unfinished glory

Chapter 216 The first battle of the new season

In the new season, strong teams emerge in large numbers, and the NBA has entered an era of competition. In the regular season, various strong teams face off, and the ownership of the championship is full of uncertainty.

This season's games will definitely be exciting, and it will be very beneficial to the ratings and the promotion of the league.

Stern is very happy to see that the closer the start of the game is, the more intense the atmosphere of discussion between the media and fans.

There is no need for his secret guidance anymore, and the endless topics can always keep the heat: the "yellow-green war" between the Lakers and the Celtics, the "new generation No.1 matchup" between Li Chongxiao and James, the "old and new" between Li Chongxiao and Kobe. The transfer of power in the era" and so on, the media and fans can always find various confrontations and discuss them endlessly.

In the opening game, the Lakers played against the Celtics at home. Not to mention the historical origins of the two teams, in the finals of the past two years, they had two duels, and the Lakers had the last laugh. .

From Bill Russell to Larry Bird, the Celtics haven't suffered such a loss from the Lakers, and now they are going to watch their old rivals get a championship ring at the Staples Center.

It was such a hot matchup at the beginning, which set the tone for this season.

The first regular season game of the Grizzlies is scheduled for November 11st, and eager fans want to see what sparks Li Chongxiao and James can rub against each other.

In the first regular season last season, Li Chongxiao scored 60+ points. How many points can he score this season?
After James received strong support, he beat the Bulls in the first game and got a triple-double.This season, can he lead the Cavaliers out of the tight encirclement again?

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Before the start of the game, the players of the two teams greeted each other. O'Neill was very indifferent to Li Chongxiao, completely lacking the enthusiasm they had when they first met.

Of course Li Chongxiao knew the reason. This "most dominant player" has a huge body but a small mind.

Before Yao Ming rose to enter the best team, O'Neal was annoyed, thinking that the judges didn't understand football at all.The reporters interviewed many players on this matter, and Li Chongxiao naturally voted for Yao Ming when it came to choosing who is the number one center in the NBA.

Just because of this matter, O'Neill was a little upset about Li Chongxiao.Then last season, Li Chong Xiaoqi dunked him, which made him suffer a great humiliation.

The follow-up incident became the fuse of the conflict between O'Neal and McGrady. The discord between the two directly dragged the Rockets into a bad situation and won the last record in the regular season.

For box office considerations, the Rockets finally sent away O'Neal and used the sixth pick to select Jonny Flynn, a point guard, to pass the ball to Tracy McGrady.

O'Neal got out of the quagmire and regained his ambition. He wants to repeat the old story of going from the Lakers to the Heat and then winning the championship.

This game will be his battle to rectify his name.

In fact, Li Chongxiao no longer cared about his personal gains and losses this season. He has already won the MVP, what is lacking now is the record of leading the team.

For some stars, who have never touched the floor of the Western Conference Finals or even passed the second round in their entire lives, they naturally feel that being able to lead the team to the Western Conference Finals in the first season is a great achievement.

But Li Chongxiao is different, he is a player who has won two championships, and the second championship is a real FMVP.How could he stand still and be satisfied with a little bit of insignificant achievement.

It is true that this game is a duel between Li Chongxiao and James, but it is not a duel between two people in terms of statistics, but a test of their ability to lead a team.

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The Cavaliers in the away game made a very good start, and O'Neal became the most shining star in the first quarter.

The Lakers' two consecutive championships not only allowed Kobe to be crowned five times, but also brought Yao Ming an FMVP.

It is probably because seeing the "predecessor" living a very good life after leaving him, and being in love with the "current" is very stimulating to O'Neill.He also sometimes thinks that no matter who took a step back, the "OK combination" will definitely continue to go on and help the Lakers achieve greater achievements.

He took a step back in the Heat, so he won the championship.He wants to replicate it in the Rockets, but the Rockets' environment cannot support such a big ambition.

Now coming to the Cavaliers is his last chance.Therefore, O'Neill made a rare effort to make progress, did not eat and drink in the summer, and maintained his state.

Healthy sharks are still the big killer of this era, and it is impossible to stop European insiders like the Gasol brothers.

O'Neal overwhelmed the inside, scored again and again, and caused 5 fouls inside the Grizzlies.Among them, Gasol made two fouls, and Gasol and Ben and Pulzbila, who came off the bench, each fouled once.

In the first quarter of the game, the Cavaliers took a 31:22 lead in the away game, and O'Neal scored 17 points.

The Grizzlies were a little caught off guard by this wave of offense. Before the game, they never expected that the inside disadvantage would be so great.

Li Chongxiao was also somewhat unprepared. He didn't carry out many personal attacks in the first quarter, which caused the team's scoring to fail to keep up.

After the start of the second quarter, the Cavaliers' bench lineup played more vigorously.Mo-Williams, who is known as "No Passion" by people in the arena, taught Lowry a lesson. Various emergency stop jump shots opened the point difference to 15 points in one fell swoop.

Li Chongxiao hurriedly entered the field and turned on his personal attack mode, scoring consecutive points before he managed to stabilize the point difference.But this style of play, coupled with the abolishment of the second offensive point Gasol Brothers, caused the Grizzlies' offense to be divided into two pieces, which could not be connected.

The defense also strengthened the harassment of O'Neal by outside players, and barely held down the rampaging shark.

This side of James has not exerted force yet, and Li Chongxiao restrained Mike Miller, who made five three-pointers in the last game, so that the two teams maintained a balance in the first half.

During the intermission, Carlisle was only scratching his head when he saw the team's 4 fouls on 11 insiders.Not surprisingly, the Cavaliers must have desperately hit the inside and broke through in the second half, causing the Grizzlies to kill inside.

This is Yangmou, and the Grizzlies have no good solution. The inside can only be resigned to fate, and the outside should strengthen the defense, at least to prevent the breakthrough of the Cavaliers' outside players.

Li Chongxiao switched to defending James in the third quarter. The method of preventing breakthroughs and not preventing shots did limit James' offense, but he couldn't stand O'Neal today as if he had taken medicine.

He scored only 5 points in silence in the second quarter, and scored another 15 points in this quarter. He also caused Gasol's fifth personal foul, which directly abolished half of the Grizzlies' inside defensive system.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, James broke out suddenly. Under the cover of the pick-and-roll master Varejao, two consecutive breakthroughs caused fouls by the Grizzlies. 4 offenders.

The Grizzlies' inside defense was wide open, and relying on the outside, they were simply unable to deal with O'Neal's goals, plus James' continuous personal breakthroughs.

By the second half of the fourth quarter, Li Chongxiao still maintained an efficient offense, but he was unable to change the situation on the field.

Mike Miller's three-pointer gave the Grizzlies the final blow.Facing the 15-point difference and the little time left, Li Chongxiao was powerless.

This is the first time Li Chongxiao has lost the opening game since entering the league.

Although he scored 51 points, the loss of the Grizzlies gave some reporters who watched him unhappy to find a reason to blame him.

In the Cavaliers' two games, Mike Miller's performance was very critical. His outside shooting ability opened up space for O'Neal and James, enriching the team's offensive routines.

And such a player was given to the opponent for nothing because of Li Chongxiao's "exclusion".

Most people scoffed at this kind of statement, because it made some sunspots feel like a treasure, and became new evidence of Li Chongxiao's "ball bully" and "cancer".

For the transfer of stars, everyone is very tolerant in the first year, and it is time to make achievements in the second year.

Whether it is a historical superstar or an ordinary All-Star, it can be seen in three seasons.

(End of this chapter)