Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 435 - 144: Truly a Fucking Torturous Season (10,000-word update, begging for subscriptions and monthly passes)_3
After all, making mistakes in the 21st century isn’t as easy to suppress news as it was in the 1990s.
Qin Yue noticed the concern from Stern’s words, but being a person of integrity, he felt deeply wronged at this moment, "I have always been strict with myself, and on and off the court, I take Michael Jordan as my example!"
Stern: "..."
Stern understood that what Qin Yue implied at that moment was — What I’m doing now, Jordan did back then.
So...
Before Qin Yue could completely anger him to death, Stern hurriedly clutched his chest with his hand and retreated to the side.
As the flag-raising ceremony and the ring presentation ceremony concluded, the opening game of the regular season was underway.
Trying to take advantage of Davis’s injury for the season, Chris Paul planned a heavy attack on Warriors’ backup guard Jack, but he was instead bestowed three block shots by Qin Yue during the game.
The Warriors, who received their championship rings at home, were in high spirits.
Old Hill, eager to realize his dream in Oakland, noticed even players like Will Bynum had two rings and frequently performed cutting dunks in Oracle Arena.
At the end of the game, with a score of 98 to 118, the Warriors secured a 20-point victory in their home opener of the regular season.
Soon after, with the league’s carefully arranged schedule, the Warriors embarked on their seven-game Eastern conference road trip.
In Orlando, Qin Yue helped James fully experience the strength of this new Magic team.
Stan Van Gundy’s "One Star Four Shots" is indeed well-deserved.
In the game, led by the dual core forward duo of "Martial Saint" Jackson and "Urban" cannon, the Magic could always find gaps in the Warriors’ zone defense.
In the first quarter, after only three possessions, the Warriors’ head coach Ma Long dutifully switched the defense from zone to man-to-man.
Additionally, Howard’s continuously evolving defense showed the shadow of "Peak Magical Beast".
Coupled with Jackson helping to seal the paint...
On the court, Qin Yue, who needed great effort to pierce through the Magic’s defense, kept feeling that this Magic team could stir up storms even in the West.
Big Van Gundy’s tactics are advanced.
Back in the day, when he dominated college basketball, even Paul and Jack couldn’t match him. Under Big Van Gundy’s tactics, Jamal Nelson received an epic power-up.
Nelson’s three-pointers were accurate, and he had a soft touch near the basket.
In Big Van Gundy’s tactical system, Nelson, who increased his three-point shooting frequency, was like a mortar ready to hit enemy positions, catching them off guard.
Originally, with Jackson, Turkoglu, and Lewis playing together, this Magic team might have struggled with outside rotation due to the lack of mobility on the wings.
But "Peak Magical Beast" could use his terrifying defensive coverage to safeguard the entire Magic’s defensive area.
Facts have proven, this Magic team is by no means an easy opponent.
Fortunately...
They are an Eastern conference team.
And with a hard-fought victory in Orlando, the Warriors quickly set off to Atlanta.
There, Qin Yue probed in advance for James to see how capable this new Hawks team, which aimed to break out of the East this season, truly was.
How to describe this Hawks team?
You only need to know that whenever Qin Yue visited Atlanta, Hawks fans would shout "Conspiracy" and wish a great fire would descend to burn down all of California...
In this game against the Warriors, after yelling themselves hoarse supporting the home team throughout the night, you can feel...
Just how eager this Hawks team was to achieve great success in the new season.
Josh Smith, who always takes Qin Yue as his example, might still be quite raw.
But when you combine Smith’s talent with Tyson Chandler’s sweeping coverage...
In the game, on the first Warriors offensive play, Qin Yue was forced to resort to a high-difficulty reverse layup.
Deron, who announced the start of his peak period, seamlessly turned Jack into Chris Paul on the court.
And Joe Johnson, increasingly adept at isolation plays, battered Richardson into a frown who usually wore a playful smile.
In the summer, the Hawks, who signed "3D" Morris Peterson from the free agent market, integrated well into the team.
Under Mike Budenholzer’s leadership, this new Atlanta Hawks team had a chance to upset the defending champions up until the last moment.
Qin Yue blocked Josh Smith’s game-winning layup with 0.8 seconds left on the clock.
But...
This heartbreak-inducing block for the Atlantans also made Qin Yue, who had been racking up "30+" triple-doubles for the Warriors, deeply realize that the East of the 07/08 season was no longer the weak and feeble conference as people stereotypically thought.
The Warriors finished their Eastern road trip with a 5-2 record.
In Charlotte, the Bobcats, often seen as a weak team, with Randolph, Roy, and Wallace leading them, tore the first piece away from the defending champions’ undefeated streak.
In the new season, Paul Silas, who returned to coaching after completing his study during his sabbatical, designed a sharp high pick-and-roll tactic for the Bobcats.
When Roy’s ghostly breakthroughs combined with Randolph’s exquisite shooting, the two instantly sparked excitement on the court.
On the court, with a clearer offensive direction, Wallace and Okafor in the Bobcats could devote more energy to defense.
With Felton’s steady playmaking, maintaining a career assist to turnover ratio close to 2.5 to 1.
Undoubtedly, this was one of the rare nights that could comfort Michael Jordan since Qin Yue entered the league.
After all...
Sitting at home and toppling the Warriors allowed Jordan to slap those experts and journalists who doubted the Bobcats, and most importantly...
To beat the Qin Yue-led Warriors, in Jordan’s mind, was equivalent to winning the world.
Ending the Eastern road trip.
The defending champions ended November with a 12-5 record.
The tough initial regular season schedule indeed brought headaches to the injury-laden Warriors lineup.
However, compared to the schedule, what affected the Warriors the most were injuries.
Murphy, Brown, and Richardson, those Warriors main players who participated in too many games over the past two years, fell into a series of injuries and missed several games in November.
Moreover...
After further checking Qin Yue’s health, the beautiful team doctor Ryan officially warned Mike Malone: "Messiah’s playing time must be reduced.
He has played over 200 high-intensity NBA games and world championships over the past two years...his injury risk has far exceeded your imagination."
Hearing this, Malone, knowing the Warriors couldn’t bear the cost of losing Qin Yue, said with a gloomy face: "This is one hell of an excruciating season!"
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①: According to Bulls players, the chances of Jordan winning this bet are infinitely close to a hundred percent. Pippen even privately made a comment like "I thought these female stars were so precious." (The above information comes from multiple biographies of Jordan and Pippen’s memoirs.)
