The invincible kryptonite of basketball

In the second half, the Mavericks launched a crazy offensive under the leadership of Butler and Nowitzki.

However, with the outstanding performance of Jokic and Bojan, the Pelicans finally defeated the Mavericks at home 97 to 93, extending the winning streak to 7 games!

Jokic scored a triple-double of 26 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, playing his strongest game of the season.

Bo Yang made 7 three-pointers and scored 23 points and 5 rebounds.

Tang Tian and Davis were not there, but Jokic and Bojan stood up!

"The last game I played against the Spurs was a bit lucky, but this time I won the Mavericks without the three main players. I can only say that the Pelicans are really strong now!"

"Bojan is underestimated, his defense is not as bad as expected, but his offense is much better than expected, he is a top scorer!"

"It's not just Bojan, Dinwiddie and Aminu also completed their tasks well in more time. The Pelicans really have a lot of people who can play, and they can fight tough battles!"

"This is what Stevens does when he expands the rotation. This is what a strong team does!"

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This wave of seven consecutive victories has won, and the outside support for the Pelicans has reached a new climax.

In the absence of major generals, they can still win a winning streak, as fans say on social media, the Pelicans have grown into a real strong team.

The outside world also has a new understanding of Stevens' coaching ability.

The decision of the Pelicans to change their head coach in the summer was praised by the media as one of the best operations in history.

The only one who was not surprised was Tang Tian. He knew that Stevens in history had done similar things with the Celtics.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this thing is the system.

Similar to the Spurs, players who perform their part of the task well within the system will naturally perform well and the team will win the game.

Back-to-back wins over the Spurs and Mavericks gave the Pelicans a boost.

In the next week, Davis returned to the team, and they successively defeated the Suns, Kings and Wizards.

After the 25-game winning streak was ended, they ushered in another wave of 10 consecutive victories!

It's really like what Stevens said, the end of the winning streak freed the players from the psychological burden, and they started a new wave of winning streaks!

而且更值得欣喜的是，戴维斯在过去一周场均能够得到27.5分12.3板3.6盖帽2.1抢断，投篮命中率高达57%！

With such performance, he won the best award of the week for the first time in his career!

When Tang Tian was absent, Davis played an absolutely responsible performance!

But this is the fourth year of his career, he should also have this performance.

Double happiness, after Davis won the best of the week, the Pelicans also ushered in Tang Tian's comeback.

The five-match suspension was not long, but it was not short either. Tang Tian had been away from the stadium for nearly half a month.

In the first training session after the comeback, a lot of media came to the scene.

"Does it bother you that the team continues to win during your suspension?"

Most reporters ask the usual questions, but there are always those who like to go out of their way, and that's always been the case with FOX Sports reporters.

This is the standard way of asking "it's not terrible to win, but it's embarrassing to miss someone".

"Of course not. I saw the improvement of Davis, I saw the performance of Jokic, and I saw Bojan's three-pointer. I am happy for them."

Tang Tian was in a good mood, he didn't argue with the reporter, and these words were true.

If it was last season, or even last season, if he didn't play, the Pelicans would definitely struggle, and Davis couldn't play this kind of performance.

Now that the strength of his teammates has improved, the Pelicans have a better chance of hitting the championship. He must be happy.

Interestingly, Tang Tian's opponent in the first game after his comeback was the Trail Blazers.

The Blazers ended the Pelicans' 25-game winning streak last time, and now the Pelicans are ushering in a new wave of 10-game winning streak, and the two teams are fighting again.

The Trail Blazers are still in hot form recently, and their record has even surpassed the Thunder.

Playing against them, the game will definitely not be too easy.

But just like Tang Tian showed in the interview, the Pelicans are now very confident and have a good mentality to face any opponent.

The next night, the Pelicans played at home for their second game of the season against the Trail Blazers.

Before the start of the game, the live camera was given to Lillard.

In the last game, Lillard killed the Quartet to help the team win, and the scene of raising his hands to celebrate after the game is also vivid.

Now that the two teams are playing against each other again, it is destined to be another fierce battle.

The game started quickly, but after the game started, it was different from what many people imagined.

Perhaps it was because he hadn't played for a long time, but Tang Tian seemed very excited after the game started.

He took the initiative to switch on Lillard and went all out, Lillard was forced to have a hard time getting a shot.

On the offensive end, he knew that Davis was in good shape recently, so he gave Davis more shots.

Davis also lived up to expectations. On the offensive end, playing Feng Lai and Plumlee is one-on-one.

The Trail Blazers have relied on two guns to stay competitive this season.

But after Lillard was locked up by Tang Tian, ​​McCollum didn't have Lillard's containment, and coupled with Holiday's defense, he played in no condition.

The two guns misfired, and the Trail Blazers were struggling.

The Blazers ended the Pelicans' 25-game winning streak in the last game, but this time they didn't have many chances since the start.

Leading by 15 points at halftime, the 25-point difference at the end of the third quarter has ended the game early.

In the end, 7 Pelicans scored in double figures and beat the Trail Blazers 115 to 91, gaining 11 consecutive victories.

Davis continued his fiery touch and scored a team-high 23 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks.

唐天在复出之后的第一场只打了三节，而且只出手了11次，11投7中高效的贡献了17分5板6助攻4抢断2封盖。

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Chapter 7: Tang Tian Breaks All-Star Ticket King Record (Second Update!)

The Pelicans have won 11 consecutive victories, and their record has come to a terrifying 36 wins and 1 loss!

When the time entered mid-January, people discovered for the first time that the momentum of the Pelicans actually had the hope of hitting the best record in regular season history!

The best regular season record in NBA history is 72 wins and 10 losses, which was set by the Bulls in the 1995-1996 season.

At that time, Jordan returned two years after his retirement and was still in hot form. Pippen also grew into a superstar. Coupled with Rodman, the Bulls were almost invincible at the time.

The Bulls didn't even play the fans and they knew they were strong.

But the current performance of the Pelicans, just like ESPN's prediction that it ranked first and was complained by fans, is absolutely unexpected, and even completely unexpected.

Cole's 67 wins in his first season as a coach last year was amazing enough, but Stevens' first season in his Pelicans career should be shocking enough!

The Pelicans continue to triumph.

Against the Jazz on January 1, the Jazz played tenaciously, and the Pelicans stalemate until the fourth quarter. Tang Tian and Davis joined hands to play a wave to end the game.

唐天得到27分5板9助攻，戴维斯砍下24分12板3盖帽。

Against the Clippers on January 1, the Clippers were in hot form and played against the Pelicans until the last minute.

Lou Williams scored 30 points, including a late [-]-pointer that sent the game into overtime.

But in overtime, Tang Tian scored 10 points to dominate the game, and the Pelicans finally won.

唐天砍下了复出之后的第一个30+，35分7板5助攻，博扬投进5个三分拿下20分。

While the Pelicans won 13 consecutive victories, their record has further expanded to 38 wins and 1 loss!

With this outstanding performance, the Pelicans beat the Warriors with 34 wins and 5 losses and continued to hold the top spot in the league.

Tang Tian also continued to suppress Curry's position at the top of the MVP list.

And on this day, the league announced the voting results for the 2016 Toronto All-Star Game.

Tang Tian got 322 million votes. Not only did he complete the three consecutive All-Star votes, his votes also broke the record of 2009 million created by Howard in 315, becoming the owner of a new record for the number of votes in the NBA!

The Pelicans played an unbelievable performance. Tang Tian's popularity in the United States and China has reached a peak. It is expected that he will get such a number of votes.

Kobe Bryant ranked second in the number of votes. He ushered in the last season of his career and got 200 million votes.

Curry came in third with 190 million votes.

The three became the starting backcourt and small forward in the West.

The remaining two starting positions in the West are Leonard (80) and Durant (100 million).

In the East, James won 120 million votes and became the Eastern Conference vote leader.

The remaining four starters are Lowry (65), Wade (95), Anthony (85) and George (70).

Tang Tian broke the All-Star voting record, which is a huge boost to the morale of the Pelicans.

Especially since they are about to usher in their second match against the Warriors this season.

The game was played at Oracle Arena, and the Pelicans went to Oakland a day earlier and conducted public training the next morning.

The morale of the players is high, and the atmosphere in both training and the locker room is high.

Tang Tian had just finished being interviewed by reporters on the sidelines. When he returned to the locker room from the training ground, he found Stevens and Williams talking.

Williams looked anxious.

When he walked over, the communication between the two had ended. Williams saw Tang Tian, ​​said hello, and left in a hurry.

Tang Tian was very puzzled. The game started at night, and Williams left the arena in such a hurry.

"Monty's wife was in a car accident and the situation is critical. He needs to go back to New Orleans."

Stevens said with a sigh.

Tang Tian was startled when he heard this, and remembered something.

In his previous life, Williams' wife also died in a car accident this year.

Because of this incident, the NBA also awarded Williams an honor called the Sage Strong Award in 2018, which is used to recognize Williams' story of persisting in working and raising four children after suffering misfortune.

Unexpectedly, history repeated itself, just like Holiday's wife's brain cancer.

But this is also a reasonable thing, what Tang Tian travels affects is the part related to him, and what has nothing to do with him will naturally happen.

And this matter is different from that of Holiday's wife. You can warn of illness, but accidents are unavoidable.

Just like the Grim Reaper series, the accidents that are avoided will always continue to happen in other ways.

All Tang Tian can do now is pray that Williams' wife is okay just like Stevens.

After communicating with Tang Tian, ​​Stevens also went to the locker room to announce the matter.

Although doing so will worry the players, it is even more unreasonable for Williams to miss the game for no reason as the first assistant coach.

Williams coached the Pelicans for 3 seasons, and core players like Davis, Holiday, and Tang Tian all played 2 seasons under his coaching.

And Williams is good at interpersonal communication, even the team newcomers like Bojan and Harris have a good relationship with him.

It can be said that the whole team was worried and worried after hearing the news.

"Guys, we need to win games and that's the only thing we can do."

Stevens felt the mentality of the players and spoke to encourage morale.

The team members nodded one after another, but judging from the responses, they were still worried.

This kind of worry was finally reflected on the field. The overall performance of the Pelicans tonight was not in the state.

Even Tang Tian and Davis had ups and downs due to emotional impact.

In the end, the Pelicans lost the game 106 to 116, swallowing their second loss of the season.

However, winning or losing the game is no longer the focus of the Pelicans at this time, and they did not hold a press conference after the game.

They flew back to New Orleans overnight to visit Williams' wife in the hospital.

Williams was sitting outside the operating room with a haggard look on his face. Beside him were four sons and daughters, all of whom were somewhat injured.