Chapter 12

On the 12th, the 76ers welcomed their second opponent in the preseason, the Celtics.

Can you believe that this Celtics team, with players like Wo Ke (pinyin transliteration), Rick Fox, "Big Head" Wesley, Eric Williams, and Todd Daye, would only manage to win 15 games this season?

In this game, Su Feng, who got the starting opportunity, personally felt how much Auerbach wanted Duncan through the process of the game.

In short, this Celtics team...

They didn't even want their dignity!

Miller Karl's offense and tactics were very simple.

During the offense, players were encouraged to shoot boldly. It didn't matter if it was reasonable or not, or whether it went in or not. Anyway, whoever didn't shoot would be taken off the court.

As for defense?

That was even simpler, just don't defend too tightly.

Be sure to conserve energy, and everyone should take care of their bodies on the court. Winning or losing didn't matter, the most important thing was to have fun.

Su Feng felt that it was no accident that Antoine Walker developed the habit of shooting wildly in the future.

This "black" Bird really treated himself as Bird on the court today.

The shooting sound was "duang, duang, duang." If Wo Ke (pinyin transliteration) didn't have any hair, Su Feng would definitely recommend him to endorse Ba Wang shampoo.

That night, at the Zhongzhou Arena (Note 1), the 76ers had a long-lost victory!

89 to 109, a big win by over ten points!

Philadelphia fans were stunned.

Oh my god!

Is this really the 76ers we know?

There was no live broadcast of the preseason games, but like the regular season games, in previous years, in order to encourage fans to come to the games, the 76ers would give everyone free cola and hamburgers as long as the team scored more than 100 points.

Although the owner had changed this year, this tradition was still preserved.

The 76ers fans who received the hamburgers and cola were overjoyed. Everyone was talking about the "Golden Double Guns" as they walked out of the arena.

As for the "Golden Double Guns" who became the topic of conversation after dinner, their performance tonight could only be described as perfect to the point that even Su Feng himself couldn't believe it.

The Celtics really didn't defend, and as long as Su Feng broke through, the Celtics' inside players would only provide token help defense at most.

In order to cultivate the players' good habit of losing, Miller Karl had been emphasizing since the preseason that the theme of this season was...

Happy basketball.

Of course, the Celtics' style of play also carried the risk of winning, because if they were accurate enough, they would still have a chance to win the game.

But it didn't matter, Miller Karl would be satisfied as long as he could become the worst team.

In this game, Su Feng scored 20+, racking up 24 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals.

Iverson scored 30+, getting 36 points, 9 assists, 4 rebounds, and 1 steal.

The Golden Double Guns combining for 60 points also became the most talked about topic in Philadelphia after the game.

Big Ben was miserable in this game. He only grabbed 10 rebounds, and all of them were defensive rebounds.

If it wasn't for that man named Wo Ke (pinyin transliteration) giving Big Ben some warmth during the game, Big Ben would have gone to the Celtics with a shotgun to argue:

"Is this how you guys play basketball?"

Su Feng knew that the Celtics had gone to extremes to get Duncan.

Next, Auerbach should show up in person and tout Van Horn as the second Bird.

And Su Feng's excellent performance in the two preseason games had further strengthened Davis's determination to let him start.

Davis's determination was also strongly supported by the team's management.

The person in charge, Pat Krause, couldn't stop smiling. With the "Golden Double Guns," why worry about slow ticket sales for the new season?

Moreover, the McDonald's that Su Feng endorsed recently became popular because the 'the.king' burger was affordable, filling, and satisfying.

Worthy of being the king of burgers!

In addition to attracting many fat people, many young and beautiful girls also especially liked to eat this burger.

Of course, their purpose for eating burgers was because McDonald's would give fans a Su Feng poster for every 10 'the.king' burgers they ate.

So, these girls now cheered themselves on every day with the slogan: "Not one or two, not three or four, not even five or six, as long as I eat ten, I can get Su!"

Sinful!

Su Feng felt like he was sinning!

But you have to say, the 'the.king' burger was really delicious...

After it was released, Su Feng bought one and tasted it with nutritional supplements.

Perhaps because he hadn't eaten junk food for a long time, Su Feng felt it had a special flavor when he ate it.

…

Speaking of which, after the game against the Celtics, Su Feng took the initiative to call Kobe.

However, after calling Kobe 81 times in a row without him answering, Su Feng gave up...

"Damn, he's holding a grudge too much!"

In Su Feng's opinion, it seemed that he could only salvage this aircraft carrier friendship with Kobe during the regular season game against the Lakers.

So, Su Feng turned around and devoted himself to training.

At this time, in Los Angeles.

Kobe, who had just finished training, was shocked when he saw 81 missed calls on his phone!

And when he saw that these calls were all from Su Feng...

Kobe smiled.

"Speaking of which, the Wellington steak Su made last time was quite delicious.

When I go to Philadelphia during the regular season, I have to get him to make me another one."

While thinking this, Kobe dialed Su Feng's number 101 times in a row.

Kobe was speechless.

He had never seen such a stingy person!

So what if you called me 81 times and I didn't answer?

But I called you 101 times, shouldn't you answer?

"Forget it, I won't bother with him."

Kobe shook his head, thinking that he would salvage his and Su Feng's aircraft carrier friendship when they played the 76ers in the regular season...

…

On the 14th and 17th, the 76ers played two more preseason games against the Cavaliers and the Pacers, respectively.

The leading figure of the Cavaliers during this period was Terrell Brandon, an All-Star guard who was "180" centimeters tall.

The Cavaliers mainly relied on teamwork at this time, and Iverson exploded against Brandon in this game.

In Su Feng's previous life, Brandon was one of Iverson's favorite opponents to play against.

Iverson had scored 50 points against Brandon because Brandon's speed, strength, and even height could be suppressed by Iverson...

However, although he always lost his matchups with Iverson, Brandon won 7 of his 11 career encounters with Iverson.

The preseason game between the 76ers and the Cavaliers was similar. Iverson scored 41 points, but the 76ers lost.

Brandon, on the other hand, only scored 11 points but had 11 assists.

Affected by Iverson's recklessness, Su Feng, who only scored 9 points in this game, discovered the clues.

In his previous life, Su Feng didn't know much about Brandon, but after playing against him today, he found that Brandon was also a wonderful person.

Because even if he was beaten by Iverson again and again, Brandon never called for his teammates.

And when attacking, Brandon knew how to use his teammates to play team basketball.

In his previous life, Brandon had assisted the Wolf King, Kevin Garnett, and helped the young Wolf King achieve his first 50-win season.

Su Feng wrote down this opponent, Brandon, in his notebook, ready to remind Iverson when he encountered the Cavaliers next time.

After losing to the Cavaliers, on the 17th, the 76ers lost to the Pacers again.

The head coach of this Pacers team was the famous Larry Brown.

In the 93/94 season, after coaching the Pacers, even with a shooter like Reggie Miller, under Brown's ban, the entire Pacers team only took 6.6 three-point shots per game on average.

However, after the NBA shortened the three-point line, Brown wasn't stupid either. Miller took an average of 5.4 three-point shots per game last season, making 2.2 of them, with a hit rate of 41%.

Of course, apart from Miller, the other Pacers players weren't so lucky.

Don't be surprised, Brown was such a stubborn coach. After the game against the 76ers, Brown believed that Davis's use of Iverson and Su Feng was wrong.

Brown admired Su Feng's aggressive defense, but he believed that Davidson should give Su Feng more post-up tactics and mid-range shots instead of letting him run around for three-pointers.

"If Su was in my hands, I could make him an All-Star in three years," Brown said.

As for Iverson, Brown believed that Davis hadn't made good use of the opportunities and space that Iverson created for the team.

"They have excellent talent and will definitely become a strong team in the East in the future," Brown commented.

Su Feng noticed that after the media conveyed Brown's views to him, Davis was obviously a little angry...

But out of respect for this legendary NCAA coach, Davis simply smoothed things over and didn't respond to Brown in any way.

There was no way, a tool coach just didn't have any prestige...

As for Larry Brown being optimistic about himself and Iverson?

To be fair, in Su Feng's opinion, Brown was probably optimistic about the entire 76ers team...

Because Ben Wallace and his current style of play were exactly what Brown liked the most...

One was tough and defensive, and the other was tenacious, good at defense, and could play off-ball.

Plus Iverson's overflowing talent, Su Feng even suspected that Brown was deliberately provoking Davis so that he could take over after leaving Indiana.

"I have to save John."

Although in Su Feng's opinion, Davis didn't have much knowledge...

But the important thing was that this tool man was good to him.

In order to avoid being picked off by Brown, Su Feng decided to officially launch the "Save Coach John Davis" campaign.

After the game, in an interview, Su Feng praised John Davis to the sky.

"He is an excellent coach who knows how to get along with young players. Given time, I believe he will become a great coach," Su Feng said loyally.

Davis, who had been feeling uncomfortable after being criticized by Brown, was almost moved to tears.

He thought: I must develop more tactics for Su Feng next.

But in fact, Su Feng didn't want to plot these things at all...

Coach, I'm really doing this for you!

A tool man like you who allows players to mess around and understands my hints...

In this era of tense relations between labor and management, where players can't manipulate the management, do you know, you're a treasure!

Su Feng decided to instill Davis's excellent corporate culture into Iverson and Big Ben at every opportunity and let them help him hype it up.

Otherwise...

Su Feng could only launch another plan.

The "Wandering Su Feng" plan.

As a time-traveler, Su Feng knew very well that playing under Larry Brown would be impossible, because this guy was not only difficult to get along with, but his established ideas could not be changed.

No matter which team he coached, the team would have to follow his standards.

Not to mention how rigid his tactics were, Su Feng wouldn't be able to collect 1.5 billion iron-striking points before the next system upgrade.

In his previous life, Brown, who coached the 76ers, would rather let Iverson take more than 25 shots per game than introduce a couple of helpers to relieve Iverson's offensive pressure.

So Su Feng could guess the scene after Brown coached the 76ers:

At that time, he would definitely focus on Iverson as the main point of attack, and then concentrate on defense and occasionally perform reasonable back-to-basket singles and reasonable open shots...

These open shots would mainly be three-pointers with a foot on the line.

How would he upgrade in this way?

In addition, it would take several years to achieve results with this kind of play.

Because Larry Brown required every sliding step in defense to be accurate to the centimeter...

He was able to win a championship when he took over the Pistons in the future because the Pistons team was basically at full level, and adding Rasheed Wallace would allow them to take off.

Become Hamilton or Prince?

Su Feng could accept the leveling stage in the first two years of his career.

But after unlocking his speed talent, Su Feng felt that if he didn't want to be a handsome Grant Hill after working so hard every day, he would simply be wasting his talent.

Think about it, Hill's exaggerated first step on the accelerator, plus that beautiful fadeaway, wasn't it amazing?

As a young man with talent who worked so hard, didn't you want to surpass Jordan and become the.king, but wanted to be a little prince Prince?

Wake up, Su Feng was a die-hard Kobe fan.

Therefore, the "Wandering Su Feng" plan had become Su Feng's backup plan on this day.

If reality didn't allow him and Ai (Iverson) to happily play handsome brother basketball, then he could only make decision one, find a place and bring his talent there.

In short, if reality dared to be merciless, then Su Feng could only be ruthless.

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On the 20th, the 76ers ended their two-game losing streak in the preseason. Their opponent in this game was the Charlotte Hornets.

As the py object of the 76ers in the draft, the Hornets mainly focused on training in this game, because the Hornets' goal for the new season was to make a breakthrough in the playoffs.

Coleman, who was traded to the Hornets, didn't play in this game. The Hornets' main leader at this time was Glenn Rice, who assisted OK in winning their first championship in Su Feng's previous life.

It's worth mentioning that an accident occurred during the warm-up before the game.

Because two elementary school students wearing Hornets No. 30 jerseys ran into the 76ers camp.

Su Feng recognized these two little brats at a glance...

One of these two little brats was named Stephen, and the other was named Seth.

You might not believe it, but the former's future reputation would beat all the players in this Hornets team.

Well...

Generally speaking, there were many children named Stephen and Seth, but the key point was that these two little brats...

Their last name was Curry.

The 76ers players didn't drive these two children away, because the little guys who could run to this place to warm up before the game must be relatives.

Plus they were wearing the Hornets' No. 30 jerseys, so everyone quickly knew that these two little ghosts were Dell Curry's children.

The reason for the accident was that Ben Wallace wanted to tease these two little ghosts, but maybe because Big Ben looked too fierce, Stephen Curry and Seth Curry started crying.

Old Curry, who was shooting three-pointers over there, hurried over and apologized to the 76ers players.

Dell Curry was one of the best sixth men in the NBA in the 90s. He was accurate with three-pointers, and in addition to shooting accurately on the court, he also shot an MVP off the court.

Su Feng greeted Dell Curry with a smile, and then took out a bag of potato chips from his backpack that he usually used to satisfy his cravings.

"Good boy, Stephen, don't cry, Seth, don't cry either, come, call me uncle, and this bag of potato chips will be yours."

On this day, Su Feng once again felt his damned seniority.

Stephen Curry blinked his cute eyes and immediately turned from crying to smiling, "Hello, uncle!"

Seth Curry reacted a little slower. Seeing Stephen take the potato chips, he hurriedly shouted, "Hello, uncle!"

Su Feng put his hands on the heads of the two children, one on each side, and looked at Dell Curry and said, "Your two children will definitely do great things in the future."

Although he knew that Su Feng was complimenting him, which parent didn't like their children being praised?

Therefore, Dell Curry's first impression of Su Feng was much better because of this sentence.

"Thank you, they're just too naughty, they didn't mean to run over and disturb you," Old Curry said with a smile.

"Do you usually teach them how to play basketball?" Su Feng asked deliberately.

"Yes, don't look at how small they are, their shooting is very good," Old Curry said.

It would be strange if they weren't good, the men who would say "fxxk you" to the sky every day in the future...

Su Feng picked up Stephen Curry, who was tearing open the potato chip bag, "Stephen, play basketball well, you will definitely become the MVP in the future."

Old Curry laughed and thought, don't I know my own son?

Stephen, he can become the MVP?

That's a joke!

Stephen Curry, who was praised by Su Feng, was extremely happy. Plus, this uncle was handsome and easy to talk to, so he mustered up the courage to say to Su Feng, "Uncle, can you help me get an autograph from Allen Iverson? I like him so much."

Su Feng smiled and said, "Then do you like me?"

Stephen Curry thought for a while, took out a piece of potato chip, and said while eating, "It's okay, you're a nice person, uncle."

"......"

For some reason, at this moment, Su Feng really wanted to take back the potato chips that Stephen Curry was eating and throw this elementary school student aside...

"Uncle, uncle, I don't like Allen Iverson, I'm your fan! I know the Philadelphia Twin Stars, I also know the Golden Double Guns!" Coincidentally, Seth Curry grabbed Su Feng's basketball shorts and said at this time.

Su Feng was happy when he heard this and smiled and took the potato chips from Stephen Curry's hand, "Good boy, Stephen, give some to Seth too."

Stephen Curry was stunned...

Because from Seth Curry's mischievous face, he felt the full of tricks from his brother!

Dell Curry knew that Su Feng was playing with the two children and didn't think much about it.

So, on this day, in addition to defeating the Hornets, Su Feng unlocked Stephen Curry's uncle achievement one step ahead of Carter.

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On the 22nd and 24th, after playing two more preseason games, the 76ers finished all their preseason games before the start of the new season.

The team's final preseason record was 3 wins and 4 losses. In the preseason, Su Feng averaged 15.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and 1.3 steals per game.

His field goal percentage was 45%, his three-point percentage was 38%, and his free throw percentage was 85%.

After the preseason, according to the team doctor and team trainer's evaluation, Davis believed that Su Feng's physical condition was fully capable of meeting the requirement of 30 minutes per game.

Of course, if possible, Su Feng would like to tell Davis that he really didn't have any problems playing a full 48 minutes...

However, as a high school rookie, no matter how durable he was, Su Feng had to follow the coach's arrangements.

In fact, for a high school player, this amount of playing time was already very exaggerated.

Last season, Kevin Garnett was only able to get 28.7 minutes of playing time per game.

Speaking of which, after the preseason, the 76ers also cut guard Frank King.

Su Feng felt that the 76ers were making room for the upcoming trade...

Because after cutting Frank King, the 76ers only had Iverson and Overton left as point guards.

In addition to Waters, none of the 76ers' current shooting guards could swing to the point guard position, and for the NBA's long 82-game season, this reserve of point guards was definitely not enough.

Su Feng was curious about which team the 76ers were preparing to trade with?

"Forget it, why think so much?

I'm just a rookie, I almost forgot my *position* again.

It seems that I must re-read the Four Great Classic Novels."

After the end of the preseason, Su Feng could already feel the strong chuunibyou (roughly translated as "middle school syndrome") flavor of the NBA at this time...

"Fight for freedom and hope! Philadelphia, never bow your head!"

Look, this was the 76ers' new season slogan.

Because the 76ers' team name came from the Declaration of Independence passed in Philadelphia in 1776, this team was already very chuunibyou.

In his previous life, when Kobe made his last visit to Philadelphia, do you know how much time the live DJ used to introduce Kobe?

A full 36 seconds.

Along with the rhythm of the English language, Su Feng even had the urge to save the world after listening to that introduction.

…

In Los Angeles, unlike the 76ers who were labeled as fighting for freedom and hope...

After the end of the preseason, the slogan shouted by the local media in Los Angeles was much more straightforward.

--Showtime is back.

In the preseason, just by looking at the group of people sitting in the seats on the sidelines during the Lakers' home games, you would know how much attention this Lakers team was getting.

Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Dennis Miller, Denzel Washington...

You could even see Sampras and Holyfield in the crowd from time to time.

In the 80s, after the Lakers used Showtime to compete against the Celtics, the Lakers had become the gold standard of Los Angeles.

And now, with Shaq's move west, the Lakers' history had turned a new page.

After the end of the preseason, Kobe knew that he had to wait patiently for opportunities.

Because Harris had already told him that Harris would not arrange for him to play in the Lakers' opening game.

Harris knew the importance of the opening game. The more people who paid attention to this Lakers team now, the more people would criticize them when they lost.

Kobe was the future for the Lakers, but definitely not the present.

"Su, will he start in the opening game?"

Recently, through the newspaper, Kobe learned that unlike himself, in Philadelphia, Su Feng was getting more and more playing time.

Envy, jealousy, and hatred?

Maybe all of them, but Kobe also had a faint expectation for Su Feng.

It was a very strange feeling.

As Su Feng's progress became faster and faster, Kobe would always hope that Su Feng would catch up with him quickly.

But when Su Feng really "surpassed" himself, Kobe didn't feel uncomfortable or unaccustomed.

Because he felt that he had another goal.

And such a goal was unconsciously promoting Kobe's growth.

However, in his new home in Los Angeles, after drinking the last bottle of sports drink sent by Su Feng, Kobe was really a little uncomfortable...

"Forget it, why think so much!

When we meet on the court, I'll beat him to death!"

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PS: Note 1, the 76ers' arena at this time was still the Zhongzhou Arena.