In February, in the first match of the Trail Blazers, the Bobcats' starting lineup changed, Lance Stephenson was promoted to the start, and Captain Jack was transferred to the substitute.

Judging from this game alone, it is not difficult to win.

This Trail Blazers no longer have Roy, and they don't even have Roy's replacement Wesley Matthews, because Matthews is now playing a substitute with the Bobcats.

Without Roy and Matthews, the Trail Blazers can only sign Jamal Crawford and Nicholas Batum with high salaries.

After the junior brother started, Li Ke moved his position to the third position.

He faced Batum and continued to hold on to the scoring task of offensive end.

The junior brother who started for the first time performed quite well. At least the Bobcats' arc top support, and the attack with empty cuts on both sides was back.

But Li Ke is under great pressure to score. In this game, he grew up against Aldridge, a train from Biaode University.

He scored 33 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals alone, which led the Bobcats to narrowly defeat the Trail Blazers by 8 points.

This is understandable too—

During the season, the Bobcats have been attacking the world by far exceeding the league average. In every game, Li Ke, Curry, Captain Jack and Jamison's four-core cores can always score as many as 70 or 80 high scores.

But this year, Captain Jack was so bad that Jamison left. The junior brother who just came to this game was very young, and he was still very immature. He only scored 7 points in this game, which was still a big gap from Captain Jack who averaged 17 points last season.

Without Jamison and Captain Jack, two scorers with about 15 points, the score gap was only made up by Li Ke and Curry.

As a result, Li Ke quickly increased from 27.5 points per game last season to 29.3 points, competing for the honor of scoring champion.

Curry also increased from averaging 20.7 points last season to 25.1 points.

The remaining gap has to be filled by substitutes.

But the problem is that the Bobcats' offensive system is very difficult now, and there are too many substitutes to rotate, so it is quite difficult for substitutes to stand up.

After this 8-point win, the Bobcats' coaching staff just felt that the junior brother had to get in and did not notice the problem.

When the season continues to go down, the Bobcats' regular season is still tough.

After defeating the Trail Blazers, they immediately defeated the Sun, who was still there but was already in a rebuilding state.

On February 5th, they fought against the Celtics again, and in the first half of the game, Li Ke and Curry were in their normal state.

Just a little bit, the Bobcat was stolen by the older and decadent giants.

At the last moment of the final quarter, Li Ke had to take out his back and hit him, and he beat him seven or eight backs in a row, successfully hitting him 6.

After scoring 14 points in a row, the Bobcats won the game with difficulty.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he returned to Charlotte for a day of rest, the bobcat met the bull again.

Tom Siberdu used textbook-style joint defense to completely lock Curry.

Li Ke, who was overdrawn in the previous game, performed well in this game.

The Bobcats eventually lost the game...

A loss is not enough to make the Bobcats discover the problem. In the next game, in high-intensity battles, the Bobcats still have both wins and losses.

Win the Clippers, Timberwolves, 76ers, etc., and wins in a row.

Then he suddenly lost a Pacers, turned his head back to back and fought against the Pacers, but Li Ke stood up and scored 43 points, leading the team to win with difficulty.

After playing this Pacers, the next is the All-Star Weekend.

This also means that the shrinking season is now half over.

The media began to summarize the views on Bobcats and public opinion in the past half season is-

"The Bobcats are still the top team in the league, but so far, they have not shown their dominance last season."

"Stephen Jackson's decline is important. Lance Stephenson, who replaced him, is still very immature. They need another core of the offensive support, or simply make a complete change."

The description of lack of dominance can even be regarded as a compliment to other teams.

But for Bobcats who are determined to defend their title, this evaluation means that if they want to get closer to defending their title, they have to make changes.

Especially after this evaluation, public opinion generally believes that:

"The Cavaliers, who changed their coach and made up for the bench lineup, have won 25 wins and 5 losses in the 30 games so far in the season. Compared with the Bobcats, they are the more dominant team!"

The Cavaliers have risen in the shrinking season. Lebang has indeed practiced hard this summer. His mid-range shots have changed from two or three games in the past ten games to five or six games in ten games, which has been a great improvement.

Plus the outstanding performance of role players such as Caron Butler, Battier, and Pitrus.

Losing Captain Jack and Jamison's Bobcats is indeed no longer an advantage.

There is also the local media in Charlotte who cares about the bobcats, and at this time, they also discovered another more important problem-

In 20 games in January, Li Ke scored 29.3 points, but after these 11 games in February, Li Ke's average score has increased to 30.6 points.

"Sheldon averages 30.6 points per game, and Stephen averages 24.9 points per game, we are overdrawing Sheldon and Stephen!"

Charlotte Observer shouted!

At this time, Rivers, who had realized it later, discovered the problem.

"We really rely too much on Sheldon and Stephen's scoring on the offensive end. They have to be fully fired in every game. This is still the regular season. If we switch to the playoffs..."

Rivers thought of the game they had with the Bulls not long ago.

The Bulls' defense completely restricted the Bobcats' positional offense. The Bobcats had to hand over the ball to Li Ke and Curry again and again, allowing Li Ku to continue to play singles.

This is still the regular season. If it is the playoffs, the defensive intensity of all teams will be improved. At that time, if you overuse Li Ke and Curry like this, the problem will be very serious.

"So, what we should consider is to find a scorer to share their pressure?"

The first thing Rivers thinks of is trading.

Nowadays, except for Li Ke and Curry, bobcats are full of various tool people.

Passing tool guy junior, defense tool guy Tucker, center tool guy Jordan, substitute (not) tool guy Hua second, three-point tool guy Channing Fry, and dribble tool guy Byron Davis...

But only Wesley Matthews, who has made good progress, can stand out from the main score.

If the transaction is made, send Captain Jack away, who has a severe decline, and return to another top sixth man, the Bobcats' offensive crisis will be resolved.

The operation is not difficult. After all, the Bobcats are a weirdo in the NBA team. They are building a draft pick and have sufficient draft picks. They can completely get a draft pick and go back for a six-year-old.

In this way, Li Ke went to the All-Stars and Rivers found Boss Qiao.

...

This season, Li Ke and Boss Qiao have less communication.

Labor-management negotiations are only one aspect, but not meeting much during the shutdown is another aspect.

More importantly, the Bobcats, who are already the defending champion, do not have the need to make big fuss on the lineup.

Especially for Captain Jack, who is also a player, Li Ke is not suitable and not convenient to stand up and say: This guy has declined too much, so trade him!

Simply put, the main core who wins the championship is still a little privileged.

As the head coach, Rivers doesn't think so. Whoever is a genius will get out of here, and no one has the privilege.

A privileged person is cheating on him as the head coach.

The Magic and Celtics coaching experience made Rivers stick to this.

He found Boss Qiao, but Boss Qiao refused the deal.

"Don't think too much about Doug, the trade in a shrinking season is too difficult, you should understand that."

In the shrinking season, most teams will hold on to their assets and will not trade easily, because there are too few games and slight changes will have huge impacts.

Therefore, the Bobcat wants to exchange Captain Jack for a new organizational core, only bleeding is possible.

Lao Qiao felt that the bobcat's condition was not as critical as it had to bleed.

Therefore, he shook his head, although he did not refuse, and even said that he would find some possible teams to discuss.

Rivers understood that trading is basically impossible.

Without a deal, all Rivers can do is tap the potential inside.

He struggled and thought about the solution.

...

On the other hand, Li Ke has already arrived in Orlando with Curry and his junior brother.

This season, the Magic forced sparks, one because of the shrinking season, and the other is related to this All-Star Weekend held in Orlando.

This All-Star Weekend, as the host's magic, you still need a leader to support the storefront.

On the All-Star Weekend of the shrinking season, the Bobcats are still not involved.

Sophomore Lance Stephenson participated in the rookie match, Curry once again played in the skills match, and Li Ke and Curry played in the All-Star Game.

Apart from that, there is no Bobcat.

The league's schedule remains unchanged for the All-Star Weekend in the shrinking season.

Li Ke felt it was boring. In the boring situation, he still felt the difference between this all-star class.

Just look at the roster of the All-Star Game-

The starter in the East is Rose, Li Ke, Lebang, Guagua and Sparks, and the starter in the West is Cannon Brother, Kobe, Xiao Du, and Ji Lifen and returned from injury. A contract of 11 was left in Houston's Yao.

In the starting list, the appearance of Ji Lifen is the biggest difference.

Secondly, Yao Yao made a comeback, and the data of 1492 is very average, but at least, after losing weight, he healthyly finished half of the game of the shrinking season, which is enough.

The most important thing is the substitute list. Turtles and Jiba appeared in the substitute lineup of the Eastern Army, and Daluo and Harden also appeared in the substitute lineup of the Western Army.

Young players of Li Ke's generation have fully invaded the All-Star Weekend.

Times are changing...

On the first day of the All-Star Game, the rookie competition is finally no longer in the first and second grade teams.

Sharks, who resigned to comment after retirement, served as the head coach with Barkley. Through a series of selections, the two teams were selected to fight.

The junior brother who was selected to Shaq played soy sauce, and the No. 1 pick Irving scored 34 points, leading the team to win, and winning the rookie MVP trophy.

Unlike his previous life, Irving, who joined the Heat, received guidance from a famous teacher (Part Riley).

Compared to his previous life, he knew better how to lead the team to win, rather than a fancy crossover.

The military training pair between him and Jamison also played a very outstanding cooperation.

In order to give Irving more playing time and ball rights, Pat Riley even sent Fei Dun away at a low price in the middle of the season.

Looking at the Heat's Irving, the Pistons' Turtles, the Nets' Gibbs, and the Wizards' John Wall, the East will not be weaker in the near future.

"If I leave, maybe I should try it in the West..."

After watching this rookie match, Li Ke thought so.

On the second day of the All-Stars, Curry played soy sauce again in the skills competition, and Tony Parker won the championship.

The three-point contest was the league's new star Love won the championship. In the end, Jeremy Evans won the dunk contest with the slam dunk contest.

In the last day of the All-Star Game, the emergence of new stars and the weak physical fitness of the shrinking season, almost all the old players were paddling, including Li Ke, who were not interested in this MVP trophy.

In this case, this All-Star Game can only become a battle between new stars.

Curry joined forces with Turtle to fight Du Jia Harden. In this scene, Li Ke, who was sitting off the court to rest, felt very magical.

The stars' acting skills are also very good. A game that should have been without suspense was delayed until the last second.

Xiao Du's three-pointer win helped the Western Conference take away the victory of the game.

Xiao Du, who scored 36 points, also won the Amvp trophy.

07 The two stars of the longhorn bull are moving forward step by step...

...

After ending this all-star weekend with nothing, Li Ke, Curry and his junior brother returned to Charlotte not far away to continue the regular season competition.

The Bobcats made changes in the first game after the All-Star Weekend

"We should now focus on the defensive end, Bickstaff, introduce our defensive arrangements!"

Bickstaff, who is familiar to domestic fans, is the future "genius" head coach who coached the Rockets.

But as an assistant coach, especially a defensive assistant coach, he is still a top-notch presence.

After some arrangement on the defensive end, the Bobcats players had a rough understanding of a systematic joint defense formation.

Then he appeared and faced the Knicks who were waiting for him at home.

This game is very important to Li Ke. As long as he disgusted Guagua, he could copy a skill from Guagua again, or directly improve the low-post offensive skills he obtained from Guagua.

But from the beginning of the game, Li Ke was taciturn and silent.

Even if Guagua and Atai took turns provoking, he would not respond.

It was like, he suddenly changed his temperament.

Li Ke just output silently, and then quietly hit a high score of 47 points.

With just two waves of outbreaks, he slaughtered Madison.

In the commentary seat of TNT, Reggie Miller and Jeff Van Gundy cheered Li Ke.

On the court, the Bobcats players surrounded Li Ke like a star.

Li Ke pointed at Guagua and extended a downward thumb.

"He is far from my opponent in the competition for the scoring champion!"

Guagua's face turned red, and Li Ke also received a notification from the system.
Chapter completed!