Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 161 Preseason losing streak

On October 10, the day before the start of the preseason, the Magic officially announced that Anfernee Hardaway was seriously injured and may miss the game until the middle of the season!

This news made the reporters who were clamoring that the Magic would become the enemy of the Bulls in the Eastern Conference shut up all of a sudden!The reason is simple. Can the Magic make it to the playoffs without Anfernee Hardaway?They need to lose the core player Anfernee Hardaway in the first half of the season, or even longer. With only Anthony Walker, what kind of record will the Magic achieve?
In fact, these reporters have begun to look down on the Magic. Without Anfernee Hardaway, the Magic will indeed be weakened by more than half at once. They may not be able to make the playoffs. The team is no match for the Bulls at all.However, it is not that no reporter still has confidence in the Magic. They even cited the example of Jonny. In the middle of last season, Anfernee Hardaway was injured for a period of time, but during that time, thanks to Jonny's outstanding performance, The Magic held on.

And these reporters believe that the current Magic is stronger than last season in terms of role players, and even if Anthony Walker is worse than Jonny, he will not be able to move this group of teammates. Anthony Walker can lead the Magic to at least [-]% of the winning percentage, and then bring the Magic into the top four after Anfernee Hardaway returns.

But these have nothing to do with Jonny. The Celtics started their preseason tour the day after the Magic officially announced that Anfernee Hardaway was seriously injured.

In the first game, the Celtics ushered in the Philadelphia 76ers at their home court and faced Allen Iverson again. Jonny is no longer the rookie who was abused by Iverson in the summer league. Now Johnny may not be able to fully blow up Allen Iverson, who is still in his infancy, but it is not a big problem to have a slight upper hand.

This season, the 76ers dismissed former head coach Johnny Davis and hired the famous coach Larry Brown instead. The signal of wanting to return to the playoffs is very obvious. Folsom, Jerry Stackhouse, and Derek Coleman, the 76ers of the iron triangle, are indeed not to be underestimated. In this preseason game, although both sides did not make much effort, Jonny even only played. 19 minutes, but the 76ers won by 22 points, which made the Celtics very embarrassed.

Especially the reporters on the sidelines saw that the Celtics lost by 22 points. Although Jonny only played 19 minutes, the 76ers' Allen Iverson, Jerry Stackhouse and Derry Coleman's playing time is less than 20 minutes, so in the eyes of this group of reporters, the 76ers even suffer a little bit, but the Celtics still lost, and it was a disastrous defeat to a player last season. The second-to-last team in the Eastern Conference, the prospects of the Celtics can be imagined.

In the first game, Jonny didn't exert much effort. In fact, the preseason game was to provide a platform for these NBA players to slowly regain their normal game state in a relaxed game, and Jonny actually didn't have to go through this process. But out of the consideration of training substitute players, Rick Pitino still didn't give Jonny more game time.

But Rick Pitino would not have imagined what kind of belittling the Celtics would suffer from his approach.

After the game, USA Today reporter Sam Amick, who had been bad-mouthing the Celtics before, said: "I said before that this Celtics is still a bad team last season. The first game was just a preseason game, but the Celtics lost 22 points to the 76ers, which made them rotten to an unimaginable level. You must know that the 76ers were the last in the Eastern Conference last season. Second, even the Raptors are better than them, and the Celtics lost to the 76ers by a big margin, which means that the Celtics are worse than the 76ers, which is the worst ball in the league Team!"

Sam Amick's words were full of derogation of the Celtics, and the next game seemed to verify Sam Amick's thoughts even more.

On October 10th, the Celtics continued to fight at home. They ushered in the New York Knicks. In this game, the Celtics got another 15-point defeat. The New York Knicks last season Several main players remain in the team, and the New York Knicks, whose core lineup remains unchanged, are naturally much stronger than the Celtics.In this game, Jonny's playing time increased, reaching 20 minutes, but he still couldn't prevent the team from losing.

And this result convinced Sam Amick even more that the Celtics are the worst team in the league, and there is no suspense.

The Celtics didn't think much about the two disastrous losses internally, and they practiced as usual.

"Run! Run!"

"Yeah! Well done! Dee! That's it, get rid of him! And go straight for the [-]!"

"Okay, let's take a break. Everyone has done a good job, and the cooperation is getting more and more proficient." Rick Pitino personally carried a box of water and walked towards the players. Kyle, who was still running wildly practicing tactics just now, The special team members also stopped, and one by one picked up the water and drank it in big gulps.

Their training these days is indeed too hard. They have to make physical reserves every day, and they have to run like crazy to practice tactics like just now.The Celtics' tactics require very high physical fitness. This tactic requires the players to advance to the frontcourt in the shortest possible time as soon as they get the ball, and then play a wave when the opponent's foothold is not stable. successful attack.

"Okay, everyone rest for a quarter of an hour, and then continue to run." Rick Pitino glanced at the time and announced.Immediately afterwards, the players sitting on the ground screamed.

Johnny is also one of them. He really didn't expect Rick Pitino's pre-season training to be so terrifying. It was even more terrifying than his previous special training in Long Beach. He ran every day, and even Playing in team training games is also running.

However, Rick Pitino's next words made the team members excited again: "Recently, you may not have paid attention to outside news reports. Let me tell you something. Yesterday, USA TODAY published an outlook on the new season. , and we are the well-deserved bottom one in their outlook! Also, looking forward, in ESPN’s previous new season predictions, the Celtics are predicted to be the bottom one in the Eastern Conference. Of course, don’t forget Yahoo Sports, they think the Celtics are on track to get out of last place under Jonny Lee!"

The players threw their water bottles, picked up the basketball on the ground, and once again plunged into the endless loop of running and running. Obviously, the comments from the major media that Rick Pitino just introduced to them made these players' fighting spirit once again high. !

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