One Thousand and Seventy-Eight. Sanctions Have Begun!
Kaili, look, the lord opposite is looking at you. Eric Gordon, who had an extremely round face, nudged Irving next to him with his elbow: "Why do you want to challenge him?" He is notoriously petty. "
Irving also felt Sun Ce's eyes looking at him from time to time, but he was fearless: "We need to make a name for ourselves, Eric. It's time for us to let those superstars know who we are. While Anthony and I are both It’s a rookie contract. We have to attract a superstar in the next two years before we have a chance to compete for the championship!”
Irving is very ambitious, but his words scared Eric Gordon. Championship?
Looking at Irving, who is only in his second year, and Eric Gordon looking at his own team, he starts to think about the championship? Although the guy across from me was the MVP in his sophomore year... but you can't compare with others!
In terms of talent, Eric Gordon knows that he was no less sought after than Irving. This can be seen from the fact that he was reimbursed last season and the Hornets were still willing to sign and then trade for a four-year, 56 million contract.
But Eric Gordon himself thought that he would be selected as an All-Star and make the All-NBA team in the future... but he never thought about attracting superstars to join the championship competition on his own.
According to Eric Gordon, Irving seems to be confident that he can become a real superstar, or that he is so confident that he feels that he is a superstar.
Who did you learn this confidence from?
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Sun Ce was talking with his teammates about what Irving said in the morning interview, "I am the best point guard, and I believe I will be better than the Lord in two years." Suddenly the system prompt came!
"The host has gone from being chased by new generation players to becoming a player that all new generation players look up to. Now that he has reached the top, he needs to maintain his hegemony. In order to become a true overlord in the NBA, maintaining the dominance of the new generation is the first step. S-level event: Triggered by dominating the new generation.
Phase 1 event: Sanctioning the challenger is triggered. "
"Sanctioning the challenger: S-level events dominate the first phase of the new generation.
Goal 1: In all subsequent games against the Hornets this season, the host must have higher points + assists than Kyrie Irving.
Goal 2: The host needs to help the team sweep Kyrie Irving's Hornets in the regular season.
Event reward: Skill card: Dribbling behind the back and turning around for a jump shot (Irving).
Failure penalty: The host has obvious sluggishness when dribbling from behind.
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"Meow meow meow?" Sun Ce was stunned when he saw an incident suddenly occurred in this preseason game.
"Holy shit, your behind-the-back dribbling movements are slow? I, Sun, have just started to learn from Tim the back-to-back dribbling movements, so you are punished like this, learning machine, you did it on purpose, right?"
Damn, score + assists? Let me think about it, what are Irving's preseason statistics? It seems to be averaging 26 points and 4 assists per game!
Let me go, can't you add rebounds as well? "
Sun Ce was just discussing Irving with his teammates when this incident suddenly happened.
"Kyrie Irving, 20 years old, ability evaluation A, offense A+, defense B-, three-pointer A-, mid-range shot A-, layup A+, speed A+, strength B, ball handling S, change of direction S-... "
The technology is pretty good!
Sun Ce remembered that Irving was selected as an All-Star in his second year, and he was selected as an All-Star substitute for a team that received the No. 1 pick. This means that his performance that season must be better than good.
In addition to being a bit brittle and lacking in boss temperament, Irving is really a player with talent, hard work, and talent that has been transformed into strength.
However, compared to Wall, Rose, and Westbrook, Irving is not as good as them in physical fitness, but his skills are worse than these three brothers. Rose, who is in fifth grade, has just laid a good foundation in shooting, and Irving is already a first-class shooter.
In Sun Ce's view, as long as he doesn't force himself to be the boss, Irving is really a good player.
And Owen's strongest thing is changing directions!
Whether he is dribbling behind his back, changing direction to break through and then turning to face the basket to shoot, or changing direction and breaking through to the basket, he is very strong.
Of course Sun Ce wants this skill card!
"The round face is B+, the crown prince is B, the standing Mamba is A-, and Smith is B-... This white center is okay. He has the same B-level ball control as Durant, but his rebounding is C... …”
Sun Ce looked at the other starters on the opposite side who were shooting hot shots. This past summer, the new owner of the Hornets spent a lot of money. 34 million in 4 years was given to Ryan Anderson, and a quasi-maximum salary was given to Eric. -Gordon, the Hornets have ideas after acquiring Anthony Davis and Jr. Rivers.
These two, plus Irving, Eric Gordon, and Ryan Anderson, who averaged 16 points and 7 rebounds per game last season, look extremely talented.
But when Eric Gordon returned from a serious injury, Sun Ce remembered that the round-faced brother had an A-level ability evaluation. He just returned from the injury and returned to the level of his rookie season.
Moreover, even if the opponent has a few very talented players, they are still too young. Regardless of whether they can get along well in the future and whether they can improve together, they are still too young now.
Fuck him!
Originally, he just wanted to cap both Irving and that would be it, but now something happened, Sun Ce quickly called his teammates together... to sanction Irving!
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At 5:58 in the evening, at the referee's signal, Sun Ce put on his equipment in front of the camera and appeared in the starting lineup with Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol.
This is basically the starting lineup of the Grizzlies at the beginning of the new season. Randolph is not suitable for starting now. His condition is too bad. Yi Jianlian must not be allowed to start like in the previous preseason games. It is not suitable. It is more suitable for veteran Battier to go up and start the defense mode directly, so Tony Allen also took the starting position.
On the Hornets side, Irving, Eric Gordon, Aminu, Ryan Anderson, and Jason Smith's starting lineup appeared.
Irving came on the court with a strong fighting spirit, but after he came on the court, he found that several players on the other side looked at him with malicious eyes.
Irving's heart jumped. What are these people going to do?
Battier and Jason Smith came to the center circle for a jump ball.
In terms of jump balls, Battier is really the best of the Grizzlies besides Yi Jianlian, Lopez Jr., and Larry Sanders. A certain No. 3 is not as good as him, and the sister-in-law wants to hide in the corner and draw circles.
At 6pm, the referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air...
The thin white center Jason Smith won the jump ball and the Hornets attacked first.
Sun Ce was well prepared. He saw that although Jason Smith was not strong, only B+ level strength, his speed and jumping were excellent.
Irving received the ball and pushed forward. Just after half court, a man who looked like a farmer rushed in front of him and pushed him directly!
Irving was startled and was pushed back a step. The referee whistled... back to the court!
"Watt?" Irving's expression was distorted when he said this word. It was a preseason game! The game had just begun!