Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

The NBA will try their best to attract attention in the opening game of every new season, but they usually do not directly arrange for the two teams from last year's finals to face off again because it would not be good for other teams playing on the same day.

Therefore, the opponent of the new champion Heat is the Celtics, who are also in the Eastern Conference. Ray Allen's first game after going to the Heat is to face his old team of four years, not to return to the Celtics.

The North Shore Garden Arena is already the only preferential treatment given to Ray Allen by the schedule organizer.

In contrast, the Pacers, who have little traffic, faced the Toronto Raptors in their opening game, and it was an away game.

As we all know, Canada, as the only NBA team in the beautiful northern country, has to go abroad if it wants to challenge the Raptors away from home.

This is undoubtedly a slight for the Pacers. Half of the other teams sit at home, and the other 14 teams only take long-distance flights to away games. They actually want to go to other countries to play games?

In addition, Granger's injury in the off-season has not recovered as before. According to official news and what Qi Tian learned when he visited Granger, the Pacers' team leader needs at least a few months of rest to be able to make it in time for Christmas.

The war is already an optimistic estimate.

Fortunately, Granger only needs to pay attention to not making too big movements and does not need to lie in bed to recuperate. In order to support his teammates, he even directly took the Pacers' charter flight and came to the Canadian Airlines Center Arena with his teammates.

"Brothers, come on!"

Granger, in a suit and tie, watched his teammates walk out of the tunnel one after another and immediately cheered for them.

After seeing the responses from George and others, he sat back down in his seat with peace of mind, and then slightly loosened his tight shirt in discomfort.

Since the league issued a strict dress code in 2005, the hip-hop dressing style pioneered by Iverson has disappeared.

Except for the field, players must wear business casual attire. They are not allowed to wear sleeveless shirts, shorts, T-shirts and other casual sportswear. They are not allowed to wear hats and necklaces. Players are not allowed to have other decorations on their clothes. More decorations are not allowed indoors.

Can't wear sunglasses.

Granger does not object to the dress code, but this does not prevent him from adapting to business suits that he does not usually wear.

"I think you all know that Grizz will not be appearing in two months,"

Vogel gave his pre-match instructions as usual. He said to everyone,

"However, the game still has to go on, so I hope that someone in our lineup can step up and fill Griez's vacancy."

"Today's game is played under the watchful eye of Gretz, we must win!"

"Take it!"

The walkers gathered around and shouted in unison.

The Raptors quietly made a fortune in the summer, acquiring their backup point guard Kyle Lowry from the Rockets in exchange for Gary Forbes and a protected first-round pick.

After Yao Ming announced his retirement, the Rockets started rebuilding. They did not keep Dragic, who was traded and performed extremely well last season, and allowed him to return to the Suns. Kyle Lowry also did not stay.

He was taken out in exchange for a first-round pick.

The Raptors have a lineup based on Lowry and DeRozan and want to hit the playoffs.

The referee signals for the starting players from both sides to enter.

The Pacers' starters are Hibbert, West, Paul George, Qitian and Hill;

The Raptors have Valanciunas, Bargnani, DeRozan, Fields and Lowry.

Qi Tian was not overly excited about starting the starting lineup for the first time in his career. Granger's injury was the main reason. Another reason was that Thomas, who he had bet with, entered the starting lineup as early as last season and performed well, setting a record.

Entered the second team of rookies with the 60th overall pick.

"Don't be anxious, everyone, just play it steady."

George, who took on the role of Granger, was a little nervous. As soon as he appeared on the stage, he imitated Granger and started to comfort his teammates.

Hibbert glanced at him and walked straight to the center circle, preparing to jump the ball.

"It's okay, just treat it as training."

West patted George and walked to the other side.

"Raptors, charge!"

Fans who came to support the Raptors at home immediately applauded and cheered.

Granger mixed in with the shouts of the Pacers fans, trying to give some comfort to the Pacers players who were facing the entire court.

"Polo team, come on!"

"Dudududu!"

The referee blew the whistle, and the Pacers' opening game of the 2012-13 season officially began!

Hibbert jumped hard, grabbed the ball over his opponent's head, and slapped it behind him. Hill received the ball and attacked with the ball.

"seven!"

Hill blocked the ball and passed it to Qi Tian. Qi Tian did not stop the ball, but passed it directly to George in the high position.

"Take action!"

Seeing that George was still hesitant, Granger on the sidelines and Qi Tian on the court immediately gave him instructions.

George jumped up decisively, adjusted in the air, and threw the basketball.

"Whoosh!"

Amid the cheers of Pacers fans, the Pacers took the lead.

"2-0."

"Give him one back!"

Lowry didn't feel that his teammates were weaker than his opponents. He also broke through the pick-and-roll and passed the ball to DeRozan.

"bring it on!"

George looked at the opponent in front of him who had a draft similar to his own and had entered the league a year earlier than him, and prepared to defend.

DeRozan's offensive tactics are indeed classic. He slowly dribbles from the three-point line to the high post, pretends to break through with dribbles, and suddenly turns around and shoots a beautiful fadeaway jumper.

"good……"

This shot was so elegant that the Raptors fans on the sidelines couldn't help but cheer loudly.

Unfortunately, the sound that came next interrupted them.

"clang!"

After George jumped up hard to interfere, he turned around and blocked his opponent's position. Hearing the sound of blacksmithing, he was overjoyed.

"It's all good and fancy, but in the end, it's still blacksmithing, isn't it?"

Hibbert collected the rebound and turned around to give it to his teammates.

"Quick attack!"

George rushed towards the opponent's half without hesitation, but Hill was not in a hurry. Seeing that the opponent quickly returned to defense, he slowly dribbled forward.

George was not discouraged. After his teammates came to the frontcourt, he once again used Qi Tian's pick-and-roll to run away from DeRozan and rush to the basket.

This time Hill didn't hesitate and passed the ball decisively to George who was cutting to the basket.

"Want to steal a chicken?"

Valanciunas, who was sitting under the basket, immediately let go of Hibbert and turned to defend.

What George wanted to do most was to dunk over someone else. He was not afraid of his opponent's 213-centimeter center and forced a layup.

"Crack!"

The moment the basketball flew out of George's hands, it was blocked by Valanciunas and fell down.

"good……"

At the moment when the Raptors fans cheered, George reacted very quickly to pick up the dropped basketball, turned around and made a tip-in.

"4-0."

"nice shot!"

The Pacers fans on the sidelines cheered and cheered for the team's lead.