Chapter 197: Take it back
On October 4, 2014, the preseason of the NBA2014-15 season, with the Pelicans away against the Heat as a signal, although LeBron James left Miami in the summer, but they are still a very strong team, and the Pelicans also complete the reinforcement and have the hope of reaching the playoffs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The first game of the preseason between the two teams was tied at the three-point line, and the Pelicans helped the Pelicans win their first preseason game 98-86 with Babbitt, Fredette and Anderson hitting 11 three-pointers.
Three days later, the Mavericks also have their first preseason game, a Texas Civil War, where the Dallas Cowboys will host their old Southwest rivals, the Rockets.
NBA preseason is a warm-up game for each team before the start of the NBA regular season, because after the end of each season, each team has considerable changes in the lineup, in order to let the teams run in the lineup, familiar with the playing style of their respective teams, determine the lineup of each team in the new season, and also enhance the communication between players and coaches, so before the start of each season, the NBA holds a number of preseason games, so that they can be in a better state to devote themselves to the long regular season games.
So Li Yiming, who urgently needs to get back into shape, of course needs to start, but because it is a preseason, there is no need to care too much, and the veterans choose not to play in order to save their physical strength, so Li Yiming started at the small forward position - like him, he only came to Dallas this year, and Chandler Parsons, who was originally a small forward, was put on the big forward position, because the team leader Nowitzki was suspended.
The old guys have limited energy, and it's a game to be able to take a break.
The same goes for veterans Carter and Nash, the former should have played a game or two throughout the preseason to find form, and the latter has been plagued by a back injury, and the coach will not let him play unless he is in very good physical condition.
Although he couldn't fight side by side with his idol on the court right away, Li Yiming knew that there would be opportunities in the future, so he didn't regret it, and focused more on the ball game at night.
Although he still doesn't quite adapt to his excessively good physical condition, after a month of training, Li Yiming has at least regained his previous dribbling ability, although it is not as good as in the past, but with the average level of the current scoring guard, it is already qualified.
The current league is a league with a withered rank, the old generation of stars is aging, and the new generation of players has not grown up in time, so that it has caused a dilemma of lack of success. In many teams' lineups, the shooting guard is often not the first point of attack, at most he plays the role of backcourt containment.
Of course, this is also the reason why the strong point guards in the league have risen and occupy a large part of the team, but the strength of the players in the position of scoring guard is the most fundamental reason.
The point guard position is star-studded, and many of the team's starting point guards are the core players of the team: Chris Paul, Derrick Rose, Stephen Curry, John Wall, Russell Westbrook...... It's a point guard boom.
In the small forward position, LeBron James, who returned to the Cavaliers, is still at the peak of his career, Kevin Durant, one of the Thunder's "king bomb" combinations, is still trying to catch up, Gordon Hayward of the Jazz is a rising star, Kawhi Leonard, who only won the championship MVP this year, has unlimited potential, and even Paul George, who was injured by an accident that caused the season to be reimbursed, was also the biggest leader of the Pacers before the injury.
The two interior positions of power forward and center are also full of talent.
And in the once star-studded scoring guard position, now only Li Yiming is left alone, so that he will not be overshadowed in front of countless star-studded predecessors.
Last season, his injury deprived the scoring guard position of the last fig leaf: James Harden, who took over the first scoring guard, is also very strong, and in his second year with the Rockets, he led the team to the fourth place in the West and advanced to the playoffs for the second time.
However, he was defeated by the Trail Blazers in the first round, and even staged a three-point kill by the Trail Blazers' point guard Lillard with only 0.9 seconds left in regulation time in Game 6.
is the comparison of data, James Harden is far less amazing than Li Yiming, 27+4+6 data in the 2013-14 season can be squeezed into the MVP fifth, which is better than Li Yiming's rookie season data, compared with Li Yiming's MVP season of 34+9+7, it is only surrounded by all aspects, crushed into slag.
This year, Li Yiming joined the Mavericks with 18 million in two years, and the media almost unanimously sang about it, after all, the injury is as fierce as a tiger, and Li Yiming's knee injury is so serious that it can also be ranked in the decades of history of the NBA.
Some say he was the second Anfernee Hardaway, nicknamed Penny, who was 26 years old when he was seriously injured, became the league's No. 1 guard in his second year in the NBA (Jordan played baseball at the time), became the second guard in the world after Jordan in his third year, and was voted third in the regular season MVP.
What ruined this Jordan successor was the same damn knee injury, and Li Yiming's injury was even more serious.
Li Yiming is talented, but the NBA has never lacked talented people, Anfernee Hardaway, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady...... There have been too many meteors in this league, but all of them have been knocked down by injuries.
No matter how talented and spiritual they are, only those who can cash out their talents are the stars that the league is eager for.
No one thinks that Li Yiming can really overcome the injury, because of his situation, there are too many talented people who have experienced it before, without exception, all of them are mired in the quagmire, and in the torture of injury, step by step, they are obscured until they can no longer stand on this court, and they can only retire with gloom.
Even Li Yiming originally had such a mentality. It's not that he gave up on himself, but after doing his best, he found that he could only choose to accept his fate.
But fate plays tricks on people.
Supported by the fighting spirit of not admitting defeat, dragging his bulky body to be signed by the Mavericks, Li Yiming never dreamed that when he stood on the NBA stage again, he would be in such a physical state and mentality.
The fighting spirit is high, and the bamboo is in the chest.
The position of the first person to score guard, Li Yiming plans to regain it this season.
Of course, this is only the goal of the first step.