Five Hundred and Eighty-Six. Why Is It so Difficult to Get the Last Place?

Coming to a seaside city to play a game, especially the warm south coast, Sun Ce was in a good mood.

New Orleans is a great place. At the end of the last century, it was tied with Austin, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Atlanta, Georgia, and Des Moines, Iowa, as the four most livable cities in the United States.

At that time, the owner of the Hornets wanted to move from the East Coast to the South Coast, hoping to get a share of New Orleans' per capita GDP, which was ranked among the top in the United States.

However, in the years after moving to New Orleans, the record was not great and the ball market was mediocre. After a few years, Paul was finally acquired in 2005. But good guy, Paul’s rookie season has not even started yet, the Hurricanes are coming, and the Hornets are The real estate, tourism industry deeds, and land deeds that the owner accumulated in New Orleans over the years turned into piles of waste paper overnight. The owner of the Hornets is going bankrupt, New Orleans is still rebuilding, and the team is being sold. Don't fall off.

Now the Hornets don't even have an owner. After the league bought the team from the former owner of the Hornets and put it under the trusteeship of the league, the only instruction the Hornets general manager got was to save money.

According to the information Sun Ce obtained from the scouting report, the Hornets currently have only 13 players with contracts, with a total salary of 36 million U.S. dollars, the last in the league, including David West’s 8.3 million U.S. dollars, E. Meka Okafor's US$14.12 million and Peja's US$5.7 million. Apart from these three, Belinelli, who has the highest salary, only has a salary of US$2.16 million. The salary of the others is basically US$460,000. Between $1.12 million and $1.12 million, almost all of them are second-round picks, undrafted players, and Development League players.

Even potential young players such as Marcus Thornton, Gallinari, and Wilson Chandler were packaged away because their salaries exceeded US$3 million, clearing space with almost no reward.

And sometimes, instead of saying that you have potential players, people will use draft picks to trade with you, but they will directly ask for players from you. Everyone knows that you have to save money as much as possible, and no one will be stupid enough to trade with you at the same price. , not forming a group and not trading with you is already very "merciful".

In other words, the Nuggets gave them a little compensation and gave the Rockets a high-ranking protected draft pick in the future.

At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 10th, the Grizzlies' away game against the Hornets started.

Willie Green, C-level ability evaluation, 2003 second-round pick, veteran in his eighth season, was given up by the 76ers in the summer, played a few games in the Development League, and was traded by the Hornets for $1.13 million per year. The Knife signed the 7-year veteran with the minimum salary.

Marco Belinelli, the player with the highest trade value for the Hornets with a B-level evaluation. This is the fourth season of his career. In the past four years, his lowest three-point shooting percentage was 38%. The Hornets general manager is the only player who has been approved by the league to renew his contract.

Peja, C+ level ability evaluation... is clamoring for a buyout, but the price cannot be negotiated.

David West, A-level ability evaluation, quasi-All-Star player, the strongest player in the Hornets, the only player to average more than 15 points per game, averaging 17.8 points, 8 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, the Hornets new season He can still get 3 wins so far, basically relying on him to break out alone.

The key is that David West has no trading value. He is on an expiring contract. Other teams can just wait for his contract to expire before signing. The 76ers' three major outsiders played against the Hornets last time. After praising David West, it is difficult to say that it was not authorized by the management.

Emeka Okafor...averaged 12 points and 9 rebounds per game so far in the new season. He is still capable and defends very well, but his salary is US$14.12 million, and he still has a three-year contract with this season...a new contract with Wade The salary for the first three years is the same!

Looking at the opponent's lineup, Sun Ce really didn't know how to start.

That sucks!

4 wins and 18 losses…

What Sun Ce is even more curious about is that this is actually only second to last in the league. How on earth did Love's Timberwolves achieve 3 wins and 19 losses?

After the game starts,

The Grizzlies quickly gained the upper hand, playing a 9-4 run in the first half of the first quarter. In 6 minutes, the Grizzlies only scored 9 points, and there was no one left. Sun Ce and Randolph each grabbed 3 rebounds, Sun Ce 3. Defensive rebounds, Randolph 1 defensive rebound and 2 offensive rebounds. If Randolph hadn't scored two tip-ups, the Grizzlies and Hornets would have been as bad offensively.

The Grizzlies' overall shooting was poor, so the defense was brutal. The Hornets only scored 4 points in 6 minutes...

After the official timeout, Sun Ce, Battier, and Gasol were replaced. In these 6 minutes, the Grizzlies scored only 5 points in non-secondary offense and only scored one non-secondary offensive goal. With these three The relationship between the two is very strong, and the three of them scored 0 out of 6 in total.

However, the defense was very good. Sun Ce blocked the opponent's only rushing Willie Green twice in 6 minutes.

Sun Ce seems to know why Willie Green was called the biggest legacy of the 2003 second-round picks. Mainly because during his rookie year in the 2003-04 season, Iverson was injured for the season in March. Willie Green Assuming the starting position, he averaged 13.9 points and 7.5 assists in the last 12 games, helping the 76ers end the season with 8 wins and 4 losses, helping the 76ers go from third to last in the Eastern Conference to tenth in the Eastern Conference.

Willie Green Sunce was very impressed. After the 76ers formed the young backcourt combination of Willie Green and Iguodala, they began to prepare to sell Iverson because they liked Willie Green. Talent, before the start of the 2004-05 season, he was given a five-year contract extension at a mid-level price in advance.

As a result, he failed to play for seven years and was eventually given up by the 76ers.

Willie Green is very impactful, which was the key to his ability to lead the team to average 7.5 assists per game at the end of the season, but he only has impact. After seven years, he still only has impact, and he still only has impact now. , rushed to the inside and did it directly, but Sun Ce blocked two from behind.

Since the condition is not good, they will be replaced first, and the combination of Conley, Morrow, Paul George, Randolph, and Yi Jianlian will come on.

Not to mention, as soon as this substitute lineup was added, the shooting ability was greatly improved, and the offensive efficiency was also suddenly improved.

But one of the key points is that Yi Jianlian was targeted!

The Hornets are miserable. This season, the Hornets' attendance rate is only higher than that of the Nets, second to last in the league. Today's attendance rate is quite high.

Because New Orleans has been engaged in tourism activities in the past two years, if other countries want to travel to New Orleans, the difficulty of obtaining a visa has been greatly reduced. Although it has led to the proliferation of illegal immigrants in New Orleans, it has also brought many more tourists and many locals here. income.

Which continent has the most people in the world?

Asia!

Many Chinese fans came today because the Hornets tickets are cheap and you can watch a cheap NBA game when traveling to the beach. Originally, many Chinese fans were planning to come to see Sun Ce, who is very popular this season.

However, Yi Jianlian has unexpectedly become popular in the past two days, especially in Asia where the animation "Slam Dunk" is the most popular. Yi Jianlian has become the most popular professional athlete. As soon as Yi Jianlian came on the court, he received cheers from fans from Asia, and The local fans at the scene... had no sense of belonging to the Hornets, and Paul didn't leave much of a fan base here. He played in Oklahoma City for the first two seasons of his career, and he was at his peak in the 2007-08 season. That year, the Hornets had the worst attendance in the league, and the whole city was like a ghost town, and only ghosts would come to watch the game.

In the 07-08 season, Paul averaged 21 points, 4 rebounds, 11.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game. His performance was better than that of James and Wade, the top superstars of his generation.

Just because there is no local fan base at all.

So, when the foreign fans cheered for Yi Jianlian, the local fans at the scene also switched sides. Yi Jianlian has also been very popular in the United States in the past two days, and it felt like the whole audience was Yi Jianlian fans.

The Hornets players could stand this, so Yi Jianlian was targeted. Whenever he found a chance to cut in, the Hornets would bring in a group of people. At this time, Conley calmly distributed the ball to his vacated teammates on the outside, Morrow and Randolph. , Paul George got a lot of open mid-range shooting opportunities. Their touch is much better than Sun Ce, Gasol, and Battier, and their offensive efficiency suddenly improved.

Hornets head coach Monty Williams did not stop this behavior. His task in the new season is to mess up. They need a high draft pick to trade, and they are even ready to trade the one they got from the Knicks. Several draft picks, plus the Rockets' draft pick obtained from the Nuggets, were used to trade in the hope of getting the No. 1 pick.

But God knows why the Timberwolves, who seem to be so talented, are ranked last in the league this year. Damn it.

With Yi Jianlian enjoying the double-team treatment of superstars, the Grizzlies led the Hornets by 9 points 22-13 at the end of the first quarter.

The Grizzlies actually played very poorly today. After Paul George, Morrow, and Yi Jianlian came on board, their offensive efficiency improved and they scored 14 points in the first half of the quarter. However, the opponent's defense was already terrible. They got this in the middle of the quarter. The scoring is nothing to show off. The opponent is currently losing an average of 106 points per game this season.

But it’s good to have an advantage, and winning the game is the most important thing.

After establishing an advantage, the Grizzlies played very relaxedly. After relaxing, the combination of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Morrow, Yi Jianlian, and DeAndre Jordan went up to a 31-20 score in the second quarter. Sun Ce scored 8 in a single quarter. Scored 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

In the second half, Sun Ce went up to play 2+1 in the third quarter. After improving his data to 11 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 3 steals, he was replaced by coach Hollins.

Sun Ce now wants to brush up data in garbage time, but Coach Hollins won't allow it!

Sun Ce sat melancholy on the bench watching the lineup of Jason Williams, Paul George, Battier, Yi Jianlian, and Haddadi pecking each other's rookies on the court.

Gotta have some fun!

Sun Ce glanced at the teammates sitting next to him and saw that there was something to play with. He leaned next to Jordan and whispered a few words.

Xiao Qiaodan listened to Sun Ce's words very much. Although he didn't know why he did that, he did it anyway.

Jordan came and sat down next to Coach Hollins. Coach Hollins saw Jordan suddenly moving next to him and asked in confusion: "DeAndre, what's the matter?"

Jordan didn't know why he said this, but he still said: "Coach, I want to play basketball!"

Coach Hollins stared at Jordan for a long time. Didn't he play 9 minutes in the second quarter and make two deductions?

In the second half, what coach Hollins wants to do is to let Yi Jianlian find more movement in the game, and also let Haddadi play more. There will be three back-to-backs later this month, and he will definitely have to take a rest. He is so tall. Get on.

At this time, coach Hollins found Sun Ce sitting next to Jordan and snickering. How could he not know that this was Sun Ce's instruction?

But why? Why does Sun Ce laugh so happily when Jordan says this?

After thinking for a while, Coach Hollins didn't think about it and said directly to Jordan: "You and Noah, get out of here!"

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