Chapter 162: don't underestimate old comrades
When this matter continued to ferment, Lian Dao didn't pay much attention to it. Except for the rest of the daily training, he basically lived a gluey two-person world with the little senior sister.
After Christmas, it is Christmas Eve. Of course, Lian Dao and the little senior sister are not interested in American holidays. Lian Dao is because he lived in China since he was a child. Although he came to the United States, he has no sense of belonging. His purpose of coming It's not for getting a green card. On the contrary, he wants to conquer the fans here with basketball.
And the little sister is because of Guo Nianguo's family tradition. Although she moved to Chinatown in New York in her early years, the old man still maintains the domestic tradition. The old man never celebrates Christmas and Christmas Eve. He will celebrate the New Year, and every year the Spring Festival couplets are old. Handwritten in traditional Chinese characters.
Therefore, the little senior sister is also deeply influenced by the family tradition.
On the second day of Christmas Eve, on December 27, New York ushered in their first post-holiday opponent.
San Antonio Spurs.
Since it was a home game, they also saved the trouble of traveling and traveling, and none of the players were late for training on the first day after the festival.
Because there are competitions at night, I only do some simple training during the day, and I don't do any particularly physical-consuming projects.
Christmas Lian Dao is also a Christmas gift for teammates. Lian Dao is also a small gift prepared according to some people's hobbies. In fact, it is not very expensive for high-income people like the NBA, and it is within everyone's consumption range. Guilt, but the attitude of the team boss made them feel warm.
The Knicks' record this season is still good, and the atmosphere in the team is also quite good. During the team training, there are also talking and laughing, full of enthusiasm.
Jason Kapono and Jrue Holiday were also infected by the atmosphere of the Knicks. Before they came, they thought the Knicks locker room was in chaos. Everyone in the league has a bad impression of the Knicks locker room.
Many people think that the Knicks' locker room - a group of demons dancing!
But after coming here, I found that it was not as scary as I thought. The locker room was quite harmonious under the leadership of the team boss Lian Dao.
No picture of their previous brain supplements appeared.
As Lian Dao entered the NBA at the same level, Huo Ledi is also full of admiration for Lian Dao. They have played against each other in the ncaa before. Defeated twice in the regular season.
He thought at the time that Lian Dao's talent in the NCAA was already strong enough, but he didn't expect that it was just the tip of the iceberg for Lian Dao. Lian Dao who came to the NBA was like a whale entering the sea. He broke a series of records at the beginning of the season. At that time, Holiday, who saw the newspaper, almost dropped his jaw in shock.
If he defined Lian Dao in the NCAA as "a very strong opponent", then he came to the NBA as "a talent that cannot be surpassed".
Holiday knows how strong the NBA is. In the opening game of the 76ers, he didn't get any chance to play at all. In the second game against the Bucks, he played for 6 and a half minutes. He was also a rookie. Under the defense of Brandon Jennings, he only scored 2 points, 1 rebound, 2 fouls and 1 turnover.
Against the Celtics, he played 12 minutes and 55 seconds and only scored 5 points, 3 assists, 1 rebound, 1 turnover and 1 foul.
However, Lian Dao made his debut in the opening game, and he was able to score a quasi-quadruple-double with 41 points, 16 rebounds, 21 assists and 7 steals, and an all-around triple-double record.
You must know that he is facing the league's scoring leader last season and Dwyane Wade, who was selected as the best defensive team player last season.
Holiday watched the replay of the Knicks game. He defended Wade alone, and Lightning broke through the defense and went to the basket for a dunk.
At that time, after watching the game, Holiday had a question in his heart. Is the gap between himself and the No. 1 pick so big?
Especially the follow-up performance of Lian Dao, who scored 63 points in a single game under the defense of James in the game against the Cavaliers, directly breaking Chamberlain's single-game scoring record for rookies in the ancient NBA.
Not to mention myself at the time, even the team boss Iguodala shook his head and sighed "abnormal" after seeing it.
As if he wasn't a rookie in the 2009 class, as if he didn't have a so-called rookie season.
But so far, Lian Dao's scoring average is still the first this season.
Although Durant also relied on a large number of shots in recent games to keep reducing the score, so far, Lian Dao is still the first in the scoring list.
Therefore, for becoming teammates with Lian Dao, Huo Ledi has no conflicts in his heart.
And this Christmas, Lian Dao also carefully prepared a gift for him, which moved Holiday, who had just arrived in the Knicks, and proved that the team leader accepted him.
In fact, Lian Dao still has a good impression of Holiday. Holiday is the same type of person as Curry emotionally. He is dedicated and doesn't mess around.
He is best known for choosing to take an indefinite truce in a contract year. The main reason is that in the 16-17 season, Zhu Holiday ushered in his own contract year with the Pelicans. Naturally, he worked hard to perform well and strive for a big contract.
However, in the middle of the season, bad news came that his wife Laura was found to have a benign tumor on the right side of her brain.
Although it was a benign tumor, after hearing the news, Zhu Holiday couldn't care less, and directly informed the team of his decision to take an indefinite truce. After the operation is completed next year and his wife's condition improves, Zhu Holiday Holiday just returned to the team.
During the truce, Zhu Holiday will continue to practice and maintain his state with the assistant coach sent by the team while his wife is asleep.
It can be said that Zhu Holiday is a representative of a good man who is responsible in the nba league full of playboys. What is more regrettable is that the location of the tumor is relatively close to the nerve of the eye. After the operation, Laura's eyes and eyelids were not working well.
Moreover, Lian Dao thinks that Holiday is a good match for him. Holiday is also a player who is willing to do dirty work on the court. The best proof is that he was selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team for four times. At the same time, he also won the "NBA Teammate of the Year Award". The significance of this award is to recognize NBA players who play selflessly, have a dedicated and friendly attitude, and are eager to cooperate with their peers.
In the 19-20 season, Zhu Holiday became the eighth winner (before him were Billups, Battier, Duncan, Carter, Nowitzki, Crawford, Conley), It is enough to prove that Zhu Holiday is an ideal teammate that everyone loves on and off the court.
And so far, the Knicks have initially established a defensive system on the perimeter.
Chris Duhon, Douglas, Jrue Holiday, Wilson Chandler, Larry Hughes, Lian Dao, it can be said that the Knicks' perimeter defense has basically formed a system. What they lack is the cooperation of the game and time. grinding.
When the run-in is over, the Knicks' defense will surprise the entire league.
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San Antonio Spurs, the aging of gdp has made the Spurs' playoff performance in the past few seasons not very good. The retirement of Horry and Bowen has also left Popovich with no suitable villains for the time being.
Especially in this season in history, they were swept out of the playoffs by the Suns 4:0. For the first time in the playoffs against the Spurs, Stephen Nash didn't have to watch out for Bowen's black feet all the time.
In GDP, only Tony Parker is 27 years old, Duncan is 33 years old, and Ginobili is 32 years old, but there is still no team in the league that dares to underestimate the Spurs~www.mtlnovel.com~Because everyone underestimates The Spurs teams all fell at the feet of the Spurs.
There is a kind of player who gets more and more evil as he gets older. Ginobili and Duncan are one of them. The Argentine demon can still average 16.5 points per game this season. In addition, he can also get 4.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds.
Duncan is also able to reach the team's highest score of 17.9 this season. In addition, he can also contribute 10.1 rebounds and 3.2 assists.
At the age of 33, he can still average a double-double per game. This has to admire Shi Fu Duncan.
gdp is old, but their strength is always online.
Therefore, don't underestimate the old comrades, every shot they make is the accumulation of experience, which is incomparable to young players.
This is also the reason why so many youth guard teams can perform well in the regular season, but they can't win the O'Brien Cup in the playoffs.
Because what they lack is experience!