Li Feng's body has been great, the injury is also a false alarm, a wave of unties, Al Jefferson injured his wrist in training, the problem is not big but he will miss the next game, but Van Gundy still consciously reduced Li Feng's playing time, in the next game against the Pistons, in the absence of Al Jefferson Li Feng actually sat on the bench, fortunately he was still wearing a jersey instead of a suit, otherwise even if this is Auburn Palace, the fans will be disappointed.

Against the Pistons, the Pelicans still put on a lineup of point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Al Thornton, power forward Millsap, and center Brand.

After looking at the Pelicans' lineup, and then looking at the Pistons' lineup, they are also unlucky, Monroe has been injured this season, but the lineup doesn't look bad, point guard Jennings, scoring guard Starkey, small forward Josh Smith, power forward Jerebko, center Drummond, it seems that the Pistons' lineup seems to be perfect, and there are suitable players for every position.

But in fact, the Pistons' problems are more big than the Pelicans, and the lack of Li Feng and the Pelicans has a lot of impact, but there are still three people who get Millsap Arenasros, but the Pistons lack their own system, and now they can't play with the Pistons as the core of the play.

The players of the two teams gathered in the center circle, and the game between the two teams officially began.

Although Jennings' style of play is more sticky, he definitely does not rely on ball control skills on the court, but Jennings's extremely perverted body.

Jennings dribbled "bang" a few steps to the Pelicans' half, Rose looked a little soft in front of him, and the Pistons also paid attention to this game, so after the opening, even Jennings did not mess around, but first controlled the ball at the top of the arc and observed, and saw Josh Smith coming over. He quickly passed the ball to Josh Smith.

After Josh Smith received the ball, it was not as sluggish as people imagined, Josh Smith was on the head of Al Thornton, and passed the ball to Drummond who ran over.

Drummond is far from developing his full offensive prowess, not having the current brushing shots, not having the pretty little hooks, and some of them are more of an instinctive first step in the frame and the jump throws that come with it.

As soon as Drummond received the ball, he immediately wanted to turn his body around and face the basket. But Brand, who defended him, had undergone special training, stuck to Drummond's back, and kept harassing Drummond with his hands, adding more pressure to the ball.

Drummond's body didn't turn around, but it didn't matter, Brand couldn't compare with Drummond in terms of strength at all, even if Drummond's back skills were poor, but his strength was enough for him to not need any skills at all, and he could use his strength to chisel into the pelican's inner line like a wedge.

"Bang bang" Drummond sat with his back to Brand and took two steps in a row. Brand really tried his best, but Drummond's strong back was basically equivalent to force majeure for him, and he was squeezed to the basket twice.

Drummond jumped up in an extremely ugly way. Like a toad in the air, he stretched out his limbs and smashed the basketball towards the rebound with one hand.

If Drummond had felt a little better, the goal would have gone in. It's a pity that the current Drummond is still not the Drummond two or three years later, and the Pistons' opening first goal is tactically reasonable. The style of play was correct, but at the end of the shot, Drummond was still immature and smashed it out.

After Millsap got the hand at Jerebko, he grabbed the rebound and handed it to Rose right away.

At this time, Barkley, who was in the commentary seat, shook his head again and again and said:

"Drummond missed the first offensive opportunity and now gives it to the Pelicans, and with what I've seen of the Pelicans lately, this team is bound to surprise us."

The current Pelicans have only found the feeling that can change the entire team, from Rose's dribbling to the Pelicans' players' positioning, the whole Pelicans feel very stable and tight.

Like a well-trained army, with an air of hatred, Van Gundy opened the game with his team playing his strongest point directly and effectively, Andre Drummond.

And after the Pelicans ran to the Pistons' half, they immediately played one of their own strong points, Millsap, also an inside single, Millsap's card position relied on the wing cover with Al Thornton, and then created a card position at the waist of the three-second zone.

Then Rose hoisted the ball to Millsap on the same side, and Millsap was not in a hurry to attack, but quickly ran past Millsap and brushed Millsap.

Josh Smith next to Millsap would never dare to take Millsap lightly because Rose would be a threat to the basket when he ran over, and he could take Jennings' defense.

It wasn't until Rose ran past the Pistons' interior from Millsap's side, and then Arenas, who was answering, came running, the space was completely stretched, and there was no assistant defender at all, that Millsap began to attack.

Millsap dribbled back and only sat down slightly, then collected the ball, shook his body sideways back and forth, and suddenly turned around and jumped out of his hand, Millsap was not completely uncontrollable before the injury on his body was completely uncontrollable, the bounce speed was very fast, and the arc of the shot was also very rounded.

A jump shot, simply that to two points, that's the difference, compared to the body and interior lethality, Drummond is definitely stronger than Millsap, but as soon as Millsap hits the inside, it looks easy, and Drummond is very laborious.

This is because of what, it's all about the details, when Millsap was attacking, the Pelicans did a few steps very well, the first step was to help the interior card main position cover, which Drummond because of his extremely good strength, so the team did not give him many tactics to do this kind of card position.

The second step, the outside passer pulls people, don't underestimate this pull, there will be a lot less pressure on the inside attacker, and without this, the inside attacker is easy to suffer from the pinch and help defense, because of the lack of space, the defender is not pulled away.

Compare the two. Millsap, who is weak in the inner line, succeeded just before Drummond, which is like a person with a machete, a one-man boning knife, and the machete is more destructive, but the user does not use it well, and the user of the boning knife uses his weapon well, and finally the user of the boning knife succeeds.

After the first round, "Penny" Hardaway, who was commentating the game on the sidelines, immediately said:

"I didn't expect the Pelicans to hide Li Feng and still play such a game, their style of play is almost formed!"

"yes, they're a lot calmer. Runs more smoothly. ”

Kenny said this beforehand, and at the end he added:

"It's a lot like Jerry Slond or Popovich's team, calm and powerful, and it makes people feel uncomfortable at first glance."

The Buckley interface is brilliantly grounded:

"I tend to drive me crazy in those teams."

The offense and defense are converted, and the rhythm of the Pistons is controlled in Jennings's hands at this time, so that the rhythm is a little uncontrollable, and the ground is a little fast, if this is to play the center elsewhere, there is no way to play.

But the pretending gods of the Pistons are the most special place. The obvious difference from other big centers is that he is very fast, and he can completely keep up with both retreat and follow-up.

Jennings quickly ran to the edge of the three-point line and saw Drummond following up, where he made a quick pass to Drummond. Pretend to catch the ball and go straight to the middle

At this time, Brand followed the side of the pretending god, and in this position, he had no way to stop the pretending god from completing the action, and he saw that the pretending god seemed to be taking a step to receive the ball and reached the position of one step in the free throw line. A direct jump is a one-handed heavy buckle.

With a "boom", the Pelicans' basket shook three times, and Jeff Van Gundy didn't expect that Drummond, the pretending god, would start to act like a tiger so quickly. Shook his head unconsciously, for the Pistons, his team was still too weak on the inside.

There are two less people on the inside today, and the usual Li Feng Millsap and El Jefferson can change defenses at any time is completely different, in fact, El Jefferson and Millsap's defense is not strong, especially Al Jefferson, but there is Li Feng to make up for his footsteps and bounce, Al Jefferson's tonnage and strength can defend large interiors, so that the Pelicans' interior line is qualified, today only Millsap, natural defensive weaknesses are obvious.

Drummond is like a beast waiting in the grass, it's good to be careful, as long as you show a little slackness, this beast hiding in the grass will come out and bite you.

Li Feng frowned when he saw Drummond dunk so violently, but the small Detroit audience behind him were all excited, and they desperately shook the plastic Drummond figure in their hands behind Li Feng, making a rattling sound as if the TV could not receive the signal.

And Jennings saw his teammates playing such passionate basketball, he jumped over and hit Drummond in the chest hard, Drummond looked a little silly, grinning and grinning, while Jennings danced excitedly.

The atmosphere in the Auburn Palace Arena was lively, and reporters from all over the country on the sidelines also stirred.

But in the face of the hormones that had been gushing out of the opponent, Jeff Van Gundy and his Pelicans players just ran over as if nothing happened, and then began to form a new formation.

After Drummond's heavy dunk, the Pelicans' movement was still accurate and tight, and Arenas received a pass from Brand and easily hit a mid-range shot on Starkey's head.

I didn't pay any attention to the heavy buckle of pretending to be a god, and now the pelican has become a little immovable.

In the first 4 minutes, the Pelicans scored points one after another, whether it was Arenas's shot or Millsap's inside, they could accurately score points, and on the defensive end, Brand implemented Van Gundy's defensive strategy very well, and the dead stick to Drummond's next set did not give him room to start.

Drummond's lower body is indeed relatively weak, what is the consequence of such a body shape in the game, that is, once the card is in place, when he attacks inward, he will stand in a position and not die.

So you see the difference between Drummond's offense and other interior players, everyone else is dribbling with their backs to one or two times, feints, turning over, or coming directly, standing firm, and finishing the matter as soon as they shoot.

Here in Drummond, it's different. Dribble twice, move quickly, and then, with few feints, jump up, flash in the air, or just be taller than you and throw the ball into the basket.

Comparing Yao Ming or Bynum, others resisted and stood firm, but Drummond was not, he smashed in. Jump up and shoot directly, it is said that there is nothing wrong with jumping up directly, but there are fewer changes, if the opposing team also has a special assistant defender who can fly, he doesn't look at it as being able to fly, he is also easy to get a hat.

Therefore, Drummond's offense is to be fast and fierce, and one or two "bangs" will smash the opponent's inside line into a big hole. If once caught in a crowd, a group of strong men are better than hand-to-hand combat, this is definitely not what Drummond is good at, what Drummond is good at is exploding on the inside. Suddenly a blow or two.

Now Brand is like a dog skin plaster attached to Drummond's body, and this Drummond seems to be stuck with glue, and speed and suddenness cannot be used.

The Pelicans, on the other hand, played very reasonably. And in the first 4 minutes of the game, the Pelicans felt very good, with a 57 percent shooting rate. So the score was pulled 17-8.

At the beginning, the Pelicans led by eleven points, Stan Van Gundy hurriedly called a timeout, and now the big fat man also saw clearly what the problems of his own team in the game were, and after a few minutes of attacking the game, the big Van Gundy also saw that the Pelicans looked different and ironclad, but even if the Pelicans were a mountain, this mountain also had a childhood sand layer.

As soon as the players from both sides returned to their benches, Hardaway immediately said:

"It seems that Drummond is in a lot of trouble today, and Brand is very close to him, and the two of them are as close as two-color popsicles."

Charles Barkley looked around, and since the moment Drummond re-dunked, the Auburn Palace arena had been in a gloomy atmosphere.

"I think Brand's defensive ability is not so strong, this kind of close defense Drummond has a lot to deal with, but he still hasn't found the right way, I believe it will be much better to give him some time to adjust properly."

Li Feng sat in his chair and clapped his hands with Arenas, and Van Gundy Jr. was repeating that this was a perfect start, and we had to keep the oppressive situation all the time.

At the end of the timeout, the players on both sides returned to the court, and the big fat man Van Gundy was really not easy to mess with, and he gave the Pelicans a surprise at the beginning, as soon as Jennings dribbled to the Pelicans' half, all the players of the Pistons actually pulled away to the other side at the same time.

It's a single, it's Jennings' singles against Rose, when Jennings faced Rose alone, I saw Jennings dribbling the ball back and forth neatly under the crotch, the ball was beating very fast in his hand, and Rose was less docile than the touch of basketball, but more furious.

With one leg under his crotch, swinging his head and shoulders, Jennings was like swinging light and shadow in front of Rose, full of illusory feelings, and suddenly Jennings's step broke through, and Rose hurriedly followed, but he was still a beat slower.

Jennings didn't end his juggling performance, and continued to twist his hips and waist rapidly, twisting back from Rose's front with the limbs of his upper body.

After Rose took a small step back at this time, Jennings, who seemed to be able to twist up and down, suddenly twisted his waist and straddle again, and it was still a breakthrough in the same direction, but this time Rose was completely behind by a full beat.

Jennings, who is always full of passion, drove straight to the Pelicans' basket, and Millsap, as the protector of the basket, hurriedly came out to block, but at this time, Jennings, who was the king of the league, killed very close to the basket, as if he had thrown a bag of explosives under the Pelicans' basket, which was already full of danger.

I saw Jennings jump without fear even in the face of Millsap, and then folded in the air like a folding chair, leaning on the Lord Millsap with one side, and then going up to the end in an extremely unusual way.

This action Li Feng is extremely familiar, and every time Li Feng watches it, he thinks of the famous move in martial arts, "Monkey steals peach", Jennings is like a monkey, and he is stunned to steal two points in Millsap when he is completely defensive.

At this time, the Auburn Palace Arena, which had been silent, finally let out a messy cheer, listening to this messy cheer, Jennings suddenly, for no reason, maybe a little naïve, began to feel sad in his heart, if it was in college, it should be a bigger cheer to greet himself, it must be, but what is it now, this is simply a beggar.

A kind of resentful pride rushed up from this guy's chest, I am the best, I am the best, Jennings's depression is like a volcano, it has been squeezed for too long.

Rose just dribbled over and was immediately stuck to Jennings, and Rose's dribbling skills and physical use were almost flawless.

It's a pity that this is not Rock Park, this is the NBA's offensive time is only 24 seconds, in the face of Jennings, who is already full of anger, Rose rushed left and right to tear Jennings's defense at all, facing Jennings, Rose is at a disadvantage in terms of speed confrontation and footsteps, so Rose, who has always been free, is forced to embarrassment.

Rose, who rarely encounters this kind of embarrassment, even lost his mind a little and wanted to force a jumper in front of Jennings. (To be continued......)