A week later, the Magic completed their first training camp before the season officially began. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The training camps were all closed, and the outside media were curious, but they couldn't get any information.

It wasn't until the start of the preseason that the Orlando media got some inconsequential information and the opportunity to interview the players.

To Rob Hannigan's delight, it was only an inconsequential make-up photo, and there were already a lot of yellow-skinned reporters in the stadium, and he certainly knew why these reporters were here, and he was happy to do so.

After the press release day, the NBA's one-year preseason season quietly began.

Preseason, as the name suggests, is the game that starts before the season. It is also known as the warm-up game, which helps the team to adjust and run in the lineup before the long regular season, and improve the communication between the players and the coach.

In the past, the NBA often held preseason games overseas, which not only promoted the NBA, but also accelerated the internationalization process of the NBA. After 9/11, the NBA canceled all overseas games. But this season, the NBA has opened new overseas games, the Clippers and Hornets, both of which have preseason games in China.

The schedule for the Magic preseason has already been determined, and the first game is the Charlotte Hornets, which were renamed just last year.

The Hornets have not been able to reach the quarterfinals last two seasons, recruited in the offseason, and with the team's star point guard Kemba Walker and star center Al Jefferson, they already have the strength to make the playoffs.

Two days later, the Magic team flew to Charlotte, less than an hour away.

Charlotte is the largest city in the southeastern state of North Carolina in the United States, bordered by the magnificent Lake Michigan to the east, and is one of the famous international financial centers. In this area of more than 6,000 square kilometers, the greatest player in basketball history was born - Michael Jordan, a god-like man, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and now the owner of the Hornets is also Michael Jordan.

Li Dong didn't expect that in his first NBA game, he would encounter such a team of special significance.

I was a little apprehensive and a little excited.

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After everyone got off the plane, they got on the airport bus and drove to the hotel arranged by the government.

Li Dong leaned his back on the seat of the team bus, thinking about the homework he had done before.

In the Hornets' starting lineup, Kemba Walker is the undisputed offensive core, and the fourth-grader, who just turned 25 this year, is now the core of the team handpicked by Jordan. He averaged 17.3 points and 5.1 assists per game in the regular season last year, shooting 38.5 percent from the field.

As a member of the team's guard line, Li Dong really needs to seriously study Walker's offensive skills.

To be honest, there's nothing special about it.

In a word, the amplitude is large, the speed is fast, and the confrontation is strong.

Walker's front change of direction is the same as Li Dong's, but because of his height, his front change of center of gravity is lower, which deepens his penetrating power. What's even more terrifying is that Walker's breakthrough starts from the first step, and it shows an incredible acceleration, usually after he passes it in one step, he can only eat ashes behind Walker.

As a result, Walker's breakthrough was recognized as top-notch by the league.

"This season, our Magic lineup is actually under a lot of competitive pressure, you, Elfried Payton (PG), Victor Oladipo (PG/SG), Evan Fornier (SG/SF) are the main rotation players, hesitating from the height consideration, the main future will put you more on the wing, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

"It's going to be a swing man." Li Dong always felt a little unbelievable when he remembered what Skiles said to him during the training camp, as if he had suddenly swayed from the position of point guard in college to the position of wing.

If I grow taller in the future, will I be used by the coach to play inside? Li Dong's mind was opened.

Today, when he browsed the official website of the Magic team on his mobile phone, he suddenly found that the official website of the Magic had changed his role to a scoring guard, and the height column was even more outrageously changed to 2.01 meters.

After a night's rest, Li Dong walked into the Charlotte Time Warner Center with the team.

The atmosphere within the Magic team is also relatively relaxed, since Howard's departure, this team has not had a high exposure in the NBA, there is no strong strength, and it is not as bad as a fish belly, and it belongs to the typical tepid type of team.

This year's selection of Li Dong with the No. 5 lottery has been the biggest thing in recent years.

Li Dong, the only rookie on the team, has become a well-deserved little brother in the team, and Gordon is about the same age as him.

In a preseason game like today's, apart from the local media of the two teams, few TV stations will broadcast it, after all, it is just a warm-up game that does not count.

The audience in Warner Arena was also sparse, barely enough for a small phalanx.

This made Li Dong, who was accustomed to watching dense audiences on TV, a little disappointed, he looked at the huge and luxurious arena and found that the open space was not as good as the gymnasium in college.

Some viewers waved cheer sticks weakly, and many more were either playing with their phones or drinking drinks and eating snacks.

"The atmosphere seems to be a little worse than the university." Li Dong has seen those crazy fans in college, at that time, even in the warm-up game before the start of the season, there were many hardcores to cheer on the scene, and he remembers that at that time, there were quite a lot of spectators booing him during the warm-up game, thinking that he did not live up to his name.

Thinking of this, the corners of Li Dong's mouth turned up slightly.

Skiles, who had been observing Li Dong's reaction from the sidelines, nodded with satisfaction, and when he saw Li Dong's natural appearance, he had a higher evaluation of him in his heart.

A few minutes later, the starters of both teams were in their positions, and after several cameras were set up, the referee on duty walked into the court with the basketball in his hand.

There are generally three referees in the NBA, and in addition to the referee on duty, there are also two referees on the sideline. The three referees always maintain a triangle with each other in order to enforce the decision from all angles.

The Magic's starting lineup consisted of Elfred Payton (PG), Victor Oladipo (SG), Tobias Harris (SF), Channing Frye (PF) and Dwyane Dedmon (C).

The Hornets started lineup with Kemba Walker (PG), Michael Kidd Gilchrist (SG), Nicholas Batum (SF), Marvin Williams (PF) and Al Jefferson (C).

The basketball was thrown into the air, and Dedmon roared and scrambled into the sky.

Al Jefferson on the Hornets' side pursed his lips and tried to jump 30 centimeters as Dedmon racked the ball back into their own half of the court with a massive half-arm advantage...... (To be continued.) )