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Chapter 288 2K's new endorsement, a complete victory in the preseason
Halfway through the first quarter, when the Clippers replaced captain Paul, they found that the opponent was still full of the main lineup.

Everyone knows that the Blazers are bound to win this victory.

33: 21!

By the end of the first quarter, the point difference had widened.

In the second quarter, the coaching staff of the two teams began to switch lineups in a tacit understanding.

For the Trail Blazers, Mo Williams was like a runaway wild horse, scoring 11 points in a single quarter. Adams and Garnett supported the sky inside, and the strength he showed obviously surpassed the inside combination of Lewis Armson and Bj Mullens in the Clippers' second team.

Sitting together with Lillard and Aldridge, Wang Zelin laughed happily. Coach Terry Stotts also came up and showed a magical smile.

Fans across the country felt the confidence of Wang Zelin, Lillard, Aldridge, Terry Stotts and others when they bragged. At the same time, screenshots of the four's magical smiles began to fly all over the Internet.

After halftime, in the third quarter, the main players of both sides reappeared, and the fans began to shout the names of stars such as "Wang Zelin", "Sao Paulo" and "Adelaide".

The good times didn't last long, the main players only played for a few minutes, and the two teams began a large-scale personnel adjustment, and began to run continuously.

For them, the preseason is really not important, and it is not in their new season plan. The only use may be to seize this opportunity and conduct a team run-in.

The Trail Blazers have completely established a style of play with Wang Zelin at the core, unlike last season, where they would take Aldridge's feelings into consideration, and now they are playing more decisively.

The second team has also preliminarily determined to revolve around Mo Williams and Garnett as the core. In today's battle, the two played one outside, one inside, one offense and one defense, showing good combat effectiveness.

After all, the Clippers' bench lineup is not weak in the league. On the bench sits Jamal Crawford, the best sixth man who averages 15+ points per game!

It's a pity that Ke Lao Liu didn't seem to feel good today. He played 20 minutes and made 4 of 0 shots and successfully harvested duck eggs.

Therefore, the result of one game is nothing. If you want to completely determine the core candidates for the second team, it depends on the performance of the two of them in the next four preseason games.

For the Clippers, because the starting shooting guard JJ Redick was absent due to injury, the main purpose today was to investigate Willie Green. Willie Green played a full 35 minutes today and was the only player who played more than 30 minutes.

His performance was not bad, except that his three-point shooting percentage was a bit poor, only 3 of 1, and the remaining shots were 6 of 5, plus 4 of 3 free throws, and he scored 16 points in the game.

After the first three quarters, Wang Zelin played a total of 18 minutes, and the Trail Blazers led the Clippers by 78 points 64:14.

In the final quarter, none of the main players on both sides played again, and they sat and watched the substitute players compete.

In the end, Wolf King Garnett scored 7 points and 3 rebounds in the final quarter, leading the rookies to maintain the lead. The Trail Blazers defeated the Clippers 95:88 and won the victory in this Celestial War.

……

The battle between the Trail Blazers and the Clippers in Kyoto can be regarded as the focus of the entire NBA preseason schedule. Many media, including many teams, have sent scouts to observe the two teams.

Judging from the strategic approach of the two teams, the strength of the two teams in the playoffs must be there. If they want to distinguish the strengths, they agree that the Trail Blazers are better.

They underestimated the offensive firepower shown by Mo Williams in the second team when he was alone, and Kevin Garnett on the inside. The Wolf King is old and old, and his strength is still there.

The Trail Blazers' second team is not inferior to the second team carefully crafted by other powerful players.

The Portland Youth Army is about to make a comeback!
……

After the Battle of Kyoto, on the 10th, the Blazers returned to Boise, the capital of Idaho, the United States, and their opponent was the Jazz.

In this battle, Wang Zelin did not go out with the team because... another business came to him.

When it comes to the NBA, you have to talk about a sports game company, that is 2K!

Originally, 2K planned to launch "10K2" in October this year!
Not only will it join the European League team for the first time, but also joined James in the asphalt road mode and signature skill MYCAREER mode, and at the beginning of September, invited the league's hottest chicken king Zelin to the head office to record the game theme song.

At that time, the new albums of Wang Zelin and Lillard were in hot sales. This wave of operations was favored by many media and supported by countless fans.

It can be said to be a strong alliance!

As a result, who knows, it will be almost mid-October, but "10K2" has not been released for a long time.

直到10月11日，2K官方在推特上公布了最新消息，他们将推出2K14的特别版本～天朝传奇版！
There are three main characters, namely Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zelin.

Because the three of them are players who have played in the NBA for at least one season and are pioneers in the development of Chinese basketball. Even the weakest Yi Jianlian entered the NBA with the sixth pick in the first round. He is a real man of the hour.

Therefore, from this point of view, 2K specially produced the so-called "Legend of China Edition!"

Of course, Wang Zelin knew about this a long time ago. When he went to 2K to record the theme song of the game, he was invited to be the spokesperson of 2K.

It's just for a little bit of mystery, so it was hidden by 2K until now and the identity of the spokesperson was officially announced.

And when he knew about this, especially the "Legend of China" game mode, "If you are a brother, come and kill me", "This is a brand new legend"... and other magical advertising voices of Hong Kong stars endorsed the legendary game.

Too ashamed!
No, it should be said that 2K is trying to make money, and there is indeed something wrong with this approach.

The game mode is nothing more than reliving the rookie seasons of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zelin. To put it bluntly, it is for the players to recreate the career paths of the three.

Wang Zelin originally thought that many people would choose to challenge the model of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian. After all, his rookie career has been brilliant enough, and if he wants to reach a higher level, the difficulty of the game should be quite high.

But he never expected it.

The hottest thing is his mode instead.

Is it possible that this is the so-called "the more difficult it is, the more conquering it is"?

Staying at home, after Wang Zelin briefly started with the respective modes of the three, the spirit of complaining in his heart still couldn't stop.

However, when the payment information came from the mobile phone, Wang Zelin smiled like a 200-jin child.

No way, who told them to give too much!
Dayao and Ah Lian fell under 2K's money offensive.

Thinking about it this way, Wang Zelin suddenly felt that this game was not as shameful as before.

Not to mention, my initial game ability value is quite strong, with a full 83, and Dayao only has 72!
As for Ah Lian, forget it, don't talk about it.

Wang Zelin is still very happy to be the cover of the game.

But the annoying thing is that when 2K knew that he wasn't fighting with the team, but was on strike, they shamelessly tried to squeeze his rest time and let him go around to participate in promotional activities.

Just kidding, Brother Wang, I rejected it on the spot, and replied righteously: "That's another price!"

Got it!

Another wave of money offensive strikes.

The humble king once again fell under the capitalists' offensive.

……

Time passes day by day.

On October 10, the Trail Blazers came to the third game of the preseason.

In the first two games, the Blazers won both, and they are happy to mention a wave of two consecutive victories.

There is no need to elaborate too much in the first game against the Clippers. In the second game against the Salt Lake City Jazz, Wang Zelin did not play. Terry Stotts' lineup was Lillard, Matthews, Batum, Aldridge and rookie Adams.

At first, the fifth position in the starting lineup was prepared to be the Wolf King, but unfortunately the latter rejected it.

In his words at the time: "I am old, and the future belongs to newcomers. Let Steve have more opportunities to hone his skills!"

So, the coaching staff didn't force it anymore, and tried the inside play of Adams and Aldridge.

Not to mention, Adams is a young man, and he performed well, scoring 8 points, 11 rebounds, and 3 blocks!
Although there are a lot of fouls, a total of 5, but his presence in the interior is full!
It can also be seen that Adams is active on the field.

In addition, Aldridge with inside assists had 20 points and 8 rebounds, Lillard had 23 points and 5 assists from outside, and Mo Williams on the bench was relentless against his old club, scoring 11 points and 7 assists.

The pair led the Blazers to beat the Jazz with a score of 106:91 and won two consecutive victories in the preseason.

The third game returned to the Rose Garden Arena, home of the Trail Blazers, and Wang Zelin had no reason not to play.

Throughout the summer, Wang Zelin's work centered on the Celestial Tour and the Asian Championships, but he was still a topic maker of walking, and wherever he went, he always triggered huge traffic topics.

So, as soon as he returned to the NBA, he teamed up with Lillard to release a new album, his popularity skyrocketed again, and the whole of Portland also became lively.

Countless sports reporters gathered here, and the Trail Blazers' new season posters could be seen everywhere among the buildings.

Among them, Wang Zelin is in the C position, and the first thing you see in the poster is his figure.

How many years!

Portland has never been as lively as this year before the start of the season.

Looking at the increasingly bustling city, Wang Zelin was very excited. It was the place where he played, so he naturally longed to be loved by local fans.

Aside from being excited, he was not dazzled by his super popularity, and he trained at a fixed time every day, never relaxing for a moment.

The higher you stand, the harder you fall!
He understood this truth very early on.

In the third game, the Suns were destined to be unlucky.

The team's new star Dragic, who was given high hopes by Sun fans, performed well, scoring 19 points and 7 assists. Are you sure you are passing by?Opponent players are better.

Don't talk about it first.

Just Lillard, who scored 19 points and 5 assists, is not necessarily worse than Dragic.

Not to mention Wang Zelin, the best rookie of last season.

Obviously, the inside of the Suns is not bad. Marcin Gortat and Markieff Morse are both very good big men in the active league.

But in front of the Trail Blazers' No. 36, it was obviously more than one grade behind.

33分18个篮板5次助攻2记盖帽2次抢断……全能至极！
The Suns never expected that it was just a preseason game, and they actually ushered in the fully fired Wang Zelin ahead of schedule.

Is he crazy?

Of course Wang Zelin didn't!
In fact, he didn't want to either.

But when he heard the increasingly fierce "MVP" cheers on the sidelines, his heart between A and C couldn't help but start to pretend.

Therefore, he interrupted the good tactical arrangement originally drawn up by the coaching staff, and chose to be completely presumptuous.

Therefore, the Suns were extremely unfortunate and turned into a tragedy.

At 125:93, the Trail Blazers beat their opponents by 32 points!
After Wang Zelin led the team to massacre the sun, many singing voices also began to carnival.

"Obviously, Wang, who is one year older, has become stronger!"

"Mr. Superman, do you feel the horror? Your opponent will be unprecedentedly powerful!"

"The throne of the league's No. [-] center should also be changed."

"I really can't think of any reason why ESPN would rank Wang behind Dwight. Even if God is blind, he wouldn't dare to do this?"

If there is praise, there will naturally be doubts, and the voice is not small.

"It's just a preseason game, don't blow it."

"Show face, are you calling this a playoff?"

"Could it be that certain members can only pretend to be tigers in the preseason? Why doesn't he go crazy in the regular season!"

Capable people are always hated, as the old saying goes: a mediocrity is one who does not attract envy!
So Wang Zelin has a very relaxed mind.

Of course, it's also possible that his anger was already exhausted when he hit the sun, and he didn't bother to deal with those villains on the Internet.

Sometimes you choose to talk to them, but you will fall into their trap.

On the 17th, in the fourth game of the preseason, the Blazers played the Kings.

利拉德今天秀翻全场，累计19投8中，3分球9投4中，罚球9罚8中，贡献了28分，4个篮板和3次助攻，带领球队在客场以109:105击败国王。

Kings star DeMarcus Cousins...

Uh, Kaoshen seems to have fallen ill again today. He was out of breath the whole time, and left the field with 6 fouls in less than three quarters.

It can be said that the Blazers can win so easily, Kao Shen is definitely the biggest contributor.

Thanks for the big help!

……

In the final battle, the Blazers' opponent was last year's seventh in the Western Conference and the Golden State Warriors led by Stephen Curry, a cute-faced killer.

The two teams didn't have any great grievances, so the whole game was played very harmoniously. The coaching staff frequently mobilized troops and seized the last time to polish the lineup system.

In the first half, the scores of the two sides were evenly matched, and there were many three-pointers. The score was very high, and it was 65:63, with the Blazers trailing by 2 points.

But in the end, the Trail Blazers relied on their outstanding performance in the second half to capture the Warriors 117-108.

Lillard scored 21 points and became the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

For the Warriors, losing the game is completely understandable.

Today, their inside core David Lee was absent due to injury, and there was no threat of firepower at all. The entire restricted area was completely reduced to the back garden of the Trail Blazers.

Although Curry scored 17 points and 6 assists, he only made 22 of 7 shots in the game, and his effectiveness was mediocre.

So far, the Trail Blazers have played all 5 preseason games and won 5 consecutive victories, which played a very good warm-up role for the opening game of the regular season in the next 2013~2014 season.

At least, everyone's confidence and feel have been played out!
Looking at the league, there are only a few teams that have won the preseason. How can the players not be proud that the Trail Blazers can become one of them?
Opener, here we come!

(End of this chapter)