Chapter 173: Challenge the Atlanta Hawks away

　　 New Jersey Nets' next opponent is not strong.
　　 Atlanta Hawks.
　　 This season's Hawks record is comparable to the Bulls, Cavaliers and other teams, and the competition for the position of the eastern squad leader is quite fierce.
　　Although in recent seasons, they have been the eastern team, but in fact the Hawks have a very glorious history, but it's just a long time ago.
　　 5 years from 1957 to 1961 is the pinnacle of the history of the Hawks.
　　Led by Bob Petit, they ranked first in the West for 5 consecutive years.
　　 Yes, you read right, it is indeed the first in the West, but then the Eagles moved their address and moved from the West to the East.
　　In these five years, the Hawks reached the finals 4 times and stopped the seventh game in the division finals.
　　In the era that was blocked by the Celtics, the Eagles, who broke into the Finals five times from the Western Conference, won the only championship in team history in 1958.
　　 That year's finals, with Petit's 50 points in Game 6, the Hawks won the Celtics with 1 point, which won the championship 4-2!
　　Since then, the Hawks have been crazy about Petit's offensive forward, swinging in the third and fourth positions.
　　 It was only in the next 50 years that neither Dominic Wilkins, Josh Smith, or Al Horford, the "Essentials of Human Films", could ever make the Eagles king.
　　The history of the Atlanta Hawks, like the movie "Gone with the Wind" once shot in this city, exudes a strong nostalgic style, but has never been able to find its own real life son again.
　　 The Hawks' trump card is now Sharif Abdul Rahim, a 96-year rookie show. He played for the Vancouver Grizzlies for the first five years of his career.
　　 There, in addition to the rookie season averaged 18.7 points, the other four seasons averaged more than 20 points per game, 99-00 season rebounds also exceeded 10.
In the last season for the Grizzlies last season, Rahim averaged 20.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.0 blocks per game, making him an all-around power forward.
　　 It's just that Rahim also has obvious defects.
　　'S height of 2.06 meters is a bit short in the position of power forward, and Rahim is not the kind of power player, which makes him full of confusion when fighting inside.
　　Second, as an All-Star insider, Raheem's blocks are not good, hovering around 1.0 blocks all year round, which makes people skeptical about his true contribution in the game.
　　For example, although you can get 20+10 per game, your opponent can get similar data. In this case, your contribution on the court is actually far less than the data reflects.
　　After changing the course, everything started from scratch. The Grizzlies who said goodbye to the past finally gave up the tasteless and regrettable Rahim, and sent it to the Atlanta Hawks.
　　Rahim quickly adapted to this position and stabilized the team's starting power forward position.
　　 This benefited from the appearance of another insider, he was the tough guy center who became the league's block leader with 3.7 blocks per game last season, Theo Latrive.
　　 is complementary to Rahim. Rahim likes to shoot from the outside, but Ratliff likes to fight inside.
　　Although Latrive, who is a center, is only 2.08 meters tall, he is very lethal near the rim, especially his offensive rebounds, which are nearly 3 times per game, which is terrifying.
　　His blocked shots make up for Rahim’s lack of defense in the basket, which allows Rahim to safely walk outside to shoot.
　　The starting point for small forward is an old guy who is very familiar to everyone. He was the best Croatian player in the Chicago Bulls, Tony Kukoc.
　　After Jordan left the Bulls, Kukochi, who was struggling to support the Chicago Bulls, could not bear the tremendous pressure and left there to go to Philadelphia.
　　 But in Philadelphia, his style of play did not fit with Larry Brown's positional play around Iverson.
　　Last season, the Philadelphia 76ers who rushed to the first in the East thought that Kukoc was no longer important and sent him to the Atlanta Hawks.
　　 The so-called tree moved to death, people moved to live, Kukoc who came to the Eagles was reused by the head coach.
　　The iron tree blossomed and the second spring of his career broke out.
Averaged 19.7 points (new career high), 5.7 rebounds (second highest career), 6.2 assists (new career high), and shot 49.2% (second career high) and 48.1% 'S three-point shooting rate (a new career high), made people exclaim that the European trapeze is back!
　　 After seeing Kokochi stage such a powerful performance in Atlanta, I don’t know if the 76ers who reached the finals but lacked the second scoring point had some regrets.
　　 But the reality is no if, the goal of Kukoc in the second spring of his career is to lead the Hawks to the playoffs again.
In the interview at the beginning of the season, Kukoc once vowed that the team will definitely play better and better after the Hawks players run in well. Although the early season record may be very struggling, but with the As the game continues, the Eagles will gradually return to people's vision.
　　 The position of the shooting guard should be the Hawks' biggest weakness, or perhaps the weakest counter player Shenton faces this season, Dean Grove.
　　The 1.96-meter-high defender was selected by the Hawks in the first round in 1999.
This season is his third season. In the first two seasons, Grove played completely without the charm of the first round of the show. Each appearance is like a walk through the field. He has not played so well this season so far. He averaged 8.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. If it weren't for the Hawks' lack of a better shooting guard, Grove would never be a starter.
　　 Just like the barrel effect, the Hawks know that if they don't fill this short board, the team can't go to a higher level.
　　 They are currently actively looking for teams to trade, but they do not have the right chips to match the asking prices of other teams.
　　Although Kobe is good, there is no guy in the Hawks who can be seen by the Lakers.
　　Although the shooting guard is not very good, but their point guard is still remarkable, UU reading www.uukanshu.com "Jet" Jason Terry.
　　When playing for the Hawks early in his career, Terry, 1.88 meters tall, was still a point guard.
　　 In the second season, Terry showed his excellent scoring ability, averaging 19.7 points per game, in addition to 3.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists, immediately became the focus of the Eagles' cultivation.
　　 This season, Terry's stats have gone further, averaging 20.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game.
　　Terry, who started his career with the Eagles, represents the current style of the Eagles.
　　 is resilient and untamed.
　　I dare to break my wrist with anyone, you can beat me, but I just don't accept you.
　　 Terry is of this character, as is the current Eagles.
　　 In the face of 13 wins and 2 losses, the New Jersey Nets, the Hawks team was very unconvinced.
　　 Last season's ranking is still under me, just take off this season?
　　 firmly refused.
　　 Only the eagle can fly in the air.
　　In any case, the Hawks are ready, and Ratliff rubbed his hands, saying that he would use a pair of giant palms to greet the Nets with the "air team".
　　 Please remember the first domain name of this book:. The fastest URL for mobile updates: