After a summer of training and hard work, Osborne's basketball skills have become more mature, at least his ability to break the defense has been greatly enhanced, and if anyone dares to trap him at will, he will make that team pay a heavy price. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The new season is about to start, Osborne really wants the game to start as soon as possible, new glory is waiting for him, and the championship ring is also waiting for him? This is the first time Osborne has seen his ring up close, and it's exciting to think about.

And Osborne's own contract is also easy to get, both sides give a step, Osborne finally got three years of 49 million and his expected annual salary is about the same, the first year of the annual salary of 14 million, the second year of 15 million, the third year is the player option of 20 million annual salary, it seems that the Pistons also want to keep Osborne in the next contract year. This is a really generous annual salary, and this is also the Pistons' biggest rookie contract in recent years.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Osborne sees his value and respect from the contract provided by the Pistons, so Osborne is no longer entangled in those trivial things, and he signed the contract very happily, he doesn't want to be too entangled in this matter, after all, he also wants to stay in a team system like the Pistons, only here does he feel that his value is greatly exerted, and he can really let the fans who like him see it.

In July 2004, the summer league was about to be held in Las Vegas, and this year's rookies had few excellent players except for the champion Lang Dwight Howard, and most of the talent was not as good as the 03 platinum generation predecessors, but the summer league they were still playing well and lively.

This year, as the defending champion, the Pistons team did not have any good rookie picks, so they only picked up some leftovers to make up the number, but the Pistons still completed the task well, and the rookies they selected were very good, at least they were able to perform on the bench, leading the Pistons to beat other teams led by high-pick rookies in three formations, and even the 04 champion show Dwight Howard was beaten by the Pistons to the point where they were powerless, so the Pistons team members still maintained their strength last season, Win the Summer League championship in one go.

The strong performance of the Pistons players in the summer league has made the Pistons fans very optimistic about the Pistons' prospects for defending the title, and Osborne is also very satisfied with the Pistons' bench lineup, which is still the most competitive championship-level team in the new season, because his main lineup has not changed, and the rotation lineup has been greatly strengthened.

Osborne's three-point shot has also been a diligent practice this summer, and he has improved rapidly, shooting more than 60% from the field in practice. So overall, the strength of the Pistons is still the strongest in the league, but several of the league's giants have been artificially weakened to a greater or lesser extent.

In the preseason, Coach Larry Brown also adhered to the idea of training and training newcomers to play, and Osborne and other main players did not have much playing time against the Hornets, Osborne played about 7 minutes, made four three-pointers, and then was urgently replaced by Larry Brown, after all, if Osborne plays basketball like this, then he will not be able to achieve the purpose of training.

The Hornets' rookie J.R. Smith was also stunned, and he forced a number of three-pointers on several occasions, but fortunately scored a few, otherwise he would have been refrigerated by the Hornets head coach.

Osborne looked at this fan known as the nerve knife Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank celebrity JR Smith is born to be a master who is not afraid of the sky and the ground, he is afraid that he has no data, and he is really not ambiguous at all, and he will shoot when he should shoot, but unfortunately, they met a defensive team like the Pistons, and they will not give him more opportunities to shoot at all, so after several failures in the singles, the head coach of the Hornets also took the opportunity to take him down and replaced him with a more reliable defensive guard of the Hornets.

In the end, the Pistons didn't have to spend much effort to defeat the New Orleans Hornets 97-81 and won their first preseason victory.

However, Osborne didn't have much playing time, and the game was dominated by the Pistons' second and third players, so Osborne didn't have much stats, only 12 points, which were the four three-pointers he made at the beginning.

When Osborne saw this formation, he felt that Coach Larry Brown would definitely not give him too much playing time, so he had to score more points in the shortest possible time, and Osborne also paid special attention to the data of JR Smith on the opposite side, he shot 12 three-pointers in 18 minutes, and scored 11 points on 1 two-pointer, looking at the data is good, but JR Smith's shooting options make the Hornets head coach a little incomprehensible, and the more difficult the shot, the more he can score, the more vacant the state, He's all iron, and he's pretty good at never making shots without defense.

Osborne also felt that Jr Smith was really as persistent as ever, and then there was no change in his style of play, and he was as unstoppable as a god when he shot accurately, and he didn't need to send someone to defend him when he wasn't right, so the Jianghu people called the nerve knife, this feature not only made the opponent scratch his head, but also made his own people entangled, with or without it, it was a dilemma.

The Pistons' second preseason game was played on their home court, and the Pistons' home arena, Auburn Hills Palace, was full of people, and although it was only a preseason game, the enthusiastic fans and spectators had already suffocated, and now the Pistons' appeal was better than that of the mayor.

And the Pistons fans also bought the package tickets for the whole season early, this situation makes the Pistons owner very happy, ticket income is a major source of economic income for the Pistons, in the past he used all kinds of means to sell tickets, but the effect was mediocre, and now it is hard to find a ticket, sure enough, the aura of the championship is really easy to use, and this rate of return is all-round, not to mention ticket revenue, that is, the broadcast fee of TV media is also a large amount of income, plus sponsors' commercials, The star value of the players themselves is a considerable appreciation asset.

After thinking about these benefits, he is no longer stingy about team building and recruitment, he only asks for one thing, that is, he hopes that the Pistons can successfully defend the title and even build a dynasty team.

In the second game, the Pistons played against the Magic, and the Magic team just drafted the guy Dwight Howard, but Larry Brown still didn't take Dwight Howard in his eyes, in his opinion, a stupid big man like Dwight Howard has little chance of becoming a superstar, because Howard's skills are too rough, except for physical factors, there is nothing that can make him a superstar.

However, Osborne knows that this Howard is also a typical representative of physical flow players, and he also brought the Magic team from a lottery team to the Finals, although he lost to the Lakers, but he successfully blocked the meeting between the Cavaliers and the Lakers, which should also be the most promising year for 23vs24, but it is a pity that LeBron James fell in the Eastern Conference Finals, and Howard led the explosive Rashad Lewis, Hidutekoglou, and broke into the Finals for the first time. However, he was taught a lesson by the more sophisticated Kobe Bryant.

Not much to say, Osborne also came on the court with the intention of teaching Howard a lesson, and he came up to give the Magic a dismount first, and Osborne shot directly from the three-point line two steps away, and shot it steadily.

At this time, the young Howard looked at Osborne and was very envious, because his own shooting and free throws were a mess, so it was natural to envy Osborne's shooting skills, but he couldn't give up his physical advantage and shoot outside, so when the other players on the Magic team gave him basketballs, he also jumped up and dunked directly, and Elden Campbell, who was defending him, had no way to stop him, so he had to foul him.

And Howard was also a little nervous about missing two free throws, but the rebound was also picked up by him, and then he exploded a dunk to add two points to the Magic team, Osborne really wanted to laugh when he saw Howard's free throws, I don't know if Howard's bad free throws are psychological factors or physical factors, in short, it looks funny, Howard shot a three-way no-stick with a serious face, and O'Neal had a fight. (To be continued.) )