Chapter 358: More in the limelight

Shangguan Yu's performance in this game was still eye-catching, shooting 11 of 18, and extremely efficiently cut a quasi-double-double of 26 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists

But today's protagonist is not Shangguan Yu, Thomas is more popular.

He scored a game-high 29 points on 11-of-23 shooting, leading the game in a five-man battle.

In the end, Shangguan Yu's ball, although it was very deadly, was also very exciting.

But that goal came from Thomas's assist, and his 2+1 in the previous goal was also not bad, so after the game, Thomas became the focus of media attention.

And the new Big Three of the Bulls can only reluctantly swallow the first loss of the new season.

Winning the Bulls away from home, the result is good, but some problems have begun to be exposed.

Shangguan Yu and Thomas could both feel that the emotions between the two were a little delicate. Shangguan Yu knew that Thomas wanted to prove that he was the boss of the team.

Now that he is playing better and better, Shangguan Yu, who is in the contract year, also wants more opportunities to make a move, he needs a good statistic, and he has to give himself and the people who support him.

On the plane to Sherlock, the two did not sit together as they used to, exchanging some things about the game and their own experiences.

Shangguan Yu found a corner by the window and fell asleep, while Thomas sat with Horford to communicate.

Shangguan Yu didn't want the position of the team boss, he just wanted enough shots.

But it is very rare to have so many shots in one game, and the whole team has made a hundred shots.

Generally speaking, in a game, ten shots by a team are a lot. ·y·COMThe number of shots Thomas alone today is almost a quarter of the team's total number of shots. The number of shots made by the two together accounts for more than half of the total number of shots.

Although the two made their due contributions, they cut more than half of the team's points.

But in this way, the number of shots taken by other players will be drastically reduced.

Horford has just arrived, and he will not be in such a hurry to grab the boss, but he may not be sure that in the future, he will put forward certain requirements in terms of the number of shots.

In fact, Horford is indeed a little unhappy, after two games, the opponent scored more than 15 points in each game, and the number of shots was less than 10. From a team core to a blue-collar worker, no matter who it is, he is not happy.

But what he didn't expect was that worse was yet to come.

In the two days without games, although Thomas kept up with Guan Yu, he did not show anything unusual when the team trained. However, the players can feel that there is a breath of breath between the two of them, and there is a bit of competition with each other.

Of course, Olynyk, who had no head and no brains, didn't notice it.

On October 30, the Boston Celtics took on Joe's owner's team, the Sherlock Hornets.

The Celtics started as before, and the Hornets, who were playing at home, made reluctant adjustments to the starting lineup compared to last season.

With Al Jefferson switching to the Pacers for 3 years and 30 million, Marvin Williams, who spent 4 years and 54.5 million to renew his contract this summer, was mentioned to the position of starting power forward.

Starting point guard Kemba Walker, he is still the core of the team, although the score is improving year by year, the three-point point is getting more and more accurate year by year, and the shooting is getting more and more accurate, but his ceiling still doesn't seem to be high, and he hasn't been able to bring this team to much improvement.

This is also the reason why Boss Qiao wants to sign Shangguan Yu, in his heart, Shangguan Yu is the absolute leader who he thinks is the most suitable for this team.

It's just that Boss Joe is on the basketball court, and that's definitely the undisputed god of basketball.

Looking at the eyes of people and selecting people, it is a bit speechless.

If it weren't for Bennett, the most parallel champion would probably be the Kwame Brown handpicked by Boss Joe.

can be favored by him, Shangguan Yu doesn't know whether to be happy or sad.

But Joe's boss must be sad, the starting point guard was Gilchrist, who was drafted in 2012, and it was only in the blink of an eye that his average points per game rose to 12.7 in the blink of an eye.

The starting small forward is Nicolas Batum, the "French Pippen" who spent a lot of money this year and signed for 120 million in 5 years.

To tell the truth, his strength is much lower than his value, after all, he can't guard against Shangguan Yu, and the Olympics is the best proof of this.

Big center Cody Zeller is also a talent cultivated by the Hornets themselves.

The starting lineups of the two sides competed, and the Hornets had no advantage at all.

The Hornets lineup, it is estimated that the door to this year's playoffs will not be found.

After the start of the game, the Hornets still did not have the advantage even if they were at home. It's just that the Celts, the first to stand up was not Shangguan Yu, nor Thomas.

Although Walker is in a very awkward position in the point guard rankings, he can't even compare to Kyle Lowry of the Raptors. But he was more balanced on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and he opened with Thomas and limited him very well.

After Thomas failed to break through several times, he chose to hand the ball to Bradley, who opened the game with a burst of outside shots, scored seven points in a row, and led the team to a wave of 9-0 offensive slights**.

The Hornets were forced to call a timeout to make defensive adjustments.

Thomas began to step up and take over the game, and he and Horford were able to block and attack in succession.

Shangguan Yu has not received the ball much since the opening, and he has run on the field.

Thomas isolated Shangguan Yu and did not do it very obviously, so Coach Stevens couldn't say anything, so he could only replace him early to rest.

It wasn't until the first quarter of the game, two minutes into the last two minutes, that Shangguan Yu returned to the game after Thomas went off the court.

After returning to the court, Shangguan Yu's attack was very strong, and he took the ball in a high position and beat Belinelli with his back.

used his height to shoot strongly, hit the first goal of the game, and then Shangguan Yu, which can be described as out of control.

Frequently received the ball and shots, and when Thomas returned to the court, Shangguan Yu made 6 shots, hit 4 balls, and scored 10 points.

The two started again, grabbing the rhythm of the game, but both of them felt good today.

The Hornets couldn't defend at all, and the first half ended with the Celtics leading 55-45 by 10 points.

Thomas scored 16 points to dominate.

Shangguan Yu scored 12 points, which is not bad.

At the start of the second half, Thomas played more aggressively, and as the team's starting point guard, he had too much of an advantage as the team's starting point guard and tactical first starting point.

He's already seen himself as a shooting guard, teaming up with Horford to blow up the Hornets' restricted area.

Although the Sherlock Hornets did not let the score gap continue to widen, they still couldn't stop the rampaging Thomas and Shangguan Yu, who wanted to brush up the score.

In the end, the Celtics easily won 114-98 and won three consecutive victories.

Shangguan Yu's performance was still good, 8-of-13 from the field, 4-of-6 from three-point range, and he scored 20 points and 7 rebounds efficiently.

But the limelight was once again overshadowed by Thomas, who scored a game-high 31 points and 7 assists and was elected MVP.