Chapter 144: Gimmick (Eighth Update)
The NB's schedule was also announced.
The Bucks made it to the opening day of the first day, but alas, they were still not at home, but had to travel to Chicago to challenge the Bulls.
This game can be scheduled as one of the opening games of the first day of the NB.
The main reason is naturally Yi Jianlian.
In addition, the Bucks have played a whopping 16 live games in the United States this year.
That's 13 more than last year.
If those three temporary U.S. livestreams don't count, the Bucks have added a whopping 16 U.S. livestreams this season.
In this sense alone, it is the team with the largest increase in attention in the entire league. From this data, it can be seen that Yi Jianlian has changed to the Bucks and the entire Milwaukee.
He is indeed becoming a hero in Milwaukee and fighting to increase the city's influence.
Of course, in addition to Yi Jianlian, there is another player to watch in this opener, the Bulls' rookie this year.
The Bulls were lucky enough to pick the No. 1 pick in the lottery this year with a probability of 17 percent, and selected the talented point guard from the University of Memphis, Derrick Rose, in the draft.
The best rookie of '07 met the top pick of '0, which was also one of the highlights of this opening match.
After playing the Bulls, the Bucks' second game is still on the road, and they will go to Oklahoma to challenge the Thunder, who played with Durant for a year last year, which also gave them a generous gift of the No. 4 pick in the first round.
They used that signing to take this year's explosive point guard Russell Westbrook.
Yes, the two highest-ranked point guards this year were all met by Yi Jianlian at the beginning of the season.
Did Stern give him the task of educating newcomers?
Moreover, I have to say that Stern also tried his best for the league's ratings, and he officially transformed into a small forward, and this guy couldn't wait to arrange for Durant to meet him.
Although Yi Jianlian won the game against Durant last year, there was not much direct confrontation between the two, and even if they won, it doesn't mean that Yi Jianlian and Durant are stronger or weaker.
Just look at the scores, these two newcomers are indeed not much different.
Now it's different, Yi Jianlian plays as a small forward, directly opposite Durant.
After a year of tempering, Durant meets the man who made him lose the "best rookie", and this will definitely be a thunderous game.
For these two games, fans are also paying attention.
Although the first few games of the Bucks season last year also attracted the attention of fans, however, more of them were Chinese fans. American fans never thought that the Chinese player who entered the league with the fourth pick in the first round in 07 would play such a strong performance in the following year.
Maybe it's to make up for it, admitting that he looked down on people at the beginning, or maybe he didn't want to miss the first time to witness Yi Jianlian's highlight performance.
In short, many fans in the United States have also marked these two games.
Even a lot of fans ignored it, and there was a game against defending champions Celtic on the same day.
It's a pity that before these two games, there were five more preseason games that were boring for many fans.
Although Yi Jianlian will also appear, it will only be ten or twenty minutes, and it is not even an appetizer.
So much so that after the league announced the schedule, almost all fans had only one sentence left in a thousand words at the moment: regular season, you come quickly, I can't bear it alone
Oops, out of tune!
In the five preseason games, Yi Jianlian played less than 15 minutes in each game, basically warmed up in the first quarter, and then came down in the third quarter.
From a small point of view, Yi Jianlian does not have such a thing as finding the state or not, he participated in the Olympic Games this summer, and the state of the competition must be there.
Rather than worrying about Yi Jianlian's poor performance, he was more worried that Yi Jianlian did not get enough rest in the offseason and suffered from physical fatigue in the middle of the season.
So, if you can rest now, let him rest as much as possible!
Getting plenty of playing time were Ilyasova and rookie Courtney Lee, both of whom had barely played last season, and the other a pure rookie who needed a full workout.
Courtney Lee, in particular, played in the summer league with the team, but that kind of league is far behind the NB preseason, so let him feel the rhythm of the real NB game now, which is also conducive to his quick adaptation.
However, Courtney Lee really doesn't have any star likeness, the preseason is just a paddling game for a real star, he is still struggling on the offensive end, Courtney Lee, who has almost unlimited firing rights, has only averaged 113 points per game in five games, and the shooting rate is less than 40%.
That's obviously not enough for a shooting guard!
Of course, one thing to say, Courtney Lee's defensive attitude during the game was very comforting, and this is the real reason why the Bucks decided to take him in the draft.
Courtney Lee's five playoff games have been pretty good.
Ilyasova is also very good, even if he played soy sauce in the team in the first two seasons, but because he was mainly responsible for defending Yi Jianlian during the team training match last year, his defensive ability is very good.
In Game 4 of the preseason, when he met Kevin Love, the No. 5 pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves this year, he made three shots and was completely lost.
This is more or less a testament to his ability on the defensive end.
It's just that these two guys who are good at defense enjoy most of the offensive power on the offensive end, and the Bucks' final preseason record is not surprisingly a poignant 0-5.
It is ranked in the bottom one place in the east.
Some media provoked trouble and took some exaggerated headlines:
"0-5, Milwaukee without Michael Reed will eventually fall into the slump again!"
"Huaxia Xinhe has been questioned, whether he can withstand the pressure!"
"Yi Jianlian is not the savior of Milwaukee, the Bucks lost all 5 games in the preseason!"
This is to know that some media with ulterior motives deliberately wrote it to disgust people.
But the number of views is like this, whether you click in to scold, click in to praise, as long as the result is clicked in, then it is considered a click!
It is also for this reason that so many unscrupulous editors have appeared and so many unscrupulous titles have been written.
But since you want to be scolded, then we will fulfill you:
"Editor, did you run out to write a manuscript before graduating from elementary school?"
"Now anyone can really be an editor!"
"Editor, do you believe what you wrote?"
In an atmosphere of "harmony" and "you scold me", the Bucks rushed to Chicago to make final preparations for challenging the Bulls.