Chapter 38: Tantrums

"Rookie, I'm going to make you feel the difference between the NBA and the NCAA. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Sprewell looked at Lehi with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

Although Lehi is a second-round pick, he is not low in popularity because of the NCAA, and these old NBA fritters don't mind teaching the NCAA Final Four MOP a lesson.

"If you had played against me in the first half, you would have made an impressive debut, like a big duck egg or something."

Sprewell was also very close to Lehi when he spoke, and Lehi kept running and finally received a ball, and he immediately stuck to it.

Li Hai understands that in the professional league, you can't lose your cool, but you can't show weakness, you can't stand tough on the court, and you will be eliminated soon.

Seeing that it was so tightly attached, Lehi immediately shook his body and squeezed out, and after squeezing out a little space, he immediately dribbled and rushed into it three steps high, jumped high, and threw the ball in Sprewell's head.

"If I had played against you in the first half, I might have scored 20 points."

The shot gave Lehi confidence, and he then seized the opportunity to hit three more shots, and the Knicks also won by two points in the third quarter.

But in the fourth quarter, Lehi was replaced again.

Even if he is in good shape, as a rookie, the coach is not worried about leaving him on the field at critical moments.

In the first game, both sides wanted a good start, Li Hai was anxious sitting on the sidelines, he was more concerned about whether he could stay on the field in the end than the starter, and it was too depressing to watch the team decide the game.

In the first regular season, Lehi had 11 points and 6 rebounds, but the Knicks still lost in the end.

93:96, the gap between the two sides is 6 points, and he is a little unwilling.

"You're playing well, that old man at Wilkens is too rigid, and you should be left on the court in the end." After the game, Xia Weiliang, who came to watch the game, said indignantly.

Li Hai smiled bitterly: "The coach is still good, he gave me 20 minutes in the first game, and I will make him believe in me more as soon as possible." ”

"Well, you're sure you can, it looks like I'm going to buy a season ticket, hehe."

"Don't you say I forgot, I'll buy this, I'm also a man with a job, how can I let my girlfriend spend money to support me, I can get a ticket, a meal, a sleep, three guarantees."

After losing the first game of the season, the manager analysed the game the next day and re-emphasised the importance of sharing the ball and defending as hard as possible.

After the team's training, Lehi stayed to practice as usual.

In addition to him, Stephen Marbury, Jamal Crawford, and Kurt Thomas are all working hard, and the others are just average.

The Knicks' second game was an away game against the Celtics, and Lehi had come here for a tryout, but unfortunately the opponent didn't really want him, and several players they selected, Tony Allen, Al Jefferson and others also performed well in summer league and preseason.

After the Lakers disbanded F4, Gary Payton came to the Celtics as the starting No. 1 spot, and this season the Celtics are also competitive in the East.

Their starting No. 2 was Ricky Davis, No. 3 was Paul "The Truth" Pearce, No. 4 Reeve Lafrenz and No. 5 Mark Blunt.

The Knicks lineup remains the same, Marbury and Crawford stopped the head coach's words, and they didn't shoot so wildly, but it felt more awkward than the constant shots on the court.

They don't know if they are unhappy with Wilkens' tactics or if they really don't adapt to this style of play, not only do they not share good balls, but they lose their combat effectiveness.

On the Celtics' side, Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis were hot and led them into double digits in less than a moment.

Coach Wilkens frowned, seeing that the state of the main team was so poor, he changed to the substitute lineup step by step.

Paul Pearce's name is loud enough, and Lehi wants to have a good test against him.

After he got on the court, he stared at the other party, and after Walker left, Paul Pierce was already the absolute boss of the team, and a senior like Payton could only give him a hand.

After half-time, Paul Pierce leaned directly on Lehi to get the ball, he was about the same height as Lehi, but he weighed a little more and had a lot of strength.

After receiving the ball, Pierce turned around and tried to take a step, started to rush inside two steps, then turned around and sat down twice, then turned over and jumped, the whole action was done in one go, Lehi was a step late when he wanted to seal his shooting route, and the basketball accurately fell into the basket.

Lehi also wanted to play more against the other side, but the Celtics also rotated and replaced high forward Tom Gugliotta.

Tom Gugliotta is 2.08 meters tall and used to be a leading scorer, but now that he is old and his knees are not good, Lehi took the opportunity to use his movement speed to shake off the opponent's defense and score 8 points in a row, but the rest of the Knicks team is very sluggish.

The NBA arena is not a university, there are so many ruthless characters, the Knicks don't score, but the Celtics keep scoring.

The Knicks trailed by nearly 20 points at halftime, and by the time the second half was rotated, the team had lost by 30 points and was completely destroyed.

Li Haihai went up and quickly scored 5 points, but it didn't help at all.

Head coach Lenny Wilkens turned pale, and when it was almost the end of the third quarter, he chose to give up, and simply replaced Lehi with some marginal people to see if there was any gain.

It is obviously not normal for Lehi to score 13 points in this game, but he is tied with another backup forward, Michael Sweetney, for the highest score on the Knicks.

At the beginning, he lost two in a row, and no one was comfortable.

The next day's training, the team was still lifeless, Lehi really couldn't stand it, although the Knicks' current lineup is not very good, but it can't be regarded as a fish belly, and the loss to the Celtics was too much.

After hesitating a few times, he walked up to the team's boss, Marbury, "Stephen, I think you should help bring the team together......"

Before he could finish speaking, Marbury interrupted him fiercely, "Rookie, are you here to tell me what to do, do you think I ruined the unity of the team, this is not a school, are we sitting together and shouting slogans?" ”

"No, Stephen, I just want the team to win, I think we have the quality to win more." Lehi explained that he didn't want the atmosphere on the team to get worse.

"****, who doesn't want to win, what I hate the most is losing, everything I do is to win the game." Marbury yelled.

Then he shouted at everyone: "Damn, the team can't even stand the newcomers when they lose, you all give Lao Tzu some spirits, if you don't win again, no one wants to have a good life." ”