Chapter 42: Rush to San Antonio
The Spurs have double-towers in the inside, and their advantages in the inside are very obvious.@The Celtics are not without advantages. In comparison, the Spurs' outside line is much worse. Avery Johnson is the starting point guard of the Spurs. He is the only good player in the Spurs guard group, but just like Ben Wallace of the Celtics, he can only pass the ball.
In the shooting guard position, the Spurs used veteran Jaren Jackson as the starter, and the veteran shooter Chuck Person as the substitute in this position, while the small forward position gave another veteran Sean Elliott to start, and Monty Williams, who later became the head coach of the Hornets, as the substitute. However, except for Avery Johnson, the Spurs did not even have a player in their own age!
Last year, they won the third-last record of the league without David Robinson and Tim Duncan. It is easy to imagine how bad this group of character players play. Obviously, such a lineup is only half a dozen compared to the Celtics' group of character players. However, considering that the Spurs have two All-Star players, it is still difficult to play in this game.
This game is also the first away game for the Celtics after a row of home games. At the same time, the Celtics will start a three-game Western away trip from this game. In addition to the Spurs, they will also face the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns away in the next two games. Among these three opponents, the Lakers are currently ranked third in the West, the Spurs are second in the West, and the Suns are currently the same record as the Celtics, both 18 wins and 7 losses, but the overall strength of the West is stronger, and the Suns can only rank fifth in the West.
However, for the Celtics, it is obviously a very challenging schedule to face the second, third and fifth in the West. However, in Joni's opinion, the most important thing is the game with the Spurs in front of him. As for the next game with the Lakers, it depends on what Derek Coleman is thinking now.
If Derek Coleman has considered it well and is willing to defend, then Joni believes that the Celtics can still compete with the Lakers. And if Derek Coleman has not considered it well, then the Celtics will lose. After all, he still has to consider the factor that Derek Coleman does not defend.
The Lakers are not a good guy. Van Exel and Eddie Jones on the outside are both strong defenders. Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher are also sitting on the bench. The Lakers even have Shaquille O'Neal, Robert Horry, Elden Campbell and other powerful players. It can be said that the Lakers are now in lineup.
The Celtics are naturally left far behind. If Derek Coleman is really not defending, then for the Celtics, they can only give up the game against the Lakers and fight with the Suns with all their strength. Compared with the Lakers, the Suns are much worse. The players in the Suns are Jason Kidd and Antonio McDyce. For the Celtics, the Suns are still a team that can compete with each other.
After Christmas, the Celtic players arrived at the training hall early in the morning. Joni didn't know if there was post-holiday syndrome in this era, but several teammates seemed very tired, obviously it had the meaning of post-holiday syndrome.
As a team that was completely ruined and rebuilt during the summer transfer period, the Celtics' internal affairs were still a little messy. Rick Pitino did not emphasize any attention to rest before the holiday. Don't play too ruthlessly, so when you see this group of players looking tired of playing, Rick Pitino could only helplessly let them get on the plane and have some rest.
They were going to take a plane to San Antonio in the morning because the weather forecast said that there might be a blizzard in San Antonio tonight, and the team was afraid that it would start snowing in the afternoon. At that time, the flight would not pass, so they decided to set off in the morning. Looking at the players' tired look, Rick Pitino couldn't help but feel that it was a very wise decision to go to San Antonio in the morning, because they could rest for a few hours on the plane, then go to San Antonio, and do a few hours of preparatory training, and then play directly.
After getting on the plane, Joni originally wanted to chat and pass the time, but almost everyone went to bed as soon as they got on the plane. They were different from Joni. The bored Joni slept for a day yesterday, and now he could be said to be sleepless. Looking at the few people around him, Ben Wallace and Chaunci Billups fell asleep one by one. Joni had no choice but to stare at the blue sky and white clouds outside the porthole in a daze.
After thinking about it, I entered the system and started to calculate the inventory in my hand. Joni entered the system when he was bored at home yesterday and got all the rewards he deserved, such as the best reward last week.
Joni now has 4 energy points and 2 lottery opportunities, as well as a fragment of the top ten superstar lottery opportunities in history, and 16 skill points. These are all the skill points Joni has obtained this season, and he is useless at all.
After thinking about it, Joni chose to use these skill points to learn the passive skills of several heroes, and they learned the passive skills of the Wuji Sword Saint, the passive skills of the Revenge Spear, and the passive skills of the Monkey King Sun Wukong. Joni was unwilling to learn these passive skills before because he thought it was useless, but now it seems that it is still useful.
For example, the passiveness of the Wuji Sword Saint is that every 5 shots the summoner will get a double chance of hitting the average hit rate of the first five shots in the next shot. Obviously, this is a bonus to the shooting. Although it is useless, it still has small uses. So Joni, who is idle, decides to learn these passive skills when there is no place to use the skill points.
After looking at the skills, Joni looked at the attributes again. Now Joni's several physical attributes have been filled. Now Joni is adding his pass attributes and rebound attributes. Because the hero Desert Butcher has an all-around attribute, if Joni wants to get this all-around attribute, he naturally has to fill the pass and rebound attributes.
Joni took a look at the attribute points, and there were about fifty or sixty attribute points. Joni added all of them to the offensive rebound attribute.
Chapter completed!