After defeating the Grizzlies and winning two consecutive games, the Pistons are about to embark on a five-game road trip in the Western Conference, including two back-to-back games.
The Western Conference teams are not easy to play to begin with, and with two consecutive back-to-back games, even Carlisle feels a headache with such a schedule.
On November 3, they will face the Clippers led by Brand, and on November 4, they will face the Suns led by Marbury and Marion. Carlisle does not want Ben to play in these two games. He wants him to rest for two more days. Injuries like sprained feet can be big or small. If the injury recurs, it will not be possible to recover within a week or two.
But Ben was very insistent and must go with the team, even if he came on as a substitute.
As the team¡¯s oldest player and the current captain of the Pistons, Ben doesn¡¯t want to just be a spectator at home while his teammates are fighting on the court.
There is nothing abnormal about Big Ben¡¯s ankle, and he behaved normally during the team¡¯s joint training on November 2, so after much hesitation, Carlisle decided to let him go to Los Angeles with the team. As for whether to let him play we will decide at that time. Bar!
On the morning of November 3, when the Pistons flew to Los Angeles, the league announced the two Players of the Week for the first week of the season. They were Kobe Bryant from the West and Wang Dalin from the East.
During this period, the Lakers have played three games, namely against the Spurs at home on October 29th, an away game against the Trail Blazers on October 30th, and an away game against the Clippers on November 1st. Lost to the Trail Blazers in back-to-back games, winning the other two.
With O'Neal absent due to injury, Kobe led the team to a very good record on his own, and his personal performance was also remarkable.
In these three games, he averaged 28.3 points, 11.7 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 2.7 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, shooting 46.2% from the field, 45.5% from the three-point range, and 83.3% from the free throw line.
There is one thing to say, during this period, if there is any player in the league who performed better than Kobe, it is probably only Wang Dalin.
The Pistons have only played two games, but they easily defeated their opponents in both games.
Wang Dalin averaged only 30.5 minutes per game, scoring 33 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists, 1.5 steals and 2 blocks. His shooting percentage was as high as 64.7% and his three-point shooting percentage was 64.3% which means that his free throw percentage was slightly worse, but it was also 81.3. %.
Although the new season has just begun and the Pistons have only played two games, this amount of data is certainly not enough to be used as a basis for measuring a player, but Wang Dalin's performance is still so impressive that no one can deny his power. .
Now think about the sentence after the game against the Knicks, "As long as I am still in the East, I guarantee that the Knicks will never reach the Finals, that's what I said." It doesn't seem so abrupt Now Wang Dalin seems to have the confidence to say this!
On the evening of November 3, the game between the Pistons and the Clippers started as scheduled. As expected, Carlisle put Ben on the bench and did not let him start.
The Pistons¡¯ starting center is rookie Okur, and his opponent is Michael Olowokandi, who is known as the ¡°parallel import number one pick¡±.
Olowokandi studied at Brunel University in the United Kingdom in his early years, and later transferred to the University of the Pacific in the United States. He only came into contact with basketball when he was 17 years old, but he performed very well in the American College Basketball League, so he was scouted by various scouts. Everyone generally believed that he was a talented center with talent comparable to "Big Dream".
In fact, if Olowokandi had not entered the NBA as the No. 1 pick, he would not have encountered so much criticism. Many people even think that he is one of the most unreal No. 1 picks.
If Kwame Brown hadn¡¯t emerged out of nowhere in 2001, Olowokandi would probably have continued to be ridiculed by the media.
Sure enough, to save a "parallel import number one", all it takes is the appearance of another more watery "parallel import number one"! In later generations, it was precisely because of the appearance of Anthony Bennett that everyone suddenly discovered It turns out that Kwame Brown was not that good after all?
Olowokandi averaged 28.4 minutes per game in his rookie season, scoring 8.9 points, 7.9 rebounds and 1.2 blocks. If it weren't for his status as the top pick in the draft, this performance would actually be very good.
And he has made slight progress every year. By last season, he averaged 11.1 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.7 steals and 1.8 blocks per game.
In this era when excellent centers are scarce, even if his performance cannot be called excellent, at least it cannot be considered a stretch, right?
And he has a standard center height of 213cm, a weight of 122kg, and a good wingspan. His physical talent is not bad.
Although Okur is already a mature player who led his team to win the Turkish League championship, he is still just a rookie in the NBA
It is worth mentioning that last night, Bradley, the "big bamboo pole", didn't know if he was high on drugs, but he actually blocked the opponent 8 times, which shocked the entire league.
Speaking of which, Bradley, the No. 1 pick in 1993, is also known as the "parallel import No. 1 pick", and can even be said to be the league's first "parallel import No. 1 pick" in the past 20 years.
Bradley has played in the league for 9 seasons since 1993. In his peak season of 1996-1997, he averaged 13.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game. He is considered a pretty good blue-collar center.
However, the Pistons are the team that can best restrain Bradley, because they have Okur and Boozer. As long as they take shots from mid-to-long distance, Bradley will be unable to guard him.
In this game, the two sides did not compete defensively, but launched a fierce attack from the beginning.
The Pistons' unlimited defense didn't have much effect against the "troika" of Nowitzki, Nash and Finley, and the Mavericks were useless on the defensive end Old Nelson's team really didn't defend!
In the end, the Pistons defeated the Mavericks 121:114, winning the battle without any danger.
Six players from the Mavericks scored in double figures, namely Finley with 25 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, Nash with 17 points, 2 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals, Bradley with 14 points and 4 rebounds, and Nowitzki with 11 He scored 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 2 blocks. Nahura had 16 points and 6 rebounds and Laga Bell had 10 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals.
? 5 players from the Pistons scored in double figures. Among them, Wang Dalin¡¯s 41 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 blocks and 3 steals were particularly eye-catching On this night, he can be said to have completely defeated Nowitzki.
Last season, there were two personal duels between Wang Dalin and Nowitzki. Wang Dalin had the last laugh every time, but this was the first time that he finally defeated Nowitzki.
On the morning of November 10, the league announced the winners of the Eastern and Western Player of the Week for the second week, namely Nowitzki from the Western Conference and Wang Dalin from the Eastern Conference.
Although the Mavericks lost to the Pistons, they won 3 of 4 games last week. Nowitzki averaged 21.8 points, 11 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1 steal, and 1.5 blocks per game. He is indeed the best record and personal data of the entire Western Conference team. Bright person.
Not to mention Wang Dalin!
The Pistons won all 5 games last week, and Wang Dalin averaged 30.6 points, 8.8 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 1.8 steals, and 1.8 blocks per game, shooting 59.3% from the field, 42.9% from the three-point range, and 75% from the free throw line I just want to ask. Ask who else?
After beating the Mavericks, the Pistons finally ended their "difficult" Western away trip and returned to Detroit.
The Pistons' next three games are all at home. Their opponents are the Hornets, who just moved their home court to New Orleans, the Jazz, who just won by a big score last week, and the Nuggets, who also won by a big score last week. .
Returning to the home court, with the fans cheering and getting enough rest, the Pistons won these three games without any suspense. They all won by big scores, especially the score against the Nuggets, which was 53:111 Another "58 tragedy"!
This week, Wang Dalin finally failed to win the title of Best of the Week. Since the game was always lost early, his playing time was less than 30 minutes. How could he get extremely impressive data?
After playing the Nuggets game on November 16, the Pistons have won 10 consecutive games since the start of the season. Currently, they are the only ones in the league who can remain undefeated.
And the next week passed, they increased their winning streak to 14 consecutive wins not far from the 16 consecutive wins last season!
On November 27, they met the Mavericks again. This was probably the most difficult game the Pistons had experienced since the beginning of this season.
But in the end they won 109:102, and their winning streak has not stopped.
On November 29th and 30th, the Pistons played against the Bucks at home and away respectively. The results of the two games were no different, the Pistons won both.
This time the entire North American sports world was shockedThe Pistons actually won 17 consecutive games. Is this too exaggerated?
But how do they know that something even more exaggerated is yet to come! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com