After the game, Lee Sung-long, who scored the highest score, became one of the focuses for the first time, and the Big Three were the focus at all times.

"What does it feel like to play back in New York? It feels good to be back in New York to play, especially at Madison Square Garden, which is a magical place. ”

"Come to the Knicks? You should know that a player has a career of many years and anything can happen, and I don't rule it out, but now that I'm a Celtic player, I'm going to play every game for Celtic. ”

"The main force? I think Ray [Allen] is a great player, I don't think I'm going to overtake him as a regular in my rookie season, and I'd be the sixth man in the team if I had to position myself. ”

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After the game, the Celtics quickly returned to Boston, and Li Chenglong wanted to find a chance to meet with Jenvernie, but he didn't have a chance to meet Jefferney, both college and middle school have been officially in class recently, and none of Li Chenglong's parents and girlfriend came to the scene for the game with the Knicks.

Over the next few days, Rivers scaled down his training and waited for the new season to arrive.

On October 30, the 2007/2008 NBA regular season officially began, and the opening game had three groups, the Jazz challenged the Warriors away, the Lakers faced the Rockets at home, and the Spurs faced the Trail Blazers at home.

The league's choice of opener game is particular, the Warriors lost the Mavericks in the playoffs last season, but were sent home by the Jazz in the second round, and the two teams are related; The Lakers and Rockets are both big city teams and strong teams in the West; Spurs and Trail Blazers, Spurs were the champions last season, and the Trail Blazers are Oden's team.

The six teams in the opening game are all western teams, which shows that the pattern of weak east and strong west in recent years is obvious.

In the end, the Jazz easily defeated the Warriors, the Spurs also won the Trail Blazers at home, the Rockets narrowly defeated the Lakers 95-93 away, Kobe Bryant scored 45 points, Maddy scored 30 points, Yao Ming scored 25 points to defeat the Lakers.

Over the next two days, the rest of the league teams took to the action.

On the afternoon of November 1, the team conducted simple training as usual, which was actually more like a warm-up training, in order to keep the whole team in shape. At the end of the session, Pierce stepped up and said, "Guys, tomorrow night is the first game of our regular season, let's go out and relax later." ”

Everyone looked back at head coach Rivers, who simply said, "I just hope I don't see you in the newspapers tomorrow morning." ”

Rivers is a very discerning head coach, and most of the players he has coached say that he is very charismatic, and he relies on good relations with his players, and Rivers knows that he must not be a villain at such times.

When Li Chenglong came out of the shower, everyone else seemed to be still washing, only Lei Allen was outside, he walked straight over and said to Li Chenglong: "Bruce, I still have something to do tonight, so I won't go out with you." ”

Looking at the back of Lei Allen leaving, Li Chenglong felt a little big, and he didn't know what to say later.

He remembered that in his previous life, there seemed to be rumors that Ray Allen and the other two of the Big Three were at odds, and one of the reasons was that Ray Allen was not social, and he always didn't like to participate in the team's activities when he was alone.

When the whole team almost came out, Li Chenglong said to Pierce: "Paul, just now Ray received a phone call, it seems that he is in a hurry to leave in advance, and he asked me to apologize to everyone." ”

Pierce was visibly stunned, but quickly reacted and said, "It's okay, let's hang out together tonight." ”

In the evening, the Celtics gathered at a Boston pub for a beer, and Pierce showed off his team's landlord camaraderie and looked forward to the team's goals for the new season.

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On the evening of November 2, 2007, the Celtics made their regular season debut in what was about to be the first regular season game of the Big Three, and the North Shore Garden Arena was packed to the brim.

Since the Celtics formed the Big Three, the Celtics' tickets have not been sold.

As a rookie and rookie, Li Chenglong only got a little symbolic applause when he appeared, and when the Big Three appeared, the audience applauded thunderously, which made Li Chenglong very envious.

The Celtics' first game against the Washington Wizards is led by Agent Zero Gilbert Arenas.

Lee Sung Ryong sat on the sidelines without any doubt and watched his teammates perform first, the Big Three played tepid in the first quarter against the three Musketeers, and the Big Three combined to score 17 points, while the Wizards' Arenas, Antoine Jamison and Caron Butler The three Musketeers each scored four points, and the Celtics led the opponent 21-18.

Pierce was replaced by Tony Allen in the second half of the first quarter, and he led the team to play off the bench from the beginning of the second quarter, and Lee Sung-ryong also got the opportunity to play.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics' on-court lineup became point guard Eddie House, point guard Lee Chenglong, small forward Pierce, power forward Brian Scalabryne, center Scott Pollard, Scala Bryan has been a fringe man for the Celtics, and Scott Pollard is a 32-year-old veteran center signed a few days ago.

Since the formation of the Big Three, the Celtics have only dared to sign a few veterans on the fringe, because the Celtics' salaries have long exceeded the luxury tax.

Standing on the court, Li Chenglong suddenly felt a little nervous, he knew that this was the real NBA arena, and the previous summer leagues and preseason games could only be regarded as warm-ups.

Li Chenglong used an energy water bottle before going on the court, and he had to hope that he would have a chance to play quickly, otherwise the 5 minutes would pass quickly.

The Celtics attacked, Pierce held the ball outside, Scala Bryan came out to block Pierce, after blocking, Pierce passed the ball to Scala Brien, Pierce moved to the bottom corner, Li Chenglong stepped forward to help cover, Pierce got a chance to open the bottom corner, Scala Bryan passed the ball over, Pierce hit a three-point shot.

It's a very common pick-and-roll screen, and the Celtics have trained it in the past.

The Wizards attacked, Antoine Jamison held the ball and forced Pierce to create a foul, and Jamison hit both free throws, which was an AnswerBall.

The Celtics attacked, this time still looking for Pierce, receiving the ball after covering, Pierce hit a mid-range jumper, the Wizards' backup power forward Darius Sangueira took the rebound, and Arenas launched a quick counterattack to score the ball against Eddie House's defense.

The Celtics attacked, and after hitting Pierce twice in a row, Eddie House passed the ball to Scala Brien, Li Chenglong knew that he needed an opportunity, and took the initiative to go over to Scala Bryan to block and cover, and after the block, Scala Bryan really passed the ball to Li Chenglong, and Li Chenglong misplaced to face the opponent's big man Darius Sangeira.

Li Chenglong will not let go of this kind of opportunity, after a tentative step, he uses the speed to forcibly rush in, Sanguela is a traditional European interior line is not fast, but after being broken through by Li Chenglong, he followed behind him and wanted to find a chance to block, Li Chenglong slowed down slightly under the basket and jumped to the basket again, Sanguela really rushed to reach out and try to block, Li Chenglong just waited for him to do this, and after jumping, he deliberately touched his hand and then stabilized his body to throw the ball.

Backbite!

The referee's whistle sounded at the right time, and the basketball also stumbled into the basket after playing the board, two plus one!

There was a burst of cheers in the arena.

"Well done, rookie!"

"Blow up that European softie!"

Swish!

There were no surprises with the free throws, two plus one.

Playing two plus one, the team boss Pierce took the initiative to come over and high-five Li Chenglong to celebrate, Pierce said: "You play very smart, not like an ordinary rookie." ”

"I've actually been in college for four years."

The Wizards' offense was hit by Jamison's three-point iron, Eddie House grabbed the rebound in the backcourt, and passed to Scott Pollard on the inside after coming to the frontcourt, Pollard played two times on the inside and didn't have a good chance, the basketball shifted out again, Li Chenglong received the ball on the wing, and the opponent's backup quarterback DeSean Stevenson stood relatively inside, and Li Chenglong received the ball and made a direct three-point shot.

Swish!

During the energy bottle hit bonus time, the shooting feel is very soft.

Li Chenglong scored 6 points in a row, and on the sidelines, Wizards head coach Eddie Jordan couldn't help but shout: "Pay attention to defense, do you want to be blown up by a rookie rookie?" ”

The Wizards began to pay attention to Li Chenglong's defense, and the Celtics' attack point became Pierce again, Pierce first hit a three-pointer, and then attracted the defense and then passed to Li Chenglong, Li Chenglong's mid-range stop-and-go jump ball hit, at this time Li Chenglong's 5-minute hit bonus effect also passed, but Li Chenglong had already scored 8 points.

On the Celtics side, only Pierce took the bench on the court, and the Wizards had Arenas and Jamison with two stars with substitutes, but the result was that the Wizards hit iron one after another, and the Celtics scored in a row and played a small climax of 14-4, and the Wizards head coach couldn't help but call a timeout.

After the timeout, the Wizards replaced Caron Butler, and the three musketeers came on the court together, finally stabilizing the situation, and more than 1 minute later, Rivers also replaced Garnett and Rondo, only Lee Chenglong was in good shape for the time being and was not replaced.

After Rondo came on the court, Li Chenglong got a lot fewer opportunities, that guy always kept commanding and asking Li Chenglong to run, Li Chenglong knew that his running level was very ordinary, but he could only pinch his nose and admit it, who called him the point guard that Rivers valued.

Li Chenglong, who scored 8 points in less than half of the second quarter, only got two shots next, one was passed to him by Pierce after being trapped, but unfortunately he lost this mid-range shot, but the other vacancy that he managed to run out of finally got Rondo's pass, and a long two-point shot from the three-point line made himself score 10 points in a single quarter.

In the second quarter, the Celtics beat the Wizards 37-18, Li Chenglong scored 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting in a single quarter, in addition to Pierce scoring 9 points in a single quarter, and the Wizards scored 6 points on 3-of-3 shooting after Caron Butler came on the court, otherwise the Wizards would have lost more.

Throughout the first half, the Celtics led the Wizards by 22 points at 58-36 and established a relatively large lead.

(To be continued)