If I were Yi Di in the NBA

Chapter 81 New Season

"It is expected that the first half of the season will be running-in, the two of us must stabilize the record." Yi Jian said to Durant when playing games.

"No problem, we are stronger than last year." Durant was full of confidence.

In the preseason, Yi Jian didn't have much thought.

He gave up more opportunities to others, whether it is a new player or an old player, and he has to work hard to find his status after the summer.

Because of the Olympic Games, Yi Jian can be said to be in very good physical condition.

Then they won the Clippers and the Suns in a row, and lost to the Lakers in the final battle.

Team coach Brooks said: "We are a young team. At the same time, we have many talented players in our team. Their performance is very good. We are looking forward to the upcoming regular season."

He also talked about Yi Jian, "There is no doubt that he is really great. He is a player who can help the team win and can complete the tasks I assign to him very, very efficiently."

After the preseason, Yi Jian also accepted an interview. He said clearly: "The playoffs, this is the most basic goal."

"We will have ups and downs in the early part of the season due to running-in, but when we are ready, we will become qualified competitors. We are not afraid of any challenges."

Durant also made a similar speech, and the two were full of confidence.

But the outside world is a bit unimpressed with their confidence. The most common comment is that they may improve in the new season, or they may not change, because they are too young, but in any case it is difficult to reach the playoffs in the highly competitive West.

"We admit that Yi Jian performed well in the Olympics, but in the 82 regular season games, he won't get good results after a few good performances. Obviously, professional games will not be all at home. Yi Jian is a little bit drifting."

"Young people always think they already know how to win, they didn't seem to be particularly bad last season, but winning is not the same as winning a lot. When they show a willingness to compete, they will be targeted by other competitors, At that time, young people will find that things are not as simple as they thought."

"The Thunder spent a whole summer in order to move. They obviously don't have the energy to sign in the free market. Yi Jian and Durant don't have veterans to guide them forward. It fell into complete silence."

"The Thunder have a lot of talented young people. They have a young head coach. They look good. In fact, they are just saving money. They don't want to make a difference."

"Yi Jian and Durant are not as strong as everyone thinks. Really good players can lead the team to the playoffs in the first season. Neither of them can do it together, and it is impossible this season."

"The young people nowadays are not at all down-to-earth. They like too much enthusiasm that does not help their strength. They like to make gimmicks and then make money instead of winning."

There are many discussions from the outside world, which makes Durant extremely aggrieved.

Yi Jian didn't care. They haven't succeeded yet, and the popularity really doesn't match the results. Naturally, many people will criticize them.

Most of them are for making money, because the two of them have a lot of traffic, commercial endorsements are already much higher than their salaries, and they will also have traffic if they are hacked.

There is also a lot of jealousy. Yi Jian and Durant are obviously in a small city. They can indeed make so much money and attract other people's attention. There are too many people who are unbalanced.

In addition, some people are self-righteous and like to give pointers.

"If you are not happy, just scold them, and then show our strength on the court and slap these people in the face. We want to win both on the court and in the media." Yi Jian said.

"Heroes see the same thing." Durant enthusiastically went online to meet some critics.

When Yi Jian asked Durant to register on social media before, he discovered that Durant had already registered many social media accounts when he was studying, but they were not the ones Yi Jian would be most familiar with in the future.

After learning that Yi Jian was also willing to play this game, Durant introduced him to many messy platforms in the United States, and Yi Jian was simply amazed.

Therefore, the laning did not start after Durant became famous.

This guy started out to make friends, he looked a bit shy in reality, but he was actually very coquettish, he wanted to pick up girls on the Internet since he was a child, Yi Jian was almost cheated by him before.

Yi Jian doesn't have as much energy as Durant, mainly because he is not used to playing on foreign social media.

He was thinking about whether to register some small accounts on domestic forums. It would be good to have fun when he had time, but he would definitely not be like Durant. Yi Jian still wanted to maintain his image.

Three days after the end of the preseason, at the end of October, the new season officially begins.

The Thunder's game starts on the second day after the start of the regular season, and their schedule will be relatively tight this time around. It will not be very friendly to newcomers who have to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA.

For the time being, they will still maintain the starting lineup of last season. When the rookies can take the position depends on their performance.

The orthodox insiders that teams like Lopez lack will not last long. It's hard to say when others will be reused, including Lowry who Yi Jian strongly asked to come over.

After all, Watson has been with the team for several seasons, and the players who come here are not star players, and the top players must follow the steps, and it is the same in other teams.

The smug Thunder lost two games in a row at the beginning.

Durant played against the Bucks in the first game. Yi Jian and Durant performed well in the second game, but the rest of the team were restricted by the Rockets.

It's a pity that the two games are actually a bit of a pity, and the Thunder are a hair's breadth away from winning.

In the first game, they were slow to enter the state, and it was too late to catch up with the score in the final quarter. In the end, Yi Jian hit a shot, and they still lost by 1 point.

In fact, the rocket's offensive power was not strong in the second game, and the thunder was ahead.

As a result, in the last few minutes, McGrady, whose strength had declined significantly, scored 6 points to bring the Thunder down.

The loss of these two games, the fact that the newcomers of the team have not been able to play the strength to help the team is a big reason.

Yi Jian also felt the difficulty of not having the welfare missions. In these two games, he was unable to trigger the missions against Villanueva and Scola, which showed that there were not so many opponents who could trigger the challenger missions.

Last season, the time when rookies who were not particularly bad could collect rewards was gone forever.

On November 11, the Thunder returned from Houston to play the second game of back-to-back games.

Although it is back to back, but back home, the opponent has become a weak chicken like the Timberwolves, so the situation is naturally different.

The Thunder will mark the Timberwolves in many cases now, because the two teams sent the team leader to rebuild at the same time.

Their previous bosses both won coveted championships in Boston, but the two teams continued on their previous paths.

It is definitely necessary to hurt each other.

(End of this chapter)