Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 126 Wade's two "fathers", the unique Woody.

Joe Dumars knew about it last night.

At that time, his first thought was to give up Milicic.

No way, compared to Larry Brown's reputation in this league, Milicic is just a loser, even if he is in a game with Larry Brown.

but……

Whether to use Milicic or not is Larry Brown's decision.How to use Milicic is also decided by Larry Brown.

No matter what, this is not a reason for Milicic to send Larry Brown to the hospital.

However, Milicic's agent sent him a recording.

During this period of 1 minute, Larry Brown made all kinds of insults that violated the moral bottom line from Milicic to his country to all aspects of him.He immediately changed his mind.

It's not that he didn't know that Larry Brown had such a bad side, but in the 90s, this was commonplace, and any head coach had such a side.But in such an era, especially the league under David Stern's rectification, this is definitely a major incident that can ruin a head coach's reputation!
Simply put, Larry Brown is screwed!
At this time, he decisively changed his mind. He wanted to use this matter to get Larry Brown to leave Detroit.

There is now this scene.

His speech, as well as Milicic's tearful statement, also let the media have their own judgment.

The wall fell and everyone pushed...

For a time, Larry Brown became the target of public criticism.

Various incidents about his racially discriminatory remarks were disclosed by the media.

The voice for Larry Brown to get out of the league also reached its peak at this moment.

It is said that Larry Brown in the hospital woke up slowly, and immediately passed out again with anger.When he woke up again, he received a unilateral dismissal from the Pistons and passed out again.

In less than 24 hours, this guy fainted 3 times.

My brain almost shut down.

It's exciting when life comes to an end, let alone at such an old age.

It was the league officials who made the final conclusion on this matter. They have not imposed any punishment on Milicic for the time being, and they have also set up a special investigation team.

As a result, no one paid attention to this game between the Pistons and the Heat.

Without Wade, the Heat were more anxious to attack when facing the Pistons. Fortunately, the Pistons have experienced such a big change, and with the arrival of Rasheed Wallace, the entire team needs to adapt. As a result, the "iron strike" between the two sides finally ended with the Heat having the last laugh.

69 to 66, they narrowly won by 3 points!
By winning this game, the Heat became the only team in the league to sweep the Pistons this season.

But even after the game, no one had any discussion about the game.

Everyone is waiting for the outcome of the Larry Brown matter.

Of course, this is the voice of the outside world. In fact, Joe Dumars already has internal news.

The league officially recognized the evidence they provided, but the league intends to "soft land" the entire matter and give Larry Brown, a veteran coach who has struggled in the NBA for n years, a decent end, and will not announce any details about this matter. punishment.but……

The Pistons have to find a new head coach!
Joe Dumars is worrying about this.

At present, there are not many useful head coaches who are unemployed at home!

But if you just choose a head coach with little qualifications, how can you afford to lead the current Pistons?

He was ready to slap Larry Brown in the face...

And this team actually has the potential to become the top team in the league, the key is...

How to train this team!
This is a great test of a head coach's coaching ability.

Besides, how can this ordinary head coach suppress a thorn like Rasheed Wallace?
Difficult ah difficult!
Speaking of which, this is also the reason why Joe Dumars has not moved the knife for a long time.

This is actually not a good time.

Larry Brown is out of class, and he has no candidates he can immediately think of.

but……

This should be considered a happy trouble, right?
Joe Dumas suddenly felt relieved that he didn't have to work with Larry Brown, and his worries disappeared a lot.

After beating the Pistons, the Heat continued their schedule.

Then the Heat experienced a sweeter period.

Firstly, the opponents are very weak; secondly, in the next 5 games, 3 of them will be at home.

Therefore, the Heat, who missed the chance to win more than 5 consecutive games due to the last loss before the All-Star Weekend, successfully won a 6-game winning streak after the All-Star Weekend.

Stan Van Gundy looked at the Heat, which had only lost one game in almost a month, and was beaming with joy. He caught Woody and praised him.

As a head coach, it's really great to be able to coach such a rookie!

"Teach, coach, I, I'm fine, I'm really fine!" At this time, Wade "patted" his "I have Woody, nothing can stop me", trying to attract some attention.

Stan Van Gundy only remembered it after receiving Wade's "text message".

Oh, here's another one!

Counting the days, it was almost half a month.

Wade's muscle strain should be almost healed.

Sure enough, the happy time always ends so quickly.

So soon, it was time to deal with this clingy "big cheek".

In fact, Wade is pretty good, that's right. In his absence, Odom can make up for a lot of his role.

As the No. [-] position, Odom will definitely be overwhelmed by the speed of most No. [-] positions, but the Heat's forwards to the interior are all equipped with full mobility, and they can completely use defensive formations and the help of teammates. , to fill Odom's problem in this area.

On the offensive end, his height, which is perfectly fine for the No. [-] position, has become a huge help for him. The trick of "Uncle's back attack" can allow other teams to double-team him to relieve No. [-]. bit of defensive pressure.

At this time, as long as the opponent dares to double-team, Odom's hand is a pass. With Caron Butler and Jones on the outside and Woody on the inside, the ball is a scoring opportunity.

Stan Van Gundy discovered that this UCLA running system has a greater bonus to Odom...

Because his passing vision is better than Wade.

But you can't... put Wade on the bench, right?

Not to mention that Alston is also very easy to use, the key is that Wade's self-confidence will definitely be affected.

In short, it is very sad!
But everyone has recovered, and Stan Van Gundy can't help but let Wade continue to sit on the bench.

In the end, he decided to let Wade return to the No. [-] position and continue to play the "Wood pick and roll" that he and Woody are more familiar with.

After all, these two people are the future of the Heat!
Odom is not without problems. If he can get rid of the problem that his concentration does not decline over time, maybe Stan Van Gundy will really let him continue to play the starter.

When Wade heard that Stan Van Gundy still allowed him to return to the starting position, he almost burst into tears.

During the time he was injured, the Heat only lost one game in total. Many newspapers were saying that this team didn't have Wade, but it didn't really matter.This frightened him, and he had to "greeting" to Pat Riley every day, asking whether his sense of existence had decreased before he dared to fall asleep.

At this moment, he felt Stan Van Gundy's trust in him.

To be honest, he really wanted to knock his head on the ground and recognize another "father"!
In his opinion, Pat Riley, who was specially traded for the sixth pick in the first round, can be regarded as his "big daddy", and Stan Van Gundy, who is willing to give him unlimited "trust", can be regarded as his "big daddy". His "second father"!
He will never let these two "fathers" down!
On March 3, the Heat ushered in their first opponent in March, which was also Wade's first game back.

At the same time, the league officially announced the major awards for February.

When the East's "Player of the Month Award" and "Rookie Player of the Month Award" came out, Wade, who was under pressure for the first game of his comeback, felt even more pressure at that time.

The winner of the Eastern Conference's "February Player of the Month Award" is none other than Woody!

In a total of 2 games in February, the Heat's record of 12 wins and 11 loss was the best in the entire Eastern Conference. Compared with January, it was a serious "bottoming out".Although their ranking is still 1 games behind the Nets, this record is not unspectacular.

伍迪在这12场比赛，场均可以拿到18.5分14.5篮板3.5助攻3盖帽1.5抢断。

The scoring average hasn't changed much from before.

But the composition of the score is very different from before.

Among them, the proportion of mid-range jump shots has reached about 30%.

In other words, Woody averaged 5.55 points per game from jump shots.

比1月份多了将近1分，比11月份跟12月份多了将近2分！
That took Woody's field goal percentage down by around 10 percent, and he's now only shooting around 52.4 percent from the field.But as his shooting range becomes larger, opponents need to spend more defensive power on him.

The threat on the court, really does not mean that whoever has a higher shooting percentage is a greater threat!

Some inside players who mainly eat cakes have an average shooting percentage of more than 60% per game, but they will definitely not let the opponent's coach wait for it.

Compared with them, a shooter like Ray Allen, even if his shooting percentage is less than 30% in a certain game, do you think the opponent dares to let him shoot?

The same goes for Woody now.

Opponents are afraid to let him shoot directly.

But at certain times, when it is really difficult to make a choice, he will be given a space to shoot.But the space is also limited.Sorry about some of the nights when he gets hot.

Woody can even take the ball and fake a shot to send his opponent flying!
Therefore, seeing that the points per game have not changed much and the field goal percentage has dropped so much, no matter which media person is asked to evaluate Woody's offensive threat now, it is better than some time ago.

"He's taking an increasingly important role on the Heat's offense..."

Even ESPN made such a comment.

You know, in order to praise LeBron, they have always been very stingy in their praise of Woody.

Only on certain nights when Woody puts up explosive numbers will they be impressed.

Of course, from this point of view, it is normal for ESPN to suddenly change its attitude at this time, because this is Woody's second "best of the month" in his rookie season!

In the history of the NBA, there are really not many rookies who can win two "Player of the Month Awards" in their rookie season.

This is already a phenomenal rookie performance.

Can ESPN boast?
In addition, Woody once again won the "Rookie of the Month Award".

In the penultimate game before the end of February, the Heat's opponent was none other than LeBron James and the Cavaliers.

It was another "blood abuse", which made the people of Cleveland lose their temper at all.

勒布朗-詹姆斯再度喜提了跟伍迪“极与极”的8分3篮板2助攻1抢断，投篮命中率30%。

而伍迪在比赛中的表现是29分15篮板7助攻3盖帽1抢断。

It is worth mentioning that this is the data he got in three and a half quarters.

Cleveland's loss in this game is relatively small, only 30 points...

This is already their worst loss in three games.

Adding up these three games, the Cavaliers almost lost by about 150 points...

They are almost catching up with their total points in these three games!

This kind of performance naturally puts the "February Rookie of the Month Award" out of suspense.

Interestingly, many gambling companies have opened a new "gamble" at this time: whether LeBron James can win the "Rookie of the Month" once before the end of this season, breaking Woody's monopoly on this award .

It's not the most interesting.

The more interesting point is that:
The odds of the gambling company for "can" are 1 to 3; the odds of "can't" are 1 to 1.2.
Obviously, even the bookmakers don't think that LeBron James can win the last "Rookie of the Month"!
There's nothing you can do about it. With Woody's momentum now, which rookie in the Eastern Conference can compete with him?

LeBron James' performance is not bad. Entering January, he averaged 40 minutes per game, and he has become more and more adapted to the rhythm of the NBA. His average scoring has also reached more than 20 points per game. Throughout February, he averaged 2 points per game. 22 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.7 assists.

His team has recently been advocating that he averaged 20 plus 5 plus 5 per game. This is the third rookie in NBA history to do this.

The two people before him were Big O and Michael Jordan.

虽然这两个人的数据分别是：场均30.5分10.1篮板9.7助攻跟场均28.2分6.5篮板5.9助攻。

Raise the bar a little and LeBron James' name wouldn't be there.

To say that the team took great pains, they found such a data record that could be associated with Jordan among all the data.

Two words describe it:
Cow, force~
But the Miami media did not tolerate them and directly exposed their "lies".

Listed the data of Jordan and the big "o", accusing them of being hard rubs.

"According to this standard, what Woody played is the only rookie data in the league!" The Miami media also praised Woody according to their logic.

这份场均18分加15篮板加3.5助攻加3盖帽加1.5抢断，投篮命中率在60%左右的数据单，在伍迪之前，NBA没有哪个球员做到过！
(End of this chapter)