Champions Creed

Chapter 275 Chapter 274: Jerry, are you dissatisfied with anything? (Seeking monthly votes!)
Jerry Stackhouse wants to catch up with that ideal version of himself.

"No one can stop Jerry Stackhouse from becoming the next Michael Jordan. That's the reality. You can't stop the reality from happening."

This was the evaluation of Stackhouse by Dean Smith, the veteran coach of North Carolina and the common college coach of Jordan and Stackhouse.

Such evaluation made Jerry Stackhouse believe that he could have a great career.

What did he go through in the end?
The ambitious Jerry Stackhouse was defeated by a high school student hired by Roger before he even entered the league.

Since entering the league, he has suffered a series of setbacks. The halo of "Jordan's successor" on his head has become increasingly dim. He has been abandoned, traded, and twice fallen from the team's top star to a second-class citizen (AI and Grant Hill).

When his rookie contract finally expired in 1998, Jerry Stackhouse, who was seeking a new contract, was even severely humiliated by the whole world.

Jerry Stackhouse knew that his performance was not as good as expected, so he put aside his pride and told all the teams: "Roger's annual salary this season is close to 3000 million, right? Am I not even one-third of his? I didn't ask for half of Roger's, I just want one-third."

As a result, after Stackhouse had greatly reduced his salary demands, then-Nets general manager John Nash commented:
"Yes, we have contacted him, but his asking price is unbelievable. Jerry is not one of the top players in the free market. He can score, but he has not yet proved his stable output. He can defend, but he can only focus on defense for a few minutes. In a few minutes, you can't even deal with your wife, let alone those top offensive players. We have Kendall Gill, whose annual salary is about 550 million. But will I trade him for Jerry? No, I won't do that."

What this means is that Jerry Stackhouse is not as valuable as Kendall Gill, let alone one-third of Roger's, he is not even worth 550 million!
This former North Carolina super genius never dreamed that he, who was once compared with Michael Jordan, would now be compared with Kendall Gill, a player who is not even as good as an All-Star.

In the end, Jerry Stackhouse could only accept a seven-year, $7 million contract, with an average annual salary of just over $3700 million, only one-sixth of Roger's annual salary at the time.

That summer, Jerry Stackhouse felt extremely depressed every day.

When the gap between expectations and reality is too big, you will doubt yourself, deny yourself, and become depressed.

This was indeed the case. In the following season, Jerry Stackhouse's shooting percentage, points, rebounds and assists all hit career lows.

He seems to have accepted the fact that he is not a player worth 500 million.

The turning point of everything was this summer. Grant Hill's departure gave Stackhouse the opportunity he wanted.

His dream of becoming a superstar began to burn again. After creating a series of exaggerated scoring performances, Stackhouse turned back into the Stackhouse, the Stackhouse of Pu Xin.

And tonight, Jerry Stackhouse faces the game he wants to win the most this season.

When Jerry Stackhouse arrived at Philips Arena and stepped off the team bus, he wore sunglasses and looked like a superstar.

In the player tunnel, many reporters' cameras were following him.

This is at the Philips Arena, at the feet of God.

Not just any rubbish can get attention.

At that moment, Stackhouse felt that his back, which had been bent for several years, finally straightened up!

When he walked onto the court to warm up, the reporter Hannah on the sidelines also found him: "Jerry, you said you wanted to end Roger's years of dominance of the scoring title award, so can we see you score 40 points again in tonight's game?"

Jerry Stackhouse was not modest: "Why not? Maybe not just 40 points, not just the scoring champion. If AI can make Roger lose in the last game, then I have a chance. As everyone knows, I have never been worse than AI."

"What is your goal this season? To be the scoring champion? Or to lead the team into the playoffs?"

"Goal? Beating Roger in the playoffs shouldn't be too much, right?" After saying that, Jerry Stackhouse winked at Hannah in a self-proclaimed charming manner.

Hannah suffered the worst psychological attack of her career.

She had never seen a player who was so untrustworthy, greasy and ugly all at once.

With just one expression, she felt like she was being harassed in the workplace.

But Stackhouse hadn't pretended enough. Before the game started, when the jump ball was about to start, he looked at the Eagles bench and took the initiative to provoke the innocent Jeff Hornacek. "Hey, useless Jeff, how does it feel to win by flattering Roger? Does your daughter really want to see you living under Roger's crotch?"

Jerry Stackhouse loves Jeff Hornacek so much. He is simply the perfect backdrop for Stackhouse to show his deterrence.

On the Eagles bench, Hornacek was filled with anger.

He really wanted to get on the court right now and have a one-on-one duel with that bastard Stackhouse.

Jeff Hornacek became angrier and angrier when he thought about how he didn't fight back when he was beaten.

In this league that doesn't advocate physical contact, Hornacek thought that even if he didn't fight back, the league would still uphold justice for him. Haha, the last time Hornacek was beaten by Stackhouse, Stackhouse was only fined $1000 and suspended for ten days (three games)!

This painless punishment is equivalent to Jerry Stackhouse beating Hornacek at no cost!
Look at it now, Jerry Stackhouse can still humiliate Hornacek with impunity, has he received any punishment?

So what's going on here? Good people deserve to be held at gunpoint?

Jerry Stackhouse has been outspoken since he entered the Philips Arena, but Roger didn't care about the ridiculous nonsense he said before.

But now he thinks he can bully Jeff Hornacek as unscrupulously as before?

This is not a provocation to Hornacek, it's a provocation to the owner of the Philips Arena.

"Shut up Jerry, Jeff has no grudge against you. If you disrespect him again, I promise to make you experience even more excessive disrespect until you learn what respect is!" Roger finally spoke. This was the first time he spoke to Stackhouse today.

Roger was not just talking on the bus that day. He would not allow anyone to bully his teammates.

Jerry Stackhouse obviously didn't realize the seriousness of the matter: "Let me feel disrespected? No, I will score 40 points here tonight, and no one can disrespect me! I promise! Your days of humiliating me are over, asshole!"

Very good, Roger actually hoped in his heart that Stackhouse would not shut up, otherwise tonight would become very, very boring.

"I have no doubt about this, Jerry, because you, a data-brushing guy, will shoot like crazy regardless of victory and efficiency. Is it amazing to get high scores by shooting like crazy? Even if you let Shaq take 100 free throws, he can easily get 40 points. Even if you have unlimited shooting rights in every game, you, a waste, can only average 30 points per game. If I also shoot like crazy without caring about everything like you, I can get 50 points every game."

Roger's words burst Jerry Stackhouse's superstar bubble.

Why is it that Jerry Stackhouse has scored a lot of 40+ points and once scored 50+ points in a single game this season, but still no one treats him as a superstar?
Because more than half of his 40-point games ended in losses, and his offensive efficiency was very low.

Nowadays, many media like to criticize AI's offensive efficiency in order to highlight their professionalism.

Taking into account the height and team lineup, AI is indeed not good at offensive efficiency.

But Jerry Stackhouse's shooting percentage this season is two percentage points lower than that of AI, a well-known inefficient scorer, and is just barely reaching 40%!

It is worth mentioning that in the 21-22 season, when LeBron James led the team to miss the play-offs with an average of 75 points per game and four 30-point waste players, he still had one more win than Jerry Stackhouse.

This shows how useless Jerry Stackhouse's scoring is.

He just looks like a player who can average 30 points per game, but he simply doesn't have the ability to match the data.

"I said, it's not that I want to shoot, it's that the team needs me to shoot!" Jerry Stackhouse defended himself.

"No team needs you to take a shot, Jerry, because you have never provided any help to any team. You said the Pistons needed you to take a shot, but look at the team's record, you didn't help the team win more games. In the final analysis, you are just a piece of shit who doesn't even know how to score points. By the way, I have now earned the money that you need a season to earn. Otherwise, I will give you a new nickname related to God: One-Sixth Roger."

Roger will not indulge Jerry Stackhouse. Things like not fighting back when being insulted or beaten will never happen to the Hawks.

Stackhouse originally wanted to trample on Hornacek's dignity to boost his own confidence, but now he was being madly stepped on by Roger.

After the game started, Stackhouse crossed the midfield line and found that the Hawks were using Pippen to guard him.

And the Eagles didn’t even call a pinch-hit.

Stackhouse may be the only player in the league who averages 30 points per game but no team will choose to double-team him.

The gap between him and AI is far more than just the 2% hit rate, because AI and the defense he faces are completely different things.

In the 76ers lineup, AI has to face the tightest double-team every time he attacks.

Jerry Stackhouse almost always faced one-on-one defense. Even so, his shooting percentage was lower than AI, which is enough to show how big the gap between the two sides is.

Seeing that it was old Pippen on defense, Jerry Stackhouse simply and roughly attacked the basket, hoping to shut Roger up with a score.

He did succeed, Jerry Stackhouse used his speed to eat Pippen alive and then raised his hand for a layup.

He must get a high score today and make Roger lose face!
As a result, as soon as Stackhouse raised the ball, Roger used a beautiful spike shot from behind to block Jerry Stackhouse's breakthrough layup and knocked him out of the baseline!

Roger's block data has started to increase this season. The reason is that when he is chasing and defending his opponent, he can judge the details of the opponent's footsteps more accurately and predict the timing of the opponent's jump to attack the basket.

As long as Roger catches this opportunity, he can easily block the ball.

If Roger can't catch it, it only means that the opponent has walked.

There is also a change in defensive awareness. In the past, Roger always liked to assist from the side or the front. But now, Roger found that coming from behind is also a different kind of fun, so his enthusiasm for chasing has greatly increased.

Jerry Stackhouse's first attack ended in failure, and he got up from the ground and immediately returned to defense. But he had just run across the midfield line when the Eagles' attack ended with a score.

Today's Pistons' defense puts the Bad Boys of a decade ago to shame.

Although this Pistons team wears the same jerseys as the two consecutive championship Pistons, there is no other similarity between the two.

It's hard to compare the Detroit Pistons who defended Michael Jordan to the point of despair with the current Detroit Pistons who have no discipline on the defensive end.

Marion just made a random counter-run and easily got rid of Joe Smith, the No. 95 pick in 96 who joined the Pistons because of the Yin-Yang contract incident, and then dunked over Jerome Williams, the center of the generation.

The Detroit Pistons' defense is totally insignificant in front of the Hawks. As a true team leader, Stackhouse should remind everyone to pay attention to defense and stay focused.

But Stackhouse didn't care about it at all. He just raised his hand again: "Give me the ball!"

All he cares about is scoring.

In the next round, Stackhouse's mid-range jump shot facing Pippen bounced out of the rim.

After being blocked by Roger in the first round, Jerry Stackhouse missed again in the second round.

Roger did not miss the opportunity to teach Stackhouse a lesson: "You idiot, you're going to score 40 points tonight? Forget about being the scoring champion, Jerry. With your level, even if I shoot five fewer balls per game, you can't catch up."

Jeff Hornacek was enjoying the game from the bench; for the first time, he experienced the thrill of fighting violence with violence.

Two consecutive failed attacks made Jerry Stackhouse feel a little embarrassed, so he took the initiative to defend Roger in this round, hoping to make a comeback on the defensive end.

Roger did not waste Stackhouse's efforts and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Stackhouse immediately pressed hard, trying to make Roger make a mistake.

But Roger simply turned his back and completely passed his lifelong enemy, and made a steady jump shot from mid-range.

After scoring the goal, Roger shook his head and said, “Have you always been so brave?”

Stackhouse was furious and yelled at Roger: "Come and defend me if you dare!"

But he did not get what he wanted, and the Hawks still used Pippen to guard Stackhouse.

Stackhouse was smug: "You know it's difficult to defend me. You don't dare to spend too much energy on me. How dare you, a coward who doesn't dare to fight me one-on-one, call yourself a god?"

Before Roger responded, Pippen in front of Stackhouse started laughing first: "Stop making people laugh, don't want to waste energy on you? You don't even have the qualifications to play against Roger!

At that moment, Jerry Stackhouse's dignity suffered a great blow.

He couldn't believe that he wasn't taken seriously at all here.

Once again, the memories of being abandoned, disliked and despised began to haunt Stackhouse.

Unconvinced, Stackhouse forced his way past Pippen, but Pippen did not make a mistake this time. He immediately moved sideways to block Stackhouse, and promptly stole the ball and completed the steal.

Pippen immediately rushed out, got the ball, and quickly counterattacked.

Stackhouse pursued relentlessly. His current athletic ability was naturally more advantageous than that of the old Pippen. He wanted to use a chase to regain the dignity that had been trampled on since the beginning of the game.

Pippen entered the restricted area with the ball and took two steps. Jerry Stackhouse was about to jump, but Pippen threw the ball backwards.

Stackhouse stared at the basketball and turned around, then saw Roger rushing towards him with the force of fire!
After a loud bang, Jerry Starks was knocked out of the baseline again, and Roger completed an alley-oop dunk!
Less than three minutes into the game, he had already been knocked down twice by Roger.

After Roger landed, he stood in front of Stackhouse and looked at him like he was trash.

Jeff Hornacek felt that he had never felt so happy in his life. For so many years, the guy who had humiliated him had not been punished. Behind the $1000 fine and three-game suspension was the merciless ridicule of people like Jerry Stackhouse.

And tonight, Roger finally helped him get justice!
In the subsequent games, Jerry Stackhouse proved that he was relatively weak even in the category of brushes.

The real Brush just ignores winning, but you have to admit he does have his strengths.

They are either physically strong, good at fast attacks, or understand the strategy of Tian Ji's horse racing.

But Jerry Stackhouse has nothing to do with any of the above. Under Pippen's one-on-one defense, Stackhouse's only response strategy is to shoot more crazily, hoping to score points with more shots.

But this just completely exposed his true level. He missed his shots again and again, and his hit rate became lower and lower.

On the other hand, Roger has accumulated a lot of scoring data with a reasonable number of shots.

At the end of the first half, the Pistons were already trailing by 16 points.

Stackhouse shot an incredible 15 of 3 in the first half, scoring 10 points with a hit rate of only 20%!

Roger only took 11 shots, but scored 17 points.

In just half a game, the gap between the two sides was already very obvious.

Jerry Stackhouse lowered his head and was about to walk back to the player tunnel. At this time, Roger happened to walk past him and deliberately bumped Stackhouse with his shoulder.

Stackhouse turned around and glared at Roger, but Roger didn't even look at him. Just as Stackhouse was about to chase him to ask for an explanation, Andre Patterson deliberately bumped Stackhouse with his shoulder: "Tell me, man, what are you dissatisfied with?"

"Fuck me"

Before Stackhouse could say anything, he was quickly surrounded by a group of Hawks players.

The Pistons lacked cohesion, so no one wanted to cause trouble for Stackhouse. Don't expect a stat-boosting cancer to have good popularity in the locker room.

Although the Pistons players have not publicly expressed their dissatisfaction, who wants to be teammates with a player who takes 30 shots per game but only hits 40%?
Jerry Stackhouse looked at Roger while being surrounded, and the guy had already walked away as if nothing had happened. He had deliberately bumped into Stackhouse, but he left as if nothing had happened, and even his teammates helped him solve the subsequent troubles.

For a moment, Jerry Starks felt the humiliation of being bullied and having no one to help him or to fight back.

Roger kept his promise and he returned everything that happened to Hornacek!
Andre Patterson took another step forward and leaned against Jerry Starks' chest: "I'm asking you a question. What's wrong with you?"

The Pistons star, who had been extremely arrogant since he stepped into the Philips Arena, clenched his fists and avoided Andre Patterson's ferocious gaze.

"No, I have no complaints."

Jeff Hornacek walked up to the guy who had once humiliated him and stopped him: "Good, I'm glad you finally learned to respect, stupid Jerry."

(Today's update is 5.5K. I went to the doctor that day and made an appointment for a physical examination on Monday afternoon. There will be no more examinations after that, so I can continue to maintain a stable daily update of )

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