Chapter 960 Someone Worse than Rocket!

The 2009-2010 NBA season is a season of upheaval for many people.

Teams that were not so good in the past are now at the top of the rankings.

Players that were not so good in the past are now at the top of the scoring list.

The 2009-2010 NBA season has been going on for almost a month, although it is still the initial stage of the season.

But many people say that looking at the Eastern and Western rankings so far this season really gives people a magical feeling of trance.

Now in the West, the Seattle SuperSonics, who ranked eighth in the regular season last season, are ranked first with 10 wins and 0 losses.

The second place is the Grizzlies, who also ranked fifth in the West last season with 10 wins and 0 losses.

The third place is the Dallas Mavericks, who ranked fourth last season with 9 wins and losses.

The Grizzlies and Mavericks are both in the Southwest Division, but according to the ranking rules after the reform of the NBA regular season this season, the first place in the three divisions can only ensure that they enter the top four, but can no longer ensure a top three ranking.

The previous NBA ranking rules were complained too much. This season, David Stern finally made a reform, so the two strong teams in the Southwest Division all entered the top three.

The first team in the Pacific Division, whose record is not so good, can only be ranked fourth.

The first team in the Pacific Division is the Golden State Warriors with 6 wins and 4 losses. This team was the bottom team in the NBA last season, but now it can become the first in the Pacific Division.

It can only be said that the Lakers and the Suns started this season too badly, the Clippers are unstable, and the Kings are a rare fish.

If it weren't for the ranking.

Before the start of the season, who would have thought that the Warriors could become the overlord of the Pacific Division?

Of course, this hegemony is short-lived. With the strength of the Lakers, the Lakers will definitely catch up in the end.

However, even if the Warriors' ranking is short-lived, even if this magical ranking in the West is short-lived, this is enough to make people exclaim that the NBA has changed.

Let's take a look at the fifth to eighth teams in the West. The fifth to seventh teams are the Timberwolves with 6 wins and 4 losses,

the Nuggets and the Thunder, and the eighth team is the Portland Trail Blazers with 5 wins and 4 losses.

The absolute kings of the West in the past, the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets, are now not even in the top eight of the West.

Although ten games are not many now, the Lakers' poor start has indeed had a great impact on the Lakers. The Lakers will definitely rise in the future, but what about the Spurs, Rockets, and Suns?

These three teams, which were once the strongest in the NBA, really lie on the ground this season and can't see any signs of rising.

Therefore, every time Pippen shouts on TV that the era of the NBA has changed, many people will subconsciously look at the current Western Conference rankings.

Seeing the positions of the Lakers, Spurs, Suns, and Rockets, whether you like Pippen's shouting or not, you will sigh that this season's league, this season's NBA, and even this era, have really changed.

In this NBA that has changed the world, for the audience and the media, such changes will only bring them a deep sigh, but for the Spurs and Popovich, it is really painful.

This season is really unlucky for the Spurs.

In the first two games of the season, the Thunder and the Bulls, two young teams, broke his back. Although he defeated the Kings and the Jazz, he recovered a little and calmed down. But then, he was taught a lesson by the young Blazers. Losing to the Blazers was fine, but Parker was injured in this game. He was injured after the first quarter.

Although Parker's evaluation in the league has been declining in recent seasons due to his poor performance against Yes, he was even angry and prepared to trade Parker directly in this year's offseason.

But in the current Spurs, Parker is still one of the Spurs' Optimus Prime, and the team still needs him in its usual organization.

In the game without Parker, the Spurs played against a mere Raptors. After the first three quarters, the home Spurs were actually 2 points behind the Raptors.

If it weren't for Duncan and Ginobili's 12 points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Raptors, the Spurs would really have to kneel in this game.

Without Parker, although it was thrilling, they still defeated the Raptors, but in the subsequent home and away games against the Mavericks, they were beaten by the Mavericks.

After the first nine games of the season, the Spurs, who were the first in the West last season and the most popular team in the league, only had 3 wins and 6 losses in the first nine games of this season.

With this record, let alone other people, he himself didn't recognize his team.

Although Parker returned in the next game against the Supersonics, Parker's performance against the Supersonics made Parker's return meaningless!

Popovich had thought that Bowen's retirement would have a big impact on the Spurs.

But he really didn't expect that Bowen's retirement would have such a big impact on the Spurs.

Not only did the Spurs lose their toughness when facing strong teams, they also lost their dominance when facing weak teams.

When there was Bowen, the Spurs basically won a steady victory against those teams led by strong outside players.

Without Bowen, those strong outside players who were restrained by Bowen really confronted the Spurs and exploded when they met the Spurs.

The Spurs' perimeter defense has really dropped a level without Bowen.

Although Duncan can make up for the Spurs' perimeter defense, Duncan is not young anymore.

Can Duncan still explode like he did in the fourth quarter against the Raptors in every game?

And now the league's perimeter players are really emerging like a tide.

Kobe, Tracy McGrady and Iverson are not exhausted yet.

James, Anthony, Durant and Beasley are the four small forwards.

And this season, offensive point guards led by Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo, Wade and Rose have also come out.

Coupled with the newly emerging Gay, Nick Young and others, every game is a challenge and torment for him and the Spurs.

Especially after the speed of the entire league has increased this season.

Although the Spurs changed defense to offense last season.

But offense does not mean running like an animal!

Can you imagine that even a rookie team like the Raptors is running and throwing three-pointers crazily, and can easily score more than 120 points in a game?

If he and the old Spurs don't run, then they can only use Duncan to press the tempo like Yao Ming and Roy of the Rockets.

The Rockets chose to use Yao Ming and Roy to press the tempo like crazy.

He won't choose this.

After all, Duncan is older than Yao Ming and Roy. For the Rockets, Yao Ming and Roy's tempo is more fuel-efficient than two people running.

But for the Spurs, the only one who can do this is Duncan, who is going to be hard on Duncan every game.

Can Duncan withstand such consumption?

If the tempo is running, it doesn't matter if Duncan can't run, others can still run. Duncan only runs for 20 to 30 minutes in a game, and then comes out in the fourth quarter to harvest like he did against the Raptors. The rest of the time is left to Ginobili, Parker, Jackson and other people around 30 years old.

But why is it so sad?

A bunch of people in their thirties are running madly with a group of young people.

It's really sad, but you can't not run.

He also wants the Spurs to use passing instead of running.

But the whole league is crazy, the Raptors can easily score 120+ points, if the Spurs can't keep up, then even the Raptors will lose!

With Bowen, the defense is guaranteed, the opponent can't score so many points, the Spurs can calmly choose various game modes, and he can also choose various different game modes.

But without Bowen, he and the Spurs really have no choice.

Live as a hero, die as a ghost hero, still miss Bowen, unwilling to cross the river east!

If possible, he also wants to have his own stubbornness, not follow the crowd, and show his Zhuge Vecchi tactical strength in every game.

Today, tease Kobe with his own tactics, and tomorrow teach Iverson a lesson with his own tactics.

This was the life in Jiangbei in the past, how comfortable, how domineering, how free, who would want to go to Jiangdong if they could stay in Jiangbei to dominate the world.

In his heart, he thought that he would die on the road to the championship in Jiangbei.

Duncan would definitely be willing to accompany him to die halfway to the championship.

But seeing Duncan's temples getting grayer.

Popovich finally sighed and chose to live in humiliation.

Let's hide in Jiangdong for the time being, and sneak back to Jiangbei in the playoffs.

As for whether he can sneak back...

It depends on whether Parker, Ginobili, Jackson and other old cars can outrun those young people...

After experiencing the black eighth, 3-0 reversal, four consecutive buzzer-beaters, and Bowen's broken leg tragedy last season.

Popovich is really ready to live in humiliation in this year's regular season.

As for the turbulence in this league, he really doesn't intend to care.

He really doesn't have the strength to care.

However, his reputation in the past was too great.

In the past, because he had the support of Bowen, he almost cleaned up all the other outside players in the league except Yes in the past few seasons.

Now Rondo has risen.

Crazy on the spot scoring champion in the Harvesters.

As the killer of outside superstars in the past few seasons, if Popovich doesn't stand up at this time, when will he stand up?

Watching Pippen and those TNT experts on TV frantically looking forward to the game between the Spurs and the Supersonics, when Popovich's face was really constantly changing, what kind of tactics and means would he play against Rondo.

False reputation, too much, this is also pressure!

"Although old Nelson is the most prestigious head coach in the NBA, and Phil Jackson is the most successful head coach in the NBA, I always think that Popovich is the most powerful head coach in the league. If there is still someone in the world who can tactically cut off Rondo's arrogance and madness in scoring, and cut off Yes's support for Rondo, this person can only be Popovich!"

"Popovich is the head coach of the Dream Team. The Spurs are very bad this season. As the replacement of Master Romar who is unwilling to take over the Dream Team, as the head coach of the North Black Eight last season, who was reversed 3-0, Popovich urgently needs an opportunity to rebuild his reputation."

"Although I don't want to say it, the reality is that Popovich's reputation among players was consumed by the huge defeat in the playoffs last season, the 3-0 reversal, and the four-game winning streak. It's all gone. When Popovich took over as the head coach of the American Dream Team after the 2008 Olympics, he certainly never thought that he could receive a bigger failure in 2009 than Coach K did in the 2008 Olympics. Now Influential media around the world ranked the Spurs' failure in 2009 before the Dream Team's failure in 2008, calling it the biggest failure in basketball history. Coach K's past was glorious, but because of the failure in 2008 He could only leave the Dream Team sadly because he knew that his reputation was no longer enough to invite good enough players to join the Dream Team. Popovich suffered an even worse failure in 2009, and his reputation would decline in 2010. Are there enough good players invited to the World Championships?”

"Of course it's impossible!"

"In America, no one works for a loser until the loser proves he's good enough!"

"I believe Popovich is good enough, and now is his chance to prove himself!"

"Greg, I believe you must be watching our show now. Our show is the highest-rated talk show. So, Greg, pick up your weapons and kill that triple-double that once tarnished assists. , who is tainting the score now, get rid of him, you can get the respect of all the scorers in the league, and you can also get the admiration of all the people in the world who are envious of Rondo!”

Seeing O'Neal's special rich voice roaring on the TV, Popovich wanted to smash the TV and smash that big head.

Damn it, can't you play your basketball with the Cavaliers?

Go to Pippen and join in the fun!

Rondo's miracle continues, just like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.

The whole world knows that Rondo's strength is simply impossible to achieve such a miracle.

The whole world knows that Rondo is wearing the emperor's new clothes.

But no one can expose the emperor's new clothes on Rondo.

Kobe, Iverson, Nick Young...

There are piles of superstars, and the stars fell into trouble with Rondo.

Now these guys actually kidnapped him morally and took him to Qianlongdo.

If he doesn't kill Rondo, he will have no strength, he will be despised by the whole world, and he will become Coach K's second best.

Damn it, I haven't brought the Spurs out of the quagmire yet, and I still have to help you solve Rondo's problem. My fucking brain is sick!

Even if I starve to death, even if I jump from the ceiling of AtandT Arena, I, Popovich, will not be your gun!

but……

Popovich really wanted to cry when he saw the list of players that TNT produced at the end of the show who are now willing to play for the US team.

These are all direct threats from Hongguoguo!

Everyone says that the Rockets are miserable this season. Why do I feel that I am much worse off than the Rockets?

Damn it, why don’t I smell good?