Chapter 207: We live in Brooklyn baby
If you're a loyal 2KKlux, then you've heard this background music from Roy Ayers Ubiquity, and one of the most sentimental phrases is We live in Brooklyn baby. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This song was released in 1971, and it was quite popular at the time, and later JayZ's song "Empire State of Mind" also has a sentence in it that pays homage to this song (that is, We live in NewYork) 2K included this song, which is also a kind of memory of the classic.
Therefore, when they came to Brooklyn from New Jersey, the Nets were completely new from top to bottom, and they were instantly filled with a sense of déjà vu.
Especially Delon Williams, who is regarded as the ace by the team, after leaving Sloan, this little fat man can finally play as he wants, Delon is 191 cm tall, weighs 95 kg, has a strong body and speed, and because he has been honed under Sloan for several years, he has a fairly stable hand in ball control and passing skills.
Once when he was in the Jazz, Delon and Boozer formed a new "Utah Twins" together, and stubbornly blocked the Rockets in the first round of the playoffs for several years in a row, and Delon really became one of the most unpopular stars in China at that time.
However, this also reflects Delong's ability, 19 + 10 at his peak, close to the level of 20 + 10, and last season when the Nets were still in New Jersey, DeLong won 21 + 9 season average data per game, and the average points per game reached a career high.
And in the summer of 2012, the money offensive of the local tyrant owner was launched, and the Nets won star players such as Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace in the free market, and became a very competitive team in the East in one fell swoop, and the Nets are now ranked fourth in the East for the time being, which is much better than the previous level, of course, their ultimate ambition is to kill the New York Knicks and make the Nets the new representative of New York, but now New York's results are better than them, temporarily ranked second in the East ( 2012 - In the 2013 season, Anthony teamed up with Kidd and Stoudemire to indeed lead the Knicks to the second place in the East.
Now, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Nets are rushing to do their final practice.
For the Nets, it is not good to welcome a strong team like the Spurs at this time, because their head coach "Little General" Johnson was just fired a few days ago, and the Nets can only temporarily let former assistant coach PJ Callesimo as head coach when the team has not yet determined who the new head coach is.
In this case, the Nets' tactical level is definitely not comparable to the Spurs, so in the face of the menacing Spurs, the Nets' interim coach is about to grow his head.
So, when Deron Williams and Joe Johnson knew about the situation, they happened to see Spurs coach Mr. Popovich saying that whoever provokes will give Qin Yan unlimited fire rights.
The two decided at that time that for the sake of the team's victory, they must remove the most advantageous head coach of the Spurs, and their own interim coach knows better than anyone how many pounds and taels they have, which is really not enough for Popovich to swallow.
Therefore, Deron Williams and Joe Johnson will tweet and deliberately stimulate Qin Yan and the Spurs a little, in order to let Popovich give Qin Yan unlimited firing rights, and then destroy the Spurs' tactical system, only in this way can the shortcomings of the Nets' current lack of head coaches be covered up.
It sounds reasonable and normal, but the question is, will Popovich really follow the script they wrote? How many of Popovich's words on social media could be true?
If Popovich hadn't given unlimited firing rights, as he claimed, then Deron Williams and Joe Johnson would have offended Qin Yan and the Chinese fans behind him for no apparent reason.
But the arrow has to be sent, the first game of the New Year in 13, the important game of consolidating the fourth in the East to chase the third in the East, and the first game of the Nets after the departure of the "little general", the Nets, must win!
From this point of view, Delon and Joe are still very responsible. They stook their reputation on the stake, betting that Popovich would really change tactics for the sake of a complaint.
Luckily, they got the bet right, and Popovich did give the whole team the latest tactics when they were on a plane with the Spurs flying to Brooklyn.
"Really give me unlimited right to fire?" Qin Yan was quite surprised, Qin Yan thought that Popovich was just cooperating with him in the stadium that day, but he didn't expect to really give himself such a tactic today.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing with an unhappy expression on your face for this tactic, give it to me if you don't want it, give it to Danny, and Patty." Dio slapped Qin Yan on the back, knocking him back from his surprised state.
"Oh, after so many years, there is finally a time when someone in our team can enjoy the tactic of unlimited firing rights in the whole field." Ginobili said with emotion that although he himself often has unlimited firing rights, his right is 20 minutes, and Ginobili has not enjoyed this privilege in the whole game.
The Spurs have not had this situation in history, the last one who had this right was the "General" Robinson, at that time, in order to help the "General" brush up to the scoring champion, it was really unlimited fire all over the court, and his teammates had to give him an attack when he grabbed the rebound, otherwise the "General" would not be able to brush 70 + points and scoring champions.
A little earlier, "Iceman", this guy was the main attacker of the Spurs back then, the main firepower point.
Even Duncan, the great No. 21 rookie, had a poor chance of getting that privilege under Popovich.
It can be seen how much Bobo loves Qin Yan.
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Not to mention the Spurs on the plane, let's take a look at the 100 million-level Barclays Center Arena, where the Nets' five starters are using their break time to chat.
"Delong, what if Spurs aren't fooled?" Jay Rad Wallace asked first, and he and Joe Johnson were the only ones on the team who could call Deron by his name, and everyone else had to call Boss.
"No, it won't." Delon nodded confidently, a little geared up, "I've played against the Spurs for so many years, Coach Popovich's philosophy can guess a little, if we don't take the initiative to provoke them this time, they will definitely use tactics to crush us to death, and then chant praises to the camera, praising us for having time and praising them for their luck." ”
"So, that Chinese kid must fire infinitely? You're in a big problem for me! "Joe-Johnson is a little complaining, after all, after Qin Yan fired infinitely, there was only one opponent in a head-to-head confrontation, and that was him, Joe-Johnson.
"Joe, I'm sure you're not going to lose to that kid, are you?" DeLong began to milk his teammates, "In my heart, you and Kobe Bryant are at the same level. Of course, what DeLong didn't say was that this level refers to the back-hitting skills of the two.
"That's it!" Gerald Wallace, nicknamed "American Sakuragi Flower Road," was excited, "Let them come, this is our territory, tell them we're awesome!" ”
“We live in Brooklyn,baby !”