I Am in the Same Year as Duncan Show - Chapter 25
Chapter 25, the regular season begins
The defensive rating has been improved, and a new silver skill has been added.
Xu Liang really did all the preparations he could do before the regular season.
Although there is the golden finger of the system, and the high evaluation in the system.
There are also multiple silver level skills and bronze level skills support.
But Xu Liang is still a little nervous when he is really about to start playing the regular season.
After all, this is the NBA. This is a stage that Xu Liang could not even imagine.
After all, I am a center this time, and I have never played the position of a center in an official game before.
Although Xu Liang has played many training games with the Spurs before.
But the training game is completely different from the official regular season.
Just like for high school students, the test on the day of the college entrance examination and the various mock exams before the college entrance examination are completely different.
And the next regular season is like Xu Liang’s college entrance examination.
And Xu Liang is like a high school student who feels that he is fully prepared, but when he is about to enter the examination room, there will still be some high school students who feel nervous and insecure.
But fortunately, the first game of the Spurs this season was played at home, and the opening game was also against the Jazz.
For Xu Liang, both at home and opponents are relatively easy.
Although the Jazz also has a super insider Karl Malone.
Even the Jazz is a team with a very complete tactical system. The pick-and-roll system has been in the Jazz for a long time.
And there are two players who can turn the pick-and-roll system into their own system, Karl Malone and Stockton.
But neither Karl Malone nor Stockton has anything to do with Xu Liang.
Karl Malone is dealt with by Duncan. After all, Duncan’s remarks at the press conference have stimulated many old guys in the league.
Even Barkley threatened to educate Duncan when he meets Duncan some time ago.
let him know that NBA is not comparable to the ncaa played by children.
Although this statement came out, Barkley was resisted by the ncaa collective, whether it is fans, players, or coaches collectively criticized Barkley.
This also made Barkley more honest for a while.
Although Karl Malone has not mentioned the evaluation of Duncan’s remarks in the public.
But the star players of the NBA are also waiting to see how the famous veterans of the power forwards in the league will perform after they meet Duncan?
Is he educated by the rookie Duncan, or did he educate Duncan in reverse?
Stockton, who is also on the outside line, is naturally taken care of by Avery Johnson and has nothing to do with Xu Liang.
Coupled with Xu Liang himself as a substitute, the playing time on the court is difficult to coincide with these two top superstars.
Even if they are present at the same time, it is difficult to directly face the superior.
So for Xu Liang, the Jazz opponent is really a good opponent, with a certain intensity of the game, and there will be no strong opponents.
can make Xu Liang rise steadily to adapt to the intensity of the NBA.
But for the Spurs, the opponents in this opening match are not so friendly.
After all, the Jazz was a strong contender for the championship last year, and reached the finals and fought fiercely with the Bulls for six games.
And in this season, the Jazz’s main staff has not changed much, so its strength will naturally not decline.
Even because they have participated in the finals once, the player’s strength may be improved.
For the Spurs, whose main staff has changed a lot this year, the first encounter with such a strong opponent was enough for Popovich to have a headache.
The NBA’s opener was started by the Bulls and the Celtics. Since Larry Bird retired, the Celtics have had a poor record in recent seasons, until Anthony Walker was selected last year.
The team’s record has only slightly improved, but it still has not been able to make the playoffs.
Needless to say, the Celtics’ opponent, the Bulls.
The defending champion is about to start his second dynasty, Jordan’s second peak for three years.
Look at it this way, whether it’s the Celtics or the Spurs.
The performance of the last season was not very good. They were all teams outside the playoffs.
These two weaker teams were assigned to the Jazz and Bulls as opponents in the opening game.
Obviously, the league hopes to use the Spurs and Celtics to give the Bulls and Jazz a good start for the new season.
What the league didn’t expect was the opening game, the Celtics and Bulls game.
was actually a victory for the Celtics. In this game, Anthony Walker became the chief hero of the team’s victory.
He scored 31 points in this game, overwhelming Jordan who scored 30 points. After this game, the rookie who had just entered the NBA for a year rose to fame.
The Celtics and Bulls game just ended not two days ago.
The focus battle between the Spurs and the Jazz is about to start.
Even because of Duncan’s remarks, the game was broadcast live across the United States.
The Spurs have no glorious team history ~www.mtlnovel.com~ and are located in a small city. The number of live games in the United States in a year rarely exceeds double digits.
What’s more, the Spurs last season showed that the reality was a bit disappointing.
The Spurs of last season and Wilkins, the superstar in the league, can also attract a lot of attention for the Spurs.
And Wilkins also left the Spurs this season. Originally, it was impossible for the Spurs to attract too much attention from the outside world.
And this nationwide live broadcast is more because of the high attention and high evaluation that Duncan received before the draft.
and what Duncan said before about challenging the famous stars in the league.
If Duncan performed very well in this game, he is worthy of the high evaluation of him from the outside world.
I believe that the next Spurs’ national live broadcast will not be less.
But on the contrary, if Duncan’s performance cannot meet outside expectations, the pressure Duncan will face will be enormous.
So for Xu Liang in this game, there is not much pressure.
After all, there is not much attention. His opponent is just a second-year student, Greg Osttag.
This product is a standard blue-collar meat shield, not very good offensive ability, just can carry it.
also briefly resisted Olajuwon’s offense in some games with the Rockets last year.
But for Xu Liang, the pressure that such a meat shield blue collar can cause to him is really too small.
After all, Xu Liang’s shortcomings that can be caught now are more on the defensive side.
Xu Liang has not played an NBA game yet, so he is very afraid of encountering particularly powerful offensive inside players in the first or previous games.