NBA: Art is trash talk

Chapter 398 The end of the preseason

Staples Arena is packed.

Only the Clippers can achieve this kind of attendance in the preseason, and the Celtics can't do it.

Even if they form the Big Three, they are still not as attractive to fans as the Clippers.

"Kenny, do you know who is the happiest when Charles is back?"

The players have not yet played, and the commentator has already started chatting before the game.

After Charles came back, TNT recruited a new commentator, Mike Breen.

"Who, fans?"

Smith asked.

"No, of course it's me. If he doesn't come back, I won't have the opportunity to be a commentator on TNT."

Mike Brin laughed.

"That said, I'm also very happy. After so many years of partnering with Charles, I'm tired of watching him, and it feels very good to have a new partner."

"Hahaha, Charles will be sad to hear that."

"Not necessarily, maybe he will have a good time on the court."

"How much playing time do you think Charles can get after his comeback? After all, he has retired for so many years, and his status is unknown."

The two chatted for a while, and the players came out.

First came the Lakers players, who received very little applause.

In just two years, the popularity of the Lakers has dropped to a very terrifying level.

It's not that the Lakers are running out of fans, but that the fans of the Lakers are too lazy to come to watch the game live. They don't want to see the Lakers being abused, which is terrible.

Then the Clippers players played, and they received a lot of applause.

Even Chen Jianghua, the audience gave some symbolic encouragement.

When Barkley played, the audience cheered.

It's not that he is more important in the Clippers than Gasol and Kaman, the main reason is that he has gimmicks.

Coming back after seven years of retirement is so frankly inspiring.

Barkley waved to the audience very coquettishly, and entered the arena with small steps.

He Xinghui played last, and the cheers were not lower than Barkley's.

This is the soul of the Clippers.

As the players warmed up, He Xinghui took advantage of Barkley to pick up a rebound under the basket, rushed over to complete a riding dunk, and was chased by Barkley, which amused many spectators.

They believed that there would definitely be a good show when the two teasers got together.

The warm-up is over and the game begins.

The Clippers are Chen Jianghua, Jaylen Rose, Craig, Barkley, and Milicic.

The preseason is mainly to inspect the players, and the victory or defeat is not very important.

Of course, this also divides the team.

The Lakers want to win this game more.

In other words, Thibodeau really wants to win this preseason game.

This season, Zen Master retired.

The Lakers have no hope of winning the championship with this lineup, so they just recruited a transitional coach.

Thibodeau, who was originally an assistant coach in the Rockets, succeeded.

The Lakers regard him as a transitional coach, but Thibodeau is not so salty. He has his own ambitions and wants to lead the team to achieve good results and show his talents.

In Thibodeau's view, he still has a chance.

Although the Lakers lost Kobe, others chose to stay because of Kobe's departure.

Coupled with the exchange for Hamilton, the Lakers' lineup is actually not too weak at this time.

Their starters are Jordan Farmar, Hamilton, Artest, Brand, Bynum.

Substitutes include Odom, Vujacic, Ariza, Luke Walton and others.

The two teams jumped the ball, Bynum grabbed the ball and the Lakers went first.

After Farmer dribbled the ball across half court, he passed the ball to Artest. His task in the team was very simple.

As for organization, not too much.

Artest, Brand, and even Bynum can all play singles.

Facing Craig, Artest suddenly looked ferocious. After squeezing the opponent away, he went directly to the basket and made a layup.

His ball was more or less venting his anger, because he expressed his desire to join the Clippers during the offseason, but was rejected.

Artest was so angry, he couldn't figure out how he was inferior to Maggette, why the Clippers rejected him.

The Clippers counterattacked and Chen Jianghua advanced with the ball.

Farmar wants to bully the next rookie and press the ball.

However, he obviously overestimated himself.

He himself is also a little trash, and he has little advantage against Chen Jianghua.

Digging here and there, digging out a loneliness, and being passed by Chen Jianghua.

"Hey, the basic skills of this dribbling are quite solid. It seems that there is no problem in gaining a foothold in the NBA."

Sun Zhengping laughed.

There are several more media outlets buying NBA broadcasting rights this year, because there are too many Chinese players playing in the NBA this year, and the popularity of the NBA in China has risen to another level.

For Chinese fans, the biggest highlight of this season is the performance of the five local players.

After Chen Jianghua passed, he passed the ball to Barkley who asked for the ball.

Barkley suddenly made a back turn and started, bypassing Brand, took a step and shot, and scored the ball.

This season, Brand's state has declined seriously, and he has completely fallen to the top line, becoming an ordinary star.

At this time, Brand hadn't entered the state yet, and he was a little contemptuous of Barkley, but was successfully attacked by Barkley.

"You should retire as soon as possible and leave the opportunity to other veterans who want to come back."

Buckley said.

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Brand.

"cool."

"Flying pigs can still fly."

Seeing Barkley hit the first goal, the audience immediately climaxed.

Barkley's performance exceeded their expectations.

Originally, their expectation was that Barkley should not be blown up, even if he suffers a little loss in the matchup, it is acceptable.

"Damn it, I was pretended by this guy again."

Smith grumbled.

"Hahaha, Kenny, you should be happy for your friend."

Mike Breen.

On the court, the offense and defense switched, and Brand asked for the ball to return to Barkley.

However, Milicic ignorantly stepped forward to help defend, and Brand missed a shot.

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Brand just wanted to curse.

In the first few rounds, the Clippers once had the upper hand.

However, as the game continued, the gap in strength between the two teams became apparent.

Every position of the Lakers has an advantage, and scoring is easy.

On the contrary, the Clippers were struggling. After Barkley scored two, he was no longer miraculous.

Soon, the Lakers tied and overtook.

This is actually quite normal, after all, the Clippers are on the bench.

It was not until the second quarter that Dunleavy replaced some main players one after another.

But He Xinghui has not played, there is no need.

As for the preseason, leave it to other people to perform.

However, the audience did not agree.

At the beginning of the second half, the Clippers had trailed by as much as 15 points.

The fans at the scene shouted He Xinghui's name and asked him to perform.

"If not, just play one session."

Dunleavy asked.

"Let's play a session then."

He Xinghui didn't care.

As He Xinghui entered the field, the fans cheered again.

"A Xing played, but he still cares so much about the fans. He didn't have to play, but he chose to play in the face of the fans' request."

Zhang Lili said.

On the court, the Clippers' lineup became Chen Jianghua, He Xinghui, Craig, Barkley, and Milicic.

The Lakers have a semi-main lineup, Walton, Hamilton, Artest, Odom, Mihm.

The Clippers attacked, and He Xinghui was double-teamed just after halftime.

"Come on, it's just a preseason game, you're being ridiculous."

He Xinghui complained.

Double-teaming in the regular season is already too much, I didn't expect these guys to play so seriously in the pre-season.

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Hamilton and Artest were a little embarrassed. Their behavior was purely subconscious, and they didn't realize that it was a preseason game.

Artest explained shamelessly: "I will take every game seriously."

Before he finished speaking, He Xinghui retreated and made a detour, leaving him behind.

Then He Xinghui took the ball and made a shot.

"Take every game seriously before losing every game seriously."

He Xinghui said.

Artest was furious.

Offensive and defensive transitions, Hamilton was restricted.

Odom receives the pass and starts to play.

He passes the ball to Mihm, who looks to have some matchup advantage after all.

Unfortunately, Mihm failed to score.

Milicic's rebounding ability is average, but his defense is still average.

Relying on experience, Barkley got in position early and got the rebound.

Some people are born good at rebounding, which is an invisible talent.

The Clippers counterattacked, Hamilton was a little slack, and He Xinghui's smart skills took effect, getting rid of his opponent and hitting the basket.

Odom made up the defense, He Xinghui scored the ball, and Barkley caught the ball and scored.

"I added another assist to you, it's time for you to treat me to dinner."

Barkley said stinky fart.

This was said to He Xinghui, but it successfully affected the emotions of the Lakers players.

Mim also hopes to have a teammate who can feed him.

The Lakers counterattacked, and Artest wanted to get one himself, but He Xinghui assisted in a sneak attack and the ball was cut off.

Chen Jianghua rushed to the front alone and scored two points.

His speed is still good, and he can dribble. As for the others, he still needs to practice.

As soon as He Xinghui came up, the Clippers' offense immediately changed drastically.

Those star fans who were a little worried at first can finally rest assured that their idol is still so sharp and has not fallen because of life off the field.

The two teams continued to come and go, and He Xinghui stopped playing after the third quarter.

In one quarter, he scored 4 points and 4 assists on 10 of 4 shots.

He doesn't take many shots, is very efficient, and has a lot of assists.

It's a pity that there are still not many rebounds, which is a problem.

This season, He Xinghui needs to average a triple-double, and rebounding is the most difficult.

Unless he doesn't care about the victory of the game at all and concentrates on collecting statistics.This is obviously not possible, and the triple-double evaluation won't be too high.

Only by brushing and brushing, winning the game and winning the championship at the same time, can everyone be convinced.

On the court, the players of the two teams are still fiercely attacking and defending.

The Lakers want to win this game, and the Clippers' marginal players want to express themselves in a limited time.

Regrettably, in the end, the Lakers, who played the main force for a longer time, won the game.

120 to 116, the Lakers won by 4 points.

Artest took 20 points and 8 rebounds, Hamilton 19 points, Brand 14 points, Lamar Odom 18 points, Bynum 17 points, Trevor Ariza 10 points, the Lakers six scored in double figures.

After Kobe left, the Lakers' firepower did not drop at all.

This embarrassed many Komi, because one of their important arguments before was that if Kobe did not vote, others would not be able to vote even more.

However, now that there is no Kobe, the Lakers players seem to have been injected with chicken blood, and all of them have performed well.

"Damn, these bastards used to play the boss."

In the end, the ultimate brain-dead Kemi found a reason.

For the Clippers, the scoring was very scattered, and everyone who played got points.

Among them, Barkley scored the highest score with 16 points. He also took the most shots. The audience likes to watch him shoot.

Craig scored 11 points, Millsap scored 8 points, Milicic scored 10 points, and Chen Jianghua also scored 10 points because he played for a long time.

The game was lost, but neither the star fans nor the boat fans were depressed, because they knew that the team was not working hard at all.

Not to mention He Xinghui, even the other main players played for a short time.

This means that the strength of the team is still there, and the current lineup is okay.

However, the media did not report this.

[The Clippers lost the city derby, they have lost the dominance of last season. 】

The title did not indicate the preseason game, and the content deliberately ignored the factor of the Clippers' main players' short playing time, and focused on describing the Clippers' loss.

This kind of little trick also fools those fake fans who don't watch the game, and those Komi who deceive themselves.

Other normal fans who have watched the game laughed at this kind of report.

The media not only blacked the Clippers, but also did not let Kobe go.

[The Lakers without Kobe, with fierce firepower and excellent defense, seem to be stronger than last season. 】

The article almost said that Kobe is a cancer.

For this kind of news, Kobe was very upset, very upset.

So, in the preseason game the next day, Kobe played 25 minutes directly, scored 45 points, led the Pistons to 137 to 96, and slaughtered the Bucks by 41 points.

He used too much force. Except for some affirmations from the media in Detroit, the media in other places described the game in a joking tone.

At the same time, the Celtics also completed their first preseason game, they won the Knicks.

The Big Three have not played for a long time, but it can be seen that the chemical reaction between the three is not very good.

But it doesn't matter, the personal strength of the three is too strong, and the Knicks have no ability to parry at all.

The media said that the Celtics don't need tactics now, just let the three of them play singles in turns.

Although this is a joke, it also indirectly shows that the Celtics' Big Three are particularly strong.

Fans have been looking forward to the match between the Celtics and the Clippers.

Unfortunately, the two teams will not play against each other in the preseason, and the fans still have to wait.

In the following more than a week, the Clippers also played five preseason games, achieving a total of 3 wins and 3 losses.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

The Lakers achieved a record of 5 wins and 1 loss, which embarrassed Lakers fans, because this kind of victory was obtained by Thibodeau with the main force.

Thibodeau exerted too much force and was a little petty.

Kobe is similar. He led the Pistons to a 6-[-] record.

But that doesn't mean much, it's just the preseason.

The following regular season is the moment to test the quality of each team.

On October 10, the NBA30-07 season officially started.

There are two games on this day, one is the Clippers vs. Celtics, and the other is Pistons vs. Cavaliers, both of which are focused matchups.

(End of this chapter)