Vol 2 Chapter 758 The importance of small goals

After the 22-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers, who successfully broke the Warriors’ 21-game winning streak, has no intention of stopping!

On December 12, the Trail Blazers won 116-91 in an away game against the Pelicans. Josh Smith didn’t play today, the Pelicans’ interior strength plummeted, and the team became powerless to fight back.

Hosts the Thunder on December 13.

This back-to-back is undoubtedly difficult for the Blazers.

Before this battle, the Thunder had a record of 16 wins and 8 losses, and are currently ranked fourth in the Western Conference, second only to the Trail Blazers, Warriors and Spurs.

Considering that the Thunder’s lineup is complete at the moment, and there is a combination of Wang Zhuang at the end, they are still one of the strong contenders for the championship this season.

Not long ago, they just experienced a wave of six-game winning streak, including the three strong teams of the Spurs, Lakers and Menglong in the east, which are also in the west, which can be described as menacing.

Therefore, this back-to-back game is also considered by the outside world to be the game that the Blazers are most likely to lose.

And that’s a source of confidence for most who thought the Blazers couldn’t beat last season’s 24-game winning streak.

In this game, Durant and Westbrook’s performance was outstanding as always, and they also succeeded in consuming the Blazers to the end.

But the Thunder could not escape the fate of defeat in the end.

In the face of the impregnable defense of the Blazers, the Thunder played a very difficult offense tonight. In order to maintain the offensive efficiency, Durant played almost the whole court tonight.

And it caused Durant to have a physical crisis at the last moment of the distal quarter, which is almost a major problem that has accompanied him throughout his career.

In the last three crucial rounds, Durant made two strikes, completely ruining the Thunder’s hard night’s victory.

Although the Thunder ended up losing only to the Blazers by 4 points, a 4-point loss is essentially the same as a 40-point loss.

Because they still lost!

So far, the Blazers have achieved a terrible record of 24 wins and 0 losses, successfully tying the 24-game winning streak record created last season, and the distance to create a new history, one check can complete the surpassing!

In the next game, the Blazers’ opponent is the Magic with 14 wins and 10 losses. If nothing else, the 25-game winning streak is already a sure thing.

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Two days later.

Portland’s Rose Garden Arena.

The Blazers took on the Orlando Magic at home.

This team, still in the process of rebuilding, seems to have found their new core of team building, with Oladipo on the outside and Vucevic on the inside, and it looks pretty good.

However, in fact, the Magic still has a long way to go. The head coach they recruited this summer, Skells, failed to effectively bond the entire team and create a good chemical reaction system. .

Even though the Magic had just finished with a 14-11 record, they were up and down a lot.

When the team is in good shape, they can upset the strong team, such as the Cleveland Cavaliers, the king of the East, but if the team is not in good shape, they can even lose to the Philadelphia 75ers, which are at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

The most terrible thing is that the day before the game, Oladipo, the magic team’s perimeter core, injured his wrist, and he had to take a week off, making the game even more suspenseful.

This time, no accident happened!

Rose Garden Arena.

All eyes were fixed on the No. 36 player on the court.

“Shh! Shh!”

With two free throws from the free throw line, Wang Zelin scored the 40th point of the game, plus 18 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 blocks.

30 points!

The scoreboard showed the Blazers leading the Magic by a full 30 points. But at this time, there is less than five minutes left for the Magic!

It can be said that magic has almost been sentenced to death!

After Wang Zelinga made a free throw, Scott Skiles put his head in his hands, got up in despair, and stopped the game.

The strength gap between them is too great, and at this moment he has no plans to make a final struggle.

At the same time, Beverley, Yi Jianlian and others quickly got up and cheered for Wang Zelin on the Trail Blazers’ bench.

In the stands, nearly 20,000 Blazers fans stood up and gave their king the most deafening cheers of the night.

beep~~~

After returning from the timeout, just after seeing the Magic team replaced a group of small characters who can’t be named, everyone knows that this game is over.

The next moment, the scene cheered wave after wave, there is no highest, only higher!

“mvp!”

“mvp!”

“mvp”

Amidst cheers, Wang Zelin sat on the bench until the final whistle.

On the one hand, the other side didn’t want to resist. According to tradition, the Blazers had to take back the main force.

On the other hand, it is completely unnecessary, and the Blazers and Magic do not have much hatred and grudges.

At 130:108, the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Orlando Magic by 22 points at home, and there was no suspense in winning the entire game.

Wang Zelin and his teammates also successfully refreshed the record of 24 consecutive victories they had just created last season!

On the court, the Blazers players embraced each other.

This is just an ordinary regular season, but it’s not just an ordinary regular season.

Breaking their own records with their own hands is undoubtedly the most powerful incentive for them!

Thinking back to last season, when they just set a record of 24 consecutive victories, the outside world exclaimed that it was a miracle.

And now, they broke the miracle with their own hands and created a new history.

Next, should we look to some higher goals?

For example, the best 70-12 regular season record in team history just created last season!

For another example, ~www.readmtl.com~ will complete the final summit in June next summer and write a new dynasty myth!

Remember, success is often not something that can be achieved easily. It’s good to have a general direction, but protracted efforts can be tiring and easy to veer off course.

So, the importance of small goals has value.

Of course, the small goal here is not the “100 million” small goal of Tear Onion’s father later.

The small here refers to the smallness of “accumulating small flows into rivers and seas”, and the smallness of “taking small wins as big wins”.

Those who travel a hundred miles are half-ninety, no matter how big the goal and the best direction, it is futile to give up halfway. Only by taking each step as a small goal to complete, can we go a long way and finally reach the other side of success.

Therefore, the Blazers who started the 25-game winning streak, just like playing a game, just opened a new copy and achieved a small stage victory.

With such incentives, the entire team can swept away the fatigue accumulated from the long battle, regained its forward momentum, and marched towards the great cause of three consecutive championships.