readytorunbook Chapter 331 Gorgeous turn around?
Chapter 331 Gorgeous turn around?
Chapter 331 Gorgeous turn around?
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"The Houston Rockets are completely out of control right now..."
"They played the best 18-game winning streak in the United States this month, and they defeated strong opponents in home and away games in a row, beating Miami and Los Angeles all..."
"At the beginning of December, when they traded Jermaine Taylor and JR, everyone thought they had given up, and they were going to play badly in advance, so that they could win the No. 12 pick... Actually they didn't..."
Everyone on the training ground was working hard with passionate smiles, and the public relations team even put up a sign saying "The loan is finally paid off, and now it's time to make money" to motivate all the staff at the Toyota Center...
"The championship?" McGrady smiled and said to the reporter: "Well, this is something that can be imagined, but let's focus on the present first. As for the rest, we will wait until March to think about it."
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Toyota Center site.
"McGrady's 3-point shot...Goal!"
"Golden State loses in disgrace..."
"Let's look at the bench...David, Derek, Brent are already warming up on the sidelines...Is the game going to garbage time again?"
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News headline: "The Streak Continues..."
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Barkley: "The Houstonians are indefinitely close to their 22-game winning streak last season...but they're about to get to the All-Star Game before then..."
Kenny: "Oh, they are popular all over the United States now, and McGrady will return to the starting lineup of the All-Star Game with his head high...and in the previous All-Star Rookie Challenge, all their first-year rookies were selected..."
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ESPN: "Congratulations, Tracy. Are you still familiar with the feeling of returning to the All-Star after two years?"
McGrady: "Uh, thanks, um, yes, I'm proud of myself... (smiling) I want to thank my team, this honor belongs to them..."
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"Halfway through the game, which team gave you the most amazing performance? Miami? Or the Lakers?"
"Uh, there is no doubt that it is Houston. Their performance was too impressive. First they lost 18 games and had no wins... Then they suddenly showed their prowess and won 20 games in a row... I have never seen this kind of game... You must know that the Lakers F04 in 4 only lost 8 games and then began to bottom out..."
Maybe all of this looks like a fantasy, but all of this is really an unexpected and reasonable thing...
So what made all this happen?
I still remember that during the ten-game losing streak, McGrady once said: "We need more patience, because we are a brand-new team that has not been baptized in any major competitions, and there is no tacit understanding... When I first came here, it was even worse than it is now. You must know that the season has just begun."
Yes, compared to other teams, even if they lose a few important personnel or the core of the team, they can still find similar players to temporarily replace them. This is not a major surgery for Houston.
After being beaten by Memphis, beaten by the Nuggets, and revenged by the Spurs, McGrady lost 2 games in a row. McGrady didn't say "it takes time and patience."
Not kind of maddening?Maybe you overlooked that he will be 14 years old in 32 months, especially after returning from a serious injury and regaining his feeling, it is difficult to make contributions to the team without feeling frustrated.
Back then, his laziness wiped out the most promising championship season for himself and the team. Now it is his recovery through hard work that led to the rock-shattering Four BIG combination. The whole world is waiting to see how they will overthrow Miami, how they will send Kobe and Garnett into the history books in the playoffs, brand Howard with the fate of Patrick Ewing, and re-prove Tomjanovich's "heart of a champion"——
However, a month later, the focus of public opinion is not his competitive state, but how many games Houston can lose...
Contradictory management, players, coaching staff - sometimes he looks at JR Smith, who is still enjoying twisting his waist on the night of losing, and feels very angry...
Fortunately, the fate of the...
It is also destined to rebound strongly...
In fact, it doesn't have much to do with who is cleaned up, who is traded away...
People always ignore the time, and the increasingly tacit team system...
During the [-]-game losing streak, Sloan once mentioned... It is not normal for the team to win one game... The next few games are purely a matter of luck...
——During the [-]-game losing streak, if there was no Ariza’s revenge three-pointer, the losing streak might have ended——We all know that he is an iron god, and he missed one of the previous ten shots, but this goal was scored...
Moreover, the dense schedule and the opponents are mostly strong teams, which also created some objective reasons...
Of course, the subjective factor is that the team is too old, either too young, or not familiar with NBA culture, and the Mesozoic like McGrady has not received due attention...
As sports battles became faster and faster, veterans gradually regained their competitive status on the court. Newcomers showed a bit of general style in the training ground. Even the middle-generation representative McGrady, who belonged to the leading role in the old middle-aged youth, was treated by traditional Chinese medicine. He regained the feeling of charging in the past... In fact, the Rockets at this time are already ready for a winning streak. They only need one fuse to detonate the entire league under the background of an [-]-game losing streak...
So we know that under the drive of Ron, the transaction started... Two "data masters" were sent away. Perhaps it is more appropriate to use a cancer here. The newcomers can't avoid a wave of fire... and McGrady is also ready to welcome his glory...
That's it...the streak begins...
If the whole team did not live up to everyone's expectations, it would be better to say that McGrady did not live up to everyone's expectations...
After the start of the winning streak, Tracy McGrady, who was firmly at the core of the team, returned to the top, averaging 17 points, 7 assists, and 7 rebounds per game. The suppression (O'Neal, Cousins, Battier) style of play made it difficult for the league to adapt for a while...
After ten consecutive victories, the next few head-to-head battles are all due to the persistence of victory, and reaching the height of eighteen consecutive victories has completely formed an unstoppable momentum...
So the winning streak will continue...
The All-Star weekend can't cut off this overwhelming spirit.
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Before the All-Star Game, he signed a lifetime salary with his former club Houston Rockets this season, which is only a little more than a rookie contract. How will McGrady, who has just come out of injury and shined, deal with this dramatic ups and downs in his career upheaval?And what should fans expect from his performance at the All-Star Weekend?
Hitting the board and breaking the buckle?
Winning the All-Star Game MVP?
Or yell at everyone, "I-going-back!" before the introduction
neither.
He only played 10 minutes of the whole game...
Unlike the three young Houston players who led the first-year team to overwhelm the second-year team, compared with James, Anthony, and Durant in the All-Star Game, he already understands that he can't have the energy to complete this show... Maybe he will play one less game just like Iverson and O'Neal...
Of course, everyone is tacitly aware of this performance of accumulating energy...
There can only be one purpose - that is to be the champion...
Yes, no matter how polite and official the speech is in front of the reporters, who is sure that after 82 regular season games, he still has the energy to cope with the hand-to-hand playoffs?If you don’t think about the future, you can’t focus on the present. Maybe the veterans should leave behind the burden of winning streak and make a good plan. They should give their main players a rest in a long season like the Spurs in an orderly manner; they should give up some back-to-back games that cannot be won without paying more...
And this is called a "magnificent turn"...
20 wins and 18 losses, but won [-] games in a row...
It's good to be able to continue to win... But things are always reversed, sometimes, you should know how to let it go...
Not necessarily, every game has to be exhausted and overdraw the bodies of the veterans...
And McGrady's performance at the moment is closely related to what the Houston management is worried about...
Let go of the burden of winning streak and turn around gorgeously?
Or should we continue to work hard and make some great achievements this season, so as to improve the team's confidence in the playoffs?
This is another problem that Ron and his team are facing after the All-Star Game
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one more
(End of this chapter)