Chapter 273 272. The Proud Teacher Na
The next day, on the 9th, at 7:40 p.m., Zhang Yang and his teammates once again stepped onto the Turkish Airlines Arena to face the Hawks back-to-back.

After entering, Felton had a heated chat with Harden who was also present.

The ignored Zhang San: The two fat guys left me behind again!

Harden and Carmelo Tatum came to watch the game tonight. The tickets were bought by Zhang Yang. Both of them are registered NCAA players and can accept invitations from friends to watch NBA games. Zhang Yang is their high school classmate. If the NCAA investigates this, the report can be passed.

NBA teams can’t give away tickets, otherwise Jordan would really like to give tickets to these two junior students.

Especially Harden, who is one of the top 10 high school students in the United States and is from the class of 07 where many top talents gather.

Zhang Yang came to the side of Tyronn Lue and Carmelo Tatum who were taking a photo. After the two finished taking the photo, Zhang Yang stepped forward and casually greeted Tatum. They see each other once or twice a month, either when he goes back to school or when Tatum comes to Charlotte to play, so there is no need for formalities.

Then he politely greeted Tyronn Lue. After the etiquette was settled, Zhang Yang said, "Mr. Lu, are you going to guard me tonight?"

Tyronn Lue reacted fiercely: "No! How could it be that I was guarding you? You are dreaming."

Zhang Yang: "Who else can defend you? Johnson moves slowly and can't defend my shooting; Childress is too thin. Last year he could hardly withstand my breakthrough. Now he definitely can't defend me. Who else can you defend? Let the forwards defend me? Only your speed can keep up with me..."

Zhang Yang was talking while looking at the opposite bench. Regardless of the lineup structure, the Hawks had an explosive amount of talent. They had 206-centimeter geniuses like Marvin Williams and Shelden Williams, and they squandered their talent as if it was given for free without any regret. They even trained a forward with the best physical talent like Josh Smith in a blind manner, sometimes letting him play point guard and sometimes center. In the past three years, Josh Smith has played all five positions.

As for what benefits Josh Smith has gained from this training method... yes, there are some. Josh Smith, who showed his top-paid talent in both offense and defense in his rookie year, was trained to a level with an annual salary of tens of millions. During the offseason, the Hawks and Josh Smith renewed their contract in advance with a starting salary of 1000 million, 6 million in 7200 years, which saved a lot of money. If Josh Smith performs like Okafor, he would make 6 million in years.

Josh Smith's current situation is that his performance in any position from 1 to 5 is better than the average of each team's starting lineup, but he cannot beat the opponent's starting lineup no matter what position he plays. His statistics at the beginning of this season are exaggerated, averaging 15 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks per game, but watching his games, you can see that he has no obvious advantage over anyone, and he cannot play the role of a star either in offense or defense.

This year, the Hawks started with 10 main rotation players, and there was only one real point guard, which is Tyronn Lue.

This season, Tyronn Lue is one year older, but his playing time has increased instead of decreased compared to last season. He averaged 24 minutes per game last season and 4 minutes per game in the first four games of this season.

It can be seen that Hawks head coach Mike Woodson has understood the importance of point guard and no longer follows Larry Brown's example of using a combo guard.

But the Hawks management selected Al Horford as a joke during the draft. Some media reported that the Grizzlies were ready to select Horford, but they never expected to pick up Conley in the end, and the conditions for reconstruction were instantly met.

Just like Zhang Yang thought, Mike Woodson was thinking about resigning.

Mike Woodson was envious as he watched Conley average 4 points and 8.2 assists in the first four games.

It's not that Horford is not good. Horford had 8 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal in his debut. He has good potential on both offense and defense. But there are too many forwards with such height and talent. They are too many to train and can only be sent away or their talent is wasted. After all, there is only one ball, and there are only so many ball possessions and shooting rights, which cannot be divided among so many geniuses.

Without the ball, they can only play without the ball, rush and defend. After getting used to this style of play, those geniuses who are around 206 cm tall have become blue-collar workers.

Hearing Zhang Yang jokingly scolding his teammates, Tyronn Lue was not angry. There was nothing to be angry about. He responded: "So what if I can keep up with you? Even if you stand in front of me and shoot, I may not be able to interfere with you, so it is impossible for me to defend you, but we can definitely defend you."

Zhang Yang had a bad feeling and protested strongly: "No, Sir Lu, you can't do this. You have been targeting me for two years. Are you still coming?"

Tyronn Lue couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "Who made you the youngest FMVP in history..."

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108 to 93, the Bobcats defeated the Hawks, who had been in chaos for several years, without any suspense.

费尔顿25分4助攻，笑得嘴都合不拢了，贾莱特-杰克16分3助攻，迈克-米勒15分，山猫队外线几个主力得分手表现都很好……除了7投4中加上3中3的罚球拿到11分6板6助攻的张杨。

The Pacers only double-teamed in advance, but the Hawks didn't care about their face at all and double-teamed endlessly.

Anyway, we have been under endless attack for two years, so this time won’t make any difference.

Moreover, this is a rare time for the Hawks players to have a common goal in a game. Although they won one of the first five games, the victory was against the Heat, who were tied with the Pacers for last place in the league. In that game, they played their own offense and defense and had no cohesion. Tonight, they finally seemed to be "doing something big together."

In terms of defensive coordination and defensive ability, the Hawks are not as good as the Pacers. The defensive abilities and double-teaming habits of Granger, Dunleavy, Marquis Daniels, Tinsley, etc. are all pretty good, but their inside defense is too poor. O'Neal Jr. has no intention of fighting and just wants to leave, Troy Murphy's defense is a negative, not to mention the substitutes. If Bird can make a magical move and replace these two inside players with trading value with pure blue-collar players that O'Brien likes, the Pacers will probably rise in a year or two.

The Hawks, with a 183cm point guard and four forwards over 4m and under m, have no single or team defense, so if Zhang Yang has a chance to shoot, his efficiency is actually quite high, such as counterattacks and cuts... But the Hawks double-teamed Zhang Yang even when he didn't have the ball...

hatred!
Zhang Yang opened the little notebook in his heart and wanted to write the name of the Eagles team. But when he looked, damn, the name of the Eagles team was already written in the little notebook.

Carlisle also noted the Hawks in his little book of hatred. At least the Pacers still had some face to save. They could also practice one-on-one defense and practice Zhang Yang's breakthrough to attract the defense and then pass the ball inside to connect with the defense.

The Eagles simply wasted their opportunity to practice for a game!

After playing against the Hawks, the Bobcats rested for a day and faced the Heat at home on November 11.

Before the start of the season, not only fans and league officials, but also major TV stations believed that O'Neal would be able to pick himself up again this season after a slump last season.

That's a big shark!
The league promoted the match between the 05 backcourt prodigy and the 03 class of James and Wade as a popular match, and major TV stations did the same. Originally, the Bobcats played against the Heat twice at the beginning, and both were arranged for live broadcast. But after the last match between the two teams, the major TV stations canceled the live broadcast on the 11th the next day and instead broadcast the Hornets' away game against the Magic, which was also taking place at the same time. Both teams have risen strongly this year.

However, the cancellation of the live broadcast was correct, because when the Heat came to Charlotte, neither Wade nor O'Neal came. Both of them suffered injuries and would miss the game against the Bobcats at the same time, and even the only highlight of No. 3 VS No. 3 was gone.

Zhang Yang continued to be in a slump tonight, making 10 of 6 shots and scoring 15 points, playing for only 19 minutes in the first half.

The Bobcats scored 27 points in the first quarter, while the Heat scored 12 points in the first quarter and 12 points in the second quarter. When Wade and O'Neal were able to play, the Heat was already the last in the league. If both of them can't play, the Heat will really be a CBA team... No, some players don't even want the CBA.

The Bobcats led the Heat by 55 points at halftime, 24-31.

In the second half, the main rotation of the Bobcats was 7 pure substitutes, including Jarrett Jack, Rondo, Alan Anderson, Afflalo, Millsap, Perkins, and Muhammad. They ran a pure Rondo and Millsap-centered tactic like in the preseason. They didn't play very well, but it satisfied Carlisle's long-suppressed idea of ​​"building tactics around Millsap."

The situation in the second half was a little better, with the Heat scoring 52 points and the Bobcats scoring 50 points, and the two teams seemed evenly matched.

105 to 76, the Bobcats defeated the Heat!
The Heat's player statistics were very balanced tonight. All 11 players played and all 11 scored, but only one scored in double digits - Ricky Davis, who scored 16 points on 7 of 17 shots.

Among the other players of the Heat, Haslem played the best, scoring 8 points and 10 rebounds.

No one expected that one day, the face of Wade's team would become Ricky Davis...

When Zhang Yang saw Ricky Davis become the Heat's first scoring point, he thought of the Heat's schedule he had seen before. In two games, the Heat will play against the Cavaliers. If Wade and O'Neal are still injured at that time, wouldn't the highlight of that game be Ricky Davis VS LeBron James?
In the original time and space, James returned to the Cavaliers in 14. At that time, some James fans applied the lines of the Golden Chicken to that "return".

Zhang Yang was going to open a small account and post on that day: Cleveland, your old emperor is back!

Retracting his scattered attention, Zhang Yang looked at the players on the opposite side and had a new suspicion - the magician had started planning last season.

Among the guys from the class of 03, except for Anthony who rejected James' advice, many other geniuses followed James' advice and only signed 3+1 contract renewals so that they could opt out of the contract after three years of the new contract. After accumulating enough bird rights for seven years, they could sign a new contract with a starting salary of 3% of the salary cap for a seven-year veteran early.

Including Chris Kaman, they all rejected the Clippers' 6-year, 7200 million contract and instead signed a 4-year, 4000 million contract.

Zhang Yang estimated that the divine calculator may have started planning after seeing the wave of contract renewals for the 06 class at the end of 03. The Heat began to sell off high-quality role players and trade long-term players with good strength for short-term players with junk contracts. The first wave appeared in January and February of this year, and this summer was even more ruthless, with deals like James Posey for Mark Blount being made.

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After playing three games in four days, the Bobcats, who started with seven consecutive wins, got two days of rest.

Carlisle did not arrange training on the 12th and took a day off. Zhang San, who had only shot more than 3 times in the past three games, ran to the gym to vent his excess energy. He made a lot of shots and scored hundreds of goals, accumulating more than two thousand and nearly three thousand shooting points.

At around 4 p.m., Zhang Yang finished his training, went home to take a shower, and went to the airport to pick someone up.

Nearing 6 o'clock, Zhang Yang received a call from Coach Na, who had arrived in Charlotte one night earlier than the team.

The Suns also have two days of rest. When Zhang Yang called Nash in the morning to ask if he was free to practice together tomorrow, he learned that the Suns had no training scheduled today, and even tomorrow's training schedule was very short.

Nash explained several reasons why the Suns have less training. D'Antoni is not a person who is very demanding about training. He only cares about the performance of the players. If the role players do not play well, they will be replaced. This is the first reason. The Suns' star players are veterans, and there are 8 players in rotation. It is not suitable for a lot of training during the season. This is the second reason. And the most crucial point is that the Suns' system is mature and the core lineup is solid.

So, when Nash learned that Zhang Yang and Felton wanted to train with him, he took the initiative to come to Charlotte early today.

Nash has put last season's playoff defeat behind him, looking forward and ready to start over.

Although the Suns lost Kurt Thomas this summer, they successfully completed the contract extension with Barbosa for 5 years and $3000 million, retaining the core scorer of the second team.

They also brought in players such as Gordon Kiricek and Brian Skinner to fill the gap in mid-range shooting.

After returning to the starting lineup, Dio averaged 7 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists in the first 6 games. As a supporting forward, he still needs to partner with stronger teammates to fully unleash his talent in organizing offense.

Steve Kerr did a good job in strengthening the details and met D'Antoni's needs for lineup reinforcement. The Suns also started as strong as they have been in the past three years, with 3 wins and 6 loss. They are second in the Western Conference, only behind the Hornets who started with 1 wins in a row and ahead of the Lakers who have 6 wins and 5 losses.

纳什开局7场场均18.6分12助攻，投篮命中率51%，三分命中率48%，罚球命中率92%。

The individual performance was good, the team record was good. Zhang Yang saw Nash again after two months. Nash no longer had the sadness of being eliminated early in the second round of the playoffs during the offseason. He even looked a bit proud.

In the past few offseasons, there has been a hot topic that has caused controversy among fans and the media hypes it every summer - Nash is old.

This topic has been around since 05-year-old Nash won the MVP in 31. At that time, he was considered a flash in the pan as he was already very old. Unsurprisingly, this statement came up again this summer and caused heated discussions among fans.

As a result, Nash played even better at the start of this season than last season, and his performance hit a new career high. Less than two weeks into the new season, calls for MVP were raised. It would be strange if he was not very proud of himself.

That's right, Zhang Yang remembered that the general manager of the Suns would soon start to show his management talent...

(End of this chapter)