Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 526 - 174: Great Goals (Single-day 10,000-character update, begging for subscription and monthly votes!) _3
As for why you’re asking why Ma Long never considered resting Qin Yue? 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
It’s obviously because...
Without Qin Yue, how could this Warriors team centered around him challenge the Bulls’ 72-win record?
Additionally...
From the games played so far, Ma Long is very confident that the Warriors have regained their dominance this season.
Moreover, Ma Long understands deeply what breaking the Bulls’ record means for him personally, for Qin Yue, and for this Warriors team.
"If we can create a legend this season, then I’m a coach better than Phil Jackson, the Warriors are stronger than the Bulls back then, and Messiah will gain the reputation for having more leadership than Michael Jordan!"
Ma Long felt an endless surge of motivation at that moment.
And as Qin Yue and Ma Long shared their ideas with the other Warriors players, this incredibly bold goal immediately set the whole team ablaze.
"Though I prefer to prove myself in the playoffs," Nash smiled, "but if there’s a chance to make history, who wouldn’t want to etch their name into the NBA milestone?"
"This is freaking crazy! If we truly can have a better record than 72 wins..." Wallace said, "I’d have no regrets."
"Scottie Pippen keeps mentioning their 72-win record every time he’s on a show." Deng Liwei laughed, "but if this record belongs to us, I’d just be crazier than him. I’d tell the reporters about our new record every day!"
For a long time, the Chicago Bulls’ 72-win record set in the 1995/1996 season had become a myth in everyone’s mind that couldn’t be broken.
After all, in the long regular season journey of the NBA, which team could ensure they would conquer every battle like the Bulls did back then?
However, for Qin Yue from the future, he has witnessed the moment when the myth was broken.
Though historically, the Warriors team that broke the Bulls’ myth eventually became the backdrop for the Cleveland Cavaliers clinching their first championship.
But compared to the Warriors from the future...
Qin Yue knows very well that the current Warriors have more championship pieces.
Moreover...
The league’s well-arranged schedule frees the current Warriors from worrying about over-consuming for history creation like the future Warriors did during the regular season.
"David Stern finally did a good thing." Qin Yue, who resents Stern due to the "Qin Yue Rule," thought to himself, "Turns out, not all Jews are jerks."
The new goal set by Qin Yue and Ma Long instantly boosted the morale of the entire Warriors team to its peak.
Also...
After Ma Long revealed his detailed rest plan, his arrangements immediately gained support from the whole team.
Especially young players like Curry and McRoberts, who wish to gain more playing time.
Known for acting quickly, Ma Long plans to rest Nash and Murphy in the upcoming back-to-back games against the Nets.
"Stephen, you’re starting the next game."
"Oh!"
"Josh, I’ll arrange for you to play during the rotation phase the next game. You’ll get Troy’s playing time."
"Okay, coach!"
...
The next day, the Warriors set out for the Continental Airlines Arena.
On the night of the match, facing the Nets, soon to be acquired by Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov.....
The Warriors, high-spirited and led by Qin Yue, shattered the unmotivated team within half-time, handing them an embarrassing new record:
——Opening with a seventeen-game losing streak.
However, Qin Yue, coming from the future, knew very well that the seventeen-game losing streak wasn’t the Nets’ final destination.
Because if Qin Yue remembers correctly, the Nets created a frightening eighteen-game losing streak this season.
Moreover, aside from breaking the NBA’s opening losing streak record, the Nets almost set the record for the fewest wins in an NBA season (excluding shortened seasons).
If it weren’t for the players fighting to avoid becoming the worst team in history, winning three of their last four regular-season games, their record for the season would have been a tearful 9-73, even worse than the Timberwolves and 76ers.
Interestingly, the Warriors’ last opponent in the regular season this year happens to be the Nets.
Therefore...
If the Nets keep losing as they are now, the Warriors, who aim to break the Bulls’ myth, could potentially create both the best and the worst records in the NBA this season.
It’s worth mentioning that in this game where the Warriors dismantled the Nets, Curry, starting for the first time in his career, scored a total of 28 points and 4 rebounds.
Qin Yue didn’t want to say Curry at this stage is more suited to bully weaker teams...
But on this night, Curry indeed showed his ruthless side in dominating lesser opponents.
According to the schedule, the Warriors will head to Memphis to challenge the Grizzlies in two days.
Both Qin Yue and Ma Long attach great importance to this game.
Because compared to past seasons...
The Grizzlies are no longer the laughing stock of the West’s punching bag.
Before the game, Andrew Bynum, sent by the Lakers to Memphis as a trade chip, stated in an interview: "This season, my personal goal is to become the undisputed first center in the West. Although I don’t know why players at Kwame Brown’s level are ranked as the second center in the West by the media, I’ll prove through games that I’m far better than Kwame Brown, the ’bust.’"
Due to excellent performance in the new season, Brown has already risen to second place in ESPN’s Western Conference center rankings, just behind Yao Ming.
However...
Such a ranking inevitably makes Brown a thorn in the side for others.
For example, Bynum, who averages 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies this season, is ambitious and believes he has made immense progress, to the extent of not even considering Yao Ming.
Against Brown, Bynum, who increased his weight to 130 kilograms summer, is confident he can easily destroy this former "bust."
Also, with Serge Ibaka tasked with defending Qin Yue, Bynum is unconcerned about facing Qin Yue, who nearly overwhelmed him in his rookie season.
"To me, Kwame Brown is a Chihuahua that hides behind teammates." Bynum added in a follow-up interview, "I only need a few rounds to make you feel just how hollow a player like him, who’s only capable of begging with his tail wagging, really is."
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