Has entered the regular season is the game, the preseason by the rotation of those teams start, now naturally is to return to the team normally.
O'Neill participated in the team's physical examination a few days ago, and the result was that he kept a good weight. Although the tonnage was heavier, Richard was acceptable.
It's good not to eat Hesse. With O'Neill's body, if you eat Hesse all the time during the off-season, it's estimated that the tonnage will be closer to 4500 Jin.
Now it seems that O'Neill has some self-control.
"Shaq, you've seen Greg's performance, haven't you?" Richard sat in his office, smiling at O'Neill.
"Well? Li, what do you mean? Don't think that kid is so good, and then let me play the substitute O'Neill's eyes are about to pop out.
If Richard really let him play as a substitute, he would be crazy on the spot and strangle Richard directly.
What is O'Neal's class? That's the most dominant internal line in history. Even if we are "old and weak", we still need face.
O'Neill can't afford to replace a new melon.
"I don't mean that, Shaq. I mean what do you think of Greg?" Richard asked with a smile.
This made O'Neill relax a lot. It's good not to play as a substitute. At least now he can't accept to play as a substitute. It's really humiliating.
"This guy is very strong, Li. You have found treasure this time. Although he is unlikely to reach my peak level, he is better than the magic guy in any way."
O'Neill can't see Howard. It's a well-known thing
For Oden, O'Neill also watched two of his pre-season games, the performance is quite outstanding.
But to reach his peak level, O'Neill must not feel it.
"You're going to be the start of our pirate team, but Greg is a kid we need to train. This season we may take a lot of turns off you. You need to be mentally prepared."
O'Neill nodded. He wanted the team to rest on their own
"Although I'll take a rest, I'm sure I'll play in some important occasions, and you have to guarantee my playing time, such as the opening match tomorrow night, such as Christmas War..." O'Neill put forward his own conditions.
Richard nodded, and O'Neill could not ask too much.
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At eight o'clock the next night, in the main team's dressing room, Richard looked at the players' lineup in front of him and felt the urge to shout loudly.
"Guys, tonight is the first step on our regular season journey!"
"This season, I have a lot of goals, such as at least four players to enter the All-Star team, for example, we want to break the team's winning record, and it's better to break the league's winning record!"
"Of course, the biggest goal must be to finish defending the crown!"
"These goals need everyone to work together!"
"Shaq, Dako, Granger, Roy and Paul, all five of you are starting tonight, and I want to see a complete hang up match!" Richard roared.
The generals nodded solemnly.
They won last season's team, and this season's team has been promoted, winning is certainly not their only goal.
At half past eight, players from both sides began to enter.
O'Neal is definitely the big brother of this team. His popularity is still very high. After the pirate fans saw O'Neal enter the stadium, they gave their cheers.
New section fmvp Milicic's appearance, the scene fan is more excited.
In the eyes of fans, Milicic is really a good guy. His contract with the pirates is quite cheap, which makes the pirates have more room to adjust their squad.
This season, the salary of the pirate team is less than 20 million yuan for O'Neill and 10 million yuan for Milicic. Then all the other players are rookie contracts signed. In fact, if the pirate team introduces another player with a salary level of 10 million years, it's OK.
When Richard appeared, the atmosphere on the scene reached a climax.
This is Richard's fourth season of running the pirate team. In the first three seasons, Richard has given the pirate fans a huge surprise. He has won the championship for three years.
And this season, the fans are convinced that Richard will have a bigger surprise for them.
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"Doodle doodle!" The referee whistled the start of the game.
The fans opened their eyes and the new season officially began.
O'Neill stepped onto the midfield line and jumped with Howard, but was won by young Howard. O'Neill was a little upset
Magic's offensive round, Jamal Nelson with the ball to advance.
Nielsen is a small and strong type of pick and roll control guard, with good offensive firepower, but lack of stability, which is commonly known as the nerve knife.When the hand feeling is smooth, the God blocks the God of killing. If the hand feeling is not smooth, cut yourself three knives first.
Paul doesn't really like the strong point guard. He prefers the weak attacking point guard.
Fortunately, Nelson is not the core of the magic system. Their core of the organization is the front court Turkoglu.
Richard is quite familiar with the magic's tactical system. When he played magic last season, Richard insisted on the strategy of strictly guarding Turkoglu.
To strangle Turkoglu, Howard's power on the offensive end will be reduced by at least one third!
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After Nelson controlled the ball to the front court, he passed it to Turkoglu, while Milicic immediately blocked Turkoglu's passing route with his bigger body.
In Richard's defensive strategy, Turkoglu can throw, but can't pass!
Once Turkoglu finds the chance to pass to Howard, it's not easy.
Milicic completely blocked the way that Turkoglu passed in, but Turkoglu returned the ball to the outside hand of Rashard Lewis.
Lewis catches the ball and throws it. He hits the outside three points directly.
This is the magic's conventional tactical system. Striker Turkoglu is organized to score the ball. The primary goal of scoring is Howard. If Howard's scoring route is blocked, he will score the ball to Lewis of the outside line.
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When it was the pirate's turn to attack, Paul hoisted the ball to O'Neal, who thought he could easily get a assists.
But he underestimated Howard.
In any case, Howard is also the top three center in the league. It's not a problem to hang Howard at the peak of O'Neill, but at this time point, it's obviously not that easy to score easily on Howard's head.
After O'Neal took the ball, he was ready to turn his back to play Warcraft, but the attack didn't work, and Howard grabbed the rebounds.
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It's magic's offensive round again, and the magic's outside line is not so lucky. Nelson's shot in the middle and the rebounds were grabbed by Milicic.
After the first offensive round, Paul is not going to drop the ball to O'Neal.
The first round of lob to O'Neill can be regarded as a respect for O'Neill, the elder, to play the first offensive round.
But before the pirate team three seasons, actually has not been regarding the interior line as the attack focal point, Paul called on Milicic to start to play the normal pick and roll rhythm.
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In a few minutes, relying on the strong offensive firepower of the lineup, the pirate team is gradually in the lead.
Richard's starting line-up, offensive firepower is really a little too terrible, except O'Neill, other people are all able to sudden good role.
Especially Roy, the Yellow Mamba, after the training of rookie season, the offensive strength he showed this season is no less than the first-line point guards in the league.
Paul's attack level is also the top of the point guard, that is, Nash and a few two or three point guards may be able to compete with Paul in the attack end.
It's needless to say that Granger's offensive firepower is the same as that of Paojiao in the pacer era. Now, Granger is the same level. There is a gap compared with the top small forward in the League such as pierce or James, but the gap is not big, probably 100-90.
Milesi wins in all-around, offensive firepower is not particularly strong, but also far better than most of the league's power forwards.
Such four strong offensive ability of the start, plus two of them have strong organizational ability, even if the pirate team's starting center is still Valerio, magic is not the pirate team's opponent.
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The first quarter played seven minutes, the score has been gradually opened.
It's hard for O'Neill to break out in front of O'Neill, but it's not so easy for Howard to play two attacks comfortably in front of O'Neill.
O'Neill's tonnage to that card, doomed Howard can not be rampant under the basket.
Magic coach Stan van Gundy, his brow was turned into a twist.
Their magic introduced Lewis this season to fight for the title. If they want to fight for the title, how can they survive the pirates?
The pirates are the strongest team in the East. All the teams want to win the title in the East, the first thing they need to do is to kill the pirates, and then they have a chance to rush out of the East.
But now the situation on the field, let big van Gundy realize, with Magic now's lineup, normal against, is still not the pirate team's opponent.
"Doodle doodle!" The big van Gundy called a pause, gave an order to the players on the field, and his face showed a confident smile again.
At the end of the suspension, players from both sides returned to the court. O'Neill was not in the basket yet. He was immediately accused of sending a free throw line from Wes Nelson.
Needless to say, this is big van Gundy's strategy of chopping sharks for the pirates.His idea is very simple, that is to let Richard replace O'Neal, so that Howard can play the role he should play under the basket, taking advantage of O'Neal's time point, try to score as much as possible.
O'Neill on the court, seriously limited Howard's offensive end. Although there is Oden in the pirate team after O'Neill's coming off, big van Gundy doesn't think that Oden, a new melon, can cause any trouble to Warcraft in the face-to-face confrontation.
It has to be said that big van Gundy has a good calculation. In fact, if Richard is in the position of big van Gundy, I'm afraid he will come up with the same countermeasures.
Before Richard coaching trailblazers, facing O'Neill is to use this kind of strategy.
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O'Neill was sent to the free throw line, even the fans can see that magic is going to use the shark chop strategy.
O'Neill's most annoying tactics are undoubtedly the shark cutting tactics. Every time his opponent uses the shark cutting tactics, he is very anxious.
But this time, O'Neill is a rare smile, as if the free throw is something he has been looking forward to for a long time.
Richard also looked at Van Gundy with a smile. I'm afraid that van Gundy's shark cutting tactics will fail tonight.
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"Shua!"
O'Neill hit the first free throw directly, but the second one was not so lucky. He bounced out of the basket.
Two free throws and one free throw, big van Gundy is satisfied, this is O'Neill's normal level.
If we continue to use the strategy of chopping sharks, van Gundy estimates that Richard will probably change O'Neill in two minutes at most.
The magic attack round, is the Turkoglu points the ball, this time the team points guard Bogan's hand, the latter hit an iron, the backboard was taken by the basket card good position O'Neill.
O'Neal just took the rebounds, Howard beside him immediately a bear hug, will O'Neal hold, continue to send O'Neal on the free throw line.
"Boy, tonight your magic may be a joke." O'Neill looked at Howard playfully.
Howard shook his head and said nothing. He didn't want to have any conflict with O'Neal.
It's all about being thankless.
If you win, say that Howard bullies the veteran. If you lose, it's even worse. You can't even beat an veteran.
Moreover, Howard is not the kind of player who particularly likes rough play.