msmithbooks Chapter 623 The Best of the First Week
Chapter 623 The Best of the First Week
Chapter 623 The Best of the First Week
On November 11, the Grizzlies will play back-to-back away games against the Dallas Mavericks in the evening.For them, playing the Pistons in overtime the night before used up a lot of energy. Even if it was only the beginning of the season, it would be very tiring to play back-to-back away games like this, plus the exhaustion of traveling and traveling.
During the day, the NBA officially announced the best players in the East and West for the first week.Rookie McAway from the Philadelphia 76ers in the east and Xie Kai from the Memphis Grizzlies in the west won this honor.
McAway is the No. 11 rookie in the first round of this year. As a young draft pick, he showed a strong performance as the best rookie at the beginning of the season.His outstanding performance also gave the poor 76ers confidence. If a No. 11 pick can continue such an outstanding performance, it will be a great benefit for their reconstruction.
谢开在首周进行的两场比赛中，一场得到45+5+11+4+2，另一场得到29+10+7+2+1，场均贡献37分7.5个篮板9次助攻3个抢断1.5个盖帽，数据简直爆炸。
Of course, this is just the data of the two games, and it does not mean that Xie Kai can also score such data per game, but such an amazing performance in the first week gave them a good start for the whole season, and also gave the team and fans Enough confidence.
That night, the Grizzlies, who were affected by their physical fitness, narrowly lost to the Mavericks in an away game and missed their 3-game winning streak.Although Xie Kai still scored 30 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, he still couldn't help the team win the away game.
On November 11, the Grizzlies returned home to face the Celtics.Under the operation of the cold-blooded general manager Angie, the Celtics officially entered the reconstruction period after trading out the team's meritorious veteran Pierce and the old wolf king KG.In return, they got a stack of draft picks.
In this game, the Grizzlies played steadily and took advantage of the lineup to easily defeat their opponents and refused to lose streak.After this game, their record came to 3 wins and 1 loss, temporarily ranking fourth in the Western Conference.
On November 11, the Grizzlies played at home against the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Pelicans were originally the New Orleans Hornets. In the 2002-03 season, the Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans, opening the history of the team in New Orleans. In January 2013, Tom Benson, the owner of the newly acquired Hornets, decided to change the name of the New Orleans Hornets to the New Orleans Pelicans, and passed the approval of the league to change the name from the 1-2013 season.
So the season begins with the original New Orleans Hornets becoming history.
From Xie Kai's point of view, the Hornets sound more impressive and aggressive, while the Pelicans always feel weird.As a Chinese, he can't write the word "pelican" at once...
But changing the name is a matter for the owner of the team, Xie Kai himself has no right to ask.
The Pelicans have been reduced to a rebuilding team since Paul and David West left.To be precise, it should be a bad team.How important Paul is to this team is obvious.
In fact, the addition of players like Paul and James to a bad team is too great. Some black people keep saying that they use up their teammates, but look at what this team has become after they leave. so...
The Grizzlies currently have a 3-game winning streak at home and remain unbeaten.As the defending champions, their football market is quite hot, and it can almost be said that it is hard to find a ticket.The ticket price a few years ago and the current ticket price are simply not the same.Even with scalpers, the votes have doubled several times.
The opponent in this game is a team that did not make the playoffs last season, but it is still hard to get a ticket.Who would have thought that the Grizzlies' football market would be so hot, this is not New York or Los Angeles, but such a scene did happen.
The Grizzlies are still very serious about preparing for this game. Although the opponent is not a strong team in the league, there are no weak teams in the NBA.The overturning of strong teams often happens in the regular season, and today is the home court. They don't want to be defeated by a weak team in front of the home team fans.
In this game, the Grizzlies' starting lineup is still the same as before.
The starting lineup of the Pelicans in the away game is: center - Jason Smith, power forward - Anthony Davis, small forward - Al-Farouq Aminu, shooting guard - Eli G Gordon, point guard -- Jrue Holiday.
The lineup of the Pelicans is very young. The oldest player in the starting lineup is center Jason Smith, who was born in 86...
As a rebuilding team, young people naturally have better potential and plasticity.The talent of this team is obvious, it depends on how much these young people can realize their talents.
In this Pelicans team, Xie Kai saw a familiar figure - Tyreke Evans.
Evans and Xie Kai once partnered in the Kings for a season, because of conflicts, he forced Xie Kai away.But who would have thought that he would be traded by the team before the rookie contract ended.
Back then, the Kings gave up Xie Kai and wanted to use Evans as the core of the team, but it turned out that Evans was not qualified for this role. He and Mayo are strikingly similar, both of which are the type of "the debut is the peak" .
On July 7 this year, the New Orleans Pelicans reached a three-way trade agreement with the Kings and Trail Blazers. The Pelicans sent Greivis Vasquez and Robin Lopez to get Ty Rick Evans.
On July 7, the Pelicans officially signed Tyreke Evans with a four-year contract of $10 million.
For Evans, the young Pelicans is a fairly good destination for him. Although he did not become an All-Star player in the Kings, he is still favored by the next team. 4 million U.S. dollars in 4398 years, far from the maximum salary, but it is also a contract of almost 1000 million U.S. dollars per year, which is not low.In his current state, this contract is on the high side, so the Pelicans actually reflected their expectations of him in the contract.
Xie Kai and Evans have never reconciled, he has no such idea, and it is not necessary.In this alliance, everyone is working. It's a good thing to make friends, but it's normal if you can't!He is no longer obsessed with leaving the Kings. Now he is concentrating on helping the Grizzlies defend their title. As for the rest, he can do whatever he wants.
The atmosphere at the scene is very good. The Grizzlies fans are very happy now. You must know that they are fans of the defending champion. Looking at the championship flag hanging above the arena, it feels a little unreal when you really think about it.
Although it is a weak team, the players of the Pelicans have no pressure.A lot of them haven't lost too many games, and haven't played that many games, so they don't feel the pressure of the record as deeply.What's more, the team didn't give them too high a record target, it doesn't matter where they hit.
(End of this chapter)