I’m Really Playing Basketball

In the NBA, there may be players who suddenly break out and improve their strength every season.

Some of these players are due to NBA version updates, and some are due to qualitative changes caused by their own quantitative changes.

And Milicic undoubtedly belongs to the second type.

This 23-year-old young center has been in the league for six years and is playing in his sixth season. In these six years, he has accumulated strong offensive and defensive skills under the leadership of famous coaches such as D'Antoni and Nelson.

Now after matching one's own hardware conditions with one's own technical capabilities, incredible strength will immediately explode.

Judging from the game in which he beat Bynum violently, it is definitely an exaggeration to say that he is a combination of the peak Garnett and Nowitzki.

However, it is absolutely not an exaggeration to say that he is a combination of Garnett Jr. and Nowitzki Jr.

It can even be clearly seen from the game that Milicic now has all the hardware and software to become a combination of Garnett and Nowitzki. At least 90% of the software and hardware level, even if it cannot become 100% in the future A 100% combination of Garnett and Nowitzki, even a 90% combination of Garnett and Nowitzki, is definitely a super giant.

Now, he just needs to continue to hone new playing methods and methods under the guidance of Nelson, and fully utilize his hardware and software capabilities.

Even if he is only playing 80% of his strength now, Milicic looks like a superstar now, and he is a very strong superstar center.

Although Bynum did not show the strength of an MVP-level center in this game, his level is still close to the All-Star level. After all, this game is Bynum's debut, and Bynum also wants to play well. In addition, His talent and hard power are indeed there, he is just inferior to Milicic in this game.

It doesn't mean that his strength is really bad.

A center who is close to the All-Star level was so ravaged, and the center opposite him has undoubtedly reached the superstar level.

As long as this performance continues for a while, he will definitely become a superstar.

This is actually not a cross-level promotion for Milicic. He was an All-Star before.

Therefore, after the game between Houston and Toronto, fans across the United States fell into a carnival for Bynum.

Many NBA professionals who followed this game saw something different about the Raptors this season.

"The Raptors may have to join the Heat and Lakers!"

"In the East, the Raptors will also have the opportunity to become the Heat's nemesis!"

These professionals aren't kidding when they say this.

In the Eastern Conference Finals last season, the Heat defeated the Raptors because Milicic was unable to exploit his offensive advantage in front of Yao Ming.

The Raptors' running and gunning was also because the two big men Milicic and O'Neal were not that fast and could not play their strongest offense. In the end, the rhythm was controlled by the Heat and fell into a positional battle. The Heat play positional warfare, let alone the Raptors, who are very good at positional warfare, even the Bobcats and Lakers, who are very good at positional warfare in singles, are no match for the Heat.

Of course, there is another reason why the Raptors were exhausted enough by the Bobcats in the semifinals.

But now, as Milicic can run and play, the Raptors may be worse at defending Yao Ming, but their defensive movement speed has increased a lot, which means that the Raptors can defend more It is difficult to say whether the defense will be weakened or strengthened during the flanking attack.

But offensively, the Raptors have definitely gotten stronger.

In this case, the Raptors definitely have a chance to master the rhythm of their own run-and-gun offense and ultimately defeat the Heat on the offensive end.

In fact, Heat head coach Rick Carlisle also frowned after watching this game.

"The Eastern Conference is always difficult to win."

Rick Carlisle couldn't help but sigh.

Who would have thought that the Raptors would once again achieve a breakthrough in team strength because of Milicic's sudden enlightenment.

Similarly, no one expected that Bynum, the little Olajuwon, was not the protagonist, but a supporting role, villain, and buffoon that stimulated the protagonist to achieve a breakthrough.

"Originally, I thought Bynum was the real No. 1 center after Yao Ming. It turns out that Milicic is the real No. 1 center after Yao Ming!"

Among the complaints from fans across the United States, congratulations to Bynum for winning the "false No. 1 center of the future" and congratulations to Milicic for winning the "real No. 1 center of the future."

Regarding this result, both Howard and other centers in the league are happy and happy.

Although Bynum and Milicic have always been equally famous, one is not mainstream and the other is a washout.

But the non-mainstream Milicic is still more popular. Milicic's non-mainstream is not aggressive and will not cause any harm to others.

And, more importantly, even though Milicic is 23 years old, he is very young, but he was a rookie in 2003, only one year later than Chen Xiao, and he is actually already a very qualified veteran.

Regardless of whether Howard or Oden or other powerful centers in the league, most of them are his juniors.

With seniority, strength and no disrespect, Milicic will certainly get more recognition than Bynum.

Bynum used to be a typical strong, inexperienced and disrespectful person. In the past, when he was with Chen Xiao, he was really strong, so there was nothing anyone could do about him if they had opinions about him.

But now, Bynum no longer even has the label of being strong, doesn't he have to endure everyone's ridicule?

How high he was praised before, how badly he fell now.

Even at the post-game press conference, reporters across the country who had praised him became the first to attack Bynum.

Bynum had never seen this before. The angel instantly turned into a demon. You can imagine how angry he was.

In the end, Bynum must have left in anger, which was very disgraceful.

This also made Houston head coach Tang Shuai, who later attended the press conference, helpless.

He came back to take charge of Houston just for this little Olajuwon.

Bynum had indeed made him envious before, and he was indeed quite strong next to Chen Xiao, so he was also tempted.

But now...

Tang Shuai looked at the group of reporters below and didn't know what to say.

You know, Tang Shuai's eloquence is quite powerful.

"This is Andrew's first game with us. We are not very familiar with it yet. This game is not everything. For the evaluation of any NBA superstar, one theory is never correct. We all need to Let’s see what happens in the next game.”

Finally, Tang Shuai suppressed this explanation.

This explanation is actually a bit of a change of concept.

It is indeed undesirable to argue with any player, but is the game between Mosaic and the Raptors an ordinary game?

Bynum has been holding back this game for more than a month. Bynum is waiting for this game to break out. With Bynum's condition, there is no way that he can survive this game or that he is not in good condition.

This game is the game in which Bynum is most hungry, eager to compete, and most eager to perform.

Bynum should be at his best in this game.

But Bynum's best condition and strength were abused by Milicic. After being abused, you can't lie and say that my strength is not in place, right?

As smart as Tang Shuai, he certainly knew that his words would not convince the public, so he was ready to continue defending Bynum.

Waiting for these bloodthirsty reporters to turn on him.

However, to Tang Shuai's great surprise, the reporters all looked at him with strange and smiling expressions after whispering.

"Rudy, unfortunately, we may not be able to see Bynum's next game right away. He punched the fire hydrant next to him when he left the court at the end of the press conference, and it was determined that he suffered a fracture."

"..."

After the reporter finished speaking, a Houston assistant excitedly ran to Tang Shuai and said a few words in Tang Shuai's ear, and the scene was silent.

In this weird atmosphere, Tang Shuai's face turned dark.

"I'm afraid this kid is not brain-dead!"

Hi, I didn't expect to be discovered by you so soon, Shuai Tang.

There was no way, it was too obvious, Tang Shuai's violent temper was about to be brought out again, and he almost blurted out the words directly.

In short, the game between the Raptors and Houston in this nationally focused battle was very dramatic, and everything after the game was also very topical.

Obviously, judging from everything that happened before, during and after the game, before the All-Star Weekend, there may not be any news that can suppress the discussion on the topic of Bynum being mentally retarded.

As Bynum's former club, the Bobcats can't escape such a discussion.

"Many people say that after the game between the Raptors and Houston, the biggest winners are Milicic and the Raptors. I don't think it is right. After this game, the biggest winners are the Bobcats and Michael Jordan. They used A brain damage, in exchange for seven first rounds!

Perhaps in the next few decades, this will be the greatest profit-and-loss trade in NBA history. Congratulations to Michael Jordan. His general manager's ability will probably be considered the best in history because of this transaction. ! "

Yes, Boss Joe is very happy now.

All the anger caused by Bynum over the years has now been released.

If you can really get the title of the first general manager in NBA history, it seems worthwhile to be so angry with Bynum all these years.

It's just obvious that Dawson, as the general manager of Mosaic, is not in such a good mood as Boss Joe.

For Bynum, Houston has exhausted everything, what should we do in the future?

Perhaps the best news for them is that they have not renewed Bynum's contract yet. If they had reached an early maximum salary extension with Bynum, I'm afraid he would really have to jump into a river and commit suicide to make up for his worst sin. .

Of course, miracles still need to be believed.

Milicic finally made a breakthrough after being abused by Bynum.

So, does Bynum have such a quality of knowing shame and then being brave?

Dawson definitely believes Bynum has it.

But, I'm afraid I'm overthinking it.

Chen Xiao has always had complicated feelings about Bynum, his former younger brother. This is the player he advocated to get to the Bobcats. He once had high hopes for Bynum, hoping that one day he could reach O'Neal's level, even if It was okay to get close, but in the end, he didn't expect that this little brother couldn't even save the system and actually became the laughing stock of the entire NBA.

This made Chen Xiao think about one thing. The system can save those who are willing to work hard and fight for basketball, such as Luo Ge, DeAndre Jordan, Curry Jr. and others.

If it is someone like Bynum, even the system cannot save him.

Character has more influence on a person than talent, at least in basketball.

What will happen to Bynum in the future, Chen Ling doesn't know, he doesn't have the ability to predict.

But Bynum's situation really reminded him.

No matter how talented some players are, they are not worth the effort.

Bynum's rapid decline after leaving the Bobcats became the laughing stock of the NBA. This is just a small episode for the Bobcats.

After laughing for a few days, the Bobcats players immediately embarked on a journey to the NBA again.

On February 6, after three days of rest, the Bobcats defeated the weak Hawks 117-102 at home.

Lopez, who once again got a chance to start in this game, performed very well. He played 22 minutes, made 6 of 12 shots, scored 15 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks and 3 fouls. His ability to protect the rim is very good and he plays very hard.

After Bynum left, the Bobcats tried out the four major centers selected in the 2008 draft, the Lopez brothers, Roy Hibbert and DeAndre Jordan, in more than a month.

Except for Lopez, the others are all semi-finished products, and we don’t know when they will become finished products.

And Lopez is the only finished player among the four who has certain strength.

Therefore, Jordan is ready to focus on training Lopez first.

As for the other three, it's not that they won't be trained, but they will be allowed to develop on their own first and adapt to the rhythm of the NBA.

On February 8, Lopez, who had just been identified as the team's key player, encountered a warning from Yao Ming in Miami.

As the ultimate PLUS version of Lopez, although Yao Ming played very well in this game, he still beat Lopez easily.

At the same time, Jordan played all four of the Bobcats' young centers in this game, and none of them escaped Yao Ming's vicious hands.

In this situation, it looks like Jordan really has a toothache.

Yao Ming is playing very healthy this season.

But Yao Ming played so brutally in this game.

This is of course intentional by the Heat and Carlisle.

Just to force out Shanmao's fifth child.

I have to say that Carlisle is really smart, but Jordan is not stupid either.

The reason why nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons is, of course, that they have a deterrent effect only when they are not used.

Especially now that the Raptors have the possibility to defeat the Heat.

Who will the Heat choose to be their opponent?

Bucks and Raptors and Bobcats.

Who will the Heat sneak out first and kill?

To be honest, unlike the Raptors and Bucks who really have support, Joe and the Bobcats, who are still in the bluffing stage, are still wild.

This is the difficulty of not having absolute strength.

Destiny always needs to be favored.

The Bobcats were favored last time, and Jordan also hopes to be favored this time, but is it really okay?

After losing to the Heat in an away game, the Bobcats returned to home back-to-back on February 9 to face the Clippers, led by the Western Conference powerhouse Xiaopao.

In this game, the Bobcats, except for Chen Xiao, were in no offensive condition. In the end, they lost to the Clippers, third in the Western Conference, 94-103 at home.

On February 11, the Bobcats defeated the Wizards 111-99 at home, ending all games before the All-Star Weekend.

In all 52 games played, the Bobcats have a record of 37 wins and 15 losses, and are currently ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference.

This ranking seems to be following the Bobcats for a season, especially with the sudden rise of the Raptors because of Milicic.

The records of the Eastern Heat, Bucks and Raptors are about to widen the gap between other teams.

There is also a gap between the Bobcats and the teams behind them such as the Nets and Cavaliers.

In other words, the Bobcats need to wait quietly to see who is No. 1 in the Eastern Conference.

Heat, Bucks or Raptors?

These questions will have to wait until after the All-Star break.

By the way, because Bynum is injured and unable to participate in the All-Star Game, the league does not have to worry about whether Bynum should represent the East or the West.

Milicic was selected as an All-Star in place of Bynum.

This is the first time in the 23-year-old star's career that he has been selected to the All-Star Game.