NBA: Becoming stronger starts with hard work and mastery

The game was a big success.

In the first preseason game, the Boston Celtics lost to the Indiana Pacers by 30 points.

Without Han Yi, the Celtics completely lost the strength to compete with the Indiana Pacers, a quasi-championship team, in the next battle!

McGrady played for 20 minutes, 5 of 15 shots, scored 16 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal, and 7 turnovers!

Ben Wallace played for 15 minutes, 1 of 2 shots, scored 2 points, 10 rebounds, 1 steal, and 2 blocks!

Han Yi played for 13 minutes, 9 of 9 shots, scored 21 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, and 2 turnovers!

Celtics teammates have long known how strong Han Yi is, but they were still shocked by the fierce performance he showed today!

Among them, Ben has begun to shut himself up: "Is my strength no longer the strongest in the team?"

McGrady couldn't figure it out: "We are all training the same, why is my idol so much faster than me?"

In eight preseason games, the Boston Celtics lost all of them. Han Yi played for 10 minutes per game and clocked out, scoring 14 points, 3 rebounds, 2 blocks, and a hit rate of 80%!

Every time he played, he left a deep impression on Boston fans, but before they could get enough of it, Han Yi was already off the court.

Fans who have seen Han Yi's crazy performance on the court will definitely have a deep understanding of the ancient poem "Still holding the pipa half-covered"!

As soon as Han Yi appeared, the Celtics were defeated again. For Celtics fans, it was really disgusting to watch him for one more time.

When Han Yi repeatedly hammered away the opponent's defense on the court, he felt that if he didn't come to watch the next preseason game, he would lose again!

"Okay, okay, you Celtics are reluctant to play Han Yi, the big baby, right? If you have the guts, let Han Yi play for 10 minutes in the regular season!"

There are more than one Celtics fans who hold this idea. Although they lost all the preseason games, the Boston Celtics' season ticket sales have doubled compared to last year!

Of course, for other fans who don't care about the Celtics at all, the Celtics' preseason losses are in line with expectations.

After all, according to experts' predictions, the Boston Celtics, who just set a new record for the worst record in team history last season, are very likely to set a new low this year!

But Han Yi doesn't care what others say. After eight preseason games, Han Yi has gradually adapted to the changes in his body!

Before the start of the preseason journey, Han Yi increased his speed from 67 to 90! Increased his strength from 80 to 100!

Free attribute point consumption: 43 points!

Remaining: 17 points!

"So what else can I do to fight against Macco?"

Han Yi looked at the game experience: 1990!

"There are still 10 points of game experience left! I still need to keep working hard!"

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For the Celtics, the overall advancement speed this year is slow, so Rick Pidino continued to work overtime after the preseason to instill his tactical system as much as possible and as quickly as possible through training games.

Rick Pidino's coaching philosophy is contrary to the NBA in the 1990s. Whether the NBA in the 1990s was centered on inside giants such as Olajuwon and O'Neal, or on outside terrifying single hitters such as Michael Jordan, the essence of the game was to set up positions, and to conduct offensive and defensive confrontations through rounds of tactics in positions.

Rick Pidino is not like this. His style is more like Mike D'Antoni, who coached the Phoenix Suns led by Nash in the early 20th century.

Of course, Mike D'Antoni has admitted on different occasions that Rick Pidino is his pioneer in this regard.

While everyone is setting up positions and relying on the star players to fight inside and outside, Rick Pidino has been constantly instilling in the players that the ball-holding guard should not dribble too much, and go to the frontcourt to quickly find opportunities to directly launch an attack. As long as there is a good fast break opportunity, it must be seized, even if there is a risk of mistakes.

Other players should seize every open three-point point, shoot decisively when there is an opportunity, give up the fight for the frontcourt rebounds, and retreat quickly regardless of whether the shot is made or not!

Compared with Mike D'Antoni later, Rick Pidino emphasized high-quality defense while emphasizing fast offense, but this sounds good, but in fact it is a further increase in the requirements for players' abilities!

In the previous life,

Rick Pidino did this for four years with the Celtics, but never made it to the playoffs. He eventually left the Celtics in disgrace. As soon as he resigned, his successor, assistant coach O'Brien, quickly led the team to the Eastern Conference Finals!

It's impossible to say that Rick Pidino has no problems, but his real problem is not that his philosophy is not in line with the NBA, but more that his philosophy does not work on the original group of players!

In the original timeline, for the twin stars Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker, you let them shoot three-pointers crazily, but you let them give up individual singles and push fast breaks with less than 7 seconds round after round, which is really too difficult!

Let's stop talking and get back to the present. Rick Pidino's requirements are like an inhuman tyrant for the players who are about to enter a tense and uninterrupted regular season schedule. At this moment, Rick Pidino is like an inhuman tyrant, forcing his thoughts and ideas to everyone!

But Han Yi, McGrady, and Ben are enjoying it. Isn't it just running?

The thing that young people don't care about most is physical strength.

Compared with Rick Pidino in his previous life, Pidino in this life may be luckier, because he has met more good seedlings who can better adapt to his tactical deployment!

But Han Yi is the most exaggerated. Rick Pidino even said that when today's training is over, Han Yi will drag people to play two more training games!

When one of the two training games was over, Rick Pidino couldn't help but remind him:

"Han, it's a good thing that you love training. You don't know the cruelty of the regular season. It is far from comparable to the sparse NCAA regular season. You have to learn to accumulate strength. Compared with these training games, you need to learn more in the long regular season."

"Okay, coach, I understand everything you said!"

And when Rick Pidino just left.

Han Yi said to the others: "There is still time, let's play another game!"

As long as this training game is finished, the game experience will reach 2000 points, and the 2% all attribute bonus will be directly obtained, which is very important for defeating Michael Jordan!

"By the way, what is our slogan?"

"Knock over Michael Jordan!!"

Michael Jordan can be said to be the common idol of all the young basketball players of this era!

So what can be more exciting than personally crushing Jordan's ring night in the first game of his career?

"But!" As last year's first-round pick, Tyrese Knight, who has played against Jordan twice, told the truth:

"Do you know why Jordan is called GOAT? There is no reason, just because he is strong enough, so strong that it is terrible, so strong that all enemies feel desperate. You don't think that we, a bunch of unknown people, can really shake the Chicago Bulls, right?"

"I know how strong Jordan is better than you!" Han Yi smiled and said, "So, I have another plan!"

"But before that, we have to finish this last training game first!"