king of defenders

Chapter 423 Unfavorable Start
American Airlines Arena.

The Hornets players of the visiting team have arrived, and the Heat players have also appeared one after another. Every player will attract loud cheers from the fans in the auditorium.

The difference between the summer league and the preseason games can also be seen from the number of fans. There are few fans in the audience seats of the summer league. Although the attendance rate of the American Airlines arena today is still not as good as that of the regular season and playoffs, if it is the same as the summer Compared with the league, it is completely two levels.

There are also many Chinese fans in the auditorium. They are waving small signs or slogans made by themselves, with words of support for Meng Yun written on them, and they are all fans of Meng Yun.

Today is Meng Yun's first appearance at the American Airlines Arena, which is of great significance to many Meng Yun fans. They all came to the scene to cheer for Meng Yun.

In fact, not only the Chinese support Meng Yun, there are also many fans in the United States who are also Meng Yun's fans, and some of them were even Meng Yun's fans when Meng Yun was playing NCAA.Even those who were not Meng Yun's fans during the NCAA period became Meng Yun's fans after this year's summer league.

Looking around, there are fans supporting Meng Yun everywhere. They hold signs and slogans, wear Meng Yun's No. 0 jersey for the Heat, and shout Meng Yun's name loudly, and their voices resound throughout the arena.

"There are so many Meng fans." James Ennis was a little jealous. He has played for the Heat for a season, and there are still not many fans wearing his jersey in the audience. Almost all of them can be counted. Meng Yun is still a A rookie, a first-year rookie, today is his first appearance at the American Airlines Arena, and there are so many fans cheering for him.

"This is what Meng earned with his strength." Taylor Johnson's mentality was much better, and he said with a smile: "If you have his strength, there will be so many fans cheering for you."

James Ennis blushed and said nothing.

Everyone started to warm up.

After warming up, the Heat players surrounded Spoelstra. Coach Spoelstra spread out the tactical board and said: "Whiteside, Bosh, Deng, Wade, Dragic, You guys are the starters. Just play according to what we have learned in training later, we need to share the ball more and play our own offense.”

"Yes."

"clear."

The crowd responded.

This is a preseason game, the outcome is not really important, the important thing is to practice the tactics, so you have to play according to the tactics, it doesn't matter what the result is, the tactics must be played out.

Not far away, Hornets coach Steve Clifford had already arranged tactics, and several Hornets players stepped onto the court, Spencer Hawes, Marvin Williams, Nicholas Batu Tom, Michael Gilchrist, Kemba Walker.

This is the starting lineup for the Hornets.

The inside player Frank Kaminsky, who was selected by the Hornets with the No. 9 pick in the first round of this year's draft, did not start, like Meng Yun.

"beep"

Soon, the game begins.

Before last season, the Hornets were not called the Hornets, but the Bobcats. They changed the team name to the Hornets on May 2014, 5, hoping to get rid of the title of fish belly.

For this name change, the Hornets spent 400 million U.S. dollars. The arena decoration, jerseys, and team peripheral products were all renewed, and the new team name was printed.

However, changing the name did not seem to help the Hornets. In the 2014-2015 season, they only achieved a record of 33 wins and 49 losses, ranking 11th in the Eastern Conference.

This made Michael Jordan, who had spent 400 million dollars in vain, realize that just changing the name would not improve the team's poor record. The ship trade brought Matt Barnes and Spencer Hawes, and signed Jeremy Lin in the summer.

Some reinforcements are enough to show the urgency of Mr. Joe to let the Hornets get rid of the title of belly.

In fact, it's not just Mr. Joe who is urgent. The whole Hornets team is very urgent. No one wants to be a salted fish all the time. Everyone has dreams.

Therefore, even if today is just a preseason game, every Hornets player looks serious and looks very serious.

"Snapped!"

On the jump ball, Whiteside lost to me Hawes, let Hawes shoot the ball to the backcourt, Walker took the ball and started to advance, and in a blink of an eye he reached the frontcourt.

Dragic stepped forward quickly, Walker took a look at the situation on the court, gestured to his teammates, quickly threw Dragic away with a pick-and-roll, and went straight to the basket.

Walker is only 185 cm tall, but his speed is very fast, and he has reached the penalty area in a blink of an eye. Before Whiteside had time to react, Walker jumped up and scored a layup.

"2:0."

The Hornets went first.

The Heat counterattacked. Dragic came to the front court and gave the ball to Wade. Wade used the pick-and-roll to throw off the defender. Er Deng was a little hesitant to take the ball, and the defender quickly rushed forward. He could only split the ball and give it back to Dragic.

After passing the ball several times, the Heat failed to find a good opportunity, and finally gave it to Bosh who wanted the ball in the low post.

Outside, Wade missed a three-pointer.

On the sidelines, Coach Spoelstra frowned slightly. This first offense was played very badly. The tactics were correct, but the execution was not in place, and some were too obsessed with tactics.

In the next few rounds, the Hornets scored two goals, but the Heat never scored a goal. The players were happy to share the ball, and the tactics were fine. They played according to the tactics, but...
"That's not how tactics work."

Coach Spoelstra's face was a bit ugly. He asked the players to play according to tactics, but tactics are dead, but talents are alive. Opportunity singles, why pass the ball, just because of tactics?
After more than three minutes in the first quarter, the Heat didn't score a single point.

On the other hand, the Hornets have scored 9 points and beat the Heat 9:0.

This is the American Airlines Arena, Spoelstra couldn't hold back his face, and called a timeout to adjust, reminding the players not to stick to tactics.

However, after the timeout, the situation still didn't improve much. The Heat didn't stick to tactics anymore, but they couldn't score any goals. It wasn't until the fourth minute that Wade made a difficult breakthrough to score two goals. points, breaking the scoring drought.

But at this time, the Hornets had already scored 12 points, the score was 12:2, and the first quarter only played for more than four minutes. Before halfway through, the Heat had already lost by 10 points.

There was silence in the auditorium, and the home fans fell silent collectively.

Coach Spoelstra looked at the bench with a dark face: "Meng, you go up and replace Dragic. And Mike Roberts, you go up and replace Bosh."

(End of this chapter)