Chapter 39: Preseason Ended
After two days of rest, Osborne also spent a day in the system space to maintain his body, and in the real world Osborne also spent a day in the gym.
Osborne's reputation has risen in the Motor City of Detroit in the past few days, and the Detroit media have reported on Osborne's wonderful game against Lakers player Kobe Bryant in the preseason many times in a row.
On the third day after the game with the Lakers, the game between the Pistons and the Magic team is about to start, the strength of the Magic team is not very strong, nor is it very weak, but there is Maddie in this team, so the Magic team in this period is a little unstable, the reason is not because of Maddy, the leading star.
In fact, Maddie's strength is already at its peak, and the strength of heads-up is not weaker than Iverson, Kobe, Carter, these famous scoring guards in the league, at this time the league's scoring guards are blowing out, known as the pattern of West Co., Ltd., East and North Carolina, South Mai. At this time, the scoring guard handed over the Hakishi to the Porcelain Deng.
However, Osborne also couldn't stop Maddie at his peak, but he was barely abused, Maddie's desire to win this game was not very strong, and he only played two and a half quarters before going down to rest, it seems that he was disappointed in the Magic's inaction management, and it seems that Maddie is about to transfer to the Rockets.
Even so, Maddie also cut 25 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds, and the efficiency is already very high, it may be that Maddie is no longer interested in the scoring champion, and he is tired of cutting points. This Magic team naturally lost to the Pistons, Osborne's data can also be 22 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds quasi-triple-double data, Daco Milicic also abused the Magic team inside to score 18+18 big double-double data. Except for the point of point guard, the Magic team was abused by the Pistons at other positions, and the Pistons beat the Magic team 119-99.
The atmosphere of the Pistons team is getting better and better, the degree of tacit understanding is getting higher and higher, and the old players and rookies also have a certain degree of recognition for each other, but this is just harmony on the road to victory, and it is impossible to say what kind of infighting the Pistons will have after a losing streak.
After defeating the Magic team, the Pistons will play against foreign teams, this is a European team, Neursfka, the strength of some foreign national basketball teams is still very strong during this period, including the Argentine team that won the 04 Olympic basketball championship, and the Greek team, which has been the European hegemon, are all powerful teams that have defeated the American Dream Team.
Of course, this Newsfka is not a strong team, but in line with international humanitarianism, the Pistons respect this team very much, and send all the players to play, and they didn't give the other side much slaughter, just won 140-101 by 39 points, and then the Pistons went up all the substitutes in the bench, and even this Newlsfka player couldn't shoot this damn basketball.
The Pistons had 8 double-doubles, and every player scored, Osborne scored a 14+10+11 mini-triple-double, watching the players of this team show some doubts in the end, and the Pistons are not embarrassed to fight to the death.
It seems that the development level of basketball in various countries in the world is very uneven, basically Europe and the United States are dominant, and only the people of the Celestial Empire in Asia can make a little trouble for those strong teams by relying on their height advantage.
Osborne couldn't figure out how this powerful American dream team could have lost in the international arena in a row, losing to Argentina at the 04 Sydney Olympics and losing to Spain with only a dazzling bronze medal.
In the '06 World Championships, the American Dream Team lost again, and only won a heavy bronze medal, and the championship was Greek.
After playing international friendlies, the Pistons' record is two wins in three games, and there are two games left to go, the Pistons' preseason is over, and the Pistons' regular season roster will be announced. In fact, Osborne feels that he should be able to get the starting position, but he and Richard Hamilton have some conflicts at the point guard position, and they have conflicts with Chauncey Billups at point guard.
And during this period, the Pistons only had some shortcomings in the power forward position, because Rasheed Wallace was not on the Pistons, but don't worry, if memory serves, Richard Hamilton received an elbow in the face during the game, and he has been recuperating for a few weeks, and Osborne should be active in this period to try to stand in the starting position.
Pistons head coach Larry Brown is also a headache for this problem, but let's do it for the time being, and it works well.
The next game is to play with the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves at this time are the hegemons of the West, the wolf king Kevin Garnett is at the peak of his life, the Timberwolves performed well in the regular season, Garnett won the regular season MVP of the 03~04 season, but the playoffs did not go further, reaching the finals, and the strength of the Timberwolves declined year by year, until the Wolf King Garnett, joined the Boston Celtics, the forest was completely rebuilt, and it was hovering in the lottery area all year round.
Hesitation is not the regular season, the wolf king Kevin Garnett chose to take a break, not surprisingly, the Pistons won 100:98 with the efficient execution of the players, and the victory against the Timberwolves made the Pistons very excited, you must know that the Timberwolves are the first in the West, although they lack the star Kevin Garnett, but with the strength of other players, the Timberwolves are still very powerful, especially the famous horse commissar lone wolf Marbury, who played very well, crazy cut 45 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals of super data, But there is no doubt that there are almost no assists, and it is worthy of being a lone wolf.
Osborne had a bad hand in this game, hitting only 4 of 15 shots, scoring 10 points and barely passing the double, but fortunately there was a beautiful pass that helped Osborne save face and get 9 assists.
After this game, the Pistons will return to their home court to face the visiting Eastern team Cavaliers, which is really a meeting of the rookies of the class of '03, although the champion LeBron James is not yet the nominal boss of the team, but he is also the team's clearly designated future core.
The Pistons are very calm, because this season the Cavaliers are not in the Pistons' consideration at all, so Larry Brown also went along with the water, and sent all the rookies of the 03 class to start, so that the main force took turns to rest, in fact, Osborne was also very excited, and finally was able to abuse the little emperor LeBron James in the rookie period, James was still very thin during this period, and the style of play was also very elegant, but there were not too many offensive means, similar to Osborne, except for jumpers and passes, There was nothing else in James' subcontract.
However, although the Pistons are intentional, the Cavaliers are ruthless, and they have no intention of reuniting the rookies in the class of 03, and the Cavaliers boss Ricky Davis in this period is also a data brush, a tumor, and is not willing to give up the ball at all, and the Cavaliers coach has no way to do anything about this cancer, so it was originally a rookie exhibition game, but it was made his own exhibition game by Ricky Davis.
Little Emperor James barely got much ball, basically the whole game was delivering shells for other players, there were not many opportunities to perform, Osborne actually wanted to laugh when he saw this, and the unbeatable little emperor James actually had a time when he was suppressed, of course, it was not the strength suppression, but the ball suppression, no wonder Ricky Davis was traded away soon after, otherwise the famous little emperor in the future would also be drowned in Davis's brush.
The Pistons won the Cavaliers bloodlessly, LeBron James scored 8 points and 11 assists, while Osborne scored 22 points and 8 assists, and Daco Milicic also recorded a double-double of 18 points and 13 rebounds.
Although Osborne and Milicic have the advantage in statistics, anyone with a discerning eye knows that if Ricky Davis does not leave, the dignified show will be scrapped by this data brush.
With the end of the game, the Pistons' preseason is over, and they have won four out of five games, although the preseason is not important, but it can be regarded as a rehearsal of tactics in advance, as well as the determination of the regular season player roster.