I’m Really Playing Basketball

On October 26, 2010, after a noisy summer, the 2010-2011 NBA regular season opener officially begins. The Bobcats will face last season's Eastern Conference Finals opponent, the Miami Heat, at their home court.

When the game started, hearing the overwhelming boos at the scene, the two bosses of the Heat, Yao Ming and Wade, were a little wide-eyed.

"We are regarded as mortal enemies by Bobcat fans tonight!"

I have to say that in the minds of Wade and Yao Ming, this matter is indeed quite strange. Although the Bobcats and Heat have been each other's biggest competitors over the years, it is difficult to say that the two sides are mortal enemies.

After all, the Heat were indeed too strong before. Basically, when the Bobcats meet the Heat, they will get their butt kicked. So, you are such a bad guy, how can you have the nerve to be a mortal enemy of such a strong team?

But things are different now. The Bobcats defeated the Heat head-on to reach the finals and win the championship last season. They also swept the Heat to advance to the championship. This really boosted the ambition of Bobcat fans.

"Last season's championship made the Charlotte Bobcats look more confident and powerful."

Before the game even started, Heat head coach Rick Carlisle felt that the Bobcats were becoming more difficult this season.

In fact, the current Bobcats can indeed be described as having high morale. They just won the championship, most of them are young people, and this game is the first home game to award championship rings. It is difficult for you to let go. Players and fans are not excited.

Therefore, the excited Bobcats, as soon as the game started, defended the Heat, which has three superstars like Yao Ming, Wade and Carmelo Anthony, by 12 points in a single quarter.

This game is Anthony's first regular season game after coming to the Heat. Obviously, Anthony wants to perform in this game. At the same time, the Heat also hope that Anthony can perform in this game.

Therefore, from the beginning, everyone in the Heat was working on the ball for Anthony.

After all, Anthony's favorite opponents are opponents like Durant and Granger. Many people know that Anthony has great experience in playing against Durant in history.

But in fact, Anthony played Granger very deliberately in history.

However, as soon as the game started, Anthony wanted to beat Granger very much. Facing Chen Xiao chasing after him to defend him, this social melon brother was a little embarrassed. He wanted to avoid Chen Xiao's defense. Go fight Granger.

But as his good friend, Chen Xiao took the initiative to challenge him in his first Heat game. If he hid, how would he behave in the future?

In the end, he had no choice but to fight Chen Xiao.

This made Xiao Tiantian uncomfortable.

For Xiao Tiantian, this game with the Bobcats was really uncomfortable. Her favorite opponent was on the same team as her least favorite opponent. Tang Seng was right in front of her, but you couldn't eat it for many reasons. , I can only forcefully eat the monkey next to Tang Monk. Isn’t this very frustrating?

Under Chen Xiao's smiling defense, Xiao Tiantian, with a smile on her face and MMP in her heart, shot 1-for-6 in the first quarter of the game, scoring 6 points in a single quarter.

In the first quarter, Xiao Tiantian beat her good friend Chen Xiao, which was a complete failure. Every time Xiao Tiantian failed to beat Chen Xiao, it was because his triple threat was directly sealed by Chen Xiao's Eye of God. The three threats were sealed. Anthony, who is a threat, is uncomfortable and awkward on the offensive end.

In fact, the biggest harm that Britney did to the Heat in the first quarter was not the offensive end, but slowing down the Heat's offensive rhythm.

Don't think that because the Heat have a big center like Yao Ming, they think the Heat's offense is slow.

The Heat's offensive rhythm is not fast. They don't dribble so quickly through the half court and they can't play on the fly.

But after halftime, the Heat players did not stick to the ball when playing tactics.

Whether it is Wade or Yao Ming, the two core players in the Heat's ball handling are not sticky.

Yao Ming is very tall, he has good passing vision and excellent shooting. The choice between passing and shooting can be seen at a glance, and there is no need for extra dribbling at all.

The same is true for Wade. Wade's breakthrough is very strong, very very strong, his passing vision is also very good, he can also play without the ball, his golf IQ is also high, and his ability to read defenses is superb.

When he handles the ball, he doesn't need extra actions. He breaks out when he has the chance. If he doesn't have the chance, he calls for Yao Ming's pick-and-roll pass, and then Yao Ming attacks or receives Yao Ming's pass without the ball.

With such a tacit understanding and quick cooperation between the two, not only can they have many opportunities for themselves, but they can also create many offensive opportunities for their teammates.

Therefore, although the Heat's offense will not run like the Raptors, it will run very smoothly and quickly. If you are not careful, the Heat will create opportunities to score.

This is where the Heat's offense has been strongest in the past few years.

And Anthony's offense, how should I put it, drags the rhythm, very slow.

Anthony's career is an invincible singles monster. If you want Anthony to play without the ball and be a shooter who catches the ball, you have to make Anthony the core of the offense in the first quarter. His singles can directly defeat the Heat. The offensive rhythm stopped.

And this is also the reason why the Heat scored 12 points in a single quarter after letting Anthony play the main offense in the first quarter.

Anthony's 1-for-6 in a single quarter couldn't allow the Heat to only score 12 points in a single quarter.

Yao Ming scored 1-for-1 with 2 points, Wade scored 1-for-1 with 4 points, O'Neal Jr. scored 0-for-4 with 0 points, and Barbosa scored 0-for-2 with 0 points. This is the key.

After Anthony's single hit stopped the ball, both Yao Ming and Wade were directly hugged by the defensive players. The tactics were beaten to death, and the last opportunities all appeared on the second-tier players.

In addition, Stoudemire's defense was very active in this game, and Stoudemire's own touch was also very average. Barbosa met Rose, a player who can beat him, and it was so difficult for the Heat to play a quarter as soon as they started. Awkward match.

After all, after Pat Riley added three strong players to the Heat in Anthony, Barbosa and O'Neal during the offseason, the Heat held their breath and made a mess in this game.

Give the Bobcats a defeat as their gift of a championship ring.

But in the end, the Bobcats were beaten 26-12 as soon as the first quarter started, losing 14 points in a single quarter.

If you lose 14 points in a single quarter to a team like the Bobcats, and you want to get it back in the following games, that's impossible.

In the end, in this battle between the Bobcats and the Heat, which attracted national attention, the Bobcats defeated the Heat at home with a score of 105 to 95.

After the first quarter, the Heat actually didn't try too hard in the rest of the game.

For teams like the Bobcats and Heat, they have actually gone beyond the regular season of one win and one loss. Except for a few players such as Anthony, the two teams do not need to prove anything.

What else do Chen Xiao, O'Neal, Kevin Durant, Wade, and Yao Ming need to prove?

Britney Anthony, who wanted to prove something in this game, made 10 of 21 shots and scored a game-high 31 points, plus 8 turnovers.

His performance was still very good. After he avoided Chen Xiao and played Granger in the next three quarters, his efficiency increased. In history, Anthony played Granger 18 games, and his three-point shooting percentage was close to 44%. , the shooting percentage is also close to 48%. It can be said that against Granger, you can play however you want.

Granger really couldn't guard against him.

Gerald is indeed quite miserable in this regard.

In fact, it's not that he's not strong enough, but he always fails in the face of some powerful opponents. Why?

Since Granger is not weak, of course it is because James, Durant, Anthony and others are too strong.

In fact, this is also true. These three people are all players whose strength has reached a historical level.

Being able to be in the same era as these three small forwards is the tragedy of Granger and other small forwards, whether it is Granger or other All-Star small forwards.

Just like many people say that the tragedy of Britney Anthony's career coincides with the peak of Jan Du.

Anthony is at the historical level, and the other two are at the super historical level and can compete for TOP. Although Zhan Du's historical status is not TOP, but with hard power, the two can definitely compete for TOP. Of course, competing for TOP strength There are not many people there, not too many, no more than 8 at most.

When you have two of the eight most powerful players in history at the same position, if you are not tragic, who is?

In this game, Britney had a hard time, and it was great to bully Granger, but the 31 points in this game made him unhappy, because it was obvious that the Heat tried to use him as the core of the offense in this game. After reviewing the tactics, it was found that they were not suitable. It was better to use Wade and Yao Ming as the core tactics. It would be best for him to assist Yao Ming and Wade like Iverson did before.

Iverson is willing to assist Wade and Yao Ming because he is old.

And Anthony is not old enough to retire and become a champion, but he still has pursuits.

Therefore, the Heat's loss in this game is not a complete bad thing for the Heat. At least they understand themselves more clearly.

At the same time, in this game, the Heat's four first-round picks this year, although Whiteside and the other two were terrible, this year's No. 10 pick Paul George played quite impressively in this game.

The rookie played a very exciting performance against a team like the Bobcats that was completely elite from the main lineup to the substitute lineup.

He made 3 of 6 in the game, scored 8 points and had 4 fouls.

Especially the rotation time in the second quarter, in those short few minutes, he dared to play hard, scored 2 of 2, and scored 5 points, which also won him more opportunities and playing time in the second half.

Of course, Paul George struggled in the second half and was taken care of. However, although he struggled on the offensive end, his performance on the defensive end was still positive and proactive. This can be seen from the fact that he played 20 minutes and got 4 fouls.

In the NBA, all teams will like young people like Paul George, who dare to attack and fight defensively. Now they are indeed a bit younger, less experienced, and not as strong as they are, but as long as they have this The heart is worth cultivating in the future.

This season the Heat can actually be considered a small rebuild. After all, those who didn't dare to fight at critical moments last season were sent away. What they need are people like Paul George who dare to fight at critical moments.

As long as he has this quality, he will have a chance in the Heat.

As for the Bobcats, Bobcats rookie Cousins ​​also performed well. He played 12 minutes, made 3 of 3, and scored 6 points and 8 rebounds. These statistics are quite explosive.

It's hard to believe that such high data has been exploded in such a short period of time.

I have to say that this rookie of ours also looks very good and unique.

In the first home game of the season, they defeated the Heat, their biggest rival for the title, and at the same time received a championship ring with victory on this day. This was the best start for the Bobcats.

Taking advantage of this momentum, in the following games in October and November, the Bobcats only lost back-to-back away games to the Bucks led by Durant and Curry Allen on November 27.

In this game, the Bucks defeated the Bobcats 114 to 111.

I have to say that in this game, the Bobcats did not play well at the beginning, and they could not catch up no matter how they chased.

This cannot be blamed on the Bobcats players. In October and November, the Bobcats played 7 back-to-back games in just over a month!

You read that right, 7.

In October and November, the Bobcats played a total of 18 games, 14 of which were back-to-back.

There is no one left in this schedule.

Do you want the schedule to be so confusing?

Why did we play the Bucks back-to-back on November 27th, and then there were no games on November 28th, 29th, and 30th? Why can't we move the game against the Bucks back two days?

Among them, the Bobcats have such a schedule before them. They play 6 games in the first 8 days, 1 game in 6 days in the middle, and then another 6 games in 8 days. Who can bear this schedule?

Even the Bobcats players started this season as a group of extremely excited young men.

With such a schedule in the league, I felt a little unmotivated when playing the Bucks.

However, although they lost to the Bucks in an away game, they started the season with 17 consecutive wins. After October and November, the Bobcats' record of 17 wins and 1 loss still placed this team first in the league. superior.

Chen Xiao also defeated Durant, who led the Bucks to 14 wins and 3 losses in October and November, and won the Eastern Conference's first month of the new season.

In his first month, Chen Xiao averaged 26.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, with a shooting percentage of 57%.

In terms of absolute data, it is the same as last season, not very high.

Because for Chen Xiao and the Bobcats, there is really no need for Chen Xiao to put up numbers like he did when he was young.

Now the Bobcats are actually cultivating young players in the regular season.

O'Neal even played five games in October and November, and Roy Hibbert and Cousins ​​started the other 13 games.

Especially after the arrival of Stoudemire this season, it is even more impossible for Chen Xiao to take as many shots as he did when he was young.

Stoudemire has more ball rights than Aldridge.

So, now this bobcat has a problem.

It is a blessing to have so many stars in the team, but how to divide the ball rights is a huge worry. How to divide it?

Finally, Jordan was freed from the bitterness of his status with Chen Xiao, because this problem was so damn difficult that if he was not careful, he would even overturn the Bobcat ship.