A week later, the 76ers completed the first wave of training before the season officially began.

The training camps were all closed, and the outside media were curious, but they couldn't get any information.

It wasn't until the start of the preseason that the 76ers were photographed outside the season that the Philadelphia media got some inconsequential information and the opportunity to interview the players.

To Steface's delight, it was just an inconsequential make-up photo, and there were already a lot of yellow-skinned reporters in the stadium, and of course he knew why these reporters came, and he was happy to do so.

After the press release day, the NBA's one-year preseason season quietly began.

Preseason, as the name suggests, is the game that starts before the season. It is also known as the warm-up game, which helps the team to adjust and run in the lineup before the long regular season, and improve the communication between the players and the coach.

In the past, the NBA often held preseason games overseas, which not only promoted the NBA, but also accelerated the internationalization process of the NBA. After 9/11, the NBA canceled all overseas games. But this season, the NBA has opened new overseas games, the Rockets and Nets, and last season's preseason games with two Chinese players were held in China.

The schedule of the 76ers preseason has long been determined, and the first game is the Chicago Bulls, who just signed the powerful power forward Carlos Boozer with 5 years and 80 million this year.

The strength of the Bulls should not be underestimated, they have steadily reached the quarterfinals in the last two seasons, recruited in the offseason, and even the coach has been replaced by a defensive maniac - Tom Thibodeau, plus the team's super point guard Derrick Rose, has a faint temperament to dominate the Central Division.

Two days later, the 76ers flew to Chicago, an hour's journey.

Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with the magnificent Lake Michigan to the east, and is one of the famous international financial centers. In this area of more than 6,000 square kilometers, the greatest player in the history of basketball was born - Michael Jordan, in the world basketball, when talking about Chicago, you will think of the Bulls, you will think of that god-like man.

Tang Wenlong didn't expect that he would encounter such a legendary team in his first NBA game.

I was a little apprehensive and a little excited.

Prior to this, head coach Doug Collins should have been a person with more complicated feelings besides Tang Wenlong, thinking that back then, His Majesty the Flying Man descended like a god and shocked the alliance. Starting in '86, the Bulls hired Doug Collins as the team's head coach and then traded the eighth-pick Alden Polynes for a second-round pick in '87 and a first-round pick for the next '89 or '90 pick for Scottie Pippen.

Pippen is amazingly talented and has outstanding potential, but he has not grown to the peak of his power during Collins' time in charge, and it was not until Collins was replaced by Phil Jackson that Pippen became the top small forward in the NBA.

The predecessors planted flowers, and the later generations bore fruit, and the Bulls team built by Collins ended up becoming someone else's dowry. The world only knows that Phil Jackson led the Bulls to six championships, but they didn't know that before that, a young coach named Collins took the Bulls to the Eastern Conference Finals, which they hadn't made in 15 years.

However, time has passed, and more than 20 years have passed, and the events of the past are as if they were yesterday.

Collins sighed.

After everyone got off the plane, they got on the airport bus and drove to the hotel arranged by the government.

Tang Wenlong leaned his back on the seat of the team bus, thinking about the homework he had done before.

In the Bulls' starting lineup, Derrick Rose is the well-deserved offensive core, and the third-year who just turned 22 this year is the most popular spicy chicken in the league today. He averaged 20.8 points and 6.0 assists per game in the regular season last year, shooting 48.9 percent from the field, and his stunning pull-up layups have become Rose's signature moves.

As a member of the team's guard line, Tang Wenlong really needs to seriously study Rose's offensive skills.

To be honest, there's nothing special about it.

In a word, the amplitude is large, the speed is fast, and the confrontation is strong.

Rose's front body change direction is the same as Tang Wenlong's, but because of his height, his front body changes to a lower center of gravity, which deepens his penetrating power. What's even more terrifying is that Rose's breakthrough showed an incredible acceleration after the first step, and usually after he passed it in one step, he could only eat ashes behind Rose.

So, Rose's breakthrough was recognized as the top by the league.

Collins said to Tang Wenlong: "This season, our 76ers roster is actually under a lot of competitive pressure, you, Jrue Holiday (PG), Andres Nocioni (SF), Louis Williams (PG/SG), Andre Iguodala (SG/SF) are the main rotation players, hesitating from the height consideration, the main future will put you more on the wing, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

"It's going to be a swing man." Tang Wenlong always felt a little unbelievable when he remembered what Collins said to him during the training camp, as if he had suddenly swayed from the point guard position in college to the wing position.

If I grow taller in the future, will I be used by the coach to play inside? Tang Wenlong's brain was opened.

Today, when he browsed the official website of the 76ers team on his mobile phone, he suddenly found that the official website of the 76ers had changed his role to a scoring guard, and the height column was even more outrageously changed to 2.01 meters.

After a night's rest, Tang Wenlong walked into the United Center Arena in Chicago with the team.

After this period of getting along, Tang Wenlong has become quite familiar with his teammates, like the best guy in the team should be Jason Capono, the three-point king from California; The most defensive small moves in the team is the Argentine Andres Nocioni, known as the "bright shoulder and dark elbow small flying kick", which made the rookie Tang Wenlong miserable when he was training in the team, calling him a great god, and it is rumored that when the great god was at his peak, he overturned the American Dream Team and won the Olympic gold medal.

The atmosphere in the 76ers team is also relatively relaxed, since Iverson left, the team's exposure in the NBA has not been high, there is no strong strength, not as bad as the belly, belongs to the typical tepid type of team.

The selection of Tang Wenlong with the list eye this year is already the biggest thing after signing with Elton three years ago.

Tang Wenlong, the only rookie in the team, has become a well-deserved little brother in the team, and Holiday is about the same age as him.

And Holiday was unhappy for a while when the team just selected Tang Wenlong, thinking that the team would compress his playing time after selecting Tang Wenlong, and when he learned that Tang Wenlong would play more as a wing player in the new season, this little mood gradually dissipated.

But even so, when training with Tang Wenlong, the two of them were not particularly eye-to-eye.

Tang Wenlong himself feels like there is no difference, but in Holiday eyes, Tang Wenlong sometimes occupies a lot of the ball in the wing position, and he feels that Tang Wenlong is particularly obsessed with attacking with the ball. Although this is just an old problem left over from Tang Wenlong's college days as a point guard

Fortunately, both of them are now only role players on the team, and although they cooperate with each other a little less, they are harmless.

In a preseason game like today's, apart from the local media of the two teams, few TV stations will broadcast it, after all, it is just a warm-up game that does not count.

The audience in the United Arena was also sparse, barely enough for a small phalanx.

This made Tang Wenlong, who was accustomed to watching dense audiences on TV, a little disappointed, he looked at the huge and luxurious arena and found that the open space was not as good as the gymnasium in college.

Some viewers waved cheer sticks weakly, and many more were either playing with their phones or drinking drinks and eating snacks.

"The atmosphere seems to be a little worse than the university." Tang Wenlong has seen those crazy fans in college, at that time, even in the warm-up game before the start of the season, there were many hardcores to cheer on the scene, and he remembers that at that time, there were quite a lot of spectators booing him during the warm-up game, thinking that he did not live up to his name.

Thinking of this, the corners of Tang Wenlong's mouth curled slightly.

Collins, who had been observing Tang Wenlong's reaction on the sidelines, nodded with satisfaction, and when he saw Tang Wenlong's natural appearance, he had a higher evaluation of him in his heart.

A few minutes later, the starters of both teams were in their positions, and after several cameras were set up, the referee on duty walked into the court with the basketball in his hand.

There are generally three referees in the NBA, and in addition to the referee on duty, there are also two referees on the sideline. The three referees always maintain a triangle with each other in order to enforce the decision from all angles.

The 76ers' starting lineup features Holiday (PG), Iguodala (SG), Capono (SF), Elton Brand (PF) and Spencer Hawes (C).

The starting lineup of the Bulls features Derrick Rose (PG), Keith Bogans (SG), Roel Deng (SF), Ty Gibson (PF) and Joakim Noah (C).

The basketball was thrown into the air, and Bulls center Joakim Noah roared and scrambled into the sky.

On the 76ers' side, Hawes pouted and tried to jump thirty centimeters, watching as Noah racketed the ball back into their own half with a huge half-arm advantage

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