With a nine-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers showed the strength of the defending champions at the beginning of the season.
On Singles' Day, Double Eleven, Wang Zelin flew to Phoenix with the team to face the Suns for the second time this season.
Before this game, the Suns had a record of 2 wins and 7 losses, ranking at the bottom of the Western Conference. If nothing else happens, the Suns will have another year of running with them.
The rise of Phoenix still has not yet arrived.
Wang Zelin watched the upcoming schedule on the plane. The Trail Blazers have 16 games scheduled in November, which is more than any other team in a single month. It will be a huge test for the players' physical fitness.
It's almost mid-November, and the Trail Blazers are not even halfway through their November schedule, with 10 games left.
After back-to-back games against the Suns on the 10th, the Trail Blazers will have two consecutive games at home, followed by four consecutive home games, and finally three consecutive home games, ending the November schedule.
There is no shortage of strong opponents in the upcoming schedule. Among them, the game against the Bulls and the two home and away games against the Mosaics are the focus of the game. In addition, the three games of the Nets, Knicks, and Pacers are also broadcast live across the United States.
Arriving in Phoenix, Wang Zelin's attention returned to tonight's game.
Just after playing against the Suns at the beginning of the month, the Trail Blazers crushed their opponents 128:105. When they met again a week later, Wang Zelin found that he missed Booker and Brown, the outside twin stars.
As the current ultimate boss, he really likes to train talented newcomers more and more now.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the team's tactical meeting ended, and they rested until 4 o'clock to start warming up. At 6:10 in the evening, Wang Zilin and his teammates entered the US West Arena court, and the game was about to start in 20 minutes.
As soon as they met, Wang Zelin looked at Booker and Brown again, and the result surprised him!
"Damn it, this young man!"
"We haven't seen each other for a week, and your ability score has improved again?"
Wang Zelin remembered that at the beginning of the month, Booker's ability rating was only 82, a quasi-All-Star level. Unexpectedly, after a week, his ability rating had reached 83, one step closer to an All-Star.
He suddenly remembered that Booker in his previous life seemed to have scored a history-breaking 70 points in a single game this season, which caused a sensation at the time.
The magical 13th pick is indeed well-deserved!
While Wang Zelin was sizing up his opponent, the Suns coaching staff looked at the group of ruthless people sitting on the bench opposite and couldn't help but groan in their hearts.
Encountering the gangsters of the Trail Blazers, it's time for Booker and Brown to resist pressure again!
They no longer have any illusions about upsets, they just hope that the opponent can be gentler and not let the team's two talented newcomers lose confidence.
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At 6:30 in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Suns started.
For the Trail Blazers, Lillard, Barton, Batum, Jokic, and Wang Zelin are still the norm@
When he is flying at the speed of a top supercar, he is destined to be unstoppable!
Jokic's understanding of basketball and organizational talent are by no means inferior to Wang Zelin. After replacing Wang Zelin as the team's high-position support core, coach Terry designed a large number of pick-and-roll screening tactics for the two.
Jokic is responsible for holding the ball, while Wang Zelin mainly plays without the ball.
Although the ball-holding and core style of playing with monopoly on the ball feels very good, the NBA is different from the national team, and Wang Zelin is not required to control the entire game.
On the contrary, when Wang Zelin takes the initiative to run, he will become more unstoppable on the offensive end, and it will be easier for his teammates to get opportunities to score easily.
Referring to Curry's strategic significance to the Warriors, when Curry is on the court, once Curry's gravity is activated, other teammates can always score easily.
Now, Wang Zelin's position in the team is somewhat similar to Curry of the Warriors.
It's just that he is equivalent to a comprehensively enhanced version of Curry in terms of scoring and defense!
Due to the blessing of unlimited physical talent, even if he keeps running at a high frequency throughout the game, Wang Zelin will not have a physical crisis. Even when he finds an open space without the ball, he uses his height advantage to finish at the basket or make a hook or pull-up near the basket. , and also allows him to maintain extremely high offensive efficiency.
On the defensive end, Wang Zelin is responsible for inside the three-point line, and everyone else is responsible for outside the three-point line, forming a perfect defensive system.
Today, the Trail Blazers' fast break tactics have become a new and beautiful sight in the league.
Whether it's Jokic, Yi Jianlian, Batum, or Harrell, as long as they are on the Trail Blazers' striker, they will consciously block Wang Zelin's position and give up as many backcourt rebounds to Wang Zelin as possible.
After receiving Wang Zelin's pass, the Blazers' pitchers became more determined than before.
Because now, when participating in fast breaks, all Trail Blazers pitchers can take more efficient lip three-pointers depending on the situation, instead of necessarily choosing to attack the basket safely.
In this game against the Suns, Lillard, Barton, Batum, Connett Lee, Old Carter, Moreau and other shooters hit a total of 21 three-pointers!
The Blazers' fast break is extremely unrestrained. In this nohanhk era, Wang Zelin knows very well that this extreme offensive style of deflecting the magic ball is invincible during the regular season.
Think about the past when the small ball era reached its peak, the Warriors, Mosaic and other three-point teams could easily score 140+ or 150+ in a single game during the regular season...
It’s not that the opponent doesn’t want to defend, it’s that he really can’t!
Once the three-point shot is released, it is really a blockbuster that kills the gods and Buddhas... Of course, once the iron is fired, there will also be a weird scene of hitting the iron with 27 consecutive three-pointers.
This Blazers not only capture transitions, but the pace of positional battles is also faster than that of ordinary teams.
Because it really didn't work, in the last few seconds, I passed the blame to Wang Zelin and asked him to beat Xia Ji eight times and it would be over!
Ever since Wang Zelin developed a miraculous three-point shot in this year's Olympics, his offense has been completely complete after halftime!
I think back then, when Yao Ming, who was 2.26 meters tall, made a mid-range turnaround jump shot, he made many active insiders miserable. Now Wang Zelin, who is 2.16 meters tall, suddenly fired from outside the three-point line, which also frightened many opponents.
There is such a bug, what kind of organization does the Trail Blazers never have to consider at critical moments? Hard chisel? What's the success rate?
They always have only one tactic, let's just show it - give that damn basketball to Wang Zelin!
Speaking of which, the reason why the Blazers' offense has become so unrestrained this season has a lot to do with Aldridge's season reimbursement.
In the past four years, the core trio of the Trail Blazers has always been Lillard, Aldridge and Wang Zelin. The three have a clear division of labor on the court and led the Trail Blazers to absolute dominance!
But at many times, there is a feeling that Aldridge cannot keep up with the version.
It's not that he isn't strong, on the contrary, Aldridge is still one of the top five power forwards in the league.
However, his technical style is more traditional after all. Even if it is influenced by Wang Zelin, he is still not good on the court.
Why do you like to shoot three-pointers? It doesn't fit in the current era of scoring boom that advocates three-pointers.
Therefore, in many cases, in order to better utilize Aldridge's technical style, the Trail Blazers had to engage in more positional battles. While Wang Zelin served as an offensive attacker, he also had to take care of the high-position support core.
Oh, by the way, he is also the absolute core of the Trail Blazers' entire defensive system!
To a certain extent, it is precisely because Wang Zelin took on too many responsibilities on the court that it was a bit of a waste of the offensive talents of other Trail Blazers players.
The previous Trail Blazers were as strong as they were strong, but they always gave people the feeling of over-reliance on Wang Zelin, as if without him, it would be difficult for the Trail Blazers to function.
For Wang Zelin, because he plays too many roles in the team, he may not be physically tired, but he still feels a huge psychological burden.
So tired!
This season, with Jokic successfully taking the position and slipping away in his tactical positioning as an organizational power forward, the Trail Blazers' main lineup has become more and more in line with the trend of the times. They have everything they want on the offensive end. Wang Zelin does not need to play multiple roles in the team. The character can finally be thrown around by Xia Jiba without any psychological burden.
If you don't have enough points, just make quick moves to make up for it.
Anyway, he doesn’t believe that with the overall defensive performance of this era, he can still make 17 of 47 shots?
It is no exaggeration to say that the offensive firepower of this Trail Blazers has been completely released. Once it surges, it will really hit a group!
As a qualified leader, if he could only choose one of the two in terms of record and data, Wang Zelin would definitely choose the former.
But now...since the Blazers clearly have the ability to grab two, why not grab them?
This season, the polarization of NBA team strength has become more and more obvious. The strong are always strong, and the weak are getting weaker. If you don't score points when you encounter a weak team, then what are you waiting for?
You can’t wait until you play against a strong team to think about how to improve your data, right?
And besides, in this kind of scoring competition where both sides open up, even if the weak team is massacred, they will not be resented by the Blazers, because the Blazers' opponents can also enjoy the game.
No, Booker only played 31 minutes tonight and made 11 of 18 shots, including 3 of 6 three-pointers and 11 of 12 free throws. He efficiently scored 36 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.
Considering that the opponent he faced was the Portland Trail Blazers, which is recognized as one of the top teams in the league, the gold content of this data can be reflected.
His poor performance was equally outstanding, with 7 of 13 shooting, 2 of 3 three-pointers, 4 of 6 free throws, and 20 points and 5 rebounds in 31 minutes.
Although they were defeated by their opponents by 21 points, Phoenix fans couldn't help but smile with relief when they saw the Suns and Twins scoring 56 points together.
That's playing against the Trail Blazers!
The Suns and Geminis can actually score 56 points together. Isn't this a huge profit?
E... On the importance of the gold content of the background board!
At this point, the Spurs are quite vocal.
The Trail Blazers have gained a record, the Suns have seen hope, and everyone has a bright future!
On the 13th, the Trail Blazers returned home to play against the Nuggets again.
This game is a feast for the eyes of the secretaries at the Rose Garden Arena...
The Denver Plateau running and jumping team and the Trail Blazers came to the away game as if they had reached some kind of mysterious tacit understanding. After the game started, they played extremely unrestrainedly. The players ran all over the court. For those who didn't know, they thought they were seeing a performance by the track and field team. .
Both sides are pursuing the ultimate offense.
122:155……
If you just look at the score, many people probably thought that this game went into overtime, and it was double overtime!
On TNT TV, Chris Webber and Reggie Miller, who were in charge of commentating the game, shouted "unbelievable..." after the game.
"It's crazy, their offense is so crazy!" Miller exclaimed.
Weber shook his head and said: "The offense is so smooth, I even feel it is better than the Kings team back then.
, if the Trail Blazers can have such a gorgeous performance every night, I believe they will be able to set a new NBA scoring record. "
Wang Zelin, who accidentally set another season scoring record of 55 points in a single game, looked satisfied after the game.
The team's decision to put Jokic in the starting lineup this season was really the right one, and the amazing potential that Jokic burst out completely amazed everyone.
Except for the unpredictable Wang Zelin, no one dared to imagine that such a cricket second-round pick could actually grow into an MVP-level superstar in the future... and two consecutive MVPs!
I remember before the start of the season, many people believed that the reason why the Trail Blazers chose to put Jokic in the starting lineup was because there was no one on the team.
Unexpectedly, after just a dozen games after the start of the new season, Jokic delivered a perfect answer.
As the tacit understanding between the team's new starters becomes higher and higher, the Blazers' offensive rhythm becomes faster and faster. Wang Zelin also takes advantage of the situation to give up the ball and switch to playing without the ball. The direct beneficiary of the Blazers' side is Jokic!
Again, this guy's basketball IQ is really too high.
No matter when and where, he can always make the most appropriate choice in handling the ball.
With 142 points in one game and 155 points in one game, Jokic has been completely addicted to the great cause of delivering cannonballs to Wang Zelin.
In the last game against the Suns, Jokic had 16 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists, two rebounds away from getting his first career triple-double.
But don’t be afraid of being late for a good meal.
Playing against the Nuggets tonight, Jokic made up for his regrets in the previous game. He scored 22 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists in a single game, earning his first career triple-double!
Playing together with Wang Zelin, this kind of casual pass without any technical content and daring to score... getting assists is not very exciting.
After two games, Jokic felt for the first time in his life that the happiness threshold brought by playing football exceeded the double happiness of enjoying Happy Fat Home Water and Big Mac Burger together.
