When the midfield whistle sounded, Li Kaiming high-fived his teammates one by one, and then walked directly to the tunnel.
Before leaving, Li Kaiming took a look at the score on the big screen. The Wizards trailed the 76ers by 14 points, 38-52!
In fact, the 52 points scored by the 76ers at halftime is not an offensive explosion or a hot touch. This is basically the average level of the 76ers. The main reason is that the Wizards' performance was really bad. The halftime score and the single quarter of the previous game The scores are the same. Except for Li Kaiming, everyone in the team is committing crimes.
Li Kaiming was also a little anxious. After losing three games in a row, the team's previous momentum of defeating strong opponents seemed to have completely dissipated. The feeling of last season's struggle to win the top pick was back.
If the seniors who were on the team last season took a closer look at this time, they would know that the current atmosphere of the team is exactly the same as last season when they were diving for the No. 1 pick.
So after halftime, Wizards coach Sanders' face was also very gloomy. During the previous winning streak, he thought he could make up for his previous regrets this season and win the best coach of the season, but his dream has not yet come true. Halfway through, I was awakened by the cold reality!
A series of losses directly made Sanders sober up. The Wizards are just a rebuilding team with the No. 1 pick, not a team that can stably enter the playoffs.
Originally, Sanders thought that when he and the players put aside their unrealistic fantasies and dealt with the next opponent in a down-to-earth manner, even if the Wizards could not win consecutive games like before, they would at least be better than last season. If they were lucky, A little bit, maybe they can even make the playoffs.
But God always likes to play tricks on people. Sanders lowered his expectations. What he got instead of being satisfied was that the team struggled even more.
So after arriving in the locker room, Sanders got angry in a rare way!
"You all focus on me on the court! You are competing now, you know? You are not playing with the opponent! We have lost three consecutive games, do you still want to continue losing? Let those bullshit Reporters who don’t understand are setting us up behind our backs and saying we are all weaklings?” Sanders looked around and said in a very stern tone.
The players in the locker room lowered their heads, not daring to meet Sanders' eyes. Li Kaiming sat in front of his closet, wiping his sweat with a towel and drinking a special drink provided by the arena. He didn't want to lose either. , but now it's not his turn to motivate the team. He can't overstep and steal Sanders's task.
Sanders also knows that criticism cannot solve the problem. As a coach, his task is to tell his players from the perspective of a third person off the court, when and where they should appear, and help them perform better on the court. action.
So after the initial tantrum, Sanders turned around and took the tactical board from the hands of assistant coach Cassel and started to draw up tactics for the players again.
"In the first half, the opponent's inside line was too relaxed, including Andre and Li. In the second half, cheer up. If it doesn't work, ask the outside players to help you defend. But you can appropriately put some at the top of the opponent's key or 45 The degree of three-pointers limited the efficiency of their two inside players, especially Elton Brand. He scored too easily in the first half. I don’t want to see him take an open shot in the second half, do you understand?”
Li Kaiming and Blach looked at each other, and then nodded heavily. The 76ers' two inside players did play a little too comfortably in the first half. Brand scored 17 points at halftime, only 1 point lower than Li Kaiming. , and Hawes dominated the Wizards' penalty area and grabbed several offensive rebounds.
"Our biggest problem in the first half was that our offense was too bad. After Li broke through, his chances of passing the ball were very good, but several of your outside players failed to live up to Li Kaiming's pass!" Sanders wrote on the tactical board with a marker. A circle is drawn outside the three-point line.
After hearing this, Nick Young, Hinrich and Al Thornton all lowered their heads. Especially Al Thornton, who had zero goals in the first half, wanted to bury his head in his chest. Others didn't care about efficiency. How could he at least score a few points, but not only was his efficiency low, he even lost the courage to take action later on...
Sanders was about to encourage Elsoton again, but his pen drawing on the tactical board suddenly stopped, and he thought of something else.
The Wizards players were listening to the coach's instructions attentively, but suddenly there was nothing more to say, so they all raised their heads and looked at Sanders.
After thinking for a while, Sanders seemed to have suddenly made up his mind. He pointed his finger at Rashard Lewis, who was sitting in the outer circle and watching the excitement, "Rashad, you will start directly in the second half instead of Al Thornton!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the locker room was stunned!
Relatively speaking, Sanders is still a coach who doesn't like to make adjustments. It would have been good to take away Al Thornton, who firmly occupied the starting small forward position in the second half. Unexpectedly, Sanders actually hit the spot in one step and boldly took the position. Enter new signing Rashard Lewis!
Lewis also participated in two tactical drills after coming to the team, but the results were not very good. After all, Lewis had never played under Sanders, and it would be difficult for him to integrate into the Wizards' system for a while.
That's why Sanders didn't let the former play in the first half. Even if the other players felt terrible, he was afraid that Lewis wouldn't be able to find where to run after he went up. By then, not only would the offense not improve, but the defense would suffer. The communication between the two sides was not in place, which allowed the opponent's offense to flourish.
Lewis himself was stunned for a moment after hearing Sanders' words, then pointed his finger at himself with wide eyes, "Coach, are you saying you want me to start in the second half?"
"Yes," Sanders nodded, his tone full of doubt.
After experiencing the initial shock, Lewis immediately reacted, patted his chest and assured Sanders, "Don't worry, coach, I will do my best!"
In this process, Li Kaiming was completely an outsider. Although he was surprised that Sanders could make such a change, from the bottom of his heart he still supported Sanders' adjustment of the lineup. After all, Lewis' three He is the guy who scores the ball. No matter how bad he is, he won't be like El Thornton and can't score a point in the half, right?
And just when Sanders made this bold change in the Wizards' locker room, at the same moment, he was in a college dormitory in America.
A lean black guy wearing earrings and ripped jeans clicked a few times in front of his computer, and then opened a website. If you look closely, you will find that what is displayed on the page is today's Wizards and... Real-time statistics for 76ers games.
The black guy skillfully opened the statistics table and after taking a cursory glance at the scores of both sides, his face immediately became excited!
"Wai Rui Good! The garbage Wizards only scored 38 points at halftime? Trailing the 76ers by 14 points? Hahaha! Looks like they are going to lose again tonight!"
After roaring with joy a few times, the black guy clicked on the data table and flipped down, carefully checking the personal data of the players on both sides, and at the same time read it out unconsciously.
"Andre Iguodala, 8 points in the half, not bad, but his shooting percentage is not very high, Jrue Holiday has 5 points... Elton Brand, 17 points in the half! 17 points in the half!"
When he saw the 76ers' Brand scored 17 points in the half, he immediately jumped up from his chair in surprise and repeatedly confirmed whether he had read it correctly!
"Well done! Elton! Hahaha, beat that yellow-skinned monkey!" The black guy waved his arms excitedly, as if it was not Brand who scored 17 points under Li Kaiming's defense, but him. .
After reading the statistics of the 76ers, the black guy couldn't wait to turn his attention to the Wizards players. The first thing he looked at was naturally Li Kaiming, "Oh! ShIt! 18 points at halftime? One point higher than Brand. ? This yellow-skinned monkey really knows how to score! It seems that the Internet said that this guy doesn’t defend and score points is indeed right!"
The young man cursed a few times in a low voice, and then looked at the other players, "3 out of 7, 2 out of 6, 0 out of 5, hahaha! These guys are just acting like this guy named Li!"
After watching the real-time statistics of the game, the black guy immediately boarded America's largest basketball forum and opened Twitter on his mobile phone. It is worth mentioning that the avatars of this guy's two accounts are actually It's all Arenas.
Not surprisingly, Koslov's profile picture was prominently listed in his watch list, and it could be seen from the message displayed on the screen that the latter had just updated his Twitter.
"I originally thought that the performance of Li Kaiming and the Wizards had hit bottom, but I didn't expect that they refreshed my understanding again. In this highly watched game, the Wizards trailed the 76ers by 14 points 38 to 52 at halftime. What are you doing? Has the soul of your Wizards team been traded with Arenas?
And our great No. 1 pick, I opened the data column and took a look. Sure enough, you scored 18 points after halftime, but what's the use? Your opponent scored 17 points on your head, where did your defense go?
Where are you when your teammates are not doing well? Oh, you are letting your teammates wipe your butt for you on the defensive end, and then turn around on the offensive end to get the ball and score points like crazy! I have never seen anyone so shameless! "
The black boy read Koslov's "Essays on Discussing Li" in one breath, and then breathed a sigh of relief!
He poked the screen hard with his finger, which was a thumbs up for Koslov, but the latter just spoke to his heart. He thumbed the thumbs up hard to show his appreciation for Koslov. Strong agreement.
And just after he finished clicking likes, there was a knock on his door, "Joel, are you in there?"
The black boy Joel walked over and opened the door of the room, "Wayne, what do you want from me?"
Wayne outside the door was a white man with colorful tattoos on his arms and a beard on his chin. He looked very mature. He first glanced into Joel's room, and then asked with a smile, "What are you doing? Are you going to xx club later? There are so many girls!"
When Joel heard that he was going to a nightclub to have fun, a certain part of his body was immediately ready to move, "I just took a look at tonight's NBA game, and I was more concerned about how the yellow-skinned monkey from the Wizards was embarrassed, hahaha. As for the night of fun you mentioned, of course I’m going, anyway, there’s no suspense about tonight’s game!”
Wayne also smiled and nodded, "See you soon then!"
After Wayne left, Joel first glanced at the score on the computer screen. After confirming that the score difference between the two sides was still 14 points, he immediately packed up and left the dormitory.
If nothing goes wrong, the guy he hates the most will lose four games in a row and become a cancer brush in the mouths of all fans. This makes Joel feel extremely beautiful tonight. If he can meet someone right in the club later As for Niu, tonight will definitely be a night he will never forget...
