Godfather of the NBA: Cutting Curry and creating a dynasty

The Clippers had a day off before preparing to host the New Orleans Hornets again.

They performed poorly last season, only ranking 37th in the Western Conference with a record of 45 wins and 12 losses.

If you really want to find any reason, it is that Peja Stojakovic's state has declined seriously, which has caused the Hornets to greatly reduce their flanking firepower.

But if you want Yang Li to say it, it should be that the entire Hornets team has been tortured by the nightmare of 58 points for a whole season.

This season, they are finally ready to forget the past and start over.

This summer, they brought in Marco Belinelli on the free market.

The purpose was to use it as a substitute for Peja, but it turned out that Belinelli was much easier to use than Peja.

Not only is his offensive ability stronger than Peja, who has declined, but his defense is a hundred times stronger than Peja's big colander!

Just the day before yesterday, the Hornets traded Peja Stojakovic to the Toronto Raptors along with Jerry Bayless.

In exchange for Jarrett Jack, Marcus Banks and David Anderson.

Yesterday, the Hornets played the first game with the new lineup and the Kings in the Western Conference.

That scene can only be described as pecking at each other, but fortunately, the new lineup is working well.

Although Paul only scored 9 points, he sent 14 assists and successfully connected the whole team.

In the end, the Hornets won the game.

Perhaps this game gave Paul confidence. Before the game, Paul was asked a question in an interview with the media, what kind of point guard is an excellent point guard.

Paul replied this way:

"The basketball education I received from a young age told me that the main responsibility of the point guard is to connect the whole team,

Secondly, his task is to score points, and I have always been working hard with this concept,

I try to be a good organizer, help my teammates score again and again, and win the final victory of the game,

In my opinion, if a point guard puts too much energy on the offense and neglects the responsibility of connecting the whole team,

Then he's an incompetent point guard who hasn't even done his job. "

The meaning of Paul's words is too obvious, and he is targeting Curry.

After all, Paul is now one of the best point guards in the league, but because of his poor record last season, he was directly excluded from the best team.

The main reason for being squeezed out is because of Curry's sudden birth!

If it weren't for Curry, he should still be selected to the third team of the best team.

In this game, Curry was unable to play because he was still recovering from an ankle injury.

So how could Paul give up this opportunity to talk about it, anyway, Curry couldn't play and slap himself in the face.

It is true to say so, but Curry can't fight, I, Yang Li, have other ways!

Today's game has become a scene of a large-scale disaster. Paul never dreamed that there would be such a game today.

Artest, Ginobili, Paul George, Harden, four people take turns to defend Paul.

On the premise of ensuring that he does not lose his position, he will rush directly to double-team Paul.

The purpose is to completely cut off Paul's connection with other teammates so that he cannot send assists.

What's more terrible is that Yang Li, who originally liked to watch the game quietly off the court, became very noisy today.

Every time Paul gets the ball, Yang Li will shout to the field: "Hey! Pay attention! Tactic 58!"

Not only the Clippers players, but even Paul himself knows that the Clippers have no 58 tactics!

This is what Yang Li deliberately shouted out to disgust him!

Under the double attack of physics and magic, Paul scored a poor 7 points only by himself.

And his assists in this game were only 0!

Without Paul's organization, the Hornets lost to the Clippers.

After the game, Yang Li took Curry, who did not play, to the interview session.

"I think a good point guard should not only be able to score, but more importantly, be able to connect the whole team,

Sending assists to teammates is the essential job of a point guard.

If you can't even send out an assist, I think this point guard is incompetent. "

The reporters on the scene laughed. Everyone knows that Paul of the Hornets did not send out a single assist today.

The reason why Yang Li said that was naturally because of the baby-faced Kuli who was wearing a suit beside him.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Yang Li added another knife, "I think a good point guard will not let the team lose to the opponent by 58 points in the playoffs."

After finishing speaking, Yang Li got up and took Curry away, leaving the group of reporters who had laughed out of control here.

After this game, Paul was hit hard by Yang Li, and he was depressed for three days.

Fortunately, Paul is also a very competitive person, and finally walked out.

Moreover, Yang Li's blow to him this time had the effect of fighting poison with poison.

Let Paul walk out of the shadow of 58 points directly and completely, and then soar into the sky.

Also soaring this season is the San Antonio Spurs.

On December 12, the Clippers played against the Spurs for the second time this season.

The situation of the Spurs was also introduced earlier. The Clippers lost to the Spurs in the game at the beginning of the season.

After that, the Spurs also became more and more courageous. Before today's game against the Clippers, their record was 15 wins and 2 losses.

Top the league leaderboard!

The current Spurs are terrifyingly strong, and the main reason for the Spurs' strength is Duncan's strong recovery.

In Yang Li's previous life, if GDP was the core component of the Spurs, Duncan was the core of the core.

His state can directly affect the state of the entire Spurs team.

Duncan's golf quotient is very high, and his ability to learn and read the game is very strong.

After finding a style of play that suits him now, he soared into the sky again.

In the previous 17 games, he averaged 19.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game.

At the same time, he can also send 5.7 assists to his teammates per game!

This is the first season since he entered the league that he averaged more than 5 assists per game.

The current Spurs have played a set of beautiful team basketball tactics with Duncan as the axis and Parker and Hill as the outside connection points.

The Spurs' entire team ran smoothly, without sloppiness or blind shots.

In short, it is the two words directed by Zhang: Reasonable!

Faced with a team like the Spurs, Yang Li had a very headache.

Today's game, well played is a battle of revenge.

If he doesn't play well, Yang Li will definitely be ridiculed by reporters for a long time.

The Clippers beat the Spurs completely last season. If they lose this time, they will be double-killed by the Spurs!

In fact, without Curry, the configuration of the two teams is similar.

However, even if Millsap has now entered the All-NBA third team, there is still an insurmountable gap between him and Duncan.

How to smooth the gap between Millsap and Duncan through the performance of players in other positions and the use of tactics.

It is the key to winning this game!