Chapter 111: Golden State Bandits
After about two hours, around half past seven, other players appeared in the stadium, and when it was eight o'clock, all the players barely arrived, and when they saw Jiang Yang in the stadium, they had some surprises.
Because except for the Big Three, as well as those pure third-line substitutes who came here to train yesterday, no one else has seen Jiang Yang.
So now there are still some surprises to see Jiang Yang here, but it is also a common thing for some people to come here for trials, and no one cares, with the arrival of Pierce, Ray Allen and Garnett, the team is finally here, and under the whistle of assistant coach Hiberdu, all the people gathered.
"Today, we have welcomed a newcomer in our group, Jiang Yang, everyone is welcome." As usual, first of all, I want to introduce Jiang Yang, and then ask Jiang Yang the number he wants to pick, and Jiang Yang's number is still 66.
The team staff over there had already prepared clothes for Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang started today's training with other players, because it was the beginning of the season, so the amount of training was a bit large, but Jiang Yang, who had been up in the morning to train, enjoyed it a lot, and he didn't think that he could play here when he came here, he was not so naïve.
"Are you still used to it?" At lunchtime, Pierce deliberately came to Jiang Yang's side with his dishes and asked.
"It's fine! Hehe. Although Jiang Yang has not officially joined the NBA now, he has a place here.
So he was very excited, otherwise he wouldn't have come over early in the morning to train.
"Adapt well, and if you have the opportunity to play, you must seize the opportunity!" Looking at Jiang Yang, Pierce patted him on the shoulder with laughter, and then buried his head in hardship, Americans don't like to talk about things during meals.
After eating a nutritious meal at noon, the afternoon is the time for a lunch break, because there is still a game in the evening, and the core three of the team are already old, and the three of them together are more than a hundred years old.
Without that energy and stamina, after training in the afternoon, they could still play in the evening, so in the afternoon, with the light of these three bosses, the Green Army never trained, but took a nap, or did what they liked.
Later in the evening, Doug Rivers announced his 12-man squad for tonight's game.
The main players are definitely those five, the center is Kendrick Perkins, the power forward Kevin Garnett, the small forward Paul Pearce, the shooting guard Ray Allen, the point guard Rajon Rondo, the main bench, Rasheed Wallace, Eddie House, and Marquis Daniels are confirmed to attend, so that there are only four seats left in the 12-man squad, the first seat is for Shalton Williams, the second seat is for Jr Giddens, and the third seat is for Lester Hudson, Finally, Doug Rivers glanced at the other players on the sidelines, thought about it and pointed to Jiang Yang's body.
"No. 66, Jiang, and you!" Listening to Doug Rivers' words, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment, originally he estimated that he might have a chance to play on the ninth or tenth day, and this is only the first day, and he will be able to play?
"Uh, yes, Coach!" Although Jiang Yang was very excited in his heart, he was very flat on the surface.
"Congratulations, maybe you have a chance to play, you have to perform well." Seeing that Jiang Yang actually entered the list, Pierce also laughed, after all, this young man was recommended by himself, and his entry into the list was always an affirmation of himself.
At 7:00 p.m. on November 18, 2009, the Warriors' bus was parked at the Celtics' home stadium, in the parking lot of the North Shore Garden Arena, and there was a lot of media outside, because before that, the Green Army had lost two in a row.
This time against the Warriors with a particularly fast offensive pace, who loses and who wins is really uncertain, after the warm-up, the main players on both sides entered, and the main force on the side of the Green Army is still those five people, these five people are generally thunderous.
As for the Warriors, the starters are a little ugly, starting center Mickey Moore, starting power forward Corey Margetty, starting small forward Feradimir Radmanovic, starting point guard Stephen Curry, starting point guard is Monta Ellis, such a lineup is actually really miserable...... Nelson Sr. was indeed a good coach, but he didn't have any great soldiers.
Monta Ellis is very good in his own right, but because he has been involved in trade rumors recently, his attitude is not too high.
Previously, the Warriors averaged 111.2 points per game, and if they played such a statistic today, the Green Army would be miserable, and under the referee's whistle, the game on both sides began, and Garnett and the opposing Mickey Moore both jumped up at the first time and slapped the basketball in the air, even if Garnett is now old.
But it's not something that a little Mickey Moore can bully, and he shoots the basketball directly to Rondo.
After Rondo received the ball, he was not in a hurry to advance, but looked at the situation of the players on his side, and then slowly pushed the ball towards the front court.
"No wonder this guy claims to be the best passer among the new generation of point guards." Seeing Rondo's light ball distribution to Ray Allen, who shot directly, Jiang Yang couldn't help but give him a big thumbs in his heart.
The first quarter wasn't particularly intense on either side of the game, as the Warriors didn't run out.
Monta Ellis's absence made the whole team look a little dead. All five of the Green Army's starters scored, with Ray Allen scoring a team-high six, while the Warriors' had the best performance today with Margety, known as the 'mercenary', scoring a game-high seven, while Monta Ellis had only seven points.
In the first quarter, the Green Army led the Warriors by four points 27-23 into the second quarter, but the second quarter had just begun, and the Green Army's bench was provoked by the Warriors' balls. But his role has been infinitely weakened, even against a weak team like the Warriors.
In terms of benches, the Green Army did not have an advantage, and was scored four points in a row by Randolph of the Warriors at the first time to pull the score back.
Fortunately, Perkins, who had not yet left the court, stood up in a hurry and scored a single score under the basket, but then Margeti also made a shot, and the scores on both sides began to entangle, looking at the performance of his side of the bench, Doug Rivers's brows were wrinkled and sad, there was no way, and now the entire Green Army, the main lineup is still very complete.
But there are indeed some problems with the bench lineup, although Rasheed Wallace was introduced, but his arrival, at present, only makes these old guys in the team more and more temperamental, and the contribution to the team is almost non-existent, and it is not even worthy of the previous role of James Posey in the team, which is also the most unhappy place for Doug Rivers, looking at the substitute players around him, Doug Rivers is really a little uncertain.
"Try the rookie?" This thought flashed in Doug Rivers's mind, and then the coach felt that this might not be an opportunity, and glanced at Jr Giddens next to him and Jiang Yang in the distance, Doug Rivers' eyes narrowed, and at this time, the second quarter had just started 3 minutes, and the score on both sides had come to a 32-32 tie, and the Green Army had the ball.
"Prepare to pause! JR and Jiang, you guys go warm up! Looking at JR Giddens and Jiang Yang next to him, Doug Rivers said, hearing the head coach's words, Jiang Yang and JR Giddens both stood up and stretched their arms on the sidelines.
And Eddie House, who is on the field, also knows that he can't open the situation, so he must make way for the newcomers and give the newcomers a chance.
So he didn't give up too much, and after dribbling past half court, he called a timeout and returned to the sidelines.
"Jiang and JR, JR plays point guard, Jiang plays point guard, Kendrick still stays on the court, you have to pay attention to the interior offense, Rashid can pull it out, give Ken a chance to do singles!" Taking advantage of the 30-second short timeout, Doug Rivers kept explaining the tactics to the players after resuming the game, and Jiang Yang and they also listened carefully.
As the referee's whistle sounded, the players also went on the court in turn, Jiang Yang, who was originally a little nervous off the court, calmed down after coming to the court, after all, after three copies, he is no stranger to the NBA arena.
"Calmed down so quickly? Not bad! Although Jiang Yang and they played, Doug Rivers' eyes did not leave him and Jr Giddens, seeing Jiang Yang return to calm so quickly, Rivers was also a little surprised.
"Oh, let's see who's coming, Coach Rivers made a new substitution, with J.R. Giddens and a rookie named Jiang coming on and replacing Eddie House and Lester Hudson, and it seems that Coach Rivers is not very happy with their performance." The on-site commentator introduced the audience very seriously.
For Jr-Giddens, the audience on the sidelines is no stranger, last year's No. 30 rookie, but just arrived in the Green Army, and was sent to the NBDL before he could play, and he just came back this year, to see how he is.
And Jiang Yang, everyone doesn't know much about this, because Jiang Yang is very unfamiliar to American audiences.
Americans are unlikely to watch the CBA, let alone watch programs like the National Street Basketball Three-Person Invitational Tournament, which is not even as good as the CBA.
Jiang Yang and Jr-Giddens, it can be said that they are relatively new people, just came to the court, Jiang Yang is very calm, but JR is a little nervous, the player he is facing at this time is Stephen Curry, this year's No. 6 rookie, with a baby face, but don't think that his baby face is easy to bully, this guy is an out-and-out killer.
Curry is known as a 360-degree shooter around the clock, of course, this is his nickname before entering the NBA, it can be seen from this point that his shooting is very threatening, and after entering the NBA, because of Monta Ellis on offense, his offensive ability has been infinitely contracted, and the old Nelson is now building him into a point guard.
Even if this was not his position originally, but now Curry has done it as well, this is the difference between talent and ordinary players, Jr-Giddens, who dribbled for the first time, was careless, and was almost pulled out by Curry from behind, but fortunately, he was lucky, the basketball was not taken away, but he didn't dare to move, and handed it to Perkins on the inside.
Perkins took the ball and squeezed it inside, but he didn't finish squeezing away the opposing center, and the shot was also ironed.
The current players on both sides of the court are as follows, Green Army, center Perkins, power forward Wallace, small forward Daniels, scoring guard Jiang Yang, point guard Jr Giddens, Warriors point guard is Stephen Curry, scoring guard is Raja Bell, small forward Anthony Morrow, power forward Anthony Randolph, center is Corey Margetty.
Jiang Yang is the first time against the Warriors, since the old Nelson joined the Warriors, the Warriors' offensive rhythm has accelerated significantly, and now it is the same, the Warriors' half-court advancement, in Jiang Yang's view, is really very fast.
In terms of pure arena advancement, perhaps only the Suns can compare to them, Curry's fast dribbling pushed into the halfcourt, and in the face of Jr. Giddens, he did not rush to shoot, but chose to break through.
Curry's body is not too strong, but his speed is not slow, and a wrong step has already passed to Jr-Giddens's side, and Giddens barely had time to react, and was wiped half of his body by the opponent.
However, his energy has always been very concentrated, so he immediately turned around and defended his opponent.
When it comes to speed, Jr-Giddens may not be good, but when it comes to power, he's definitely a level better than Curry.
Curry didn't see anything good to do, so he could only pass the ball outside and give it to Raga Bell.
Laga Bell, the league's second-best outside defender in the past decade, the first best is Bowen, because Bowen can Bao three-footed, and now he has been learned by Jiang Yang, and Laga Bell is known as the second, mainly because he can lock his throat.
Laga Bell's defense is absolutely top in the league, when the OK combination is rampant in the league, no one can defend the sharks, and no one can defend Kobe, and the only one in the league who can defend Kobe is Bale.
Later, when it came to the Suns, the Suns had almost no team defense at that time, and they only had two defensive routines.
The defense on the inside is given to Marion, and the defense on the outside is given to Raja Bale, so it can be seen that his defense is really strong, but compared to these defensive masters, their offensive ability is a little worse.
Basically, he only shoots three points, and Bale also wants to shoot three points after receiving the ball, but Jiang Yang's defense pounces almost instantly, spreads his arms, and constantly interferes with Raja Bell in front of him.
Jiang Yang's defensive attitude and defensive awareness are absolutely no problem, seeing Jiang Yang's tight defense, Bell was stunned for a moment.
It was at this moment that he was stunned, Jiang Yang saw the opportunity and directly cut the ball and cut off the basketball in his hand.
Immediately bending down and picking it up is a quick attack, and no one thought that Jiang Yang would be able to cut the opponent's ball off at the beginning.
Of course, this also has something to do with Bale's underestimation of the enemy, after all, in his opinion, Jiang Yang is just a little rookie who has not participated in the draft, and such newcomers basically have hundreds in the NBA every year, but they all just get a box lunch and go down.
Who knows that this little newcomer is really ruthless, he dares to cut the ball when he comes up, and if he doesn't cut it well, it's a foul.
But now, no case, Jiang Yang has already dribbled past half court, and the Green Army and other players of the Warriors team also ran over, and after a look at the situation behind him, Jiang Yang did not attack by himself, because Curry had already run over at this time.
Jiang Yang didn't believe that his speed was as fast as him, and it was estimated that when Jiang Yang ran to the basket, he also rushed over.
So when Jiang Yang was advancing, he suddenly braked with a sudden stop, Curry, who was chasing closely behind him, did not brake, and rushed out directly, and Daniels behind him did not stop and ran out, seeing that Jiang Yang wanted to jump, Curry immediately adjusted his body and pounced towards Jiang Yang, but at the moment when he pounced, Jiang Yang directly passed the basketball to Daniels, who was slipping under the basket, Daniels was stunned when he received the ball, but now there was no one around him. He was stunned for a moment, and it took about a second for him to react and score the basketball.
And Curry here just jumped to Jiang Yang's side, looking at Jiang Yang's pass, Curry was a little helpless.
When I was a child, everyone played a game, this kind of game is called 'Slipping King Ba' in Jiang Yang's hometown, that is, a few children stand up, and then start throwing the ball, there is a person in the middle who wants to grab the ball, and whoever grabs it will be replaced to grab it.
Now Jiang Yang and Daniels are playing a game like this, and Curry is the eighth king.
"Oh? The big picture is good! Looking at Jiang Yang's assist on the court, Doug Rivers couldn't help but laugh off the court.
Originally, he also thought that Jiang Yang was just a soy sauce player, but now it seems that this trick doesn't really have two tricks.
(To be continued)