Chapter 157: Against the Houston Rockets

The All-Star Game is over.
Li Shengli returned to Charlotte the next day, stepped up his training and devoted himself to the regular season schedule, but one thing worth mentioning is that the trade deadline for this season is approaching.
Generally speaking, the trading deadline is the 16th week and Thursday after the regular season starts, and the week before this day, the NBA league's trading market is full of turmoil, and various trading news is flying all over the place. People are concerned about the trading trend of the Charlotte Hornets.
This year's All-Star, Larry Johnson and Isiah Thomas are ugly suppressed, and even the audience can see the signs, not to mention the management of the various teams, and of which... let's not talk about Thomas, The conflict between Li Shengli and Johnson has intensified to a certain extent.
In the backcourt, Jill was injured, the two main players were at odds, and the bench had no depth.
All this makes the Hornets who were expected to impact the playoffs become stormy. For the Hornets management... there are only two options.
The first is ignorance and indifference, which is equivalent to being put in disguise. This year’s draft lottery pick is a sign, but this choice is a cure for the symptoms. Even if you can get a good rookie, the problem of internal discord is still here. .
So the management of the Hornets is more inclined to move the scalpel. Between Li Shengli and Johnson, give one to exchange for the opportunity to strengthen other positions. After all... this is the first time after the Hornets joined the league since they built the team. Eligible to hit the playoffs, the management did not want to give up.
For a time, the Hornets, who determined the trading intention, became the confectionery in the whole league. All the trading plans were handed over to the Hornets management board. After all, eating any of Li Shengli and Johnson will be a supplement. Strong inside selection.
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Outside the turbulence, the Hornets also felt this strange atmosphere of depression.
Head coach Alan is distressed. After all, whichever one you cut will affect the Hornets' record, it is related to his coaching rating, and Curry and Boggs are even worse.
Trading Johnson is of course good, but if trading Li Shengli, the brothers must have lost 10,000 in their hearts...Gill was reimbursed for the season, Li Shengli was traded midway, and the entire Hornets will have a good relationship between the two of them.
However, the NBA is a business league. Trading is too common. They simply have no way to influence the management’s decision. They can only wait patiently for the news on February 25, before the trading deadline.
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Because the All-Star game is held, the regular season schedule is shelved for a few days, so the next game is obviously a little bit of progress. The schedule is very tight, and the Hornets have five games before the trading deadline, the first three are Continuous back-to-back away games, the last two games are home games.
Until the end of the 23rd.
Four games in five games, 2 wins and 2 losses, a total record of 22 wins and 24 losses, the fifth game took place on the 23rd, the Hornets played at home Houston Houston Rockets, and after playing... 25th is the trading deadline, There will be another Hornets game on the 26th.
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Evening on the 23rd.
Charlotte Hornets VS Houston Rockets!
In the Charlotte Arena at the Hornets’ home stadium, since Li Shengli shined in the All-Star Game, his fans in Charlotte are increasing day by day, and no one would expect that an Asian face and foreign player will be so popular, and today This game...is of great significance, and the entire audience is rarely full.
On the one hand, the opponent is the Western Rockets. The Hornets' ace center Li Shengli meets the rocket superstar Olajuwon. It is destined to be a fierce new and old confrontation.
On the other hand, because the Hornets' management has launched a trading plan, one of Li Shengli and Johnson will leave the Hornets, and this is the last game of one of the two.
Li Shengli has already gathered a group of fans, but Larry Johnson is also the same. The Hornets fans are supporting, and more still want to witness the ending game of a team lineup change.
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After the two sides debuted and warmed up, the game started quickly.
The Hornets' starting lineup is still the same, Li Shengli starts the center, Larry Johnson and John Newman start the big and small forwards, Curry and Boggs start points and point guards.
The Rockets' starting lineup includes center Hakim Olajuwon, power forward Otis Thorpe, small forward Robert Horry, point guard Kenny Smith and shooting guard Vernon Maxwell.
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Unlike the Hornets' 22 wins and 24 losses, the Eastern rankings hover outside the top eight.
The Rockets' current record is 30 wins and 17 losses, ranking second in the West. Only under the Phoenix Suns, it is a popular team for the championship in this game, and it is different from other teams...The Rockets' main lineup has stabilized, each Positions are all players that can be useful and are very competitive.
First, Olajuwon, as the Rockets player, has averaged 26.1 points +13 rebounds +4.2 blocks per game this season, and can also have 3.5 assists, showing his importance in the Rockets, can attack the basket , But also to cope with teammates, connect inside and outside.
Of course, if you want to do this, Olajuwon alone is difficult to do. Power forward Otis Thorpe is his gold assistant. Together with him, he props up the rocket's inner sky, and it is the green leaf of the big dream. .
The Hornets are just the opposite.
Larry Johnson has been suppressed in the All-Star Game, and now he has received the trading news released by the Hornets management, making him even more aggressive, not to mention the offensive and defensive ends, and ignore Li Shengli, playing his own.
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Midfielder.
In the All-Star Game, Li Shengli played with Olajuwon at the same time, but then Olajuwon and O'Neal played against each other. Although the defense was released, O'Neal was smashed on the offensive end.
The two stood in the midfield and didn't talk much.
Although I have met, but the relationship only ends here. After all, there are as many as three or four hundred players in the NBA. Who doesn’t know anyone? It’s not the friends who have met, or the friendship is too worthless~ EbookFREE.me~ The referee threw the ball to a high point.
Olajuwon strangled the timing and took off the first time. Although he was 5 centimeters taller than Li Shengli, the timing was good, and the bounce was amazing. Li Shengli's rare jump ball failed. The Rockets attacked the first round.
However, jumping the ball has little effect on the game, no one will care about this kind of thing.
The Hornets' defenses were put in place. Rocket point guard Kenny Smith pulled to the three-point line. In front of Boggs, he shot the Rockets' first offensive three-pointer.
Uh!
Basketball made a perfect trajectory and successfully entered the net.
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When he came up, he made a three-pointer?
Boggs was a little ignorant, and his face was a little bad, because Kenny Smith didn't take his defense seriously, he was one meter nine to one meter six, and he jumped easily...Boggs is true There is no way.