you are all star

Chapter 419 Winning the First Regular Season Victory
This season is particularly weird. The Lakers, the most popular team to win the championship, were pulled down by the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals. In the Western Conference Finals, Duncan once again tamed the bull by virtue of his strength inside, and staged a bull-riding drama.

On the Eastern side, since entering the playoffs, everyone has not understood how the Pistons played. They faced the Magic in the first round, and they won it until the tiebreaker. They played against the 76ers in the second round, and they won the sixth game. , It may be due to exhaustion and overwork. The Nets, who are ready for everything, swept out like a grand in the Eastern Conference Finals. Neal and his teammates also wondered why they were in front of the Nets. All to no avail, the army was defeated like a mountain?
When the players and coaches were interviewed after the game, they all came to the same conclusion that they did not defend Kidd well. Neil lost too many offensive and defensive passes in front of Kidd. He is inexperienced and doesn't understand the routines, and Kidd has made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years and touched the floor of the Finals.

Many people firmly believe that after Neal passed this season, he will definitely sum up a lot of experience from it, and these experiences will directly prompt him to do better next season.

For several months during the offseason, Neil and his family decided to go back to Alexandria to renovate and rebuild the slum court where they used to play, so that all the children in the slums would not be as dry as he was when he was a child. There is no place to play.

Neil’s idea has won the support and support of his family, team owners, and fans. The team specially approved him $50, fans sponsored him $30, and the support department of the Alexandria City Government approved him $80. In the end, he took out 40 U.S. dollars and raised enough 200 million U.S. dollars. Through bidding, sports equipment companies and building materials factories will renovate and rebuild the slum courts. The standards of renovation and reconstruction are completely in accordance with the standards of NBA courts.

After three months, a small indoor basketball arena was officially built. In order to thank Neil, the people of Alexandria asked the design to set up a statue of his classic shooting moves in front of the arena.

This offseason is particularly meaningful to Neil.

Not only did he help the people in his hometown do a great good deed, but he also practiced hard during his business hours to make up for the shortcomings of last season.

At the end of September, when Neil returned to the team for training, his personal popularity was already number one on the team, surpassing the team's mid-range scoring leader Hamilton and rebounding leader Ben Wallace.

After more than two seasons of hard work, Neal finally gained a firm foothold in the Pistons, and the team also decided to slowly establish a lineup with Neal and Hamilton at the core.

After returning to the team for more than 20 days of training, the league held more than [-] days of preseason games. Since most of the preseason games are training, the players usually sent to the field are role players. Even if the core players are sent, they do not aim to win, but to The purpose is to find the state.

However, Neil's performance in the preseason was very good. He only played three games in total, and the game time was usually only given to him for 10 minutes. 10 points, plus five assists and four rebounds, the data is extremely optimistic.

After more than 20 days of preseason games, all teams in the league have regained their hearts and devoted themselves to the regular season battles.

The opening game will be on October 29, completed by the Lakers and the Mavericks, the two powerful players in the West.

Other teams, like the Pistons, sit on the mountain and watch the Lakers and Bulls.

The battle between the Lakers and the Bulls is very exciting, especially the Lakers, who were eliminated by the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals last season. .

In the opening game of the regular season, the Lakers played extremely fiercely from the beginning to the end, especially Kobe and O'Neal. He had to surrender before the end of the third quarter, but Nowitzki's golden rooster independence and a center with a three-pointer are really terrible!Whenever the OK team wanted to work together to win the game and take away the victory, Nowitzki stepped forward again, making O'Neal and Kobe tremble with merciless three-pointers and fadeaway shots, but in the end , Nowitzki still failed to lead the team to win the opening game and lost the game. They did not expect that the first defeat in the first game of the new season was given to them by the Lakers.

Coach Brown called on all Pistons players to watch this much-watched game. They watched the game between the two sides. The competition was extremely fierce, but the victory of the game often depends on the last quarter. If the offense and defense are good in the last quarter, then the whole It's hard to lose a game.

And if you want the offense and defense to be in full swing in the last quarter, you can't just rely on a certain superstar. The overall strength must be strong to win in one fell swoop, because the players' physical strength often cannot keep up at the last moment of the game, and at this time It just needs active substitutions to share a little pressure for the superstar.

The reason why the Mavericks lost was that apart from Nowitzki, there were not many available and capable scorers, which is why they eventually lost the game.

For the Pistons, the game against the Pacers tomorrow night is also very difficult. If they want to win their first victory, they must be like the Lakers. They can hold the score in the first three quarters and keep the score. The game, this is the exact reason why the coach asked them to watch the Lakers and Mavericks game.

At [-]:[-] p.m. the next day, the Pacers parachuted into the Motor City and opened their first game against them in the new season. For this game, the Pacers were far more determined to win than the Pistons, because the Pistons ranked ahead of them in the regular season for two or three consecutive seasons , They want to take the baton from them, second only to the Nets in the East, but they don't know if they can get their wish, and the first game will tell the difference.

The focus of the fans in the first game was on Reggie Miller and Neal.

After the match between the two sides started, amidst the screams and cheers of his relatives, friends, and fans, Neil fired first, broke through Reggie Miller, scored two points toughly, and announced to the outside world that he would be even more terrifying in the new season.

How could Reggie Miller, who is a marksman, make Neil so arrogant?
After the offense came back, he received the ball from outside the three-point line, shot a three-pointer from the right corner, and the ball pierced the basket with an arrow.

The two started to fight bravely, but after being baptized in the Eastern Conference finals last season, Neil can handle the ball better than Reggie Miller, and has a higher golf quotient. Don't pass the ball, but pass the ball decisively once there is a double-team, assist defense, or block.

Neil's handling made the brothers play very united and happy, without any sense of depression. In addition, the home court advantage was too obvious throughout the game, and the Pacers were kept hanging.

When Neal and Hamilton were replaced, the Pacers had a slight chance to breathe, but seeing that the score was about to be recovered, Coach Brown replaced Neal and Hamilton, and in just a few minutes, the score was recovered. .

The Pacers actively strengthened personnel rotation, strengthened defense, and actively looked for offensive opportunities, but it still didn't help.

In the end, 2 minutes before the end of the game, the Pistons maintained a lead of more than double digits, and the Pacers had to replace the main force, replace it with a substitute, and surrender.

The Pistons didn't expect to win the first regular season victory just like that. This is a good sign and start.

(End of this chapter)