All I Really Want Is To Play Basketball

The days between the end of the preseason and the start of the regular season...are always the busiest time for the team's front office staff.

Because while we are busy with layoffs, we also have to observe changes in the free agent market based on the team's own needs...

So, if you were to ask, which season is the most likely season for team uniforms to lose their hair...

That's probably now.

After checking and filling in the gaps, in the 1997/98 season, before the start of the regular season, the 15-man roster of the 76ers was as follows:

Center: Ratliff, Williams, Eric Montrose.

Power forward: Ben, Hendrickson, Terry Cummings.

Small forward: Su Feng, Harris, Davis.

Shooting guards: Iverson, Stackhouse, Waters.

Point guard: Snow, Aaron McGee, Overton.

In the new season, after the contract with the team expired, Krause originally wanted Kenny Smith to stay on the team.

But after feeling a serious decline in his competitive status, Smith finally chose to retire.

For Smith, his life in this life is much more exciting than in his previous life.

After all, in the season before retiring, he did something that even Dameng and Drakes failed to do.

As Su Feng remembered, Smith immediately received a call from TNT TV station shortly after retiring.

As a member of the future TNT television trio, Smith is, in a sense, the senior of Barkley and O'Neal.

No, Smith, who will be responsible for commentating the opening game between the 76ers and Celtics, specially sent a text message to Su Feng after the preseason...

In the text message, Smith said he was looking forward to seeing Duncan dunk over his head during the game.

When Su Feng saw this text message at that time, he felt that he had made all kinds of bad friends in his life.

As promised, I will give you 10 points. In the future, will you risk your life to praise me?

No!

Not at all!

In reality, it doesn’t play according to the routine at all!

Well, Smith’s commentary career will be discussed later. Compared with last year, the 76ers’ main structure for the new season has not changed significantly. In the past two days, the main changes have been in the tool players.

Aaron McGee was acquired from the Pistons by the 76ers in a trade for Don Macron.

Cummings joined as a free agent.

As for Montrose, Brown asked his disciple Calipari to come over.

This player, who was the ninth pick in the first round in 1994, is 213 centimeters tall and weighs 122 kilograms. In Su Feng's previous life, he only averaged "4+4" per game in his career.

Montrose's skills are average, but his strength is good. After suffering several injuries, the reason why he can make a living in the NBA is really thanks to the "Fat Head Shark" in Los Angeles.

From the point of view of Brown looking for Calipari PY, black and white, Brown is obviously still a little wary of the Lakers.

To put it bluntly, a player like Montross will never get a few minutes of playing time in the current 76ers lineup.

But when he meets the Lakers, his value will be highlighted.

As for Cummings, the reason Brown signed him was because Brown disliked "softies" like Hendrickson.

Anyway, Ben will definitely be fucked to death. As for Ben's current status in the 76ers team, he is second only to the privileged "Ai Feng".

Therefore, in Brown's view, Cummings only needs to withstand the period of time when Ben is off the field.

McGee, on the other hand, was an A+ operation completed by Klaus, who "doesn't understand football."

McGee has good physical fitness. At 196 centimeters tall, he can swing at the two positions of point guard and shooting guard. He and Snow will wipe Iverson's butt. In the new season, Iverson's living environment will be one step closer. .

After the 76ers' roster for the new season was finalized, Su Feng has stopped picking up Stackhouse's wool in the past two days.

Because with this lineup of the 76ers for the new season...where does Stackhouse find any living space?

So, after arresting Stackhouse for a whole year, Su Feng made a decisive decision. It was time to let go of this unknown substitute who had made outstanding contributions to the 76ers' sniping of the Bulls.

"Oh! As expected, it's still more comfortable to sparring with Big Ben!"

In the new season, after Da Ben's blacksmithing value soared to 7,500 points, Su Feng's daily bullfighting blacksmithing value of 5 million, not to mention how fast it increased.

In the comprehensive evaluation of the system's iron value, because offense and reputation play a large role, don't look at Iverson's iron value in the new season as high as 14,000 points...

But if Su Feng asks Iverson to recruit him, then even if he plays with Iverson for 24 hours, it will be difficult for him to reach the full 5 million iron value.

…

In the 1997/98 season, the 76ers' regular season opener will start on the 31st.

Su Feng, who had watched the schedule before, noticed that the 76ers' opponent in the first game was the Celtics, and even made up the image in his mind of Stern laughing wildly with a pair of little devil wings...

As we all know, the 76ers always like to play the regular season as the finals.

Especially after the head coach was replaced by Brown, Brown was eager for the team to limit his opponents to less than 80 points every game.

so......

Obviously, Stern is at odds with Auerbach!

Su Feng, who is familiar with Stern's routines, knows very well that Stern is not like a joke and has no lower limit. Taking the punishment he punished the Bulls last season as an example, Stern still has his own bottom line as a person.

Therefore, bullying Auerbach a little through the schedule and rules is enough in Stern's opinion.

After all, Stern's heart ached after Auerbach was traded to Duncan.

However, you said you should target the Celtics a little bit...

Obviously using referees to target the Celtics is not realistic at all in Stern's opinion, because if the famous stars of the Celtics team formed a group to protest and support the Celtics, the NBA would be too passive by then.

So, come on, 76ers!

Go grind this Celtics out for me!

But it makes sense...

In this life, after the Celtics traded for Duncan, Su Feng really dared not say that the 76ers could win the opening game of the new season 100%.

Because in a basketball game, we must first look at the competitive state of both sides of the game, and secondly, the process of determining the winner.

If Su Feng is the lower limit guarantee for the 76ers, then Duncan is undoubtedly the strength of this Celtics.

As an "Encyclopedia of Humanoid Sluts", Su Feng clearly remembers that in his rookie season, before he suffered a serious injury, Duncan once left a scene that was more shocking than that in a science fiction basketball comic... .

That was when Duncan faced the Bulls for the first time. At that time, he first covered up from the free throw line to the three-point line, and then ran back to the basket to grab the rebound...

If there wasn't something wrong with the NBA's timer to complete the above series of actions, Su Feng remembered clearly that it only took Duncan 1 second.

What a second.

You know, before Duncan, who has long arms and legs, suffered serious injuries, he used others as background.

Pick-and-roll, help defense, replacement, passing, low-post singles...

Whenever the team needs him, he will be able to make the right choice.

It is no exaggeration to say that Duncan, like Su Feng, is the kind of man with his own system.

Plus, whether it’s Ratliff or Big Ben…

To be honest, I have never had the upper hand against Duncan in his career.

Especially Ratliff, before Duncan was seriously injured, he was basically beaten by Duncan every time.

In Su Feng's previous life, under Popovich, Duncan couldn't take crazy shots like other stars, but that didn't mean that Duncan's scoring ability wasn't good.

In fact, if you know Duncan, then you know that after the Spurs officially changed their core, at the critical moment, just give the ball to Duncan if they can't open up.

And Duncan can always score the ball with some incredible moves under the basket or at a 45-degree angle.

In Duncan's career, there is no shortage of Xia Jiba who seems to have no chance of advancing at all and is extremely disobedient...

But... Duncan can get in, what can you do?

If a player occasionally scores a magic goal or two like this, it is luck.

But after Duncan has played like this for 20 years, it is really strength.

Su Feng knew that Duncan's high finishing rate at the basket was related to his "hard-handed" shooting.

In the NBA, in addition to double-action shooting and single-action shooting, in fact, there are "soft and hard" shooting.

For example, Jordan, the "old hooligan" in the last three consecutive games, also took "hard-handed" shots at the basket.

The biggest advantage of "hard-handed shooting" is that the closer you are to the basket, the more accurate you will be.

Because this kind of mechanical attack has extremely high stability.

Of course, Howard's discus-throwing shots in the future cannot be confused with this "hard-handed shot."

In the future, people like Curry and Nowitzki will be representatives of "soft-handed shooting."

The opposite of "hard-hand shooting" is that the arc of "soft-hand shooting" will be higher and the ball will also spin. As long as you are talented enough, even if you encounter strong interference, you will be far away from the basket. You can also shoot your opponents.

In this life, Su Feng practiced the "hard and soft hand + high difficulty" double-action shooting in order to gain the right to shoot.

The purpose of his choice of "hard and soft hands" is the same as that of his high school classmate, in order to throw three-pointers.

In Su Feng's previous life, the biggest difference between Kobe's shooting and Jordan's was this. How could Su Feng only be willing to be the king of mid-range shots when he had the badge of "One Hundred Steps to Pierce the Yang"?

Although he still needs to go a long way to make his three-pointers extremely accurate.

But only by working hard from now on can Su Feng have a chance to catch up with his eldest nephew Stephen Curry in the accuracy of three-pointers in the future.

Anyway...

This Celtics team isn't as easy to deal with as it was last year.

And after Fox, Wesley and others have continued to stay on the team, Auerbach's future operating space is really too big...

…

On the 30th, the 76ers flew to Boston to prepare for the opener against the Celtics away from home on the 31st.

It is worth mentioning that starting from the 1997/98 season, the number of NBA games broadcasted by CCTV per week has officially increased to four.

In addition to the game between the 76ers and the Bulls, CCTV's broadcast plan includes many games from strong teams such as the Lakers, Knicks, Heat, and Jazz this season.

By the way, because in the opening game, the Bulls-Bucks game started at the same time as the 76ers-Celtics game, so when I saw the CCTV live announcement...

The most uncomfortable thing for the rabbits is that they can't watch Su Feng and Hu Weidong's first show of the new season at the same time.

But don't rush...

Because a certain big shot has great expectations for the 76ers, the 76ers had to fly to Chicago to challenge the Bulls in the second game of the regular season.

Well, in addition to the grievances and hatreds of last season, this season, the game between the 76ers and the Bulls also has the background of the "Chinese Derby"...

In Stern's view, if the 76ers and Bulls can reach the Eastern Conference Finals this season, will the ratings be off the charts?

By the way, after arriving in Boston, on the evening of the 30th, Iverson was unable to go out and have fun because Brown was patrolling around with a whip in his hand.

In Su Feng's room, Iverson, who was chatting with Su Feng while playing poker, spent the eve before the start of the new season like this.

There is a saying, when I saw Iverson's aggrieved expression, maybe this was what Su Feng thought Brown did to the 76ers...

The biggest contribution.

…

On the 31st, compared with coming to the North Shore Garden Arena a year ago, when the 76ers players entered the arena again a year later, everyone put away their ridicule and contempt for the Celtics.

16 championship flags and 21 retired jerseys hang quietly on the dome of what should be called the Fleet Center Arena at this time.

If the NBA is a league of stars, then in the history of the NBA, there are only two teams worthy of the title of giants.

Green shirt in the east, purple and gold in the west.

Before Jerry West conquered the league with his cheating operations, who knows how many loopholes in the rules Auerbach took advantage of and what kind of legend he created for the Celtics with his charisma.

This is destined to be a different opening match.

Because, tonight, all the Green Army legends who can come to support Auerbach will be there to watch the game.

When Tim Duncan walked in with a relaxed pace to warm up, his family was already sitting in the courtside seats.

As we all know, Duncan's purpose in choosing the No. 21 jersey was not because of Popovich as some unintelligent fans claimed.

In 1989, because a hurricane destroyed all the swimming pools on Holy Cross Island, Duncan, who was afraid of "sharks", couldn't run into the sea to practice freestyle, right?

Therefore, when he was 14 years old, his brother-in-law Rich Lowry began to teach him how to play basketball.

Later, in order to pay tribute to his brother-in-law, No. 21 became Duncan's basketball number.

Wake up, after Duncan became famous, Popovich was not the only one who wanted to form a good relationship with him in advance?

If you have to argue, the first person to be optimistic about Duncan is Jerry West.

Because in 1995, it was West who first said the classic saying "No matter which year he runs, he will be the No. 1 pick."

Therefore, just as black people have to go through procedures and brag, they also have to follow rules and regulations and basic laws.

Of course, the LOGO men of the manager era are no longer included in this list.

"He's so tall..."

On the court, perhaps because he was used to the relationship between the short Ratliff and Big Ben, when Duncan walked into the arena, Iverson's attention was involuntarily attracted to Duncan.

On the side, Su Feng touched the head of the ditch that only he could pull, and said with a smile: "Alan, although you are not tall, look at it, don't those big guys have to look up to you?"

ah!

Damn it!

While being praised by a super famous coach, he could still hear Su Feng praising himself. As for Iverson's current happiness, most people could not understand it.

After elbowing Su Feng twice, Iverson went to practice three-pointers.

On the sidelines, Brown, who noticed this scene, was thinking about what he should say to Iverson for a while.

"Hey Phenomenon! I watched the series you beat the Bulls last season."

Just when Brown was in trouble, Duncan walked towards Su Feng with his big hands on the court.

After subconsciously covering the top of his head with his hands, Su Feng raised his head and glanced at Duncan.

And at this time...

Duncan's right hand was awkwardly hovering in the air.

have a look!

If it weren't for Su Feng's wit, his crew cut would most likely turn into a Mediterranean one in the future. Did you make it?

"Hello, Tim." Su Feng said to Duncan with a smile.

On the court, after retracting his right hand, Duncan scratched his head with his left hand and said:

"I'm curious...um...your behavior of jumping on the technical stage to provoke Michael in the G1 game was intentional, right?"

For Duncan, who studies psychology, what is different from others is that when paying attention to the matchup between the 76ers and the Bulls, he has been analyzing that series from a psychological level.

According to his analysis, there was more than 90% possibility that Su Feng jumped onto the technical stage on purpose during the G1 battle.

Because judging from Su Feng's every move during his rookie season, Duncan believes that Su Feng is a player with high emotional and IQ.

Just like the reason why he made a fuss in Los Angeles was to help his high school classmates compete in academic subjects, in Duncan's opinion, Su Feng's quotient was so high that he didn't look like a high school student at all.

"It's okay, you don't have to answer me...well...you know the acceleration of gravity...well, I mean, your last LOGO three-pointer, the parabola was beautiful .”

Considering that Su Feng had never gone to college, and noticing that Su Feng didn't really want to answer the question he just asked, Duncan decided to continue the chat with him by praising Su Feng.

Because from a psychological perspective, most people will not refuse others to praise themselves.

And although it was just a few simple conversations, in Su Feng's opinion, Duncan's emotional intelligence displayed in it was incomparable to "Kamaikoai".

Perhaps, the only thing that made Su Feng unhappy was that Duncan actually doubted his status as a top student.

You know, in this life, Su Feng did not go to high school, but in the last life, he was a man who was confused about whether to go to Peking University or Tsinghua University when filling out his application, right?

But having said that, judging from the fact that Duncan took the initiative to chat with her, Su Feng paid extra attention to Duncan's psychological activity of eager to make friends.

After all, Duncan was trained with a bunch of old guys over the past summer...

Duncan, who is currently only 21 years old, also wants to communicate more with his peers.

In this way, Duncan and Su Feng continued to argue for nearly 30 minutes.

It wasn't until Duncan remembered that he still had something to do that he hurriedly ended the conversation and ran to the Celtics bench.

At this moment, Su Feng noticed that the 80-year-old Auerbach walked into the arena with the support of Celtics coach Miller Carr.

Although Karl is nominally the coach of the Celtics, everyone who knows it knows that the entire Celtics team only obeys the orders of one person.

"Cardinal" Auerbach.

During last season's All-Star Weekend, speaking of which, Auerbach also coached a "Ai Feng" game...

Compared with the sleepy Missy's state at that time, Auerbach at this time did not look like an 80-year-old man.

He smiled and took Duncan's hands, sitting on the chair that Duncan had set for him.

And then...

Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, Havlicek, these names you are familiar with, sat behind Auerbach one by one.

In the arena, the Green Army legends sitting in rows quickly became the targets of the media.

This is just an ordinary opening game.

But this unusual occasion revealed Auerbach's love for Duncan from the inside out.

Su Feng knew very well that Auerbach hoped to pass the torch to Duncan through this game.

"Su... looks stronger than last year." A squinting Auerbach said to Karl after glancing at the 76ers' half.

"Larry Brown...what a blessing," Auerbach added after a pause.

By the way, just when Auerbach was explaining the team's tactics to Karl tonight, on the court...

Su Feng, who was wandering around... and stamped his foot after taking two steps, quickly attracted the attention of the Celtic players.

After noticing that Su Feng stayed on the floor for a short period of time, all the Celtic players broke into a cold sweat...

Duncan, who had just chatted with Su Feng, touched his chin and said, "He is indeed not an ordinary person."

That's right, the floor where Su Feng just stayed was one of the "traps" at Celtic's home court.

Generally speaking, details like this are difficult to spot by visiting teams...

Because the Celtics' "trap" is not fixed.

Every time the "traps" are changed, in addition to the Celtics' own players who have adapted to the field in advance and are able to know where the "traps" are, the players of the visiting team are very It's hard to detect such subtle changes.

At this moment, Su Feng was standing in a "trap" at a 45-degree angle on the left half of the TV broadcast screen.

At critical moments, if the offensive team is unprepared, this "trap" will play its role when dribbling.

As for such traps, Su Feng found a total of 3 traps tonight!

really......

After selecting Duncan, the Celtics are no longer the bad team they were last season.

So, their traditions naturally came back.

But to Su Feng, who was always cautious, these were nothing.

Because in his opinion, if the Celtics had the ability, they would turn off the air conditioning and compete again!

…

On the court, after Su Feng pointed out the "trap" of the Celtics' home court to his teammates, the start time of this game was getting closer and closer.

It is worth mentioning that in the new season, in addition to Wesley, Fox, who stayed on the team, and Jim Jackson, who joined as a free agent, the Celtics have another change in their lineup...

That is Dino Radia, who was originally going to retire in the summer, but did not retire in this life.

In Su Feng's previous life, there were always people questioning Dayao's status as a Hall of Fame player.

But in fact, if we really want to talk about "water", should players like Dino Radia, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame after only playing 4 NBA seasons, be kicked out by some people?

As a Croatian basketball legend, the 30-year-old Radia is an inside player who has good skills and can also defend.

The reason why Radia, who could score nearly "20+10" at his peak, was elected to the Hall of Fame is simple, because he was one of the best basketball players in Europe in the 1990s.

You know, at this time in the 1990s, European players...

Not everyone wants to play in the NBA.

In order to encourage more international players to join the NBA, the reason why a pioneer like Radia will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in the future is because he has made a huge contribution to the NBA opening up the European market.

In Su Feng's previous life, because the Celtics lost too hopelessly in the 1996/97 season and suffered from injuries, this player, one of the top 50 players in European history, chose to retire from the NBA for the sake of dignity.

However, in this life, because Auerbach came back, and after sparring with Duncan several times in the summer, Ladia discovered that the Celtics' intentions had completely changed, and decided to continue to fulfill her contract with the Celtics.

For other opponents in the NBA, this is not good news...

Because although Radia is not as strong as the general, he is indeed a strong player.

After recovering from injuries, the 30-year-old Radia is certainly not as athletic as he was at his peak, but his excellent footwork and technique...

And his withdrawal style of play will make opponents have to consider the consequences when facing Duncan and trying to flank him.

In the new season, ESPN ranked the Celtics twelfth in the strength rankings. They are optimistic that they can reach the playoffs this season. A large part of the reason is also because of Ladia.

Su Feng felt that the tsunami effect he had caused in this life was too exaggerated...

"From the perspective of quantum mechanics, this should be regarded as the punishment of the world line for those who changed history?" Su Feng thought curiously before the game started.

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At the North Shore Garden Arena, after the pre-game ceremony, when the big screen showed the starting lineups of the two teams tonight, this arena, which has experienced all kinds of frustrations in the past year...

Explode instantly!

76ers: Ratliff, Big Ben, Su Feng, Iverson, Snow.

Celtics: Duncan, Ladia, Fox, Jackson, Wesley.

When Tim Duncan's name rang through the sky in Boston on October 31, 1997, even David Stern felt that he had arranged the opening game between the 76ers and the Celtics. It's so well arranged...

In the live commentary booth, commentators from major American TV stations were educating the fans about the glorious history of the Celtics and the legendary players present today.

On the court, when Ratliff went to the center of the court to start the game with Duncan, he did not feel the intuitive and real pressure from Duncan like O'Neal.

But don’t believe it when I say it. In Su Feng’s previous life, judging from his career matchup data, Ratliff...

More afraid of Duncan.

In contrast to that mighty shark, Duncan is the kind of player who doesn't seem to pose any threat to you.

But in fact, after you finish the fight, you will find that it is difficult for you to escape the fate of being sanctioned by him.

There is no doubt that this guy is one of the best team-building cornerstones in NBA history. It is the same diamond of the same quality as the Maple Cornerstone.

Amidst the deafening cheers of Celtic fans, and under the gaze of Chinese and American fans in front of the TV...

The curtain of the 1997/1998 NBA season has begun!

On the court, Duncan made the first attack for the Celtics.

As if through precise calculation, Duncan's height when he just took off was no more, no less, just 5 centimeters higher than Ratliff.

Wesley dribbled the ball past half court, but unlike what Celtics fans imagined, Duncan did not go to the low post to ask for the ball as soon as he came up.

In this attack, he moved to a high position and took the initiative to screen for Wesley.

This is a pick-and-roll that looks "unremarkable".

But Snow, another 76ers outside deflection expert, failed to bypass it.

Wesley, who had not lost his ability to break through at this time, used Duncan's cover to successfully penetrate the 76ers' inside line.

According to the pseudo-zone defense that Brown usually teaches everyone, Ben immediately assisted in the defense.

No......

wrong!

On the sidelines, Larry Brown frowned.

It wasn't that Ben's help defense was wrong, but that Ratliff's... position was disrupted by Duncan who followed him.

Wesley passed the ball and found Jackson cutting from the baseline, who scored an easy layup.

0 to 2.

Looking back, in order to avoid being quickly counterattacked by the 76ers, the Celtics retreated quite quickly.

Although such a retreat is a bit redundant against Brown's team...

But in this attack and defense just now, how can the Celtics still be the team that lost even their underwear last season?

Snow steadily pushed the ball past half-court, and the 76ers looked for Iverson with this attack.

Before the game, "Answer", who was praised to the heavens by Su Feng and Brown, faced Jackson who was close to him, and broke through Jackson's defense zone with a simple acceleration.

However, just as Iverson was preparing for a layup, Duncan stepped back and used a nail-board block to make the temperature of the North Shore Garden Arena rise again!

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After blocking Iverson, he handed the ball to Wesley under control of the second spot.

On Datianchao TV, Director Zhang said with a worried look on his face: "The 76ers' offense today was too simple..."

On the court, the Celtics pushed for a counterattack.

Fortunately, due to Su Feng's obstruction, the Celtics failed to increase their offensive speed this time.

After falling into position, the Celtics put the ball in Fox's hands.

And Duncan once again completed the cover for his teammates.

But this time, Su Feng did not choose to go around.

After making brief eye contact with Ratliff, Su Feng took the initiative to stick to Duncan.

"Hey! Su Feng is trying to guard against Duncan!" Director Zhang couldn't be more happy when he saw Su Feng's camera appear.

On the wing, after Fox noticed the mismatch between Duncan and Su Feng, he did not choose to break through by himself, but lobbed the ball towards Duncan.

On the court, Duncan, who received the pass in the high post, had an opportunity to make a big difference.

Duncan versus Su Feng...

How will Duncan attack this attack with one hand raised?

And can Su Feng help defend it?

Boom——!

The answer will be revealed soon.

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