Anderson to score two three-pointers. The Hawks won Game [-] of the playoffs and laid the groundwork.

In the end, the Eagles won their second preseason game in the 4-08 season with a 09-point advantage.

The generals of the Eagles who won the game were not very happy to see them, but the general manager of the Suns, Steve Kerr, who watched the whole game from the sidelines, had a very bad expression on his face. He was already beginning to doubt that he was qualified for the position of general manager .

He focused on introducing O'Neal last year and made a deal for the team to make a breakthrough in the playoffs. Then he was easily killed by the Spurs in the first round, proving that his gamble failed.

This year he took a fancy to Dragic, but was robbed by the Eagles in advance. After D'Antoni was fired, the newly appointed Terry Porter made the Suns struggle even more with the set of offensive and defensive positions.

Cole is not an idiot, he doesn't want to admit it, but what he has to admit is that he seems to be making mistakes in a row. The introduction of O'Neal last year was a mistake, and this year's firing D'Antoni and hiring Terry Porter magnified this mistake up.

But no matter what, the general manager's decision cannot be changed overnight, and now he can only make mistakes!
Let's hope Terry Porter can work his magic to completely change the Suns.

Cole thought too much. If Potter really had such a level, he should not be called Terry, but Harry.

But in this way, he shouldn't come to Phoenix, Hogwarts is where he should go.

Steve Nash is no longer young, his good times are numbered, if the Suns continue to waver on the issue of team route selection, I may really consider changing a team, so as to find opportunities as soon as possible Go touch the O'Brien Cup.

After finishing the game on October 10, the Hawks started their away trip again without stopping.

They will go to Portland to fight against the Trail Blazers, the league's youth army.

Is this game interesting?

of course!

Because a generation of great emperor - Greg Oden is about to debut!

(End of this chapter)