202: 114.
Public Opinion Attack_2 202: 114.
Public Opinion Attack_2 But despite his poor shooting, Bickerstaff wasn’t angry, and he even encouraged him to take more shots if possible.
With Gerald Wallace’s 16 points, Felton’s 12 points and 9 assists, Zhang Yang’s 14 points, Okafor’s 15 points and 9 rebounds, Brezec’s 11 points and 10 rebounds…
the Charlotte Bobcats beat the Trail Blazers 103 to 88, achieving their first-ever 4-ga winning streak in franchise history!
The Bobcats’ record improved to 26 wins and 29 losses, tying with the Magic and only one ga behind the ninth-place 76ers in the East, who had 27 wins and 28 losses!
When the Bobcats’ first-ever 4-ga winning streak made the news, fans were surprised to find the team silently creeping into the playoff race.
The last ti fans took note of the Bobcats’ record was at the end of January when the team upset the fourth-ranked Cavaliers in the East, finishing the month with an 8-8 record, setting the record for the fastest 50% winning percentage in a single month since the modern basketball era, sparking a flurry of attention.
But the attention was mostly because their opponent was the Cavaliers, and at that ti the Bobcats had two starters in the All-Star Ga.
The hype died down after a couple of days; after all, they were just a 20-win team, and those who continued to follow the Bobcats were only interested in the stats of Zhang Yang and Gerald Wallace, not caring about the wins or losses of the gas.
As another month was about to end, fans noticed the Bobcats’ record again and were astonished to find they had reached 26 wins and 29 losses, aning they had won 6 out of their last 9 gas!
Even though the teams they defeated included the likes of the Trail Blazers, Jazz, Toronto Raptors, 76ers…
so-called weaker teams, and beating the Suns was only because Nash was injured, they lost to strong teams like the Mavericks, Clippers, and Nuggets.
But this was enough to surprise the fans!
However, it was that man again who drew the fans’ attention to the Bobcats’ modest 4-ga winning streak…
On the last day of February, the Bobcats’ opponent is once again the Cavaliers!
The dia promoted the Bobcats’ 4-ga winning streak just to hype this last-minute added ga!
…
The last ga between the Bobcats and Cavaliers was broadcast by various TV networks because the two teams had three All-Star starters.
When the two teams faced off again and the ga was broadcast, it was because of the Bobcats’ defense against Jas in their last eting.
Jas’s performance when posting up Felton in the low post was unexpected to everyone.
Seeing a height difference that looked to be about 20 centiters and a likely weight difference of about 20 kilograms, yet Jas managed to miss 4 tis in the low post: 2 misses, 1 turnover, and 1 forced to reset and shoot again!
This caused many fans to doubt Jas’s abilities, and his fans vehently defended him, but the facts were right there—for 4 attempts in the low post, not a single score…
But this also increased the viewership of the Cavaliers’ gas; since the beginning of February, the Cavaliers had played 10 gas, with 5 being broadcast live, the highest proportion in the entire league, exceeding the number of live gas for most teams for the entire season.
Of those, 3 gas were added to the broadcast schedule at the last minute by television networks responding to fan demand.
As expected by the dia and the fans, many of the Cavaliers’ opponents in these 10 gas tried to mimic the Bobcats’ defense on Jas.
Still, most teams’ attempts to replicate the strategy were a farce, not only failing to guard him but also provoking Jas.
Take Arenas for example; a furious Jas bombarded him with 38 points and a triple-double.
After 10 gas, very few teams could truly guard Jas, and while there was nothing wrong with the defensive approach, only a few teams had the conditions to pull it off.
Most of the Cavaliers’ last 10 opponents lacked a Center who was tough on defense and skilled enough.
This bolstered Jas’s fans, who began to ridicule those who doubted him, saying they were just jealous.
They argued that the Bobcats just got lucky once in guarding Jas, and their critics acted as though they had found so sort of leverage and were overly thrilled about it.
Those questioning remained firm in their stance; for the most part, they didn’t have a significant issue with Jas himself.
Jas’s public image wasn’t tarnished much, aside from his step moves being so good that the league had to change rules and his poor showing at the Dream Team, and the disdain for Jas mostly ca from dia over-praise and the boisterousness of his fans.
The debate went from discussion, to argunt, to outright insults, continuing for half a month with neither side giving ground, both waiting for the next face-off between the Bobcats and Cavaliers.
Hence, on the 27th, the day after the Bobcats played the Trail Blazers, they suddenly beca a ‘hot’ team with the dia flocking to Charlotte, and a large number of ‘half-year’ Bobcats fans popping up online to cheer them on.
At the sa ti, the Bobcats were also attacked by many dia outlets and fans.
Rather than analyzing how the Bobcats defended Jas in late January, these critics only picked on the Bobcats’ record and players’ flaws, with so even resorting to personal attacks.
Initially, the Bobcats’ players were excited to see the dia swarm in.
The Bobcats didn’t lack interviews usually, and caras were always filming in their arena, but the players soon realized that it was almost exclusively Chinese dia and local Carolina region dia stationed in their stadium.
Major dostic US dia rarely visited, and when they did, it was mainly for Zhang Yang.
This ti was different; even Perkins had the dia surrounding him for interviews.
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