Build a Dream Dynasty

After the two consecutive away games in the Western Conference, returning to New York, the Nets ushered in a two-day holiday. On the first day, Stevens gave the players a holiday, and on the second day, he arranged only one training session. By reducing the intensity of training, he helped the players get out of the fatigue of consecutive battles.

"The current situation of the team is not optimistic." During the meeting, Stevens also made a plan for Jiang Mingliang in advance of the current problems encountered by the team.

For a team that competes in the finals every year, the physical condition of the core players must be much greater than the core of the team that fishes after the first round or even the end of the regular season. This can be seen from the comparison between Leonard and George. The rotation of the Nets is not in place, but the fatigue accumulated over a long period of time cannot be adjusted in place through such a short period of rest. To some extent, Curry is resting for two months now, and his body can recover by then.

However, the team does not have this kind of capital to let Leonard carry out load management. It can only ask the doctor to evaluate Leonard's body regularly, and then seek Leonard's own opinions to make a decision. decision or not.

After thinking about it again and again, Leonard chose to continue the truce in the game against the Suns to further restore his physical condition. The team still has George alone to lead the team. In the game where Leonard chose to take a rest, George served as the third position he was more accustomed to, and Royce O'Neal, who fell out of the team's rotation, appeared at the shooting guard position, which can be regarded as a lot of interest in him. An inspection time for the team.

However, three of the Big Four were absent, and the strength of the Nets was greatly reduced. Facing the Suns at the bottom of the league, the Nets also fell into a bitter battle. The Suns fish every year, and they are not competitive every year. Most of the time, the draft vision is not good, but after so many years of lottery picks, they finally found young players like Payton, Booker, and Oubre , Coupled with the fact that the team signed Chandler in the free agent market, who can stabilize the team's offense and defense in the penalty area, the lineup can actually be seen.

However, the problem of this team is also obvious. Payton can send some good passes, but his personal assault ability is quite average, and outside shooting is also random, which naturally limits his ability to score points on the offensive end. To put it bluntly, it is unnecessary to invest too much effort in cultivating him. But the template Thompson is not counting Booker, who strengthened his offensive ability with the ball, as a surprise for the Suns. He played more and more like Kobe in certain periods of time. What time periods? When the team trails by 30 points.

The unspoken rules of ball games, when a team has a big lead in a game, the defense will be properly relaxed in the following time. Especially in the NBA, even more so. After all, the 58 tragedy is really rare in ten years. In 95% of the games, after the point difference reaches 30+, it will be recovered a little bit. And Booker can be called the god of this time period. In terms of hitting the team from 30 points behind to 20 points behind, Booker's scoring ability is comparable to Jordan. However, when the opponent regained their defensive strength, they withered immediately.

To put it bluntly, Booker is really a brush in Jiang Mingliang's eyes! I don't like it at all.

It’s just that the current decline in the combat effectiveness of the Nets, which is short of major generals, is indeed very serious. Therefore, it is quite difficult to face this Suns team, especially Royce O’Neal, who is very difficult to defend with the ball and without the ball. Booker, who is good at it, is a bit difficult to defend. He defends many balls well, but Booker can score the ball toughly, which also reflects his own value.

George's offensive performance in this game was relatively mediocre compared to the previous game, but fortunately, he showed his role as the core of the team on the defensive end. He defended Oubre in the first three quarters and made Oubre four turnovers. At the same time, let the opponent shoot 3 of 9. After switching to defend Booker in the fourth quarter, Booker also did not take advantage of George. On the other hand, George himself, under the condition of average performance in the first three quarters, played an efficient offense of 5 of 7 shots in the last quarter, and finally helped the ball. The team recovered the 12-point difference in the fourth quarter and completed a go-ahead. They reversed the score 114:108 and won the final victory.

The single-core team led the team to two consecutive victories. George gradually won the respect of the fans through his own performance, and to a certain extent, he also washed away the stain of his summer team.

The fans are like this. James chose the peak team in the summer of 2010. At that time, the scolding was all over the United States, but when he won the championship against all odds in 2012, the fans immediately had the capital to fight back, and even turned their heads to pass The way to belittle Cleveland is to whitewash James. George came to New York, where the media has a stronger voice, and won the support of New York fans through his performance. Naturally, it was easier to reverse the reputation.

After getting the chance to start in two consecutive games and proving his strength, Royce O'Neill has received some attention in the trading market. After all, "inspection" is very important. Jiang Mingliang's asking price for Royce O'Neal is very simple, a suitable inside player, or a first-round pick. Of course, the transaction value is probably at the end of the first round.

However, Jiang Mingliang obviously overestimated the value of Royce O'Neal's trade. The Spurs, Pistons, and Magic retreated one after another. The trade is still a spectacle for the time being.

The main reason is that the Nets don't have many active chips. Curry, Leonard, Porzingis, and George must not be moved. Joe Johnson has a smooth run-in with the team, and his use value is greater than the transaction value, so he is unlikely to be traded. The same goes for veteran West and Yi Jianlian, who plans to stay in New York. Landry's running-in with the team is not very smooth. If the situation does not improve by the middle of the season and the team needs to vacate places to sign new players, the team will either trade him to the team he wants to go to, or directly trade him. Negotiate a buyout, and don't consider the possibility of trading him in exchange for chips. The rest of Teodosic also has more use value than trade value. It is hard to say whether the Nets can keep him, but if he is not reused by other teams, he will return to Europe next season. In such a situation, who would dare to ask him? Wood is considered the best performer among the few rookies signed by the Nets with a basic salary, but if he is traded away, the team really has no center available. Others such as Robertson, Van Vleet, Gerald Green, Livingston, I am afraid that no one will join the deal.

Jiang Mingliang's work has a long way to go!

The Nets are currently on hold, but opponents are now seizing every opportunity to strengthen the team's lineup. The Clippers only signed a 1+1 contract with Durant in the summer, which shows that Durant still has reservations about the team, and in order to increase the team's chances of winning the championship, the team did not hesitate to sacrifice the future. The price is to use Tobias Harris + 2017 first-round pick + 2018 first-round swap rights from the Warriors in exchange for Dream Chasing Green, who has been a big brother and a younger brother in the Warriors this season.

For the Clippers, the defense ability is stronger and the fight is more active. At the same time, the dream-chasing Green with explosive mental attributes is undoubtedly more suitable for the team. Under pressure, after Durant also "sent off" Harris, he immediately welcomed Dreaming Green on Twitter.

"Dream Chaser is a player who has seen big scenes and fought tough battles. His arrival will definitely help the team's defense and guide us to play in a more correct way!" Durant said on social media.

"Before I got on this broken ship, I was the champion!" Jiang Mingliang was already thinking about how Chasing Dream should release his Green Formula.

For the Warriors, they didn't have much to lose in this deal. Chasing Dream is of course a very useful player for strong teams, but for the Warriors who are really aiming to do badly this season, it doesn't mean so much. Although Harris does not have such good team attributes as chasing dreams, he has stronger scoring ability. In today's Warriors team, he hopes to occupy the first shot, make a good stat, and then change some players.

Both Brogdon and Murray have performed very well this season. If the 2017 draft can get a high-ranking star to cultivate, the reconstruction of the Warriors may be completed within two or three years. This kind of reconstruction speed is much faster than that of some ten-thousand-year-old bad teams.

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After a two-game truce, Leonard returned for the team's away game against the mighty Cleveland Cavaliers. This game is a bit difficult for the Nets. The Cavaliers who have welcomed James back are one of the strong contenders for the championship this season. The team's lineup is also somewhat aimed at the current Nets, or Curry. James' all-round field control and Irving's unsolvable singles are simply a match made in heaven. The former uses his influence covering the entire court to create the best offensive environment for the latter, while Irving's personal ability happens to be able to play on the seven inches of the Nets. , Griffin, as the former No. 1 power forward in the league, can make a fuss about the weakness of the Nets' power forward position in the interior. On the defensive end, TT and Griffin are almost the best in the league. A pair of insiders combined.

If it weren't for George's deal, the Nets' lineup last season would have played against this Cavaliers. Optimistically speaking, it would be a 50-50 situation. However, after George joined, the Nets obviously occupied the wing position. an absolute advantage. Whether it's James plus Korver or James Garedick, they are obviously not as good as the combination of George and Leonard.

However, in this game, the Nets lacked Curry and Porzingis, and their competitiveness did not drop a little bit. After the opening three tricks, the Cavaliers had a clear upper hand.

Facts have proved that it is difficult for Leonard to resist James when the defensive ability of the inside players is not enough. Encountering Leonard's extremely uncomfortable resentment in 2009.

Leonard is the best defender of James in the league. He can restrain James to the greatest extent from the outside, but to completely restrict James, there must be a big center inside to block the penalty area. And if there is no Leonard, facing James in his peak period, he really needs to double-team from within the three-point line. This shows that James is terrible, and it also confirms Leonard's rarity. If the Nets hadn't had Leonard, the past three championships would have been nothing but fantasy.

The Cavaliers are strong, and the team's problems were also exposed in the second quarter. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Nets played a wave of 13:6 attacks, narrowing the point difference to 4 points. During this period, Blatter put Irving on the court to lead the role players to fight, but the effect was Very bad, not only was Irving unable to organize the team's offense well, but his personal singles were also frequently inaccurate under the double-teaming of the Nets.

In order to cater to James' technical characteristics, the Cavaliers specially formed a "Royal Salute Team". Redick, Korver, and Niang are all shooters with limited athletic ability and good at outside shooting. These players cooperate with James. Fat, on the defensive end there is also James to help them check for omissions and make up for vacancies, but when paired with Irving, let's expose the shortcomings of physical confrontation together!

What Irving needs more is a player like Wiggins who is not necessarily good at open shots, but who can keep up with physical fitness and can run back and forth.

In other words, the starting lineup of this Cavaliers team is indeed very strong, but this starting lineup is like a precision-operated machine. If any link is missing, the operation will become very difficult. Except for James, neither Irving nor Griffin can lead the role players to perform well. And James is a 32-year-old veteran after all, can he still play more than 40 minutes in a game like he did when he was young? Totally impossible!

In contrast, the Nets have been able to win two weak teams one after another without the tactical core Curry, Leonard, and Porzingis during this period, which also shows their strength. Adaptability is stronger.

In the second half of the second quarter, James returned to the court, but did not find the offensive touch immediately. The Nets took the opportunity to overtake the score under the leadership of George.

At home, facing the Nets who lacked two core players, they fell behind at halftime. Obviously, James was very dissatisfied and even showed some performance in the locker room. After halftime, the Cavaliers who came back from the locker room became a little It's different.

In the third quarter of the game, under James' organization and tandem, both Griffin and Irving broke out. Griffin was very resolute in dealing with the disadvantage of the Nets' power forward position. He frequently caused fouls by the Nets' Robertson and Yi Jianlian, and had the containment of the inside offense. Irving is also more comfortable attacking from the outside, which also complements each other. The Cavaliers led the way and did not give the Nets any more chances. They won the game 118:107, consolidating the team's first ranking in the Eastern Conference, and also ended the Nets' two-game winning streak. Nets fans felt a sense of crisis!