379: The Bay Area has risen
Both NBA game days have ended in the new season, and 30 teams in the league have also shown their faces in front of fans.
For the league, the beginning of this season was quite successful. Because in just two days, each team exuded the charm of the NBA to the fullest.
What is the charm of NBA? Uncertainty is definitely one of them. Even a team with a strong lineup on paper may play badly. A team with an average look may perform well.
For example, on the day of the opening game, the Dallas Mavericks played against the Los Angeles Lakers who formed the F4 combination away.
It has been a whole year since the Mavericks won the championship, and the Mavericks have basically bid farewell to the championship competition. The Lakers, who have four superstars, are considered to be the favorites to win the championship.
As a result, the Mavericks defeated the luxurious Lakers 99-91 away with Nowitz's genetic injury and no one in the team scored 20!
Gasol scored 23 points, Kobe scored 22 points, and Howard scored 19 points. But except for the three of them, no other player in the Lakers scored in double digits. Mike Brown seems to have extremely poor control over the Lakers. The Lakers' offense is very struggling, which can be said to be completely out of system.
In this way, the highly anticipated Lakers lost their debut and also made a wonderful start for the NBA this season.
Don’t think you are stable for all teams.
The Clippers lost another Los Angeles team, which broke Los Angeles fans' hearts.
Facing Link, who "no longer makes progress", facing Randolph, who is "almost aborted", and facing Iguodala, who is "not suitable for the Grizzlies", he played a game that was extremely ugly from the scene to the results.
From the scene, the Clippers fell behind in the first quarter. Although the score difference was close to 3 points in the second quarter, they were just a comeback. Throughout the game, the Clippers fans did not see the progress of Griffin and Jordan Jr., but instead saw Link's all-connect dunk, retreating three-pointer, Randolph's return in form and Gasol's becoming more mature.
In terms of the result, the final defeat also made Los Angeles fans heartbroken. The Clippers and Lakers both lost, which undoubtedly gave them a blow.
The proud Los Angeles fans lowered their heads, and the new season undoubtedly made them understand that Los Angeles is no longer the overlord of the basketball world.
Of course, besides the Lakers and the Grizzlies, the hottest team is undoubtedly the Houston Rockets!
The Rockets have basically no action except introducing Jeremy Lin this summer. Just when people thought the Rockets were going to continue to sink like this, they suddenly traded to win the sixth man last season with James Harden, the sixth man in the season!
The reason why Harden joined the Rockets is simple, money and status.
As soon as he transferred to the Rockets, Harden signed a five-year contract worth $80 million, which is the price that the Thunder cannot give to Harden. Of course, in addition to money, Harden also has an absolute core position in the Rockets.
In the Thunder, Harden can only be the sixth man after Westbrook and Durant. However, in the Houston Rockets, Harden can get the treatment of a star. This deal came very suddenly, and the appearance of the "Harlin combination" also attracted much attention from the Rockets.
As a result, the Rockets challenged the Pistons away in the first game of the new season, and Harden and Jeremy Lin performed amazingly.
Jeremy Lin scored 12 points, 8 assists and 4 steals, and performed versatilely. After James Harden was unrestrained, he scored 37 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals!
Harden has become the first player in NBA history, scoring at least 30 points and 12 assists in his debut in a new team! In the history of the Rockets, there are a total of 5 players who can score 35 points and 10 assists in a single game, and the person who did this before Harden was called Tracy McGrady. And that was five years ago.
As soon as Harden joined the Rockets, he broke the record. There is no doubt that this made James Harden's popularity soar.
If he was just the sixth man last season who no one cared about, then this season, he is a rising star that has attracted much attention from fans all over the world.
Overall, the Grizzlies beat the Clippers and John Hollinger was slapped in the face by the national live broadcast, but their popularity was still not as good as the Lakers' loss and Harden's creation of history.
However, Link didn't care. What the Grizzlies need is not popularity, but victory. If popularity can represent everything, Kobe doesn't have to try his best to spur himself in Los Angeles.
Although he won his season debut and made Hollinger look disgraceful, Link was still serious about training after the match with the Clippers.
And since this season is not a shrinking season, the interval between each game is not that dense. Therefore, Link can happily practice again.
"You have to pay attention to that kid, he left at 10 o'clock yesterday. We wouldn't have let him practice so late before." In Stevens' office, assistant coach Elston Turner began to complain about Link's training for too long.
Stevens held the coffee and shook his head with a smile. He may be one of the few coaches in the league who are bothering about the players' training for too long.
Everyone else is worried that players will not train on time or leave early in training. Stevens is fine, so he has to find a way to prevent players from training.
"From the future, the basketball court will be closed at 8 o'clock and no one is allowed to enter. Tell Link that if he insists on training until later, spend the night in the basketball court." Stevens came up with the solution, which was a happy trouble.
"I think this China Merchants Bank, otherwise that boy Link would have to separate all the trainers in our team." Turner smiled.
"Oh? How do you say this?"
"A few days after the new season began, many trainers complained that they were mistakenly affair by their wives because they went home too late. After all, women would not believe that a few older men could work around basketball until late at night, hahahahahaha."
"That guy Link is right. Are you ready for the video of our opponent's game in the next game?" After Stevens finished drinking coffee, the chat time officially ended. Next, we will start working.
"Don't worry, I've been prepared for a long time. But there is only one game video. Is the sample too small? Do we need to find some game videos from them last season to see?"
"No, watching their game videos last season is just a waste of time. This year, they have become completely different. This is not a change in a certain tactic or a certain personnel, but a change in the entire system. So, their game videos last season are not of reference value."
"Speaking of this, are they really worth your hard work? Last season, the Warriors only took the third-last in the West." Elster Turner spread his hands, thinking that Stevens, who had just taken office, was a little nervous.
Fighting the Warriors is no problem at all.
However, Stevens is still serious, "Believe me, Turner. Just look at their first game carefully and you will know that this Warriors are very different from last season and even the Warriors in the past 20 years. They are definitely a strong opponent, and if you take it lightly, they will end up with the Los Angeles Lakers who opened the game."
Chapter completed!