Chapter 672: Fifty Shades of Grey (1/3!) )
118-98, the Nets played the opening game at home, and finally defeated the old rival Wizards by 20 points and won the first victory of the new season.
The Wizards' Wall had 17 points and 11 assists, and Beal had 26 points and 3 assists, but the rest of the Wizards provided limited help.
On the Nets' side, Delon had 16 points and 11 assists, Jokic had 13 points, 13 boards and 6 assists, Yi Jianlian had 20 points and 10 boards, Booker had 12 points and 2 assists on 4-of-9 three-point shooting, Butler had 11 points, 6 boards and 3 steals, Gordon off the bench had 19 points and 3 assists, David West had 12 points and 5 boards, and Maddie had 6 points.
The Nets played a team-type victory.
After this game, some fans also realized that ESPN's prediction was not nonsense, the Nets are indeed strong in the East, and the Wizards also look significantly weaker than last season.
Coincidentally, after the Nets won the Wizards, they played another game against the Knicks in the same city.
107-82, a one-sided victory.
The Knicks seem to have added a lot of instant power in the offseason, but there are two things that are not good for playing on the court, the offense and the defense, which make them powerless.
Anthony scored 30 points but only made 10 of 36 shots, and Porzingis didn't get much of a chance in his debut.
The Nets won again as a team, Booker hit three more 3-pointers to score 11 points, and Gordon scored a team-high 23 points.
The Nets were very weak at the point guard position last season, and with these two in the new season, it is directly up a notch.
After knocking down the Wizards and Knicks in a row, the Nets' winning streak did not stop there, they won the Magic, Bulls, 76ers and Hornets in a row, and after winning the focus battle with the Clippers, they extended their winning streak to 7 games, becoming the only team in the East to win all of them, and the Warriors, who also won 7-0, were in the league for a while.
(Note: The Cavaliers lost to the Spurs, with a 6-1 record)
Even with ESPN's pre-match predictions, such a performance still surprised and surprised fans.
In an offseason, the Nets are really impressive.
This kind of performance made Tang Tiandu feel a little surprised, although the lineup was built more reasonably, but it was still a little unexpected to play in this state at the beginning of the season.
But this is completely a good thing, the sooner and faster the run-in, the greater the probability of breaking out of the East this season.
After the game against the Clippers, the team had a three-day break.
The next game was a home game against the Thunder, and Tang Tian gave the players a day off.
Although the team has been winning streak, the schedule is relatively tight in the early stage, and the players also need to relax.
It was also during this time period that Tang Tian ushered in two good news.
The two films in which the company invested made a lot of money.
One is Marvel's "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", which set the best box office of the year, after participating in Marvel's investment, with the strength of Marvel Universe movies, the company has risen together in the film and television industry.
Another niche movie, "Fifty Shades of Grey", like the original "Super Body", is wholly invested by Tang Tian Company, and it is also the first R-rated movie.
The storyline of this movie is very simple, the love story of a female college student and a domineering president, the plot has no highlights, but because it involves the content of BDS丨M for the first time, it has attracted wireless attention.
And unlike in her previous life, the heroine of this movie, Annataxia Steele, is no longer played by Dakota Johnson, but Scarlett Johansson, who has worked with her before.
Such a breaking point also made the movie completely popular, although it was revealed that all the R-rated shots in the movie were stand-ins after the release, but that did not prevent the explosion of the box office.
Before the overseas box office finally ended, the total box office had exceeded $1 billion, far exceeding the 560 million in the previous life.
"It's an epoch-making R-rated movie." This is the unanimous evaluation of the film by film critics.
The company made a lot of gold and silver, and Scarlett also took advantage of the situation to become the most valuable actress in Hollywood.
Although Scarlett's pursuit was rejected by Tang Tian at the beginning, it no longer hinders the two from cooperating in business.
The income from these two movies has directly accelerated the development of Tang Tian's company, and according to this momentum, it will not take two years for Tang Tian to pocket the Nets without selling Ali shares.
Tang Tian was also in a good mood, accompanying his two wives to bask in the sun, watching the children crawling around on the lawn, he was now idle and began to enjoy a comfortable life.
Time flies, three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and this night, the Nets will also host the challenge of the Thunder.
The Thunder have undergone a lot of changes this season, but under the leadership of Stevens, they still have a very good record, in addition to losing to the Warriors, they have just experienced a wave of five consecutive wins, because they are in the West, this is definitely not low.
Just like ESPN's analysis, although the strength on paper seems weaker than before, after the team's internal harmony, the strength of this team is not much weaker than in the previous life.
Because they are all winning streaks, the end of this game means that one side of the winning streak will definitely end, and both sides will definitely not give up easily.
And Tang Tian is the former head coach of the Thunder, which also makes the game more interesting.
When the arena warmed up before the game, Westbrook and Tucker also took the initiative to come over to chat with Tang Tian.
These two people can be regarded as the best relationship between the Thunder and Tang Tian at the beginning.
After the pre-match warm-up and opening ceremony, the starters of both teams came on one after another.
The Thunder have Westbrook and Tucker on the outside, Durant and Ibaka on the front, and Kanter at center.
The Thunder brought in N'Golo Kante in the summer, Stevens put him in the starting lineup, and he and Ibaka played quite well in the previous games, while Tucker, the "jack-of-all-trades", also began to lose weight in the offseason under the instruction of the coaching staff, and swayed back to the position of shooting guard.
The Nets, on the other hand, have a regular starting lineup, with Deron and Booker on the outside, Butler and Yi Jianlian on the front, and Jokic at center.
Ibaka jumped to win over Yi Jianlian, giving the visitors the opportunity to attack first.
Stevens' coaching ability is much better than Donovan in his previous life, and the Thunder's first offense was not to play Westbrook or Durant, but to let Kanter sink low to play Jokic.
Kanter's low-post offense is skilful, with a combination of power and technique, and a continuous shake to keep Kic at bay.
Because at the beginning of the game, Jokic was afraid of fouling and didn't dare to make too big defensive moves, and Kante finally scored on the board.
The Thunder scored first.
Tang Tian rubbed his mouth on the sidelines, his assistant coaches, compared to Cole, Stevens is the guy who is more of a headache.
This was his original routine against the Hawks, and he wanted to beat Jokic in the opening game.