You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 585 The Light in the Ruins
Chapter 591 The Light in the Ruins

How to make people feel at ease, how to make people calm, how to make fans laugh at the loss and feel "we all have a bright future" is an art.

Eddie Jordan didn't know the art.

At the beginning of January, the voice of getting Jordan out of class blew.

At the beginning of the season, the 76ers were predicted to win 40 games.

But the current situation is that it is difficult for them to even get 30 wins.

Who knows, Jordan himself is more "radical" than the outside world.

In the first game of the new year, Wei Xia made 37 shots, hit 17 goals, scored 45 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists. At the critical moment, Jordan did not assign him the tactics of the decisive shot, but assigned it to rookie Zhu Holiday.

Holiday's long-range shot went out of the basket, and the 76ers lost the game in the most unexpected way.

"This is life." Facing the reporter's questioning, Jordan acted frankly and a little stupidly, "Everyone has to pay a price for their growth, and Zhu deserves our expectation."

What the reporter wants to know is: "Why is the winning goal not given to Wish?"

Jordan added: "We can't become a team that only plays star football."

When the reporter asked Wei Xia, he himself said, "I have no objection."

Then, the most amazing thing happened.

Just said yesterday that "Zhu is worthy of our expectations", the next day, Jordan announced that he would adjust the team's starting lineup, and he adjusted Holiday from the starting No. [-] position.

The reporter didn't understand again.

Isn't Holiday worth the wait?Didn't you say you have to experience growing pains?What's going on here?
Jordan said without changing his face: "I think we were too aggressive before. Young people need to grow up, but is he really ready?"

Insert Holiday's voice here: I'm ready!I'm ready! (SpongeBob SquarePants tone)
"No, young people can make breakthroughs anywhere, but mentality needs long-term construction." Jordan said the most infamous sentence, "We did this without any other ideas, just not wanting to hurt Zhu's mental health."

Then, he began a tirade: "Before the season started, I predicted that we would have a 48-win season. You can imagine how surprised and frustrated I was every time we lost. I even considered the learning curve of the "Princeton offense" and expected a slow start."

"I think the Sixers are going to be a top-five team defensively, and Princeton's offense is going to put them about average offensively."

As it stands, Jordan screwed things up.

He still believes this team has "top-five" talent defensively, but they're now 27th in the league defensively, according to the stats.

This data is in line with their current ranking.

This is down from No. 14 last year and No. 8 the year before.

The Sixers' roster hasn't changed significantly over the past two seasons to facilitate such a decline.The biggest difference is Eddie Jordan.

It's no coincidence that a team coached by Eddie Jordan has never been better than 19th in defense.

Just do a Google search for "fire Eddie Jordan" to better prepare for this train wreck season.

Once you want to oppose you, as long as you are a public figure, it is easy to find black material, unless the celebrity is Liu Tianwang.

Reporters turned up a petition called "Fire Eddie Jordan," from Washington, D.C., where Jordan had coached.

"Under his idiotic reign, the Wizards had one of the worst defenses in the league and the absolute lowest basketball IQ."

"I don't even want to watch this team play anymore."

"The lack of intensity at the beginning of the game, the lack of focus on the defensive rebounds, the openness of the opponent's three-pointers, it's so frustrating."

"This team needs to invest more on defense - Eddie has a chance to do it, the truth is our defense is only going to get worse, Jordan is fucking shit!"

"Jordan had his own paranoia, he was a closed-minded coach."

"When it comes to basketball, he's a complete fool."

"EJ is an idiot! He should be fired. He's holding the team back."

"Individual talent is outstanding, the team is mediocre - this can only be the fault of the coach."

Then, the reporter citing the petition went to the kill wielding his pen sword: "Now, if you read this article, or any of the Sixers' articles, would you say to yourself, 'Tell me something I didn't know!'"?That's the problem, I can't do it.You know everything about Eddie Jordan.You know how bad he is.You know why he is so bad.You can name examples of Eddie Jordan being "bad" in one breath.For the past four months, we've been talking about Eddie Jordan.We can't enjoy winning because of Eddie Jordan.After losing games, we're only talking about Eddie Jordan.

Eddie Jordan, Eddie Jordan, Eddie Jordan.

Eddie Jordan is a terrible coach and as long as he is our head coach, losses like last night will continue to happen.

That's the way it is.

No need to repeat it over and over again, we all know the problem!
I know Eddie Jordan is controlling the whole team but that doesn't mean he should hurt the fans or anyone else in the process and I can't speak for anyone but my personal goal for the rest of the season is to discuss those same topics as bashing Eddie Jordan.

Whether it's discussions about the draft, the development (or lack thereof) of young players, or my fantasies about what this team can or should be, I'm avoiding the cloud of being called "Eddie Jordan."

It won't be easy, but I will try my best.

I'm not going to let him kill my passion for the 76ers and turn me into a frustrated fan.

For the record, I won't be watching another 76ers game until Jordan gets fired!

I'm sorry, but I don't think there's any benefit in seeing the 76ers win under Eddie Jordan! "

What anger, what disappointment, would invite such attacks?

Quite simply, it's because of the way Eddie Jordan played badly that fans couldn't see a little light.

Some people can put on a scene of "as long as we think we can compete for the championship, it's just that the genius is too tempting".

Jordan didn't, he was not a good trader, he didn't know what the fans wanted to see, let alone how to lose decently, even the mental health of the players he threatened to pay attention to seemed to have a negative effect.

Jrue Holiday was put on the bench, and Jordan chose Jody Meeks to serve as the team's starting one.

He originally wanted to choose Louis Williams, but he felt that he should not slap himself in the face frequently. He would lose anyway. There is only one difference between letting Lu Wei start and letting Meeks start.

Losing is better, and losing is ugly.

Lu Wei can attack, and Meeks is not a qualified first position in the NBA.

Because he often staged tragedies where he couldn't dribble past the half court, and even his own three-point line was cut off, Wei Xia often played as a guest point guard to take the ball across the half court, and then returned the ball to Meeks, allowing him to perform the basic functions of a point guard—even if it was pretending.

Wei Xia said he would average 26 shots per game, but from January until the game against the Lakers in mid-January, he did not have a game with fewer than 28 shots.

Moreover, he maintained a 42% shooting rate in the case of high output.

The data shows that his high-post singles efficiency is already on par with the league's top singles players.

What he lacks is experience and skills. From the beginning of the season to mid-January, these things began to develop in a good direction after continuous ironing, training, and self-correction.

Moreover, since the team is going to lose, Wei Xia will not contribute on the defensive end.

Anyway, they are going to lose, so it is better to save energy and play more data on the offensive end.

He used to put the team first, but now he has become a "selfish" scoring maniac.

He used to value defense more than anything else, but now he takes the lead in not defending.

He used to value winning more than anything else, and in two months with the 76ers, the number of losses caught up with the number of losses in the previous season with the Lakers.

From high school to college to the NBA, he strives for the top.

In the first year of the 76ers, he recognized the reality.

The reality is that with the current him, he still can't make a team reborn.

The 76ers want to play badly in order to seek the future, and he has to use this dark period of bad performance to make up for the vacant window left by him as a tool man for three years in the Lakers.

He has to learn how to play like a core player.

Before the start of the game against the Lakers, the broken 76ers finally ushered in a memorable moment.

Allen Iverson, who was sent to Denver a few years ago, decided to sign a non-guaranteed one-year contract with the 76ers.

The return of AI excited many people, and some fans who were so disgusted by Jordan that they didn't want to go to the scene to watch the game came to the scene.

On January 1, at home, the 17ers played against the Lakers.

Nine years ago, the two teams could still compete in the finals.

Unexpectedly, after nine years, the Lakers can still compete for the championship, while the 76ers can only compete for the No. [-] pick.

"Isn't it a comfortable day when you can fire infinitely?"

Goodbye Wei Xia, Kobe asked with a smile.

"It's more comfortable to win." Wei Xia said honestly.

Iverson didn't come over to greet his old opponent immediately, but after they finished greeting, he got down and kissed the 76ers' LOGO.

The Fuguo Center was thundering.

In this unsightly season, apart from Wei Xia's performance is worth looking forward to, what else can make them happy as if the team won the championship?

It can only be Iverson!

After this man brought Barkley, there was a period of uncrowned prosperity in team history. He is the idol of a generation, a special symbol, and a name that you cannot ignore.

That night, Iverson scored 22 points. After the game, Koe said: "Kids nowadays don't know how strong AI is!"

(End of this chapter)