In the preseason, the Pelicans' new lineup is very good, Arenas, who thought he was dead, suddenly cheated and became the Pelicans' scoring champion in the preseason, and Derrick Rose, the star who returned from injury, also played a smarter and smarter game, with Li Feng and Arenas, Rose is not as crazy as in the Bulls, so that the chance of Rose's injury is greatly reduced.

However, Arenas' starting was not a lot solid, and Van Gundy did make a change, and rookie Victor Oladipo got one start in seven games. averaged 13.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, you must know that the Pelicans' current small forward and scoring guard are the most crowded positions, whether it is Kevin Martin or Arenas, they have the strength to take the lead, and even Ronnie Brewer and Caron Butler are both powerful factions, Oladipo can have such results, it can be seen that Van Gundy has really changed, and more opportunities are given to newcomers.

On the inside, Henson has learned a lot under Brand's guidance and improved his individual defense ability.

Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap also played an exciting offense, especially Millsap, who made eight three-pointers after a preseason game against the Suns, and his offensive range increased to give Jefferson and Lee more space.

Li Feng is "not good", playing an average of only 25 minutes, averaging 14 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals per game, not at all like the Pelicans' number one star.

However, all media pundits can see that the Pelicans are holding on, and even so, they still beat many teams and really improved.

After the preseason, the players gathered for a two-day break and a long 82-game regular season game awaited them.

On October 30, the 2013-2014 NBA regular season officially kicked off, with three games on the day, Indiana Pacers vs Chicago Bulls. San Antonio Spurs vs. Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans vs. Golden State Warriors.

The Golden State Warriors have also received reinforcements this summer, with the combination of O'Neal Jr. and Chandler Jr. being both offensive and experienceless, as well as the lack of experience of the young interior lineman.

October 3o, 7 p.m.!

Forty-five minutes to go until the start of the new season!

This year, it was held at the Pelicans' home arena, New Orleans, and it was also a great place for Pelicans players to watch their team's game of the new season on their own turf.

As a result, nearly 20,000 tickets for the New Orleans Arena were sold out early.

In the audience!

The Hornets fans have an absolute advantage, and nearly half of them have worn Li Feng's No. 0 shirt!

After Li Feng's last official appearance, the popularity of the Pelicans' No. 0 jersey jumped over Paul's No. 3 jersey and Davis' No. 1 jersey!

You know, even if Chris Paul leaves. It is also the well-deserved king of the Pelicans, and the bearded Barron Davis, he is the soul of the Pelicans, and many people think that there is only one "Queen Bee", and that is Davis.

Of course, there are some Oakland fans coming over today, most of them wearing Corey's number 30 jersey, and if you look closely, some fans are even wearing the Warriors' number 0 jersey. Li Feng's name is written on the back, these are all Chinese, although Li Feng was not able to join the Warriors, they still support Li Feng as always......

"The Warriors and Pelicans game is about to begin. This summer. The Pelicans have changed dramatically, and in the preseason, they defeated all doubts and won all the games. Li Feng did not play well in the preseason as always, but everyone knows that it was the same as last year. Li Feng's state in the regular season is definitely quite hot, and no one will doubt the power of the Tyrannosaurus Rex"

"The Warriors, they have also received a number of strong players this summer, including Jermaine O'Neal who is back in form in the Suns and Tony Douglas who is amazing in the Rockets, they reached the Finals in the 2011-2012 season, and they also did well in the playoffs last year, and this year, the goal of the stronger Warriors is definitely the Finals, and the two Western powerhouses meet in the opener, this game is not to be missed......"

Before the start of the game, the Pelicans also made a small celebration in order to thank the fans, the Pelican's mascot held a fruit basket and scattered flowers at the fans, each flower can be exchanged in the Pelican for a front row of sects and any Pelican star signed photo.

Ten minutes later, the game between the Pelicans and the Warriors finally began, and the starting lineup on the Pelicans' side was unsurprising, point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Li Feng, power forward Paul Millsap, and center Al Jefferson.

The Warriors' starters were point guard Stephen Curry, scoring guard Hadrow Barnes, small forward Klay Thompson, power forward Smalls, and center Tyson Chandler.

The main lineups of the two teams were discharged, and the game officially began.

Millsap and Smalls stood in the center circle for the ball, and as soon as the referee's whistle blew, Paul Millsap took the lead and put the basketball on the Pelicans' side.

Xiao Si's bounce is not as good as before, and he was won by Millsap Jump.

Rose came in possession and began to pass the ball to Arenas from a long distance from the three-point line.

When Rose was really close to the three-point line, the Pelicans immediately came up with a very good low-post cover strategy.

The whole formation suddenly closed, except for Rose standing at the top of the arc, the rest of the players were almost concentrated on the line of the baseline. When the Warriors followed the defense, they cleared the top of the arc and the area above the free throw line at once.

The Pelicans' basic tactics are still in place, the space is opened, and the people are in place, which is suddenly closed.

Arenas took advantage of the chaos to get rid of the defender with cover on the baseline, and suddenly ran from the crowd on the baseline to the left 45 degrees that had been emptied above.

Rose hurriedly passed the ball to him, at this time Corey, who was originally defending Rose, hurriedly went to defend, but this time he leaked Rose, and Arenas saw this situation with a sweep of his eyes and immediately passed back.

Rose shot a three-point empty position at the top of the arc and shot a three-point shot directly, and the opportunity was good, but Rose shot a deformed action, maybe his hand slipped or for some reason, Rose shot a little exaggerated, and smashed it into the basket flat, and then rebounded directly.

Chandler fought fiercely for the rebound under the basket and then immediately passed it to Barnes.

The Warriors fought back. Barnes was in possession of the ball, either because the game had just started or because his attention was on his teammates.

When he was running, he didn't notice that Li Feng was by his side, this guy didn't have any protective measures, let Li Feng go up and break the ball with a simple break, and then turned around and ran towards the Warriors' half.

I have to say that the Warriors' defense is still okay, and immediately the three of them came back to defense, and the Pelicans retreated faster because of just now. Only one Li Feng ran back.

At this time, Li Feng was a dozen three.

According to common sense, it should be waiting, but Li Feng didn't do this, but made a surprise acceleration and came up directly past Klay Thompson and got up with a one-handed dunk on the Warriors' basket.

No one thought that as soon as the game began, Li Feng would dedicate such a wonderful dunk.

Even Bill Wharton and Joan Barry in the commentary seat couldn't help but exclaim:

"Wow!! It's fierce. ”

Li Feng is indeed very fierce this time, it is simply so fierce that he can't do it.

And Li Feng can have this kind of appearance, and playing soy sauce in the preseason is completely two states.

The Warriors are a young team. The most important thing for young people is blood, so Li Feng is such a dunk.

After the second round, the Warriors also began to be violent, after Xiao Si got the basketball at the waist position. Straight down to Paul Millsap, he swayed from side to side, and then suddenly a left-handed hook hand came.

Before Xiao Si started, he felt that Paul Millsap was not well known. There is no fame at all, and repairing him by himself is not an easy, minute-by-minute thing. But such a contact. It's not like that.

Millsap was very hard in the low post, unexpectedly hard for Small. Al Jefferson's help defense is also in place, so when it really comes to Xiao Si's shot, he feels a little difficult.

It's very uncomfortable, as soon as I shoot, I feel that I don't have any strength, the ball floats badly, the basketball is soft as soon as it is thrown out, and Aljefferson under the basket picks up a rebound for nothing!

Although it is just a back-and-forth contact, the two teams will meet each other. But Warriors head coach Mark Jackson, who was sitting in the dugout, immediately twisted his eyebrows together.

The Pelicans are really good today, the offense is not like Van Gundy's team, but the defense is Van Gundy's players, but the Pelicans' defensive strength and coordination are not something that the weak team can have. With this kind of defense, the results shouldn't be too bad.

Bill Wharton, who was sitting in the commentary seat, also immediately said:

"Oh! The Pelicans' defense is outstanding! It's very integral, and the intensity is enough, Jeff's training is very good. ”

Van Gundy is now looking at his team and is beautiful!

He also had a kind of admiration that he could get an invitation from the Pelicans to coach such a team, and the championship hopes were greatly dropped!

The Pelicans showed the style Van Gundy demanded, with a tough and thorough defense, a team and clean offense, albeit mediocre shooting.

But still after the opening, he easily pressed the Warriors.

The Warriors are a young team, and this kind of team is open and can come with any wonderful ball. But if it can't be opened, it's a stuffy gourd. Now that the Pelicans come up with tough defense, the young people of the Warriors who are pressed are a little unlucky.

And although there are many young warriors, he also has a very strict problem. The overall lineup of the Warriors, one position, one position, I think it's okay. But they couldn't get together.

This lineup lacks guests and hosts, lacks organization, and has no points of mutual fit. The complementarity between players and players, the coordination is not strong, this lineup lacks the core, and the arrow characters are missing.

Xiao Si is the most outstanding person in the team, but this person has a fatal flaw that the style of play is not hard enough, and when encountering tough defense, he lacks dominance and cannot be decided! This is Xiao Si's most fatal flaw! It is also the most fatal flaw of the Warriors at the moment.

Xiao Si is such a player who lacks offensive ability and at the same time has very dazzling skills.

As soon as the game between the Pelicans and the Warriors began, the Pelicans had the upper hand, and Xiao Si couldn't tear through the Pelicans' defensive net even if he bit everywhere.

And the outside core Stephen Corey was watched by Rose, Rose completely let go of Corey's breakthrough and only defended shots, plus Arenas helped defend from time to time, and the Warriors gave most of the ball to Barnes.

And other young players of the Warriors like Barnes and Thompson also have the intention to kill the enemy, but they are suffering from a lack of good ideas, and they are like headless flies to the Pelicans, and then play alone. Blunder.

The Warriors have no effective countermeasures in this backward situation, and there is no tacit cooperation to fight back.

So by the second half of the first quarter, the Pelicans had a 10-point lead over the Warriors.

At this time, the Pelicans originally had an absolute advantage, but Van Gundy made a rotation, except for Li Feng, who changed four starters, and Van Gundy is now getting bolder.

After the substitution, the Pelicans' lineup changed to Andris Biedrins, Elton Brand. Li Feng, Kevin Martin, Victor Oladipo, and Li Feng have become the absolute core.

Li Feng only scored 4 points today, the Pelicans fired the whole team, and Li Feng didn't need to score much.

Now that his teammates are down, it's time for Li Feng to show his chance, but the Warriors have played the same Finals-like defense against Li Feng.

On the Warriors' side, it was not Thompson who defended Li Feng, but Barnes. Barnes, who was defending Li Feng, immediately went around the front defense and cut off Li Feng's route to receive the ball.

The Warriors and Barnes obviously came prepared, that is, to limit Li Feng's catch.

Li Feng ran back and forth in the low post and couldn't catch the ball! You can only pull away quickly and give up space to your teammates. Next up for the Pelicans' Oladipo was on the right shot.

But Li Feng's heart is not very comfortable, not long after the game started, the Warriors did this, did it so badly, and would rather let the other Pelicans players score. Just don't let yourself catch the ball.

Entering the defensive end, Li Feng did not put much pressure, and Klay Thompson did not cause any trouble for Li Feng.

The second time into the Warriors' position. Li Feng thought of a way, used the cover of his teammates and then went in the low post to receive the ball.

This time Li Feng finally received the basketball, but the warrior's ferocious bag immediately wrapped around Li Feng's body.

At this time, Li Feng still couldn't attack, so he could only pass the basketball out again, and this time the Pelicans didn't shoot from the outside.

Li Feng returned in vain, and then Li Feng was constantly restricted by the Warriors, restricting the ball, once he received the ball, he was vicious, and when he was in position, the Warriors deliberately drove himself away from the basket, giving Li Feng more opportunities to receive the ball outside, but they never gave Li Feng the opportunity to receive the ball inside.

The Warriors' combination of punches really limited Li Feng very untempered, from the beginning of Li Feng to the end of the first quarter, Li Feng had limited offensive opportunities. I only scored 4 points.

At the end, Li Feng was really depressed, and the warriors restricted themselves everywhere, studied themselves, and then set up obstacles.

In this case, Li Feng was really a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't adjust for a while.

And after the end of the first quarter, Bill Wharton, who was sitting in the commentary seat, had a statement, and said to Joanbari beside him:

"Today's opening game is really different, Li Feng can't even score lightly, I can't imagine that if it weren't for the Pelicans' other players to play steadily, it may not be the Pelicans who are leading now, what happened to Li Feng."

"Look at the Warriors once they took a targeted defense against him just now, he didn't have no way, Li Feng could score at will in the previous games, but today is not normal, where did that normal Li Feng go!"

Bill Wharton shook his head as he said this.

Li Feng's side was also well thought out, and in the past few minutes, the warrior's combination punch was indeed hitting Li Feng and couldn't find the north.

However, to have this effect, the first is that after all, the new season has only begun, and Li Feng did not play much time in the preseason, and he did not defend like the Warriors, so he couldn't adapt to it for a while. The second reason is that Li Feng himself has fallen into a misunderstanding of thinking, when he was limited by the warrior's combination boxing, Li Feng did not change his strategy in time, but blindly wanted to force warmth in the low position, and wanted to use his own ability to simply break the opponent.

With this kind of thinking, Li Feng did not have a very flexible and timely adjustment strategy. Now get off the pitch and think about it calmly.

Li Feng also realized what kind of mistake he had just made, and accordingly, Li Feng also had a score in his own heart, knowing that this was the regular season, and he had to get into the state quickly.

However, it was also when Li Feng's performance in the first quarter was not good, and he responded to Bill Wharton's statement.

On and off the court, there are many people who have new ideas for Li Feng.

Many people, especially those who have not watched Li Feng play before, have begun to agree with what Bill Wharton said in their hearts.

I feel that Li Feng has played high in the summer, and he is also used to soy sauce in the preseason, and he can't use it when he encounters a real game.

Some Pelican fans who came to see Li Feng play for the first time were indeed disappointed.

However, on the Warriors' side, the Warriors' head coach Mark Jackson is a little proud. Look, you were very good before! But when I come here, I will repair you honestly, although the team's score is still behind, but now I have at least limited Li Feng, which can be regarded as setting an example for other teams in the future.

Mark Jackson was still a little proud, and the first quarter on the Warriors' side was not a complete failure.

The game restarted, and at this time, Van Gundy did not let Li Feng re-enter the court in order to protect Li Feng, because of the overuse of Yao Ming, and the use of Li Feng by Tyberdu last season, Van Gundy also learned a lesson.

Today, the Pelicans' behavior on the court is indeed not a crisis, and the Pelicans still continued the momentum of the first quarter throughout the second quarter, steadily suppressing the Warriors. However, at this time, because of the long-term lead, I have to admit that the kind of rigorous defense that the Pelicans brought from the opening court unconsciously relaxed a lot. (To be continued......)