Standing pretty old

Chapter 463 Unstoppable four-game winning streak
The start was smooth, which is not unrelated to the loose schedule of the defending champion at the beginning of the season.

However, this is the end. If the people of Atlanta really think that they are already popular in the league, they are very wrong.

Next, the Hawks will start their inexplicable schedule again.

Why do you say that?

Because after the end of the game with the 76ers, they are about to embark on a journey to New Orleans and start their own road trip. Do you think it is so simple?

No, after playing this away game, he needs to return to Atlanta immediately to complete a home game, followed by another devil schedule of 6 days and 4 away games.

Fortunately, before this series of nonsense matches started, they got another 4 days of rest.

On November 2008, 11, US time, the Atlanta Hawks flew to New Orleans.

The Hornets' starting lineup has not changed much from last season, but they have become weaker on the bench. They did not renew the contract with Bunche Wales, who was traded in the second half of last season, and the stick is still without the ball. In terms of playing status, it is said that China's Shanxi men's basketball team is quite interested in him. Maybe Wales will get a chance to win the scoring champion in China.

In recent years, it has become a trend for NBA stars to go to the CBA league to seek development after they can't play in the league. Wales should become the biggest player so far.

Of course, he will never be the last.

James Posey should be one of the bigger names in the free market.

After performing well in the Celtics last season, he finally chose to switch to the Hornets. His performance this season is still worth looking forward to.

In addition, I think that among the Hornets who are well-known to Chinese fans, there is probably one Mike James who has been in and out of the Rockets.

In the impression of Tianchao fans, for this guy, it seems that he is a superstar only when he is playing against the Rockets.

But as an undrafted pick, being able to become the leader of a weak team (the Raptors) in his career, and scoring an average of 20+ per game is also considered an NB figure.

Well, by the way, Volute's 81 points have nothing to do with this guy's defense.

However, Mike James is now in the late stages of his career, a marginal player who neither defends nor scores.

CP3 originally wanted to invite Jiong Jisen and Ruan Erniu to dinner after the game. Don't look at the Olympic Games, the two sides are at war, but off the court, the Taurus man still has a tacit understanding and wisdom.

However, the Eagles' game schedule is too tight, Er Niu and Jiong Jisen can only decline Paul's kindness.

In this game, the two sides played quite anxiously in the first two quarters. On the defensive end, both sides tried their best.

At 46:40, the defending champion in the away game only led the opponent by 6 points, and the scores of the two teams were also the lowest half-time scores since the start of the game.

But in the third quarter, the game changed.

Ruan Erniu broke out suddenly in this quarter. Facing the disadvantage that Tyson Chandler couldn't get out, he suddenly hit consecutive open shots from outside the three-point line. Killed and passed strikes for the opponent many times.

Salmons and Jon Jonson also fired shots from outside in the same quarter, completely leading the game into the rhythm of the Eagles.

After that, the Hornets could no longer cause enough trouble for the Eagles. After the start of the last quarter, the Hawks were not soft, and the three-point team continued their offensive firepower.

Jiongsen, Dragic, and Murray hit one after another. By the middle of the last quarter, the score of the two teams had been stretched to more than 30 points. Byron Scott saw that there was no hope of chasing points, so he had to replace all the main players.

This season, the Hornets may still be a strong team in the Western Conference, but like last season, it may not be such a simple matter to get a good enough ranking.

The Hornets' financial situation is not ideal, and there are no decent signings throughout the summer. It is too difficult to repeat the glory of last season in the new season, relying on their original team alone.

119:83, the Hawks once again won a big victory of more than 30 points. The opponent they defeated was the Hornets, which ranked second in the West in the regular season last season.

Some people in the league have begun to shout the slogan "Wolf is coming!"

After the defending champion has finished the first three games of the regular season, the evaluation and word of mouth are undergoing drastic changes.

Before playing against the Cavaliers, they just didn't gain anything all summer and reinforced a terrible team (a bunch of cheap stuff).

Before playing against the 76ers, this team already had the temperament of the defending champion.

Before playing against the Hornets, they were already a team that was ready to win the O'Brien Cup again.

After the game against the Hornets, the question asked by the media is: Who can stop the Atlanta people?

That's right, for three consecutive games, they beat their opponents every game.

Whether it is the Cavaliers, 76ers, or Hornets, these three teams were all teams that made it to the playoffs last season. The net points of the two games have exceeded 10 points, and two of them have exceeded 30 points.

Terrible offensive firepower, strong enough defense, and Kafu Nguyen, who doesn't know how tired and maintains a superhuman state, all these have become the reasons why the Eagles have won many battles.

After defeating the Hornets, the Hawks did not stay up and down. They boarded a plane back to Atlanta that night.

They will face the Toronto Raptors at their home stadium Philips Arena two days later.

The biggest gain of the Raptors this summer is that they traded TJ* Ford and Baston for Jermaine O'Neal.

Jermaine O'Neal is no longer at his peak, the All-Star player who can win 20+10, he is now just an inside player with an average of 13+7 per game, but compared to his salary of more than 2100 million yuan, that is the standard high salary and low ability up.

And this high salary will last for another season. His salary next season will reach a terrifying 2300 million yuan, but he doesn't know which team will pay for it.

In exchange for O'Neill, eating such a large poisonous contract, in fact, is to appease Bosh, after all, the precious No. [-] pick was used on Bargnani, which made Bosh very dissatisfied.

After Jermaine O'Neal came, the team's head coach Mitchell finally placed the Italian No. [-] pick on the bench, but the management still kept preferential treatment for Bargnani, trying to coax the supposed Dirk Nowitzki The champion of the second world.

Chris Bosh watched all this coldly, and it was impossible to say that they were not thinking.

He signed a four-year contract with the Raptors in 06, of which the fourth year was a player option. At that time, the initiative was in Bosh's own hands.

In this game, although the Eagles felt a little tired, they still firmly controlled the situation of the game, and they had no temper in beating their opponents throughout the game.

133:92, Facing a team fighting each other, the Eagles slaughtered their opponents with 41 points, the biggest difference in the opening season.

Ruan Erniu scored 40 points and 25 rebounds to dominate the game, and it took him less than 32 minutes to complete this statistic.

Another playoff team from last season was knocked down by the Eagles. Finally, no one questioned the reinforcements and signings of the defending champions.

It turns out that there are good things that are cheap.Far from being weakened, this Eagles team was suffocatingly strong.

Ruan Erniu said in an interview after the game: "Billy Knight is the worst general manager in the league, because he only knows how to find some cheap and easy-to-use players."

"Steve, what do you think?" Novak, who scored 25 points in this game, was beside Ruan Erniu. He made 9 of 7 three-pointers in this game, breaking his own single-game 3-pointer hits. number.

"Next year my contract is a team option, what else can I think?" After finishing speaking, Novak covered his face with a depressed face.

Chris Anderson should also cover his face, because the second year of his contract is also a damn team option.

Billy Knight chuckled and didn't express any opinions, but said in a low-key way in front of the boss that he had only done what a general manager should do.

(End of this chapter)