The answer was soon revealed. On October 20th, local time in America, the Wizards flew to the Motor City to challenge the Detroit Pistons away from home.
The original Five Tigers of the Pistons won the most inspiring championship in history.
Now time is running fast and there are only masked men Richard Hamilton and Ben Wallace left in the team.
Fortunately, the Pistons got Greg Monroe in the draft this year, which can be considered a bit of fresh blood.
Without Arenas, the Wizards will only have Nick Young as a reliable scoring point from the outside. If they want to win, they still have to play Li Kaiming.
In the end, Li Kaiming also made 14 of 21 in the game, scoring 30 points for the fifth and last time in the preseason.
The Wizards defeated the host Pistons 98-92 on the road and won the preseason!
Such an proud achievement immediately caused an uproar throughout America!
Although this is only a preseason game, it is a bit surprising that the Wizards can win all the preseason games with just one rookie.
Especially this rookie, except for the next game where he played less than 20 minutes, after playing enough time in the other six games, he never scored less than 25 points!
This made some people who were ready to see the joke between the Wizards and Li Kaiming dumbfounded!
Some people originally thought that Li Kaiming would be like some seemingly talented players who couldn't adapt to the intensity when he came to the NBA, and then fell into the water!
But at present, it is not certain who will adapt to whose intensity...
After all preseason games were over, the Wizards also prepared their team and returned to Washington.
There is still one week left before the start of the NBA season. Players will get three days off and then gather at the MIC Center to prepare for the first team training of the regular season.
The schedule for the new NBA season has been announced a long time ago. The Wizards' first game is still an away game, and their opponent is the Orlando Magic.
After completing all pre-season tasks, Li Kaiming has received 120 free attribute points and 6 lucky spin opportunities.
How he performs in the first game depends largely on how these points are added up.
Lying at home in Washington, Li Kaiming entered the system again.
It was still the familiar void, and Li Kaiming entered the big carousel interface without hesitation.
He wants to use up all the lottery opportunities and then add some more together.
After six exciting draws, Li Kaiming received a total of one silver treasure box and one bronze treasure box, which is equivalent to 1,100 free prostitution points. He was very lucky.
The silver treasure chest gave out 20 attribute points, while the bronze treasure chest gave out 5 points, for a total of 25, barely reaching the passing mark in Li Kaiming's heart.
Exit the lottery interface and come to the attribute page. There are now 145 attribute points for him to squander.
After the baptism of the preseason, Li Kaiming has already felt that he needs improvement most.
The first is free throws. His free throw value is currently 60. According to the system, it is at the level of the NBA water dispenser. However, according to his own experience, he feels that there are few in this league who are worse than him in free throws. At least he is in the season. Didn't encounter it in the pre-game.
Therefore, free throws must be upgraded. If you can't grasp the points that are delivered to your mouth, can you still expect to score more difficult goals?
Li Kaiming without hesitation added 30 points to free throws. In this way, his shortcomings became his strong points, reaching 90!
There are still 115 points left, and he has already made plans to focus entirely on improving his offensive level in his rookie season, with defense first.
If you can't guard the opponent, can't I just kill you offensively?
In the final analysis, basketball is still a game of seeing who scores the highest points!
And how can we score easily?
Everyone has their own answer to this question, and some people will. Of course, it is better to score at the basket. The closer to the basket, the higher the shooting rate!
But Li Kaiming decided to do the opposite. In today's basketball era, although most of the good stars are outside stars, many of these stars score almost all their points from inside the three-point line or even in the penalty area.
This has led to most teams hoarding a large amount of defensive resources in their penalty area, just to prevent the most important penalty area from being poked through.
Relatively speaking, teams in the league don't pay enough attention to outside shooters. Of course, there are also reasons why shooters in this era are not strong enough.
As a simple math problem, if a player takes 100 three-pointers, and his three-point shooting percentage is 30%, then he can score 90 points with these 100 attempts.
At this time, another player who plays traditional basketball comes on the stage. His two-point shooting percentage is 40%. Then he also takes 100 shots, but can only score 80 points!
Only when the latter person increases his two-point shooting percentage to 45%, can he achieve the same efficiency as a person who shoots 30% of his three-pointers!
But the problem is, there are a lot of three-point shooters with a 30% shooting rate in the league, but the number of two-point shooting percentages over 45% can be counted on one hand...
It’s clear which one is the better scoring weapon.
As early as the NCAA finals, Li Kaiming activated an experience card called "The Light of the Buddha". At that time, he had already experienced the horror of the three-pointer!
That is really possible for one person to play as a team!
I don’t know why, but no one in the league realizes this now.
Since there was no one to do it, Li Kaiming decided to be the first to eat the crab.
His current three-pointer attribute is 40. To achieve his expected goal, he has to start at 90, so he simply raised the three-pointer from 40 to 95!
With such terrifying three-point shooting attributes, I'm afraid no one in the entire league can see his taillights.
Finally, there are 60. Li Kaiming said that they are divided into two parts. One part of 30 is added to the layup, so that his shooting attributes except for the mid-range shot all reach 90!
The other 30 points are added to dribbling. To be honest, as an inside man, it seems a bit wasteful for him to add 30 points to dribbling.
But Li Kaiming has a deeper understanding.
The first is that he wants to achieve the effect of his three-point firepower spreading throughout the entire half. It is useless to just be a shooter who can do without the ball. At worst, they will directly send someone to follow you, double-team directly in the pick-and-roll, and you will only be able to do without the ball. There is no way to crack it.
Maybe Li Kaiming can pass the ball out, but that's not what he wants. It's good to drive his teammates, but he still wants to leave his name in the history of the NBA, but he doesn't want people to evaluate this name as a selfless one. passer.
Another reason is based on realistic considerations. Since the first two games, Arenas has never played again due to knee problems, but directly left the team for treatment.
Although Li Kaiming hoped that Arenas would recover as soon as possible, after all, he did not want to kill the group leader in the air. It was still necessary to have a firepower point from the outside to help him relieve the pressure.
But Arenas' situation made Li Kaiming have to make two plans.
If Arenas is out for the season or plays off and on, who will the team's starting point guard be?
Nick Young? Pull it!
Sun Yue? The summer league is going well, but if Sun Yue is allowed to be the point guard in the regular season, Sanders may have to leave after a few minutes.
After much deliberation, Li Kaiming failed to find a suitable candidate in the team to serve as Arenas' backup.
Therefore, his last thought was to do it himself!
Li Kaiming thinks that he is just a brick, moving wherever the team needs him!
Isn’t it just to be a point guard? Although my ball-handling attribute of 70 is not good enough among a bunch of starting point guards, it is very effective in the paint. Coupled with my passing ability of 90, it won't be a problem to defeat half of the league's point guards!
I'm afraid Sanders himself didn't expect that the headache he was having at the moment would be resolved quietly by Li Kaiming...
