Since Owen’s trading, the Lone Ranger has played 21 games and lost 13 of them, including the last 4 consecutive defeats. They have fallen out of the play-off circle from the 4th in the West.
Of course, to be honest, the gap between the 4th and 11th west in most of this season is roughly like the distance between the lakers and the championship in the forum.
Coast to coast. The Lone Ranger was a westward team last year. Now we may not be able to get in the playoffs. We have never seen a bigger gap than this, but those teams that have fallen into trouble will show us their helplessness from the beginning. The Knights in 2018 lost LeBlanc and the Warriors in 2019 lost more.
The start of this season’s Lone Ranger did not give people any hint that they would fall to this point when they ended. In the first 13 games of the Lone Ranger, 8 wins and 5 losses, 7 wins and 1 loss at home, including 41 points for a brutal grizzly bear, 2 games won duo’s remaining basketable nets, and pulled out a 7-game winning streak in the middle of the season, he also entered the top five in the West.
The more important thing is, of course, Dong Qiqi. The 24-year-old boy looks a little round again. Maybe there are balls and full drinking water. They are the top three singles Brigade in the league. The tactical system fully supports Dong Qiqi’s always having balls, then he used his big ass and floating ball skills to surpass magic johnson to become the first back-to-back guard in history-let me remind you that dong qiqi scored more than 30 points every 9 games in the season, for the second time in history, someone did this. The first person was chamberlain in the 1962-63 season. At the same time, dong qiqi was the only place in the history of the league to score 200 + points in the first six games, players with 50 + rebounds and 50 + assists.
I still remember that at that time we discussed whether LeBlanc was so excellent at this age. What we talked about was AJ would never miss the opportunity this time. It has been three years, dongcheqi, who is most optimistic about becoming an MVP by the gambling bank before the season every year, is worth a deal this time. As the team-mate Ding Weidi praised: “Luca can do everything. The best thing is coming soon.”
Dong Qiqi was also quite proud of such a start: “My start last year was unacceptable. So I hope I can do better than last year.”
Looking back now, maybe Dong Qiqi should make a completely opposite wish. It doesn’t matter how it starts. The ending is what people really care about. If it can be better than last year’s Western games at the ending stage, it may be more valuable than Chamberlain at the beginning of the season.
If you want to be the one who surpasses LeBlanc, you dare not break your own consecutive playoff record in the fifth season of your career. Leblanc in his fifth season, it is a little younger than the current Dong Qiqi for half a year, and has already gained a journey of sweeping the finals and a sentence “The future is yours.
Now the situation in front of Dong cheqi is like this. Generally speaking, the Slovenian genius who entered the professional arena at the age of 16 went very smoothly along the way, now he has encountered the first real dilemma in his career-he is not unable to go further on the basis of the past, but may not be able to enter the playoffs directly.
Of course, the reason is sufficient. Owen may be the big variable that is most easily used to talk about things, but it is difficult for you to put all the blame on Owen, because Owen went to the Lone Ranger for 15 games, except for the break due to injury, there are no big events popular with the media.
Owen, who played on the stage, is still that Owen. You can’t see where he didn’t do well. He still has 27 points and 5 points. With the output of 3 boards 5.9 help, he still has 49.5% of the shooting ranking rate and nearly 39% of the three points. He can still play like a hemp jelly, everything is fine, except that he won only six games on the stage.
You said there must be some confusion in it, but I want to say that there is no confusion in it. As long as you have seen Owen’s solo race, you know that there is not much to question his performance, owen has tried his best to attack and defend. Everything was on the table and everyone saw it. The Lone Ranger said they lacked a second player. They even tried kenba Walker in the middle of the season, but obviously Walker was not the answer, so they switched back to Owen.
There is not much problem in changing back to Owen itself, because one of the main players in changing back to Owen is Ding Weidi, who is from the deal of polzingis. One of the problems here is that if you need another ball holding point matched with Dong Qiqi in a starter, Ding Weidi is there. Owen’s arrival is only an upgrade in this position, so what did you call Walker?
The link that is logically missing is actually the third ball holding point of the team, a “second ball holding point” that can still operate flexibly after the two core backcourt of the team is detached “, the player who played this role before was actually Ding Weidi himself, and their second core backcourt outside East Chichi was Brunson.
Last summer, Brunson was released in vain. Everyone has seen what he became a master in New York this year.
However, due to the upgrade of the offensive end of donchic this season, the attack of the Lone Ranger actually did not show too much decline due to the departure of Brunson.
So it was natural that we came to the Lone Ranger to pay another physical price for Owen’s deal. They sent out Finney Smith, the only decent defensive player in the lineup.
At that time, everyone predicted that the soloist’s defense would inevitably break up because of such one in and out. This is indeed the case. After the deal, the defensive efficiency of the lone ranger dropped to the seventh lowest in the league, but this is not the whole fact. The fact is that in the first two months of the season, the lone ranger’s defense could still remain in the middle of the league, but after entering last December, their defense has fallen to the 10th from the league.
Smith was injured and rested for almost a month in late December, which may be one of the reasons why the Lone Ranger’s defense changed from bad to worse, but a Smith could not save the Lone Ranger’s defense. Last season, they were the top 6 teams in the league of defensive efficiency. Coach kidd gave them the defense of “drawing a round position with a radius of basketball hoop to basketball hoop as the center and a radius of freethrow line, I couldn’t stand up for a long time this season. Obviously, I have to consider the influence of multiple personnel adjustment. Smith is not even the last straw to crush the Lone Ranger’s defense, he just became the last cut-off T-back belt in the solo defense.
Perhaps the lone ranger didn’t have to miss their lost Porzingis. In 2023, his buddy entered 190 clubs in the Emperor, and the average output was 23.9 points, 7.5 boards and 1.5 caps; maybe the Lone Ranger didn’t have to miss Powell’s broken right Achilles tendon and clebel’s torn right hamstring. Polzingis couldn’t prevent it, and neither of them could do it, the illusion of the contract year they took back, beltans and 35-year-old Mackey, were even more dispensable in such a position.
In summer, Wood, who seems to be the most important Insider Guide, is always intoxicated with the persecution and paranoia that “the boss will deliberately lower your performance opportunities in the contract year to squeeze the value of your next contract, of course, even if Wood can pull it out, it is definitely not the defensive answer. He looks more like a dressing room meat grinder, however, what negative impact he has caused on the psychological level of this team has always been pressed on the bench. Maybe we will know only after he leaves.
So up to now, Owen’s trade is actually like a beautiful float. No matter how long the ripples will disappear, the stone will eventually sink to the bottom. The arrival of Owen did not promote the already excellent attack of the Lone Ranger, nor could they improve their already poor defense.
However, such a transaction seems to be just another narcissistic transaction after cuban dismissed the management team with little nelson as the main body and the coach team with carlisle as the main body, once again, “You see, I have bought you the biggest fish in the market. What else do you want? I am the king of the investment of the Internet giant, a dazzling encrypted currency holder”-style confident performance.
I don’t know much about Cuban’s mental journey over the years, but I know that he caught a vent in hedging Yahoo shares in 1999 and made 5.7 billion crazy profits, later, he invested 85 projects in an investment reality show, sending out 20 million projects without any return. Then he wrote a lot of articles in his blog to guide others to buy encrypted coins, “80% of my own investment is related to encrypted currency, which is a good opportunity for the next generation to become rich. Understand applause.”
It is really hard for you to get rid of this kind of confidence when you are still at home pockets. This kind of confidence will make you feel that you know everything and can do everything. I guess Cuban also had this kind of good feeling when he came to Owen. He set another All-Star start around Super Giant. Isn’t that how the Lakers succeeded in 2007? I guess if Cuban now owns the Nuggets and renbede applied for trading in parallel time and space, he would press the trading key without hesitation to form the first MVP insider combination in history.
But this kind of transaction is already the model of the previous version. How long have we not seen the successful case immediately after the trading superstar?
Oh, if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not far. The champion in 2020 is just around the corner, but Cuban may not have studied LeBlanc’s resume carefully. Except for the leblanc match, we really haven’t seen the success of winning the championship on the spot after changing the money for single coin for a long time. The clippers haven’t succeeded yet. The sun still needs to work hard. Basketable nets has been dissolved. Dallas, maybe it is another failure case?
The Internet has memories, which depends on whether people are willing to recall. If you still remember, at the beginning of the season, the Lone Ranger war duo version basketable nets, Owen 39 points, Durant 37 points, but Dong Qiqi scored 41 points to lead the team to win; If you still remember, in the middle of the season, Dong Qiqi once cut 50+3 times in 6 battles, including 60 points, 21 boards and 10 assists in 1 time. If you still remember, Dong Qiqi has been in the season for 20 weeks, he has not entered the top five of the official MVP list for only two weeks. Even if the team drops out of the play-off circle now, he is still in the fifth place.
This is the biggest difference between donchich and his peers Tatum. No matter how the team performs, he himself rarely performs in lajima. Even though he lost to the wasp of Hayward, the healthiest player in the last two consecutive games, he is still the great genius and can still send bright data in every match. If your doubts about his defense have seriously affected your judgment on his strength, here, I suggest you recall what he did in the playoffs last year and what he did to the Clippers two years ago.
Therefore, the Lone Ranger has no choice but to expect that donchip is really a better player in bielbrum, or if he lowers this expectation, he will be a player close to the level of Lebrum. However, any reason for the player who shoulders this expectation is like an excuse. If he is at this level, he has no position to blame his teammates, coaches, management and bosses. You may not be able to win the championship alone, but you can’t even take it in the playoffs.
The lone ranger can only expect dong qiqi to overcome the violent temper, overcome knee, ankle, thigh, heel, quadriceps injury, overcome the unspeakable troubles in private life, and then walk on the court, in the remaining 7 games and possible play-offs, play something decent.
After all, there is not much time left for this Lone Ranger, and senior Owen has begun to teach experience: “Everyone is very united when winning. Once you lose, things will begin to crack.” Now the Lone Ranger has lost enough balls. The crack must be growing somewhere. No one knows who will fall in first.
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