After two consecutive losses on November 19, the entire Wizards team immediately arrived in Detroit, Michigan on a team plane. On the 21st, they will face the Detroit Pistons at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The latter is currently ranked with a record of 4 wins and 8 losses. Ranked third from the bottom in the Eastern Conference, since Chauncey Billups and Rasheed Wallace left the team, the most civilian championship team has lost its glory. Like the city where it is located, Detroit, The path of decline.
Although the Pistons' current record is not very good, the Wizards still dare not take it lightly. After all, even the Bobcats dare to lose. What team can't lose?
Lose to Boston first, then lose to the Grizzlies after Boston loses, then lose to the Charlotte Bobcats after the Grizzlies lose, and then they don’t have to lose, what else can they do? No need to lose face.
Fortunately, NbA does not have a relegation system like football. Otherwise, according to the opinions of online fans, the Wizards would have been assigned to cbA long ago.
Due to the poor performance of the team in two consecutive games, Li Kaiming also trained hard these two days, focusing all his attention on the next game, and at the same time, the players in the team focused on training hard. superior.
Since Boston, he rarely speaks in pre-game or post-game press conferences. He basically answers questions with some gibberish to deal with reporters.
Li Kaiming didn't have time to look at what the Internet said about him and the Wizards, but based on his understanding of those brainless sunspots, he could think of nothing good that those guys could say with his toes.
So Li Kaiming simply covered his head and pretended to be dead, did not read the comments on the Internet, and just pretended that these things had not happened yet.
Rashard Lewis arrived in Washington after playing in the Boston game. However, because the league officials had to conduct necessary physical examinations on the traded players, Lewis did not play in these two games. However, the latter had already reached an agreement with Li Kaiming. He contacted the Wizards and said in the message that he would focus on the Wizards with Li Kaiming as the core and focus all his attention on winning for the team.
Li Kaiming naturally makes friends with such veterans with respect. Veterans are called veterans not only because they have richer experience on the field, but also have a dignity in the locker room that novices do not have. Li Kaiming He needs such a veteran to help him suppress the locker room. After all, no matter how strong he is on the field, he is still a young player under the age of 20.
According to Sanders, Lewis will be able to play after they return to their home court again, which is the next game against the Philadelphia 76ers on the 23rd. It can be seen that Sanders is also looking forward to Lewis' appearance. After all, he couldn't wait to try out his tactics in an official game.
After more than a day and a half of hard training, at six o'clock in the afternoon on the 21st, in the palace of Auburn Hills, where "the most notorious brawl in NBA history" took place, the referee on duty blew his whistle. , and then threw the ball into the air, and the Wizards kicked off their 12th regular season game this season.
As soon as the first quarter started, the Wizards showed a very obvious inside advantage. Li Kaiming and Blatche scored 7 points and 5 points respectively in a single quarter, and their shooting percentages were extremely high. The Pistons' Ben Wallace was 206 tall. The defensive effect brought by it is impossible to stop players like Li Kaiming who can shoot and pass without any blind spots. Not to mention Li Kaiming, even Blatche can hit a few hooks on Wallace's head, and also Can hit.
Although the Wizards have a significant inside advantage, when it is the turn to compare the strength of outside players, the Wizards' outside players are somewhat inadequate. Although the guard combination of Hinrich and Nick Young can be regarded as not holding back, but If you look closely, you can see that one is older and can shoot but can't break through, and the other is too young and only knows how to get the ball and can't see his teammates.
Looking at the opposite Pistons, one masked man, Richard Hamilton, can equal the combined effect of Hinrich and Nick Young. In addition, several other outside players on the opposite side also broke out. Denistaki scored 7 points in a single quarter by himself, giving up all Li Kaiming's points. After changing to the substitute lineup, the Wizards were completely unwatchable. Basically, they just had to wait and see when Li Kaiming would come back before they could barely keep up with the opponent. Offensive intensity.
Under such circumstances, the Wizards fell behind in the first quarter as expected, trailing by 7 points 17-24 in a single quarter.
Seeing that the team was about to repeat the same mistakes as before, Li Kaiming couldn't help it in the second quarter and simply exploded with all his strength. Facing the two dwarf insiders of the Pistons, Li Kaiming scored 18 points in a single quarter with sudden outside shots, while the Wizards The team scored 38 points in a single quarter and led the score by 3 points after halftime, 55 to 52!
But Li Kaiming's bursts also require a lot of touch. Sometimes the touch is so confusing. If you keep playing on the court, you may be able to maintain the hot touch until the end of the game, but as long as you take a break after the game, your body temperature will drop. If it goes down, the feel will also decrease.
Li Kaiming encountered this problem in the third quarter. Even if he subjectively wanted to take more shots and expand his lead as much as possible, so that when he came off the field, he could buy more time for the team's weak substitutes, but God stood on the opposite side tonight. After about 20 minutes of rest, the feeling of being able to shoot no matter how hard he shot in the second quarter completely disappeared. So Li Kaiming tried a few times from the outside and found that the touch was not good. He immediately changed his style of play, focusing on breaking through and driving his teammates.
Fortunately, the opposing Pistons are not the kind of team with a strong offense, so after the three quarters, although the point difference was recovered a little by the Pistons, the Wizards still led the Pistons by 1 point, 78 to 77.
Li Kaiming didn't want to try the taste of a losing streak, so he applied to play again at the beginning of the fourth quarter and led the team in a fierce battle with the opponent. Unfortunately, the explosion in the second quarter seemed to completely consume his touch tonight, even though he was close. I didn't try any outside shots in the first quarter, but my outside shooting in the fourth quarter still didn't get back to form, so I could only use breakthroughs to equalize with the Pistons.
I don’t know if the team is willing to accept him. When Li Kaiming felt good in the second quarter, the team’s outside players Hinrich, Nick Young and Al Thornton also felt very good. But in the second half, When Li Kaiming's touch was not good, none of these people could make a shot. Li Kaiming even doubted whether these guys were negotiated and bribed by Arenas to deliberately embarrass him.
However, as soon as this idea appeared in his mind, he immediately abandoned it.
Are you kidding me? If Arenas had such great powers, would he still be traded?
The result of the fierce battle between the two sides for 48 minutes was a 102 draw, so after a short intersection break, the two sides entered a five-minute overtime.
Because Li Kaiming's touch was so bad in the second half, even with the bonus of the key shooter in the [Outside Offensive Badge], he only scored 4 points in the five-minute overtime, and the entire Wizards team Only scored 8 points. When you only score 4 points in overtime, and these 4 points are half of the team's total score, it is difficult for you to win, and the Wizards are no exception.
The opposite Detroit Pistons actually showed a hint of the defense of the team that won the championship in overtime, and Richard Hamilton was on full fire in overtime, shooting 5 of 6 and 2 of 2 free throws to score 12 points. One person scored more points than the Wizards combined, so it's not surprising that the Wizards lost.
At the end of the game, the Washington Wizards lost to the Detroit Pistons 110-115 after overtime, losing their third consecutive game.
Li Kaiming played for 42 minutes and scored 36 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal. The statistics were very luxurious, but in Li Kaiming's view, no matter how luxurious the statistics were, they were useless without winning.
Perhaps Li Kaiming himself did not expect that he actually held the same opinions as his anti-fans on this topic.
Li Kaiming, the idiots on the Internet, laughed so hard that they almost reached the back of their heads when they saw that the Wizards had a straightforward three-game losing streak after trading Arenas!
"Look, let me tell you, the Wizards were able to win so many games before, it must be because of Arenas' presence. It's a pity that Li Kaiming took Arenas's benefits and not only did he not know how to be grateful, he even kicked out Arenas. No wonder Arenas was so angry and scolded him by name on his personal Twitter, I would scold him too!"
"Arenas is really miserable. He worked hard to lead the team to the first place in the Eastern Conference, but all the credit went to a rookie. After that, he was kicked out by the management. Where can I reason..."
"The Wizards have lost three games in a row. Arenas's achievements are almost wiped out by this piece of trash. Alas! What do the Wizards management think?"
"Don't ask, just ask and you will be the league's scoring leader, a historical rookie!"
"Bah! Who can't score points if you don't defend? You can't even win, and averaging 100 points per game is useless!"
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On the night of the 21st, in addition to the Wizards having a game, the Orlando Magic, who are also among the top four in the Eastern Conference, also had a game, and the Magic won that day's game, so after all the games on the 21st, the Washington Wizards lost three games in a row. It slipped directly from the first place in the Eastern Conference to the third place in the Eastern Conference.
After losing to the Boston Celtics, the Wizards have already handed over the first place in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 8 wins and 2 losses, the same record as the Orlando Magic. However, due to the mutual victory or defeat between the Wizards and Magic The Wizards lead 1-0, so the Wizards temporarily retain the second place in the Eastern Conference.
But then the Magic won a winning streak. After the 21st, they officially surpassed the Boston Celtics with a record of 9 wins and 3 losses, becoming first in the Eastern Conference. After that, the Celtics had 9 wins and 4 losses, and the Wizards were third. With 8 wins and 4 losses, the fourth Bulls have 7 wins and 4 losses.
Except for the first-place Magic, whose position is relatively stable for the time being, the remaining three teams have a win difference of 0.5 between the two adjacent teams. One game can drastically change the seating order of the top four in the Eastern Conference. .
If the Wizards are still in their current state, they will fall out of the top four in the Eastern Conference if they lose two more games. The fifth-placed Miami Heat have already reached 8 wins and 5 losses after the 21st, and can enter the top four in the Eastern Conference at any time. .
If the Heat wants to enter the top four, it is natural that one unlucky guy will be squeezed out of the current top four. The other three teams are in relatively stable condition. There is only one unlucky guy who has lost three games in a row. If you don't go out, who will?
