As the second largest city in Texas, San Antonio is still much smaller than Houston.

However, the two cities are completely different.

Texas gives the impression of plains, deserts and cowboys.

But in San Antonio, it's hard to tie it all together. Walking on the riverside pedestrian street in the center of the city, looking at the various hotels, bars, cafes and other small shops on both sides of the street, Leilin has a feeling of being in the water town of Jiangnan.

With lush trees on both sides of the road, and a few flying ducks, the entire riverside pedestrian street looks like a giant botanical garden.

"Wow, the scenery here is beautiful!"

Sitting in a café on the shore eating supper, looking at the beautiful scenery around him, Lei Lin sighed.

"Of course, it's the best place in San Antonio."

Landry said as he ate his steak.

After getting off the plane, Leylin, Landry and Brooks came here to enjoy the food.

"To be honest, I didn't expect to see such a beautiful scenery in San Antonio, it's very similar to my hometown."

When he said this, Lei Lin thought that it had been more than a month since he came out. Although I used to be at the door of my home when I was in college, I was able to go back every Sunday, and it was an hour's drive away.

But now it is estimated that I will not be able to go back until May, and even if I do, I will have to spend a lot of time wasting time on training. If he can successfully stay in the league, 82 regular season games per season, plus playoffs and preseasons, Leylin will spend most of his time in the United States within a year.

Thinking that he would not be able to be with his parents often in the future, Lei Lin felt the troubles brought by growing up for the first time.

After eating supper, Lei Lin and the others did not stay here, in order to better prepare for tomorrow night's game, after returning to the hotel, they went back to their rooms to rest.

……

"Hi guys, welcome to the ATT Center, I'm Charles Barkley!"

"I'm Kenny Smith!"

"Spurs have been strong for 10 seasons, they've won four titles in the last 10 seasons, but they've never defended their title, Kenny, do you think they can defend it this season?"

"In principle, they kept the squad intact and deserved to win the championship, but it's always a miracle here, who knows?"

"Yes, it's always full of wonders, anything that could happen. Okay, we've seen the lads from both sides come in and warm up, what do you think about this game? ”

……

Stepping into the ATT Center, Leylin took a look at the famous arena.

The arena in eastern San Antonio has a capacity of more than 18,000 spectators.

At this time, there were not many fans in the stadium, and rows of black seats were seen, adding black floors. Leylin shrugged his shoulders, perhaps this should be the ugliest arena in the league.

Although the black color gives people a solemn and solemn feeling, it always feels strange for Lei Lin to play in this place.

However, the design style of the arena is very similar to the style of the Spurs team - steady.

Over the past ten seasons, the Spurs have been so consistent, sitting in the top four or so in the West.

"Allright, Ray, warm up."

Just as Leylin was about to continue to look at Duncan, he was directly stopped by Sicoma.

“OK！”

After answering, Leylin took the basketball there and began to warm up.

In the NBA, the pre-game warm-up time will last for a long time, and it is usually a training session with the ball to warm up the game. After about 20 minutes of training with the ball, you start to stretch your body ligaments, which is conducive to the players to increase the activity of their muscles and avoid injury due to premature stretching of ligaments.

After stretching the ligaments, the formal training begins.

This part of the training is absolutely targeted.

Everyone's training content is different, like Battier, Novak, is shooting from the outside, after all, they are pure shooters. Hyde and Alston dribbled on the court, while Scola and Landry practiced their face-to-face shots after pick-and-rolls. Lei Lin and Uncle Mu fought against the basket.

Players in different positions have different trainings.

After the targeted training, it is also the last item of the warm-up, shooting training.

"Hey Ray, I'm going to shoot with you."

Every time he comes to this link, Lei Lin is the most embarrassed person in the team.

Listening to Uncle Mu shouting there, Lei Lin ignored it directly, there was no way, who called himself the worst shooting ability in the whole team.

The sound of bells, bells, bells, bells is incessant.

"Hi Ray, I have to say, with you, I found some presence and pride."

"Haha......"

Hayes' words amused all the Rockets players.

Although the sophomore has shot more than 50 percent from the field in the past two seasons, his shooting ability is really not good.

But even so, it was still a cut above Reelin.

After more than an hour of warm-up training, the players quickly returned to the dressing room.

The gray-haired Adelman was like an old grandfather, picking up the tactical board as soon as the players arrived in the locker room, where he kept admonishing.

However, soon after being reminded by the staff, the players walked out of the dressing room.

Inside the dark ATT Center Arena, fans are gathering their energy and cheering for their king.

Coming to the bench, Leylin and his teammates were bored waiting for the Spurs players to come out.

"Ladies and gentlemen......"

Rumble.

As soon as the DJ opened his mouth, the entire arena erupted like a volcano, bursting with hot lava.

Every player who comes out on the pitch is able to win a burst of cheers.

Even Bruce Bowen, who was criticized by the league, won a lot of cheers when he played.

I have to say that the atmosphere at home here is indeed much better than that of the Rockets.

After all the players were on the field, a strong light hit the exit of the players' tunnel.

"Tim Duncan!"

Huge cheers rushed from all sides, and waves of heat rushed to his cheeks.

If it is in the Toyota Center, Raelin will be excited about the oncoming heat wave, but in the ATT Center, feeling this heat wave, Raelin always has an uncomfortable feeling.

With all the Spurs on the pitch, the game is about to begin.

After taking off their training uniforms, the starters from both sides walked into the field.

After greeting each other, Leylin and Duncan went straight to the middle circle.

Beep!

After the whistle blew, Leylin and Duncan jumped up quickly, and their two big hands slapped directly at the basketball.

Syllable.

Leylin was a little slower, and Duncan managed to get the basketball to Parker.

The French sports car took the basketball and immediately rushed to the basket with full gear, and a layup gave the Spurs the lead.

"So fast."

This was the first time Leylin felt Parker's fastness.

The Rockets attacked, and after Hyde dribbled the ball through the half, he handed the ball directly to Maddie on the strong side, and then cut directly to the basket under the cover of Rayling.

Clang!

After receiving a pass from Maddie, Hyde, who cut to the basket, smashed directly on the basket under Duncan's interference.

The rebound was confiscated by Duncan.

The Spurs' offense hit directly to the inside, and Duncan hit the board directly at a 45-degree angle in the face of Leylin's defense.

Although Lei Lin had a lot of mental preparation, he still had a feeling of powerlessness when facing Duncan.

Clang.

Maddie, who ran to the bottom corner of the weak side, smashed the basketball directly on the blue neck under Bowen's interference.

The Spurs grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break, and Parker's breakaway caused Alston to foul and hit two free throws.

6-0, the Spurs played a small ** in the opening game, and the Rockets got off to a bad start.