Chapter 42: Rushing to San Antonio
The Spurs have twin towers on the inside, and their advantage on the inside is very clear. And the Celtics are not without advantages, in comparison, the Spurs' outside line is much worse, Avery Johnson is the Spurs' starting point guard, he is the only good player in the Spurs' guard group, but just like the Celtics' Ben Wallace, he can only pass.
In the position of point guard, the Spurs used the veteran Jaren Jackson as the starter, and at the same time let the veteran shooter Chuck Person as a substitute in this position, and the small forward position was to let another veteran Sean Elliott start, and Monty Williams, who later became the head coach of the Hornets, as a substitute, but except for Avery Johnson, the Spurs did not even have a player in his playing year!
And this game is also the first away game after the Celtics have a row at home, and the Celtics will also start from this game, starting a 3-game road trip to the West, in addition to the Spurs, they will also face the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns away in the next two games, and among these three opponents, the Lakers are currently ranked third in the West, the Spurs are second in the West, and the Suns' current record is the same as the Celtics, 18-7, but the overall strength of the West is stronger, The Suns can only be fifth in the West.
However, for the Celtics, it is clear that it will be quite a challenging schedule to meet second, third and fifth in the West. However, in Jonny's view, the most important thing is the current game against the Spurs, and as for the next game against the Lakers, it depends on how Derrick Coleman thinks about it now.
If Derrick Coleman thinks it through and is willing to defend, then Jonny believes it. The Celtics can still fight with the Lakers. And if Derrick Coleman doesn't think about it well, then Celtic will lose, after all, he also has to consider the factor that Derrick Coleman doesn't defend.
And the Lakers are not good at stubble, Van Exel and Eddie Jones on the outside are both strong guards, Kobe Bryant and Derrick Fisher are still sitting on the bench, and the Lakers have Shaquille O'Neal, as well as Robert Horry, Elden Campbell, these powerful players, it can be said that the current Lakers, in terms of lineup. It's already a fight with the bulls.
Naturally, the Celts were left far behind. And if Derrick Coleman really still doesn't defend, then for the Celtics, they can only give up the game with the Lakers and go all out to fight the game with the Suns. For the Celtics, the Suns are still a team to fight for.
After Christmas. The Celtics players came to the training hall early in the morning, and Jonny didn't know if there was post-holiday syndrome in this era, but a few teammates looked very tired, which obviously meant this post-holiday syndrome.
As a team that was completely destroyed and rebuilt in the summer transfer period, the Celtics are still a bit chaotic internally, and Rick Pitino did not emphasize any attention to rest before the holiday. Don't play too hard or something, so seeing that this group of players looked tired from playing, Rick Pitino had no choice but to let them take a good rest after getting on the plane.
They were flying to San Antonio in the morning because the weather forecast said there might be a snowstorm in San Antonio tonight, and the team was afraid that it would start snowing in the afternoon. At that time, the flight could not pass, so I decided to leave in the morning. And now looking at the tired look of the players, Rick Pitino can't help but feel that it is a very wise decision to go to San Antonio in the morning, because they can rest for a few hours on the plane, and then get to San Antonio, do a few more hours of preparatory training, and then they can play directly.
On the plane, Jonny originally wanted to find someone to chat with to pass the time, but almost everyone went to sleep as soon as they got on the plane, and they were different from Jonny. The bored Jonny slept for a day yesterday, and now it can be said that he has no sleep, looking at the few people around him, Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups fell asleep one after another, Jonny had no choice but to look at the blue sky and white clouds outside the porthole in a daze.
After thinking about it, he entered the system and began to count the inventory in his hand. Jonny entered the system once yesterday when he was bored at home, and he took all the rewards he deserved, such as the best of the week award last week.
And Jonny now has 4 power points and 2 lottery chances in his hand, as well as a fragment of the top 10 superstar lottery opportunities in history, and 16 skill points, which are all the skill points that Jonny has obtained this season, and he is useless at all so far.
After thinking about it, Jonny chose to use these skill points to learn the passive skills of several heroes, respectively learned the passive skills of the Infinite Sword Master, the passive skills of the Spear of Vengeance and the passive skills of the Monkey King.
For example, the passive of the Infinite Juggernaut is that for every 5 shots the summoner, the summoner will get double the chance of hitting the average of the first 5 shots in the next shot. Obviously, this is a bonus to shooting, although it is not very useful, but there is still a small use, so Jonny, who is idle, decides to learn these passive skills when there is no place to use the skill points.
Looking at the skills, Jonny looked at the attributes again, now several of Jonny's physical attributes have been filled, and now Jonny is mainly adding his passing attributes and rebounding attributes, because the hero of the Desert Butcher has all-round attributes, and if Jonny wants to get this all-round attribute, he naturally has to fill up the two attributes of passing and rebounding.
Jonny glanced at the attribute points, and there were about fifty or sixty attribute points, and Jonny added all of them to the attribute of offensive rebounding.
Time flies in the system, Jonny looks around, studies the research, and the plane lands. It's really cold here in San Antonio, and the light snow is already starting to fall in the sky, so the players wrapped themselves in down jackets, got off the plane, and rushed to the hotel, where their teammates who had rested for a few hours were also refreshed, talking and laughing in the car. (To be continued......)