No.1 in basketball scoring-Chapter 865 - 371. King’s only hope of getting the Scoring King _4

One of them is naturally Zhang Yang, the under-20 Scoring King. The title ’best scoring talent in history’ is so firmly attached that no one can pull it down, not even with Jordan, Chamberlain, and Kobe before him.

With only two games left, everyone believes Zhang Yang has already locked in the Scoring King title.

At this time, people finally noticed the unlucky King fellow. In the last two games, James scored 36 points in one game and 26 points in another. On average, his scoring didn’t budge. With the current gap between him and Zhang Yang, he needs to average 55 points in the last two games or maintain an average score in one game and score 80+ in another...

In people’s eyes, apart from Kobe, no one can complete a comeback in such a situation.

Another person garnering attention in the basketball world... Carlisle, who has grown stronger despite balding!

The Bobcats can achieve such results; the progress of the players is secondary. It’s the coach’s strategy that is truly key.

At the beginning of the season, when choosing the new season’s tactical direction, Carlisle opted to play to strengths and avoid weaknesses, striving to minimize the loss of Gerald Wallace’s strength, focusing on offense, temporarily setting aside team defense and elevating the team’s attack to the extreme.

During mid-season when Felton was injured, Carlisle managed efficiently. Although the record fell substantially, it didn’t collapse.

The system transformation later in the season was especially eye-catching, especially after Popovich’s unexpected bloodbath criticism, which elevated Carlisle’s prominence.

Popovich intended to undermine the Bobcats with backhanded compliments, ignoring the negative impact it brought to the Bobcats. The most positive effect was making people more aware of Carlisle’s excellent system-building capabilities.

It even led the media to revisit Carlisle’s past coaching highlights — the system he created for the Pistons to win the championship in 04, transforming the Pacers in his first year from an ordinary playoff team with 48 wins into a championship-contending strong team with 61 wins reaching the East Final.

These things, many fans are unaware of, because the Pistons who won the championship in 04 were led by Larry Brown. The Pacers’ most profound impression on people in recent years is the Auburn Palace incident, and Carlisle’s image in these incidents has been relatively negative.

Thus, Carlisle hesitated before coming to the Bobcats, joining this defending champion team as head coach. If his coaching performance is poor, his coaching career could be ruined here.

Hard work paid off. Although many media still believe the Bobcats’ playoff prospects are not good — a purely offensive team doesn’t mix well in the playoffs — all media praise Carlisle’s coaching performance this season to the skies!

However, no matter how much praise a coach gets, it is only a peripheral topic among fans. Today’s hot topic among fans is still related to Zhang Yang.

The topic when Zhang Yang just surpassed James has become heated again — after the last Super Scoring King ’didn’t compete’ for the Scoring King, the newly born Scoring King wearing the No. 3 jersey is in a very similar situation this time!

As the media continues to hype, and fans engage in heated discussions about the focal battle between the Bobcats and the Lakers, the Bobcats suddenly announced a piece of news.

At 11:30 in the morning, Carlisle contacted the media to announce a grievous news.

After the morning’s preparations ended, when the players were taking showers and cleaning, Felton accidentally dropped the soap on the ground, and when Okafor helped to pick it up, he carelessly stepped on it, fell to the ground, and also bumped into Felton, injuring both.

According to the team doctor, Felton has a bruised buttock muscle, and Okafor has a pulled groin muscle. They will miss today’s game, return date pending...

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At 8:40 PM, at Tuhang Stadium, the Lakers and the Bobcats successively entered the court.

Kobe looked at Felton on the opposite bench dressed in a suit with a heavy expression, and the expressionless Okafor... He was very curious, who came up with such ridiculous injury reasons?

Or is it true?

Cold-faced men are generally repressed, and Kobe usually keeps a straight face, but he also has more peculiar thoughts than ordinary people.

Feeling Kobe’s strange gaze, Okafor’s expression was wooden, and Felton was about to crack.

Little Felton: Damn Coach, he only said not to let me play the last two games, not that he’d keep me out this way!

Initially, Felton didn’t find the injury reason odd; it seemed quite reasonable. Slipping while picking up soap isn’t unusual at all.

Until during nap time, his little brother put the computer in front of him, and he saw the comments section of the news about his injury absence... World shattered!

Felton could only console himself — the coach was just looking for a reasonable excuse; he definitely didn’t expect the netizens to be that dirty.

Carlisle was also about to crack at this moment, but he still had to pretend he knew nothing.

He regretted it. If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have told Zhang Yang. Even a lame reason would be better than this, even if it meant being criticized by the league!

He just couldn’t believe how a mischievous kid could come up with such a thoughtful plan...

Moreover, he couldn’t explain to Felton that the reason wasn’t his idea; that would be akin to sowing discord among the players, wouldn’t it?

Sorrows and tears can only be swallowed inside.

At 9 PM, the Bobcats’ home game against the Lakers began.

Lakers starting lineup: Kidd, Kobe, Ariza, Garnett, Kwame Brown.

Before the trade deadline, the Lakers completed a small trade, swapping Brian Cook from the Magic Team for Ariza.

This trade didn’t garner any attention at the time. Iron Ariza was just a fringe rotation player hated in the Magic Team’s one-star, four-shooters tactic, only getting 11 appearances and averaging 3 points, 2 rebounds in the first half of the season.

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