The Celtics' next opponent is the ill-fated New Orleans Pelicans.

Although today's "thick eyebrows" Anthony Davis has grown up, he has the momentum of the league's No. 1 interior line, averaging 24.3 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. But every season, he misses a lot of games due to injury.

As if injuries were a curse on the team, Tyrek Evans, who was once considered James of the guards, was reimbursed last season and has yet to return from injury. Zhu Holiday, who is also a backcourt partner, is also injured now.

There was no helper, and in the offseason, two scorers were lost.

Eric Gordon, who averaged 15.2 points per game last season, and Ryan Anderson, an outside sniper who averaged 17 points and 6 rebounds per game, were signed by the Rockets under big contracts.

The Pelicans, who are already weak, have made a lot of reinforcements, but they are all helpless and do not have much talent available. Today's Pelicans are a complete fish-belly team.

Since the start of the season, Davis has been very furious, averaging 28 points per game and grabbing 11.8 rebounds, both career highs, making him a strong contender for the scoring and rebounding titles.

But the Pelicans' record is terrible, and it can be described as a win.

After ten games, there was only a pitiful victory, and Anthony Davis also became the captain of the "Air Chopping Team".

Against such a team, there is no reason for Celtic to lose.

The Pelicans put on a starting lineup of Tim Frazier, Buddy Hield, Dante Cunningham, Anthony Davis and Omir Asik, and it is not surprising that Shangguan Yu is under great pressure on Anthony Davis, who is in the limelight.

Now in the Celtics' starting lineup, Shangguan Yu usually appears in the No. 4 position.

It stands to reason that Shangguan Yu's height and weight are fully qualified for this position. But his single defense ability, if he encounters some powerful No. 4 players, it is still very disadvantaged.

For example, in this game, he has to defend the top No. 4 position in the league.

This is also a big attraction of this game, because this is a battle for the league's young outstanding No. 4 players.

It's just that as soon as it opened, Shangguan Yu was at an absolute disadvantage.

The first offense of this game was initiated by the Pelicans, Davis is now the absolute boss of the team, and in the face of Shangguan Yu's defense, he showed a strong desire to attack as soon as he came up.

fell into a low position, stuck Shangguan Yu behind him, and directly reached out to ask for the ball.

Smaller defender Fraser didn't hesitate and quickly got the ball into Davis' hands.

With a height of 208CM and a weight of 115 kg, Shangguan Yu has no advantage. And Davis's strength is not weak, and he resists Shangguan Yu inside.

Confrontation is not Shangguan Yu's strong point, and this time in defense, his preparation is not sufficient. Davis turned around with a beautiful back, took advantage of the situation, and after throwing Shangguan Yu away, he didn't give him any chance to chase the defense, took a big step, and pulled up the momentum with an angry dunk, smashing the ball heavily on the basket.

Back on the offensive end, Shangguan Yu didn't have too good a chance in the face of Davis' defense.

Neither height nor weight is superior, and the shooting skills on the heads of others that he relies on to survive are not easy to use here in Davis.

Anthony Davis has always been good defensively, averaging more than two blocks per game except in his rookie season. If you want to use the unreasonable shooting method before, Davis may give Shangguan Yu a ruthless hat.

Davis is also very flexible, extremely athletic, and in terms of physical fitness, he is completely Shangguan Yu, if you want to take advantage of him, it is definitely not possible to force it, you need to use your brain.

Shangguan Yu was not in a hurry to find an opportunity to prove his offensive ability, but fed his teammates. He now finds himself enjoying this thing more and more.

Pull to the outside of the three-point line to catch the ball, bring Davis out, and let the Pelicans have only one Asik inside.

Asik is no longer the best rim protector on the inside who averaged two double-doubles per game with the Rockets. The shortcomings of the poor offensive ability are becoming more and more obvious. Coupled with the buttery hands that have been criticized, and the decline in athleticism, he is now on the fringe in the Pelicans.

Davis didn't dare to put Guanyu down, and after pulling it out, the Pelicans were empty inside. The center of gravity of the defense is here with Shangguan Yu again, Thomas understands it, a beautiful air cut, and kills under the basket, Shangguan Yu's accurate second pass sends the ball to him steadily.

With a quick acceleration, Thomas shook Asik off the defender and reached out to send the ball to the basket.

The Pelicans' offense was to put the ball in Davis' hands. The first offense was successful, this time Davis, more confident, facing Shangguan Yu, continuous shaking, suddenly an accelerated deformation, squeezed away Shangguan Yu, and went straight to the basket.

Olynyk came over in time to help defend and finally let Davis not shoot, which can be regarded as stopping this offense.

But after Davis landed, he immediately broke out, and in the bag of Olynyk and Guan Yu, he took the rebound, and then continued to erupt, and the second offense was hard.

Against the defense of the two, Davis still found space to shoot, and although the ball missed, Olynyk took a foul.

At the beginning, Duncan, I don't know if he said to Davis, the future is such words as yours.

But judging by Davis' performance so far, there will definitely be a place for him in the league in the coming days.

At least among the young power forwards, there are not many who can match him.

Today's Porzingis has not yet grown up, and he may be qualified, and the big forward who can compete with him may only be Shangguan Yu.

This game is regarded as the first battle for young players, but the current trend of the game is not like this. To be precise, Shangguan Yu's performance in the opening period of time seems to be really unable to compete with Davis.

Davis has a strong desire to attack, and his defense is not bad, so that Shangguan Yu rarely has a chance to shoot, and basically makes balls for his teammates.

This quarter of the game has become Anthony Davis's performance, in the face of Shangguan Yu's defense, he can be said to be taking what he wants, attacking and defending together, and at the end of the first quarter, he has cut 12 points and 6 rebounds. If it weren't for his poor hand, it is estimated that he would have scored 20 points in the first quarter.

On the other hand, Shangguan Yu's performance was very struggling, although he handed out 5 assists, he only shot twice and hit a three-pointer, and on the offensive end, the sense of presence was really too small.

I thought it would be a classic duel between two young potential big forwards, but is this a battle between the two sides?

This is not a level at all.

Davis stole all the limelight, and Shangguan Yu completely became a foil.

But do you think Shangguan Yu will be willing to be a foil?