The New Orleans Pelicans, formerly known as the New Orleans Hornets, were relocated from Charlotte to New Orleans, and Charlotte reintroduced a team after the relocation, which is now the Hornets led by Boss Joe.

Later, the Hornets changed their name to the Pelicans, and the Charlotte Bobcats negotiated with them to get the name Hornets back, thus becoming the current New Orleans Pelicans and Charlotte Hornets.

It is worth mentioning that the history of the Pelicans belonging to Charlotte was also taken over by the Hornets and became the history of their team.

So the current Pelicans are actually a nascent team in a sense, belonging to New Orleans. How else would the name get closer and closer to the barbecue flavor of New Orleans? The pelican is also a waterfowl, but all birds, they have wings.

The Bulls arrived in New Orleans in the morning, rested for a while, and focused on training, which was the eighth of the first 10 games of the regular season, and as long as this game was won, then Hojberg and Foreman's bet would not be lost anyway.

Coupled with so many voices from the outside world before the game, so Hojberg is very concerned about this battle, and the gap between the inside line cannot be filled no matter what, and I want Robin Lopez and Mirotic to fight with Davis and Cousins, which is basically to let Li Ming go to the peak Jordan solo now, which is simply to light wax in the toilet and find death.

However, it is not impossible to win, just like the 17-point victory of the Magic team against the Pelicans, their interior line is not dominant, but they still managed to destroy the Pelicans with 16 three-pointers in a single game.

So if the Bulls want to win, they have to shoot the perimeter.

As the old saying goes, Hojberg had all the Bulls players shoot three-pointers for an afternoon, and everyone except Robin had to shoot, which was clearly a three-point rain at New Orleans Arena.

"Tonight's three-point shot is the first priority, followed by the impact on the basket, reduce the mid-range shot, it's too risky!" Davis has a wide range of defense, and there are few areas inside the three-point line that he can't interfere with, so it's better to attack the basket than to shoot from the middle.

There is an eternal rule of shooting, the closer you get to the basket, the higher the shooting percentage, since the mid-range shot can't bring other benefits, then why shoot in front of the league's two big interior lines?

I have to say that Hojberg's thinking was very clear, and after running for a while, the Bulls went to the New Orleans arena.

Playing away, the away team will warm up half an hour earlier than the home team, after all, the home team still has a appearance ceremony.

New Orleans is a stadium that is never short of stars, from Paul and Chandler to today's top interior twin towers, New Orleans has always had a top 10 superstar in the league.

So their stadium attendance has always been very high, and in the midst of the crowd, the Pelicans players played one by one, it seemed that because there were more outside voices in this game, so from the beginning, this group of spectators was a posture of shouting out their lungs, and the cheering sound was deafening.

After the warm-up, the two teams made the final assembly and adjustment tactics, and then entered the stadium at the referee's whistle.

The Bulls started point guard Grant, split Li Ming, small forward, power forward, and center Holiday and Portis and Mirotic respectively.

This lineup can be seen from the arrangement, except for Grant, all four can pull away and shoot three-pointers, especially Li Ming on the scoring guard, who is a three-point master who can be 90 out of 10 on the training ground.

This point, as long as you see Li Ming standing outside the three-point line, people will remember.

The Pelicans are point guard Holliday, shooting guard Moore, small forward Dent, interior twin towers Davis and Cousins.

In fact, there was a good news before the game, Rondo will not play today, I originally thought it was a smoke bomb, but now I know that it is true when I look at the starters.

Holliday played as the starting point guard, and the shooting guard was the 2011 second-round pick, the league's famous tramp, who changed Moore from four teams in six seasons. He is a two-way position, but rarely holds the ball, can attack, but the offensive means are not abundant, has a defensive advantage, and has a good effect on the No. 1 and No. 2 positions.

Small forward Dent is not well-known in the league, but he is also a veteran, a second-round pick in '09, and has played nearly ten seasons to this day. All the players and coaches who know Dante have only two words to say about him, and that is passion, a player who can motivate his teammates anytime and anywhere, and has the ability to defend the number three and number four.

Judging from the scouting reports of these two people, it is obvious that Gentry also came prepared, and took out two players who could defend two positions at the beginning, probably because he was afraid that Li Ming would form a dislocation and play singles.

With Dante and Moore present, the problem is obviously not a problem, and even if there is a dislocation, then the two of them will be enough to deal with it.

Davis and Mirotic compete for the ball, and the Bulls are naturally not extravagant.

Holliday controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and in front of him was Grant, who held back six or seven games, and finally returned to the starting lineup, and his heart was already full of a desire to show himself to the fullest.

The advantage of the Pelicans is the inside, and the game usually starts with the inside first. As long as the inner line is opened, the opportunity for the outside line will naturally come out.

Cousins squeezed out of position to get the ball and turned his back to Portis, who was not small in frame, but looked a little slender in front of Cousins.

"Woohoo!" With the ball in his hand and his ass arched over Portis, Cousins easily squeezed under the basket and turned to put the ball in the basket.

Two points scored.

Portis rubbed his arched place and glanced at Mirotic, the corners of the latter's mouth twitched, as if he saw his original appearance, and could only smile awkwardly: "It's okay, you're already in place!" ”

"Why don't we change it for a while!?"

"No, we have to listen to the coach!"

“。。。。。。”

Grant dribbled to the front court and passed the ball straight to Li Ming, who did not dribble immediately but put on a triple threat pose.

"Huh~~~" At this moment, the boos of the audience sounded, and Li Ming grinned.

Oh, yes! This is the away game!