NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 173 Fighting against the Big Three

April 12

After a series of away trips, the Bobcats have finally returned to their home court, and will be challenged by other teams at home.

The Bobcats have been gaining momentum recently, not only maintaining a record of unbeaten victories in the road trip, but also bringing the team's current record to 8 wins and 13 losses, successfully rising to the 11th place in the Eastern Conference.

And Martin's debut performance also made Charlotte's local fans change from the initial collective accusation to today's collective wait and see.

After all, what the fans want is for the team to become stronger and stronger, not for the team to become worse and worse after a series of operations.

Especially the team has shown some competitiveness at present, which makes the fans no longer satisfied with the team's bad performance, and has even forgotten that the Bobcats are just a new team that has just joined the league.

And tonight, the Bobcats return home, will usher in the first challenger, the New Jersey Nets.

The Nets have just traded for Carter, and the entire team is now in full swing, from players to fans.

After Carter was traded to the team, the Nets played a game and defeated the Cavaliers led by James 112:98 at home with 14 points.

Now the Nets and Cavaliers are ranked eighth and ninth in the Eastern Conference respectively. The records of the two teams are very close, and they will even have direct competition for the place in the playoffs.

Although the Nets lost their starting center because of Carter's arrival, Carter's arrival made up for the Nets' embarrassment that no one scored at a critical moment.

As a traditional point guard, Kidd has a high ball quotient. Not only can he connect the team well on the court, but he is also a sharp defensive knife on the back line.

But scoring has not been Kidd's forte.

Another star, Richard Jefferson, although capable of inside and outside, has a good offensive ability, but his handling of key balls is always unsatisfactory.

This also led to the Nets being labeled as incapable of fighting tough battles, and collapsed at the end of the game many times this season.

The arrival of Carter can make up for the weakness of the Nets to the greatest extent. After all, Carter is definitely the biggest fish in the trading market this season.

Xike Dongai, North Carolina South Mai.

Sure enough, with Carter's arrival, the Nets have found a firepower in the offense. The Big Three each have their own strengths and a clear division of labor.

In the first game of cooperation, a big victory announced the birth of the Big Three.

The Bobcats will face the Nets in the first game back home in this game. If it was before, with the Bobcats' recent momentum, many people will be optimistic about the Bobcats.

After all, the Nets' offensive ability has always been ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league, but now that they have Carter, the wind direction of this game has changed instantly...

Bobcats:
Blazek, Wallace, Ariza, Kevin Martin, Duhon.

Nets: Kohler Davis, Richard Jefferson, Jefferson, Carter, Kidd.

With Martin's performance in the last game, coupled with the few days of rest at home, Martin has been training with the team.

Liu Rui found that since Martin was surprisingly suitable in his own system, there was basically nothing to adjust to. After all, what he was doing now was what he was best at.

This made Liu Rui directly mention Martin to the starting lineup in this game. After all, Martin has a very sufficient offensive arsenal. The biggest problem now is that he is thin and suffers a disadvantage in confrontation.

After the opening, facing Martin, Carter took the ball and played very resolutely. Although at the request of Liu Rui, Martin tried his best to force Carter to go to the basket, so that it was convenient for Wallace and Ariza to help defend.

But facing Martin, Carter only needs to force a few times in the back-up state to squeeze out the perfect shot space and score a jumper.

This made Martin, who was a little in the limelight in the last game, feel frustrated, and even missed a few shots on the offensive end.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bobcats played at home with:
19:24
5 points behind the Nets, and 19 points in a single quarter is also the lowest score in a single quarter after Liu Rui led the team. The Nets' defensive efficiency is very high.

Coupled with Martin's poor touch in the first quarter, this greatly imprisoned the Bobcats' offensive flexibility, allowing the Bobcats to score only 19 points at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the two sides sent a substitute lineup to continue the competition. The Nets' bench lineup is not outstanding, and the team's outstanding performance is more proud of the strength of the starting lineup.

Facing the Bobcats, known as the bench gangsters, they had a small climax in an instant, taking advantage of the trend to overtake the score, forcing the Nets coach Frank to call a timeout.

After the timeout, the Nets temporarily stabilized the situation. When Okafor got the ball in the low post, he decisively double-teamed him, which also destroyed the Bobcats' two offenses for a while.

But after Liu Rui shouted on the sidelines, the Bobcats made decisive adjustments. After all, Liu Rui had become accustomed to Okafor being double-teamed in the second team.

Therefore, he made an adjustment and response method early on, and directly replaced Knight on the court, which is exactly the method of drawing on Van Gundy's one-star shooting method in his previous life.

With the help of Okafor's excellent containment force inside, he shifted the focus of the ball's offense to the outside.

Relying on the huge difference in the strength of the two teams' substitutes, the Bobcats also quickly played the rhythm again. While overtaking the score, it expanded the score instead.

This made Frank, who was standing on the sidelines, frown directly, and took advantage of another dead ball to directly switch back to the starting lineup.

It is difficult for the Nets to have too much competitiveness with the bench headed by Mercer.

What's more, because of Carter's trade, the Nets sent away their two starting insiders, which also caused the Nets' two starting insiders to be former substitute players.

Therefore, the Nets' current substitute insiders have become even worse, and they have no way to deal with the increasingly mature Okafor.

Relying on the powerful offensive firepower of the second unit, the Bobcats succeeded at halftime with:
47:45
Overtook the Nets by two points.

But Liu Rui, who was sitting on the sidelines, didn't show any excitement, but frowned instead.

Things didn't look good in the second half...

Sure enough, after coming back in the second half, the offensive problems of the Bobcats still could not be resolved. In addition to the bad feel of the Bobcats in this game, the pressure that the Nets put on the players in defense was an important reason.

Even though Liu Rui called two timeouts in the third quarter for the first time, the Bobcats still failed to reverse the situation on the field.

Before the second team competition, the Bobcats were directly facing the risk of being beaten, which also made Liu Rui on the sidelines very helpless.

After all, so far Wallace has made 8 of 2 shots and Martin has made 9 of 3 shots. This kind of shooting rate is powerless even if Liu Rui doesn't use any strategy...

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(End of this chapter)