On October 11, the day before the start of the preseason, the Magic officially announced that Anfernee Hardaway was seriously injured and may miss the game until the middle of the season!

This news made the reporters who were originally clamoring that the Magic would be the Bulls' eastern enemy shut up all of a sudden! The reason is simple, can the Magic make it to the playoffs without Anfernee Hardaway? They need to lose Anfernee Hardaway in the first half of the season, or even longer, what kind of record will the Magic have with only Anthony Walker?

In fact, these reporters have begun to dislike the Magic, without Anfernee Hardaway, the Magic will indeed be weaker by half all of a sudden, and they are likely to fail to make the playoffs, and a team that does not make the playoffs cannot be considered an opponent of the Bulls at all. However, it is not without reporters who still have faith in the Magic, and they even cited the example of Jonny, who was injured for a while in the middle of last season, but during that time, the Magic survived thanks to Jonny's excellent performance.

None of that had anything to do with Jonny, though, and the day after the Magic officially announced that Anfernee Hardaway was seriously injured, the Celtics began their preseason journey.

In the first game, the Celtics welcomed the Philadelphia 76ers on their home court, facing Allen Iverson again, Jonny is no longer the rookie who was abused by Iverson in the summer league, and now Jonny may not be able to complete Allen Iverson, who is still in his youth. But a slight gain of the upper hand is still not a big problem.

This season, the 76ers let former head coach Johnny Davis go to class, and instead brought in coach Larry Brown, and the signal of wanting to return to the playoffs is very obvious, and this season the 76ers, who left Allen Iverson, Jerry Starkerhouse and Derrick Coleman, the iron triangle, are indeed not to be underestimated. In this preseason game, although both sides did not exert much force, and Jonny even only played 19 minutes, the 76ers won by 22 points, which made the Celtics' face very unbearable.

Especially the group of reporters on the sidelines, seeing that the Celtics actually lost by 22 points, although Jonny only played 19 minutes, but the 76ers' Allen Iverson and Jerry Starkerhouse and Derrick Coleman also played less than 20 minutes, so in this group of reporters. The 76ers even had to suffer a little, but the Celtics still lost, and it was a heavy defeat, to a team that finished second to last season in the East, and the prospect of the Celtics can be imagined.

In the first game, Jonny didn't make much effort, in fact, the preseason was to provide a platform for these NBA players to slowly return to their normal game form in a relaxed game. Jonny doesn't actually have to go through the process, but for the sake of training the substitutes. Rick Pitino still didn't give Jonny more time to play.

But Rick Pitino didn't think about what kind of debasement his approach would cause the Celtics to suffer.

After this game, Sam Amik, a reporter for America Today who had been singing about the Celtics, said: "I said before that this Celtics team is still the big bad team of last season, although this game is only a preseason game, but the Celtics lost to the 76ers by 22 points. This has made them rotten to an unimaginable level, you must know that the 76ers were the second-to-last in the East last season, even the Raptors are better than them, and the Celtics actually lost to the 76ers by a large score, which means that the Celtics are even worse than the 76ers. It's the worst team in the league! ”

Sam Amick's words were full of disparagement of the Celtics, and the next game seemed to confirm Sam Amik's ideas even more.

On October 15th, the Celtics continued to play at home, they welcomed the New York Knicks, and in this game, the Celtics got a 20-point defeat, the New York Knicks last season several main players are still in the team, the core lineup of the New York Knicks is naturally much better than the Celtics. Jonny's playing time increased to 27 minutes, but it was still unable to prevent the team from losing.

And this result made Sam Amic even more convinced that the Celtics were the worst team in the league, and there was no suspense.

Internally, Celtic didn't think much about the two heavy defeats, and they trained as usual.

"Run! Run! ”

"Good! Well done! Advance! That's it, get rid of him! Then shoot straight threes! ”

"Okay, let's take a break, everyone is doing a good job, and the cooperation is getting more and more proficient." Rick Pitino personally carried a case of water and walked towards the players, while the Celtic players, who had just been running around practicing tactics, also stopped, picked up the water one by one and drank it in large gulps.

Their training these days is really too hard, they have to have to reserve their physical strength every day, and they have to run like crazy to practice tactics just now. Celtic's tactics are very physically demanding, and this tactic requires players to push forward in the shortest possible time as soon as they get the ball, and then play a successful attack when the opponent is not firmly established.

"Alright, let's rest for a quarter of an hour, and then keep running." Rick Pitino glanced at the time and announced. Then the players who were sitting on the ground screamed.

Jonny is also one of them, he really didn't expect Rick Pitino's pre-season training camp to be so terrifying, even more terrifying than his previous special training in Long Beach, every day is to run and run, and then even to play team training games are also running and running.

However, Rick Pitino's next words made the players fight again: "You may not have paid attention to the news reports outside in recent times, let me tell you that yesterday USA Today published a vision for the new season, and we are the first-to-last in their outlook!" Also, looking further back, ESPN's previous prediction for the new season predicted that the Celtics would be the last in the East. And of course, don't forget Yahoo Sports, who believe that the Celtics are on track to get out of the bottom of the table under the leadership of Jonny Lee! ”

The players threw their water bottles, picked up the basketball on the ground, and threw themselves into the endless cycle of running and running again, and it was obvious that the comments from the major media that Rick Pitino had just introduced to them had raised the morale of these players again! (To be continued......)

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