Chapter 252 Facing the Spurs

The current teams with 6 consecutive victories include the Jazz, Spurs, Bulls, and Knicks, and the watershed has appeared again.

First, the Spurs and Knicks met first. The Spurs won and the Knicks fell behind. Then the Rockets met the Spurs and the Spurs lost and fell behind.

At this point, after several teams have played 8 games, the ladder ranking appears.

The Spurs, Knicks, and Rockets all have 7 wins and 1 loss, while the SuperSonics and Magic have 6 wins and 2 losses. As for the new and old Jazz and the Bulls, they lead the league with 8 consecutive victories.

Next, the ninth game of several teams is very interesting...all are strong teams playing strong teams, the Jazz will play the Spurs, the Bulls will play the Rockets, and the Magic will play the Knicks.

These three games are worth paying attention to for Li Shengli.

The first is the Bulls. As a strong team for the championship, the Bulls led by Jordan are still the same team that has always been troublesome. Everyone has a headache when they encounter it. However, since Jordan lost in the finals, he has been full of firepower. He was originally a team that can dominate an era. , it is hard to imagine how terrifying it will be after the outbreak.

Of course, the Rockets' big dream has had enough of all this.

Originally, the NBA was dominated by insiders, but the Bulls forced it into an era when Jordan suppressed the world. Although it was finally suppressed by the rising Jazz,... the Bulls are still one of the hardest bones to crack.

The second is the Magic's game against the Knicks.

In the past, Mourning was severely beaten by Ewing and Oakley, and later O'Neal led the team in revenge, but it seems that in the eyes of the fans, the newly emerging Magic's chances of winning are still a little small.

Fortunately, behind O'Neal, there is also Li Shengli. Regardless of whether the Magic win or lose, the Jazz must win the Knicks and hang it high on the championship banner in Salt Lake City.

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November 18th.

The Utah Jazz host the San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs are definitely a strong force in the Western Conference. There is no doubt about the personal strength of general David Robinson. In the past season, he averaged 23.4 points, 11.7 rebounds, 3.2 blocks, 3.7 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. Such comprehensive data is gorgeous.

However, unlike last season, the Spurs can be said to have picked up a big bargain and grabbed rebounding monster Dennis Rodman from the Pistons.

In fact, the Pistons' decline is a foregone conclusion.

The former coach, Chuck Daly, left class long ago to coach the Nets. Since last season, after being defeated by Li Shengli in his home court of Auburn Hills Palace last season, Laimbeer retired and Thomas was a little unbeatable. Only Joe Dumars is struggling to support him. As for Rodman... he didn't even participate in the Pistons training before the start of this season, and the former bad boy team is on the verge of disintegration.

According to Rodman himself, it was because his father was dismissed from class, which destroyed his will to play basketball. However, after his old club, the Pistons, traded him to the Spurs, this guy immediately became so powerful that it made people sigh... …

Destroyed your will to play basketball?

Are you sure you don't look down on your old club? Even after changing teams, his hair was dyed green!

But this kind of thing is understandable. After all, people are up and water is down. As far as Rodman is concerned, he will never be a life-saving straw for weak teams, but he will be a catalyst for strong teams to become stronger.

The reason is simple. He has defense and rebounds, but no offense. When a weak team does not have a super attacker, who will digest the offensive rebounds?

On the contrary...it's different in the Spurs. He can do so much. He can greatly help the general to share the defensive pressure, not to mention rebounding. The general is liberated and can devote all his energy to the Spurs. Put it on offense.

This is indeed the case. Since the start of this season, General Robinson's personal score has improved significantly compared with last season, and currently averages over 30 points per game.

As for Rodman... he became the rebounding leader with 18.3 rebounds last season, but he only scored 7.5 points.

If this data is turned into 18.3 points + 7.5 rebounds, it is actually not bad, but a power forward with this kind of data is nothing, and it is far from as shocking and unique as 18.3 rebounds.

This will definitely be a big improvement for the Spurs!

After gaining Rodman, they once again improved from a strong inside team to a higher level, and against the Jazz... Spurs coach John Lucas felt that Rodman must be very useful.

Defense can limit Malone!

Rebounds can suppress Li Shengli!

Lucas believes that half of the domineering inside line that the Jazz are famous for has been destroyed by him, and the first appearance of the Spurs' new lineup is their battle of proof.

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The game starts immediately.

Jazz starting lineup: center Li Shengli, power forward Malone, small forward David Benoit, shooting guard Crotty, point guard Stockton.

Tyrone Corbin, the original regular starter, was taken down. In the final analysis, his performance did not satisfy Jerry Sloan, and this kind of thing was all decided by the old man Sloan alone, and no one else could get in the way.

As for the Spurs' starting lineup: center David Robinson, power forward Dennis Rodman, small forward Willie Anderson, shooting guard Dale Ellis, and point guard Nagle Knight.

Spurs coach John Lucas seems to have determined the rebounding advantage in this game, and this starting lineup plays at a slow pace and fully digests the rebounding advantage.

In the entire team, except for General Robinson, Anderson and Ellis will be the secondary offensive points. As for Rodman's task, that is to seize the rebound advantage and suppress Malone.

Whether it can break the Jazz's undefeated streak, Rodman's performance will be even more important than Robinson's.

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After the two sides were in position, Rodman, the green-haired rebounder monster, kept staring at Li Shengli. I don’t know why he dyed his hair green, but there is no doubt that... with a ball of green on his head, Rodman It became the most eye-catching presence in the audience, a moving bush. And thinking about how Li Shengli first knocked over Laimbeer in the Pistons, and then beat the three of them one by one, Rodman was really afraid of this super perverted guy.

Now, what's even more terrifying is...this super pervert is also standing next to two other perverts.

The Big Three of Limas?

Limas is a big pervert, right?

Everyone is afraid sometimes. Although Stockton poses no threat to him, if he irritates Li Shengli and Ma Long and makes these two perverts go crazy, he simply can't imagine the unpleasant consequences.

The only person who gave him a sense of security was his new eldest brother, David Robinson. However, this eldest brother was unassuming, even too low-key, and was obviously not on the same page as him, so... he still had to take it easy and follow his eldest brother closely. Keep your pace and be low-key.

Even though he is also a well-known villain in the NBA, he still has to bow his head in front of the super evil force of Limas who is a group of villains.

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"What are you looking at? Do you believe it when I pull out all your hair? I make you dye your hair, so you don't learn from it!" The two armies faced off, and Malone caught Rodman and took the lead in spraying.

Speaking of which, the two don't have much hatred, but the Pistons once made countless enemies. In the Jazz's previous game with them, Rodman was like a piece of dog-skin plaster sticking to Malone, and he did everything he could. Malone had long been thinking about him. Got this thing.

"Karl, stop talking nonsense. Did you just win the championship by talking trash?" David Robinson is a good old man, but it's him who takes the lead at this time, and Rodman saw that his elder brother had already stood up for him. Naturally, he couldn't lose in terms of momentum, so he responded with a few words.

Although the game has not started yet, the emotions of both sides have been aroused, waiting for the referee to blow the whistle.