Chapter 315 Can the Bulls break this record this season?
At the end of the game, the Bulls defeated the Timberwolves 107-99, which made the Timberwolves suffer a lot.
Garnett mainly defended Lu Yu, and the two basically clashed with each other. Although they could score points on the offensive end, there was nothing good that Garnett could do against Lu Yu on the defensive end.
On November 16, the Bulls ushered in the first China Derby of the season.
The Bulls play in Seattle away from home.
As more Chinese players enter the NBA, the term "Chinese Derby" has become less rare. Lu Yu, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian and Battelle, the Chinese men's basketball team has almost put together a starting set. But if you look closely, the current
All five players played inside.
Lu Yu was originally an outside player, but he also played inside.
Everyone knows that if the Chinese men's basketball team needs it, Lu Yu can play on the outside at any time. After all, he is a man who can fight one against five!
The one-on-five mentioned here does not mean that one person can play against five opponents, but that one person can play in five positions.
This Chinese Derby is a game between the Bulls and SuperSonics.
The SuperSonics' performance this season can only be said to be average, and it has not improved much because of the addition of Yi Jianlian. After all, Yi Jianlian is still just a substitute player.
Rashard Lewis is the legitimate starting power forward.
A few days ago, Lewis scored a career-high 50 points in a game against the Lakers. It may not be easy for Yi Jianlian to stand out in the competition with Lewis.
However, the Sonics' center has never been fixed. Sometimes it is Reggie Evans, sometimes it is Vitali Potapenko, and sometimes McMillan will send Yi Jianlian.
Therefore, although Yi Jianlian is a substitute, his playing time is not low because he can play at the fourth and fifth positions.
The Bulls defeated the SuperSonics 103-86.
Lu Yu praised Yi Jianlian's performance after the game. Yi Jianlian was obviously more calm than Lu Yu remembered in his previous life. Although his personality was still a bit introverted, he obviously had no problem communicating with his teammates and was already familiar with some American-style jokes.
As for Yi Jianlian's future development, it is not something Lu Yu can worry about.
Everyone has their own path. Even in Lu Yu's previous life, Yi Jianlian finally returned to the CBA. It cannot be said that he did not do well, it was just a choice.
Only your feet know whether the shoes fit well or not.
And today's Yi Jianlian, after being tempered by the NCAA, is obviously more suitable for the NBA. It is only a matter of time before he becomes the main force, and even a star player is not impossible.
On November 19, the Bulls defeated the Suns. Although the team had three good players in Marbury, Marion and Stoudemire, the Suns played the game to pieces. Lu Yu played without any pressure at all.
There's no suspense and it doesn't make much sense.
Not as interesting as the confrontation between Lu Yu and Stoudemire.
I don’t know which guy came up with a point: "Lu Yu wants to challenge the insiders in the entire league!"
As a result, every time the power forwards in the league see Lu Yu, they feel like they have been given a gun. They want to press Lu Yu to the ground and rub him. If Lu Yu plays a shooting guard or a small forward, these insiders may be afraid.
, but now that Lu Yu is playing power forward, he is not letting them manipulate him.
It was only after the fight that I discovered that Lu Yu was not so easy to bully.
On November 22, the Bulls played against the Lakers again.
The remainder of November's schedule is not friendly to the Bulls. After the Lakers are the Kings, after the Kings are the Mavericks, and then last season's finals opponent, the Spurs.
Although all four games are played at home, these teams are all powerful teams in the Western Conference and may even become the Bulls' opponents in the finals. This is the moment to test the Bulls' strength.
The Zen Masters chose to rest their main players just like they did in the opening game.
The Lakers would rather beat the losers when playing against other teams than expose their strength in front of the Bulls. This makes Cartwright helpless. If the Lakers remain mysterious and only rely on game videos to analyze, the finals will really
Meeting the Lakers will definitely be troublesome.
The Bulls won the final game 103-89.
But everyone can see that after Lu Yu played power forward, the Bulls' offensive firepower dropped. Last season, the Bulls could easily score more than 110 or 20 points. This season, they are basically in the early 100s.
The scores hovered.
The reason why the Bulls were able to win was entirely due to their good defense.
The reason for the decline in offensive firepower is also very simple. Lu Yu has scored fewer points. Although Lu Yu has moved to the power forward position to make the team's lineup more balanced, his offensive firepower is a bit misfired because many of his previous scoring methods have been used.
There are fewer players, and he has just started playing the power forward position. Firstly, he is not used to it, and secondly, there are many top power forwards in the league at this time.
In this period, because of the presence of O'Neal, other centers are dimmed in the interior, but the position of power forward is different. The power forward in this period is an era where a hundred flowers bloom.
Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, Webber, Gasol, Malone, none of them are easy to beat.
On November 24, the Bulls faced the Kings.
Lu Yu met Chris Webber this time, and I have to say that Webber is really strong. In the eyes of many people, Webber's strength is not as good as that of Duncan, or even Nowitzki.
But during the confrontation with Lu Yu, it was discovered that Weber was really difficult to deal with.
Not only can he attack in the low post, but he can also assist his teammates. How should I put it, if Lu Yu wants to play power forward, he feels that Weber is his best learning model.
Of course, the way the two play now is somewhat similar.
The performance of the two people is almost the same.
Lu Yu had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, and Webb had 23 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists. Who can win the game depends on the performance of his teammates.
At the last moment of the game, the Kings were trailing 98 to 100 by two points. Weber held the ball in the middle, attracted Hamilton to double attack, and then passed the ball to the baseline partner Jia.
Pei Jia raised his knife and shot a three-pointer, but... he made a three-pointer.
The Kings lost.
In this gorgeous and smooth Kings team, Chris Webber, known as the "Big Magician", is undoubtedly the absolute soul supporting the Princeton system. His supporting passes are unparalleled among all insiders in NBA history.
To its right.
It can be said that no matter which team, they are afraid of playing the Kings.
It's very sad that the peak Webber and the powerful King just happened to catch up with the unsolvable Sharks and the Lakers at their peak, just like the peak Barkley and Utah duo met the god-like Jordan.
What follows is a tragic continuation.
In Lu Yu's previous life, in the second game of the 2003 Western Conference semifinals, Webber injured his knee and the Kings lost to the Mavericks in the seventh game.
In 2004, they fell at the feet of the Timberwolves in the tiebreaker.
Even looking at the history of the NBA, it is difficult to find another team with as many "ifs" as the Kings. Even if any of the "ifs" becomes a fact, their ending may be different.
Midway through the 2004-05 season, Webber was sent to the 76ers by the Kings. After that, he briefly played for the Pistons and Warriors, but after leaving Sacramento, the "King" was no longer the king.
After playing 9 games with the Warriors in 2008, Webber announced his retirement at a press conference, ending a 15-year career.
Doug Christie said this when evaluating Webber: "Webber is a superstar with his own system. He was capable of averaging 35 points and 17 rebounds per game, but in order to integrate the team into the offense, Webber made
It's a big sacrifice, and he sets off the whole team beautifully, and he is a great basketball architect."
Of course, this sentence was now said in advance by Cartwright.
After winning the game against the Kings, Cartwright said in an interview: "Lu Yu is a player with his own system. I still remember last season when Lu Yu often scored 3,040 or even 50,60 games, but for
The team's lineup is more reasonable, and Lu Yu has made sacrifices again and again, from the shooting guard he is familiar with, to the small forward, and then to the power forward. I dare say that throughout the history of the NBA, no team boss will do this.
The team makes adjustments like this.”
"Lu Yu is a selfless player and a player with a strong learning ability. He will become the best power forward in the league, just like he was the best shooting guard and the best small forward in the league."
"He is such a genius!"
After two days of rest, the Bulls ushered in another China Derby, against the Dallas Mavericks.
After Wang Zhizhi's explosive performance in the playoffs last season, his status on the team this season has not been improved. He is still the bench gangster and Nowitzki's substitute.
Everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Wang Zhizhi leaves the Mavericks.
Mavericks owner Cuban will not trade Nowitzki. Wang Zhizhi will never have a chance to make a comeback in the competition with Nowitzki. Although Nelson likes Wang Zhizhi very much, he also tries his best to let Wang Zhizhi play a few starts at the center position.
But the effect is not ideal.
The styles of Wang Zhizhi and Nowitzki are so similar that they need to be paired with an inside man who can do the dirty work.
When two people are on the court at the same time, who is protecting the rim in the paint?
However, Wang Zhizhi played very well, which put Nelson into troubles of happiness. He was happy that Wang Zhizhi could play well, but he also knew that Wang Zhizhi was ambitious and wanted to start.
He knew that Cuban had already had the idea of trading Wang Zhizhi, and the purpose was to trade for a capable center when Wang Zhizhi had the most trading value.
There is no center forward!
This is the biggest problem for this Mavericks team.
Nelson was helpless. When the team could not meet the needs of the players, the final result could only be to part ways, although he was very reluctant to part with Wang Zhizhi, the player he brought from China.
Cuban was also helpless. He also wanted the Chinese market, just like the Bulls, and Wang Zhizhi also brought him benefits.
But compared to Wang Zhizhi, he is more optimistic about Nowitzki.
Nowadays, Wang Zhizhi's share of the NBA's Chinese market is not large. After all, there are already many Chinese players playing in the NBA.
So after comparing the two, Cuban has begun to accept offers from other teams.
The Mavericks were without a center, so the Bulls' Brad Miller was having a lot of fun playing. He hadn't played so well for a long time, and Lu Yu also felt a little relaxed in his first confrontation with the league's top power forward.
Yes, Nowitzki is really soft.
This softness is compared to several others. He prefers to shoot from the outside and is not so fierce in fighting inside, which makes it easier for Lu Yu to fight.
In shooting competition, is he better than Lu Yu?
And at this time, Nowitzki was not yet independent. Old fans all know that Nowitzki began to practice this skill hard and complete technical upgrades in the 2008 offseason. At that time, Nowitzki was always
Being blocked by some short players limited his efficiency and performance. When the Golden Rooster was invented and applied independently, Nowitzki made up for this weakness.
But now, he was feeling uncomfortable being guarded by Lu Yu.
At the end of the game, the Bulls defeated the Mavericks 101-92.
Then there was the game against the Spurs the next day.
These two opponents who met in the finals last season met for the first time this season.
This season both teams have maintained their lineups from last season. The only change is that Lu Yu and Duncan have played against each other.
The two teams played very civilly, and Bowen was relieved knowing that he didn't have to defend Lu Yu.
But when he found out that he needed to defend Hamilton, he couldn't help but become nervous. He was very good at defending single players, but guarding a player who is good at running without the ball always felt like being walked.
In last season's finals, many fans said that if Bowen hadn't been injured, the Bulls might not have won.
Therefore, the attention of this game is not low at all.
Especially the matchup between Lu Yu and Duncan.
But in the end, everyone was surprised to find that the duel between the back lines became the focus of the game. The back lines of the two teams have completely different styles. Hamilton and Richardson are like two forts, while Parker and Ginobi
Sharp is like two sharp knives.
Different styles create different game rhythms.
The two teams went back and forth, and there was no winner until the last three minutes of the fourth quarter. At this time, Cartwright directly changed the formation, Lu Yu returned to the small forward position, and the Bulls were in a flurry.
Took away the game.
Everyone can see that when Lu Yu plays small forward, the Bulls' offense is the strongest.
Cartwright also knows that when Lu Yu plays power forward, the team's strength has actually become weaker. Although it is more balanced, it obviously lacks offensive firepower. However, Lu Yu has repeatedly insisted on playing power forward. Now Lu Yu is no longer a newcomer.
A rookie in the league can play whatever position he is asked to play. Now that Lu Yu is the Bulls' star player, he has the right to choose the position he likes.
Just like Duncan chose to play power forward in order to avoid confrontation with O'Neal.
The regular season doesn't matter to Cartwright, just let Lu Yu practice.
The result is that although the Bulls' offensive firepower has declined, the overall defensive intensity has been significantly improved by a level compared to last season. You must know that the Bulls' defense last season was actually one of the best teams in the league. Now the Bulls' defense in the regular season
The end has not exerted much force yet. If it really exerts its force, other teams in the league may truly realize the horror of the Bulls' defense.
The most important thing is that Cartwright discovered that Lu Yu is getting better and better at the power forward position.
From the beginning, he could only bully weak power forwards on weak teams. Now, after the regular season in November, he has played a total of sixteen games and has been able to compete with the league's top power forwards.
And the Bulls won all 16 games.
Starting with a 16-game winning streak, Lu Yu was elected the Eastern Conference Player of the Month with averages of 21.7 points, 10.3 rebounds, 7.9 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game.
It's the same winning streak as last season, but last season the Bulls failed to break the 33-game winning streak.
Fans are beginning to look forward to it. Can the Bulls break this record this season?
