Chapter 171: Point Guard
The answer was soon revealed, and on October 20, Emerica time, the Wizards flew to Motor City to take on the Detroit Pistons on the road.
The original Pistons Five Tigers won the most inspirational championship in history.
Now time flies, and there are only Richard Hamilton and Ben Wallace in the team.
Fortunately, the Pistons got Greg Monroe in the draft this year, which can be regarded as a bit of fresh blood.
Without Arenas' Wizards, there is only one reliable scoring point left for Nick Young on the outside, and Li Kaiming has to play if he wants to win.
In the end, Li Kaiming was also 14 of 21 in the game, and won the fifth and last 30+ in the preseason.
The Wizards won the preseason game with a hard-fought 98-92 win over the host Pistons on the road!
Such an arrogant record immediately caused an uproar throughout Emerica!
Although this is only a preseason game, it is a bit surprising that the Wizards can win all the games of the preseason with just one rookie.
Especially this rookie, except for the next game with less than 20 minutes of playing time, the remaining six games have played enough time, and none of them scored less than 25 points!
This made some people who were ready to see the jokes of the Wizards and Li Kaiming dumbfounded!
Some people originally thought that Li Kaiming would be like some players who seemed to be well-endowed, who couldn't adapt to the intensity when he came to the NBA, and then just dropped the water!
But at the moment, it's not certain who will adapt to whom......
After all the preseason games were over, the Wizards regrouped and returned to Washington.
With a week to go until the start of the NBA main event, the players will get three days off before gathering at the MIC Center to prepare for the first team practice of the regular season.
The schedule for the new NBA season has long been announced, and the Wizards' first game is still on the road, against the Orlando Magic.
After completing all the preseason tasks, Li Kaiming has earned 120 free attribute points, as well as six lucky spin chances.
How well he can play in the first game will largely depend on how those points are added.
Lying at home in Washington, Li Kaiming entered the system again.
It was still a familiar void, and Li Kaiming entered the interface of the big turntable without hesitation.
He had to use up all the lottery chances and then add points all together.
After the exciting 6 lotteries, Li Kaiming won a total of 1100 points for white prostitutes, which was lucky.
The silver treasure chest opened 20 attribute points, while the bronze treasure chest opened 5 points, a total of 25, barely reaching the passing line in Li Kaiming's heart.
Exiting the lottery screen and coming to the attribute page, there are now 145 attribute points for him to splurge.
After the baptism of pre-season, Li Kaiming has felt that he needs to improve the most.
The first is the free throw, his free throw value is currently 60, according to the system, it is the NBA water cooler level, but according to his own experience, he feels that there are few free throws worse than him in this league, at least he didn't encounter it in the preseason.
So the penalty kick must be upgraded, and if you can't grasp the points that are sent to your mouth, can you expect more difficult goals?
Li Kaiming added 30 points to the free throw without saying a word, so that his shortcomings became his longboards, reaching 90!
With 115 points left, he has already made plans to focus on improving his offensive level in his rookie season, and the defense will be released first.
If you can't defend the other side, won't I just bomb you to death on the offensive end?
Basketball is ultimately a game to see who scores the most points!
And how can it be easy to score?
Everyone has their own answer to this question, and some people will, of course, score well under the basket, and the closer they get to the basket, the higher the shooting percentage!
But Li Kaiming decided to do the opposite, in basketball in this era, although most of the stars who mix well are outside stars, many of these stars score almost all of them from inside the three-point line, even in the restricted area.
As a result, the vast majority of teams are hoarding a lot of defensive resources in their own penalty areas, just to prevent the most important ones from being poked out.
Comparatively, teams in the league don't pay enough attention to outside shooters, and of course, there are reasons why shooters in this era are not strong enough.
For simple math, if a player makes 100 three-pointers and shoots 30 percent from three-point range, he can score 90 points on those 100 shots.
At this time, another player who played traditional basketball came on, and his two-point shooting rate was 40 percent, so he also used 100 shots, but only scored 80 points!
Only when the latter person increases his two-point shooting percentage to 45 percent can he achieve the same efficiency as a person who shoots 30 percent from three-point range!
But the problem is that 30 percent three-point shooters in the league have a lot of them, but those who shoot more than 45 two-point shots can be counted on one hand......
It's clear which one is the better weapon for the upper score.
As early as the NCAA finals, Li Kaiming activated an experience card that was shining with the light of the Buddha, and at that time he had already experienced the horror of the three-point shot!
That's really one person can play a team!
I don't know why, but no one in the league is aware of this.
Since no one did it, Li Kaiming decided to be the first person to eat crabs.
His current three-point shooting attribute is 40, and if he wants to achieve his desired goal, he has to start at 90, so he simply raised his three-point shooting from 40 to 95!
With such a terrifying three-point shooting attribute, I'm afraid no one in the entire league can see his taillights.
In the end, there are 60, Li Kaiming said that they are divided into two parts, and one part of 30 is added to the layup, so that his shooting attributes have all reached 90 except for mid-range shots!
The other 30 points were added to the dribble, and to be honest, it was a bit wasteful for him to add 30 points to the dribble as an inside lineman.
But Li Kaiming has a deeper understanding.
The first is that he wants to achieve his kind of three-point firepower throughout the entire half, just being a shooter who can do without the ball is useless, it's a big deal that people directly send someone to follow you, block and dismantle and directly wrap up, but you can't crack it without the ball at all.
Maybe Li Kaiming can pass the ball, but that's not what he wants, it's good to drive his teammates, but he still wants to leave his name in the history of the NBA, but he doesn't want people to evaluate this name as a selfless passer.
Another reason is that since the first two games, Arenas has not played since the first two games due to knee problems, and has left the team for treatment.
Although Li Kaiming hopes that Arenas will recover as soon as possible, after all, he doesn't want to cut the group leader in the air, and it is still necessary to have a firepower point on the outside to help him decompress.
But Arenas's situation made Li Kaiming can't help but make two plans.
If Arenas is out for the season or on and off, who will be the team's starting point guard?
Nick Young? Pull it up!
Sun Yue? The summer league luck is okay, but if Sun Yue is the point guard in the regular season, I am afraid that it will not take a few Sanders to leave class.
After thinking about it, Li Kaiming also failed to find a suitable candidate in the team, when Arenas was supported by the spare tire.
Therefore, his last thought was, do it yourself!
Li Kaiming thinks that he is a brick, and he will move wherever the team needs him!
Isn't it just being a point guard? My 70 ball control attributes, although not enough to see in a bunch of starting point guards, but in the interior is well-known, plus 90 passes, it is not a problem to overturn half of the league point guards!
I'm afraid Sanders himself didn't expect that the thing he was having a headache at the moment was quietly resolved by Li Kaiming......