Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 129: First win in the preseason, the game begins at the Magic City Station!
On October 10, at the United Center in Chicago, the Bulls played at home against the New Orleans Hornets, who had just transformed from an Eastern Conference team to a Western Conference team.

The Hornets were also a playoff team last season, ranking above the Celtics in the Eastern Conference.

However, in tonight's game, the Bulls played more easily than the Celtics.

Because the Hornets, led by Baron Davis, are also a fast-break team.

The two teams kept running back and forth, and the pace of the game was frighteningly fast.

Although the Bulls youth team often made mistakes on the defensive end, under Du En's guidance on the offensive end, they played more impressively.

The young players are also full of energy and look like they will never die.

The veteran Hornets players who had just returned from vacation found themselves unable to run after half a quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, 26 to 35, the Bulls took a 9-point lead.

In the second quarter, Duen still only played seven or eight minutes, but while Duen was on the court, the Bulls still maintained their aggressive offensive momentum.

Even though Duan took a break, the Bulls' youth team remained high-spirited and kept working hard to widen the gap.

At the end of the first half, the score reached 54-69, and the Bulls took a 15-point lead.

In the third quarter, the two teams were still running back and forth.

Although the Bulls don't have Duane to sort out their offense, their offensive efficiency has dropped a lot. The problem is that the Hornets' main players are also resting on the bench.

The main players also did not play, and the Bulls' youth team, led by Ben Gordon and Luol Deng, played with the energy and hard work they deserved.

Even if the game experience is indeed a little bit behind, it is easy to make passing errors and defensive leaks.

But before the fourth quarter started, the score on the court was fixed at 81 to 94, and the Bulls maintained a full 13-point advantage.

The more than 2 Bulls fans at the scene were ecstatic when they saw this, thinking that the first preseason win would be today.

It just so happens that tonight is also a home game, so I will be overjoyed to witness the rise of the youth army with my own eyes.

Ben Gordon suddenly became angry when he heard that many fans were cheering for him.

Nearly half of the ball possessions in the fourth quarter were digested by him in singles. It just so happened that he had a good touch tonight, no matter how hard he shot.

Then, he scored 16 points in a single quarter with amazing skills, helping the Bulls maintain the advantage accumulated in the first three quarters.

At the end of the game, 106 to 115.

With the help of Ben Gordon's 35 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in a single game, the Bulls easily defeated the Hornets, a playoff team last season.

In an interview after the game, Dunn also praised Ben Gordon's talent and potential, believing that Ben Gordon will be the future of the Bulls and one of the most reliable helpers around him.

Also after the game, Ben Gordon was interviewed.

He expressed that he wanted to learn from the team boss, Duen, and hoped that he could perform at the level of Duen in his rookie season and compete for the best rookie.

Du En pricked up his ears and wondered if Ben Gordon was looking after him and wanted to be sent away by him?

One thing to say, after four years, if all the Bulls' youth team has played well, it will really be difficult to renew the contract.

No matter what, some people have to be traded.

However, over the course of three or four years, the rookie bonuses of these individuals would help Doon win the championship.

Without these rookie bonuses, it would not be easy for Dunn to win the championship with the stingy Bulls.

By the way, when the Bulls won their first preseason game, Dunn, as the team boss, should have expressed his gratitude.

Considering that the Bulls will participate in the preseason game in China and have to catch a flight tomorrow, Du En will not treat his teammates to supper at night.

"Go back and have a good rest. You'll catch a flight tomorrow morning. When we get to Shanghai, I'll take you to eat delicious food."

At the end of the game and before the players dismissed and went home, Duan made an agreement with the other players in the locker room.

When he arrives in the Magic City tomorrow, all food and beverage expenses will be paid for by him, Duen.

Time flies by so fast, as soon as I close my eyes and open them it will be around six o'clock the next morning.

Bulls players, coaching staff and uniform staff, a total of more than 40 people, boarded a plane to Shanghai.

Chicago and Shanghai are separated by 13 time zones, and jet lag is usually a troublesome thing.

In order to minimize the physical discomfort of the players, the Bulls management chose to fly to Shanghai in the morning.

The plane will be in the air for about fourteen hours.

It's impossible for Bulls players to sleep for 14 hours at a time, so they have to do some activities on the plane first to consume excess energy.

Basically, I watch movies, read magazines, listen to music, and play games on the plane to kill seven or eight hours of boring time.

Wait until you are physically and mentally exhausted during the journey and have accumulated enough sleepiness, and then sleep for five or six hours.

When the plane landed, it happened to be morning.

By then, Bulls players will have a day to play in the Magic City and taste delicious food.

It is true that Shanghai is a food desert, but as long as you are willing to spend money and don't go out of your way to taste local food, it is not difficult to find some edible and delicious food.

Wait until night, get some sleep, and if you really can't sleep, take some melatonin, and you can basically reverse the jet lag.

Regarding the next two preseason games in China, the Bulls and their team will basically spend a week in the Magic City and the Imperial City.

But for others, the jet lag and dietary issues that most need to be overcome are not worth mentioning in Dune's opinion.

During the flight, Du En took out the GBA and played the ruby ​​version of Pokémon. He even passed four gyms without feeling sleepy.

Later, I had lunch on the plane, and the blood supply to my brain was insufficient, so I gradually started to feel sleepy.

When I woke up, I had arrived at the Magic City.

Instead, he got off the plane, put his luggage in the hotel, and took the team members to visit the Magic City. This made Du En very tiring and tired.

With a group of curious babies, but whose behavior is difficult to control, and most of them are black teammates wandering around the Magic City, Du En must bear a certain responsibility.

Although there were bodyguards to escort him during the trip, and even the police deployed a certain amount of manpower to maintain public order, it did put a lot of pressure on Du En, who led the team.

Fortunately, NBA players consume a lot of money, and the food on the plane is obviously not enough.

It was also because his teammates were hungry, so Du En cleverly moved them to the restaurant, thus saving a lot of trouble.

After dinner, we wandered around for a while, then went back to the hotel to rest.

On the second day, because there was a game to be played in the evening, I naturally had to do business. I went to the Magic City Stadium in advance to practice and maintain my condition.

Time soon came to night, and the Magic City Stadium was very lively tonight.

Not only were the 8000-person seats at the venue filled to capacity, but the media area in the front row was also full of people.

Naturally, the major domestic media outlets were on a first-come-first-served basis and occupied favorable positions in advance.

The official media of the NBA, plus broadcasts in 177 countries and regions around the world, are also ready.

"This is not a simple basketball game, it opens more communication channels between China and the United States."

Before the start of the NBA preseason in Shanghai, Director Zhang of the Sports Management Center graciously accepted interviews with the media and expressed their views.

Don't look at it as just two preseason games. For these two NBA China games, the Sports Management Center has also been in contact with NBA officials and has been preparing for several years.

It just so happened that this year, Du En and Yao Ming each led an NBA team to play in the two iconic Chinese cities of Magic City and Imperial City.

Although both Du En and Yao Ming accepted interviews with domestic media before the game, they expressed their confidence to win.

However, in a competition, there will always be a winner.

It can be seen that Yao Ming played very actively.In the past, Yao Ming's jump ball was slow, as if he didn't use any force to take off, but this time he hit Tyson Chandler with force and pushed the ball back into the backcourt.

After Bob Sura got the ball, he immediately passed it to Liu Wei on the side.

Just to mention it, it is also because of the China game. It is reasonable for the Chinese men's basketball team to play two exhibition games, right?

In addition, the Rockets traded both their backcourt guns in order to acquire Tracy McGrady, and there really are no qualified point guards.

Liu Wei is in the national team, and his cooperation with Yao Ming is indeed tacit.

Therefore, with the tacit understanding of NBA officials, the men's basketball team and the Rockets boss, the Rockets sent Liu Wei a training camp invitation and a short-term non-guaranteed contract in the summer.

Although it wasn't even a ten-day contract, Liu Wei got the opportunity to serve as the Rockets' starting point guard in the preseason.

Of course, if Liu Wei is confident enough and can perform well enough in the next two preseason games.

The men's basketball team may also want to send Liu Wei to the NBA, and now these two games are the foreshadowing.

After all, this year has already reached the quarter-finals. In four years' time, at the Olympics at home, will the men's basketball team be able to advance and win a medal, or even a gold medal?

Yao Ming and Doun, there are superstars inside and outside, but the only problem is that there is no suitable championship puzzle.

And Liu Wei is already the tallest among short people.

Closer to home, as Ben Gordon stepped forward to lead the defense, Liu Wei stuck out his butt and steadily dribbled the ball across the half court.

Although it seems a bit difficult to dribble, he actually does what a dribbling defender should do.

After halftime, Liu Wei handed the ball to McGrady and went to the side to open up space.

Next is the one-on-one star singles moment between McGrady and Duane!
"Hey, Duen, I'm going to blow you up here!"

Facing his good brothers who practiced together in the summer, McGrady laughed and talked nonsense.

Du En also smiled and said, "Haha, who is Xia Tian who ran away early because he couldn't beat me?"

Now Du En is almost as tall as McGrady in terms of height, and although his wingspan is still far behind, Du En's strength, confrontation and physical strength in one-on-one duels are far superior to McGrady.

In head-to-head battles, although Tracy McGrady can make it to the finals, he often loses to Duane, who has more physical strength and superior strength.

McGrady closed the training camp early because he was traded to the Rockets. This is undoubtedly a situation where he can't win and run away.

McGrady wasn't angry when he heard this. He just took out the iconic pull-up jumper that even Kobe Bryant shouted "the hardest to defend", directly pulled a green onion over Duan's head, and threw the ball forcefully.

Watching the basketball go hollow into the net and listening to the loud exclamations of the fans at the scene, Du En didn't pay much attention to it.

As early as the summer, Duan knew McGrady's true ability.

I have to say that McGrady's dry pull is really good.

There aren't many fake moves, just relying on speed, jumping, wingspan, and absolutely relying on physical talent, ignoring the interference of defensive players, and throwing the ball unreasonably.

Most outside superstars don't have McGrady's ability to ignore defenses and make pull-up jumpers at any time.

However, after that week's competition in the training camp, Du En has figured out McGrady's weakness, which is that McGrady's ultimate move lacks power.

McGrady's pull-up jump shot has a very serious problem - it's not accurate enough!

Many people may not know that McGrady's free throw shooting rate is only 75% all year round.

As a super scorer and an outside superstar, his career free throw shooting rate is only 74.6%, which is actually quite unjustifiable.

The habit of stretching his hips in the fourth quarter can be explained by lack of physical strength. The free throw shooting has not yet reached the league's outside average level, which is a bit puzzling.

Looking at McGrady's true shooting percentage, it is 52% all year round. Iverson, who is in a similar situation, still has a free throw percentage of 78%!
As for Kobe, who was dubbed the Blacksmith of Los Angeles because of his four-legged and three-iron performance, his true shooting percentage was 55% and his free throw percentage was 83.7%.

It can be seen from the data alone that McGrady's shooting is not as good as Kobe's.

Everyone knows that allowing Kobe to fire unlimitedly can prevent O'Neal from dying.So, what about letting McGrady fire unlimitedly?

It can only be said that tonight's game was a bit cruel to Yao Ming.

After McGrady made the mid-range shot, the Bulls immediately grabbed the baseline ball.

Dunn received the ball in the frontcourt, and then passed the ball to Luol Deng who was cutting to the basket.

Yao Ming just ran back to the backcourt, and the Bulls completed an offense within three seconds.

When Yao Ming returned to the frontcourt, Tracy McGrady quickly played one-on-one with star Dune, and then there was a bang, and Yao Ming began to run to the backcourt again.

However, Yao Ming had just run into the penalty area, and Du En had already passed the ball to Tyson Chandler.

I saw Tyson Chandler score the ball against Juwan Howard's block, and also got a two-plus-one opportunity to stand on the free throw line.

“Duen’s passing skills are so beautiful!
This Bulls youth team on the court has the flavor of the men's basketball team from the 90s!

It's really effortless to play the ball, very smart and energetic! "

"Yes, not long ago the Bulls led by Duan set off a fast break craze in the NBA.

Teams such as the Nets, Suns, and Hornets all have point guards in charge.

By constantly increasing their speed and attacking, they defeated their enemies with a continuous wave of attacks. "

As the game progressed, the on-site Central Sports commentators also began to talk about the players from the game.

Because Duan was not suitable for publicity at the beginning last season, fans did not know much about Duan.

But the unexpected result is that it only took one year for Duan to achieve the greatest achievement of a Chinese player in the NBA.

All basketball practitioners and fans in the country had to refocus their attention on Duan.

In addition, people tend to like the new and dislike the old.

Yao Ming has received too much exposure. Both basketball practitioners and fans are no longer new to Yao Ming.

However, Du En still remains mysterious and looks so powerful!
“It’s obvious that the Bulls’ rookies are still very young.

The whole game was very chaotic, without any structure, just like playing wild ball, lacking game experience.

However, under the leadership of Du En, the Bulls actually played quite well.

The Rockets can no longer keep up with the Bulls' game rhythm!
Liu Wei's time to integrate into the Rockets was too short, and he was unable to help the Rockets find their own game rhythm, which was very troublesome.

Regarding this phenomenon, I can only say that Duen is indeed amazing. Duen definitely contributed to the Lakers' championship last season.

Today's bulls are like a handful of pearls dumped on the table.

Each one is indeed quite valuable, but when you fall on it, you will immediately jump around and roll away accidentally.

The miraculous thing about Du En is that he quickly connected them together with a rope.

Originally, pearls sold individually for a few yuan or a dozen, but when made into necklaces or bracelets, they are worth hundreds or even thousands of yuan!

And this value-added part is because of Du En’s craftsmanship! "

"Indeed, when I look at the Bulls in front of me, they look like Lakers show time.

But tonight, what I care about most is when Duane gets the ball and attacks.

If I remember correctly, in the finals last season, Duan averaged 25 points per game!
Playing at home tonight, it's impossible for Duen to pass the ball all the time, right?
Duane is just too much of a team sometimes!I do hope Du En can fight more resolutely!
When Du En enters the national team, some balls will have to be shot by Du En!

We need Chinese magicians, but we need Chinese Jordan even more! "

　If I owe an update, I’ll make it up on the weekend.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)