NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 400. 401. Sad reminder of the sun
After defeating the Trail Blazers at home, it can be regarded as a good start for the Bobcats in the new year.

Then the Bobcats went to the away game to challenge several teams, and Liu Rui has always used the Chinese player Wang Zhizhi as the starting power forward in these games.

Put Gerald Wallace back on the small forward position, let Granger temporarily return to the bench.

Wang Zhizhi has a height of [-] meters at the power forward position. As an inside fortress, it is difficult for the opponent to block his shots roughly outside the three-point line.

Because as the trend of basketball is getting more and more outward, big players don't necessarily have to eat cakes and grab rebounds under the basket.

Now the stability of shooting roughly outside the three-point line can also help the Bobcats' offense more.

In these few games, the Bobcats' recent momentum is also in full swing, taking advantage of the trend to win a wave of three consecutive victories again.

The team's record has been improved to 29 wins and 11 losses. At present, it has temporarily thrown off the other teams behind it with a relatively obvious advantage and ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

There is only a 1.5 win gap with the No. [-] Pistons in the East.

After the downturn at the beginning of the season, the Bobcats' recent offensive has also become more and more fierce.

The current record of the team has already been able to squeeze into the ranks of the strong teams in the entire league.

Now in the entire league, only the Pistons, Spurs and Mavericks can beat the Bobcats in terms of record.

Even the Suns are currently one game behind the Bobcats.

So now the Bobcats are second in the Eastern Conference and fourth in the league, which really impresses many experts.

Originally at the beginning of the season, people had already predicted that the Bobcats might improve their record this season.

But no one thought that after just one season, the Bobcats had gone from being a team that was exempted from the playoffs to being able to compete with strong teams for the regular season throne.

Even judging from the record, they already have the capital to hit the championship.

It's just that compared with other teams, the current Bobcats team is indeed relatively immature. Apart from the lack of stars, most of them are rookies. In the playoffs, no one thinks that this team can go further.

More people are still optimistic that the Bobcats' best result this year is still to stop in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and it is difficult to make a breakthrough to enter the Eastern Conference Finals.

The many evaluations from the outside world also have great incentives for the Bobcats players.

After all, the dark horse appearance of the Bobcats today is also created by them.

And among the best players in the East and West last week.

The player of the week in the West was won by Duncan of the Spurs. Duncan led the Spurs to a record of four wins and zero losses last week.

个人方面，邓肯在上周场均出场38.6分钟，能够贡献出24.6分12.1篮板3.4助攻1.3抢断以及1.8次封盖的全能数据。

For the election of the best player of the week, there is absolutely no problem in terms of the team's record or personal data.

In the East's Player of the Week selection, it was won by Joe Johnson of the Bobcats.

Joe Johnson led the Bobcats to a record of three wins and zero losses last week, and his personal performance is also very dazzling.

Joe Johnson averaged 31.2 minutes per game last week and was able to efficiently contribute 24.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists.

And has a 48.7% shooting percentage and a 39.4% three-point shooting percentage.

In terms of personal performance, it is also becoming more and more efficient.

The improvement of Joe Johnson's personal efficiency is also due to the fact that the Bobcats are now cooperating more and more tacitly with each other as the season progresses.

This also allows Joe Johnson to reduce the ball-handling singles in his personal offense and use more tactics to catch and shoot off the ball.

This opportunity to get more obvious open shots also greatly improved Joe Johnson's personal efficiency.

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April 1

After a period of rest, the Bobcats have also been in full swing recently.

So on this day, they will also fly to the west to challenge Phoenix and the Phoenix Suns.

The Suns were still hit hard during the offseason, because Liu Rui's early calculations also made Joe Johnson finally come to the Charlotte Bobcats, and the deal with the Eagles did not happen.

This also led to the Suns not only losing Joe Johnson in vain, but also failing to get French magician Dior and draft picks from the Eagles.

This also makes the Suns this season can be said to have lost their wife and lost their troops.

After the lack of Joe Johnson, the Suns' offense has also plummeted this season. From the first in the league last season, to now the league can't make it to the top four. It can be said that it has experienced a deep sense of helplessness.

However, if only Joe Johnson is missing, then although there will be some heartache for this Suns team, it will not achieve the effect of self-destruction of an arm.

The worst thing is that the bully Stoudemire faced serious injuries early in the season and has still not been able to come back.

In this way, this Suns, which lacks both Joe Johnson and Stoudemire, is equivalent to having its own arm, and it will even be more serious.

Leading the remnant Suns also put a lot of pressure on Nash's shoulders.

When Nash won the regular season MVP, some people questioned it.

I think the Suns' record is too good, which is the main reason why Nash won the MVP.

So this season, the Suns lineup has suffered serious injuries and cuts. Under such circumstances, Nash still leads the Suns to rank among the top four in the Western Conference. This also proves from the side that his ability to win the MVP also depends on his absolute strength.

And when the Bobcats and the Suns played against each other, there were a lot of discussions in the league.

After all, D'Antoni and Liu Rui are currently one of the few head coaches in this league who are determined to play small balls and run.

In this era when the offense basically relies on star singles and the defense wins the championship, both D'Antoni and Liu Rui firmly believe in the tactics of focusing on offense.

And in a sense, both of them can be considered to have achieved success in different fields. Apart from becoming a clear stream of the alliance, they can also be regarded as one of the pioneers in promoting the reform of the alliance.

Because so far, the Suns' average offensive rounds per game ranks first in the league with an absolute lead.

Of course, this absolute advantage is relative to other teams in the league, which of course does not include the name of the Bobcats.

Because ranked second in the league, it is the Charlotte Bobcats.

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