Chapter 198: The First Joint Practice
With Chris Paul joining the team and the addition of training camp members who have come to practice together, the team has reached 18 players, and the team will need to reduce the roster to less than 15 before the first regular season game in October, which means that at least three of the players standing on the court now will not be able to stay with the team before the start of the season. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The current personnel situation of the team is:
Centres: Al Horford, Tyler Zeller, Kellyolinyk
Power forwards: Amir Johnson, Jonas Jerebko, Ben Bentier, Perry Jones
Small forwards: Jack Crowder, Yahai, Gerard Green, Jordan Mickey
Shooting guards: Brandon Rush, James Young, R.J. Hunter
Playmakers: Chris Paul, Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier, Ronny Staki
The day after Chris Paul arrived at the team and made his official debut, the Celtics players, who were already ambitious to prepare for the new season, held the team's first joint practice under the leadership of head coach Brad Stevenson!
An hour before the joint practice, the team began physical recovery training under the leadership of the assistant coaches, after all, after a period of vacation, although the intensive fitness before the assembly, the players' physical condition has not yet recovered to the best.
After warming up the body, Stevens divided the team into 2 teams, with 9 players on each side, for the first match of the team before the new season!
Although it was a match, because the training had just begun, in order to boost the players' spirit and concentration, Stevens still made a small game with the players when the game was divided into teams, that is, the two All-Star players in the team - Al Horford and Chris Paul were separated, and then like a draft, let them select players separately for teamup!
Al Horford, as the captain of the home team, did not hesitate to choose his partner Amir Johnson on the inside, and when it was Chris Paul's turn, everyone thought that he would choose Jack Crowder, who was the main small forward last season, but he didn't expect that from Paul's mouth, the first name to be pronounced was: "Ye Hai"!
"Ye, come to me." Paul pointed to Ye Hai, who was standing farther out of the crowd.
"Me?" Ye Hai pointed at himself in surprise, although he was very confident in his own strength and was the leader of this rookie, Ye Hai still didn't expect that Paul, who had already become famous in the league, would be the first to pick himself.
"Jay, come over here." Seeing that Paul had picked Yahi, Al Horford immediately called out the name of Jack Crowder, who had a disgruntled expression.
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After the selection of Horford and Paul, the lineup of players led by Horford and Paul on behalf of the home team and the away team is as follows, with the home team wearing white jerseys and the away team wearing black jerseys.
Whites: Al Horford, Amir Johnson, Jack Crowder, Tyler Zeller, Jonas Jerebko, Jordan Mickey, RJ Hunter, Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier
Blacks: Chris Paul, Yahi, Kelly Olynyk, Perry Jones, Ben Bentyr, Gerard Green, James Young, Brandon Rush, Ronny Stucky
The match was refereed by the team's assistant coach Jerome Allen, while head coach Stevens stood on the sidelines with head assistant coach Jamie Young to watch the players on the field.
The five players who started the White team were: center: Al Horford, 2.08m; Power forward: Amir Johnson, 2.06m; Small forward: Jack Crowder, 1.98m; Shooting guard: RJ Hunter, 1.98m; Organizational defender: Maris Smart, 1.93m.
The black team, which is almost entirely composed of newcomers, after some discussion, sent the starting lineup: center: Kelly Olynyk, 2.13 meters; Power forward: Benbentier, 2.06m; Small forward: Ye Hai, 2.01m; Shooting guard: Gerald Green, 2.03m; Organizational defender: Chris Paul, 1.83m.
The white team representing the home team is basically all based on the main team last season, while the black team representing the away team seems to be all athletic, with the fierce Ben Bentier, Gerald Green, who won the slam dunk contest, and Ye Hai, who is amazing in the physical test data!
At Allen's whistle, the away team takes the lead in serving, and the game is divided into two halves, each with 15 minutes each, so this is a 30-minute internal match, with a 5-minute break in between, and the game adopts a scoring system!
In the previous games, he had always played against his peers, but when he came to the Celtics, Ye Hai instantly became the youngest player on the team, but even so, Ye Hai did not have any stage fright! On the contrary, I am full of confidence and very excited to look forward to the start of the game, the first more formal game after I arrived in the United States!
After the start of the game, Paul took the lead in possession of the ball, and Smart, who had a fierce style of play, launched a ferocious pressing just after Paul just passed the half, and the average defender would inevitably panic in the face of this kind of pressing, but for Paul, this was just a piece of cake, and he did not pay too much attention to Smart's pressing, even in the face of the opponent's fierce defense, Paul still dribbled the ball steadily, and raised his head at the same time, always observing the position and running of the players on the court.
Just when Paul was slowly dribbling the ball, he suddenly started with an acceleration, and instantly threw Smart, who was 10cm taller than himself, beside him, and Smart, who was originally defending face-to-face, could only stick to Paul from the side at this time.
"So fast!" All the players couldn't help but think to themselves when they saw Paul's start.
Just when he had just broken through Smart's defense less than two steps, and when everyone was surprised by Paul's speed, Paul had already raised his hand to pass the ball in the direction of the basket!
Ye Hai, who was still standing outside the three-point line, was waiting for Paul's pass, and then made the choice of shooting or passing, but saw that Gerard Green had quickly run to the basket from the baseline, received Paul's just right pass in the air, and made an empty dunk to take the lead for the black team! 2-0
When Ye Hai was running back, Paul leaned in and said, "This is not a youth team, I need you to run, buddy!" ”
Hearing this, Ye Hai immediately nodded and said, "I know!" ”
And Paul, who returned to the half, clapped his hands after high-fives with Green after the goal, and reminded: "Cheer up, even if it's a confrontation within the team, we can't lose!" ”
"Yes!" The black players on the pitch responded to Paul.
"Hey, it's time for us to attack, let Chris and his team see the strength of our white team!" As the captain of the white team, Al Horford was also an immediate inspiration to his team's players.
"That's great! Chris and Al! Stevens, who was standing on the sidelines, looked at the two teams that played a fighting spirit at the beginning, and he was very happy! (To be continued.) )