Basketball Dragon

Chapter 38

"Rookie, I will let you feel the difference between the NBA and the NCAA." Sprewell looked at Li Hai with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

Although Li Hai is a second-round pick, he is well-known because of the NCAA. These NBA veterans don't mind teaching MOP a lesson in the NCAA Final Four.

"If you played against me in the first half, you would definitely make an impressive debut, such as getting a big duck egg or something."

While Sprewell was speaking, he also closely guarded Li Hai. Li Hai kept running around and finally received a ball, and he immediately pasted it.

Li Hai understands that in the arena of the professional league, one cannot lose his composure, but he cannot show weakness, and cannot stand firm on the field, otherwise he will be eliminated soon.

Li Hai saw that they were so tightly attached to each other, so he immediately shook his body and squeezed. After squeezing a little space, he immediately dribbled the ball and rushed in three steps, jumped high, and threw the ball on Sprewell's head. Enter.

"If I played against you in the first half, I might have scored 20 points."

This ball made Li Hai confident, and then he seized the opportunity to hit 3 mid-range shots. The Knicks also won by 2 points in the third quarter.

But in the fourth quarter, Li Hai was replaced again.

Even if he is in good form, as a rookie, the coach is not at ease to keep him on the court at critical moments.

In the first game, both sides wanted a good start. Li Hai was very anxious sitting off the court. He cared more about whether he could stay on the court than starting. It was really depressing to watch the team decide the victory.

In the first regular season game, Li Hai scored 11 points and 6 rebounds, but the Knicks still lost in the end.

At 93:96, the gap between the two sides was 6 points, and he was a little unwilling.

"You played pretty well. That old man Wilkens is too rigid. You should be left on the field in the end." After the game, Xia Weiliang, who came to watch the game, said angrily.

Li Hai smiled wryly and said, "The coach is pretty good. He gave me 20 minutes in the first game, and I will try to make him believe in me more as soon as possible."

"Well, you can definitely, it seems that I'm going to buy a set of season tickets, hehe."

"Don't tell me, I forgot. I'm the one who bought this. I'm also a man with a job. How can I get my girlfriend to spend money to support me? I can guarantee tickets, food and sleep, and three guarantees."

It was a pity to lose in the first game of the season. The head coach also analyzed the game the next day, emphasizing once again that the team should share the ball as much as possible and defend hard.

After the team training, Li Hai stayed for additional practice as usual.

The team trains harder. Except for him, Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford, and Kurt Thomas all work harder, and everyone else is just average.

The second game of the Knicks was against the Celtics. Li Hai had been here for trial training before, but unfortunately the opponent didn’t really want him. The players they selected were Tony Allen, Al Jay Fossen and others also performed well in summer league and preseason.

After the disbandment of the Lakers F4, Gary Payton came to the Celtics and became the starting No. 1. The Celtics are also competitive in the East this season.

Their starting No. 2 is Ricky Davis, No. 3 is the more mature "Truth" Paul Pierce, No. 4 Riff LaFrentz, and No. 5 Mark Blunt.

The Knicks' lineup remains unchanged. Marbury and Crawford stopped the coach's words and shot less wildly, but it feels more awkward than continuous shooting on the court.

They didn't know whether they were upset with Wilkens' tactics or really didn't adapt to this style of play. Not only did they not share the good shots, but they lost their combat effectiveness.

On the contrary, Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis on the Celtics felt hot, and they led them by double digits in less than a while.

Coach Wilkens frowned. Seeing that the main team was in such a poor state, he replaced the substitute lineup step by step.

Paul Pierce's name is famous enough, Li Hai also wants to compete with him.

After playing, he stared at the opponent. After Walker left, Paul Pierce was already the absolute boss of the team, and seniors like Payton could only help him.

After settling at halftime, Paul Pierce leaned directly against Li Hai to take the ball. He was about the same height as Li Hai, but he weighed a bit more and had a lot of strength.

After catching the ball, Pierce turned around and made a tentative step, took two steps forward and then turned around and sat down for two times, then turned over and shot a jump shot. up the basket.

Li Hai still wanted to fight more with the opponent, but the Celtics also carried out a rotation and replaced them with tall striker Tom Gugliotta.

Tom Gugliotta is 2 meters tall and used to be a good scorer, but now he is old and his knees are weak. Li Hai took the opportunity to use his moving speed to get rid of the opponent's defense and scored 08 points in a row, but the other Knicks People are very depressed.

The NBA arena is not a university, there are many ruthless characters, the Knicks don't score, but the Celtics keep scoring.

The Knicks trailed by nearly 20 points at halftime, and by the time of the rotation in the second half, the team had already lost 30 points and was completely defeated.

Li Hai went to quickly score 5 points, but it didn't help at all.

The head coach Lenny Wilkens' face was livid, and he chose to give up at the end of the third quarter. He simply replaced Li Hai and replaced some marginal people to see if there was any gain.

In this game, Li Hai scored 13 points, but tied with another backup striker, Michael Sweetney, for the highest score of the Knicks. This is obviously not normal.

Losing two games in a row at the beginning is not easy for anyone.

On the second day of training, the team was still lifeless, and Li Hai couldn't take it anymore. Although the current lineup of the Knicks is not very good, it can't be regarded as a belly. The loss to the Celtics was really too much Useless.

After hesitating a few times, he walked up to Marbury, the boss of the team, "Stephen, I think you should help unite the team..."

Before he finished speaking, Marbury interrupted him fiercely, "Rookie, are you here to tell me what to do? Do you think I broke the unity of the team? This is not a school, do we Sit together and shout slogans?"

"No, Stephen, I just want the team to win. I think our team has the strength to win more victories." Li Hai explained with a feeling that he didn't want the team's atmosphere to get worse.

"Shit/shit, who doesn't want to win, what I hate the most is losing, and everything I do is to win the game." Marbury roared.

Then he yelled at everyone: "Damn it, the team loses so much that even the rookies can't stand it anymore, you all give me some energy, if I don't win again, no one will have a good life."

(End of this chapter)