Chapter 652 Lesson Bowen

   At 7:30 p.m. on the 28th, the two sides announced the starting list.

  Suns: Wang Tiejun, Kenyon Martin, Zhu Fangyu, Josh Howard, Jason Williams

  Spurs: Milicic, Luol Deng, Bruce Bowen, Ginobili, Tony Parker

   The Spurs, a team in one of the league's smallest markets, don't have many live broadcasts across the United States, and this one didn't.

   That is, local TV stations will buy the regional broadcast rights of some games, and the rights are also sold very cheaply.

   As for which games to buy, of course it depends on the influence of the visiting team. For example, the opponent is the popular Suns team, so of course I bought it.

  The average ticket price for the Spurs is only a few dollars, but the attendance rate is not high, and it all depends on the visiting team to sell tickets. The home team is not as attractive as the visiting team.

  Not bad today, the Spurs management is very happy, the Suns are visiting, and 80% of the tickets are sold.

   It was almost eight o'clock, Lao Wang led four teammates to the player tunnel, and the Spurs had already arrived.

   "Old K." Ginobili and others greeted quickly.

   "Hi there."

   Lao Wang looked at the five with a smile and asked, "I've always been curious, who is the boss of this team?"

   Several people froze and shook their heads. Tony Parker said, "Old K, we don't have a boss. The Spurs are a team team."

  Pharaoh nodded thoughtfully.

  After David Robinson left the Spurs, he no longer paid attention to this team, but now, he has to pay attention to this young team again.

He looked at a few more people, and when he saw Bruce Bowen, he suddenly pointed at him, and said to Zhu Fangyu and the others: "Be careful, especially you, Zhu Fangyu, you must be careful when you are facing him, and you must be careful when jumping." , don't let him step on his feet, he likes to do that."

   Bowen was stunned, his mind was a little confused, he didn't know what old K wanted to do.

  My family knew about my family affairs, and Ginobili and the others lowered their heads in embarrassment.

At this time, Lao Wang continued: "In 2003, Vince Carter was stepped on by him, and then the UFO could not fly. Then he stepped on Carter again last year, and the third time a few days ago. Destroy Carter."

   "Brother, what should I do if he cheats on me?" Zhu Fangyu asked cooperatively.

  Old Wang looked at Bo Wen coldly and said, "It doesn't matter, if he loses one of your feet, I'll lose both of his feet."

  Bowen's face changed, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Old K, I never did that on purpose, it was all a coincidence, did you say so?"

"Say?"

  Old Wang shook his head and said, "No, no, no, I can only do it. If you don't believe me, ask the postman."

  The corners of Bowen's eyes twitched, he lowered his head angrily, and retreated to the wall.

  Old Wang glanced at Ginobili and others warningly again, and warned: "Don't make any crooked moves on my team, otherwise you will have nothing good to eat."

   Milicic swallowed dryly, took a step back, feeling unsafe, took another step, and stuck to the wall.

Rookie Luol Deng also turned pale. Facing the No. 1 player in the league, the No. 1 man in history, and the No. 1 villain in the league, he was under too much psychological pressure. There was nothing wrong with him. His forehead was already sweating. Like Milicic, he retreated to the corner.

  Under Lao Wang's forceful persecution, Ginobili and Tony Parker also nodded helplessly.

Lao Wang pointed at Bowen again, and said with a serious expression: "That is to say, I am now young and kind, and in the past, I would be the same as I dealt with the postman, first destroy you, and put an end to the danger of my teammates. "

   Bowen was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his head, he lowered his head and didn't dare to cheat.

   "Boy, I don't want to trouble you, do you think I am very kind now?" Lao Wang suddenly approached Bowen and asked.

   "..."

  Being approached by Old K's big murderous face, Bowen was so frightened that he leaned against the wall and forgot to answer.

"Snapped!"

  Old Wang slapped Bowen's cap suddenly, causing Bowen to fall headfirst on the floor, hit his face on the floor, and nosebleeds gushed out immediately.

   "What the hell, if you don't answer, you don't admit it. You think I'm not kind? How can I not be kind?"

   "Old K?" Ginobili shouted hastily.

"What are you afraid of? Will such a kind person like me beat him? I'm swat flies on him, and there are flies on his head. Also, I'm teaching him how to play, clean the ball, don't be so late In the evening, I only know how to play dirty balls." Old Wang said angrily.

   "Brother, come on stage." Zhu Fangyu whispered from behind.

"coming."

   In response, Lao Wang stared at Bowen on the floor and cursed: "Boy, I can tell you clearly that I am targeting you. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the alliance about me."

   After speaking, he brought his teammates out.

   "Bruce, are you okay?"

   Ginobili and the others looked at each other, and had no choice but to pull Bowen up.

   "You also know that I didn't want to defend like this. I didn't defend like this. I wouldn't even have the chance to play." Bowen said with a frustrated and wronged face.

   "Wipe the blood first."

   "What now, do you want to appeal?"

   "What's the appeal? Old K's influence in the league is greater now than before. The **** of basketball touted by the league can only be suspended for a few games at most. Instead, we will offend him to death."

"never mind."

   Several people said a few words in a hurry, and then they came out.

  Popovich saw Bowen's appearance, his nose was hurt, and the blood on his face hadn't been wiped off, so he knew what happened, and asked with a straight face: "Bruce, what's wrong with you?"

   "It's okay, I just tripped in the locker room and fell to the ground." Bowen shook his head.

"be careful."

  Popovich didn't think much about it, there were too many people injured for no reason in the locker room.

  At eight o'clock, the game begins.

  Ball jumps, Spurs attack.

   Milicic is in the low position on the left wing.

  Trained under Popovich for a year, this handsome guy has not yet developed mid-range and long-range shooting abilities, but he has a good low-post attack.

  He is very flexible, 213 centimeters, but very fast. Now in the second season, Popovich is developing his mid-range shooting ability.

  In the last season, that is, the rookie season, he served as the main center of the Spurs, averaging 35 minutes per game, averaging 14.5 points and 6.6 rebounds per game, and shooting 50.5% from the field.

   Right wing, Ginobili began to break through.

His Eurostep is different from Wade's. Wade is a violent Eurostep that combines speed and strength. His Eurostep breakthrough is not as fast or violent as Wade's. The speed is slower, but it is full of more changes. Snaking positions, when Wade breaks through, the defender can predict which side his center of gravity is on, but when he breaks through, the defender can't see which side his center of gravity is at all.

  Looking left and right, Ginobili easily broke through Josh Howard, and then snaked again to avoid Kenyon Martin, who was supplementing the defense, and entered the paint area.

  Milicic hasn’t grown up yet, while Ginobili and Tony Parker have grown up. They are very powerful in breakthroughs and three-pointers. The Spurs are now an outside team, so the Suns play a three-two defense.

  Zhu Fangyu in the middle quickly defended downwards, blocking Ginobili two meters away from the right front side of the basket.

   Ginobili twisted his body to the left, but just as Zhu Fangyu was about to move up, his body suddenly twisted in the opposite direction, and his whole body was twisted into a twisted shape.

"Snapped!"

  After avoiding Zhu Fangyu, Ginobili picked the basket with a backhand. As soon as the ball was released, it was confiscated by Lao Wang, the last rim protector of the Suns, before it reached the peak.

  The Spurs quickly returned to defense, and the Suns attacked.

  Pharaoh came to the low position on the left wing, caught the ball and hit Milicic with his back.

   Milicic used to have black hair, but he dyed it blond a long time ago. His confrontation ability is not bad, but he dares not to fight Lao Wang hard. As soon as Lao Wang started back-up, he began to retreat, and retreated to the basket as soon as he retreated.

  Rookie Luol Deng hurriedly came over from the weak side to help defend, but at this time Lao Wang had already turned around and dunked Milicic. He flew from the side to block the shot, but his jumping ability was average and he couldn't reach the height of Lao Wang's shots.

"boom!"

   Under the strong dunk, Milicic was dunked directly to the basket, and Luol Deng's hand also hit Lao Wang's right forearm.

   "Beep!"

  The referee's whistle blew.

   "Dako, be tougher, be more confident, you can guard him." Popovich's roar sounded from the sidelines.

   Milicic got up from the floor panting and nodded towards Popovich.

Popovich didn't ask Milicic to hard-top the old K. He knew that such a defense would not work. The whole league, that is, O'Neal has that kind of tonnage to hard-top the old K. Others hard-top the old K. Only one was knocked down. result.

  He is very satisfied with Milicic's talent and potential, but he doesn't like the character of this young man. He is not too courageous, a little submissive, and he doesn't have the willpower to fight. He is not the kind of person with strong self-confidence.

Over the past year, in addition to technical and physical training, he has also been using various methods to strengthen Milicic's psychological quality, such as doing some psychological training, which has changed a lot, but facing the old K, his psychological quality is still the same. Not strong enough.

  The psychological quality is not strong enough. Under the terrifying attack of old K, he will be easily defeated. This is not what he wants.

   "Lol, your help defense needs to be faster and get in place first, understand?" He shouted at Lol Deng again.

   "Understood, sir."

  Lol Deng, who ran up the field, replied respectfully and loudly.

Popovich is still very satisfied with the Luol Deng he selected this time. The draft template of Luol Deng is Grant Hill. His offensive and defensive skills are not bad, and his rebounding ability is also good. The frontal basket protection ability is insufficient, but it is enough as a power forward.

The only thing I don't like is that Luol Deng's personality is a bit like Grant Hill's. He is a bit more gentlemanly. He prefers players like Bowen. Power forwards need to do dirty work, but now the two insiders are not good at doing dirty work. .

  In this game, he didn't want to win. He just hoped that Milicic and Luol Deng could compete with the league's No. 1 player, Old K, to hone them and gain experience.

   Now that Ginobili and Parker have grown up, the team still focuses on the perimeter. He hopes that Milicic and Luol Deng can grow up as soon as possible.

He is still satisfied with the current main lineup. The only pity is that Milicic should not have the potential to become a cornerstone, so the Spurs can't play the Suns, Trail Blazers, and Nets' traditional center. Mainly, like the previous Bulls, with the guard as the core.

  In this game, Lao Wang only played 30 minutes, clocked in three quarters, missed the final quarter, scored 32 points, and hit 80% of the shots. The second-year Milicic and the rookie Luol Deng were completely overwhelmed by him.

  Although Ginobili and Tony Parker tried their best and scored 38 points together, they couldn't keep up with the disadvantage of the inside line and lost the game.

Although he didn't want to win, Popovich was more or less disappointed. The gap inside was too big. Although the Spurs are now third in the Western Conference, the gap with the Suns, which is second in the Western Conference, is not just a gap in position. Once they meet in the playoffs, under the full play of old K, the Spurs have no resistance at all.

   This game made him realize that the current Spurs are not on the same level as the Suns. Old K alone can make the Suns a strong team in the playoffs, but the Spurs can't. There is no final decision.

  When he thought of the person who made the final decision, he thought of Tim Duncan. Since the Blazers got Duncan, they have become a championship-level team and have never missed the Western Conference Finals. If the Spurs got Duncan...

  "If I use Milicic and Luol Deng to trade Duncan, will the Blazers be willing?"

  He suddenly had this idea, and he couldn't erase it anymore.

  …

  After playing the Spurs, the Suns rushed to New Orleans overnight, and tomorrow they will play back-to-back against the Hornets.

The Charlotte Hornets have no hope of development in the important town of the NCAA. They moved to New Orleans in 2002 and became the New Orleans Hornets. It has been two seasons, but the results are not bad. After moving, they have reached the playoffs for two consecutive years. .

  But the core of the team, Baron Davis, only played 18 games this season, and entered the injury list because of a heel tendon injury.

   "Old K."

   After Pharaoh appeared on the stage, Baron Davis, who was sitting in the auditorium, got up and said hello.

   "Byron, isn't the injury serious?"

   "It's okay, I need to rest for a while."

Lao Wang noticed that Baron Davis looked unhappy, and his face was not very good, and asked: "Is there something wrong? You are not injured, the team is going to trade you? It's not a tendon rupture, there is something wrong with the contusion." What matters?"

  Byron Davis smiled bitterly: "Our team's economy is so bad that we even sold our future draft picks. My contract is huge, and they are going to sell me now."

"what?"

  Old Wang was taken aback.

  He never thought that a team's operations could be so miserable.

  He patted Davis on the shoulder and comforted: "In this case, then leave and leave, it should be a good thing for you."

  The bearded man nodded, but his expression was still somewhat frustrated and helpless.

  Although it was back-to-back, the Hornets did not have the number one combat power of Baron Davis, and their strength dropped sharply. The Suns still won consecutive victories.

   After playing this game, the Suns ended all the regular season in 2004 and returned to Phoenix the next day.

   On January 1, 2005, the league announced the latest MVP rankings.

  The Suns have 22 wins and 7 losses, the same record as the Trail Blazers, but the Suns lost to the Trail Blazers, so they are second in the West.

   However, Lao Wang's personal data is much higher than Duncan's, so he still ranks first in the MVP rankings.

  From this point of view, the league no longer suppressed him.

  Below him is Duncan, and the third is Nash.

  After two months of running-in, the Knicks' record has become better and better, and they have reached the top of the Eastern Conference. Nash has entered the top five MVP rankings for the first time by virtue of his performance averaging 16 points and 11 assists per game.

   Seeing the third Nash, Lao Wang said that the effect of Nash leaving the Suns for the Knicks is quite obvious. At least he stays by his side, and I am afraid that this day will never happen.

  The fourth is Eastern O'Neal.

   Fifth is Nowitzki.

  The sixth is Dayao

  The seventh is LeBron James of the Cavaliers.

   "I X!"

  When he saw the seventh place, Lao Wang was a little surprised.

The Cavaliers are now eighth in the Eastern Conference and may not have a chance to make it to the playoffs. James averaged 27.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 2.2 steals, 0.7 blocks, 3.3 turnovers, and 1.8 fouls. important data to consider.

   "It seems that Stern has abandoned the four major shooting guards and turned to favor the No. 1 pick. However, LeBron James is indeed full of talent. This is only the second season, and he should become one of the strongest people in the league in the future."

   On this day, the league also announced the start of the All-Star voting, which will last for four weeks.

   In the afternoon, the Suns flew to Portland.

   On the 2nd, for the purpose of honing the lineup and young people, Lao Wang didn't make a full shot. The Suns lost to the Trail Blazers again in the away game, and they sat firmly in the second place in the Western Conference.

   On the 3rd, Trail Blazers general manager Bob Whithit suddenly received a call from Spurs general manager Popovich.

  The Spurs hope to use Milicic and Luol Dunn to trade Duncan. One is the No. 2 pick in 2003 and the other is the No. 1 pick in 2004. For the No. 1 pick in 1997, it will definitely not suffer a loss in terms of the lottery.

But Whithit refused. Although Duncan is 28 years old, his state has been stable for ten years, and he is still the same as his rookie season. Using such a cornerstone to trade two rookies who have not yet played, he will not do it. Such a stupid thing.

  Of course, if another two years pass, he can consider trading. At that time, Duncan will be 30 years old, and he should also enter the late stage of his career.

   On the 4th, the Suns defeated the Timberwolves in an away game. On the 5th, they accidentally lost to the Mosaic team in back-to-back.

   At noon on the 6th, the team came to Los Angeles, and Kobe took Lao Wang home for lunch.

   "Kobe, your ability to lead the team is not good, you are twelfth in the West, what, you are going to fight for the No. 1 pick?" Old Wang joked.

   "The lineup is not good, our center is not even qualified to help you, what can I do?" Kobe said angrily.

   Speaking of this, he suddenly said: "Old K, tell Yao to come and help me?"

   "He came here, do you think you and he can beat me, do you think it is possible? You two **** were taught by me, I can blow you up with one hand." Old Wang said disdainfully.

   "Just play! You are almost 32 years old, how long can you play?" Kobe said angrily.

   "Let's talk about it in two years. He still has a two-year contract. After finishing this contract, I will let him come to help you." Old Wang said.

   "It's a deal." Kobe said quickly.

  Although there are still two seasons left, it is better than no hope. The current center in the league, besides O'Neal, is Yao.

  (end of this chapter)