The rest is just noise

The Hornets can be regarded as a template for many rebuilding teams.

There were no smart trades or big money to steal people, and it was the draft that turned them from an expansion team that everyone bullied into the best team in the Eastern Conference.

However, a large number of teams bet on the draft every year, and very few teams can actually select useful players.

Therefore, the draft can be regarded as the least difficult way to rebuild, but the longest time-consuming. If you are not careful, it may take five or six years to make up for the sin of blindness.

But for the Hornets, since the team was founded, except for Chris Jackson in 1990, all other choices have been good choices.

With sharpshooter Dale Ellis as the core of the team, they later acquired Rex Chapman, Glenn Rice, and Larry Johnson through the draft.

As a new force, they have already played against the Knicks in the past few years.

This year, they're trying to sink the Knicks in the gutter.

That determination stemmed from an unexpected situation their coaching staff mastered.

Game1, the two sides compete normally.

There are two most anticipated matchups.

The battle between Ewing and Song Tao and the battle between Kemp and Auntie.

Song Tao played as a substitute for Ewing when he was with the Knicks, and everyone knows this.

As the first NBA player in Chinese history, he is very well-known in the league. After the 76ers proved that he was not related to Louis, he joined Charlotte as a player.

This year, Song Tao had the best season of his career, averaging 12 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks per game.

In this era of center forwards, he is not considered a star player.

But no one will regard him as a star player.

In this game, Song Tao basically completed the tasks assigned to him by the team and withstood Ewing with all his strength.

Glenn Rice had a great touch, and Wilson and Wilson were fighting each other, and no one took advantage.

Once a player like Lace is in form, even an offensive and defensive superstar like Wilson cannot establish a matchup advantage in a game.

Dale Ellis and Reggie Miller exchanged three-pointers, and neither one was convinced by the other.

There are two points where the Knicks really gained an advantage. On the outside, Stockton was strategizing and scolding Fang Qiu. On the inside, Kemp was smart and brave, surprisingly beating Larry Johnson.

In the ranking of power forwards in the league in Louis' mind, Malone is first, Manning is second, Hank Gathers is third, Johnson is fourth, and Kemp is fifth.

If you want to ask where Barkley ranks, the answer is that he is not ranked.

If Barkley is regarded as a power forward, he can undoubtedly compete with Malone for first place, but after accepting the rugby strategy in Portland, he lost the fat that has been with him for many years. Therefore, he is even more difficult to compete with the powerful Trail Blazers.

Play the third position more often.

Only in decisive battles will he play the fourth position.

He is not the No. 3 player yet, just like KLK (Kagney Linn Karter) who lost his qualification to enter the Huns lineup after undergoing breast reduction surgery.

Going back to this game, Aunt Johnson versus Kemp, Louis’s original expectation was just not to fall behind.

As a result, he didn't expect Kemp to think that it was not enough just to not fall behind. Not only did he not suffer, he also had to shit on Big Mom's strong body that could hump two Arisaka Miyuki.

It cannot be said that Kemp's progress exceeded Louis' expectations.

Because Kemp has improved significantly every year, it's not impossible to evolve again during the season.

Tonight, we played against Big Mom Johnson. Although the opponent was the top four position in the league, Kemp used a tough attack at the basket, making it difficult for Big Mom's defense to be effective.

After Sampson, post players developed a style of attacking toward the basket.

More and more players are imitating and learning.

Kemp is just one of them. His face-to-basket offense is not as clever as Manning's, nor does he have the unparalleled height advantage like Sampson.

Kemp's strength in facing the basket lies in his explosive power combined with the ball.

Not as many tricks as Manning, nor as unattainable as Sampson, Kemp has his own way.

His dribbling center of gravity is low, and he is an inside lineman with a forward dribbling attitude. Coupled with his unparalleled explosiveness and instant start at the same position, his first step is as smooth as a aunt, giving people the feeling of two different people. level players.

In front of his aunt, Kemp is like a player of another level.

Every time he dribbles suddenly, Auntie can't defend him. If it weren't for Song Tao's timely defense inside, Kemp would have scored 40 points tonight.

The fact that Kemp beat Big Mom with the ball is just one of the reasons. The other is that when he doesn't have the ball, the Hornets can't do anything to him.

Stockton's role is reflected here.

He discovered Kemp's matchup advantage, so he kept feeding Kemp the ball as if there was some hidden connection between the two.

The best skills Kemp learned in special training at Georgetown University were the pick-and-roll and the screen roll.

Break it down and coordinate with his shots, making each shot accurate.

Combined with his own judgment of the defensive formation, he can appear in key parts and inflict heavy damage to the Hornets almost every time.

These two people cooperated inside and outside and became the winner of the game.

117 to 104

The Knicks defeated the Hornets by 13 points, who made no mistakes.

"If I were a Charlotte fan, I would be desperate." Hubie Brown had a strong sense of empathy. "If our players don't perform well, we can hope that they will recover in the next game; if we The coaching staff made wrong decisions, and we can also expect them to correct them in the next game. However, if we did not make any mistakes and the players played well, but they lost because they were beaten by the opponent at a certain point, then it should be What should we do?”

The Hornets look desperate. From their perspective, there don't seem to be many ways to break the situation.

However, Allan Bristow, the head coach of the Hornets, let us know that in life, in addition to the heroism of recognizing the essence of life and loving it, there is also a kind of reverse heroism.

When all the arrangements seem to be of no avail, you need to move outside the market.

Before time travel, the most exciting off-field move Louis had ever seen was when Sichuan team fans PKed Liaoning team players offline during the finals. That was the first time in his life that he thought, "Can we still play like this?"

This time, it was his opponent who resorted to out-of-field moves, and his team was the victim.

Hornets coach Bristow openly claimed: "No matter how many championships the Knicks win, they will never earn my respect."

The reporter asked cooperatively: "Why?"

"Because they grew up in the greatest country on earth, but they don't love it."

"Coach Bristow, why did you say that?"

Bristow swore to accuse: "You can go back and watch the video. The Knicks' Muhammad Rauf disappeared during the national anthem ceremony. When the national anthem ceremony ended, he ran into the court quickly, which shows that he has been in the player tunnel. , just didn’t want to participate in this sacred ceremony. Not only this one, but also in all the Knicks’ games, he did not participate in the national anthem ceremony, and the Knicks seemed to acquiesce in his doing so. Isn’t this disappointing? The most successful player in the league The team doesn't love our country, even though it's the greatest country on earth."

Although this method is disgusting, Bristol hits the target with one hit.

He found the Knicks' biggest exposed weakness.

Moreover, it set off an irresistible whirlwind of public opinion that swept across the country.