Chapter 244 Against the Rockets (Part 1)
After the Bobcats defeated the Knicks at home, they have won 15 consecutive victories.
This is second to none of all teams in the NBA league this year.
In fact, the Bobcats have inadvertently broken a record, which is the highest winning streak in the start of the game.
However, they have not reached the winning streak over the entire season.
In the history of the league, many teams have maintained good form for a period of time, and of course they also have a favorable schedule, thus achieving a long winning streak.
The longest winning streak of the Lakers during the 1971-72 season was the Lakers who won 33 consecutive victories. In the 1972-72 season, the Lakers wrote the myth of 33 consecutive victories. From November 5, 1971 to January 9, 1972, they did not lose a game, and finally achieved the best record of the league of the season 69 wins and 13 losses, and finally won the championship. The Lakers' winning streak was the longest winning streak in the four major professional leagues in the United States. At that time, the team had four Hall of Famers, Gale Goodridge, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, but Baylor announced his retirement before the team started a 33-game winning streak.
The second longest winning streak has something to do with Yao Ming. It was the 2007-08 season. The Houston Rockets, who owned Yao Ming and McGrady, were in a very brave state. They created a magical 22 consecutive wins between January 29 and March 18. Yao Ming was injured and suspended after the team won 11 consecutive victories. However, the Rockets, with a disorganized lineup, still won consecutive victories under the leadership of McGrady. Their feat shocked the league. The Rockets entered the playoffs with a record of 55 wins and 27 losses that season, but were eliminated by the Utah Jazz in the first round.
In addition, the Milwaukee Bucks won 20 consecutive victories in the 1970-1971 season; from November 5 to December 25 of the 2008-2009 season, the defending champion Boston Celtics won 19 consecutive victories; in the 1999-2000 season, O'Neal and Kobe led the Lakers to 19 consecutive victories. In fact, they also completed a 16 consecutive victories and an 11 consecutive victories that season. In the end, the Lakers embarked on the playoffs with a record of 67 wins and 15 losses, and finally started the team's first three consecutive victories.
Today's Bobcats have achieved 15 consecutive victories, not far from 20 consecutive victories. If they keep this momentum and break the 20 consecutive victories, they can enter the top three consecutive victories in history.
Now, Bobcats fans, as well as Chinese fans, are thinking about how to break the league's highest winning streak.
The other 29 teams were thinking about how to end the Bobcats' winning streak.
Because no one wants to be a footnote to other people's winning streaks.
Among these teams is the Houston Rockets.
On the evening of November 27, the Bobcats will face the Rockets' challenge at home.
This year's Houston Rockets are unfavorable.
After using Yao Ming and Badinger to Wallace and Dior to trade, the Rockets looked like they had many soldiers and widespread generals, and seemed to have very strong combat power.
The inside players include Chuck Hayes, Louis Scola, Brad Miller, Dior, Jordan Hill, Patrick Patterson, and Jared Jeffries.
The small forwards include Wallace and Sean Bathir.
The defenders have super scorers Kevin Martin, Aaron Brooks, Kyle Lowry, Cootney Lee, Jermaine Taylor and Ismail Smith.
In terms of personnel configuration, it can be said that it is both offensive and defensive.
But things went against my wishes. I have only achieved a record of 4 wins and 10 losses.
The old coach Adelman has been worried. Even a tactical master like him doesn't seem to know how to use these players well.
Especially his own small forward troops, it can be said that they have a good configuration. Almost everyone can start on other teams.
However, there is always no real chemical reaction between these players.
Adelman has always been known as a civilian coach. He can easily discover the role of role players. His team is often a musketeer. Even Hayes, who could only defend before, was trained by him to support and score points.
However, Adelman has to admit that he had always believed that the team did not need privileged players to lead players, which seems not to work on this Rockets.
Since trading McGrady and Yao Ming was injured again, the Rockets seem to have lost their souls.
Wallace, who Morey has high expectations, is the leader of the Bobcats, but when it comes to this Rockets, he cannot play the role of a core player.
Because Wallace is introverted and has no say in the locker room. In the battle, he is unable to truly integrate into the team and cannot lead the team to victory.
It's very simple. After the Rockets lost Yao Ming and McGrady, just from the scoring point of view, they can now be said to be Martin's team.
But Martin has always been a player who focuses on offense and defensiveness, and he cannot get the true love of his teammates.
Brooks, Lowry, Scola, Battier, Hayes and others are all old people from the Rockets. In the past, they were all players who liked to defend.
In the locker room, Bathir and Hayes, the two captains, have the right to speak for the team.
On the court, Wallace's right to take action was pitifully small.
Because Adelman hopes that everyone will play Princeton's tactics, and more balls will be thrown, and whoever has a good chance will be shot. If everyone's chances are similar, Martin will be the first choice, Scola will be the second choice, and then Wallace will be ranked.
This is because Brooks is injured, and the starting guard is Lowry.
If Brooks was present, with his offensive ability and style, Wallace would have to become the fourth choice. That would be a complete blue-collar worker.
How could Wallace feel?
Wallace ran away from the Kings because he couldn't make a name for himself under Adelman, so he resolutely decided to go to the Bobcats to make a fortune. Unexpectedly, after a walk, he returned to Adelman's subordinates.
It’s all for the damn Chinese rookie Jiang Jun!
Although Wallace is not the kind of person who is particularly stingy and holding grudges, he is still worried about Jiang Jun's pushing him away.
After all, he scored a good situation with the Bobcats. Now that it is the Rockets, it seems that they are going to start over again.
So, tonight, Wallace was holding his breath and he wanted to take revenge!
He wants to prove to the Bobcats that giving up on him is not the right choice, although the Bobcats are playing very well now.
Time flies. Bobcats fans arrive at the scene early. Every home game night, the Bobcats' stadium is always full.
The home team that won consecutive victories bring happiness and joy to everyone. The team is so powerful that fans cannot help but express it.
The Rockets just defeated the Golden State Warriors in a game two days ago.
Tonight, their starting lineup is Hayes, Scola, Wallace, Martin, and Lowry.
Adelman has always been hesitant between Battier and Wallace. In recent games, he sometimes started with Battier and sometimes started with Wallace.
Like today when he played against the Bobcats, he decided to use Wallace because he was more familiar with the stadium and Brown's tactics.
When the host introduced the players, as soon as he heard Wallace, the home fans immediately burst into warm applause.
Because Wallace led the team to the playoffs for the first time in his history last year, it can be said that he made great contributions to the team.
Moreover, Wallace's desperate style and tenacious and competitive personality are also loved by fans.
Although NBA is a business, the relationship between fans and players is still very deep.
This touched Wallace and was a little proud.
However, when introducing the home players, Jiang Jun was the first to play, and the fans thundered and the atmosphere throughout the game was extremely strong.
Only then did Wallace realize that Jiang Jun had completely conquered the hearts of fans in just a few months.
Compared to Jiang Jun, he was already at a disadvantage everywhere.
The Bobcats' starting lineup is Jiang Jun, Jackson, Bardinger, Thomas and Yao Ming.
In terms of substitute lineup, Kwame Brown returned from injury, but Diop was injured after the last game and entered the daily observation list.
The Rockets' Dior has only returned from injury in the last two games, and he is still valued by Adelman. In the last game against the Warriors, Dior scored 16 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists, showing good condition.
As the two teams made big deals, many players were familiar with it.
Yao Ming Badinger greeted his original coach and Rockets teammates, while Wallace and Dior also greeted Brown and the original Bobcats.
However, Jiang Jun and Carol, two people who came from the Mavericks, were selected and ignored by everyone. Especially Wallace, he didn't even look at Jiang Jun.
Jiang Jun felt Wallace's hostility, but he didn't care. This stubborn Japanese devil was quite capable of holding grudges.
Unfortunately, after a while, he will be greeted with failure.
Both sides jump the ball.
Yao Ming and Hayes jumped the ball, one tall and the other short, and looked very funny.
Hayes, the Rockets' two inside players, was too short, only 1.98 meters, and Scola could not jump at all.
So no matter who the two of them jumped the ball with Yao Ming, they would definitely lose. The Rockets arranged for Hayes to jump the ball according to the center position.
Yao Ming jumped only 20 cm away from the ground, but Hayes simply didn't jump. Yao Ming transferred the ball to Jiang Jun.
Lowry pushed up, his figure was very solid.
Jiang Jun has watched Rockets games before, and he still loves this little cannon very much.
However, Lowry wanted to challenge Jiang Jun. In his opinion, Jiang Jun was thin and not tall. Who would have thought that he would beat so well?
I heard that among the All-Stars this year, he is expected to be the starter of the Eastern Conference. This has aroused Lowry's competitive spirit.
He felt that he could use his strong body to stop Jiang Jun from performing.
But Lowry soon discovered that he was wrong, and was ridiculously wrong.
Because every time he stepped forward to confront Jiang Jun, he found that he could not gain the upper hand.
Jiang Jun either avoided it lightly or head-on.
Lowry was surprised to find that Jiang Jun's strength was even greater than that of him.
After several times when the two collided, Lowry felt like he was unstable.
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