Chapter 24: The Best of the First Week
After the away game against the New York Knicks, Jonny hid in the locker room, but Rick Pitino announced that the team would not take a night off in New York, but would fly back to Boston. The reason is that the league banned the Celtics after learning of their idea, after all, the Celtics still have a home game to play the next day.
This made Jonny secretly relieved, and then he called Angelina Jolie and rejected Angelina Jolie with this just-in-time reason. Then he boarded the plane back to Boston with the team.
Back in Boston, Jonny said goodbye to his teammates and went back to his apartment to rest, while Rick Pitino scheduled training the next day. Jonny went to bed early, and inevitably had a nightmare at night, of course, maybe it could be a spring-dream, in short, it was a dream of Angelina Jolie.
Still, Jonny managed to resist his sleepiness and called Jimmy Adams back.
"Jimmy, call in the middle of the night, what's the matter with you?". Jonny said in a hoarse voice half-leaning on the edge of the bed.
"Oh, I'm in Japan now, I'm sorry Jonny, I forgot about jet lag, well, I called you to tell you good news, Sega's basketball game has been made, they need you to shoot a commercial for them right away, well, I've asked the company to send someone to find you." You're going to shoot them in the next few days! Jimmy Adams apologized first, and then explained what he meant by calling.
Jonny agreed, and hung up amid Jimmy Adams' incessant apologies.
NBA2K, Jonny smiled and went back to sleep.
Wake up at 7 a.m. and arrive at the training hall at 8 a.m. The Celtics' training session started again after a day, and Jonny thought of Chauncey Billups, who had a poor debut yesterday, and he went to the physiotherapy room early, because he knew that Chauncey Billups was in the physiotherapy room, and Chauncey Billups had a little injury on his body recently.
After Jonny arrived in the treatment room, he lay down directly on the bed in the treatment room, and the physiotherapist Judi Seto, who was specially hired by the team, began to relax Jonny's body muscles. Chauncy Billups was lying on the bed next to Jonny.
"Hello, Chauncey." Jonny smiled and said hello to Billups, who was a little surprised, after all, Jonny was the boss of the team. It's rare to communicate with them like this.
But Chaunsibilups didn't dare to put this surprise on his face, and he quickly responded with a smile.
"Chauncey, you had a very bad last game." Jonny suddenly said to himself: "I think you are far from adapting to the NBA, as a newcomer, you have to practice more in this situation, I was like this back then, Chauncey, wait for the evening game to be over." Don't rush home and get some sleep, practice with me. Practice your threes and dribbling more. Of course, if you don't want to stay in Boston, you can just go home! ”
Jonny's next words shocked and surprised Chauncy Billups, but he did not refuse Jonny's offer, in fact, Chauncy Billups has been worried about his future for some time recently. As this year's top show, he actually only played one game, and he performed badly.
Take a look at the rookies of the same class, Tim Duncan has become the absolute core of the Spurs, and Keith Van Horn is now the absolute main force of the Nets. And those players with a lower pick, such as teammate Tim Thomas, are already the team's starters, as well as Ron Mercer, who is also the Nets' starting small forward.
Chauncy Billups is not in a hurry, it must be impossible, and at this time Jonny is willing to help him, although the tone is a little stiff, but Chaunci Billups is still very happy, he needs this kind of help, in fact, Chaunci Billups feels that he and Jonny's playing style is very similar, they are the kind of players who can shoot three-pointers, can break through, and can pass the ball.
Seeing Chauncy Billups nodding in agreement, Jonny smiled with satisfaction, he valued Chauncy Billups very much, one because Billups was in a high position, and the other was because the Celtics really needed Billups to step up.
In the evening game, the Celtics' opponent is the Miami Heat, perhaps the strong teams are reluctant to drastically change their core lineup, this season's Heat has not changed much compared with last season, but in this game, Alonzo Mourning was absent due to injury, which also gave the Celtics a chance, after all, without Mourning's Heat, it is a half-crippled Heat.
Without the protection of the inside gate and rebounds, the Heat's outside shooters could not fire unscrupulously, and in the end, this game was a season-high 54 points on 18-of-27 shooting, and Ben Wallace on the inside grabbed 22 rebounds again, the Celtics won again on their home court!
Started 4 consecutive wins! This is obviously unexpected, especially at this time, the Celtics are already ahead of other teams in the East, the second Bulls and other teams have a 3-1 record, and only the Lakers in the West have the same all-win record as the Celtics in the entire league, they have only played 3 games and won all 3 games.
So in terms of record, the Celtics surprisingly ranked first in the East and West!
Of course, the Celtics were also very lucky, the first game against the Bulls without Scott Pippen, and this game against the Heat without Alonzo Mourning, it can be said that if the opponent in these two games is the main force, it will be difficult for the Celtics to win this game.
And after the evening's game, Jonny did see Chauncey Billups in the arena, and the rookie eventually stayed as Jonny said, and also began to practice his threes as Jonny asked. And Jonny's royal trainer Briandu also formulated a training plan for Chauncy Billups, Chauncy Billups has a non-stop training, looking forward to integrating into the NBA as soon as possible.
After four consecutive wins, the Celtics finally ushered in the first loss of the new season, facing the Cleveland Cavaliers at home, and the Celtics lost by four points. And the team that broke the Celtics' unbeaten record changed from a civilian team without a superstar to a team with Sean Kemp before this season, and before this season, Shaun Kemp chose to join the Cavaliers in order to get a big contract.
And the Cavaliers have also formed a new lineup, and the starting lineup of the Cavaliers in this game is actually Sean Kemp + Willis Persson + 3 rookies! The No. 20 show in '96 is the starting center of the Cavaliers, who didn't come to the NBA last season, just joined this season, and is considered a rookie. Derek Anderson, this year's No. 13 pick. Breven Knight, the No. 16 pick this year, they both started with the Cavaliers.
However, the Cavaliers' start to the season was not too good, they had a 1-2 record, and after beating the Celtics, the winning percentage reached half percent.
However, the Cavaliers' problems have nothing to do with the Celtics, although Chauncey Billups is very envious of the three rookies on the opposing team. For Celtic, losing is a normal thing, winning all the previous four games, but it is a little abnormal, and now losing the first game, for Celtic, it is a kind of relaxation, they are not the kind of very strong team, losing is inevitable, as long as there is this mentality, it is natural to relax.
After losing the game against the Cavaliers, the Celtics traveled to Mivolki to take on the Mivolki Bucks, a very young team who, like the Philadelphia 76ers, is the kind of team where young players are at the core. In their starting lineup, the small forward is Glenn Robinson in '95, the scoring guard is the No. 5 pick Allen in '96, the point guard is the No. 11 pick in '91, Trill Brandon, in addition, the No. 11 pick in '90 Dillon Hill is their power forward, and their center is the No. 23 pick in '93, a center with the same name as the Magic, Elvin Johnson.
And this young team seems to have had an explosive start to the season, with a 3-1 record before meeting the Celtics, the same as the Bulls. However, in this game, the Bucks met their opponents.
As one of the representatives of the league's shooter scorers, Ray Allen met Jonny, the biggest representative of their type of player, in this game, and the two started a battle against each other, at the beginning of the game, the two of them had a decent match, and in the second half, it became Jonny's one-sided abuse of Ray Allen, and in the end, the Celtics won again on the road, and they avoided their own losing streak.
With 5 wins and 1 loss in the opening game, the Celtics' performance surprised most people, and Jonny's super all-around data of 38.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 2.8 steals and 1.5 blocks per game made the outside world exclaim!
"Get out of the shackles! Jonny Explodes! ”
"The Green Army's new cornerstone outbreak season? It's not the same without magic! ”
Many people began to sing praises for Jonny's performance, and they all thought that after the absence of Anfernee Hardaway, Jonny controlled the ball alone, and the freedom on the court was significantly improved, and after having a very high degree of freedom to play, Jonny's room to play naturally increased very quickly, and it was not surprising to win such statistics in the first week of the game.
The first week of the game was all over, Jonny also won the league's first week of Player of the Week award, the first week of performance, no one in the league could compete with him, without Scott Pippen to help Michael Jordan struggled, and the biggest threat to Jonny is the Hawks' Deacon Bemutombo, and Uncle Mu only averaged 15.8 points + 13.3 rebounds + 6.0 blocks per game in the first week of the game, and his biggest threat to Jonny is that average 6 blocks per game. (To be continued......)
ps: Today's two watches, this is the first shift, the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass, there are still 6 monthly passes left to break 50, please help!