Chapter Seventy-Three: The Raptors Are Fierce
Night.
Toronto.
The city has experienced the hustle and bustle of the day, and the lights of thousands of homes are lit up, and the entire dark night sky is reflected brightly and thoroughly.
Outside the arena at the Air Canada Centre, fans lined up and drone planes flew overhead, with local fans waving their arms and showing passion.
The entire stadium was full of people.
The more than 3,000 parking spaces on the ground, including the underground garage, were all full, and many vehicles were blocked on the road near the stadium, and horns were honking everywhere.
The playoffs are coming.
The 76ers play against the Raptors.
It was placed in the third scene of the opening game.
The outside world's evaluation of this round is that rookies peck each other, whether it is the Raptors or the 76ers, many of the teams have just played the playoffs for the first time.
In the locker room, Iguodala, Louis Williams, Willie Green and others whispered.
"Ahem."
Wang Ming coughed lightly twice to attract everyone's attention.
"This is the starting list I just mentioned, as well as some tactics, we have practiced when we were preparing for training before, everyone should not have mental pressure, after all, everyone is nervous for the first time, and I am also the first time, not much better than you."
"I'm not nervous, am I?"
Allen Iverson made a joke about Wang Tomorrow, and the locker room burst into laughter.
The atmosphere is loose.
At the point, everyone rushed out and came to the inside of the arena.
Even though the air conditioner is blowing non-stop, you can still feel the wild heat in the stadium.
Hustle, flags, streamers, fans.
In the two huge flames, the home decibel reached its peak.
"I feel like I'm going to be deaf." Wang Mingming was a little surprised by the enthusiasm and participation of the Raptors' home court, and was solemnly moved, basketball seems to have a different kind of charm in the city of Toronto, and the fans here are far more cohesive and combative than he imagined.
"That's the beauty of the playoffs, and if you go to Detroit, you're going to be even more surprised." After all, Randy Ayes is the one who has experienced the finals, and he is much calmer.
"Hasn't Detroit's always been bad for attendance?"
"So in the playoffs, when the whole stadium is full, it is more exciting and sensational, and it is easier to stimulate the fighting spirit of the home team players on the field."
"It's really hard to play away."
Wang Tomorrow instinctively felt that it was tricky, there were no weak teams in the NBA, and the teams in the regular season had a 5% improvement in state under the home court bonus.
During the warm-up session, ESPN interviewed Raptors star Bosh.
Bosh was very humble and said that the opponent was a very strong team against the 76ers.
"Especially their core Allen Iverson and their head coach Wang Mingming, the former is the best scorer in the NBA, and the latter has combined the 76ers into a strong team, the best in the league on the court, and the 76ers have become one of the most resilient teams in the league."
In the midst of the tsunami, the Raptors ended their low-key opening ceremony.
Starters: Point Guard: T.J. Ford, Position: Anthony Parker, Small Forward: Joey Graham, Power Forward: Chris Bosh, Center: Rasso Nesterovic.
The Raptors are similar to the Spurs in that they both have a special preference for international players.
For example, the big center Rasu Nesterovic is a player from Slovenia, and before that, he played for the Spurs and won the NBA championship in '05.
For example, there are also well-known European players such as Calderon and Bagyani, who are currently serving as the super bench of the Raptors.
The 76ers' lineup basically used the starting lineup for one season.
Iverson, Korver, Iguodala, Harrington and Daimpoter.
Dareham Porter was nervous about jumping the ball, and the timing of the jump was not quite right, a little later than the opponent, and the opponent used his long arms to get the ball first.
On the court, the Raptors' tactics are to break through in the high position of flexible small guards, and unlike the 76ers, TJ Ford's breakthrough is only to disrupt the opponent's defensive formation, while Iverson's breakthrough is mostly to finish the offense.
T.J. Ford is incredibly fast and is known as one of the fastest players in the NBA.
T.J. Ford met Iverson in his rookie season, and the lightning-fast speed really scared Iverson, and Iverson commented after the game that T.J. Ford was "maybe the only person in the league who is faster than me."
But Ford had a congenital cervical spine injury, was fouled in his rookie season, and then failed to cash in on his talent.
Ford's breakthrough, Iverson can now fully keep up, even easily.
Ford relied on a pick-and-roll from Chris Bosh to get a favorable position, and then went around the pile to get inside the 76ers, and Durham Porter stepped up early.
After a season of training, Bowler's defensive awareness has improved a lot.
This time, the decisive advance robbery, a bit of a football game goalkeeper out of the penalty area to clear the meaning, can see the field of Wang tomorrow nodded frequently.
Apparently very satisfied.
Unfortunately, Ford found the pass and threw it out to Anthony Parker, who caught the ball and made a direct three-point shot.
Hit!
3 to 0.
Anthony Parker is a veteran of the league, good at defense and three-pointers, in the face of the new three-point king Kyle Korver, Anthony Parker was not stunned at all, and came up to score a three-pointer first.
The stadium was boiling, and the fans chanted victory, as if they had won the whole world.
In an instant, the Raptors players were injected with blood and their morale was greatly boosted.
The 76ers attacked, Allen Iverson received the ball at the elbow position, Durham Porter did the pile blocking, Lasu in the back pushed Hellam Porter forward, and Ford stepped back to defend, obviously focusing more on breaking defense.
Iverson snorted coldly, tried to take two steps, and directly pulled out the jump shot.
"Bell!"
The shot was almost undefended, but the basketball didn't go in, smashed on the back edge, and jumped very high into the sky.
Chris Bosh was like a flying fairy out of the sky, catching the moon in the air, grabbing the rebound, and the whole person was inertia and moved forward, almost flying out of the bottom line.
Wang Mingming's mouth opened wide: "........"
Bosh jumped so high that he wasn't much different from Kevin Garnett when the Timberwolves were at their peak.
Offensive and defensive transitions.
The Raptors were unhurried and possessed the ball in the frontcourt.
The Raptors received the ball at the top of the arc, and Ford took the ball to kill, but was blocked by Iverson and failed to have an effect.
Sent out, to Chris Bosh, who was almost stepping on the three-point line.
Heads-up!
Bosh faced the league's famous Al Harrington, his eyes flashed and he wasn't ready to pass.
Try a step and attack like a small forward.
Bosh took a big stride, stepped out with his right foot, leaned his body accordingly, dribbled at 45 degrees, and his calf muscles tensed and burst with energy.
One-step.
He suddenly withdrew the breakthrough again, and the whole person stood in place, as if the feint breakthrough just now was an illusion.
Harrington was shaken a little too far inside, and when he saw Chris Bosh shooting, he made a straight save.
With a long arm, his fingers touched Chris Bosh's wrist.
"Huh!"
The ball goes in.
"Toot ~"
The whistle sounds.
Two plus one.
Wang Tomorrow suddenly stood up from the bench, the Raptors were so fierce!