I’m Really Playing Basketball

In the first month of the 2011-2012 NBA season, Chen Xiao averaged a triple-double of 30+ per game, while Jordan directed the Bobcats to an astonishing 16-game winning streak.

This makes the impact of Pippen's remarks on the Bobcats seem like a joke.

Throughout 16 games in November, the Bobcats showed impressive strength on both ends of the floor.

You know, this is the Bobcats team after O'Neal retired and Stoudemire and Battier left.

Logically speaking, the Bobcats are as strong as they are strong, but they shouldn't have such a strong dominance against specific teams such as the Heat.

However, throughout 16 months, the Bobcats defeated more than just the Heat.

It seems that the departure of O'Neal and Spartier Jr. has almost no impact on the Bobcats.

In other words, the Bobcats' new or newly promoted players this season have done an excellent job of filling their gaps.

This season, in addition to the four original core players of the Bobcats, Chen Xiao, Granger, Roy and Rose, the most amazing player so far is Cousins, who is already in his second year and has succeeded O'Neal as the Bobcats' starting center. .

So far, he can contribute 14 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. As a center, his offensive dominance is indeed not as strong as O'Neal.

His offense is still relatively outside-oriented, with less than 40% of the offense at the basket. However, he has more good shooting abilities than O'Neal. Coupled with his excellent ball-handling breakthrough and support capabilities at the center position, he has surpassed High offensive and defensive mobility makes Cousins ​​play a great role in both offense and defense for the Bobcats this season.

After all, the clues can be seen from his data, averaging 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. This is basically data that can only be produced by super wing players like Kirilenko or Josh Smith, James and Chen Xiao.

As a center, to be honest, it is difficult for someone to produce such data.

This requires an excellent combination of mobility and stance ability to achieve.

As for Cousins, there is no doubt that he is very excited and excited to replace O'Neal in the starting lineup this season.

Cousins ​​​​can become an NBA superstar in history by relying on his instinctive development without anyone caring about him.

But now in the Bobcats, with the two great gods Chen Xiao and Jordan suppressing him, and Chen Xiao's countless defensive experience cards in the past two seasons, his seriousness on the defensive end is still unmatched in terms of strength and history. Same thing.

Although Cousins' IQ is comparable to Bynum's, his golf IQ is very good.

With a good basketball IQ and outstanding talent, even if such a player has a worrying personality and IQ, he would be the best to have next to Chen Xiao.

It really doesn't matter if he doesn't have a brain. Chen Xiao can lend him a brain, just like he lent him a brain.

Similarly, it doesn't matter if you have a bad personality. If you really dare to cause trouble in Bobcats, go ahead and see if you get kicked in the butt.

Therefore, Cousins ​​​​this season even feels like seeing Bynum in the past.

Of course, Bynum was even more amazing in his final season with the Bobcats.

However, that is because that season, Chen Xiao deliberately brushed for Bynum. This season, Chen Xiao did not deliberately brush for Bynum.

There are even suspicions that other Bobcats players deliberately let Chen Xiao brush.

Why do you say that?

Because the situation of the game is too obvious, Rose, Roy, Curry Jr., DeRozan, Key, etc., as long as these guards are on the court with Chen Xiao, they will basically turn the ball crazily into Chen Xiao's hands.

According to what Curry said to Chen Xiao: "Teacher, we all feel that your purpose of using the ball to train us has been achieved. We are now strong, so it is time to return the ball to you. "

In the past few seasons with the Bobcats, Chen Xiao really didn't have much possession of the ball, and his statistics were not very impressive. He even lost the regular season MVP last season because his statistics were not very impressive.

Although Chen Xiao no longer cares about these data and honors.

But after the Bobcats had this crisis because of Pippen, the players were even more grateful for Chen Xiao's existence.

As the saying goes, when you are about to lose something, you will truly learn to cherish it.

And today's Bobcat players are like those who have truly learned to cherish.

Back to Cousins.

Because the ball has returned to Chen Xiao's hands, Cousins ​​is the biggest beneficiary, because Chen Xiao's football intelligence, passing ability and vision are the best in the entire league for passing the ball to inside players.

Therefore, even though Cousins' data is not that explosive, his performance is indeed amazing.

Of course, when playing against the Heat, he was the same as Bynum. Well, his defense against Yao Ming was not very good. It should be said that he was worse than Bynum. There was no way, Yao Ming was still too high, and compared with Compared to Yao Ming, Cousins ​​is like a defender.

However, now and then, the current Bobcats, even if they are at an absolute disadvantage in the center position, are no longer the existence that the Heat once manipulated at will.

The Bobcats are indeed strong now.

Especially the new addition of David West this season, he is very suitable to make up for Stoudemire's vacancy.

Of course, David West's offense is not as strong as Stoudemire's, but it is enough, really enough. His short-range, mid-range and long-range two-point shooting percentages are all around 47%.

His mid-range shot is really too stable. Although his output is only 13 points per game, this efficiency is really enough to match the other players of the Bobcats and become a reliable fifth choice in the team's offensive tactics, or rather The perfect fifth choice.

In addition, his defensive role is much better than Stoudemire.

Stoudemire is a superstar, and he values ​​offense more. As for defense, to be honest, Stoudemire can't keep his face to fight with his opponents.

But David West is different. He averaged close to 20 points per game last season, but only 13 points this season. This is not a sharp decline in his strength, but that he spends more of his energy on the defensive end. Fight hand-to-hand with your opponent.

Therefore, this season David West's steals and blocks have all reached career highs, averaging 1.1 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.

Together with his partner Cousins, as well as Chen Xiao, Granger and Rose.

The Bobcats' pressure and strength on defense this season has been amazing.

The Bobcats' starting lineup is a regular lineup with two inside and three outside players. It has the height of a traditional and regular lineup, but it also has the mobility and speed of a smaller lineup.

Therefore, this season, the Bobcats often learn from the Bucks' five small teams on the court.

As long as you appear in the dangerous zone inside, the Bobcats will attack you endlessly, and others will take turns crazy. This move is really powerful.

Using a traditional lineup to play five small defensive tactics, in the entire league, this is probably only comparable to the Raptors who had Stoudemire, Milicic and Josh Smith.

And this Bobcat is stronger than that kind of Raptors, because the Raptors had Nash at that time, and the person in the position of the Bobcats was Rose.

Don't look at the fact that the Bobcats' offense ranks first in the league this season. In fact, they also rank first in the league in points conceded per round. Although they lose a lot of points in total, more of it is actually due to the number of rounds.

Throughout November, Chen Xiao performed so well that of course he won the title of Eastern Conference Player of the Month for the first month without any surprise.

Whether it's Durant or James or anyone else, there is simply no one who can compare to him.

After November, many people were even discussing the possibility of Chen Xiao averaging a triple-double per game.

To be honest, averaging a triple-double per game was still quite good before being devalued by a certain young turtle. Big O Robertson relied on that triple-double per game, and his historical ranking was just a little outside the top ten every time, even Sometimes I can get into the top ten.

This shows how precious triple pairs are now.

If Chen Xiao can average a triple-double in a single season, it will be a bonus for players like Chen Xiao, even more bonus points than MVP.

After all, Big O only has one MVP, one championship, and no FMVP among his major honors. Why do many people rank him at No. 12, or even squeeze him into the top ten from time to time?

You don’t really think it’s because of his 9 first-team games and 6 assists titles, right? No, no?

Isn't it his unique triple-double achievement?

Therefore, after the triple-double was knocked into the sewer by the Teenage Turtles, Big O's status in the basketball world fell off a cliff.

It sounds really miserable.

Chen Xiao played very well in the first month of this season. To be honest, Chen Xiao hasn't played like this for a long time.

Although it's been a long time, it's not unfamiliar, and Jordan also intends to let Chen Xiao set a statistic that the world will never forget this season.

Chen Xiao already has an average of 40+ per game. Obviously, averaging 50+ per game is impossible under modern basketball rules.

But averaging a triple-double per game is still okay.

Scoring and assisting, Chen Xiao has no difficulty.

The only difficulty is rebounding.

As long as teammates have a keen eye for getting on the board and getting stuck, when it comes to this, who can compare to Cousins ​​​​and David West. These two people are historically top-notch in terms of blocking abilities.

Therefore, Chen Xiao's triple-double average in November is really not a flash in the pan.

It should be said that after Cousins ​​​​and David West and others became more proficient, it became easier for Chen Xiao to get a triple-double in the December game.

In the 15 games throughout December, Chen Xiao had 13 triple-doubles. The remaining two games where he did not have a triple-double were because Chen Xiao was embarrassed to continue playing in the fourth quarter during garbage time.

In other words, by this month, viewers who have watched all of Chen Xiao's games will no longer have any doubts about whether Chen Xiao can average a triple-double this season.

Chen Xiaona averages a triple-double per game. It's really not a question of what he can't do, but whether he is willing to do so.

Therefore, when Chen Xiao is infinitely close to the honor of averaging a triple-double per game, the happiest person in the entire NBA is not Jordan or the Bobcats player, but Oscar Robertson.

"I am very much looking forward to the arrival of this day. I am really lonely where I am. I have been waiting for my companions for too long. I am more looking forward to and happy than anyone else that the Wonder Boy can join this magical team and become A true wonder boy!”

Because of Chen Xiao's triple-double per game, Big O once again entered the NBA's mainstream vision.

And he really cherishes this opportunity to become famous. Although he has never been cool, when will he be taken out and make headlines with Chen Xiao every day?

Therefore, every time you are interviewed, you must bind yourself to Chen Xiao and praise Chen Xiao desperately.

It is not difficult to see from his words that when he praised Chen Xiao, he was actually praising himself.

Obviously, Chen Xiao becoming the king of triple-doubles per game is not a deduction from this honor, but a bonus to this honor.

If Chen Xiao switches to Gui Shao, Big O will definitely not be willing to bind himself to Gui Shao.

Not to mention being bound, I can't wait to leave as far as I can. It's best for the whole world not to remember that there is another triple-double king named Big O, lest my status becomes lower and lower.

Although Chen Xiao still averaged a triple-double in December and also received the Eastern Conference Player of the Month for December on January 1, 2012, the Bobcats did not lose in December.

On December 8, the Bobcats lost to the Bucks.

Because the Bobcats just played the Spurs in the Western Conference on December 7th, and then flew to Milwaukee to play the Bucks. This schedule is no longer an ordinary back-to-back, but a hellish back-to-back.

Therefore, in this game, the Bobcats allowed the Bucks to score 132 points in the away game. Although the two teams played very quickly and had many rounds, losing 132 points in one game was still too much. Although the Bobcats themselves also Scored 124 points.

Especially in this game, Curry made 18 of 22 and 8 of 10 three-pointers. He scored 47 points by himself, which can be described as shooting crazy.

Rose's legs were filled with lead in this game. He couldn't catch up and couldn't run. The ones who were most affected by the back-to-back this time were Rose and Granger.

The two of them have been too busy this season.

After the problem between Chen Xiao and Yao Ming was resolved, the infighting between Granger, Rose and Jimmy Butler started again.

This can be regarded as an additional adjustment as the Bobcats continue to develop.

To be honest, the Bobcats, including Chen Xiao, have become accustomed to the involution of Granger and Rose this season.

Until January 5, 2012, another hellish back-to-back game. After the Bobcats played the Raptors at home, they went to play the Cavaliers away. During a confrontation with the opponent James, Granger was inadvertently hit by James who broke through. Knees, painful to the end.

Since entering the league in 2005 and now in his eighth season, Granger has always been an iron man and rarely misses games, so Jordan, Chen Xiao and everyone think Granger is an iron man.

But this time, seeing the expression on Granger's face as he fell to the ground in pain, they knew that they were wrong.

This is a normal confrontation.

But Granger collapsed, an accidental injury caused by overexertion.

On January 8, 2012, Granger underwent left knee surgery in Cleveland. The operation was successful, but immediately, the Bobcats announced that Granger would be reimbursed for the season.

For a moment, Rose, who was madly involved with Granger, was frightened. He subconsciously felt a dull pain in his knees and everywhere in his body.

Of course, this is a psychological effect, but he knows that his body is also very tired now, and he may collapse in an ordinary confrontation at any time.

He, like Granger, was perhaps not an Iron Man.

On the other side, when the news came that Granger was out for the season, it was undeniable that many people were ecstatic.

Battier is gone and Granger is injured. Do the Bobcats have to rely on Barnes, DeRozan and Jimmy Butler at the third position?

"Barnes' offense is too bad, DeRozan's defense is bad, and Jimmy Butler is just mediocre. Now I declare that the Bobcats' terrible offensive and defensive state this season is over. They will never have such a strong offense and defense again. They lost their important offensive and defensive hub!"

"Maybe, Wonder Boy and Michael can think about next season!"

Well, after the swelling on his face subsided, Mr. Pi felt that he was okay again and stood up again.

However, this time, the situation of the Bobcats is indeed very unoptimistic.

Even many Bobcats fans said that at this time, Chen Xiao can only be promoted to the small forward position and Rose can be promoted to the starting position.

This seems to be the best option for the Bobcats.

However, on January 9, in the Bobcats' away game against the Bulls, the Bobcats' starting small forward was Jimmy Butler.

Jimmy Butler, Chen Xiao's junior who was considered to have an ordinary appearance and was even disliked by his mother for being a bit ugly. His abilities were mediocre and he entered the Bobcats through Chen Xiao's back door.

For a time, many people were ecstatic before the game, and many people were also lamenting.