Chapter 970 Butterfly Effect
The Sixers could not stop moving forward and encountered the opening of the new season. They urgently needed a victory to restore morale.
Three days later, they headed to Salt Lake City to challenge the Jazz on the road.
Observers and commentators are most concerned about what kind of starter will the 76ers come up with after Hayward's injury?
As expected, the flanks withered, and they must temporarily give up the 41 system that made them famous all over the world.
In the game against the Jazz, the 76ers started with Brandon Jennings, Kobe, Weisha, Bamott and Cousins.
This is not a fixed starter. Jennings is on the starting list, and the significance of the experiment is greater than the actual combat significance.
If the initial effect is not good, the first release will be returned to someone else next time.
In order to test a reliable starting lineup, Wright doesn't mind using a whole regular season to train and test the lineup.
The Jazz have always been a backbone team.
After Jerry Sloan took over the team, even though Sloan had abdicated for several years, they still retained a certain old-fashioned character.
With poor lineup, I found a way to tap the potential. Over the past few decades, there have been only a handful of unlimited performances.
Now they play seriously with a seemingly prospectless squad.
Jennings' strengths and weaknesses were exposed in this game.
He still retains the offensiveness of scoring 50 points from Curry in the rookie season, but he stayed in his rookie season at the peak and has not achieved substantial growth over the years, just like Tyrek Evans of the same class.
It was clearly the one who took the farthest pace in the rookie season, but in the end it was surpassed and thrown away by the chasers, and even the shadow of others could not be seen.
His offense was extremely radical, and he couldn't see his teammates as soon as he started to fight.
It is difficult to schedule an offense, and it is even harder to expect him to play a good cooperation than climbing the sky.
Wei Xia and Kobe were forced to be green leaves, and they opened the three-point line to give him a stage, hoping that he would come back with a cloud.
Unfortunately, lack of strength is one of the cruelest things in the NBA arena.
You can become a superstar and be the protagonist in leagues in other countries, but in NBA, which one is not a basketball genius in a broad sense? Even from the perspective of NBA as the first league, everyone here is a genius among geniuses.
Reckless actions without strength will drag down the team.
Half a quarter later, Jennings was replaced.
In the game he led, the 76ers were 9 points behind the Jazz 7-16.
"Will the defending champion suffer a two-game losing streak away?"
"If they can't even beat the jazz, we might have to reevaluate their combat power!"
Even the 76ers' opponent, Jazz's second-year forward Rodney Hood, mocked: "I didn't expect that you only have this strength, and it seems that the championship is not that difficult!"
Wei Xia and Kobe looked at each other. The people whose rings combined could wear their hands all showed some information in their eyes that only they could understand.
15 seconds later, Kobe got the ball at a low post and turned over and threw Hood in the face.
When the ball entered, Kobe sneered: "It is because there are too many players like you that Coach Sloan retires!"
Kobe's words were unreasonable. When Sloan retired, Rhodes was not in the NBA at all.
But then again, when did Kobe tell the truth on the court?
Originally, it was a boring game, with the 76ers trying the lineup, and Wei Xia and Kobe were not angry.
Thanks to Hood, his words made Wei Xia and Kobe hard.
They made an orderly division of labor around how to torture Hood.
Wei Xia did the best defense as much as possible, and he and Bamott were still in the running-in stage.
In the starting lineup, they are the two of them who have the best defense, but Bamot just joined the team and did not know Wei Xia's defensive habits as well as Farid before.
Despite this, Bamot still blocked Hood's breakthrough with a beautiful stand.
Wei Xia performed a hyena behavior, attacking the eggs from her back and touching the ball off.
Wei Xia was not greedy for me when he got the ball, and teleported it to Seth Curry who replaced Jennings.
Curry is a guard who is good at shooting like his brother. At this time, he hit 1 or 0 in the frontcourt, and he actually made a three-pointer like his brother.
"Swish!"
After Wei Xia passed the ball, she stopped paying attention to the offense, but stayed in the backcourt and said to Hood in earnest, "The championship may not be that difficult, but it is not something that people like you who can't even defend a 38-year-old man can't defend against."
Kobe suddenly looked over, Wei Xia spoke quietly enough, but his ears were sharp, and these words were suspected to be heard.
"What are you talking about?" Kobe asked.
Wei Xia said with a rosy face: "I'm praising you."
Torturing Hood became the subject of this game.
Wei Xia's words made Hood more and more want to defend Kobe, but Kobe's hands are hot today, and the 76ers are no match for the Lakers, so he will never let him take on tasks outside of his responsibilities.
Wei Xia always takes over some troublesome attacks.
All Kobe had to do was to hit the back when he was full of energy, and to shoot three-pointers in a tactical manner. Even so, he also scored 30 points from Hood's head within 30 minutes.
Kobe tortured Hood with offense, while Wei Xia tortured Hood on the defensive end.
Wei Xia caused Hood to make 7 mistakes in the whole game.
From Hood squirted out his contempt for the champion, he entered hell mode.
Ravating Hood is the theme, leading the team to defeat the Jazz is a side mission by the way.
“Some young people lack respect for the champion.”
After the game, Kobe criticized the Jazz's young men.
"They don't know what it takes to win the championship!"
In the next game, the starting lineup of the 76ers changed again.
Curry Jr. replaced Jennings. His problems are not as prominent as Jennings and his characteristics are more pleasing than Jennings. However, to become the starting point guard of the 76ers, it is not as simple as shooting three-pointers.
The same thing, organizational talent.
This is something that has been increasingly neglected in recent years and is becoming increasingly scarce in NBA.
With the rise of Ross, Westbrook, Wall, Irving, Curry, and Lillard, the younger generation of point guards either pursue flying higher, running faster, and shooting farther, few people still remember that the responsibility of the point guard is to connect the team's offense.
However, this is also the mission given to the new generation of players by the times.
After all, this is an era where ball holders are above everything else.
The Celtics were not affected by the chain reaction of Wei Xia in saving Kobe's Achilles tendon. Embiid was still in their team and had shown the strength of an All-Star center.
Cousins was in a bad state today, and he played halftime, had four fouls, and he ended up.
Embiid is like the new generation of favorites in the league. He touched it casually and the whistle came naturally. 23 free throws in a single game shocked Kobe.
"Is this the fuck playing basketball?"
"Who told you to touch him?" Wei Xia said sarcastically, "Who allowed you to touch him? What should I do if I smash my crystal glass-like body?"
Kobe said righteously: "You are so embarrassed to say that it's because you're over-defense that DeMarcus violates so many rules!"
This is a story that can be blamed endlessly.
Wei Xia did not argue, Embiid's body whistle was four meters long, and he did what the Seven Star Warriors could not do at the time - to wipe out the 76ers' inside line.
Since there was no insider available in the end, Wright replaced Wang Zhelin with a desperate thought...
The 76ers' penalty area immediately encountered a terrible infiltration and breakthroughs. There were countless basket attacks, and Wang Zhelin's average bounced wingspan could not provide any air defense.
When he protected the basket for the 76ers, the Celtics' paint area hit rate was a terrifying 90%.
The 76ers were completely unable to fight and were defeated in one round.
Kobe was unbearable for being humiliated and took the initiative to get six fouls to rest.
Wei Xia insisted on playing until the end and scored a meaningless 36 points.
A Boston reporter asked Kobe what he thought about the defeat.
"You ask me?" The older this guy is, the bigger the temper. "The Cameroonian has more free throws than our entire team. What do you think?"
Wei Xia originally wanted to follow Yin and Yang, but Kobe fired too hard. He turned into a firefighter in the visiting room from the state where the bullet was loaded and ready to fire. "Kobe means... Joel's free throw is too accurate. They are all Cameroonians. Luke from our team does not have his free throw."
Wei Xia sincerely hopes that Kobe will be more professional if he wants to swear and not fire map guns. Bamot is his innocent person!
"Where did Luke get the free throw? He touched the young man and was sent out six times!" Kobe was completely unreasonable, "Where did he get the free throw?"
"Doesn't this just mean that the referees are doing their duty tonight? When will the sport of basketball allow people to touch others while defending?"
Wei Xia finally couldn't hold back his yin and yang dialect.
Thinking back to the finals of last season, how iron-blooded it was, both confrontational and viewing. However, so far in the new season, not only 76ers against the Celtics, but also one person hit the ball and beat the entire team in other games.
What Wei Xia didn't know was that it was precisely because of the 74-win Warriors that the first God-making movement in Xiaohua's era failed perfectly, which made the president, who was as serious as the whole family's death when awarding Wei Xia the FMVP trophy, ordered the referee guild to ask the referee to step up restrictions on physical confrontation.
This kind of thing is like the zero tolerance at the beginning, and it takes a while for the referee and each team to get in.
During this period, it is inevitable that some referees will exaggerate and some teams will not get used to it.
As the season deepens and the in-depth exploration of rules and standards, both sides will find a balance point that everyone can accept.
There are no dead rules, only living and adaptable.
However, the defending champions are now losing two generals at the beginning of the season. Last season, they buried the first offensive team in history with the most primitive hand-to-hand combat, and of course they will be tightened by the league.
In the next game, he returned to home court.
Wei Xia started killing the young and talented bucks.
He unexpectedly discovered that one of the chain effects caused by saving Kobe's Achilles tendon, Jabbarri Parker, was not in the Lakers, but in the Bucks.
"Long time no see, Jabary." Wei Xia greeted.
Parker responded enthusiastically.
It seems that their relationship is still very good, but Wei Xia has no impression of anything other than Parker's memory in the Lakers.
Chapter completed!