Chapter 587: Two Guns
The Warriors played back-to-back games and returned to Oakland for two days of rest.
Snow is falling in the San Francisco area, winter is coming, and people in the Bay Area are looking forward to the annual Christmas Day, Christmas trees, turkeys, elk, and all kinds of elements decorate the city, and the streets and alleys begin to see Christmas-related commercial activities.
Yang Di brought Nancy back, and Anne came to accompany him for the holiday.
At home, the Warriors narrowly defeated the Hornets, playing a total of three games with the Hornets in a season, and the Warriors won all of them and swept the Hornets this season.
I haven't seen him for a month, Yi Jian United has grown a lot, has entered the main rotation lineup of the Hornets, and can still serve as a starter every once in a while, and in the cooperation with Chris Paul, he has learned how to seize opportunities in the open position, how to cut and dunk in the air, and realize his excellent physical talent.
"You have to learn how to protect yourself in the air, and then you have to learn how to play in the air."
After the game, Yang Di hugged Yi Jianlian and gave his advice, playing with Paul, there are bound to be many opportunities to catch up, most of the injuries of basketball players come from the accumulated wear and tear, especially spring people, people who fly in the air to play ball, they should protect themselves and maintain their bodies.
Yi Jianlian nodded in understanding, and at the same time, the excitement on his face appeared.
"I really like the atmosphere of the Hornets, they're all young and easy to talk to. And Chris is such a genius, my god, I've never partnered with this kind of teammate, he's like a 360-degree eye, as soon as I have an open space, he will pass the ball, I really don't know what the pass will be like for Nash and Kidd, the top passing masters in the league. ”
"Chris is already a very top passer, he has a little more experience, he doesn't have a problem with assists. Didn't you notice that his passing skills and skills are very high? Yang Di smiled and said, "Nash and Kidd have gone one step further, not only to be able to pass the ball to the empty players, but also to observe the situation on the field and pass the ball to the misplaced players or players with better offensive opportunities." ”
"In such a short period of time, did you have time to react?"
'That's the top passers, they create chances, they tear up the defence and they control the game better. Yang Di nodded affirmatively.
"Did you get three points?" Yang Di asked.
Yi Jianlian nodded his head heavily, "After practicing, after coming to the Hornets, I mainly do three things, one is to increase muscle and exercise strength, one is to practice three-point shooting in the hope that I can make long-range shooting more stable as soon as possible, and the other is the defense and rebounding you said, and the rest is not concerned for the time being." ”
"Others are not easy to practice, and only by having more precise goals can you improve yourself."
Yang Di encouraged Yi Jianlian, he saw the effort from Yi Jianlian, this big boy who was three years younger than him was very serious.
Heavy snow fell for two days in a row, and it didn't clear again until after the game against the Hornets.
Then the Warriors defeated the Kings and played the Rockets again at home, and also won, winning a three-game winning streak and still holding the top record in the league.
After the win over the Rockets, the Warriors lost back-to-back road losses to the Suns before embarking on a trip to the East.
In Toronto, Yang Di went on a rampage, scoring 42 points and 22 rebounds in the game, leading the Warriors to a victory over the Raptors.
After the game, the media in Toronto complained that every time Yang Di hit the Raptors, he would make a big move, what hatred and what resentment.
The media in San Francisco continued to support Yang Di as always, and praised Yang Di as a good leader who was angry with his brothers, which is the temperament of the Golden State gang.
Back-to-back, the Warriors lost to the Nets and lost Game 6 of the season.
In this game, the two teams played to the last minute, tied at 104, and Yang Di's turnaround jumper at a critical moment gave the Warriors a 106-104 lead over the Nets.
As a result, Carter only had 1.3 seconds left to serve, and turned around to shoot a backward jumper to kill the Warriors with three points.
The whole of New Jersey was boiling, and Christmas was like an early Christmas in a sea of revelry.
The next day, the Warriors flew to Boston to take on the Celtics.
Boston's weather is even colder, with cold winds blowing like knives across the city, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a few days, and there are few pedestrians on the streets.
Yang Di and others trained in the North Shore Garden Arena, and it was also a simple routine training.
On the road trip, the fitness coach will not arrange a lot of overly heavy training, the players mainly need to maintain their condition, and even some veterans selectively give up some daily fitness training in order to survive the away game.
Just as everyone was training, the league revealed a blockbuster deal.
Allen Iverson, the son of Philadelphia and one of the league's top superstars, was traded to the Denver Nuggets.
“!!”
When Yang Di heard the news, he was also shocked, although Iverson's trade was boiling for a summer, and there were scandals with the Warriors, Lakers, Celtics and even the Rockets, but after all, he was still not traded after the summer, so in the new season, everyone thought that Iverson would play at least one more season in Philadelphia.
Unexpectedly, less than two months after the start of the season, when the 76ers' record was not too bad, Philadelphia actually traded Iverson.
Derrick Fisher took his phone and checked out the fine print of the trade: "The Nuggets sent Andre Miller, Joe Smith and two first-round picks in '07 in exchange for Allen Iverson and forward Ivan McFarlin. ”
"Why, didn't the 76ers play well?" Yang Di asked.
Fisher raised his head and glanced at Yang Di with strange eyes, "Yang, I'll give you full marks for this sarcasm." ”
"What?"
Yang Di spread his hands.
"The 76ers have lost 11 straight lately." Ray Allen added that both 96-level players, Ray Allen and Iverson have also played for ten years, and they are very concerned about the movements of this old brother.
Yang Di: "......"
"Didn't Anthony and JR just have a big fight in Madison? was banned for 10 games or 15 games, but I didn't expect it to come and go, and immediately got the league's top superstars to join. Yang Di laughed, he still pays more attention to the negative news of this kind of fights.
"Carmelo Anthony was in particularly good shape before, averaging 31.6 points per game, surpassing Kobe Bryant and ranking first in the league.
"It's a golden twin guns." Ray Allen read ESPN's report, but his eyes lit up with fighting spirit, and he looked at Yang Di, especially wanting to compete with this new boast of "possibly winning the championship" of the golden double gun.
"If Allen goes to the Nuggets, Cameron won't be able to score more than 30, right?" Yang Di felt that Anthony's state was indeed good before, but if Iverson could still have an average of 30 points per game when he had scored nearly 20 shots, then he had to completely suppress Iverson first and determine that the master and slave were.
In short, the new and old scoring champions produced by the Nuggets are very large and eye-catching, and they have become the focus for a while.