roccoschili Chapter 635
Chapter 635
Chapter 635 Return to the starting point
The Lakers have been really miserable this season. After Kobe's serious injury, it's hard to say how much success he will have when he comes back.Because of Achilles tendon injuries, from a historical point of view, many of them will lose their explosive power after recovery, which has a greater impact on outside players.What's more, Kobe is 35 years old, and he is at the end of his career, so he can't afford to be injured.
The departure of Warcraft made the Lakers lose their competitiveness. The team suddenly became a motley crew, and the starting players could not even be used as substitutes in some strong teams.It is impossible to support a team by relying on everyone's wife alone. This has been proved when he was in the Grizzlies.
On November 11, the NBA officially announced the best players in the East and West for the third week.The player who won the best player in the East and West in the third week is James in the East and Xie Kai in the West.
These two are the top two players in the regular season MVP last season, and they are also the two favorites for the MVP this season.
谢开在上周率领灰熊队拿到两胜一负的战绩。他在场均37.6分钟的上场时间里，场均可以贡献33.1分6.8个篮板8.9次助攻2.9个抢断1.1个盖帽。
This is the second time Xie Kai has won the best of the week this season, and it is also the 2th time in his NBA career that he has won this honor.
After beating the Lakers away, the Grizzlies headed to Sacramento for the second leg of their 4-game streak.
Xie Kai is very familiar with the city of Sacramento, he has stayed here for two years.Although 3 years have passed, there have been some changes here, but the changes are still not big.The main buildings are still there, the familiar pizzeria and coffee shop are still there.
Xie Kai is a very affectionate person. Even now, he still feels that if it is not because he has to leave, even if the Kings team is a weak team, he is willing to grow with the team.
It's just that sometimes many things really don't depend on people's will. Evans' jealousy and exclusion made him go to Memphis in the end.
Now, Evans also left the city in the summer and went to New Orleans, and he returned home with honor.The Kings only won 28 games last season, ranking third from the bottom in the West.
The Kings can be regarded as the team with the longest rebuilding time in the entire league, not even one of them.They really haven't appeared in the playoffs for too long.Not to mention the playoffs, even the candidate teams competing for tickets to the playoffs did not have them.They are like a forgotten team. The meaning of their existence is to perform poorly, waiting for the cornerstone of the team to be built.
And when other teams face them, they just use them as targets for victory, treat them as cows...
Of course the Kings don't want to be cows, but they just can't win continuously, there is really no way.
In the games played this season, the Kings are currently ranked 2th from the bottom in the Western Conference with a record of 6 wins and 4 losses. Looking at the trend and the performance of the game, it seems that they want to enter the playoffs this season, it seems to be an extremely distant thing.
Because of the visit of the Grizzlies, the attention of the Kings' game has increased a lot.The originally deserted football market has become much more lively, and the tickets are almost sold out. This is the first time in the few home games since the beginning of the season.
The Grizzlies are the defending champions, and the core of their team, Xie Kai, once played for the Kings. These two points alone are enough to make many fans look forward to this game.
It has been more than 3 years since Xie Kai left the Kings, but there are still many fans in this city supporting him.This is the location of the third largest K honey in the whole.According to statistics, the number of honey in this city even exceeds that of San Francisco, which claims to have a large number of Chinese fried chicken.Without him, it is because Xie Kai has played here for two seasons.
When the Grizzlies got off the plane, there were a lot of K honey to pick them up.Xie Kai's fans can be found everywhere in the United States, but in Sacramento, there are especially many of them.
November 11, Sleep Train Arena.
After the Kings ended last season, they changed their head coach. Keith Smart left and Mike Malone took over.In fact, most people know that the root cause of this team's poor record is not the coach, but the fact that this group of people has limited combat effectiveness.
Cousins, the only talented man in this team, is mentally unsound and emotionally unstable, while other young players, including veterans, have limited potential and ability. The Tigers' Western Conference made it to the playoffs, which is not something that can be done with a change of coach.
Even after leaving for more than 3 seasons, the Kings still have old acquaintances of Xie Kai.Jason Thompson is one of them. He is Xie Kai's best friend in the Kings.
The two had dinner together yesterday, talked a lot, and recalled every bit of playing for the Kings in the past.
Jason Thompson is already an old man of the Kings, and he has been playing for this team since he entered the league in 07.Of course, it's a pity that he hasn't played in the playoffs even once so far.
Vazquez, who was traded to the Kings this summer, also played for the Grizzlies and was teammates with Xie Kai for a season.
In addition to Jason Thompson and Vazquez, veteran Salmons is also Xie Kai's big brother when he was in the Kings.
Many K honeys came to the scene today, and many K honeys were wearing Xie Kai's No. 22 Kings jersey.There are home and away games, which makes Xie Kai somewhat emotional when he sees it during practice.It seems that time has flowed back, back to 5 years ago, back to his rookie season.
But everything can't go back, Xie Kai knows that no matter how good memories are, they are just memories.
In this game, the starting lineup of the Kings at home is: center - DeMarcus Cousins, power forward - Jason Thompson, small forward - Luke Richard Mbah a Moute, scoring Guard -- Ben McCollum, point guard -- Graves Vazquez.
The starting lineup of the Grizzlies in the away game remains the same as before.
This game was broadcast live on CCTV5, and the commentators for this game were host Yu Jia and guest Xu Jicheng.
Xie Kai is a player of Chinese nationality, so it is naturally supported by the Chinese commentator.And Yu Jia is the most supportive of these CCTV commentators, and is even described by many fans as "K honey in the commentary world".
"Mr. Xu, do you think the Kings will play well in this game?" Yu Jia asked.
Xu Jicheng smiled: "You mean the Kings are likely to lose?"
Yu Jia smiled cunningly: "The strength on paper is indeed stronger than the Grizzlies!"
Xu Jicheng nodded: "Judging from the lineups of both sides, the Grizzlies are indeed much stronger. If the Kings want to win, they need extraordinary performance to have a chance."
(End of this chapter)