Chapter 383: The Strongest King
Tim Duncan:
"Bruce Qin is the most special one in the league, he has very good control of the court, and there is no doubt that he will be the one to look forward to in the future, maybe surpass me."
Duncan praised Qin Yang a lot, and this was not the first time.
Not only that, Ginobili also praised Qin Yang very much:
"This season, Bruce Chin has become the best point guard in the league, but not the scariest thing."
"The scariest thing is that he is still improving, and just now he was asking me about the technique of the serpentine breakthrough."
Ginobili looked helpless and envious.
Richard Jefferson also expressed his praise in an interview: "I've defended most of the league's superstars, and Bruce Chin is the hardest to defend because he's always ready to shoot and can hit consistently. ”
"If I had to choose who I wouldn't play against, Bruce would be the top three."
Almost everyone in the Spurs praised Qin Yang, and even Tony Parker, who had a bad relationship, said two good words.
Qin Yang and Tony Parker have a bad relationship, Tony Parker is too arrogant, and he always feels that he is superior to others.
On the Spurs, Duncan and Popovich can hold it down, but elsewhere, no one can hold it down.
Both Pau Gasol and Nowitzki have secretly complained about this.
In the post-match interview, Qin Yang was not angry about this loss:
"It's a very timely game, and a lot of us think the Kings are a strong team, a championship-caliber team, but really? It's like the emperor's new clothes have been stripped naked. ”
"We need more progress and that's what we should do."
A game like this is a rare grind for the Kings.
Facing a strong team, calm down and fight to the last without relaxation, this is what a real championship-level team should do.
The Kings are far from it.
Spurs players and coaches have praised the Kings a lot, but it is the Kings players themselves who have a very average evaluation of their team's performance.
This difference is really incomprehensible.
After losing at home to the Spurs, the Kings quickly recovered from a slump.
After all, this is the home field, and playing against an old powerhouse like the Spurs, which is so intense, for the media and fans in Sacramento, his team has improved a lot.
Sacramento Independent Daily:
"This season is just halfway through, but the state and fighting spirit of the Kings this season is not like before, I do this is the best state the Kings have ever been, and even force the Kings to be even better."
What are the Kings Five Tigers?
Sacramento had a long period of glory around the year 2000.
At that time, under the Princeton tactical system of head coach Rick Adelman, the Kings team became the most watchable team in the NBA with players such as Chris Webber, Pejastojakovic, Mike Bibby, and Vlad Divac as the core, with Bobby Jackson and Hiduttekglou as the main "bench bandits".
At that time, the Kings made Princeton's tactics famous in the NBA.
Adelman also became a famous coach in the NBA.
But this period of history is not really remembered, because the history of the Kings is only talked about when the OK combination is mentioned.
At the peak of the Kings at that time, the team met O'Neal in his peak and Kobe Bryant, who was just entering his peak, and the OK combination won three consecutive championships, shocking the league.
Kings became the best in history.
There are already Sacramento media outlets that praise the Kings like that.
Qin Yang had learned about that history, and he was not so proud that he really thought that the current team had surpassed the Kings at that time.
The five-way team strength, state, and honor were much worse than the Kings at that time.
It can even be said that if it weren't for the penalty at the critical moment, the Kings might have really eliminated the OK combination in the first year and won the championship.
It's a pity that no one can tell this history clearly.
Either Caesar or nothing.
All that everyone remembers is the triple crown of the OK combination, which shocked the league.
After a two-day break, the team bounced back from the defeat and next hosted the Jazz.
The league games are sometimes so peculiar, and the Kings are clearly one of them.
During this time, the Kings played at home and had two or three days off.
But when playing away games, it was a continuous back-to-back, and the players' form was greatly reduced.
This kind of schedule is very bad for the team.
If you carefully observe the schedule of the Lakers, Cavaliers, and Bulls, you will find that when you play at home, it will be slightly more intensive, and when you play away, you will have a day off to adjust the state of the players.
But looking at the number of home and away games, there is no gap between the strong team and the weak team, but the real gap is not visible to ordinary people.
Host the Nuggets.
Qin Yang still invited the Nuggets to dinner together.
The life of an NBA player is monotonous and boring, and most of the season is spent training, training, playing, flying around, playing, training......
There are opportunities to interact with each other, and few people refuse.
The relationship between Deron Williams, the core of the Jazz team, and Qin Yang is average, but it is not bad, and Delon always feels that he is the first point guard in the league.
But now that Qin Yang is catching up, there is a tendency to catch up with him.
This made DeLong a little unhappy.
At the pre-game party, Qin Yang found that the Jazz team had changed a lot of people.
The performance of the playoffs last season had a great impact on the Jazz's trade this season, and it is no wonder that Deron Williams is not happy with the Jazz.
Delon's pick-and-roll partner Boozer left, and Al Jefferson joined, and last season's playoff performance was superb, with Millsap, who became a superstar, becoming the starter and the team's second core.
The team also got potential inside line Gordon Hayward.
The Jazz team is really not weak.
Qin Yang and the Jazz team greeted each other with many people, and they were familiar with each other.
"I didn't expect you to join the Jazz this season." Qin Yang looked at Al Jefferson with a curious expression. Al Jefferson also said a little depressed:
"No way, Bruce, I thought I could be teammates with you, who knew you didn't call me, I have a bad reputation in the league, I can only join the Jazz, this is the biggest contract I can get."
Al Jefferson was also helpless.
As a perennial 20+10 interior player in the league, it stands to reason that he should get a top big contract.
But...... In fact, Al Jefferson has 10 million after his contract, which is very average among superstars, and it can be described as miserable.
At the end of the day, Al Jefferson is still considered a data brush, and it doesn't benefit the team to win.
Qin Yang doesn't think so, Al Jefferson can't defend, but it's also relative, is Zach Randolph good at defense?
This season, Zach Randolph's call for an All-Star race is high.