Build a Dream Dynasty

In this All-Star Game, the Nets can be said to have become the biggest winner. A considerable proportion of the Barclays Center’s box office revenue belongs to the team itself. The platform further showed the outside world, and more people noticed that they were willing to spend money to rent arenas to hold events, and Porzingis won the MVP of the rookie game, and Curry scored the MVP of the All-Star game, which also excited the fans in New York. endlessly.

"Having both the present and the future", the glory of the Nets seems to last for a long time.

In the team's first game after the All-Star break, the old rival Miami Heat came to challenge.

After James left, the Heat spent a lot of money in signings in the summer. First, they used a huge contract to renew the All-Star insider Bosh, which stabilized the team's core lineup, and then used a fat Jonah With Luol Deng, the team continued to be strong in the third position. However, the core role of James is not so easy to be replaced. The Heat, whose lineup looks good, have not maintained their status as a strong team. The Magic team has been poor and weak for many years, but has been reborn after the introduction of Love.

And after Bosh was reimbursed for the season due to illness, the Heat fell into embarrassment. Let's talk about the record. The team's strength has been seriously damaged. There are already four teams with a "bad" record leading the Heat by more than seven games at the moment. How can they catch up?

The team in this position is in a dilemma and the most embarrassing.

Of course, few teams in the league dare to talk about injuries in front of the Nets. The team reimbursed the main small forward and main center, and the remaining small forward and main shooting guard are still missing consecutively. In the third position in the East. This kind of achievement is also the key to supporting Curry to fight for the MVP in this difficult season.

The absence of Bosh made the Heat put Mike Roberts on the starting lineup, and the team's starting lineup became Chalmers, Wade, Luol Deng, Mike Roberts, and Anderson. Well, insiders with two basic salaries.

Pat Riley is good at digging out basic-salary players. In 2004, after losing his fortune in exchange for Ao Pang, the team did not show symptoms of lack of supporting players. Except for the good performance of many veterans, the team itself Some of the players unearthed also played a big role. But today's Heat team does not have a superstar to promote the team's progress. After James left, Wade's statistics and efficiency have improved, but he has not returned to four years ago, and even said that his current In terms of strength, superstars are very reluctant. Luol Deng is a plug-and-play top second/third player, but he is not the kind of star who can come out to play answer ball. He originally got the most money. Bosh, who should play this role, is injured. The rest of the team People can't stand up.

After the opening, Curry and Porzingis, who had made gains in the All-Star Game, gave the Heat a strong blow from the inside and outside respectively. It feels like Porzingis, after being honed in the All-Star Rookie Game, is more eager to perform than before. Facing the weak inside Heat, he frequently asks for singles inside. The old Anderson is powerless to stop him. He got two fouls in a row and had a rest. And on the Heat's bench, the only one who can be used is the veteran Haslem. Although the veteran is very stable and has rich game experience, he can be Porzingis' father, but the height difference of more than 20 cm still makes most of Haslem's efforts in vain. There is no way, the gap is too obvious .

After Aminu returned from injury and returned to the starting lineup, the Nets' defensive strength has also been strengthened. Covington's performance has improved in the past period of time, but it is still lacking compared to Aminu, so it is worth cultivating. One of Covington's advantages is that he signed a three-year contract with a basic salary of 2.8 million. The Nets can spend two years cheaply. A good choice, the relaxed environment of the Nets is also a very suitable place for him to make progress.

The Nets seized the advantage of the inside and attacked fiercely, widening the point difference, while the Heat, which was at a disadvantage, could only rely on the piecemeal play of Wade and Luol Deng to recover blood properly. In the first quarter, the Nets scored 32:17. The score achieved a 15-point lead.

In the second quarter of the game, the situation on the field still hasn’t changed much. Spoelstra and the Nets have played against each other in the playoffs for the past three years. Stevens has a high opinion of this coach, but coincidentally Women can't live without rice. The Heat's current lineup is definitely dominated by people with high salaries and low abilities, and their tactics are very limited. Wade and Luol Deng seem to have a lot of cards, but their actual combat effectiveness is not as good as it looks on paper. powerful.

Wade, whose salary may be reduced to 31 million in two years, is one of the few Heat players whose on-court contribution is greater than his salary, but in fact, the threat he can create now is also limited. After all, in the past four years, physical Where is the loss?

This is also the reason why the Nets have been giving Curry load management now. Among other things, under normal circumstances, the Nets have about 100 games a year. If you don’t use it leisurely, it is really prone to injuries. The disease situation, that is, this season, the team needs Curry to exert more power, and Curry is also striving hard to compete for the scoring champion and MVP, otherwise, Curry's playing time will definitely be strictly controlled.

At the end of halftime, the Nets widened the point difference to 23 points, and the game seemed to lose suspense early.

Although the competition between Curry and Westbrook for the scoring title is still fierce, when it is time to protect Curry, Stevens still pays attention to protecting Curry. After playing seven minutes in the third quarter, he beat Curry. Substitute. Although Curry still wants to brush up the data, he also knows the importance of his health to the team, so he rested with 24 points and 8 assists.

After Curry left the court, the pressure on the Heat's defensive end was greatly reduced. The team's defensive rotation against Porzingis became more determined. An obvious shortcoming of Porzingis is that he is actually very slow when facing the flank. Generally speaking, with the huge threat of Curry standing on the outside, the Heat did not dare to attack unscrupulously, but now, decisively choose the lesser of two evils.

The Heat played a wave of 13:4 attacks at the end of the third quarter, narrowing the point difference to 16 points, and the game seemed to have some suspense again.

However, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Curry appeared in the Nets' lineup. Thanks to the veteran Heat for the playing time, I don't know if Stevens had no choice but to count all of this. Anyway, Curry is back again. Got the chance to play and led the substitute players to play.

No fans would accuse Curry of anything. After all, Westbrook's statistics on the Thunder's side are much more blatant than Curry. Besides, Curry led the team to win at least. On the Thunder side, since Durant was injured, the team has dropped from second in the Western Conference to seventh in the Western Conference. You know, the Thunder has the help of attackers like Waiters and Kanter, and veterans like Ray Allen and West are in charge, and it's not just Westbrook's team.

It was a rare good opportunity to brush up the data, and Curry did not disappoint. In half a quarter of the game, he made three of five shots and sent three assists. While leading the team to widen the point difference to 20+, he also Raised his data to a large double-double of 32 points and 11 assists, and then went to rest contentedly, without any emotions.

In the end, the Nets defeated the Heat 119:98 and won the first game after the All-Star Game. This is also the team's 40th victory this season, and the Nets have also become the fifth team in the league to achieve this result. team.

Compared with previous seasons, the team has faced much greater difficulties. At least in this season, the team has also shown its own tenacity. In this difficult season, the team has Porzingis, Aminu, Test A player like Vinton stepped forward, a prodigal like JR Smith regained his form in the Nets, and robbed the Knicks of a potentially valuable draft pick. There is a high probability that he will be able to cash in a lottery pick in the future. It seems like everything is going to turn around. And the Nets, which adjusted their salary structure this season, have the opportunity to pay the luxury tax in the next few years, and they have also made a big effort to truly build the capital of the dynasty.

Back at home, the Nets ushered in the challenge of the New Orleans Pelicans led by Big Eyebrows.

Although Jiang Mingliang privately ridiculed the thick-browed Davis as the "Son of America", but this player's ability is indeed outstanding, and the advantage is that he is young enough. He will be the top insider in the league for a long time in the future. Without Durant, if given the chance. . . . . . Of course, just thinking about it.

With the experience of cooperating in the All-Star Game, the relationship between Brother Nongmei and Curry is very close. Before the kick-off before the game, the two got together and chatted for a long time. After the game, Curry immediately let Brother Nongmei know his horror. In the first quarter of the game, Curry was fully fired, hit 3 three-pointers in a single quarter, and scored 15 points, including two goals. It was a small hit and a big shot against Davis after a pick-and-roll switch.

Is it because Brother Nongmei didn't make up for it in place? of course not. Brother Nongmei, who has excellent wingspan, mobility, and defensive skills, can almost be said to be one of the best insiders in the league. It's a pity that Curry can almost be said to be the first player in the league in this skill compared to Xiaobai, and Brother Nongmei is still in place. At least he was raped by Curry, which is not a shame. In the previous regular season, Kanter was once danced lightly by Curry, but he couldn't find the north, and went directly to the five big embarrassments.

After entering the league, in addition to staying strong on the defensive end, Davis is also constantly strengthening his skill set on the offensive end. He has comprehensive offensive skills facing the frame. Outside the line, after all, being praised also requires capital. In the first quarter of the game, as the team's offensive strength, Davis also scored 13 points, and his firepower was not much inferior to that of Curry. The Pelicans also had Eric Gordon and Terry Ke Evans, and Anderson, these attackers who are not compatible in normal games and cannot fully display their combat effectiveness, suddenly found a way to cooperate after meeting the Nets. The Nets ended the first quarter with a high score of 44:42.

In the Nets team, Aminu played for the Pelicans last season. When it comes to his time in the Pelicans, Aminu only feels that his good time has been wasted a lot. The team would rather use Evans, who is obviously shorter and not suitable for playing small forward, than reuse Aminu, who is the right size and works harder on defense. In the second quarter of the game, it was exactly Aminu began to work hard on the defensive end, reversing the situation of the two sides fighting against each other in the first quarter. On the defensive end, he not only reduced Evans' shooting percentage, but also continuously destroyed Vazquez's passes. The ball, under continuous pressure, the young Pelicans' morale fluctuated, and the Nets seized the opportunity to open up the point difference in one fell swoop.

If the Pelicans' starting lineup is strong, but they can't urinate in a pot, then their bench lineup is indeed not very strong, or it's pretty bad. This is also normal. After all, the team just went through the league's trusteeship not long ago, and it was sold only because the league assigned Davis to join. As soon as it got a boss, it immediately offered a premium to Gordon and Evans, two outside attackers. How can there be salary space to strengthen the strength of the bench? Besides, the ball market in New Orleans is just like that, and the new owner itself is not too rich. This team has a long way to go if it wants to be competitive.

The starters and substitutes played together, and the Nets led the Pelicans by 14 points at halftime, initially establishing a large lead.

In the third quarter, the Pelicans still failed to organize an effective offense. The coach Monty Williams did a good job in training the defense, but the offensive end relied more on the personal abilities of the players, and at the same time he also had some strengths in on-the-spot command. Insufficient, a situation that often occurs in Pelicans games is that it takes a long time to react and adjust after the opponent catches a weak point and slams it. JR Smith also found his touch in this quarter, scoring 10 points in a single quarter, helping the team widen the point difference to 21 points.

In the last quarter of the game, Tyler Johnson, Carter, and Will Barton did not give Curry another chance to appear on the court, and kept the lead all the way to the end. The Nets defeated the Pelicans 123:104 and achieved a four-game winning streak. While winning, the record finally caught up with the 76ers, who ranked second in the Eastern Conference, and ranked third in the Eastern Conference only because of the relationship between victory and defeat.

With 41 wins and 15 losses, the Nets' record is still strong despite the uneven lineup. And make all the fans proud. After Jabari Parker was reimbursed for the season due to injury, the selection of the best rookie, which seemed to have no suspense, is now making waves again. Wiggins, Porzingis, and Aaron Gordon are currently leading the way. Wiggins' data is more stable and comprehensive, but he is far from the original expectation, which is a bit of a minus. The advantage of Borgunis lies in his record, but his statistics have been pulled down a lot because he played as a substitute in the first half of the season. Aaron Gordon has become the core of the Timberwolves team, and his average of 17+7 per game should be the best. It's good-looking, but the record of the Timberwolves is really a bit of a hindrance. In addition to the three players with their own advantages, LaVine, who won the slam dunk contest, has also caught up in popularity. If he is not limited by his playing time and compressed his data, he should be able to fight.

Except for Embiid and Exum, who were reimbursed due to injuries, the overall quality of rookies this season is actually pretty good, including Smart, Randall, T.J. Warren, and Hood. The potential stocks are only because the team's problems have not been given a chance to show up, and if they can get a chance, it will not stop there.