Chapter 31 Let me help you talk trash!
Today's Miami Heat are in the early stages of their first peak period in team history.
In this offseason, they first poached Pat Riley from New York, who was extremely thirsty for power. Boss Arison immediately gave Riley huge power, allowing him to simultaneously Serving as both the team president and head coach, it can be said that the management of the entire team has been handed over to Riley!
And Riley did not live up to Arison's trust. The first thing he did when he took office was to recruit their core center from the Hornets, Alonzo Mourning, known as the fifth center in the 90s!
Mourning not only has the title of the best tough guy in the league, but his ability is definitely at the top level. Whether it is his best defense, blocking and rebounding, or his ability on the offensive end, they are all top-notch!
It's a pity that he was born in the 90s when there were so many centers. There were four insurmountable centers above him! As strong as Ewing, he can be ranked fourth in the MVP rankings, and then he is not included in the best team, let alone Mourning?
Throughout his career, he has obviously been able to contribute 20+10+3 data in many years, and his performance in leading the team is pretty good, but Mourning has only made the best team twice.
There is no way, the remaining few people are really too monsters!
Of course, this is only the fourth year of Mourning's career. He doesn't know yet that his entire career will always be in the shadow of the four major centers.
The introduction of Mourning is obviously just the first part of Riley's recruitment plan. Everyone knows that this old man with a vicious vision, extremely high tactical literacy and decisive killing is constantly searching for someone in the entire league. Outside players who can be paired with Mourning to form their own Heat double star to launch an impact on the championship! This is why, when there were rumors of internal strife in the Bulls training camp, Riley called Krause even though he knew there would be no gain.
He is really hungry for talent!
He wants to build a championship-level team as soon as possible, and he is even more eager to show the New York and Los Angeles people who have always been unwilling to give him the right to appoint and remove personnel. What a great manager they have missed! However, the Heat, now supported by only Mourning, is obviously still not interested.
Their goal this year is still just to enter the playoffs first.
After all, except for Mourning, who is considered a top figure in their current starting lineup, the rest, whether they are Chris Gatlin, Billy Owens, or Rex Chapman, are just ordinary rotation players. He is still far away from the star!
And with such a lineup, relying only on Mourning, it is certainly difficult to compete with the Bulls!
As soon as the game started in the first quarter, Jordan took the lead again for the Bulls, hitting consecutive shots!
Although Mourning was able to give some responses on the Heat's side and could always teach Hubble and Longley who wanted to rush in and score on his head under the basket, the Heat were quickly thrown away by the Bulls. At the end of one quarter, Jordan once again scored 10 points in a single quarter, and the Bulls were already 9 points ahead of the Heat.
Seeing that he was trailing by nearly double digits, Riley immediately tried to take advantage of the situation. At the beginning of the second quarter, he played the first quarter for a full 2 minutes. Mo Mo, who had just sat off the court, could not catch his breath. Ning stood on the court again.
He wants to take advantage of Jordan and Rodman's absence to chase the score! On the Bulls side, the lineup on the field at this time is Lin Tian, Cole, Pippen, Kukoc and Wennington who have just appeared!
On the Heat's side, the player facing Lin Tian is Bimbo Coles, an ordinary, small point guard with a short stature.
"Boy! I watched the video of your last game. You are very fast!" Although Coles is small, as soon as he faced Lin Tian, he led the whole game with a combination of defense and trash talk: "But It’s useless! I’m faster than you! I, Uncle Coles, have the nickname ‘Miami Speed Ghost’!”
Obviously, this guy regarded Lin Tian as a newbie.
"Okay, I understand, Mr. Charas, can I start the attack now?" "Coles!"
"Charles?"
"Cole!"
"Corris?"
"Coles! Stop!"
Lin Tian was chatting happily with Coles in the backcourt, when he suddenly accelerated and rushed past Coles in one step, and quickly reached the frontcourt!
"Boy, you only know how to sneak attack! But it's useless! I can still catch up with you!"
Coles chased with all his might until he was outside the 3-point line, and finally caught up with Lin Tian!
This achievement also confirmed for him once again that Lin Tian was indeed fast, but compared to himself, it was far behind! "Do you think you can catch up with me because you are fast enough?" Lin Tian smiled. He was actually too lazy to talk to this little guy whose name he couldn't remember at all, but there was no way. The entire Heat team , he only knew two of them.
Mourning and Riley! He can't go and quarrel with Mourning from half a stadium away, right? As for Riley, if the old man dares to play, Lin Tian promises to break his knees!Lin Tian has never had this virtue of respecting the elderly and loving the young!
"You can catch up with me, not because you are great, but because I let you go!" After saying this, Lin Tian suddenly started to accelerate again!This time he used all his strength, turned into lightning, and flashed past Coles again, directly inserting into the Heat's inside hinterland!
Mourning is worthy of being one of the best defensive centers in the league. Before Lin Tian could rush into the paint, he had already moved sideways and got in front of Lin Tian to complete the defense!At the same time, the arms raised high also perfectly covered Lin Tian's passing angle, preventing Lin Tian from passing the ball to Longley under the basket.
"Rookie, come on! Let me give you a big hat!" Mourning obviously didn't take Lin Tian seriously.
"Whoosh!"
Even with the new skills in hand, Lin Tian still knew how much he weighed. He would never do the stupid thing of rushing up to confront Mourning head-on. Seeing that the attack was hopeless, he watched six directions, and then knocked one after another. The ball was given to Pippen, who had just made an empty cut! "Scott, kill this weakling!"
At the moment of passing the ball, Lin Tian did not forget to shout! Pippen had already reached full speed at this time. He held the basketball and didn't care whether it was Mourning or whoever was in front of him. His whole body was completely stretched out. After a head-on collision with Mourning in the air, the basketball in his hand suddenly Smash it down!
"boom!"
After a bang, Pippen completed a shocking dunk! He dunked Mourning, a top defensive player!
"This ball is for your grandma, Alonzo! I hope she won't cry for you!" After Pippen hit the shot, Lin Tian roared at Mourning: "You are a weakling who only shows up! I On behalf of the people of Charlotte, I despise you!”
"Scott, you bastard, are you dumb? You have to ask a rookie to help you with your trash talk?" Mourning also got angry for no reason when he was sprayed by Lin Tian. He started to spray when he looked at Pippen.
"You are not worthy of me personally trashing you!" Pippen was also a good trash talker. He sprayed at Mourning, and at the same time secretly gave Mourning a middle finger! (End of this chapter)