Chapter 548: A new season begins
Osborne has not heard anything outside the window for the past four months, and he only focuses on practicing the ball, and he doesn't care about the team's draft, after all, the rookie in 05 has no gold content, the only thing worth noting is that the Utah Jazz selected the flower show Deron Williams and the New Orleans Hornets selected the fourth rookie Chris Paul, like the champion show Andrew Bogut and the list show Marvin Williams can only be said to be a qualified NBA player, and they have no famous records. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Why did Osborne pay attention to these two men? Deron Williams also lingered for a long time as the league's No. 1 point guard, rivaled Chris Paul, and led the Utah Jazz to knock out the Rockets several times.
And Chris Paul is a good friend of the little emperor LeBron James, although the two have been separated by two years, but the relationship between the two has been good, plus the later Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, known as the four heroes in the league.
Since the Pistons are still a championship team and don't have any trade picks, they only drafted a power forward rookie Jason Markhill in the first round and a shooting guard rookie Alex Ark in the second round.
Osborne didn't know that there was such a person in the league, so the Pistons also sent these two rookie players to play in the development league directly after the end of the summer league, and these two rookies did not perform as well in the summer league as the rookies, after all, Larry Brown didn't want these two guys to occupy two spots for nothing.
Osborne didn't play much in the preseason, the first preseason game was played in the Pistons' home arena, the game was full of fans, in order to thank the fans for their love, Osborne played for a while in the first quarter of the game, their first opponent in the preseason was the Orlando Magic team in the East, this year's Magic team has not changed much, but the strength of the Magic team has been greatly improved, the most important thing is that Dwight Howard, the champion show, has made great progress after a season of running-in.
Larry Brown didn't directly send all the main lineups, but took them apart, starting with Pistons core Osborne, with Chauncey Billups, Daco Milicic, Elden Campbell, and Derrick Coleman to play first.
The Orlando Magic didn't seem to have any desire to win, but they just put the champion show Dwight Howard on the court to practice, and none of the other main players played.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Dwight Howard took the lead in grabbing the rebound and handed the ball to his teammates, but the Magic's first offense was a failure, Dwight Howard quickly ran to the basket to signal the point guard that he could dunk in the air, but was stopped by Daco Milicic, who was also tall and long-armed, Osborne was very surprised to see Daco Milicic still have such a steal, it seems that Daco Milicic has not worked hard, but it's right to think about it, now the Pistons are a two-time championship team, If you don't work on your abilities, you won't be able to gain a foothold in the Pistons.
Dacomi Milisic passed the basketball to Chaunsip Billups, and then Osborne also went down, Osborn was very fast, Chaunsi Billups passed the basketball directly to Osborne's hand, Osborne jumped up with a standard three-step layup to score the ball, and caused Dwight Howard's foul, Dwight Howard wanted to use his height advantage to cap the basket, but unfortunately the current Dwight Howard defensive ability needs to be strengthened.
Osborne easily scored a free throw, and the Pistons temporarily took the lead, but then the Pistons did not relax their vigilance, and still used the high-intensity defense of the finals to defend against the Magic team, so the Magic team repeatedly made low-level mistakes, and the Pistons continued to play defensive counterattacks, Osborne felt that such a game was really boring and played symbolically for a few minutes, and went down to rest after scoring 13 points.
Then Larry Brown sent in a combination of Richard Hamilton, Tysha Amprims, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Lynsey Hunter, and Mike James, which made the Magic team even more devastated.
The Magic also symbolically resisted two quarters and surrendered directly, because the game was too big, and finally the Pistons ended the game 77-53 after four quarters.
The second preseason game is against the Mavericks, a strong team in the West, if Osborne remembers correctly, this Mavericks will rise this year, because the Mavericks went all the way to the finals and directly entered the finals against the Heat, but it is a pity that in the situation of leading 2:0, the Heat won four games in a row to win the game, making Dwyane Wade a god.
However, the Pistons did not intend to treat this game as a preseason game, and the Mavericks obviously thought so, with the main force being exhausted, with center Josh Howard, power forward Dirk Nowitzki, small forward Marquis Daniels, scoring guard Michael Finley, and point guard Jason Terry.
Osborne feels that the Mavericks' lineup is really strong, and there are Eric Dampier, Jerry Starkerhouse, Keith Van Horn, Devin Harris on the bench, no wonder the Mavericks can have the luxury of sending Steve Nash's two regular season MVPs to the Suns, the lineup is really too strong, and there is no way to keep Steve Nash.
The Pistons' side is not inferior, and it is also the main force, center Ben Wallace, power forward Rasheed Wallace, small forward Tysha Ann Princes, scoring guard Osborne, point guard Chancey Billups, look at this lineup to know that Larry Brown is careful, Larry Brown wants to make Osborne a swing man, specifically towards the opponent's weak defensive position.
At the beginning of the game, Ben Wallace chatted about the old man and went crazy, beating Josh Howard to grab the basketball, and then all the players of the Pistons ran all the way, Chauncy Billups as a setter, directly passed the basketball to Taysha Amples, Taysian Prince did not stop the ball and passed the basketball to Osborn, who stood at a 45-degree angle of the three-point line, Osborne was very simply facing Michael Finley and threw out a random three-pointer, and this random three-point shot was also neatly scored.
Osborne took the lead as a core player, and the core of the Mavericks' side, Dirk Nowitzki, was not able to respond, so Jason Terry was also very timely, advancing quickly with the basketball, and at this time, Dirk Nowitzki also stood at the top of the arc, Jason Terry did not hesitate to pass the basketball to Dirk Nowitzki, and Dirk Nowitzki also ignored Rasheed Wallace's defense and directly used his unsolvable skills Golden Rooster Independent also returned a three-point shot. (To be continued.) )