I just want to lie down and win

Chapter 37 The Regular Season Begins

After the preseason, and the regular season is coming soon, Huo Song followed Da Ben and others to take a set of makeup photos again.

Of course, there was nothing wrong with Huo Song in general.

Huo Song is not a star player, not even a main player. He is just a rookie who has just entered the league. Being able to become a member of the rotation lineup is already considered acceptable.

This time Huo Song went to take a makeup photo, which is part of the supplementary shooting content of the regular season roster.

After all, the makeup photos of stars are usually taken before the start of the preseason.

After the preseason, the team's regular season roster for the new season has been finalized. The makeup photos of the players that have not been announced before need to be taken again at this time.

It’s not interesting to make up the makeup photos just for the role players, so this time all the Pistons players went together.

The spotlight is still focused on Hamilton, Big Ben, Billups and other leading players.

In short, although Huo Song is the No. [-] pick, he can only be regarded as an inconspicuous scrap in the Pistons.

This made Huo Song, who originally got the Wiggins shooting bag and thought that he would be able to stabilize 16 to 18 points in the preseason, to emerge and make a splash, have some gaps in his heart.

"It's not that I'm incapable, it's just that the conditions don't allow it."

Most of the time in life, people feel helpless, and whenever this happens, the mentality is very important.

Although Huo Song has been a human being for two lifetimes, he doesn't have much experience and advantages in mentality adjustment.

Fortunately, I was reborn, became younger, and had more time to let go of my mental stagnation.

On October 10, the first NBA regular season game of Huo Song's career came as scheduled.

And this is also the Pistons' first regular season game of the season, the first regular season game played at home.

Today's guest at the Palace of Auburn Hills is the Indiana Pacers led by Rick Carlisle, who has just been picked by Larry Brown.

The Pistons reached the Eastern Conference finals last season, but the Pacers were only a team in the first round of the playoffs. It stands to reason that the overall strength of the Pistons is stronger than that of the Pacers.

Not to mention that this game is played at the Pistons' home court.

But I have to say that Carlisle is very familiar with the current Pistons.

Jumping out of the current point of time, why can the Warriors black the Mavericks?In the final analysis, the main reason is that the head coach Nelson knows himself and the enemy well.

The former head coach led the enemy team aggressively, which is a considerable challenge for the team that has not fully produced a good chemical reaction.

However, the Pistons players before the game, as well as head coach Larry Brown, did not feel the pressure.

After all, on paper, the Pistons are still better than the Pacers.

Last season's Reggie Miller is not very good, the only reliable Pacers are All-Star power forward Jermaine O'Neal.

The Pacers have All-Stars, and so do the Pistons, and the Pistons have one more All-Star guard-level Hamilton who averages 20+ per game.

"Today is our first game of the regular season and our first home game of the season.

I hope that everyone can maintain discipline and aggression throughout the game, and let opponents fear our strength and our unity.

We are a selfless team, as long as we are united, victory must belong to us. "

Before the game, Larry Brown called the players over to give a morale boost.

But these words fell into Huo Song's ears, and it sounded like a warning.

Although Huo Song's performance in the playoffs has become more and more stable, Huo Song's style of play is not at all related to unity, and even looks a bit independent.

"Didn't you forget to hit me?"

"Old Brown, won't you be confident again?"

"Old Brown, you should deal with Carlisle first, it will be funny when you get slapped in the face."

Others don't know the potential of Carlisle and the Pacers, but Huo Song knows it very well.

If you really want to worry about it, Carlisle is more talented than Larry Brown.

In the same way to train players and build a team's defensive system, Carlisle is no worse than Larry Brown.

After Carlisle coached the Pacers, the Pacers quickly evolved from a team in the playoffs to an Eastern Conference Finals team.

If the Pistons hadn't introduced Roaring Tianzun, the Pistons' Five Tigers would have thoroughly cultivated both internally and externally, both offensively and defensively. In the 03-04 season, the Pacers would have reached the finals and defeated the Lakers F4.

To put it bluntly, the five tigers of the Pistons can win the championship mainly because of the civil strife in the OK combination.

This season's Eastern Conference champion, no matter who it is, is likely to win the Lakers F4, let alone the Pacers who have the third MVP of the season, Jermaine O'Neal.

Huo Song, who was sitting on the bench, vaguely felt that there was a good show to watch next.

Larry Brown needs to pay for his underestimation.

Soon, just in the jump ball session, there seemed to be some signs.

Big Ben and the old Pistons player Scott Pollard went to the middle circle to jump the ball. The latter was originally the first-round pick of the Pistons, but was traded after playing for a year.

Players like this who were originally talented but were traded early before their talents were fulfilled, often want to prove themselves whenever they encounter problems with their old clubs.

It's like Wiggins, who has nothing to do with the world and has a pure and bright smile all day long. Once he meets his old club, he will show his desire to explode, just like drinking Red Bull...

Scott Pollard beat veteran Big Ben on the jumper early on, helping the Pacers get a chance on first down.

It didn't take long for Kenny Anderson to lob the ball into the interior, and O'Neal received the ball and played back under Big Ben's single defense.

Although Big Ben has been practicing flanking singles with Huo Song every day for the past few days, and his small defense skills have improved a lot, but O'Neal is too big after all.

O'Neal leaned back, turned around, and shot a jumper. As soon as Ben took off, the ball flew over Ben's head and fell towards the center of the basket.

2 to 0, the Pacers scored 2 points first.

In the next round, it was the Pistons' turn to attack, and Hamilton's off-ball running was forced to run longer because he encountered the experienced veteran Reggie Miller.

With five seconds left on the clock, Hamilton finally shook off Reggie Miller, but caught and shot, lost some of his game, and just cracked.

Reggie Miller's health has deteriorated due to age, but it's offense, not defense, that degenerates.

Defense mainly depends on static talent and game experience.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies. If a master without the ball meets a master without the ball, both will suffer in the end.

Reggie Miller was half useless on the offensive end, and now he uses defense to exchange for Hamilton, so it is naturally the Pistons' turn to get into trouble.

As a bystander, Huo Song saw the problem early on.

But Larry Brown, the authority, didn't notice anything wrong at all.

The next game was just as Huo Song expected, and the Pacers gradually gained the upper hand in the duel.

The Pistons' scoring mainly relied on Hamilton's stable output, but Hamilton was restricted by Reggie Miller, hitting iron again and again, and the Pistons scored very slowly for a while.

In contrast to the Pacers, O'Neal and Artest scored inside and outside.

Although it is uncomfortable to be restricted by the Pistons' defense, at least he can play and stop and can slowly increase the score.

It's not like the Pistons, if you don't call a timeout, you won't be able to score for a period of time.

However, when playing between strong defensive teams, even if one side has the upper hand, the point difference will not widen too much.

The Pacers only led by 3 points in the first quarter.

(End of this chapter)