Chapter 509: Attack on San Antonio

The All-Star Game is a watershed, and the regular season of a season is basically divided into two halves by it, but the game before the All-Star is relatively loose, and then the schedule is very tight, which is also related to its purpose.

For the team's record, the All-Star is also a watershed, many teams have a good record before the All-Star, and once they can break into the top three in the league, such as the Rockets, but after the All-Star, the record will often shrink countless times, and by the end of the season, they will fall to the sixth or seventh place.

There are also teams with poor records before the All-Star, but after the All-Star, it seems to have played chicken blood, which is called a ferocious, and even relies on the schedule of half a season to rush to the top of the West, this example is also obvious, that is, the Spurs.

In the first game after the All-Star, the Warriors' opponent was the Spurs, and it was an away game against the Spurs.

The Spurs have struggled in the first half of the season, and if they were to pick the team that looked the best compared to last season, it would be the Spurs. Before February, the Spurs suffered a wide range of injuries, and it was rumored that at one point Popovich had to participate in the team's internal practice, otherwise the two groups of people would not be able to play three-on-three bullfights in NBA team training, right?

In particular, Ginobili's injury has made the Spurs even worse, you must know that the Spurs are a well-known sixth-man team, that is, they are good at using the sixth man Ginobili, and in the tactical core, the outside line is Argentina's Eagles.

Ginobili was away, and Popovich tried back-to-back uses of Desmond Mason, Michael Finley, Amye Udoka, and even Bruce Bowen in the sixth-man position, but none of them worked out well. But now Ginobili is back, so their form is starting to slowly return.

The last time the Warriors played against the Spurs, they easily won by 20+, which is unacceptable for arrogant Spurs fans, because they were eliminated by the Warriors in the playoffs last season, and if they could, Spurs fans would love that the team could kill the opponent.

However, the good news for the Warriors is that Ginobili's form is not shaky. In their final game against the Phoenix Suns before the Spurs All-Star break, Ginobili made just four of his 14 shots in the game, and if it weren't for Tim Duncan and Tony Parker's rock-solid appearances, the Spurs would have been planted by the Suns again.

But then again, the Spurs are still the top team in the league with all the big three in GDP, and Ginobili doesn't just score, his breakthrough can tear through the opponent's defense and create opportunities for his teammates, and his strategy is also excellent, which is enough to prove that the Spurs still have seven wins in the last eight games.

The Western Conference is now playing the sixth man strategy, the competition here is too fierce, it is too difficult to rely on a single set of starters to walk the rivers and lakes, the competition for the best sixth man is going on in the West: Terry of the Mavericks, Ginobili of the Spurs, West of the Warriors, Odom of the Lakers, and it is said that the Rockets also plan to let Battier change to the sixth man.

The competition for the sixth man is fierce, and the Spurs are now behind, but this year is an odd-numbered year, and the Spurs' tradition of winning the championship in odd-numbered years is well-known throughout the NBA, and in order to grab home-court advantage in the playoffs, they will definitely have to work hard in the next games.

In order to snatch the victory, the Spurs not only mobilized the active main players, but also actively operated and traded.

Chamberlain bought a copy of the San Antonio Basket when he was at the airport - he couldn't help but explode when he saw the sign-up: "Shit, what a damn shit name is this?" Basket newspaper? Is it a little girl picking mushrooms in a basket? ”

Hearing his words, Jackson suddenly laughed, and everyone looked at him strangely, and Barnes snorted, "Brain-dead! ”

Jackson glanced at him with bad intentions, and then said to Curry, Morrow, and Ibaka with a pleasant face: "I'll tell you a joke, it means that one day the weather was good and the sun was shining, so the little goddess Shirley went to pick mushrooms, she was so beautiful, carrying a small colorful basket, and the sky was even better." But that day there were two scoundrels, one named Jack the Boss and the other Mean Boy Barnes, you know, right, these two scoundrels stripped naked and sunbathed in the grass when they saw that the weather was fine......"

"You're scoundrels, that's true, but don't fucking get involved with Shirley." Chamberlain gave Jackson a push.

Jackson waved his hand and continued to speak with great interest: "The little goddess walked slowly in the grass, humming a little tune while looking for mushrooms as she went, and soon she found the mushrooms, and then began to pick, counting '1, 2, 3, 4' ...... in her mouth while picking."

"The little goddess walked slowly, slowly passed the despicable boy Barnes, counting '20, 21, 22, 23' in her mouth, and then she came to Jack Boss and counted '24, 24, 24, 24', haha!"

"Do you understand what's going on?" Jackson looked triumphantly at the three Morrows.

Curry said positively: "Are you going to find faults? Boss Jack, I know that mushrooms don't grow in grass, they should grow in the woods, and the woods are generally humid and gloomy, so they are not suitable for sunbathing, that is, the story is a paradox. ”

"I'm more concerned, is the little goddess's mouth humming a little tune or counting?" Morrow asked with a frown.

Ibaka's face was blank: "What does this story mean?" The little goddess of mushroom picking? I've heard about the little girl picking mushrooms, wait, what are Boss Jack and Barnes doing in there? ”

Billups and Iverson laughed, and Jackson glared at the rookies in displeasure and muttered, "Bunch of idiots, I really don't know how you got into college!" ”

"I didn't even get into college." Ibaka said dejectedly.

Jackson nodded, "That's right, because God is not blind." ”

Chamberlain understood the story, it was nothing more than the resemblance between the mumbling thing and the mushroom under the man's crotch, and he was too lazy to see Jackson, so he concentrated on reading the newspaper, because the headline of the newspaper caught his eye: "Scandal in the San Francisco police scene, Bay Area police chief caught in a corruption case!" ”

A photo in the newspaper shows Chamberlain being pushed to the ground by him, explaining that the police chief was a bully, and after a confrontation with Chamberlain, he actually pointed a pistol at the other party's head, otherwise Chamberlain would not have been pushed down so easily and did not dare to resist.

Chamberlain watched it with relish, I don't know which reporter made up the photo story, in short, it made him very cool, in addition, the content in it is even more refreshing, those revelations about corruption and supporting women to make an umbrella for the gang are like bombs, and Chamberlain who blew up was a little unbearable, and Sjet didn't check it so badly at the time, right?

Chamberlain continued to scroll down, his eyes widened suddenly, the second edition posted a photo of Sjet and a few girls, see the following introduction that these girls are an orphanage, Sjet often goes to the orphanage for the reason of visiting orphans and paying attention to the growth of orphans, but instead of doing charity, he goes to prostitute those girls, and the director of the orphanage keeps covering him, this time the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and a volunteer in the orphanage couldn't stand it and took the opportunity to poke this thing out.

"Brute!" Chamberlain scolded.

"Who?" Jackson looked at him with displeasure.

Chamberlain didn't want others to notice his relationship with the Zari Zab case, so he quickly flipped through the newspaper, and then pointed to a corner and said confidently: "I mean, they're the Spurs' uniform team." ”

"What's wrong?" Everyone gathered around to watch the excitement.

Chamberlain gritted his teeth and said, "Look, look, the damn Spurs cut Toliver, do you know what this kind of behavior is called?" Damn, there is a saying in our Chinese that it is called crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, unloading the mill and killing the donkey! In the past few months, the Spurs signed someone when no one was available, and now they are cutting someone else, and they are all about abandoning it, brothers! ”

Jackson and the others blinked, not understanding what the Spurs had to do with him cutting a scrap? The 24-year-old 24-year-old swingman is a 2.06-meter-tall swingman who signed with the Spurs as an undraft player this season. Toliver has made 19 appearances this season, averaging two per game. 7 points and 2. With 2 rebounds, Toliver's best game was against the Milwaukee Bucks on Nov. 12 last year, when he played 28 minutes and had nine points and six rebounds, but the Spurs lost at the time.

Since the new year, Toliver's chances have dwindled as Ginobili returns from injury, with only five minutes of playing time in total for the Spurs throughout February, and the uniform would have cut him if he had been with the Warriors.

The NBA has glowing superstars like Chamberlain and James, as well as potential new stars like Curry and Ibaka, who are destined to leave a strong mark in the history of the team and even the league, but there are many more people in the league such as Toliver, who can only guard the water cooler at ordinary times, and when they are finally cut, the newspaper only uses the corner to make a light report even if it is over.

On January 17, Beijing time, the San Antonio Spurs once again strengthened their lineup, and they signed a 10-day short-term contract with Austin Carrohill. With the signing of Krohill, the Spurs already have 15 players on their roster.

"They signed Crohill again." Old Nelson staggered over and said, "I just got the news that we did it an hour before the plane landed. ”

It doesn't matter who the Spurs sign, because signing a new player requires a medical examination, and it takes at least three days to play, when the battle between the Warriors and the Spurs is long over, and the bodies of the dead are cold. The reason why Nelson Sr. wants to talk about this is because the Warriors were interested in him before.

This season, Crohill played 11 games with the Milwaukee Bucks, averaging 3 per game. 3 points and 2. 2 rebounds, cut on Feb. 6.

Crohill is a veteran and one of the few offensive all-rounders among the whites, having been picked by the Indiana Pacers with the No. 12 pick in the 1997 draft and averaging just 10 per game at the best of his career. 3 points and 6. 4 rebounds.

The Warriors fancy him because Crohill is experienced, after all, he is a veteran who has been in the league for more than ten years, and his general skills are only comprehensive rather than proficient, this kind of person must have a hand in surviving in the NBA, and the Warriors want him to help the growth of newcomers, and recently the team has exchanged Iverson and signed Hill for this reason.

In particular, Crohill can be qualified for two different positions of power forward and small forward at the same time, and can also play a temporary cameo role as a center, so that he can be a backup for Ibaka and a substitute for Chamberlain, he is a big man shooter, with a career three-point shooting rate of more than 36%, and the price is also right, Crohill has a veteran contract, less than 1.5 million.

Lockhill is still quite sought-after now because of the cost performance, but he wants to join a championship team, and the Warriors have extended an olive branch to him many times, but he is hesitating, and as a result, he chose to sign with the Warriors' opponent just before the Warriors and Spurs game, which made the old Nelson, who has never had a big heart, very angry.

The old man was very angry, and the consequences were very strict, only to see the old tyrant wave his hand and roar: "Isn't that kid optimistic about the Spurs?" Well, go kill them and show him how miserable it is to pick the wrong team! ”

"Yes, men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and Crohill will definitely regret it!" Chamberlain swore by it.