The Basketball Court Swordsman

The intensive schedule, the possibility of injury and the problems of the players' own condition make each team's experience during the season not too easy. Even the omnipotent Chicago Bulls, their 72 wins were piled up with blood and sweat.

In such a difficult regular season, a team's record can be stable, it is already very good. It is even harder to get a winning streak.

Many conditions need to be met to win a winning streak. Can your team maintain a good form in several games? Can your team prevent injuries? Or is it not affected even if there is an injury? Will your opponent suddenly convulse? Will your head coach be suspended for yelling at the referee?

Such problems often only need to appear to affect the state of a team. There are no underdogs in the NBA. As long as you are in poor form, even if you are the defending champion, you may be picked by a big team.

Therefore, the string of seemingly simple winning streaks is much more complicated than it seems on the surface.

Three consecutive victories prove that this team is in excellent form. Five consecutive victories, well, the team's ranking must have begun to soar. Eight straight wins? Good deed, did you take stimulants? Ten consecutive victories! Well, then this team is definitely not easy to mess with!

And now, since defeating the Bobcats on January 12, the Indiana Pacers' winning streak has come to a 12-game winning streak!

"Charlotte Bobcats lost again! Since Henson Joe coached the Pacers, the awkward record of the Bobcats never winning the Pacers continues!"

"12 consecutive victories! The Indiana Pacers have become the only team this season to win more than two ten consecutive victories in a single season!"

"34 wins and 3 losses! Will we witness the birth of another super team!?"

When the Pacers defeated the Heat and scored a ten-game winning streak, there was still not much reaction. However, after the Heat, the Pacers successively killed the Knicks and Bobcats. No one dares to ignore the 12-game winning streak.

Since Henson became the head coach, he has actually led the team to a ten-game winning streak every season.

At the end of the 10-11 season, the Pacers rushed to the third place in the East with a wave of 10 consecutive victories.

In the 11-12 season, the Pacers started with an 11-game winning streak, laying a solid foundation for the Bulls at the last minute.

Needless to say, this season started with 13 consecutive victories, breaking the best start record in team history. I thought this was the longest winning streak that the Pacers could achieve this season. But who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the Pacers came to the 12th straight victory.

There is more and more discussion about the Pacers from the outside world, and some people even think that they may leave their names on the longest winning streak in the NBA!

Of course, New York reporters don't think so. Because the next opponent of the Pacers is the Brooklyn Nets. If the Pacers want to continue to win, it means they will step over from the Nets! New York reporters, naturally, would not agree.

The Brooklyn Nets, like their team's main color, can be described as a dark horse in the East this season.

In New Jersey last season, the Nets ranked fourth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference. But after moving to Brooklyn this season and signing Joe Johnson, the Nets are now 21 wins and 15 losses, ranking fourth in the East! Of course, this time it is positive!

After experiencing the struggle of "little general" Avery Johnson in the early season of coaching the team, P.J. Kalesimo, who was born in the Spurs coaching staff, successfully put the Nets on track. And fourth in the east, this undoubtedly gave New York reporters inflated capital.

"The team coached by Coach Henson has an inertia, that is, lack of stamina. His team's winning streak has never exceeded 15 consecutive victories, and his team does not have the conditions to create history. What's more, this time they still Fight back to back, and we have rested for two full days. So don’t expect the Brooklyn Nets to be willing to be the backing board for the Pacers. The defending champion’s streak will end here, and we will use The victory in this game raised the winning streak to 6 consecutive victories! Another point, Deron Williams specifically won Chris Paul's team!"

It was Mark Berman, a famous New York basketball journalist who said this. Berman is one of the most well-known basketball journalists of the New York Post. He has been covering Knicks news with the team for almost 12 years. And this year after the Nets moved back to Brooklyn, Berman also took over the Nets news.

From this sentence, it can be seen that Berman's reporting style is mainly "lick".

Speaking of Mark Berman, I have to say Frank Isola, another famous New York basketball reporter. These two men are simply two weird flowers in the New York media industry.

Isola is a typical New York media person who likes to speak out. It is completely different from many team reporters. Now he has a very poor relationship with the Knicks. He never acts as the team's mouthpiece. He is an old-school sports reporter. He even sneers at the internal and external chaos of the Knicks for more than ten years. ?Of course, the Nets are no exception.

But Berman, a reporter who likes to "lick", has a close relationship with the team, so many of his reports will be used by fans as the team's public relations contributions. Berman’s writing is boring and worthless. For many years, Isola has habitually ridiculed Berman on Twitter, and Berman, just like his official reports, never reveals his personal attitude and almost never speaks back. .

It's such a reporter who loves to "lick" the New York team, this time blowing up the Nets again. With him taking the lead, all kinds of media professionals in New York have created a scene of "the Nets will win" and "Paul must be beaten by Deron" on the Internet.

Such a large-scale outpouring has naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of local reporters in Indianapolis. As a result, the game between the two teams has not yet started, but reporters from the two places have already become a lot of scolding.

This is New York, this is the media capital of the world! Everything will be infinitely magnified in this place in New York!

However, when the reporters from both places were scolding, on the Pacers team bus, Pacers coach Henson Joe didn't seem to care about the war and his 12-game winning streak.

"What's the physical condition of the players?" On the team bus, Henson rushed to the team doctor for a report on the players' health.

In the past few days, Henson is very concerned about the health of the players. Although there is a badge bonus, but in the case of large-scale injuries in the league, it is better to be prepared.

"It's all very good, don't worry Henson, the players will not have injury problems due to fatigue. By the way, have you watched Twitter?"

"Twitter?"

"On Twitter, the Indianapolis media and New York media seem to be fighting World War III." The team doctor handed his mobile phone to Henson, and Henson saw Mark Berman's report at a glance.

Of course, I also remembered that guy's big and round head. His Twitter profile picture is his own photo.

"Mark Berman?" Henson looked at the reporter's name.

"He provoked it. He is a reporter for the New York Post."

"Joker!" Henson shook his head contemptuously. At the same time, the team bus stopped.

Looking up, Henson saw the Barclays Center, which was not inferior to Madison Square Garden. They arrived!

"I know, 24 hours ago, we were still confronting the Bobcats at the Banker's Life Arena. But it doesn't matter, let's go, go to this beautiful arena, and bring back the 13th game in a row!"

Henson waved his hand, the team bus opened the door, and the outside was surrounded by a crowd of reporters.

As always, Henson was the last to get off the team bus. Among the bustling crowd, one reporter was particularly active. He raised the microphone high and squeezed to the front, seeming to be very eager to interview Henson.

Henson smiled at this guy because he recognized it.

This guy who is as fat as a sweet potato is Mark Berman himself.