Chapter 9 Pre-season Training

On September 15, 1997, the Boston Celtics preseason camp began at the Celtics Training Gym, where Jonny met all of his teammates.

Dana Barros, who entered the NBA in 1989, was a leading guard at Boston University before joining the Celtics in 1995. As a super three-point shooter who has scored 197 three-pointers in a single season, Danabaros is still capable of making three-pointers despite entering the end of his career, which is why Rick Pitino chose to start Danabaros.

Di Blanc averaged 15 points per game at his peak, and once made 126 three-pointers in a single season, shooting nearly 40% from three-point range. Last season, he suffered another devastating injury, playing just 21 games all season, but before the start of the season, Di Brom had returned to full fitness, which was undoubtedly good news for the Celtics.

Walter McCarty, confirmed by Rick Pitino, will be the team's starting power forward this season, Walter McCarty, who played for the New York Knicks last season, is an out-and-out bench player, but his three-point shooting performance in the summer league caught the attention of Rick Pitino, and eventually became the team's starting power forward when the Celtics couldn't find a power forward. And as a sophomore like Jonny, Walter McCarty is expected to break out in his second season.

In addition to that, there's Greg Meyner, who averaged 9.6 points per game last season. However, injuries affected only 23 appearances, and like Di Bron, at the start of the season. Greg Mayner is fully fit and will be the team's primary bench at both shooting guard and small forward.

There are also Teus Edney, Bruce Bowen, Pevis Ellison, John Thomas, Dota Jones, these teammates Jonny is also seeing for the first time, Jonny greeted these new teammates, another season is about to start, but now he is in a different position, he has become the boss of another team with his excellent performance last season.

And when Jonny and his teammates say hello. His teammates all showed that slightly respectful gestures and expressions, of course. If it's a teammate who knows each other, there won't be so many scruples.

The Celtics are the team with the most championship trophies in the NBA, with 16 championships to their own and a team with a long history. In the last five or six years, the Celtics have not been able to find their next generation leader, and the arrival of Jonny is obviously the next generation of the Celtics.

The current Celtics, there are no representative players on the team, and the most representative player of the Celtics is Di Bron, but even in his prime, Di Bron is only a role player in the Celtics team, when he met Jonny. Di Brown can only bow his head and be convinced, in fact, in Di Bran's heart. He is very happy about the arrival of Jonny, which is actually a sense of honor in the hearts of the giants, they hope that their team can rise, even if it is at the expense of himself, and Di Brown has not sacrificed himself.

So. Jonny changed a team, all the players of this team. None of them were against him or in conflict with him. For Jonny, as soon as he joined this team, he was supported by all his team-mates, which obviously helped him to build on his strength and play his best in the following season.

Rick Pitino quickly gathered all the players and began to set up the task of pre-season training camp.

"Hello everyone, I'm Rick Pitino, many of you, I've met before, but most of you, we're meeting for the first time." Rick Pitino began his first meeting testimonial. "This season, I'm going to be the head coach of the team, and even though the outside world says we're the worst team in the league, I'm going to say it anyway! Our goal for this season is the playoffs! Make the playoffs! ”

"Next, let's first lay out the tasks of the pre-season training camp" The so-called pre-season training tasks are actually the team's tactical drills and pre-season physical reserves, and for Rick Pitino, the most difficult task is to make the players understand his tactics in a short period of time, and at least be able to use them skillfully in training matches.

In fact, the tactics that Rick Pitino intends to use next season are very suitable for the current Celtics, playing fast and attacking, counterattacking more, and making more threes. For the Celtics, the highest height on the inside line is 2.08 meters Walter McCarty, followed by 2.06 meters Ben Wallace, but Walter McCarty, who is a small forward, is not slow, and Ben Wallace is also a small forward on the Bullets, and the speed is also dissatisfied.

As for more counterattacks and more three-pointers, Big Ben's rebounding ability in the summer league obviously laid a good foundation for the team's counterattack, and a group of three-point shooters in the team can fully achieve the requirements of three more points.

Even at the beginning of the first intra-team training match, Jonny's skillful breakthrough and distribution skills surprised Rick Pitino, and he was more confident in the new season.

The Celtics' pre-season training camp is going on day by day, and the preseason is getting closer, with all the teams in the league full, most of them over one or two players, but the final 15-man squad will be selected after the preseason. And there are not a few teams like the Celtics who have already set a 15-man lineup.

For example, the Chicago Bulls, who successfully defended their championship last season, have not changed their core this season. In the summer of 1997, there were no major trades in the league except for Jonny leaving Boston, and because of this, the Bulls shouted the slogan of defending the title before the season was about to begin, and their main point guard Ron Harper also said: "When Jonny is traded by the Magic, there will be no opponent in the East!" ”

This sentence made the magic furious, and the other party, Jonny, just smiled, obviously, this sentence was a compliment to him.

However, Ron Harper's words soon caused a media controversy about the Jonny trade that had subsided before, and the previous media believed that the Magic was earned, and in the new season, the Magic, who had a more reasonable lineup, would definitely become the biggest opponent of the Bulls, and the new round of controversy, in fact, most of them still thought that the Magic had earned, and the Magic's strength was stronger than last year.

However, when the preseason was about to begin, a piece of news made the group of reporters instantly stunned, and they had to shout that there was no more Bulls opponent in the East. (To be continued)

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