Hot-blooded basketball super guard

Chapter 276 Detroit Pistons

Wang Qinan and Zhou Zhou left the country of rice. After Christmas, Radar and Wu Hao started a new journey.

On November 11, the Spurs will fly to the Motor City to challenge the Detroit Pistons away.

The Detroit Pistons were founded in 1941 and joined the NBA in 1948.

Under the tide of the industrial revolution, Detroit declared bankruptcy, and the city's NBA team also fell into a low ebb.

The Pistons, like the city of Detroit, have always been known for their tenacity, tenacity, and iron-blooded style. In the late 80s, the Pistons Bad Boys won two championships. Their gasoline-smelling style of play and the noise of the home court like the roar of an engine made the basketball god Jordan, the big bird Larry Bird and Magic Johnson discouraged. .

In his youth, Jordan lost to the Pistons three times in a row from 1988 to 1990. Then Pistons head coach Chuck Daly created the Jordan Rules in order to defeat Jordan.Even though his players smiled, Assassin Thomas, Lambiel, Rodman and others blocked Jordan with fierce and rough fouls, helping the Detroit Pistons crush Chicago to the top of the Eastern Conference time and time again.

However, when Jordan finally grew up and beat the Pistons in 1991, Detroit also fell into the trough of rebuilding.

Until the early 21st century, the team formed the Pistons of Billups, Ben Wallace, Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace and Prince to reproduce the glory of the blue-collar team.

In the 2003-2004 season, under the leadership of head coach Larry Brown, the Pistons reached the finals again and defeated the Lakers with Kobe Bryant 4-1.

Just like the fate of Detroit, the Pistons experienced the last glory in the early 21st century, and the five Pistons fell apart within a few years. In 2009, the team bid farewell to the playoffs and once again fell into the trough of reconstruction, wandering in the Eastern Lottery for 7 consecutive years.

In Detroit, which declared bankruptcy, the lonely and chilling atmosphere in the city is a true portrayal of their team.

In 2015, Detroit's auto industry revived, and the city, which had been immersed for many years, revived the roar of engines.Meanwhile, the Detroit Pistons are coming back to life after years of rebuilding.

The new generation of core Zhuang Shen Drummond is gradually growing, and the Detroit Pistons are also quietly rising in the Eastern Conference, and returned to the playoffs in 2016.

Seven years have passed since the team entered the playoffs this time.Perhaps the seven-year itch of the Detroit Pistons is not worth mentioning in the 70-year decline of the Motor City, but for the people of Detroit, their new blue-collar era is coming.

In 2017, the Clippers' empty combination disintegrated, Paul went to the Rockets, chasing the journey to the Western Conference Finals, and Blake Griffin joined the Pistons.

In the 2009 No. [-] pick, dunk king Griffin and Drummond, who is known as Zhuangshen, teamed up, and the combination of the inside twin towers made countless fans think that the Pistons had hope of winning the O'Brien Gold Cup again.

However, the results are always so unsatisfactory. Zhuang Shen is very strong, the ability to protect the inside line is excellent, and Griffin's athletic talent explodes. Even with this combination, the Pistons can only hover at the door of the playoffs.

Last season, the team only achieved 26 wins, ranking 12th in the East, which is somewhat similar to the Spurs.

For the Pistons in the new season, they are trying to get rid of the quagmire at the bottom. The combination of the two towers inside is not very popular in the small ball era.When the Lakers formed a five-star lineup and the Rockets formed a dead five, the Pistons went against the trend to form a lineup. How could they stand up again in the NBA.

The Pistons' starting point guard Derrick Rose, yes, a lonely ghost, a wandering Windy Rose, drifted to Detroit, with a salary of 700 million a year, which is embarrassing. The youngest regular season MVP in NBA history, regarded by the Bulls as a talented point guard who can reproduce the glory of Jordan's era, has now fallen to such a point.

Damn injuries caused a genius to fall, and the damn coach, who overused players, was also one of the culprits.

Everything in the past is just a memorable period for Rose.

I just want to go out there and play, it doesn't matter whether it's a backup or a starter.

Rose once said this after experiencing the Knicks, Cavaliers, and Timberwolves for several seasons that no one cares about. MVP and All-Star starting players also had to bow their heads to fate. Rose compromised. He just wanted to play the last few years of his career well. Perhaps Rose at this time has also returned to his original intention.

Flowers wither, flowers bloom, roses wither.

The Pistons' starting shooting guard, Brandon Knight, graduated from the famous Kentucky school and was the eighth pick in the first round.Unlike other players in the NBA, Brandon Knight is a player who drives high and low. From the 2011 and 2012 seasons, he averaged 4.5 or [-] points per game with the Pistons. Averaged [-] points per game.Going around and going around, after the Suns and the Bucks, he returned to the Pistons and regained the feeling of his rookie season.

The Pistons' starting small forward, Tony Snell, is 1.98 meters tall and a swingman. He is very similar to Wu Hao, but from the data point of view, Wu Hao can completely abuse him.

The Pistons' starting power forward, Blake Griffin, entered the NBA as the No. 2009 pick in 2010, and his rookie season was postponed for one year due to injury. In the 11-3 season, he was selected as the best rookie and the first team of the best rookie; he was selected to the All-Star team 2011 times and won the championship in the 4 All-Star Slam Dunk Contest; he was selected to the best team [-] times.

Griffin's growth in the Clippers is very rapid, because the league's first point guard Chris Paul feeds the cake, and Griffin can always bomb the basket.After leaving the Clippers and leaving Paul, Griffin's scoring dropped slightly, which is still because he has a lot of possessions in the Pistons.

Griffin is an athletic insider with top-level explosive power and confrontation. He dunks well; his ball control and shooting continue to improve, and he can launch fast breaks by himself; limited by his wingspan, help defense is not his strong point, but he is reliable in defending against low positions and pick-and-rolls .

The starting center of the Pistons, Andre Drummond entered the NBA through the draft in 2012, and was selected to the second team of the All-Rookie Team in his rookie season; he was selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the 2014 All-Star Rookie Challenge; The national team won the Men's Basketball World Cup. In 2016, he was selected to the All-Star East bench team.

Zhuang Shen's autonomous offensive ability is average, but his rebounding ability is very strong, averaging 15.8 rebounds per game, which also gives him more opportunities for second offense.

As a blue-collar center, Drummond's rebounding ability even exceeds that of Gobert, Jr. Jordan and others, and he deserves his name as the rebounding champion last season.

The Pistons' bench lineup has few shots.In terms of lineup on paper, the Spurs have an absolute advantage, and the second regular season teamed up by Radar and Wu Hao kicked off.

(End of this chapter)