The invincible kryptonite of basketball

When Little Rivers came down, he just smiled.

"Hey! What the fuck are you doing?!"

At this moment, Ci Shiping suddenly yelled at Rivers.

He didn't like the way Rivers greeted him before, but now that he saw Rivers doing this, he immediately scolded him again.

"He's so thin, and he just finished training, what if he gets injured in this kind of action? Don't try this kind of joke again!"

Little Rivers was a bit unlucky, being trained by Ci Shiping twice a day.

But Ci Shiping's body was there, and what he said was true, he couldn't go back, so he could only go back to the locker room resentfully.

When Little Rivers left, Ci Shiping walked to Davis.

"AD, what are you doing? You are the boss of this team, and you let someone ride on you so casually?"

"Be tough, not only with your teammates, but also with your opponents."

As Ci Shiping said, he punched Davis in the chest, and Davis was almost hit.

Tang Tian enjoyed watching from behind.

The role of Metta Shiping is really visible to the naked eye, and it seems that he made the right choice in suggesting Dempsey.

With the addition of Ci Shiping, the training intensity of the Pelicans has increased a lot, and the effect is also very significant.

After a month, I can clearly feel that the team is completely different from the beginning of the training camp.

If you go through the regular season and hone it, it is really not a dream to enter the playoffs.

The time came to October unknowingly, and there was only less than a week before the start of the preseason.

At this time, the Pelicans held a press conference for new players.

Five people, Tang Tian, ​​Holiday, Anthony Morrow, Akinsa, and Steensma, attended the meeting.

As an All-Star starter and former champion member, Tang Tian was naturally the focus of media and reporters' attention.

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"Can you help the team enter the playoffs in the new season?"

"What kind of player do you think Anthony Davis is?"

"What kind of performance do you expect yourself to play in the new season?"

"Is there any difference psychologically going from a championship contender to a rebuilding team?"

……

The problem is one after another, this new aid meeting is more like Tang Tian's personal meeting.

"Our training camp has started for more than a month, and the performance of the past month or so gives me reason to believe that this is a playoff team."

"AD is AD, he's one of the most talented post players around, and he's going to be a true superstar for years to come."

"My performance? You'll be surprised when the season starts."

"No, man, the team got me and Zhu this past summer, we're not a rebuilding team, we're a championship team."

……

Tang Tian's answer was steady when he needed to be firm, and when he needed to be shy, his words revealed his confidence in himself and the team.

In addition to that day, the team's general manager Dempsey and owner Benson also expressed their optimism for Tang Tian's joining at the press conference.

"We believe he's going to be the next Ray Allen."

Dempsey set up a very good template for Tang Tian.

Most fans only remember Ray Allen's perfect three-pointer when he arrived at the Celtics.

But in fact, in the peak period of the Sonics, he averaged close to 25+5+5 per game all year round, and he also had about 1.5 steals. He is a superstar who can shoot, pass and defend.

Putting out this template shows that Dempsey's expectations for Tang Tian's new season are quite high.

"He will be the best helper around AD, he has championship experience, and he will help this team enter the playoffs."

Benson also had high hopes for Tang Tian.

The meeting is over, and both the Pelicans fans and the local media in New Orleans are looking forward to the new season.

"AD was our Michael Jordan, now we have our Scottie Pippen!"

"Holiday+Gordon+Don+Anderson+AD, this lineup can't make the playoffs yet?! Let's go!"

"I can't wait for the new season, let's get started!"

……

In the anticipation of the fans, the preseason officially started on October 10. The first game of the Pelicans was against the Houston Rockets at home.

However, Tang Tian did not participate in this game, he even appeared on the bench.

He suffered his first injury in New Orleans.

Perhaps it was because he was not used to coming to the seaside city from an inland city, but he caught the flu, and it was a serious one.

Because he was afraid of infecting his teammates, he didn't come to training for the past two days.

Not only was he playing against the Rockets, Tang Tian was recuperating from his illness throughout the preseason. It was not until the last two games of the preseason that he got better and participated in the team's joint practice.

The strength of the Pelicans has improved significantly compared to last season, and the performance in the preseason is also very good. Williams did not arrange Tang Tian to play in the last two games.

In this way, Tang Tian missed the Pelicans' first preseason game because of a flu.

Fans can only see Tang Tian after the regular season starts.

After the preseason, the Pelicans completed the final layoffs, and Lance Thomas, Josh Childress and Arlinz Onuaku were successively laid off.

After the layoffs, the team's 15-man roster was finally released.

Point guard: Holiday, Reeves Jr., Brian Roberts

Shooting guard: Gordon, Morrow

Small forwards: Tang Tian, ​​Aminu, Darius Miller, Metta Shiping

Power forwards: Davis, Ryan Anderson

Centers: Jason Smith, Stiensma, Akinsa, Jeff Vichy

The team's regular season opener of the new season is the Rockets, which is the same opponent as the preseason opener. The difference is that this time they are playing away.

Both the Pelicans and the top three in Texas belong to the Southwest season, and they have to play against each other four times in each season, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult for them to enter the playoffs.

On the morning of the game, the team flew to Houston.

The attendance rate of the Toyota Center was surprisingly high, exceeding [-]%, and there were quite a lot of Chinese fans at the scene.

There is still about an hour before the start of the game, and the players of both teams are in the locker room making final preparations for the game.

In the Pelicans locker room, before Williams came, the players were changing shoes and jerseys.

Tang Tian had just changed into his red away jersey when his phone vibrated suddenly.

He picked it up and saw that it was a message from McGrady.

This is really strange, McGrady would send him a message before the game?

He clicked and looked.

The content is simple.

"Blow up that guy named James Harden."

McGrady, as a Rockets star, doesn't this deal with Harden?

But after watching for a while, he suddenly remembered.

The Spurs played the Rockets' first game in the playoffs last year, and McGrady scored 7 points in that game.

At the post-match press conference, a reporter talked about this and asked him if McGrady would become a problem for the Rockets.

Harden's answer at the time was: "T-Mac is no longer the protagonist of this league."

This sentence itself is fine, but as the core of the Rockets, it seems a little inappropriate for Harden to speak so bluntly of the Rockets' star.

And McGrady's character is actually quite sensitive.

In the previous life, JR Smith once tweeted that the peak Durant could easily beat the peak McGrady, and then the Magic's Fournier liked it.

At that time, McGrady was already a special commentator of ESPN, and he directly attacked Smith and Fournier.

Especially Fournier, you must know that the Magic is the team where McGrady won two scoring titles.

McGrady is Durant's idol, not to mention that the two people have really similar personalities.

So looking at it this way, it is really reasonable for McGrady not to wait to see Harden because of what he said at the time.

"I will."

Tang Tian replied the message.

In fact, McGrady will do the same without sending a message. This is the season he left the Spurs to prove himself, and the first game will definitely have a good start.

As soon as Tang Tian finished replying to the text message, Williams brought Borrego to the locker room.

"Zhu, you mainly defend Harden, Tang, you play more in the opening game, AD, you play more pick-and-roll."

After Williams came in, he picked up the tactical board and began to arrange the team's opening tactics.

Tang Tian missed the game due to the flu, and lost a chance to get in touch with the team.

But this absence is also beneficial. Tang Tian's dry pull has not been used in an official game. This is an opportunity to catch the Rockets by surprise at the beginning.

"Guys, we have been training hard for more than a month, let us all reward ourselves with a victory!"

After setting up the tactics, Williams shouted to the players before setting off.

"New Orleans!"

The players shouted the slogan once, and then they all got up and went to the arena.

The first show of the new season for the Pelicans is coming soon!

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Players from both teams came to the arena one after another.

Looking at the attendance rate at the scene, the Rockets members looked excited.

In the past offseason, the Rockets had basically nothing to gain in the free market.

Although Morey has said in an interview that they will focus on next year's free market to make big fish, the morale of the team is still a bit low.

But seeing the rare attendance at the scene, their confidence grew a little more.

Although Morey is not so amazing this year, at least the support of the fans for them is higher than last year.

During the warm-up of the game, the reporters on the sidelines also interviewed Harden.

"We know that the team lost to the Spurs in the playoffs last season. Don's defense caused you a lot of trouble. Have you thought about how to deal with it?"

The reporter came up and asked a question that fans were more concerned about.

"This offseason, I have done a lot of training to break the press with both hands, and I will handle it (referring to Tang Tian's defense)."

Harden looks confident.

"The Rockets had a chance to get Don this offseason, but they failed in the end. Do you think it's a pity?"

The reporter asked.