Chapter 376: Regular season opener

"Welcome everyone to watch the opening game of the nba regular season, Milwaukee Bucks at home against the Charlotte Hornets, I am the commentary of this game Kenny Smith, and I am with Charles Barkley and Shaq O’Neal. Today's game will be explained by the three of us."
"Seriously, I was the first time to explain the opener of the national live broadcast of two non-playoff teams." Barkley said immediately. "But I believe most of the audience is very clear why this game will become a national live broadcast. ."
"To celebrate that Charlotte's team finally got the name of the Hornets..." O'Neill said cheerfully.
In May 14th, the Charlotte Bobcats officially changed its name to the Charlotte Hornets and retrieved the names that were abandoned by the New Orleans Pelicans.
NBA’s old ball fans know that the New Orleans Pelicans used to be called the New Orleans Hornets. Chris Paul had risen on this team. Before that, the New Orleans Hornets played in Charlotte. At that time, the name was Charlotte Hornets. Later, the team moved to New Orleans, and Charlotte lost the team until the Charlotte Bobcats were established in 2004.
Today, the Charlotte Bobcats change their name to the Hornets. On the one hand, they are considered to be falling back. On the other hand, they are also thinking of using the nostalgic name of the Hornets to win more markets. After all, the popularity of the Bobcats has always been low in NBA.
Of course, O'Neill is just kidding. The change of team name will not make the league and tnt TV pay attention to it, nor can it arrange a national live broadcast for it.
The NBA opener is still very important, and there are many highlights, such as the Wizards vs. Cavaliers, Trail Blazers vs. Clippers.
The Bucks against the Hornets, from the team strength and the star market, are absolutely not enough to support the opener live broadcast throughout the United States.
The reason why they will get live broadcasts throughout the United States is actually quite clear to many people, only because of Wang Xiao.
Generally speaking, coaches are not popular, and they cannot be compared with players.
But Wang Xiao is a different kind.
When all the players from the two teams are added together, no one is more popular than Wang Xiao. Even if the scope is expanding, I am afraid that only the Hornets owner Michael Jordan can crush Wang Xiao in popularity.
At the same time, the controversy "sex" on Wang Xiao is not small.
The Wizards have clearly expressed their willingness to renew Wang Xiao with a high salary.
However, Wang Xiao refused to renew the contract with the Wizards, and ran to a team that was at the bottom of the league last season, saying that he wanted to increase the challenge of "sex".
This behavior is simply hitting the head coach of other teams.
When many coaches are struggling to win the championship, Wang Xiao is actually tired of the invincible time with the Wizards. Instead, he runs to a bottom team and wants to start a new challenge.
This made many people wonder whether Wang Xiao could cooperate with the Bucks.
NBA is obviously a chicken thief, as is TNT.
With such a topic of "sex", how could they not grasp it?
As a result, the two teams, which were not very popular and had a poor record, ushered in a national live broadcast in the opener.
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Wang Xiao stood on the sidelines and looked around at the players in front of him.
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"Don't be nervous, just follow the tactics in the preseason and daily training."
In the preseason game that ended not long ago, Wang Xiao used a large-scale rotation as always, and many people did not know what the Bucks' starting lineup will be in the new season.
However, the team's players and assistant coaches can feel it through daily training.
Adetokounmpo. Adetokounmpo, this player who was placed in the c position when taking makeup photos was particularly valued by Wang Xiao.
In daily training, Wang Xiao has personally guided his play many times, and arranged multiple sets of tactics that use him as the starting point for attacking, and mostly for outside ball holding breakthroughs.
This makes the Bucks coaches very puzzled.
Adetokounmpo did play point guard when he was a kid. He is skilled in ball control and has a strong breakthrough ability. However, as his height increases, his playing style gradually moves closer to the inside.
Last season, Adetokounmpo basically swayed in the small forward and power forward positions, and more time appeared in the inside line, which also matches his height of 2.11 meters.
But under Wang Xiao's hands, he seemed to regard Adetokunbo as a point guard. He even had more time to touch the ball in the tactical design than Oladipo and Knight.
With the change of Adetokounmpo's playing style, in the preseason, Adetokounmpo, which has continuously increased the number and intensity of breakthroughs, performed very well. In 6 preseason games, he averaged 23 points and 8 rebounds per game. Assist data, the opponent seems to have no resistance to his outside breakthrough.
However, it was only a pre-season game, the opponent did not take it seriously, nor did it send the main players, and did not arrange defensive tactics against "sex".
Most people still think that a player as tall as Adetokounmpo is not suitable for a defender.
Only Adetokounmpo knows that Wang Xiao wants to make him a ball forward.
Prior to this, Wang Xiao had a separate appointment with Adetokounmpo, and clearly told him to use him as the core of the team, hoping that Adetokounmpo would become a ball-handling forward like LeBron James in the Bucks and carry the offense. And part of the responsibility of organizing the team.
Adetokounmpo was stunned at the time, but he was surprised, but he simply said that he would go all out to not let Wang Xiao down.
He is very clear that this is an opportunity. If he grasps it, he will likely become a new star in the league like Curry and George. After all, in front of him, he is the ace coach in the entire league that will train newcomers!
Clenching his fist tightly, Adetokounmpo secretly said in his heart: "Look at the coach, I will not let you down!"
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At the start of the game, players from both sides jumped on the ball.
The Bucks' starting lineup is point guard Brandon Knight, shooting guard Victor Oladipo, small forward Chris Middleton, power forward Janis Adetokounmpo, center Niko La Jokic.
Hornets starting lineup: point guard Kemba Walker, shooting guard Marvin Williams, small forward Michael Gilchrist, power forward Cody Zeller, center Al Jefferson.
From the lineup, the two sides are half a catty, the Hornets even slightly better, because they still have an Al Jefferson.
Although he has never been an All-Star in his career, Al Jefferson is considered a star in the eyes of many fans. After all, this is an inside player who can contribute 20+10 steadily.
It is a pity that this inside player is only 2.08 meters tall, and his playing style is unpretentious and unappreciative, and he has no luck. Besides, he has poor luck and has not been able to be selected as an All-Star.