Chapter 187 With a losing streak, will the scumbag celebrate the festival alone?
Back at home, the Bulls face the Golden State Warriors.
Before the game, Lu Yu invited Arenas to dinner. Arenas was envious of Lu Yu's treatment in the Bulls, and was even more speechless when talking about his status in the Golden State Warriors.
The season has been played for almost two months now, and he has started only a handful of games.
For the position of point guard, he has to compete with Larry Hughes. For the position of shooting guard, he has to compete with Jason Richardson. He was so angry that he said, "When I become a free agent,
I will definitely leave Jinzhou as soon as possible without taking it back.
But there was still a bit of unwillingness in his words.
In fact, this year's Golden State Warriors are really full of talent.
The defenders include Arenas, Jason Richardson and Larry Hughes.
At the small forward position, Antawn Jamison has firmly established himself as the leading scorer.
His scoring ability is really explosive.
Last year was his rookie season. He scored 37 points and 18 rebounds against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He scored 33 points and 21 rebounds against the Dallas Mavericks. He scored a career-high 51 points against the Seattle Bulls.
Three days later, against the Lakers' OK team, Kobe scored 51 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. He scored 51 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and also led the Warriors to a win over the Lakers.
This is the third time in NBA history that someone from both sides has scored more than 50 points. The most recent time in this game occurred on December 15, 1962. In that game, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors
Scored 63 points, and the Lakers' Elgin Baylor scored 50 points.
For Jamison, this is also the second consecutive game in which he scored 51 points. In the game against the Bulls three days ago, Jamison also scored 51 points.
However, many years later, these two former enemies turned out to be teammates, and they had to sigh at the wonder of fate.
Let’s talk about the current Warriors team.
Their power forward is rebounding monster Danny Fortson, and their center is Eric Dampier.
There are also excellent insiders like Troy Murphy and Mark Jackson on the bench, as well as scorers like Bob Sura.
Such a talented team is actually ranked last in the Western Conference. You can imagine how fierce the competition is in today's league. Talent alone is not enough, but also the ability to realize the talent immediately.
During the game, Arenas was actually sitting on the bench. He couldn't help but feel a little envious when he saw Lu Yu directing his teammates on the court, as if he was the boss of the team.
Just a few months ago, the two of them were competing against each other in the NCAA finals. Now Lu Yu has thrown him so far that he can't even see the taillights, and he can't help but fall into deep confusion.
He raised his head and saw a long pass from Hughes. Jason Richardson flew high in the air, flew to the basket, and slammed the basketball in.
Lu Yu wiped the sweat from his head and glanced at Trenton Hassell with some sympathy.
Fortunately, this ball was not defended by oneself, otherwise the background board of the five best balls would have become one's own.
No wonder Arenas can't compete.
In terms of physical talent, he is definitely not as good as Richardson. Whether it is height or jumping, Arenas does not compare with Richardson. In terms of scoring ability, Arenas, who has not yet become a great player, has no scoring ability.
How much did Richardson explode.
How about comparing it to Larry Hughes?
It's possible to compete, but currently, Arenas' defense is not as sophisticated as Hughes's. There is only one basketball on the court, so everyone can't score.
When the team has two scoring points in Jamison and Richardson, it definitely needs a reliable defender on the back line.
Just like the Bulls, when Lu Yu, Artest and Miller are on the court at the same time, they will send Hassell and Oakley or Chandler instead of Marcus Fizer.
But the Warriors and Bulls are two different approaches.
The Bulls use iron-blooded methods to directly establish the core lineup, increase the team's competitiveness, and make the team rise rapidly, while the Warriors secretly let players compete with each other. If you play well today, you will be the starter. If he plays well tomorrow,
You just go back to the bench, not only the outside line, but also the competition among them inside.
Danny Fortson is such a powerful rebounding monster, contributing 11.2 points and 11.7 rebounds per game, becoming the first Warriors player in 16 years to rank in the top five in the league's season rebounding list after Larry Smith.
He was the only one who had to be chased closely by Murphy behind him. If he wasn't careful, he would become a substitute.
On the surface, this is a healthy competition, but in fact it makes the players demotivated. The team is mostly young people, and no one is convinced. The good competition has turned into a vicious one, and most importantly, such a changeable lineup.
, there is no stability at all.
The Bulls finally defeated the Warriors 103:87.
But after this game, the Bulls' games became more and more difficult to play. It should be said that it became more and more difficult for Lu Yu to play. As NBA teams pay more and more attention to him, he now plays in every game.
It was very difficult, and all teams studied the Bulls more thoroughly.
In addition to the pincer attack on Lu Yu, there are endless attacks on the front line and attack tactics against Miller.
After an unexpected loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1, the team still felt like it was overturned in the gutter, but when they lost to the Toronto Raptors in Game 2, Cartwright's face was already clouded with sadness.
Vince Carter didn't give the Bulls any chance. He mainly defended Lu Yu from the beginning, and from time to time he would arrange for Arroyo to be the sixth man. In the end, he took away the victory from the United Center in Chicago 98:93.
Then the team lost to the Timberwolves again.
After a three-game losing streak, the Bulls' record dropped to sixth place in the Eastern Conference.
"Lu Yu encounters the rookie wall and is in a sluggish state. Is the Bulls' backcourt engine oil leaking?" - espn
"The Bulls' inside line will become the team's biggest hidden danger." - Chicago Sports News.
"There is no doubt that the Rookie of the Year in the Western Conference in December will be a counterattack from the Spaniard!" - TNT Weekly.
Even though Pau Gasol also lost, he lost because the team was not good, and when Lu Yu lost, it was his own problem.
Because the Bulls were the fourth-ranked team in the league before.
At this time, Lu Hei people will not attribute the reason why the Bulls were able to reach fourth place in the Eastern Conference to Lu Yu's contribution.
During this period, the Grizzlies' Pau Gasol averaged 23.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. In comparison, Lu Yu's slump made Lu Hei even mock the Bulls' wrong choice.
Lu Hei doesn’t care who the Rookie of the Month was last month!
Lu Yu was also helpless. He had guessed that the team would lose, but he didn't expect that the loss would come so quickly. The flaws in the team's lineup will definitely lead to targeting when they encounter strong teams.
Especially the inside line. In this era where the inside line dominates the world, the Bulls' inside line weakness has been infinitely magnified.
Although Miller has a good shooting ability and has certain confrontation and footwork in the interior, Garnett still suffers a little when facing Jermaine O'Neal, not to mention that he will encounter historical players such as Duncan and O'Neal in the future.
inside line.
There are also deficiencies in the scoring ability of shooting guards and forwards, and Lu Yu has not fully grown up.
These doomed the Bulls to not go far this season.
For general manager Krause, he obviously has no idea of reinforcement. At least when there are no big fish in the trading market, he will not blindly trade, not to mention that his goal this season is not to win the championship at all.
, as long as the team can enter the playoffs.
Christmas is coming soon, and for the NBA, the annual Christmas game is coming. The Bulls, a weak team last season, did not have the task of Christmas game, so every player on the team got a short
Christmas holidays.
After Christmas, the Bulls will compete with the Grizzlies at the United Center.
CCTV will also broadcast this game, and the duel between Lu Yu and Pau Gasol attracted everyone's attention.
CCTV even put up the slogan "Second place vs. No. 3" before the Christmas game.
Lu Yu doesn't care about the competition with Pau Gasol, nor does he care about whether he can win the Rookie of the Month in December. He is just soaking in the training hall. The team has no better solution and is currently being used by other teams.
Before targeting methods, improving yourself is the best way.
After the training, Lu Yu, who had just finished taking a shower, glanced at the system panel.
[Host: Lu Yu]
[Water breathing method: 76%]
[Thunder Breathing Technique: 71%]
[Fire Breathing Method: 60%]
[Wind breathing method: 37%]
The Wind Breathing Technique has improved quite quickly. It is estimated that he will be able to increase it to 50% without waiting until the end of the regular season. With the improvement of agility, he is also more confident in stealing, but the difficulty of improvement is also getting higher and higher.
The bigger it is, because the upper limit of physical strength is also increasing. It takes almost forty minutes longer to use up every physical strength in every training than before entering the NBA.
Also training with Lu Yu was Artest.
After the training, Lu Yu asked: "Ron, do you want to have dinner together tonight?"
Artest shook his head: "Next time, today is Christmas Eve, and I want to go back to be with my family."
Lu Yu then remembered that tomorrow is Christmas, December 25th.
"Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, these holidays should be very important to Americans."
I don’t know how I managed to get away with the last Thanksgiving. I just had three consecutive visits from the devil two days ago. I didn’t expect that Christmas would come so soon.
Lu Yu sighed. Scumbags are most afraid of celebrating the holidays because they don't know who to accompany.
"I arranged for Jessica to change her major some time ago. She should be very busy. She will send a message later to reveal that she will be preparing to strengthen training in the past two days and will not fly to Chicago."
"Anne Hathaway is very busy filming, and she never pays attention to holidays, so you can ignore them."
"Scarlett attaches great importance to the ritual of celebrating the holidays. She will tell her later that she has work arrangements. She is not Jessica and does not understand her work plans. There is a high probability that she can get away with it."
Lu Yu was too tired during this period. He just wanted to be alone for a while.
On the way back, he sent a message to Jessica, and Jessica called within two minutes.
Jessica was indeed busy studying for her new major. If Lu Yu didn't remind her, she would have forgotten that today was Christmas Eve.
Finally, she thoughtfully said Happy Christmas Eve to Lu Yu and hung up the phone.
I called Annie, but no one answered.
Just as she was about to call someone else, Annie's call came back. Annie said anxiously that she was busy. Lu Yu asked her to remember to buy something delicious to reward herself today. It was Christmas Eve, and Annie agreed repeatedly.
When she hung up the phone, she whispered that she would go back to Chicago to be with Lu Yu when the film was finished.
Just after hanging up the phone, Scarlett called first.
She planned to come to Chicago to find Lu Yu, but was directly rejected by Lu Yu. She muttered for a long time, and finally agreed reluctantly until Lu Yu's work schedule was too full recently.
Everything was settled and Lu Yu arrived home.
It feels so good to spend the holidays alone without having to prepare Christmas gifts for my girlfriends.
As a result, before I even opened the door, a cold voice came from the next door.
"Huh? That's so weird."
"You didn't go to spend the holiday with your girlfriends tonight?"
