This day is Halloween in the United States, so before the game started, many fans wore strange shapes.

They imitate horror characters in various film and television dramas, such as Frankenstein, werewolf, and vampires.

They also wore jerseys from both teams, including those wearing Lakers and those wearing Trail Blazers.

This is the home court of the Trail Blazers, which shows how huge the Lakers have in the league.

The competition started on time, and there was another process. The opening ceremony was about to find someone to sing the national anthem.

It has to be said that patriotic education in the United States has never been lost.

No matter what sports competition, singing the national anthem is a must-do process.

Moreover, a national anthem was sung by various sings, and it was sang in different ways.

What bel canto, pop, country, childish voice, blues, as long as you can think of it, there is no American who can't sing it.

Think about it, there are more than a thousand NBA games a year, and each game has a national anthem ceremony, and every game is different.

Li Liang stood on the court, listening to "The Stars and Stripes Never Fall", and he buckled his nose, thinking in his heart, when will Mike Brown change himself to the court today?

Once a player steps onto the court, his desires will surely expand.

If you get 15 points, you want to get 20 points. If you get 20 points, you want to get 30 points. If you get 30 points, you will be 40 points and 50 points later.

I want to enter the Western Conference Finals after entering the playoffs, I want to enter the Western Conference Finals after entering the Western Conference Finals, and then the championship is the champion.

It’s not enough to win one championship, but I still want the second championship and the third championship. In short, there is no end.

This is the special charm of competitive sports.

In real life, restraint and contentment of desires are promoted.

Only when you reach the sports field can you release endless desires legitimately.

If you have no desire, people will say that you have no desire to win and have no competitive spirit, and you will be scolded instead.

A player not only carries his own desires, but also the expectations of countless fans.

What Li Liang is thinking now is to be able to enter the rotation stably and one day become the starter.

He also wanted to taste it, attend the entrance ceremony, and accept the feeling of cheering from the audience.

At the end of the opening ceremony, Li Liang sat back on the bench.

The Lakers' starting lineup has not changed as much as they play.

As soon as Li Liang sat down, he poked Mike Brown and said, "Coach, when will I let me play?"

Mike Brown had a black line on his face, of course, because his face was too dark, he couldn't see it.

This kid is so annoying!

Before he jumped the ball, he was thinking about playing.

"Be patient with Bruce, the game hasn't started yet." Brown still wanted to coax him. It's so amazing.

Li Liang nodded and said nothing.

This is his tactic. When one day Mike Brown gets annoyed by him, he grits his teeth and stomps his feet, and simply lets him start. Wouldn't everything be fine?

But in the short term, the possibility should be unlikely.

After all, the qualifications of the five starting players are there, even if they are fake starting players, they must be allowed to appear first.

At this time, the game had already begun, with Howard and Trail Blazers center Aldridge jumping.

In fact, Aldridge doesn’t want to be a center. Can anyone do the Trail Blazers’ center?

As an inside player, do you know how difficult it is to play in the Trail Blazers?

In order to protect himself, Ade, a big man with a height of 6-foot-11, always claims to be a power forward.

It was with the amulet of "pf" that he fought to this day healthily.

So he only performed a jump ball mission at the beginning, and it would be better to leave the title of "center" to JJ Hickson.

The Lakers took the lead in getting the ball, and Nash took the ball and started organizing the offense through halftime.

The Lakers' strategy at the opening game has changed slightly from the previous game.

Mike Brown is still smart. He knows that Princeton's effect may not be good, so he didn't mention this in the pre-match preparation meeting.

He asked the opening to start from the inside and try to open Howard's point.

First of all, this is a common practice for teams with super insiders, from the inside out, using the inside to destroy the overall defensiveness of their opponents.

Then create better offensive opportunities for the outside, combine internally and externally to revitalize the offense.

When the Lakers had O'Neal, they relied on this style of play to dominate the world.

Of course Howard was not O'Neal, but O'Neal didn't pass the ball to him back then.

Nash, 38, was one of the best point guards in the league in his physical strength in the first quarter.

In the Lakers' first few attacks, Nash did not pass the ball and ran the open space, but instead drilled into the Trail Blazers' three-second zone with the ball.

He first cleverly passed the ball to assist Howard in a hook shot.

Then he rode a horse and shot archery at 8 feet, scoring two points from the mid-range shot.

Sure enough, Nash still needs to have the ball, so he is the magician on the court.

When he didn't have the ball...

Nash was passed by the opponent Lillard, and Lillard made a jump shot from the middle distance.

His defense is really hard to describe.

The defense was not good at first, but I was older and couldn't keep up with people at all.

Although Lillard on the opposite side is a rookie, he doesn't look like a rookie at all.

Like Li Liang, he graduated from his senior year and is 22 years old this year.

At this age, people are always not favored by NBA.

But Lillard performed well in the summer league and won the MVP of the summer league.

This game was his NBA debut. He started the first attack and calmly hit a jump shot.

It can be seen that his shooting skills are quite good, his touch is very soft, and his shooting speed is also very fast.

After the Trail Blazers lost Brandon Roy, Portland fans felt extremely sorry, where is their next backcourt scorer?

Many fans are not optimistic about Lillard.

He is too short, and he is so old, and his physical fitness is not very good enough.

He is not handsome, with thin eyebrows and small eyes, and looks like a bandit, not as domineering as Roy.

However, judging from the summer league to a series of preseason games, his performance was very good.

Five minutes in the first quarter, the Lakers and the Trail Blazers revolved around Nash and Lillard on the offensive end.

The two of them also represent the current style of the two teams.

One was once gorgeous, but a little old.

An unknown, but determined.

Nash wanted to use his pass to drive the team's offense, while the Lakers couldn't find a way to deal with Lillard and Aldridge's pick-and-roll.

The two sides started the game and reached 10:12, with the Trail Blazers leading by 2 points and entering the official timeout.

Except for a mid-range hit at the beginning, Nash failed to score in the next two attacks.

His attack power dropped sharply.

Once a point guard lacks attack power, his involvement and organizational ability will also be affected.

On the Trail Blazers side, Lillard played very well.

He can attack himself and pass the ball to his teammates.

The Trail Blazers starters Hickson, Aldridge, Matthews, Batum and Lillard, all have the ability to shoot from the outside.

This year the Trail Blazers have invited a new coach, Terry Stotts.

The offensive assistant coach in the Dallas Mavericks Championship season was Stotts.

In the 11-year Mavericks, the shooting team, won the championship without anyone being optimistic about it.

It was also from that year that people no longer believed in saying that “the championship can’t be won by shooting alone.”

Stotts' "flow" offensive tactics designed for the Mavericks are undoubtedly an important help for them to win the championship.

After coming to the Trail Blazers, Stotts brought this tactic over, which was obviously very suitable for the Trail Blazers.

The so-called flow flow offense is actually a constant use of pick-and-roll and cover to provide team shooters with opportunities to shoot out.

This tactic requires the team to have strong shooting ability on the outside, and the big players who provide cover must also have medium and long range shooting range.

Aldridge undoubtedly meets the requirements of a system like Stotts.
To be continued...