Chapter 73
Although Xu Nuo always looked relaxed on the way to the Conseco Arena, but when Xu Nuo and George Hill came to the Conseco Arena, Xu Nuo saw a large number of ready-made goals pouring in outside the arena When the fans lined up to watch the game in the stadium, they couldn't help becoming nervous again.And when Xu Nuo bypassed those fans, walked into the arena and came to the players' locker room, Xu Nuo could even smell the gunpowder smoke before the big war in the air.

Unlike in the morning practice, when Promise and George Hill stepped into the players' locker room, there were already many players in the locker room.But even though there were many people in the locker room, no one spoke loudly, and everyone went about their business without saying a word.As soon as Xu Nuo walked into the locker room, he immediately felt the tense atmosphere in the locker room, and even the air in the locker room was about to condense.

Xu Nuo and George Hill walked to their lockers respectively, pulled out their chairs and sat down.When Xu Nuo picked up his sneakers, Xu Nuo clearly felt that his hands were trembling slightly.

Xu Nuo took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and tried his best to calm himself down.When he opened his eyes again, Xu Nuo saw David West looking at him and laughing.

"What's wrong?" Xu Nuo asked, frowning.

"It's nothing," David West said with a smile, their voices were very abrupt in the quiet locker room, "I just think it's funny how you look when you're nervous." David West said.

"Interesting?" Xu Nuo said, still frowning, "What's so interesting about this?"

"It's just an ordinary regular season, and you are so nervous. If we really reach the NBA Finals, you won't be so nervous?" Danny Granger Open your mouth and say.

Xu Nuo shrugged and didn't say anything else, Xu Nuo couldn't laugh at all at this time.

"If you want to make yourself less nervous, I will teach you a good way." David West said again.

"What's a good way?" Xu Nuo immediately became interested.

"You just keep thinking about the great moments in your past games, like when you knocked down Gilbert Arenas, and if you think about these things, your confidence will follow. It will feel too tense." David West said.

"Hey, this is a good idea." Center Roy Hibbert, who was sitting next to Xu Nuo, said.

"This is indeed a good way," Xu Nuo nodded and said, "Thank you, David!"

Their conversations sounded so abrupt in the quiet players' locker room that they were promised to stop talking soon.Xu Nuo looked at the veteran player James Posey who was not far away from him, and saw that James Posey kept his head down all the time, without saying a word.As soon as Xu Nuo turned his gaze back, the figure of their head coach, Coach Larry Brown, appeared at the door of the locker room.

It seems that Coach Larry Brown is much more relaxed than the players, but Coach Larry Brown is also frowning, but this only shows that Coach Larry Brown attaches great importance to this game.When Coach Larry Brown began to explain the tactics on the tactical board, all the players stopped making a sound, promising that only the old but powerful voice of Coach Larry Brown could be heard echoing back and forth in the locker room with.

"In the game, we have to speed up our offensive tempo, because the opponent is a team whose average age is much older than ours. Speeding up our game tempo can allow us to wear down the opponent's physical strength, especially Kevin Garrett. Nate, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen." Coach Larry Brown said, "In addition to these three people, our defensive focus is their point guard Rajon Rondo. Defense The best way for Rajon Rondo is to guard his drive and let him shoot because Rondo is not good at mid-range and long-range."

Xu Nuo nodded after hearing that, at least he knew how to defend Rajon Rondo.

"As for their center, Jermaine O'Neal, I think Roy, you can handle it." Coach Larry Brown looked at Roy Hibbert, and Roy Hibbert nodded. .

After Coach Larry Brown finished speaking, the journalists flooded into the locker room, but none of the players paid any attention to the reporters. They were all attentively watching the Boston Celtics broadcast on the big screen in the locker room. The team's game video, chatting with each other from time to time.Xu Nuo knew that those reporters liked to ask rookie players questions at this time, so Xu Nuo took an opportunity to leave the locker room.

At this time, Xu Nuo is still following the method taught to him by David West, and keeps thinking about the wonderful shots of himself in the previous few games in his mind, such as dribbling and knocking down the "general" Gilbert Arenas, stealing Jameer Nelson and dunking off the dribble, and Tracy McGrady going up against Tracy McGrady and so on.Xu Nuo found that this method is really good, at least he no longer feels so nervous.Therefore, Xu Nuo kept thinking about it in his mind, even when singing the American national anthem before the game, Xu Nuo was still thinking about it like this.

When Xu Nuo learned that he was still coming off the bench in this game, Xu Nuo didn't feel nervous at all. After all, he still had Darren Collison in front of him. At least he didn't have to face Laura at the beginning of the game. Jane Rondo.Xu Nuo thought so, and sat down on the team's bench, when the game was about to start.

Promise took a look at the five Boston Celtics starters: Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Jermaine O'Neal and thought, The Big Three are clearly the Big Five.But then again, this is the first time Xu Nuo has met the three NBA superstars Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. Allen wants an autograph or something.

Xu Nuo was thinking wildly, and with the whistle of the referee Joe Crawford on duty, the game began.

"Now the game has started, we got the ball and started to attack!" Xu Nuo heard the on-site commentator shout loudly, but the fans on the court did not respond.

"Are our fans watching the game just for entertainment?" Xu Nuo habitually asked James Posey who was sitting beside him.

"Don't talk to me!" James Posey yelled, his eyes still on the court.Xu Nuo smiled and turned his attention to the court.

As soon as the game started, Xu Nuo once again felt the smell of gunpowder in the air above the court.The two teams on the court were all trying their best to defend. After the first two rounds, no one shot and scored. The first quarter of the game has been played for nearly 2 minutes, and the score on the court is still zero to zero.Paul Pierce dribbled hard and caused Roy Hibbert's foul, but Paul Pierce's layup missed.

"The first score in this game was actually obtained by free throws. It seems that this game is really difficult to play!" Xu Nuo said to himself.

This time James Posey spoke, "I have seen many more difficult games than this." James Posey said to Promise.

"But why do I feel that you are more nervous than me?" Xu Nuo said.

James Posey glanced at Xu Nuo and stopped talking, Xu Nuo smiled slightly.

Perhaps the tense atmosphere at the scene infected Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce missed his first free throw, and the fans at the scene immediately shouted gloatingly.Xu Nuo sat on the team's bench and couldn't help laughing.

Paul Pierce took a deep breath, facing the crazy interference of a large number of fans behind the backboard, he made a steady second free throw and finally got the first point of the game.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Nuo finally saw the concrete defense of the Boston Celtics.In addition, Xu Nuo also saw the amazing wingspan of Rajon Rondo. Darren Collison was almost intercepted by Rajon Rondo when he passed the ball.Facing the Celtics' impenetrable defense, the Indiana Pacers players on the court had little space to shoot.At the end of the 24-second attack time, DeMar DeRozan's ultra-long three-pointer shot directly made a three-point shot.Xu Nuo saw Coach Larry Brown standing on the edge of the court stomping heavily and shaking his head.

After DeRozan misses a long 0-pointer, at the other end of the court, Ray Allen catches a pass from Rajon Rondo and instead makes a 4-pointer from the corner, Indiana Pacers [-]:[-] behind at the start.

"It seems that our strategy of focusing on the outside line at the beginning of the game has not been successful. Maybe we should hand the ball to Roy on the inside again." Said.

"This is just the beginning of the game, it's still early, let's take a look." Coach Larry Brown said.

Coach Brian Xiao opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end, but sat back on his seat on the coach's bench.

On the court, Darren Collison's pass was finally successfully intercepted by Rajon Rondo, but Rajon Rondo did not choose to score himself, but used a ground pass to assist Kevin Garnett in the basket. With a layup, the Indiana Pacers dropped six points in a row to start the game.

At this moment, Xu Nuo once again felt the smell of gunpowder.

(End of this chapter)

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