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Chapter 1157 A Brand New Level

"The Miami Heat sent Dennis Rodman and Wang Mukong to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Dontonio Wingfield PF and Jeff Malone."

Once the deal was announced, it caused an uproar.

Louie, who was far away in Los Angeles, blurted out after hearing the news: "What is Pat Riley going crazy?"

"Is there any problem with this, Sir?" Jim Buss said naively, "Dennis Rodman is a four-time DPOY, and Portland is a team based on the Knicks. Dennis should be able to connect seamlessly. Instead, Miami has a problem. How can they send Dennis to Portland? Isn't this an enemy?"

Is Bass Jr. wrong in his judgment?
If Rodman is a normal person, the Heat's deal is comparable to the Grizzlies' exchange of Pau Gasol for what seemed like a bunch of rags at the time.

Compared with the two, the Heat may be even more stupid.

The Grizzlies also have something to say, I'm going to rebuild, what's wrong with assisting the big brother Lakers to reach the top?
What's going on with the Heat?Take Rodman, who is obviously still oily, to exchange for two scraps.

But Rodman is crazy.

The Heat are very clear, and the Blazers also know that this person is not easy to control. Otherwise, with Rodman's ability, it is not only Dontunio Winfield and Jeff Malone who can be traded.

Buss felt Rodman would play wholeheartedly for the Blazers with anger and hatred for the Heat.

Louis didn't think so.

Rodman has been let loose for far too long, and he's only going to get more out of hand in Portland.

Because one of the players in Portland is counted as one, and they are all former defeats. It is the Blazers who need him, not him who needs the Blazers.

Therefore, if the Blazers coaching staff does not coax him well, there is a high probability that the two sides will fall out.

That's why Louie thinks Riley is going crazy.

Why does Riley think he can control Rodman?

The Blazers are a strictly disciplined team, and Riley is a well-known coach who likes to engage in long-term and high-intensity devil training.

Any team that gets sidelined with these two factors is not suitable for Rodman.

Looking at the Trail Blazers lineup, Jordan, Olajuwon, Mourning, Thomas, Chapman, the starting five that have obvious advantages against any team.

Now in exchange for Rodman, everything is hard to say.

Moreover, the Blazers lineup itself is also problematic.

Olajuwon and Mourning are both slightly shorter pure No. [-] positions. After Thomas returned from a serious injury, he is no longer what he used to be. Chapman is a quasi-All-Star wing.

With the addition of Clifford Robinson and Rodman, Riley should trim the rotation down to seven once the game gets into high intensity.

But although these seven players seem to be very powerful, their style of play does not match.

If Rodman makes trouble again, Louis really has no reason to be optimistic about the Blazers' championship prospects.

On the same day, another surprising transaction occurred.

The silent Bulls decided to send Sean Bradley away.

The team responsible for receiving the plate is the Indiana Pacers.

The Pacers traded Detlef Schrempf and Greg Graham SG to Chicago for Sean Bradley and a 1999 first-round pick.

The deal made by the Pacers can be seen as one of the many follow-up effects after Manning forced the team to trade him.

In terms of style of play, Schramff can be regarded as a poor man's version of Bird.

He can play the three, he can play the four, and he fits right in with a swingman like Manning who can play the front three.

Now that Manning is gone, Schrempf is no match for Hank Geithers.

Gaethes is congenitally deficient due to heart problems, and needs a big man inside to help protect the basket so that he can bring out his athleticism.

After the Bulls gave up on the possibility of Bradley realizing his talent, they wanted to trade him.

That's the risk of rebuilding with a bad draft.

If you make a wrong choice, you have to start from scratch. Fortunately, they still have Schramf as compensation.

No one expected that so many things would happen on December 12nd.

Then, on December 12, the Lakers ushered in their first game of the month.

The opponent is the sun.

The team was affectionately called the Knicks Second Team by the New York media.

If you want to know why, just look at their starters.

The starting lineup of the sun is: Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Eddie Jones, Sam Perkins, Yu Tiancan.

In terms of purity, they are inferior to the team called the Philadelphia Knicks back then.

But the New York media likes to mess around with relationships.

However, several key players in the Suns are indeed former Knicks players.

The Chinese Derby between Yu Tiancan and Liu Yuqing has attracted domestic attention.

Louie just treats tonight as an ordinary game.

Tonight, the Lakers' starting lineup is stretched apart from Wilson.

Garnett is the most outrageous.

Garnett probably made all the mistakes a rookie can make.

This may have something to do with his imitation of Payton's style.

From that day forward, Garnett played with the kind of noisy style Louie was familiar with.

Every time you score, you have to beat your chest and roar.

As long as you post with the other party, you will be full of ugly trash talk.

He is a rookie, what is he crazy about?

Suns veterans educated him.

The referee also reminded him with strict penalty standards that it is not yet time for him to dominate.

Louie looked gloomy when Garnett made the sixth foul.

"I'm not an unreasonable person, you are a rookie, I can tolerate your performance." Louis is like a lion ready to get angry at any time, "There will be no next time."

Garnett was rampant on the court like an uneducated husky, but at this moment he felt a coldness that seemed to stop his heart.

Byrd flung the towel directly at him.

"Fuck me, calm down!" Bird knew that sooner or later Louie would tell him about Garnett's performance tonight, "That's not how the game is played!"

Unexpectedly, Garnett whispered: "The coach is so scary."

Even though Louis hadn't gotten angry yet, Garnett was like a neutered male dog, losing his power on the court.

This is something Bird has only recently noticed.

Louie's temper is much better than when he was young, but it feels even more terrifying to the players.

He seldom loses his temper like he did with Isiah Thomas, but as long as he is unhappy, he will use his eyes, tone of voice and indescribable body language to let the players understand his mood.

Just like Garnett tonight, he felt that Louis was a volcano that could erupt at him at any time.

What is more terrifying than the great terror of imminent empowerment is the unknown.

but
Bird said truthfully: "I wish you'd seen him when he was younger."

Garnett asked: "Isn't he also very young now?"

Tan Hualang blocked Bird to death with one sentence.

Louis is 35 years old. As a coach, he is not only very young, but more importantly, he is younger than Bird.

Isn't it strange that Bird would point to someone younger than himself and say to another young man, "I wish you had seen him when he was young"?

The direction of the game on the court is also slowly changing.

Yu Tiancan is a point that the Lakers cannot handle.

After Garnett was beaten, Louis asked Ostertag to match him.

Ostertag has the tonnage and strong single-defense ability, but Yu Tiancan has a sky hook tonight, so he can't have a big hook outside the paint.

The Suns led the Lakers by 20 points at most.

Then, Wilson took Finley and the tragedy division to start an irresistible reversal.

It was Finley's best game of the season, and one in which the Tragedian proved he still has star power.

Wilson consolidated his scoring title with 45 points in a single game.

Finley found his touch on the outside and scored 32 points.

Tragedy brought the audience of the forum back to the painful and happy 80s. He obviously didn't play the top of the arc and the low post that he was most familiar with, but he still made great contributions.

Every time the Tragedian touches the ball, it makes an impact.

He can score, grab rebounds, push counterattacks and organize positional offenses.

In the fourth quarter, Wilson and the tragedy division perfectly presented the "Meteor" tactic for 4 consecutive rounds.

Louis was surprised to find that Benj and the tragedy master not only comprehended the "shooting star", but also found the "whale landing", and their understanding of "beautiful basketball" entered a new level.

111 is better than 107
The Lakers kicked off the December journey with a hearty comeback.

(End of this chapter)