Chapter 172: Bad start to January

However, with the transfer of Martin and the team's trade for the future point guard Marcus Thornton, Evans gave up the position of the team's starting point guard and was forcibly dubbed the "forward swingman" by the team. identity.

The seemingly simple decision turned out to be a turning point in Evans' career.

Due to the congenital inadequacy of height and weight, Evans did not play well on the front line. Moreover, his own shooting instability and fierce confrontation, compared with his rookie period, Evans' shooting percentage dropped by 5 in the second season. %, is 40%.

In this regard, Evans' data performance has been regressing almost every season, paving the way for the road to "fall".

Due to the irrational arrangement of the management, after a long period of high-intensity confrontation in the third position, Evans' knees gradually became unable to support, and finally his scarred body finally fell down.

The knee injury caused Evans' speed to never return to the past, and the breakthrough that he was originally proud of gradually became a weak subject.

And his later extreme self-discipline, wandering around entertainment venues, and his life of drinking and singing made him gradually lose himself, which also caused his subsequent progress to be very weak, and gradually disappeared in the league.

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Once again, D'Antoni was unlucky enough to miss the best coach of the month. Originally, he had a great chance this month. Although the Knicks played 15 games in December, and there were many back-to-back games, the good news is that in December The Knicks didn't face too many strong teams, so they won 12 games.

But I didn't expect the Cavaliers to be too ruthless in December and directly won 14 games.

Therefore, Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown was elected as the best coach in the Eastern Conference in December.

The best coach of the month in the Western Conference was given to Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins. In 13 games in December, the Grizzlies led the Grizzlies to a record of 9 wins and 4 losses. The bear record has also improved a lot.

The three dark horses in the league, one is the Knicks in the east, and the other two are the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder in the west.

These three teams are all big teams last season, but this season they continue to play brilliant records. The league also named them: Young Guards League!

The common feature of these three teams is youth. The average age of the team's starting players is about 25 years old.

They also made teams with more veterans such as the Spurs, Celtics, and Suns miserable.

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On the last day of 2009, Lian Dao also received a surprise.

Anta finally made Lian Dao's first pair of signature sample sneakers.

Before Anta was designing shoes, they also communicated with Lian Dao one after another, and listened to some opinions of Lian Dao.

Lian Dao's first pair of signature sneakers has always retained the unique traditional Chinese elements. For example, the pattern around the sole is the thunder pattern, and the traditional Chinese cloud pattern and so on.

All in all, this pair of sample shoes is very in line with Lian Dao's aesthetics, which contains some of Lian Dao's ideas.

Lian Dao also decided to use this pair of sneakers as his first pair of signature sneakers.

Lian Dao's satisfaction also made Anta feel that the efforts during this period are worthwhile. You must know that a pair of sneakers is not easy to complete. From design to sample shoes, there will be very cumbersome steps in the middle, such as material selection, board opening, Playing the board...Once there is a mistake in these steps, it is likely to lead to a complete overthrow, and the time and energy spent in this process is very huge.

After the shoes are confirmed, the next step is the global conference.

With the previous experience of this Anta sneaker on Lian Dao's feet, they also realized how popular Lian Dao is now and the influence it brings.

So for this press conference, they also thought that the bigger the better, the better.

This pair of sneakers will also be the first sneaker of the ld series of sneakers, named: ld-1.

"ld" is the acronym of Lian Dao's Chinese pinyin surname.

Simple and clear, often the simpler things are, the more memorable they are.

Anta also bought a lot of media and newspaper headlines to build momentum.

The press conference was scheduled for January 10th. Originally, it was planned to be on January 11th, because 1 represents the jersey number used by Lian Dao from ncaa to nba. An echo of the jersey number.

However, the Knicks had a game on January 11, so Anta also set the time for January 10.

Lian Dao has no special requirements for this, and January 10th is also very good. Although it is very commemorative as his first sneaker, some things just cannot be just right, so Lian Dao did not deliberately pursue a date!

From the design to the technology of this pair of sneakers, Lian Dao feels that there is nothing to be picky about. He believes that as long as this pair of shoes is released, it will be a blockbuster.

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In addition to the looming sneaker launch, Lian Dao is most concerned about the Knicks' game in January.

The Knicks still have 15 games in January, but compared to December, the Knicks only had two back-to-back games in January, which made the Knicks, who had suffered back-to-back pain before, breathe a sigh of relief.

After entering January, the Knicks lost away to the Atlanta Hawks in the first game of this month. It seemed that the previous two away games were too easy to win. Rice did not regain her status for a while.

The entire game was dominated by the Atlanta Hawks.

Lian Dao was also taken care of by the Eagles, and he was double-teamed throughout the whole process. In this game, he also scored the lowest score of the season with 13 points, 11 assists and 6 rebounds.

The reason for the failure was that Lian Dao was out of form, but also because of the opponent's targeted defense, although the Knicks defeated the Atlanta Hawks in the previous two games.

But the Eagles are also familiar with Lian Dao's offensive style, so this game is also a game that the Eagles specifically target Lian Dao.

Especially the double-teaming of small forwards Marvin Williams and Joe Johnson directly caught Lian Dao off guard. During the game, the Eagles kept strictly guarding against Lian Dao's outside three-pointer.

In this game, Lian Dao only made 1 of 6 three-pointers, and his shooting percentage was dismal.

After this game, the Knicks also ended their road trip and returned to New York.

When everyone thought that Lian Dao really encountered the rookie wall this time.

Lian Dao once again exploded at home against the Indiana Pacers, with a 43-pointer from last year's All-Stars Danny Granger and Brandon Rush. Quasi-triple-double record with 8 assists and 8 rebounds.

But the Knicks lost again to the Pacers from afar with 110:108.

Although Lian Dao once again proved with practical actions that the strong do not have a rookie wall, Lian Dao did not have the joy of obtaining dazzling data.

January started with a two-game losing streak, especially against the Pacers. Although Lian Dao scored 43 points, his shooting percentage was very low. This game exposed many problems. The most important point is that the Knicks are not second stable. scoring points.

Just when the media was still discussing Lian Dao's 40+ points and the Knicks lost, in the Knicks game against the Charlotte Bobcats, Lian Dao once again scored 46 points, 5 assists and 7 rebounds. Apart from Lian Dao, there was another person who shocked everyone in the game, and that was Zhu Huoledi.

Zhu Huo Ledi sent the highest assists in the game, with 10 points, 21 assists and 3 steals. He is the second player with 20 assists besides Zhong Liandao, a rookie in the 2009 class.

In this game, the Knicks beat the Charlotte Bobcats by by three points, ending their losing streak.

It is said that Eddie Jordan, the general manager of the 76ers, saw the game that night and almost regretted it. He is a future master of offense and defense.

Just let yourself go to the deal.

The 76ers' team building has always been problematic. After Iverson left, they hoped to make Iguodala into Xiaoai, but Iguodala was not suitable to be the leader of the team.

He and Iverson are players with two personalities. He is a systematic player with low offensive desire but outstanding defense. Iguodala can become an excellent player, but he will definitely not be an excellent leader.

Therefore, it has always been a problem with the 76ers' team building thinking.