Chapter three hundred and sixty seventh: Trail Blazers' ten-game winning streak
In the o3o4 season, defeating the Lakers' winning Pistons with a total score of 4 to yi in the finals is definitely Anjie's favorite team.
The Pistons Five Tigers’ iron-blooded defense and team-first concept are very similar to Anjie’s understanding of basketball. People may think that the Pistons in that year were a veritable "grassroots champion", but in Anjie’s view, the Pistons in that year were actually all superstars!
However, the current Detroit Pistons' connection with the champion team that year may be just the team name.
Their traditional iron-blooded defense has disappeared, and the excellent teamwork seems very unfamiliar. After winning the championship for so many years, the Pistons have no sign of upwardness except chaos.
Larry Brown was dissatisfied with his status and ran away. Ben Wallace, who won the best defensive player four times in five years, completely split with the team. Billups turned to the Nuggets, and Hamilton and Prince were old...
The Pistons, the originally hopeful team, must be completely pushed down and rebuilt. After several years of unsatisfactory, the Pistons' performance this year finally made people see hope.
Ranked ninth in the Eastern Conference, only 4 wins away from the 76ers, the eighth in the Eastern Conference. The Pistons' dream of returning to the playoffs is now so close to them. At this time, if anyone dares to stop them, no matter who it is, the Pistons will rise up and resist.
The sudden improvement of the Pistons is inseparable from the progress of the young players. Greg Monroe, the rookie No. 7 in 2oyio, seems to have become the next candidate for the Pistons' leader. In his rookie season, he can only average 9.4 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. However, after only one season, Monroe's data suddenly rose to 5.4 points and 9.7 rebounds! Such progress is definitely very huge.
This black insider does not rely on his body to play basketball. Like An Jie, he speaks more with his solid skills. Therefore, the showdown between him and An Jie should be very exciting today.
Another soul figure of the Pistons is Rodney Starkey. This guy has been an indispensable output point for the Pistons for several seasons. His performance this season is also stable, and he can average nearly 5 points per game for the team. For Felton, this guy's impact is also not something that Xiao Xu can do.
As expected, at the beginning of the game, the Trail Blazers felt the Pistons' determination to fight either you die or I live. They are only a step away from the playoffs, and they don't want to fall apart at the last step. Even the Trail Blazers, the Pistons will use all their strength to defeat them.
However, it was not Monroe or Starkey who was in the first place in this game. Instead, it had gradually faded out of people's sight. This game gave Gerald Wallace a Tyshaun Prince who was trying to show off.
Just as the game started, Prince used the turnover jump shot behind Gerald Wallace to score two points. Wallace had no intention of fighting with Prince at all. He thought that this old guy was just a transition, and he would definitely pass the ball in the end.
But Wallace paid the price for his idea. If anyone in this Pistons wants to return to the playoffs the most, it must be Prince who had experienced the glory!
Now he is very strong. When he won the championship, most people on this stadium didn’t know where to hang out!
So Prince used practical actions to teach Gerald Wallace a lesson, a rising man. He is indeed old, but it is not useless!
The Pistons' first offense was made by Prince's low post ability, while the Trail Blazers' first offense was made by Anjie's low post ability.
Like most rookie players, they only heard about the Butcher's name when they first entered the league, and because of Anjie's injury, they did not fight with this guy who only exists in the story.
But now, Monroe finally believes that those stories are true and unfair. Every rookie insider will be nervous before facing An Jie, and then despair.
Monroe, who is 2 meters tall, is more suitable to play power forward, but his inside partner is shorter, with only 2 meters tall, Jason Mark Hill. So Monroe had to withstand the pressure and was mentioned to the No. 5 position by Pistons coach Lawrence Frank.
Facing others, Monroe may be understandable to play the No. 5 position. But facing Anjie, who is 2.9 meters tall, Monroe's disadvantages are infinitely magnified.
When An Jie turned his back to him and asked for the ball, Monroe felt that the one standing in front of him was a high wall. All he could do was to support An Jie's waist and push out as much as possible. He could do nothing else!
Monroe's skills may be worthy of recognition, but the strength does need to be strengthened. Anjie even felt that the strength of this young man was not as great as that of Garnett's "old man".
An Jie easily leaned against Monroe and received a basketball that was hanging from the outside. He pushed it with a simple back and hooked it, and then cut two points on Monroe's head.
"It's so easy. Monroe can't put pressure on Anjie on the defensive end." Ke Fan from Sina live broadcast room looked at the screen and laughed. The dominance of this Chinese person cannot be shaken by just Monroe.
After Angelway, Aldridge also shone in the subsequent offense.
This low-key guy is the power forward with the best offensive ability in this league. It is only because of Anjie's high-profile and dazzling that people often ignore Aldridge's point.
Today, facing Mark Hill, who was ten centimeters shorter than him, Aldridge had no reason to restrain himself.
Mark Hill is very strong and amazing in playing. But his short figure and unremarkable arm span are there, which is a fact that no matter how hard he tries to do the day after tomorrow.
Aldridge just needs to wait for Angel to open up space for himself, and then he can play with the ball and turn over and jump shot.
When Aldridge shot, Mark Hill did block it quickly. But his height and wingspan made him unable to interfere with Aldridge's shooting rhythm at all.
After seeing Aldridge take action, Anger didn't even get a rebound. On the training ground, he saw that Aldridge shot tens of thousands of times like this. If he could make it, Anger could judge it by looking at Aldridge's shot.
The basketball elegantly slid through the air, and finally fell into the ball gently like a diving athlete. The process was very pleasing to the eye. Aldridge's shooting was so full of beauty.
When the basketball scored, the Trail Blazers used two backs from the left and right, yi five and four, completely declaring their dominance over the inside.
In the subsequent games, Mark Hill and Monroe were like living in hell. Angel and Aldridge could attack in exchange and score goals. What about the two inside players of the Pistons? They have completely become playthings for Angel and Aldridge.
Fortunately, Monroe's performance on the offensive end was pretty good. His empty cut running and support ability made An Jie look at the guy in front of him with admiration. But even so, Monroe still couldn't change the fact that he had been beaten up.
However, the turning point of the game appeared after the second team of the Trail Blazers came on. Today, the "strike" between Contney Lee and Jamal Crawford gave the Pistons a look of hope. Camby's slow pace also gave Monroe more room to survive.
The advantages established by Angel and Aldridge and others were lost to the Trail Blazers' second team.
After that, the whole game was going on at this rhythm. When Angel and Aldridge were on the court, the Pistons were very desperate. But when the Trail Blazers' second team came on the court, the Pistons saw hope.
In order to limit Angel, Lawrence Franka even replaced Ben Wallace, who was already 38 years old, and tried it. The attitude and experience of this best defensive player who was once glorious was indeed still there, but his health and strength were really unable to keep up.
Anjie fights him, even easier than fighting with Monroe. As long as you break through with your own speed, Ben Wallace will be stunned.
In the end, the Trail Blazers' second team was still not as fast as the Trail Blazers' second team, and the Trail Blazers beat the Pistons who had tried their best at home and won nine consecutive victories!
Tayshoen Prince scored 23 points in this game, but Anger's 3-pointers and Aldridge's 27 points still made the veteran's wish fail.
The Pistons hope that they can return to the playoffs, and the Trail Blazers also do not want to capsize in the last month.
The more powerful Trail Blazers won the victory without any danger, while Greg Monroe will become the next guy who tells Angel's magical story.
Defeating the Pistons is the thing in the Trail Blazers' plan. Now Anjie is only a step away from his tenth straight win with the Trail Blazers, and the Milwaukee Bucks are also ready to fight to the death at home.
Like the Pistons, the Bucks also have the chance to return to the playoffs this year. Brandon Jennings, who shined, and Monta Ellis, who transferred from the Warriors, gave the Bucks a backcourt double gun with a strong attack power.
Although Jennings and Ellis are both very self-centered players and they have few cooperations on the basketball court, even so, the Bucks' double gun firepower is not allowed to be Xiao Xu.
However, what everyone on the Bucks never expected was that the Trail Blazers, who use inside offense as the main scoring method, today's external offense is fully fired!
Milwaukee fans are even wondering whose home court is this? You know, the Trail Blazers have never been so accurate at the Rose Garden Stadium!
The temptation of ten consecutive victories not only attracted An Jie, but now, the players of the entire Trail Blazers are willing to work hard for this attainable honor.
Wesley Matthews shot the unruly Monta Ellis into a sieve. Ellis was very unserious on the defensive end, which also caused the Bucks coach Scott Skeles to roar.
5 of 7 shots, this is Matthews' three-point shooting percentage today. In addition to him, Raymond Felton also used his stronger body to beat Jennings to no aura.
With Anger's restraint and pick-and-roll, Felton's breakthrough was simply easy to get. Jennings was not slower than Felton in his steps, but his thin body seemed very inconvenient to "Fatton".
The swings of these two guys alone are enough to make the Bucks drink. However, Angel and Aldridge will not give up.
Drew Guden and Eisen Ilyasova, the two space-type, play styles with soft inside lines, cannot stop Angel and Aldridge from raging.
After Aldridge and Anger continued to have strong strength in the last game, the game continued to maintain their efficiency. Anger scored 30 points and Aldridge scored 25 points. These two guys kept the Bucks fans in dire straits, and in the face of this situation, the Bucks couldn't come up with any way.
Ellis and Jennings may be very good defenders alone, but forcing them to be together may be a mistake from the beginning.
The two guys made crazy moves back and forth, as if the competitors were each other, not the pioneers.
These two men naturally made the Bucks' offensive efficiency very low. The Pistons at least resisted to the end. The Bucks allowed the Trail Blazers to complete the three-quarter break from get off work again.
yiyi6 to 87, the Trail Blazers warmed the hearts of every Portland fan in the cold Milwaukee.
Winning the Bucks is nothing, but winning ten consecutive victories after defeating the Bucks is the real reason for fans to cheer for it!
This is not the first time that Angel has won ten consecutive victories, but this is the first time that Angel has completed his interpretation of dominance in the Trail Blazers.
The winter in Milwaukee is so hot. Of course, this is only for the Trail Blazers players cheering on the court.
Chapter completed!