I’m Really Playing Basketball

The Nets' first game after the All-Star break is a home game against the Trail Blazers.

Several new players from the Nets will definitely not be able to catch up with this game.

So the Nets' starting players in this game became Chen Xiao, Claxton, Ingram, Bruce Brown, and Xiao Chen.

Clarkston is a tall and lanky inside man with excellent athletic ability and a very good sense of fighting. He can fight, grab and jump, but his skills are very rough. He has no shooting ability, not even free throws. He can only shoot at the basket. operate.

As an inside man with almost no shooting ability, he can play an important rotation in the NBA, which shows that his athletic ability is really good.

This season, he plays an important role in the Nets rotation. He averages 20 minutes per game and averages 8 points, 5 rebounds and 1 block per game. As a substitute, his statistics are actually quite good, and his shooting rate is close to 70%, which is basically some Second offense and dunk.

He will be the starter until Beasley and Jimmy Butler and Aldridge are available.

In fact, in this home game against the Trail Blazers, Jimmy Butler, Aldridge and Beasley were already sitting on the sidelines.

Even the television broadcast of this game focused most of the shots on the three people on the sidelines.

The three Nets rookies are all very old. Jimmy Butler, the youngest, is already 33 years old, while Beasley just celebrated his 34th birthday in January, and Aldridge, Now he is 37 years old, and he retired last season because he thought he had a heart checkup problem.

However, although they are older, these three people still have strength.

Although Jimmy Butler has been in internal strife with the Spurs this season, he can still average 23 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals per game. This lone warrior in the NBA has maintained his condition very well. He is not the kind of player who relies on athletic ability to play. The increase in age is actually not that fatal to him, not to mention that at 33 years old, he is still on the tail end of his physical peak.

And this is why Chen Xiao selected Jimmy Butler among Lillard, Westbrook and others.

The strength is still there, and he fits the Nets perfectly. Plus, he is Chen Xiao's apprentice. This is really perfect.

The 34-year-old Beasley's statistics with the Pacers this season are actually very good. This season's statistics with the Pacers are 24 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and his shooting percentage is as high as 50%. Beasley's His ability in singles and mid-range shooting is top-notch in the entire league.

After Beasley comes to the Nets, if he plays as a starter, he will become Chen Xiao's inside partner. If he plays on the bench, he will be the team's sixth man, the player who leads the team's bench offense.

And he is definitely able to complete such accusations.

As for Aldridge, to be fair, because of his heart disease last season, although Aldridge returned with the Spurs this season, he basically had no chance to play.

The reason why he came to the Nets as an extra this time was that his salary was not high, and he contacted Chen Xiao privately. He wanted to give Chen Xiao the last year of his career.

Aldridge was Chen Xiao's younger brother when he was in the Bobcats. He later went to the Suns to form a double inside line with Bosh. Later, in order to win another championship before retiring in his career, he went to the Spurs with a minimum salary.

Finally, after being diagnosed with a heart problem last season, Aldridge no longer had the illusion of winning another championship before retiring.

Finally, after learning that the Nets and Spurs were discussing a trade, he took the initiative to contact Chen Xiao, hoping that he would come to the Nets.

Of course, Chen Xiao would not refuse Aldridge's request.

No matter how much gas Aldridge still has and whether he can play, Chen Xiao still has feelings for Aldridge, his younger brother who followed him in the Bobcats.

When Aldridge was in the Bobcats, he was really obedient. Whether he was a starter or a substitute, he was conscientious and worked very hard. He can be said to be a model of professional players.

Such a player, even if he really cannot play, still plays a very good role in the locker room.

Therefore, for the Nets who want to achieve results immediately, these three veterans are better choices.

Because of the outstanding performance of the Nets this season, as well as the strength and cooperation shown by players such as Chen Xiao, Ingram and Xiao Chen, Kidd and the Nets have some ideas this season.

Although this season is Chen Xiao's first season with the Nets, in the first half of the season, the Nets' chemical reaction was very good.

Originally, Kidd and the Nets thought that Chen Xiao and Ingram, and Xiao Chen and Ingram would have some running-in time. This time would take at least one or two seasons, right?

But who would have thought that Chen Xiao and Xiao Chen's golf IQs were so high, and their arrival on the team was almost seamless.

In this case, not only Ingram has not been affected by the arrival of the two this season, but even role players like Bruce Brown can also grow.

In this case, if the Nets still have no expectations, it would be really conservative.

Let's put it this way, after Aldridge, Beasley and Jimmy Butler arrived.

The Nets will have five A-level or above players including Xiao Chen, Ingram, Chen Xiao, Jimmy Butler and Beasley.

With such a team lineup, and the fact that these players are so familiar with each other, there is no need to consider the issue of chemical reaction at all. In this case, this season, the Nets can indeed be worth looking forward to.

In this game against the Trail Blazers, Lillard, the leading player of the Trail Blazers, did not play. Lillard has not even played in a game so far this season. Many people said that Lillard was injured, and many people said that Lillard was injured. Ladd is actually not injured. In short, there is a dispute between the Trail Blazers and Lillard about the future of the team this season.

The Trail Blazers want Kobe Bryant, but Lillard doesn't need such a chosen son by his side. The arrival of Kobe Bryant will definitely mean that Lillard will leave. If you are Lillard, you are not willing to contribute to the team. Ruined.

In short, the Trail Blazers this season are even more chaotic than the Spurs when Jimmy Butler is still there.

Facing such a team, although the Nets lost two important players at home, they still won very easily, 113 to 99, easily defeating the Trail Blazers.

After defeating the Trail Blazers, the Nets will go to Charlotte to face the Bobcats on the 25th.

The Bobcats this season are still struggling. Although Tatum has grown into a player averaging 30+ per game this season, the Bobcats' record this season has not improved much.

After all, the Bobcats actually did everything for Xiao Chen last season. If they really get Xiao Chen, the combination of Xiao Chen and Tatum will be very exciting this season.

Let's put it this way, before the game started, watching Xiao Chen on the court, the Bobcat fans at the scene were really envious.

Xiao Chen has performed very well for the Nets this season. As the Nets' starting point guard, Xiao Chen has averaged 18 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists per game so far.

So far this season, Xiao Chen has averaged 6 hits in 13 shots per game, 2.2 of 6 three-pointers, and 3.8 of 4 free throws per game.

Whether in terms of overall statistics or shooting efficiency, as a rookie, Xiao Chen's performance is really outstanding.

Even if he wasn't in the Eastern Conference, Xiao Chen would have made the All-Stars in his rookie season.

However, although he was not selected for the All-Star Game, during the All-Star Weekend, he still won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, as well as the skills contest and the three-point shooting contest.

It can be said that Xiao Chen's performance this season has made fans of the Bobcats, Cavaliers and Warriors, teams where Chen Xiao has played before, really jealous.

Because when these fans supported the team's failure to acquire Xiao Chen, their expectations for Xiao Chen were actually that he only needed to be an All-Star level player.

But in the first season of his NBA career, Xiao Chen has shown the strength of an All-Star player. Based on Xiao Chen's performance this season, he will definitely be a superstar player in the future.

Therefore, Xiao Chen's outstanding performance this season really makes the fans of the Bobcats, Warriors and Cavaliers envious. The fans of the Cavaliers are actually envious. It is indeed impossible for them to get Xiao Chen.

But the Warriors and Bobcats are really just a little bit apart.

Although I regret not being able to get Xiao Chen, in this game between the Nets and the Bobcats, the Bobcats fans at the scene still gave Chen Xiao and Xiao Chen huge cheers and applause.

After all, although Chen Xiao has left, the Bobcats are still Chen Xiao's home team.

Even for Bobcats fans, they love him as much as they love him. Even if Xiao Chen fails to play for the Bobcats, they are willing to regard Xiao Chen as their own.

Facing the Bobcats, a bad team this season, the Nets played very easily. Although the three new players did not play in this game, the Nets still defeated the Bobcats 117 to 105.

The best player of the Nets in this game was the team's rookie Xiao Chen. He made 14 of 20 shots in the game, 6 of 10 three-pointers, and 6 of 6 free throws. He played 34 minutes in the game and scored A career-high 40 points plus 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.

He left his first 40+ game with the Bobcats and Charlotte in his career. This is also a very meaningful thing for Xiao Chen.

After all, for Xiao Chen, he lived in Charlotte for a long time when he was a child.

Although he was still splitting time between China and the United States at that time, he was no stranger to Charlotte. China was his hometown, Golden State was his second hometown, and Charlotte was definitely his third hometown. .

So after the game, facing the cheers and admiration for him from the Charlotte fans at the scene, Xiao Chenye and Chen Xiao walked around the field to thank the fans at the scene for their support.

To be honest, the two teams played very friendly in this game.

Not to mention the special relationship between Chen Xiao and Xiao Chen and the Bobcats, Beasley and Jimmy Butler also ran to Curry and embraced him affectionately after the game. Smiling and saying something.

At that time, the third generation of Marquette's Three Eagles, Jimmy Butler and Beasley came to the same team at the end of their careers. For Seth Curry, this was really very thoughtful and interesting.

But in the end, he chose to stay with the Charlotte Bobcats.

For Curry Jr., Chen Xiao is his master. It does make sense to go to the Nets. However, in the Bobcats, he is the leader of the team. At the same time, his career started with Chen Xiao in the Charlotte Bobcats. , followed Chen Xiao to the Warriors, and he has won many championships along the way, and one hand is already full of championship rings.

For him, when he first chose to leave the Warriors and return to the Bobcats, his desire to continue being teammates with his teacher was no longer so great.

As for continuing to be teammates with Beasley and Butler, he was already teammates with Butler in the Bobcats. As for Beasley...

It can only be said that the relationship between the third generation Mitaka is far from as good as the first generation.

Little Curry can't do what Ron Howard did, who resolutely went to the Warriors after seeing Chen Xiao and Wade merge.

The game between the Nets and Bobcats was the last game for the new Nets players.

After the game ended, the Nets' three new players joined the team, and the Nets quickly became a team that attracted the attention of the entire NBA.

There is no way. Beasley and Jimmy Butler are averaging 24 points and 23 points per game this season. Although the two are older, no one thinks that they are incompetent veterans.

Counting Ingram and Chen Xiao, who also averaged 20+ points per game this season, the Nets will have four players averaging 20 points per game. If Xiao Chen's nearly 20-point performance is included, the entire Nets team will have four players averaging 20+ points per game. The Nets have five players who are capable of scoring 20+.

In addition, this team also has Brown who can average 14 points per game.

This lineup, to be honest, is actually quite luxurious.

Of course, the Nets also have big flaws, such as the offense and defense not being very coordinated, and the internal and external coordination not being very coordinated.

However, just talking about the lineup, not to mention other things, it is indeed very strong, just like the Lakers of Steve Nash in history, and the Lakers of James Westbrook and thick eyebrows in history.

However, compared with these two historical teams.

This Nets is not as powerful as it appears.

In the first game after Jimmy Butler and Beasley Aldridge joined the team, the Nets slaughtered the Wizards led by James Harden 128-106 at home.

In this game, the Nets showed a strong offensive ability, and Chen Xiao, who finally had teammates to restrain him, also showed his strong singles ability and ability to control the game in last year's finals.

So much so that after the game, Durant, Curry and other Bucks players in front of the TV frowned deeply.

"The Nets are now our biggest opponent this season!"

It can only be said that it is indeed Chen Xiao's old rival for many years, and the Bucks are still very accurate.

The key to the Nets is Chen Xiao, and the key to Chen Xiao is whether his teammates have enough offensive containment.

In the next 20 games, the Nets achieved a record of 19 wins and 1 loss!

This brand new basketball net is simply unmatched in strength!