Spurs won again. Although the Jazz lost to the Rockets, they were reluctant to lose. Should these two teams take the initiative to withdraw from the competition of the wenbanyama Cup?
This is indeed an interesting phenomenon. It not only runs counter to everyone’s outlook before the new season, but also seems to break a rule of NBA for more than 20 years: reconstruction is to put up a mess, put up a mess to grab the first prize, if you get it, you will rebound. Why don’t you worry about winning the championship.
Moreover, this happened under the background of the talent show next year. Spurs and jazz were so desperate that they were like rivers flowing backwards, Sunrise in the West, birds entering the sea and fish swimming ashore.
The favored son of heaven is Wen Banya Ma, who is equipped with a Skut Henderson. How powerful they are, they have already been shown, and they have handed in this month. At the same time, there are two talented players who are not born, and the chances of winning the prize are greatly improved. Why do you work so hard?
I have been writing NBA for 30 years, and I was surprised at this. After all, it is not common for wen ban and Skut to appear at the same time. Jazz Spurs set foot to rebuild but not to grab it, which is even less. However, everything has rules and internal reasons. I guess there are several reasons for jazz and Spurs’s performance:
First, the season is still early, and it will be slow.
Second, players in distress prove themselves.
Third, the Alliance warned that governance was rotten.
Up to now, jazz and Spurs have both lost a game, but they still rank third and fourth in the West with 3 wins and 1 loss. Because the number of samples is too small, it is not yet possible to conclude that jazz and Spurs are strong teams. Judging from the composition of the lineup and summer operations, it is very difficult for these two teams to remain strong for a long time.
In exchange for Gobel, Mitchell, Boyan and Royce O’Neal, Jazz got a large number of picks, which was equivalent to the cell being removed from the nucleus. Although Conley and Clarkson were still there, according to the law, it was only a matter of time before they were replaced. Today, it was reported that the Lakers were ready to restart negotiations on trading Conley. Compared with jazz in Spurs, it has been younger for several years, but it has given up the updated Lonnie Walker and Xiaobai. When they sent away deqiongtai Murray, it really showed that this time it would be completely rebuilt.
Kelton Johnson and Wassel in Spurs were all good. Ma Canning and Sexton also played very hard in jazz, but to say that these two teams would rebuild with them as the core, obviously it was a fantasy, which was not in line with the law, it is also difficult to last long. There are 82 games for half a year in a season, during which they will experience various interference such as continuous away games, injuries, back-to-back and so on. Strong teams not only need to have characteristic playing skills, tacit understanding and discipline, super-capable stars are also the basis for supporting the record.
Only three or four games were played in the new season. Spurs and jazz just showed that they didn’t want to mess up now, but to maintain a long-term record advantage in the western region of a strong team like Lin, it needs to be tested by time. Recall that in the East last year, the head of the city changed the banner of the King. Many strong teams took turns to occupy the chief. Finally, the stag fell to the third place, the bull reached the fifth place, and the Knight reluctantly stayed in the eighth place, these are all well-designed teams.
Some teams that were despised before the season tend to kill in the dark, which is surprising. One of the important reasons is that those backbones are despised and have a strong desire to prove their value, this is especially obvious in jazz.
Ma Canning was given up by the bull at the end of the rookie season and replaced with the Knight. In order to get Mitchell, the Knight exchanged him and Sexton with the Jazz. His self-esteem was greatly hurt. The two fought very hard. The new members of The Jazz also include olinik, Vanderbilt and Malik Beasley, who all contributed to the 3 consecutive wins at the beginning of the season. Clarkson, the best sixth man in the team, is a man with strong fighting desire.
Under Conley’s guidance, these people played three beautiful games, beating Nuggets, Timberwolves and Pelicans one after another, which were all the favorites in the playoffs. However, when the Jazz played the Timberwolves and pelicans, Ingram and She’an were both injured when they played the Pelicans. Today, they almost played the Rockets.
In addition to these players who are eager to prove themselves, the new coach will Hardy is also a young man with a blank resume. He said publicly that it doesn’t matter how the outside world predicts that they will mess up, he and his team would never mess up. He wanted to make jazz the fastest and most defensive team in the league. It can be said that the Jazz team worked together, and no matter Spurs or jazz, after the big change in the lineup, the opponent’s understanding of them was extremely limited, and he was even less prepared for their life.
NBA’s misplacement is not a deliberate loss, but a purposeful operation from the top, which has nothing to do with coaches and players. NBA is a Business League, and every team believes in winning culture, which is the basis of box office. However, since it is a business alliance, senior managers have operational planning and skills, because athletes cannot always be at the peak and need to be Updated at an appropriate time.
The real mess is that the top management tore the lineup apart, but turned around and told the coach and the team members that you should play well and prove it to them. Therefore, no coach or player will lose on purpose, and often the team will try their best at the beginning of the season. Winning the ball is like winning the championship. But after a long time, if losing becomes a habit, this motivation will be gone, and a consecutive defeat will appear.
You can also counter-testify like this: if a team has no planned lineup, no strong core, no goal, but can be invincible in the season of 82 games, what is the value of NBA stars? Who can I sell tickets to without stars? This is equivalent to destroying NBA as the logical basis of business alliance.
Compared with jazz’s youngest coach Hardy, Spurs of the coaches Popovich baby are the oldest and most senior, and the Spurs have hardly failed, except for the 1996-97 season. However, it was that season that won Duncan. Spurs set up a classic model for the whole league to turn over. They didn’t put up their own parts, but the teams imitating Spurs were everywhere.
The Spurs lost to the Hornets in the opening battle, which was also a difficult team in the new season and a strong contender for Wen banyama. Then he won the Pacers and 76 people in a row Spurs, and today he won the Timberwolves again. Although the score was only 115-106, he led by as many as 35 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
When predicting the final winner of Wen banyama before the season, Spurs tied for the first place with jazz, which is not without reason. In the past few years, Spurs has been continuously rebuilding, but it still seems that Murray is the core, and Popovich baby seems to want to take a road of reconstruction that is not broken. However, when he gave Murray to the Eagle, the world suddenly guessed that they wanted to impact Wen banyama. However, after the 3-game winning streak, the wind review immediately turned over and called Bo Bo badly.
After GDP broke up, Spurs lost Leonard again, starting a slow process of falling down. It was out in the first round twice in the past five years, and then it did not enter the playoffs for three consecutive years. If a team with Murray as the core cannot enter the playoffs, what is the reason for Kelton Johnson to enter the playoffs as the number one scorer Spurs? Sohan is also good, but will Bobo let these people go through the road of Murray, Xiaobai and Walker again?
In fact, a speech made by NBA President Xiao Hua these two days may imply something. He said that NBA will pay close attention to the phenomenon of puttering, and NBA has taken many measures to avoid puttering. As for some teams, they have to puttering, they have to risk only 14 percent of winning the first prize, so it seems that being the worst team is not good.
When NBA draws lots every year to decide the ranking of the draft, it uses table tennis. I, as a person, never believe in drawing lots of table tennis, regardless of the World Cup, the World Cup basketball, or the NBA draft. It’s like walking into a casino in Las Vegas, never trust the Lotus officials or slot machines.
When Xiao Hua said publicly that “he will pay close attention to the phenomenon of bad behavior”, I believe those bosses can understand it. The hint they received is that don’t go too far. Wen banyama is really attractive, but don’t let the image of the alliance be damaged.
If you were the boss of an NBA team and wanted to show up openly, you would calm down at this time, because NBA has arranged 14% of the chances to give three teams, and these three teams add up to only 42 percent of the chance. Those table tennis jumping around are not really short of eyes.
Next summer, there will be Wen Banya Ma and Skut, which will double the chance of winning the grand prize. However, if the boss is not obedient and insists on going his own way to the third or the fourth and fifth place, no matter how bad it is, it’s all like a bamboo basket.
Well, I ‘ve said enough.
Su Qun column