Chapter 305: Enemies Meet
I don't know how the league arranges the schedule, but the opening game on the first day has a share of the Trail Blazers, and the opponent is still the old enemy of last season's playoffs, the Suns. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The only thing that's okay is that this game is on the home court of the Trail Blazers, and they don't have to run to Phoenix, which is in the heat waves.
This season's Suns have been a bit of a decline, and in the offseason they lost the team's interior core Stoudemire, and the pick-and-roll combination of Jr. + Nash has become history. However, they have not found nothing in the transfer market, as Magic's Turkish forward Turkoglu has moved to the Suns and locked up a starting spot. Interestingly, Turkoglou and James were the same goals that Ye Feng struggled for back then, strictly speaking, Turkoglu made a deeper impression on Ye Feng, after all, James's main task when he was a Cavaliers was to score, but Turkoglu was a real point forward.
On October 26, local time, the first regular season game of the 2010-11 season of the Trail Blazers kicked off at the Rose Garden Arena. Because it was the team's home opener, the tickets for this game had already been sold out, and even so, there were more fans in the square outside the arena, all of whom did not buy tickets but also came to support the Trail Blazers. The fanaticism of the fans also made the players have to enter the stadium through another relatively remote entrance, otherwise if they pass through the main entrance, they will fall into the sea of fans.
Seeing the emotions of the fans so high, the Trail Blazers players felt a little excited, and almost everyone was secretly determined to help the team get off to a good start so as not to disappoint the strong support of the fans. As for what the Suns' strength is now, it is not at all within their consideration, and the old players feel that they are already players who have reached the Finals. A few newcomers were also infected, and one by one they were so excited that they almost ran to the court to perform a dunk for the fans.
To be on the safe side, McMillan still fielded the starting line-up familiar from last season: Miller, Roy, Ye Feng, Aldridge and Camby. Although Oden has been working on recovery training in the offseason, experts have diagnosed him not yet to play for the team, and he was not in the team's locker room today, but continues to do recovery training at the rehab center. But that doesn't mean he doesn't care about the team's performance, he deliberately asked the staff to bring in a high-definition big-screen TV and watch ESPN's live matches while training.
Compared to the starting lineup on the Trail Blazers' side, the Suns' starting lineup is a bit weird, and Gentry sent Nash, Richardson, Hill, Turkoglu and Robin Lopez, which is an atypical lineup of one center + four shooters. Originally, Turkoglu played small forward in the Magic, and the team's starting power forward was Lewis, but in fact, the Turk is also 2.08 meters tall and can play the No. 4 position, but he will not be as active as the general No. 4 position.
With Lopez scrambling for rebounds under the basket, the Suns' outside looks a little unscrupulous. But there's no denying that their caliber is high, especially Richardson, who caused a lot of trouble for the Trail Blazers in the playoffs last season, and he shot 4-of-4 from the field again in the first quarter to score nine points alone. Despite the absence of Smalls, Nash played his own style and also contributed six points and three assists.
The only one who didn't play well was the newcomer Turkoglou, perhaps because he hadn't fully integrated into the Suns' offensive and defensive system, or maybe he wasn't used to playing without the ball, and he only hit one three-pointer in the first quarter to score three points and send out two fouls. He committed these two fouls on Ye Feng, and the scenes were strikingly similar, basically Ye Feng singled with the ball, and then faked a fax to cause his hitman to foul. However, Ye Feng's luck was not very good, he failed to make 2+1 for two fouls, and the basketball either went out of the basket or smashed directly on the rebound, which really made him depressed.
Unexpectedly, the Trailblazers' side fought the most hard to find a gap through running, and Ye Feng did not hesitate to pass the ball to him. Although Roy had already made it clear to Ye Feng that he wanted to take off the burden of being the leader of the team, he was also a top defender known as "Yellow Mamba", he knew his physical condition, but he didn't allow others to look down on him.
The manager was giving him a chance by putting him in the starting line-up, and he didn't want to be a burden to the team. So even with a sore knee, he continued to work the court, hoping to help his teammates tear apart the Suns' defensive system. And his biggest reliance is that he gradually regained the feel of the shot, although now he does not dare to make some commonplace breakthrough moves, but it is not difficult to switch to a no-ball style of play, thanks to the small stove he adds after each training session, every day to hit 200 balls in the elbow area and outside the three-point line, which is a huge workload.
However, Roy persevered, so as soon as he came on the court today, he showed a fiery shooting touch, and he also frequently reached for the ball, which can only happen when he is very confident in himself. His teammates were also very willing to pass the ball to him, and even Ye Feng gave up scoring for the time being, creating opportunities for Roy wholeheartedly, he knew that this guy looked calm, but there was a burning fire in his heart, and there had to be a place for him to vent.
But soon Roy's shooting percentage fell uncontrollably, and the Suns, who trailed by four points in the first half, quickly went on a 35-25 run in the third quarter to overtake the score, and Nash contributed 12 points in a single quarter. However, in the last quarter, Ye Feng stood up, Roy really exhausted the last bit of energy in his body, Ye Feng scored 16 points in a single quarter and led his teammates to defend the Suns The whole team scored only 11 points, beating the opponent by as many as 20 points in a single quarter, and finally beat the Suns 106-92.
After the game, Roy came over and hugged Ye Feng for the first time, he knew that if Ye Feng hadn't stepped forward, the Trail Blazers might have to wait until the last moment even if they won. In his opinion, Ye Feng, who has been baptized in the finals, has become more mature and more leader-like, if it weren't for his decisive command in the fourth quarter, how could the firepower of the Sun only score 11 points in a single quarter?
Roy patted Ye Feng on the shoulder and whispered, "Boy, do a good job!" The future is yours. ā