NBA Opening Draw To Twilight Shaquille O’Neal: Chapter 719 3 consecutive victories
Among the players of the Pelicans, Wang Zelin is most concerned about Jimmy Butler.
Butler, who just ended his rookie contract, was traded to the Pelicans, and signed a new five-year contract worth 100 million yuan with the Pelicans management, becoming another NBA billionaire.
Of course, in addition to signing a big contract, Butler is happy that he has finally become the absolute boss of an NBA team.
In fact, since Butler gradually grew up last season and became an all-around small forward with an average of about 20+5+3+1 per game, the outside world often reported Butler's intention to grab the team leader, and later even with the team. Some of the players were conflicted.
However, the Bulls are Rose's team after all.
Even though Rose has been on and off for the past two or three seasons, this cannot reduce the love of Chicago fans for this rose.
Until this summer, when the Bulls reported that they were going to make a two-way deal with the Pelicans, Butler became the first main player to be put on the shelf.
After a brief moment of anger, Butler was more relieved.
There is no place to stay here, but a place to stay!
It is also adhering to this idea that Butler can be regarded as promoting the team's transaction, and finally successfully changed the club. Now he has a big contract and a tactical position.
Although he just joined the Tigers and played a few games, Butler found a long-lost sense of belonging.
From now on, he will fight for himself!
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During the warm-up session between the two sides before the game, Wang Zelin took the initiative to say hello to Butler, the two chatted casually, and then separated.
Before leaving, Wang Zelin specifically checked Butler's player evaluation, which was a full 85, which reached the standard of the All-Star level.
Since last season, Butler's strength has basically entered the peak period, the regular season 20+5+3 playoffs 22+5+4, and what's even more commendable is that Butler is a star with excellent offense and defense.
Perhaps Butler's talent is destined to prevent him from becoming the leader of the championship team, but if he just lives with the Pelicans, his strength is enough, at least he has the possibility of leading the team to the playoffs.
As for the other Pelicans players, Eric Gordon scored 83, Josh Smith scored 81, Jrue Holiday scored 79, Perkins scored 71...
I don't know why, the more I watch the Pelicans, the more Wang Zelin has a sense of seeing the Grizzlies.
After carefully looking at the abilities of the opponent's core players, he finally realized that in the current starting lineup of the Pelicans, except for Perkins, who has little defensive skills due to his age, whether it is Butler, Smith or Huo Ledy, the defense can definitely be called a defensive champion. Gordon's defense is also above the same level of position, which is enough to cover up the disadvantages of insufficient interior defense.
No wonder he felt like he was watching the Grizzlies.
From the perspective of paper strength, the Pelicans can try to take the line of iron and blood defense. They have the potential to become another "shit stick" in the West after the Grizzlies.
After the game started, the battle was more intense than the opening game. Gordon and Butler played very bravely against a strong opponent. They scored 31 points in the first half, the former scored 14 points, and the latter scored 17 points.
After halftime, the Pelicans were only 6 points behind the Trail Blazers.
But in the third quarter, the Trail Blazers suddenly increased their defensive intensity. As the core boss, Wang Zelin took the lead in defense, and the Pelicans couldn't continue to score all of a sudden.
In this quarter, the Blazers beat the Pelicans 28:12, directly opening the point difference to 20 points.
In the end, they also defeated the Pelicans 112 to 94, winning two consecutive victories in the regular season.
With two consecutive victories, especially two big victories, the Trail Blazers once again played as invincible as they did at the beginning of last season.
On the second day, the Trail Blazers continued to sit at home to usher in the game against the Suns.
The Suns, like the Pelicans, did not make the playoffs last season, but the difference is that although the Pelicans let go of Davis this summer, they also got a good bargaining chip and still have the ability to hit the playoffs. race hope.
But the Suns, relatively speaking, seem to have a lot of salty fish.
The biggest piece of news for the Suns this summer is probably the former DOPY and former champion main center "Boxing Champion" Tyson Chandler was poached from the trading market with a four-year contract of 52 million yuan.
After Chandler returned to the Mavericks last season, he has paid a lot of attention. He almost supported the Mavericks' inside defense. He played 75 times throughout the season and scored 10.3 points, 11.5 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.2 blocks. The shooting rate reached 66.6%. .
However, at the end of the season, in the battle for the final spot in the playoffs, the Mavericks finally regretted losing to the Lakers. In Wuyuan's playoffs last season, all Mavericks fans were disappointed with the team's hard work throughout the year.
Perhaps it's time for the Mavericks to rebuild!
When the reconstruction plan was determined, the old Chandler became the first to be abandoned.
The reason is simple, because the Mavericks already have another young man with great potential, former Trail Blazers player Adams. Between the choice between "Boxing King" and "Sea King", the Mavericks management chose the latter as expected. By.
This is also the reason why the one-year champion of the Mavericks turned to his team in anger. In the end, Chandler came to the Suns based on the principle of the highest price.
However, in addition to the introduction of Chandler, the Suns management now has no bright deals.
Considering that the young guard selected by the Suns with the 13th pick in the first round this year has shown good potential both in the summer league and in the preseason, if nothing else, the Suns will be poor this year. year.
First battle in November.
The opponent was the underdog Suns in the West. The Trail Blazers completely suppressed the Suns with their excellent defense. This game was even easier than the previous two games.
Devin Booker, who was expected by Phoenix fans~www.mtlnovel.com~ was completely lost tonight. His personal data dropped from 14 points, 3 rebounds and 1 steal in the previous game to today's 2 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist. Called a cliff-like decline.
"Wang, are we going too far, after all, he is still a child!"
Tonight, Batum, who was in charge of defending Devin Booker, looked at Sun 1, who was already devastated at this time, at the end of the game, and suddenly felt a little guilty in his heart.
"Really? How can I remember saying that you had the happiest time playing?"
Wang Zelin gave Batum a playful look, and the latter smiled awkwardly, then turned his head and walked towards his new friend Batum.
In this game, the Trail Blazers was another game of soaring points, 119 to 90. The Trail Blazers defeated the Suns lightly, and won very smoothly, starting with three consecutive victories.
Wang Zelin scored a game-high 32 points tonight, plus 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal.
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