One day later, on November 28, the Celtics faced a strong opponent at home, the opponent was the Orlando Magic.
Since sending away Tracy McGrady, the Magic have been on a recovery trend, and the improvement of Dwight Howard is crucial.
In the 2005/06 season, in the second season of his NBA career, Howard switched to center and became a top center averaging 16+12 per game. Even the power displayed on the court cannot be completely summarized by statistics.
In this game, Howard dominated the game. Perkins alone could not stop him. Every time Howard received the ball, there were always two or three players in the paint to support him, otherwise he would be forced into a layup or layup.
Successful dunk.
The Celtics were forced to use the tactics of cutting Huo, but with little effect.
On the contrary, it was the Magic's outside shooters who attracted a lot of defense because of Howard. From the crazy start of the game, they gradually started to shoot better.
The Celtics ultimately lost the game as a result.
Lin Yu played a whole game. In this game, he came out in the second quarter and played for more than five minutes. His opponent was the Turkish Hido who had already been guarded before he came on the court and made 1 of 5 shots.
Turkoglu.
Lin Yu defended Turkoglu for another triple shot, and then, Turkoglu never made another shot. In the whole game, Turkoglu's statistics were fixed at 1-for-8 from the field, and he only relied on free throws.
9 points.
For a player like Fangsei who is in poor condition and has poor touch, there is really no way to help Lin Yu attract more attention.
And throughout the game, Lin Yu's technical statistics ended with a row of numbers "0", with only a 3 written after the rebound data.
Lin Yu could already imagine how the unscrupulous reporters in China would report on the game after the game. "Lin Yu played again and scored three boards angrily to defeat the Kai team."
Then there were a bunch of negative comments underneath. Now he is extremely looking forward to Zhang Jianwei's interview with him being broadcast as soon as possible.
After this game, the Celtics will embark on an away journey.
Lin Yu became more and more anxious. He increased the intensity of shooting training and even rejected Lex Kalamian's proposal to increase strength training.
"Lex, I suddenly found that my shooting can improve, so during this time, I need to spend more energy practicing my shooting."
Lex Kalamian understands, but Doc Rivers doesn't.
"Shooting? He has been practicing his shooting for more than a season. No matter how hard he practices, it will be in vain. Our opponents in the next game are the 76ers and the next game are the Bulls. Both teams are very good.
As a wing scorer, I need him to go on the court and withstand the pressure brought by the opponent's offense. Improving his confrontation ability is the top priority."
Karamian, who watched Lin Yu's complete training, made a suggestion: "Doug, I think you should go and watch Lin Yu's shooting training. I have been observing his shooting training, and I can feel his shooting skills.
progress made.”
"He's improved as a shooter?"
Doc Rivers appeared on the sidelines of the training ground with a hint of confusion.
On the court, Lin Yu has been working hard to practice his long-range three-point shot. After he used that potential card, he first threw aside the open mid-range shot and concentrated on training three-pointers.
For two consecutive training days and one game day, Lin Yu was practicing his three-pointers.
And his open three-point attributes are also growing rapidly these days at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After half an hour of shooting, he would stop, close his eyes, and enter the system to check the improvement progress of the open three-point attributes.
Now, his open three-point attribute has been improved to 52 points, which has reached the league passing level.
On the training ground, his long-range three-point shot always made one goal, then missed one, and then hit two goals in a row. The overall shooting rate remained at about 75%, which can be regarded as a success.
On the sidelines, Doc Rivers, who witnessed Lin Yu hitting three-pointers one after another, believed what Lex Kalamian said.
"One, two, three...seven...seven out of ten balls, 70% hit rate."
Kalamian reminded Rivers: "Doug, you can count more."
Rivers nodded and counted again. This time Lin Yu scored eight out of ten goals.
"Generally speaking, Lin's uncontested three-point shooting rate is above 70%. To be precise, it should be about 75%. This is a fully qualified uncontested three-point shooting rate."
Karamian introduced: "Before this, Lin's three-pointers could not have such accuracy. Even for a completely uncontested three-pointer, he could only achieve a shooting rate of about 50%, which was completely unqualified.
Now he can shoot at least 70% of his uncontested three-point shooting percentage."
"If necessary, we can let Lin stay in the corner or outside the three-point line at the top of the key when he is on the court. Once the opponent leaves him open, he will have a high chance of hitting the open three-pointer.
Now he can create an outside shooting threat."
Doc Rivers was lost in thought, and suddenly had the urge to organize a team training match. He wanted to try to put Lin Yu into the main lineup for the second time.
But then, he shook his head. There was little time. As soon as the afternoon training was over and after a short break, they had to embark on the away journey.
Philadelphia is not far from Boston, with only the state of Connecticut between them. In those days when airplanes were not very developed, the Celtics would choose to travel to Philadelphia by bus.
But now, Team Kai has a special plane. They first took a bus from downtown Boston to the airport, quickly boarded the plane and took off immediately, arriving in Philadelphia soon.
When we arrived in Philadelphia, it was only around six o'clock in the evening.
"Okay, everyone, there will be an important game tomorrow. I hope you can stay in the hotel and have a good rest to prepare for tomorrow's game. If someone does not perform well because of insufficient rest, don't blame me for being rude."
Doc Rivers issued a warning while checking into a hotel in downtown Philadelphia.
Lin Yu indeed had no intention of going out, but Ricky Davis was ready to make a move and even came over to encourage Lin Yu.
Lin Yu shook his head: "No, Ricky, I have been training all day and I am too tired. You can go out to play, I won't go."
"Okay, you guy, that is, in Philadelphia, if you go to Los Angeles or Atlanta, if you don't follow us out to have fun, you will definitely regret it."
Los Angeles? Atlanta?
He can still understand Los Angeles. Why is Atlanta so important?
Lin Yu didn't know, but he didn't know many things, and he didn't care about these one or two.
Returning to the hotel room, Lin Yu discovered that Brian Scalabrian was in the same room with him. Bai Mamba did not sneak out to have fun, but was holding a heavy English book.
Read it carefully and seriously.
Lin Yu glanced at the title of the book. It was a philosophy book.
"As expected of a mascot, he has such a rich life off the court."
Lin Yu still remembers that the day he abused Ricky Davis on the training ground, he invited a group of people from the Celtics out to have fun, and the White Mamba also went, drinking until his face turned red.
Then he turned around and saw that this guy was reading profound philosophy. Coupled with his height of nearly 7 feet, the contrast seemed a bit strong.
However, Lin Yu did not disturb Scalabrian. He lay down on the bed and quickly closed his eyes, thinking about tomorrow's game in his mind.
Allen Iverson? Will he be his matchup? Or will Doc Rivers find himself guarding fellow second-year Iguodala?