Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

On October 10, the Bulls' first preseason game began at the United Center in Chicago.

Tonight the Bulls' opponent is the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have three No. 1 picks.

Because there was a No. 1 pick selected by the Cavaliers a few years ago who brought his talents to other teams, now the Cavaliers undoubtedly pay more attention to the character of the players when selecting players.

For example, Irving, who traces his roots and respects his ancestors, Bennett, who is very polite, and Wiggins, who smiles at everyone he meets.

Of course, regardless of their character, the Cavaliers definitely have their advantages in selecting them as the No. 1 pick.

Irving controls the ball better than James and shoots more accurately. Wiggins can run and jump better than James. As for Bennett, he is still polite.

Therefore, even though it was only the preseason, Bennett was still watching the other two No. 1 picks play on the bench.

As for the original No. 1 pick of the Cavaliers, because he has not yet won a championship, he has no chance to return to his hometown for the time being.

The Heat reached the finals last season, but it was because the Big Three injured Bosh, and Udonis Haslem, the main rotation player, was also injured. They were just a little short of winning the championship.

Over the past few seasons, teams that compete for the championship with stars often have various problems and cannot beat teams that train their own rookies to compete for the championship.

This has also led to the super strength of a certain second consecutive MVP being questioned.

In this case, you can either choose to become the boss of a bad team in a small market, or you can only stay with the Heat and continue to compete for the championship.

Therefore, during the offseason, after discussion, the Heat's Big Three chose to stay with the Heat on a two-year short-term contract and continue to compete for the championship.

This also means that the Cavaliers, who are also charging towards the championship goal, have a relatively young main lineup and are not very competitive.

In Duane's first preseason game back in the NBA, he faced such a team. This will undoubtedly allow Duane to adapt to the rhythm of the game faster.

"Duane came out to warm up! Thank you very much, we saw Duane appear at the United Center again!"

"Duen is looking for touch. It doesn't look very accurate right now. Maybe in the game, Duen will give us a different feeling."

"The game is about to start. Duen will start tonight. How much time will he play? It's really exciting!"

The on-site commentator at the United Center started a series of topics around Duane.

Until Du En came to the sidelines to prepare for the game, he was still chattering.

Although the fans at the scene could not hear the voice of the on-site commentary, they, like the commentator, always focused on Duan.

The game started quickly, and Whiteside's athletic ability helped the Bulls seize the ball for the first attack.

The fans at the scene immediately shouted: "Duen, Duen, Duen!"

There is no doubt that the fans hope that Duan will take the ball and launch the first ball-holding offense of the game.

The Bulls players on the field did not disappoint the fans. Curry plays point guard and does not need too much ball rights. What Curry needs is the right to shoot and the right space to receive the ball.

As for the shooting space, Curry can solve it by himself based on his personal ability.

By the way, the Bulls' guards are relatively weak this season. Before Duan retired, he mainly played the second position, so it is normal for him to return to the second position this time around.

Ever since, Duan reached the frontcourt and received a pass from Curry.

The Cavaliers sent Wiggins, the new No. 1 pick, as the leader to defend Duen's first attack.

"Andrew, you are too light! If you want to guard me, you have to hold my waist, but according to the current rules, you can't attack me."

Duan pointed at Wiggins while carrying him into the three-point line.

Facing Wiggins for the first time, Duan gave it a try and found that it was not difficult to beat Wiggins.

Although Wiggins' core strength is good, his body bones are too thin.

The most direct gap in strength cannot be made up by talent alone.

Besides, Wiggins is better at running and high jumping, and strength confrontation is not his real advantage.

If it were the regular season, Duen would directly hit his back to open up the center of gravity, turn around and break through, and he would burst towards the basket.

That is to say, in the unimportant preseason games, you can play patiently and give pointers to the rookies who have just entered the NBA.

To be honest, Du En likes to play and develop, and he still has a good impression of Wiggins, a player who is extremely talented but has no competitive spirit and is more suitable as a tool man. If there is a chance, it might not be a bad idea to wait for Wiggins to be taken care of by the Cavaliers and then buy at a low price.

However, when Duane returns to the NBA this season, he still needs to regain his feeling through competition and training.

Let’s talk about the next few seasons in the future!
After giving Wiggins pointers, Duen suddenly accelerated, stopped, and started. After shaking Wiggins away, he grabbed the ball with his right wrist and strode towards the basket.

The reason why the Cavaliers have so many No. 1 picks in recent years is because of their poor defense!

Not to mention it's still preseason, so the defense is even more lax.

Du En seized the opportunity and followed up with a one-handed folding dunk.

"MVP, MVP, MVP!"

Du En ignited the audience with dunks one after another. The Cavaliers players also didn't serve for a long time. They seemed to be admiring Du En's attack just now along with the fans.

When the volume of the cheers subsided slightly, Irving walked to the baseline and signaled his teammates to serve.

It's just that Irving doesn't know how to win the ball right now. He basically plays by himself when he gets the ball.

Facing Curry's defense, Irving suddenly started to accelerate with long strides near the midline.

Throughout the NBA, Westbrook uses the long stride acceleration move more often. Because of Westbrook's explosive power, if the opponent is not paying attention, Westbrook will shift into gear and accelerate, passing the defenders in front of him cleanly.

Irving is not known for his explosive power, but his long stride acceleration is also unique, that is, he adds a hip turn and a hesitant step.

As a small defender, Irving is not tall to begin with and has a relatively low center of gravity.

However, the core strength is very terrifying, and the hip rotation is often too fast for people to react.

When most players realize that Irving is turning his hips and want to slow down to prevent Irving from turning around to break through or change direction, Irving has already completed the hesitation step and continues to break through in a straight line, often starting to accelerate.

In this case, the defensive player often fails to follow Irving's first step, and then gets stuck half a step behind, and then never catches up.

If you are a forward player, you can also rely on your wingspan to block Irving's layup from behind Irving.

However, if Curry defends Irving, he can only take back his short hands that are difficult to dunk in advance.

Also because it was a preseason game, the Bulls didn't defend so seriously inside. After Irving accelerated past Curry, he shot straight to the basket for a layup.

Compared with Wade's breakthrough that was so fast that people couldn't see his skills clearly, Irving's breakthrough made people see all the fake moves clearly, and even seemed a bit redundant.

However, no matter which one it is, it is a good technology to be able to achieve a breakthrough.

With Irving playing alone, the Cavaliers withstood the pressure at the beginning of the game.

The Bulls are an Eastern Conference finals-level team, so it stands to reason that they should be able to beat the Cavaliers in the preseason.

However, in the first five minutes of the game, the score difference between the two teams hovered between 5 and 7 points.

It wasn't until Duen took a break that the balance of victory and defeat began to tilt.

In fact, Duan scored a lot and his efficiency was not bad. He played 4 minutes in the first quarter and scored 3 points on 6 of shots.

The problem is that Duan has not played in the NBA for a year and has less grasp of the rhythm of NBA games.

Moreover, when I came back to play with the men's basketball team, I thought it was assimilated and contaminated.

As for the Bulls, since Duen made his debut, the entire team has been playing around Duen.

On the contrary, everyone had to accommodate and adapt to Du En's playing rhythm, so they couldn't find a comfortable feeling and didn't play very well.

Therefore, Duane's scoring data is not bad, but the performance of other Bulls is not good.

As soon as Duan came off the court, the Bulls players regained the feeling of playing before and suddenly showed their talents.

After watching the ball on the bench for a while, Du En slowly realized it.

After all, he is also a veteran with seven championship rings. Duen knows how to read the game and cooperate with his teammates.

But it will take some time to get back to who we were... (End of Chapter)