You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 844

Before I knew it, half of December had passed.

活塞目前的战绩是11胜8负，排名东部第二，落后于15胜6负的76人。

That night, the Pistons played at home against the shorthanded New York Knicks.

Before the start of the season, Pence was reimbursed due to injury, which made New Yorkers lose their expectations for the new season.

Their primary goal was to compete for the championship, but now they are working hard to qualify for the first round of the draft in June next year.

Through the efforts of their entire team, the Knicks posted an epic 2-18 record.

But today's opponent is the Pistons, and they don't want to lose to their mortal enemy. Therefore, those main players who had no chance to play due to various reasons all took the magic medicine and returned to the court healthy.

Without Penny, the Knicks could barely fight against Pippen and Camby.

In this situation, if the Knicks want to win, they can only count on the Pistons to perform abnormally.

Their confrontation caused problems for the Pistons.

"The Knicks forced the Pistons to 20 turnovers tonight!"

In the face of high-intensity defense, the output of stars is very important. Mo Mengchen scored 44 points in Madison Garden, raising his personal scoring average to 30 points per game, taking a victory with difficulty.

Then, the vicious New York media made fun of Ewing, who hadn't been on for a second.

"Why did the Pistons suddenly look like this? Did Pat bring his virus to the Pistons?" - The New York Times.

It's hard to imagine any media would treat a veteran who has dedicated 15 years of youth to the team like this.

The New York media did it, humiliating Ewing mercilessly.

"The arrival of Ewing made the Pistons no longer gorgeous. They even started to lose consecutively. Three years ago, can you believe it?"

"Some people, even just sitting off the court, can have an impact on the game, you have to obey."

The super-influence of the New York media made this matter spread all over the place quickly, and everyone knew about it, which brought Ewing a bad mood for several days.

The relationship between Ewing and New York is puzzling, which actually goes back to his mentor, that is, the legendary NCAA coach, John Thompson Jr. of the Georgetown Hoyas.

Thompson was a member of the ancient Celtic dynasty, Bill Russell's first backup, and was called "my caddy" by Lord of the Rings West.

He was also the first coach to help Ewing. As a former NBA player who played in the league in the 70s, Thompson formed a kind of "keep a distance from strangers" and "use me against the whole world" in the era of rampant racial discrimination. When he became the coach of Georgetown University, he also instilled his somewhat persecuted paranoid outlook on life into every player he coached.

This is a cynic, a fierce anti-racist, which is not wrong in itself, but his slightly rigid dogma affects many people, including Ewing.

Thompson knows that it is not easy for professional players to survive after retiring, so he requires each of his players to complete 4 years of college studies (Iverson didn't give the green light until 1996), so Ewing is like this. His men were trained for 4 years and became a standard "John Thompson-style" black athlete: not pleasing fans, not showing off, not friendly, and distrusting the media.

Now Ewing is teaching Eddie Curry the same way.

Influenced by gorillas, Curry also doesn’t like to please the fans, he doesn’t like to put on a show, and keeps a sense of distance from the media. This is why as long as he does not perform well, the media will take him out. No media will like a guy who doesn’t know current affairs. guy.

A player like Ewing, if he is placed in Salt Lake City and Cleveland, may become a city icon, but the problem is that the home of the Knicks is located in the center of the world-New York.

What's more, Ewing joined the league in the 80s when the Lakers' "Show time" swept the league. New Yorkers also hoped that their team could play gorgeously and beautifully. It may be possible to do this, and naturally, it is difficult for him to become the darling of New York fans.

The most typical is the sports section of the "New York Times". Their meanness to Ewing is simply chilling. Tom Davidson, an expert in the sports column, once described Ewing: "Compared with heroes, Ewing is more important in the eyes of fans. The image is closer to a disgusting and imbecile zombie. Even in New York, he is equally unpopular. He is weird and indifferent. He treats reporters like lepers. Apart from being able to fight, fans can’t find a reason to like him.”

The conflict between Ewing and the media intensified, and as time entered the 90s, his relationship with the Knicks also broke down.

His desire to leave New York is well known in the world, and he even listed several favorite teams to the team. In the era when players dared to be the masters, he caused such a thing in a giant like the Knicks, and the relationship between the two parties was not only broken, but also irreparable.

After Pat Riley arrived, he persuaded Ewing earnestly, and the Knicks management lions at the time scared away all the teams that asked for prices. Together, Riley builds their Jagged Legion.But after this toss, Ewing's image in the hearts of the fans, which was not good, was greatly reduced. Some people even booed Ewing at the Knicks' home stadium, Madison Square Garden. Trust was also exhausted in this transfer event, and Ewing is no longer a non-sale item for the Knicks.

The conflict has developed all the way to today, Ewing was traded, and the behavior of the New York media's endless salting of wounds does not seem so incomprehensible.

Ewing, who was full of resentment, could only increase the intensity of his lessons during training, hoping that Curry would recognize the hardships and dangers of the world through his vicissitudes of life.

"Get up, do you want to be a jerk?"

"Get up if you don't want to!"

"Don't be a fucking sissy! No wonder Mo looks down on you!"

The gorilla suddenly turned into a tyrant more terrifying than Mo Mengchen, and the way he yelled at Curry in the training ground became an eye-catching sight.

"Poor boy, will he suffer from depression due to too much stress?" Hill looked at Curry worriedly.

Ewing cared so much about Curry that Mo Mengchen was too late to be happy, let alone intervene in their training.

As long as Ewing doesn't kill Curry, he can do whatever he wants. Anyway, Curry will either be killed or destroyed like in his previous life.

Whether to watch him be crippled, or let Ewing train him to death, Mo Mengchen reckons that even the golden retriever that Medela brought home will make the right choice.

In the Henry Ford Training Center, in addition to training, there is also this month's schedule.

The Pistons have an easy schedule for the rest of the month.

Except for the opponents in the Christmas game, the others are ordinary teams that can't make the playoffs.

The opponent in the Christmas game was marked with three stars by Westphal.

They are the resurgent Spurs this season.

Kidd said that he wanted to make this team a 360-degree change. He obviously lied. This is clearly a 180-degree turn.

Last season, the Spurs performed poorly and won the No. [-] pick with the worst record in the league. They selected Gasol, introduced Kidd, Kirilenko's progress, and the Admiral's strength. A good-for-nothing fool but very much to Kidd and Gasol's appetite, coupled with the strong rise of Arenas.

Accidentally, a strong team with extraordinary strength suddenly emerged in the West.

Although the Spurs don't rely on Duncan to survive the reconstruction smoothly and form a great GDP prosperity for 20 years, but their poor performance is simply at the level of teaching. They should be selected and robbed.

After several years of time 7, a combination of Kidd + Arenas + Gasol was formed.

OK internal strife, no leader in the Western Conference, the Spurs are quite competitive, now 17 wins and 4 losses, leading the league in record.

Kidd has already withdrawn from the discussion of the strongest No. 1 position, and now he has entered the player's sight again. After Penny was reimbursed, fans took the trouble to compare him with Mo Mengchen.

Mo Mengchen's fans are disgusted with this comparison, because they think that Kidd is not even qualified to compare.

honor?data?In addition to leading the team
The last time the Pistons played against the Spurs was during the six-game losing streak. The Spurs' mature style of play is impressive. The second battle is scheduled for the Christmas game.From this arrangement, it can be seen that the staff who made the schedule were indeed far-sighted. The audience was tired of watching the Christmas game between the Pistons and the Lakers. Although the rise of the Spurs was not unexpected by the fans, no one knew in advance that they could play so well. The Pistons' Christmas game is half a month away from the start, and the league is already building momentum. Various advertisements, game preview clips, and small clips to remind the audience to watch on time emerge in endlessly.

The league is actively warming up, the media is giving great support, and the fans are full of expectations.

Few people noticed that the Kings had changed their head coach.

On December 12, the Kings officially announced that Doug Collins will become the head coach of the team.

To Pistons fans, this sounds like a long-ago name, and he represents the past of failure.

After Collins left, the Pistons won three championships in four years. Many fans believe that if Collins left earlier, the Pistons would have reached the Eastern Conference Finals as early as the 9697 season.

Apart from Mo Mengchen and Hill, few Pistons players were interested in this matter.

"What do you think about this?"

Hill and Mo Mengchen talked about it in the locker room.

"Do you think the king can break out of the west with a one-on-one match?" Mo Mengchen asked back.

"Their defense is not very good." Hill said the king's most obvious problems.

"This is nonsense." Mo Mengchen said, "What I'm asking is, do you think heads-up can make them break out of the West?"

Because they all know that Collins can't bring out any tactics, all they can do is to give up the tactics and maximize the ability of the stars.

Well, that's a problem.

Can the kings be brought out of the West by single-handed superstars?
"If they can improve their defense," Hill said, "I think they can."

(End of this chapter)