Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 47: Regular season opener, replacing Kobe!
As a rookie, Dunn's outstanding performance greatly made up for the offensive firepower of the Lakers' bench lineup.

The Lakers won four consecutive preseason games, and Duane can be said to have contributed a lot.

Originally, local Lakers fans in Los Angeles were worried that the Lakers' record would be ugly at the beginning of the regular season due to O'Neal's absence.

Now it seems that even without O'Neal, the Lakers will still be one of the strongest teams in the Wild West.

For this reason, many Lakers fans changed their appearance in advance and put on Dunn's No. 31 jersey.

Supporting the rookies of the hometown team, watching the rookies grow step by step, and becoming the All-Star, superstar, and superstar they expect will make them feel more fulfilled.

Although in the regular season, Dunn will not have as many possessions as in the current preseason, but it still can't stop everyone's expectations for Dunn.

What everyone pays attention to about Du En is not just about the data, they are all watching the game seriously. Who the hell is holding on to the data all day long?
What Lakers fans expect is that Duane will play better and better in the regular season and become an extremely reliable backbone of the Lakers, and then further evolve in the playoffs to become the future star of the Lakers.

Just like in the next preseason game, the Lakers played against the Suns again.

杜恩只打出了19分7篮板4助攻的水准，然而上场时间也已经增加到了27分钟，但并未打出之前连续20+的精彩表现。

The Lakers even lost to the Suns by 3 points.

Because the Lakers' main players did not play again after the first half, and Duen was leading the team in the second half. Duen should indeed be blamed for the loss.

However, when this happens, most of the Lakers fans seem a little unwilling, but they are not disappointed with Duane.

It's normal for a rookie to be sluggish occasionally, and besides, Dunn's performance is not bad.

If you really want to talk about it, you can only say that Du En has performed too well before.

Usually third-year and fourth-year rookies, and few people can achieve 30+ in a row in the preseason.

It was Duane's unusual stunning performance that caused some fans to have the illusion that they even compared Duane, a first-year rookie, with Kobe, who had already scored in the top ten in the league!
With Kobe's ability, it is indeed normal to lead the team to win at critical moments. After all, Kobe is a top-paid player.

Duane is just a rookie who has just entered the league and has not played a regular season.

Everyone expects Duane to catch up with Kobe, and hope that the Lakers can take advantage of Duane's rookie bonus and win more championships.But he didn't make too many demands on Du En, who has always been training hard.

Of course, the day after the game, some media played a video of Doan training after the game.

There are also basketball commentators commenting in the media that the reason for Duane's slightly poor performance is not because of Duane's instability, but because of the schedule.

The interval between the two games between the Cavaliers and the Suns was relatively short. Duane's performance was worse than before because he trained too hard and failed to allocate his physical strength reasonably and adjust his state.

It's not the first day for Lakers fans to watch the game. Knowing the rookie wall, knowing that rookies are playing away games, they will perform sluggishly in back-to-back games.

Dunn is a famous training hall rat again!In the case of insufficient physical strength, he still scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. What is there to be dissatisfied with?

The future can be expected to be over!

Next, Duane did live up to the expectations of Lakers fans.

When facing the Cavaliers again, Duan's scoring data was still higher than that of the No. [-] pick James, and he helped the Lakers win again.

Against the Los Angeles Clippers, a team from the same city, Duan continued his efforts and set a new high in preseason scoring, scoring 35 points.

However, because after playing the Clippers, they will play the Kings the next day, which is a back-to-back schedule.

In addition, the Kings are a strong team in the playoffs and their defensive intensity is much higher than that of the teams they have encountered before. Duan's performance has dropped a lot.

全场出场时间31分钟，16投6中，三分5投1中，罚球5投3中，只有16分5篮板7助攻1抢断的数据。

After being taught a lesson by the King, Du En realized that the upcoming regular season was not that optimistic.

In today's Wild West, many teams have good bench lineups.

If Du En wants to travel at staggered times and produce good data, it also depends on how his opponent makes moves.

If the opponent's defense is strong, he will try to play pick and roll as much as possible, and the opponent will pass the ball to Kobe when he is in zone defense.

Sometimes, if you can use your teammates to attract defense and make the game easier and more efficient, there is no need to take the ball and do it yourself.

Anyway, in the regular season, the playing time of the three core players, Payton, Kobe, and Malone, is basically more than 35 minutes.

Duen's shot rights will basically not exceed 10 times.

With such a penalty kick alone, it is too difficult to get a high score.

Taking a step back, since the Lakers have so many thighs, Duane should do his job well, and the rest will be over, and there is no need to force himself.

Maybe, with the efforts of the Lakers F4, the opponent will be defeated in the first three quarters.

In this way, Dunn still has the opportunity to lead the team alone in the fourth quarter and bring the substitute up to brush up the statistics.

If there is still energy that cannot be consumed, then you can also think of ways to do more in marketing.

It is said that during the recent period, sneakers related to Dun are selling well in major cities in Asia.

To this end, Nike has begun to put Duane's signature shoes on the agenda, trying to release the Duane generation before the start of the All-Star Game.

Time has come to the end of October in the blink of an eye, and the regular season is about to begin.

"Dune, I have some good news for you."

Two days before the opening game, Kupchak arrived at the Toyota Center and called Duane into his office.

Seeing Kupchak's mysterious look, Dunn thought there was something good going on.

After asking around, I found out that it was not a good thing!
Because Kobe had to attend the hearing and was forced to miss the opening game, someone needed to replace Kobe.

The Lakers management and coaching staff thought about it, and they could only temporarily replace Kobe with Dunn as the Lakers' starting shooting guard.

Because the OK team missed the opening game, and the Lakers needed someone to take the bench, Duane was just a fake starter like in the preseason, a real sixth man.

In addition, Kobe will return to the team soon after missing the opening game, and Dunn doesn't have to fantasize all day about taking advantage of Kobe's absence and immediately taking the position.

Kupchak asked Dunn to go over and have a chat, hoping that Dunn would not think too much and could calm down and play well.

Dunn said that there is no problem with this, and he will definitely do his job well and will not mess around.

Not long after, the Zen master also had a private chat with Dunn for a while, which was similar to Kupchak's.

It's just that Zen Master revealed to Duane in advance that even after Kobe returns, Duane will still be the Lakers' starter.

As in the preseason, as the starting small forward position.

The Zen master affirmed Duane's shooting and defense, and at the same time promised Duane to have unlimited firepower on the bench.

After being PUAed by Zen Master, Du En naturally nodded in agreement and expressed his willingness to work for Zen Master.

For the next day, under the guidance of the coaching staff, Dunn ran tactics with his teammates, trying to play like Kobe as much as possible.

It's just that I have adapted to the 3D role of the starting small forward before, but this time I suddenly want to be the core of the team, and I still feel a little uncomfortable.

When the time came on October 10, the coaching staff made a defensive arrangement for the Dallas Mavericks, and asked the Lakers players including Duan to temporarily practice defensive positioning, running, and strengthen their defensive memory.

When the time came to three o'clock in the afternoon, the group drove to the Staples Center, and then began to eat the buffet dinner prepared by the team for the players.

Most of them are high-calorie carbohydrate foods such as burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, pizza, burritos, and rice. Of course, there will be fish, chicken, vegetable and fruit salads...

Most players eat the buffet provided by the team, but most of the big-name players eat dinner prepared by their private nutritionist at home, so they usually arrive at the arena an hour or two late.

If it is an away game, since there is no buffet prepared by the team in advance, the team will give some meal allowances so that the players can prepare their own dinner.

After the players had finished dinner and rested for an hour or two, it was almost 5 o'clock in the evening, and the team reorganized the players' warm-up training.

It was almost 7 o'clock in the evening when the game officially started.

Before the game starts, players can eat bananas, energy bars, etc. in the locker room, or drink energy drinks to replenish energy.

It’s okay if you want to drink some goji berries or something, but you have to put the goji berries in a Gatorade cup first.

Closer to home, with the Mavericks starting the five tigers-Nash, Finley, Danny Fortson, Antoine Walker, and Nowitzki after the debut, it is the turn of the home team Lakers' starters to appear.

"Welcome Gary Payton wearing the purple and gold jersey No. 20!"

Under the introduction of the Lakers DJ, Payton took the lead.

The order of appearance in the NBA is usually particular. The second oldest player appears first and the oldest player appears last.

Due to the absence of all the OK groups, Payton was arranged to play first.

The Lakers fans at the scene also cheered loudly for this, cheering Payton to become a part of the Zijin giants.

"Welcome our future star, No. 31 Du-en from China!"

"Dune, Dawn, Dawn!"

"Dune, awesome—"

The cheers when Du En appeared on the stage seemed to be louder than that of Payton. During the period, Du En vaguely heard Chinese in the front row supporting him in Mandarin.

After Duan appeared, Grant and Devin George followed one after another, and Malone played as the main axis and finally appeared...

(End of this chapter)