After the afternoon training, Li Chenglong took a shower in the locker room, but he did not leave, he planned to stay and practice.

After his teammates left one by one, Li Chenglong returned to the training hall and practiced shooting by himself.

Hold the ball with both hands, put the ball below the knee first, raise the ball with your waist and raise your hand, jump lightly under your feet, and reach the highest point to pull the basketball out.

At the top of the arc, in the corner, at 45 degrees, he first made 200 three-pointers from various positions, and then practiced mid-range jumpers and free throws.

With the adjustment of magical equipment, Li Chenglong can do his best shooting posture every time, and he wants this shooting posture to become a part of his body's memory, and he can do his best shooting at any time.

Brushing brush, the Nets kept making friction sounds, and Li Chenglong's unguarded shooting was full of crosshairs.

Li Chenglong was practicing happily alone, and when he heard a voice behind him, he looked back and saw that it was Tony Allen, and it turned out that he hadn't left either.

Looking at Tony Allen's appearance, as if he was going to go to the gym, Li Chenglong took the initiative to ask: "Tony, do you want to go to the gym?" ”

"Bruce, are you practicing shooting alone?"

"Tony, how about we do one-on-one training?" Li Chenglong didn't recognize his life at all, and invited directly.

So the two quickly reached an agreement, and Li Chenglong scored the first goal.

Li Chenglong's skillful control of the ball, Tony Allen, as an expert in outside defense in the future, followed very closely, Li Chenglong's shoulder shook a right to the fake and then dribbled behind his back, changing hands to break through from the left.

In the NCAA, such a move can break through most of the defense, even if you occasionally encounter a good defense, you can shake up the space, but this time it is different, Tony Allen reacted very quickly, Li Chenglong just started the first step, and Tony Allen posted it again, but Li Chenglong's breakthrough has been started, so he has to go inside against the defense, and finally shoot out of the basket under interference.

Replaced by the opponent's offense, Li Chenglong thought that Tony Allen was a full-time defensive player, and he did not average points per game in his career season to play a double-double in a season, even if he played more than 20 minutes per game in the Grizzlies' starters in the future, and the offensive ability of such a player should not be good.

But when the opponent took the ball, Tony Allen's offense was rampage, and there was no skill at all, but Li Chenglong suffered a lot in strength, and it was a little difficult to defend, but fortunately, in the end, Tony Allen's shooting was not very easy to throw the ball.

Li Chenglong suddenly felt that Tony Allen was a good sparring partner, the opponent's defensive ability was strong and he could hone his attack, and the opponent's offensive ability was not strong, and he could also train his weak defense.

So on the training ground, one strong offensive and weak and one strong and weak two played in full swing.

On the other side of the gym, Doug Rivers and Tom Thibodeau were looking at the two men who were training against each other, and Rivers asked, "What do you think of the two of them?" ”

"An obvious offense is strong and the defense is weak, and an obvious offense is weak."

"Well, maybe we can try to pair them up."

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The Celtics have been grinding their tactics, and after all, the Big Three used to be the stars of their respective teams, and now they all have to play in a new way, and Rivers has to discuss with his assistant coach at the end of each training session, in order to find a way to quickly grind the Big Three into shape.

Lee Cheng Long and Tony Allen also train together when they have time after training, and sometimes Lee Cheng Long will go to the gym with each other.

Fast forward to October, and the NBA's preseason season is about to begin.

On October 6, the Celtics will travel to Canada for their first preseason game against the Toronto Raptors.

This is the first game after the Big Three, and North American reporters are running to Canada to get the latest news, whether the Big Three succeed or fail, and there are a lot of things that can be seen in the first game.

At this time, the most depressed is the president of the league, David Stern, the NBA's schedule was arranged in the summer and then announced, the Celtics were still the second-to-last team in the league last season, who knew that such a terrifying lineup was formed this summer, and the schedule of the league did not take into account that there would be such a play.

The first game of the Celtics' preseason game, the first official game of the Big Three, was scheduled in Canada, and if it was scheduled in a big city, such as New York or Los Angeles, that would be the most impactful.

The preseason is still a small thing, the regular season is a big thing, because the Celtics were not expected to change, whether it is the opening game of the new season or the Christmas game, there are no Celtics, which will be a big loss.

At the Air Canada Centre Arena, the triumvirate's debut is about to begin.

The Celtics' starters are point guard Rondo, point guard Ray Allen, small forward Pierce, power forward Garnett, and center Perkins.

On the Raptors' side, the point guard is TJ Ford, the point guard is Anthony Parker, the small forward Jason Capono, the power forward Chris Bosh, and the center Andrea Banyani. The Raptors have been getting worse than the Raptors since the demigod Carter left, and although the new Dragon King Bosh led the team to a good result, he won the third place in the East last season, but his attraction to fans is not comparable to that of the Canadian Flyers back then, so there are so many Big Three supporters on the scene.

Surprisingly, Lee Sung-ryong actually saw a fan wearing the No. 36 jersey on the sidelines, which was his supporter.

Li Chenglong wore No. 34 in college, and he thought that the Celtics would continue that number, but No. 34 had long been owned by the star Pierce, and he wanted to choose the one size bigger, and No. 35 was the number of Celtics legend Larry Bird, who had been retired and had to be replaced with No. 36, which is the disadvantage of too many retired numbers.

There will be his supporters in Toronto, which may have something to do with the large number of Chinese here, 15 percent of Toronto are Chinese, and most Americans don't care about him as a nobody, but Chinese people will pay attention to him.

At the beginning of the game, Rivers seriously supervised the game on the sidelines, and if the Big Three failed, no matter what happened to others, he, the head coach, would definitely be the first to take the blame.

Perkins jumped the ball to win the parallel champion Banjani, the Celtics attacked first, Pierce held the ball to face Capono's strong burst, Capono is a three-point shooter, just won the three-point king in the All-Star Game last year, his three-point shooting last season was higher than O'Neal's free throws, but there was nothing but three points, slow speed, poor body, no block, no steals, rebounding air, defense is negligible, such a guy is not Pierce's opponent at all, Pierce easily burst in and made a jump shot.

The Raptors' offense, Dragon King Bosh had nothing to do in the face of the black hard defense, and finally barely missed.

The Raptors' star can't be opened, and Pierce is not in good shape on the Celtics' side, except for the first goal, he didn't have a very good performance, but Garnett and Ray Allen began to exert their strength, especially Ray Allen was in good shape, hitting consecutive shots from the outside, playing for more than 6 minutes, the Celtics led the Raptors 15-7, and Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell didn't call a timeout, he directly waited for the official timeout to adjust.

Coming back from a timeout, the Raptors began to let TJ Ford attack, using his speed to storm the Celtics defense. When TJ Ford entered the league, he was known for his speed, Iverson himself admitted that only TJ Ford was faster than him in the league, but players with this speed were most afraid of injuries, and the speed slowed down after one or two injuries, Ford had already been injured once, but now he is still fast, and his speed helped the Raptors find scoring points.

In this way, the Raptors bit the score, and the first half was played for the better part, and the Celtics led 41-36, which was not a big lead.

Li Chenglong sat bored on the sidelines and began to be alone in a daze, Rivers changed people a few times, let the veteran Sam Cassel come on the court to replace Rondo, Leon Powell replaced Garnett, but Li Chenglong has not had the opportunity to play for the time being.

With 2 minutes and 39 seconds left in the second quarter, Lee finally heard Rivers' voice: "Bruce, you come on the court to replace Ray (Allen), and Tony (Allen) comes on the court to replace Paul (Pierce)." ”

The game restarted, the Raptors' offense, and Lee Chenglong was facing the opposing starting quarterback Anthony Parker.

Anthony Parker may see him as a rookie, first saying "rookie, welcome to the NBA", and then asking for the ball to single him.

"Thank you."

Li Chenglong replied with a thank you, he felt that the other party's brain circuit was not very clear, those who wanted to bully the rookie scored a goal on the rookie's head first, and then pretended to say welcome to the NBA, this Anthony Parker began to pretend to force before the ball was received, obviously the brain circuit was not clear and played unreasonably.

Anthony Parker obviously didn't expect Li Chenglong to reply with a thank you, stunned for a moment and looked back at this unusual rookie, at this moment, Li Chenglong suddenly pressed, Anthony Parker thought of something, but it was too late, Li Chenglong had already stolen the ball.

The moment Anthony Parker was distracted by Lee's words, his teammates passed the ball over, and Lee Chenglong took advantage of his distraction to press the ball away.

This break was very unexpected, no one thought that Anthony Parker was still asking for the ball just now and wanted to beat the rookie, and the ball was immediately cut off by the rookie, and the Raptors couldn't defend at all.

Li Chenglong quickly dribbled the ball to the front court, and the Raptors player chasing behind him was also a few meters away from him recently, so he jumped under the basket and made a strong slam dunk.

Lee Chenglong's dunk got a wave of boos from the home court, and they can support the Big Three, but they are not to see a rookie arrogant.

Li Chenglong ignored the boos, and after dunking, he turned back to Anthony Parker, who was about to serve, and said, "How does my dunk compare to your sister?" ”

Anthony Parker looked constipated, and he was a little annoyed and angry when he pretended to fail, but the Raptors head coach on the sidelines shouted: "Anthony, what are you doing?" Stay focused. "It calmed him down, he's just a role player for the Raptors.

Anthony Parker's sister Candace Parker is much more famous than her brother, Candace Parker is known as the female version of James, female flyer, etc., in the 04 National High School McDonald's All-Star Game, with a blindfolded dunk to defeat many male players to win the dunk contest, which caused a sensation in the United States at the time, who were defeated by her?

JR Smith, Josh Smith, Rudy Gay, are all a strong male dunk, Josh Smith also joined the NBA Hawks that year after being defeated, and then won the dunk championship in the NBA dunk contest in the first year, many people jokingly said that Candace Parker's dunk is more powerful than the NBA dunk champion.

Anthony Parker is more of a 3-and-D player, with a good three-point hand and defense, and that was just an accident, and then he starts to defend seriously, and it becomes difficult for Lee to get his chances.

The score between the Celtics and the Raptors has not been opened, and the Big Three were replaced by Rivers in the second half, and Rivers had to continue to run in the Big Three, and finally the Celtics defeated the Raptors 97-89, and the Celtics locked the win in the last 2 minutes, and the debut of the Big Three was not too successful.

Lee Chenglong only got 13 minutes of playing time in the whole game, scoring 7 points, 2 boards, 1 assist and 1 steal, which looks average, standard role player statistics.

(To be continued)