And Li Tuanjie's debut performance of 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, and it only took six minutes, this game is not over yet, and Li Tuanjie will definitely have a chance to appear next, and there is basically no problem in scoring double-doubles at that time!

For a player who was the fourteenth pick in the first round of the draft, Li Tuanjie's performance can be regarded as very outstanding!

When the first quarter of the game ended, relying on the excellent performance of the Mavericks on the court, the Houston Rockets led by Yao Ming and Maddie did not occupy any advantage, and the score was still leading by the Mavericks.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Lee didn't get a chance to play, and head coach Johnson put another power forward on the team, Austin Crohill, on the court.

There are currently three power forwards in the Mavericks' roster, namely Nowitzki, Lee Unity, and this Austin Crohill!

Obviously, Krohill is Lee's biggest rival at the moment, and the two will share Nowitzki's time off the break!

For the strength of Kroesie, Li Tuanjie actually did not take it to heart, overall, in terms of experience, the veteran who entered the alliance in 97 must be richer than Li Tuanjie, but there is a big gap compared to Li Tuanjie in other aspects, Li Tuanjie is confident that he will beat Crohill in the competition and win more playing time!

This is Crohill's first season with the Mavericks, and he was still playing for the Pacers last season!

Head coach Johnson sat on the sidelines with a smile on his face, he was in a very good mood, and it was a lucrative deal to be able to select an outstanding young man like Li Tuanjie with only the 14th pick in the draft.

Admittedly, Johnson doesn't think that the ceiling of Li Tuanjie can be high, but the current Li Tuanjie is very suitable for the Mavericks' lineup, and in the absence of Nowitzki, Li Tuanjie can provide a lot of fire support!

Lee's cost-effectiveness made Johnson very satisfied!

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At the start of the second quarter, Crohill and Mavericks came off the bench, and Yao Ming and Maddy on the Rockets side rested!

The lineup of the two sides is half the main force and half the substitute, and the game goes back and forth, and the score is scorching.

Just three minutes later, Van Gundy called a timeout again and put Maddie and Yao Ming back on the court!

"Damn, what the hell is Van Gundy up to! It's just a preseason, not a finals, so could it be that the stars under him are all iron-clad?!" Johnson is very annoyed, generally speaking, the preseason is used to run in the lineup, plus work out the rookies, anyway, the results are not counted in the official record, so the meaning of the two sides is over, and few teams will let their own star play for too long.

But Van Gundy clearly doesn't care about these rules, he wants to win!

"Damn, let's get in the starting lineup too, Van Gundy wants to win, we want to win more!" Head coach Johnson directly sent the Mavericks' main starting lineup to the court......

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Li Tuanjie sat on the bench, a little disappointed, he originally thought that this was just a preseason game, and he shouldn't make a big move, but he didn't expect Van Gundy to be so serious, and he kept catching Yao Ming and Maddie to death......

It doesn't matter if Van Gundy is really serious, Li Tuanjie will be miserable, if the two sides continue to fight at this pace, if the two sides are angry, then the situation will not be good!

You must know that Li Tuanjie now has a task in his body, if the task is completed, then it is okay to say, it doesn't matter if he doesn't play in the future!

But now his task has not been completed, if the two sides play a fire, and the head coaches on both sides are all using the main lineup to death, then he Li Tuanjie will not be able to get playing time, and the end will be very miserable......

The punishment for failing the mission, thinking about it makes Li Tuanjie shudder!

Now Li Tuanjie is only one three-pointer away from completing the task and three points away from scoring his own double-double, if you are lucky, you may only need one shot to solve the task!

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This game gradually developed towards a scene that Li Tuanjie didn't want to see, and the two sides really got angry, of course, this was mainly because the head coaches of both sides were angry.

Mavericks head coach Johnson is angry that the Rockets ranked last in the West last season and didn't even make the playoffs, while the Mavericks are the first in the West......

So the annoyed Johnson didn't leave a chance for the Rockets at all, and the Mavericks' main lineup stayed on the court.

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By the halfway point of the fourth quarter, Lee still didn't get a chance to play, and Nowitzki was on the court for most of the rest of the game, except for the rest of the second half of the first quarter.

The main reason why the ticket price for the preseason game is cheap is that the team's main lineup usually does not play for a long time, and at the moment, the main team of the Mavericks is almost full, and their ticket price is simply worth it, almost comparable to the level of the playoffs.

Domestic fans shouted one by one, what about the good Chinese derby? Yao Ming has been playing for more than 30 minutes, and Li Tuanjie's playing time is only six minutes......

"Poor, it stands to reason that Li Tuanjie's performance in the second half of the first quarter was very exciting, and he shouldn't just have so much playing time!"

"There's no way around it, didn't you see that Van Gundy kept putting Yao Ming and Maddie on the field? The score between the two sides has not been opened up at present, only 8 points of single-digit point difference, once the Mavericks are on the bench lineup, they may be able to recover the disadvantage by the other side and win this game! ”

"Anyway, judging from this game, although Li Tuanjie doesn't play much, his future performance is still worth looking forward to!"

Domestic fans have shouted for Li Tuanjie, originally in this preseason stage, most of the rookies can get a lot of appearances, and Li Tuanjie was unlucky and met Van Gundy......

"Damn, you won't really have to dance an elephant dance in front of tens of thousands of people in a while, right? Then my career is almost over before it starts......" Li Tuanjie looked at the rest of the game, a little anxious!

If one of the two teams is blown up and the game goes into garbage time, then Li Tuanjie still has a chance to play, but at the moment the Rockets are only eight points behind, according to Van Gundy's temperament, he will never surrender......

And the Mavericks have the lead, and surrender is even more impossible......

For a while, unless there is any turnaround, Li Tuanjie has lost hope of appearing!

It doesn't matter if you can't play, what matters is the punishment if you can't complete the mission!