Chapter 337: Intra-team practice match
In the end, this first preseason game passed without any waves, and the much-talked-about Lefu watch was very mediocre, with only 4 points and 10 rebounds. Such a number is obviously not worthy of the identity of Lefou's No. 5 rookie. Especially with this number in this preseason. Then on the defensive end, Lefu was also exposed to scum by Bosh. Therefore, for today's debut, Lefou's watch is unqualified in the eyes of fans and experts. However, although these will cause a certain amount of mental pressure and distress to Lefou, as long as the head coach Tom Thibodeau thinks Lefou's appearance is good. Only the head coach can guarantee Lefou's playing time.
In the first game, the Knicks won against the Raptors with a score of 98:92. The Raptors didn't send much of the main force, Bosch played half the game and didn't play for a minute in the second half, while on the Knicks' side, Starkey played a special game normally and scored 28 points. It is the biggest contributor to the victory. And today Sessions also performed well, with 14 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds. Which is more important, the number jù of quasi-triple pairs or the number jù of 28 points? Which one will help the team win?
The Knicks' preseason game, nothing has passed little by little, to say that everyone was expecting Lefu to show his true strength, but the fans were disappointed, and if there is disappointment, there will be hope, there is no Lefu over there, and Starkey is jumping out again. In the first preseason game, as well as the preseason games afterward, Starkey was quite active, unparalleled enthusiasm, and strong breakthroughs, which made the fans' eyes shine, and in an instant, Starkey's limelight skyrocketed, and in New York, Starkey suddenly became more popular.
In this preseason, there are a total of 7 games, and in these seven games, Starkey can average 25 games per game. 7 points 5. The number of 6 assists is jù. However, this number was obtained in the preseason after all, and most of the faces were rookies, and many of the main players rarely played serious games. Therefore, Starkey can get such a number jù, which is a considerable improvement from last year, but whether it will not get to what point can only be verified by the regular season. The same goes for Sessions, who has made a lot of three-pointers in the preseason of the new season and has maintained a pretty good shooting percentage. It's just in pre-season. Speaking of which, preseason is just a game for players to find their form before the regular season.
For these games, the teams do not take it very seriously. Observe the newcomers and run in the team, this is the meaning of preseason savings.
After all the preseason is over, the Knicks team has a training camp every day, which is not a requirement of the team, and many teams will give players some rest time at this time, but Thibodeau is not included among these head coaches. Thibodeau, a workaholic, didn't give a day off before the regular season, and spent all the time training.
Just the day before the regular season started, during the training camp, a 5v5 match was played. There was a huge disparity in the quality of the two sides in this game, because one side was full of veterans and the other side was full of rookies.
The blue team is Team Chen Jiyuan, and the players are Chen Jiyuan, David Lee, Crawford, Richardson, and Nate Robinson. Nate Robinson basically has no chance to play under Coach Thomas, obviously he is short, according to the situation of the same disease, Thomas should let Robinson play more, but the truth is the opposite. Thomas didn't know what prejudice he had against Robinson. Just don't give Robinson playing time, basically Robinson's playing time last season was in garbage time, either the Knicks are leading by a big score, or the Knicks are behind by a big score. Now, in this practice match, Thibodeau has placed Robinson in Chen Jiyuan's team.
The red team is Sessions, Starkey, Love, Landry, and a shot from Tony Allen. This 5v5 didn't count Chandler into it, mainly because Chandler was still doing training to restore his figure, and now Chandler's condition is so bad that Thibodeau is very dissatisfied. So this 5v5 training session didn't let Chandler play, but let Tony Allen, who didn't need to do this training, come up and take Chandler's place.
In fact, this practice match should have been nothing to watch, on the one hand, to let the veteran players find their form for the last time when the regular season is about to begin, and familiarize themselves with the rhythm of the game. And for the rookies, they can also take this opportunity to show themselves, if there is any good performance in such a game into the eyes of the head coach, then there is no need to worry about the playing time after that. Therefore, in this competition, the players must do their best to express themselves.
At the beginning of the game, the rookie side should need Lefu the most. However, the most active search for opportunities is the Stuckie. However, since the start of this season, Starkey's watch has been very good. Facing Crawford, Starkey was not comfortable at all, and Crawford was more energetic, and Crawford, who was originally going to play and play, was also beaten well by Starkey. Gradually, this "practice match" slowly became more and more flavorful, and gradually both sides began to fight seriously, and Chen Jiyuan was also very serious about this game.
Chen Jiyuan faced Loew's defense. Although Lefu and Landry are actually about the same height, in the center position, Lefu is obviously more accustomed to playing than Landry. Therefore, it is Lefu who defends Chen Jiyuan.
At this time, Chen Jiyuan discovered that the change of Lefu should be said to be the change from the training camp, Chen Jiyuan realized it, and he also felt a little admiration for Thibodeau's training. In the past few days, Thibodeau has been training Lefu all the time, training Lefu every day, and training all the time every day. As a result, Lok Fou even rarely participates in group training, which shows how much Thibodeau values Lok Fou.
Chen Jiyuan leaned against Lefu with his back, ready to fight Lefu alone, Lefu resisted Chen Jiyuan to the death, because his body was relatively thick, so Chen Jiyuan was not so easy to Ding Kai Lefu, especially in the case of Lefu's strength, it was not easy, and it was not a good move if it was hard top.
Chen Jiyuan first hit Lefu twice, and then pretended to turn around, but Lefu didn't mean to jump at all, and now Lefu's defense is basically the floor flow, that is, on the ground, light yì can't jump, withstood Chen Jiyuan, Chen Jiyuan has no way to shake Lefu, even if he wants to turn around, but he was blocked by Lefu in advance The route of turning around, Lefu is not as tall as Chen Jiyuan, so if you want to block Chen Jiyuan, it is obvious that you need to predict and jump in advance, it is precisely because you know this, So Loew didn't think about blocking Chen Jiyuan, as long as it could interfere with Chen Jiyuan's shooting, Chen Jiyuan's ball, Chen Jiyuan was a little unable to shoot by Lefou's defense, and had no choice but to force Chen Jiyuan to jump, and shot this middle distance on Lefou's head, although the ball knocked the front of the frame, but he was still lucky to go in. This ball, it is the luck of the county Donggang, because this ball, everyone did not find it in the place where they can't see, Lefu stepped forward with his chest to make physical contact with Chen Jiyuan, and used dark energy, the whole Chen Jiyuan jumped very uncomfortable, however, this is not difficult for Chen Jiyuan, after all, Chen Jiyuan has also played in the NBA for 2 seasons. For all kinds of defensive methods and the like, Chen Jiyuan has almost played against each other. I don't dare to say that I can crack them all, but I won't be hit by my opponent at a super festive start when I just encounter these tricks. And Thibodeau once had a very deep understanding of Chen Jiyuan, so his defense against Chen Jiyuan was also relatively targeted, knowing that once Chen Jiyuan's mid-range feel was recovered, it would be difficult to continue to stop it. Therefore, at the beginning, let Lefu defend Chen Jiyuan closely, and resolutely did not let Chen Jiyuan have the opportunity to find a feeling, but this first ball, Chen Jiyuan still scored 2 points under the difficult shot, then there is no way, the reason why it is called a superstar is because the opponent can't prevent it if he wants to, so it is called a superstar.