Basketball K God

Chapter 113 Increased playing time
Both McCants and Xie Kai play the 2nd position, and his presence will definitely affect Xie Kai's playing time to a certain extent.It's just that in essence, he will not be the person who has the greatest influence on Xie Kai's status in the Kings.After all, in terms of strength, he is not strong enough to be the starter of a team.In the Timberwolves this season, he averaged 18.7 minutes per game, 9.1 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game. Compared with Xie Kai, he has no advantage at all.

And for the Kings, Xie Kai is the team's rookie, and McCants has slightly better immediate combat power than Dolby, and it can be regarded as a lottery ticket that has been scratched and failed to win.As long as the management doesn't lose their minds, they won't let their own rookies not cultivate, and give a lot of playing time to a person who will become a free agent this summer.

Back then, McCants was considered a young talent and one of the hopeful stars of the league.He came from a famous family and entered the industry as a lottery pick. He is a player that the Timberwolves focus on training.

在2007-08赛季，他场均可以砍下14.9+2.7+2.2，3分球命中超过40%。可在2008年，卡戴珊家族的科勒卡戴珊进入了他的生活。

Although it is not possible to blame the player's poor condition on a woman, it is true that after being with Kohler, McCants often hangs around nightclubs and participates in various parties.In this case, he will naturally spend less time and energy on training and improving himself.

Xie Kai is not interested in the romantic affairs of this new teammate, and he will not sympathize with him.We are all adults, and we have to bear the consequences of what we do.While you're sweating at a party or in a hotel with girls, your competition is sweating in the training gym.God is fair, unless the talent is really strong (Zhang [-]), otherwise it is difficult to strike a balance between entertainment and sports.

On February 2, the Kings played away against the Grizzlies.Having already lost 21 consecutive games, they still only have 6 rotations in this game. The newly exchanged players have not yet been approved by the league, so they cannot play yet.

In this game, the Kings played very well. They were united and narrowly defeated their opponents away, ending their 6-game losing streak.

谢开替补出战24分钟，得到10分6个篮板5次助攻2个抢断1个盖帽，表现非常全面。

However, the Kings still failed to usher in a winning streak. On the second day, they were a guest in Dallas and challenged the Mavericks back to back.As a result, they lost to their opponents by a big score away.

The Kings' new players are already available to play. After the trade, their overall age has dropped a lot. There are basically no particularly old players in the team, except for Calvin Booth and Drew Gooden who basically have no chance to play.

On February 2, the Kings returned home to face the Hornets.In this game, they lost to a powerful opponent without much suspense, ushering in a two-game losing streak.

Two days later, the Kings continued to play at home and lost to the visiting Bobcats, ushering in a 3-game losing streak.

For this Kings team, losing is not so unacceptable, anyway, they have completely missed the playoffs.In this case, it seems to be the most cost-effective choice to hit the No. [-] lottery.Moreover, there is no conflict between the team's competition for the No. [-] pick and the cultivation of young players.

Under the thinking of the Kings, the young Hawes and Jason Thompson became the starters, while Xie Kai had a tendency to be the sixth man, playing a lot more than before.

Xie Kai still likes the team's attitude of cultivating himself. Although the team keeps losing, he sometimes feels unhappy, but he also knows that in terms of the strength of the team, winning is obviously better than losing. much more difficult.And if you have a chance to perform, it's better than if the team loses and you are assigned to guard the drinking fountain!
On February 2, the Kings ushered in their last opponent in February-the Clippers.

The Clippers are currently 15 wins and 43 losses, while the Kings are 12 wins and 47 losses. The former has a better record.The two teams are brothers in difficulty, and there will inevitably be a competition of acting skills on the way to the No. [-] pick in the future.

In the NBA, there is a saying that "strong teams look at losses, and weak teams look at wins."The explanation for this statement is that in the competition for ranking among strong teams, the important thing is not how many games you win, but how many games you lose.Because most of the strong teams have more wins than losses, but the schedules of each team are different, so not only the number of games played is different, but also the difficulty of the schedule is also different.In this case, because the total number of games is constant (82 games), if a team wants to achieve a good winning percentage, once it has lost a certain amount of games, no matter how many games it wins later, it will be difficult. Catch up with those who lose fewer games, because the total number of games is constant; on the other hand, weak teams, everyone is bad, but once a team has won 30 games, even if it loses every game, its winning percentage is likely to be higher than that of the team. The teams that lost fewer games.

Going back to the game between the Clippers and the Kings, because the Clippers have won 15 games, while the Kings have only won 12 games, so even if the two teams have no lower limit and shamelessly lose behind, the former is also in the ranking. will be more advanced.

But in this game, the Kings at home still narrowly beat the Clippers.

Neither team has the kind of determination to win, but NBA players are unlikely to act for the sake of the team's poor performance.The newly traded players of the Kings played hard and beat the Clippers in this "bad showdown".

In a bad fight, the winning side doesn't look happy, and the losing side doesn't look depressed.In the NBA, it's a strange phenomenon.

On March 3, the Kings lost to the Jazz in an away game, rewriting the record to 1 wins and 13 losses.There are 48 games left in the remaining games of the regular season. They currently occupy a certain dominant position in the "tank army" competing for the No. 21 pick.

Three days later, the Kings lost to the Pacers at home and ushered in a two-game losing streak.Not only the team no longer resists losing, but also some fans.Some fans are thinking from the perspective of the team, they are thinking for the team.At this juncture, losing is obviously more cost-effective than winning.

But not all fans think this way. Many Kings fans have denounced the team's bottomless performance on the Internet. This is a lack of sportsmanship.

Of course, the neutral fans of the Kings think that it is not good to play poorly, but if losing can help the team get the No. [-] pick, it is not so shameful to lose a few games that can be won.

After Xie Kai's team started to perform secretly, his playing time and performance opportunities began to increase.He lived up to expectations and continued to improve, which satisfied both the team and the fans.On the contrary, Jason Thompson, the No. 12 pick in the starting lineup, has not improved significantly. Not to mention no star potential, he has a tendency to gradually become an ordinary blue-collar player.

(End of this chapter)