Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 305 The Enemy Meets
I don't know how the league arranges the schedule. The first day's opener has the Blazers' share, and the opponent is the Suns, the old enemy of last season's playoffs.The only good thing is that this game is at the Blazers' home court, and they don't have to go to the hot Phoenix.

The Suns have been in decline this season. During the offseason, they lost the team's inside core Stoudemire, and the pick-and-roll combination of Stoudemire + Nash has become history.However, they did not get nothing in the transfer market. The Magic's Turkish forward Turkoglu switched to the Suns and locked a starting position.What's interesting is that both Turkoglu and James were Ye Feng's goals. Strictly speaking, Turkoglu left a deeper impression on Ye Feng. After all, when James was in the Cavaliers, his main task was to score. Turkoglu is a true point forward.

On October 10, local time, the Trail Blazers started their first regular season game of the 26-2010 season at the Rose Garden Arena.Because it is the team's home opening game, the tickets for this game have already been snapped up. Even so, more fans came to the square outside the arena. They all came to support without buying tickets. Trailblazer's.The fanaticism of the fans also made the players have to enter the arena through another relatively remote entrance, otherwise, if they pass through the main entrance, they will be caught in the vast ocean of fans. What kind of autograph and photo, do not engage in more than half an hour will give up.

Seeing the high spirits of the fans, the Blazers players felt a little excited, and almost everyone secretly made up their minds to help the team win a good start, so as not to disappoint the strong support of the fans.As for the current strength of the Suns, it is completely out of their consideration. The old players feel that they have already reached the finals. Isn't it easy to "educate" the opponent?A few newcomers were also infected, and they were all so excited that they almost ran to the court to perform dunks for the fans.

To be on the safe side, McMillan still lined up the familiar starting lineup of last season: Miller, Roy, Ye Feng, Aldridge and Camby.Although Oden has started recovery training during the offseason, according to experts' diagnosis, he is still unable to play on behalf of the team, and today he did not appear in the team's locker room, but continued to do it in the rehabilitation center With recovery training.However, this does not mean that he does not care about the team's performance. He specially asked the staff to move a high-definition large-screen TV, and watched ESPN's live broadcast of the game while training.

Compared with the starting lineup of the Trail Blazers, the starting lineup of the Suns is a bit weird. Gentry sent Nash, Richardson, Hill, Turkoglu and Robin Lopez, which is atypical A lineup of one center + four shooters.Originally, Turkoglu played small forward in the Magic, and the team's starting power forward was Lewis, but in fact, the Turk is also 2.08 meters tall, and he can be used as the fourth position, but he will not be like the general fourth position. That's all for insider activities.

Because Lopez is fighting for rebounds under the basket, the Suns' outside line seems a bit unscrupulous.But it is undeniable that their standard is very high, especially Richardson, who caused a lot of trouble for the Blazers in the playoffs last season. In the first quarter, he once again shot 4 of 4 with 100% shooting. 9 points.Although there is no Stoudemire, Nash still played his own style and contributed 6 points and 3 assists.

The only one who didn't perform very well was the newcomer Turkoglu. Maybe it's because he hasn't fully integrated into the Suns' offensive and defensive system, or maybe he's not used to playing without the ball. He only hit 1 three-pointer in the first quarter. The ball scored 3 points and sent two fouls.He committed these two fouls on Ye Feng, and the scenes were surprisingly similar. Basically, Ye Feng played singles with the ball, and then faked a fax shot to cause fouls by his thugs.However, Ye Feng's luck was not good, he failed to score 2+1 with two fouls, the basketball either swished out of the basket, or hit the backboard directly, which really made him very depressed.

Surprisingly, Roy was the one who worked hard for the Blazers. He kept running around to find space, and Ye Feng also passed the ball to him without hesitation.Although Roy had made it clear to Ye Feng that he wanted to take off the burden of being the team leader, he was also a top defender known as the "Yellow Mamba". He knew his physical condition, but he didn't Allow others to look down on you.

The head coach put him in the starting lineup to give him a chance. He doesn't want himself to be a burden to the team.So even if his knees were a little sore, he continued to run hard on the court, hoping to help his teammates tear apart the Suns' defensive system.And his biggest reliance is that he gradually regained his touch to shoot. Although he is not afraid to make some breakthrough moves that were common before, it is not difficult to switch to off-ball play. This is due to the end of each training session. Afterwards, Xiao Zao, who added himself, had to hit [-] goals in the elbow area and beyond the three-point line every day, which was a huge workload.

However, Roy persisted, so today he showed a fiery shooting touch as soon as he came on the court, and he frequently reached out for the ball. This is only when he is very confident in himself.His teammates were also very willing to pass the ball to him. Even Ye Feng temporarily gave up scoring and focused on creating opportunities for Roy. He knew that this guy looked calm, but there was a burning fire in his heart. There must be a place Let him vent.

But soon Roy's shooting rate fell uncontrollably. The Suns, who were behind by 4 points in the first half, quickly scored 35 to 25 in the third quarter to overtake the score. Nash contributed 12 points in a single quarter.However, Ye Feng stood up in the last quarter. Roy really exhausted the last bit of energy in his body. Ye Feng scored 16 points in a single quarter and led his teammates to defend the Suns with only 11 points. With as many as 20 points, they finally defeated the Suns 106 to 92.

After the game, Roy immediately came over and hugged Ye Feng. He knew that if Ye Feng hadn't stepped forward, even if the Blazers won, they might have to wait until the last moment.In his opinion, Ye Feng, who has been baptized in the finals, has become more mature and more leader-like. If it weren't for his decisive command in the fourth quarter, how could the powerful Suns only score 11 points in a single quarter?
Roy patted Ye Feng's shoulder and whispered, "Boy, do it well! The future is yours."

(End of this chapter)