On the court, Gary Payton is hugging the starters of the two teams one by one, as a senior, Gary Payton does have this qualification, and Gary Payton is doing the same thing as Patrick Ewing, and finally, the two hugged, and Patrick Ewing also patted Gary Payton on the shoulder.

Payton Sr. had mixed feelings in his heart, if it weren't for the Grizzlies' sideways kick, Ewing would have been a supersonic player at this time, and he should have been his teammate, but now, the two can only be opponents on the court.

In this game, the starting lineup of the SuperSonics is point guard Gary Payton, scoring guard Desmond Mason, small forward Ruben Patterson, power forward Rashad Lewis and guest center Wenbeck.

Wenbeck played a cameo as a center forward, he is 2.11 meters tall, and his size is enough, but because of his out-of-shape figure and long-term alcoholism, whether it is strength or speed, he is still quite reluctant to play against a super center like Ewing.

However, SuperSonics coach Paul Westphal is also a clever woman who has no rice to cook, the introduction of Ewing failed, the team sent away Hollis Grant and Greg Foster, and the SuperSonics team did not even have a backup center, let alone starters.

After thinking about it, he could only let Wenbeck make a cameo appearance as a center forward.

Just as Rashad Lewis broke out in the preseason, Paul Westphaal took advantage of the situation to put Lewis on the spot, and in this game, Qiao Hai focused on Gary Payton's ball, followed by Lewis's long shot.

As for Wenbeck, Wenbeck, who switched to center, is no longer a cause for concern.

In the opening jump ball, Patrick Ewing stood in the center circle, and his opponent was Wenbeck, who was already too fat to jump.

So, there is no doubt about this jump ball, Ewing's tough top Kevin Baker touched the basketball first! The basketball was dialed up by Ewing, and the Grizzlies grabbed the ball for the opening offense.

At the beginning of the game, the Grizzlies started from the outside, Billups controlled the ball and slowly controlled the ball, and then, Raheem stepped forward and gave a pick-and-roll, on the other side, Mike Bibby quickly moved from the sideline to the bottom corner, and then Patrick Ewing gave a block sideways and rushed to the basket, Billups broke through to attract the defense.

The ball was given to Mike Bibby, who scored two points on a layup.

Two pick-and-rolls, plus a breakout, and an opportunity arises.

At the beginning, the Grizzlies played Qiao Hai's new tactics to block the attack, in fact, after the absence of Maddie, the Grizzlies have many sets of offensive tactics that cannot be used, if you want to maintain combat effectiveness, you can only play more new tactics to block the attack, the main team offense, everyone can shoot.

Then, put most of your energy into defense.

So, for the next defense, the Grizzlies put almost all of their energy into it.

Billups stared at Gary Payton, Raheem stared at Rashad Lewis, the strong side with the ball defended three and two, and the weak side without the ball defended two and three, Gary Payton wanted to break through by himself, and he made a strong breakthrough, but it didn't work, the Grizzlies quickly sandwiched, Gary Payton chose to pass, but Ruben Patterson on the weak side received the basketball, and the Grizzlies' defense quickly shrank back.

Ruben Patterson shot directly, bang, and didn't go in.

Immediately afterwards, the Grizzlies grabbed the rebound and tried to play a wave of counterattacks, but they were unsuccessful.

SuperSonics grabbed the rebound and played a counterattack in turn, Gary Payton found an opportunity, forced the inside, made a layup, scored 2 points, and the score was tied at 2:2.

The ball was back in the hands of the Grizzlies, and Billups got the ball and controlled the tempo steadily.

In the positional battle, it is still the same routine, two point guards, one holds the ball over the cover to break through, and the other passes the cover to cut, this time, the supersonic did not pinch Mike Bibie, Mike Bibi chose to come by himself, and the shot could not be scored.

However, Patrick Ewing on the inside grabbed the rebound and made up the dunk directly!

Bang!

Hoop roar!

Then there was the cheers of the GM Arena!

Qiao Hai on the side of the court also shouted: "Beautiful! ”

Byron Scott also happily shouted: "Gorillas are hard!" ”

Indeed, compared with the white center Brad Miller who flows on the floor, Patrick Ewing is much tougher, the Knicks are in New York, where there is a lot of right and wrong, and they can remain competitive in the Ewing era, which is also related to Ewing, it is the existence of Ewing that allows the Knicks to maintain the characteristics of iron and blood, relying on iron and blood, and has always maintained their strength.

Ewing dunked, the basket roared, and after two points were scored, the score became 4:2 again, and the Grizzlies led by 2 points.

Supersonic counterattack, reversing the ball back and forth on the outside, didn't find a chance, and finally had to hand the ball to Gary Payton again, Payton burst out, shot directly from the middle distance, bang, still didn't score.

Ewing inside grabbed the rebound, and the Grizzlies fought back again.

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Off the court, Qiao Hai has already sat back, and at the beginning, the Grizzlies' offense played averagely, and they could only rely on the breakthrough and air cut of the two point guards, but it was also because the supersonic defense was not done well, so that Sean Marion, who had been waiting for the ball in the bottom corner, had not been able to use it.

However, although the offense was average, the defense played well, and with Patrick Eugain, the two points of Gary Payton and Rashad Lewis were locked up, and the opening defense was the best.

And Patrick Ewing also began to play his role, grabbing defensive rebounds in a row, and even grabbing offensive rebounds and completing dunks, the Grizzlies have never trusted the basket so much.

In the next game, the Grizzlies methodically played the blocking and cutting offense, although they were not efficient, they were always able to score, and the defensive end also pressed the supersonic to death, and when the first official timeout reached the first quarter in the first quarter, the score of the two teams was 14:8, and the Grizzlies led by 6 points.

The game played like this, everything was in Qiao Hai's plan, so after a pause, Qiao Hai directly made a substitution.

"Manu, you go up, go and replace Mike."

Joe Hay was replaced by Manuginobili and Mike Bibi was replaced.

In the opening five minutes, Mike Bibi's performance was average, hitting iron in several fast breaks, and even showing signs of indiscriminate throwing, but Qiao Hai didn't care, because the Grizzlies were not bad at these two balls, Mike Bibi wanted to play, Qiao Hai let Mike Bibi try to play, in case Mike Bibi played, it could perfectly replace Maddie's role in the offense.

However, Mike Bibi didn't play, Qiao Hai directly replaced Manu Ginobili and let Manu try again.

Soon, after a timeout, Manu came on.

It was also Manu Ginobili's NBA career official debut.

On the commentary bench, the home commentator Mark Jones also announced: "Manuginobili is on the scene, he was the MVP of the European arena last season, and the long-haired Argentine is ready to make his professional debut in the NBA!" ”