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Chapter 140 The first training match [Fourth more, please subscribe]

Snoopy bought Lu Yu a new car.

McLaren.

Lu Yu likes this car very much, the only downside is that it is a little hard to get in.

Today is the Bulls' first intra-team training this season, and Lu Yu decided to drive this new car to the arena.

The early morning sun shines on the whole city, the continuous rainy days seem to have passed, and the sky becomes warmer, except for the occasional whistling wind that reminds that this is a windy city, which seems to be no different from other cities.

While driving the car leisurely, Lu Yu answered the phone call from Scarlett with the loudspeaker on.

"Lu Yu, how do you feel when I'm not by your side?"

"Well, like frying a steak without salt?"

"I didn't expect you to be so literate. Do you mean that life will be boring if I'm not by your side?"

"No, I mean, I'll go buy another pack."

"...beep...beep..."

The phone was hung up.

Sometimes the truth is so unpleasant.

Lu Yu threw his phone on the co-pilot's seat and drove to the door of the team's training arena just at this time. He stepped on the brakes to slow down the car and turned on the turn signal. An off-road vehicle happened to be turning on the turn signal. .

When Lu Yu drove the car into the underground parking lot, the off-road vehicle was already parked, and Artest walked down from it.

Lu Yu stopped to the side, rolled down the window, and shouted, "Hi, Ron, good morning."

Artest saw Lu Yu's McLaren, his eyes brightened: "Lu, your new car is very beautiful..."

Lu Yu's heart trembled, Big Brother, what do you mean by that?
"But this car is too short for me, not suitable for a sturdy guy like me." Artest said regretfully.

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go, go to the training hall with me, and I'll introduce you to a few other old guys." Artest hugged Lu Yu's shoulder quite intimately.

"By the way, I'll treat you in the evening. You are welcome to join us."

"How embarrassing that is."

Lu Yu said with a smile, he was a little surprised. Before he came to the Bulls, he analyzed several players and found that all of them were not easy to mess with. Unexpectedly, Artest was the first to meet, although he liked it a bit. He beat his teammates, but his enthusiasm made Lu Yu suspect that he had gone to the wrong place.

The two walked side by side, talking about Lu Yu's performance in the summer league, and about the upcoming preseason. Artest assured him that as long as Lu Yu was in charge of the offense, the defense would be left to him. it is good.

When they walked into the training hall, head coach Tim Floyd just came in, and assistant Cartwright looked at Lu Yu and Artest with a smile on his face. It was obvious that he had no interest in Lu Yu and He. Artest is very satisfied.

Lu Yu and Artest changed into their training uniforms. After the other team members had arrived, Artest pulled Lu Yu over and introduced Lu Yu to his teammates.

"Hey, Charles, the Lu Yu you've been talking about, he's here, how about it, I'll say he'll come to our Bulls."

Artest was the first to introduce it to Charles Oakley.

In this Bulls team, Oakley is the soul of the locker room, and Oakley is also the first player on this team to pay attention to Lu Yu.

"Lu Yu, you are welcome."

Oakley came over and gave Lu Yu a big hug, almost out of breath.

"I've been following you since you played Nelson in Gonzaga. Your fighting style is really cool. Let's have a chance to learn from each other."

"Come on, I can't beat you." Lu Yu smiled.

"It's not necessarily. It's not about size. Look at Brad and Ron. They wrestled. Brad lost to Ron."

Brad Miller nodded: "Yes, Ron asked me to wrestle on the first day he arrived. Damn, I actually lost to him."

Although he cursed damn it, he could see the smile on Brad Miller's face.

He also just traded to the Bulls not long ago, but because he has played in the NBA for several seasons, he can easily gain the trust of his teammates, and only through a wrestling has enhanced his friendship with his teammates. He feels that it is a good deal.

"It's nice to meet you, Brad. Although I haven't learned wrestling, I know mixed martial arts. I'll teach you when I have a chance. I think you can compete with Ron again." Lu Yu stretched out his hand and spoke with Bradmi They squeezed together and bumped their shoulders.

Artest looked aggrieved: "Why don't you teach me?"

"Because you corrupted a pair of my sneakers." Lu Yu smiled.

The teammates all laughed, and they all knew that this was Lu Yu joking.

Next up are Marcus Fetzel, Bryce Drew, A.J. Guyton, Ron Mercer and the team's three-point shooter Fred Hoiberg.

Ron Mercer is also called Ron.

Artest said dissatisfiedly: "I must change my name in the future. It feels so bad to have the same name as someone else."

Although Hoiberg overlapped with Lu Yu, he knew that his ability was not enough to occupy the starting position, so when Lu Yu hugged him, he still warmly welcomed Lu Yu's arrival.

Next to Hoiberg was the team's sixth man, Jamal Crawford.

The thin Crawford came over, and Lu Yu smiled: "Is Jamal right, I like your style of play very much, it's cool."

Crawford was stunned for a moment, because everyone said that his playing style was too fancy, and Lu Yu was the first teammate to tell him that his playing style was cool.

"Thanks, I like you too, especially the game-killing shot you made with your left hand." Crawford laughed.

Trenton Hassell and Tyson Chandler, who were also rookies, looked at Lu Yu enviously, and they were also rookies, but they had not received such a grand welcome.

Not surprising though.

Trenton Hassel is only a second-round pick, so naturally his weight cannot be compared with Lu Yu.

And although Tyson Chandler has a high pick, he just came out of high school and has never played the NCAA, let alone Lu Yu's influence in March Madness.

Lu Yu also greeted them.

When greeting, Lu Yu unexpectedly found that the tall Tyson Chandler was a little shy.

"Lu Yu, we are all rookies, you must cover me in the future." Chandler whispered.

Lu Yu nodded: "Don't worry, we will become the best Gemini in this year's rookies."

In the end, Artest desperately insisted on hugging Lu Yu.

"Lu, you are welcome to join the Chicago Bulls. If you have any questions in the future, just tell me, and I will help you solve it."

This is equivalent to telling everyone that Lu Yu's weight in this team is different.

Lu Yu didn't think about it at all. He worried for a long time, worried about how the ruthless people of this team would trick the rookies. He didn't expect such a picture.

The Chicago Bulls, warm and unbelievable.

Knowing that this place is so good, I was thinking about going to Mavericks!

Seeing that everyone's introduction was almost the same, head coach Floyd asked all the players to prepare to start warm-up training. After the warm-up, he divided the team into two teams and played a set of competitions.

First team:
Point guard: Bryce Drew
Shooting Guard: Fred Hoiberg
Small Forward: Ron Mercer

Power forward: Marcus Fetzel
Center: Brad Miller
Second team:
Point guard: A.J. Guyton
Shooting guard: Lu Yu

Small Forward: Ron Artest
Power Forward: Charles Oakley
Center: Tyson Chandler
And Jamal Crawford and Trenton Hassell as rotation players.

At first glance, these two lineups thought it was a confrontation between the main force and the substitute, but it was not. Artest and Mercer did not fix who was the starter.

As for Lu Yu, everyone can guess that Lu Yu will probably replace Hoiberg in the starting lineup.

So in this confrontation, coach Floyd is just trying to match the lineup. He needs to constantly adjust to try out the most suitable starting lineup.

Floyd was not satisfied with this lineup. In fact, he wanted Lu Yu to play the point guard, but because Lu Yu was a shooting guard in college, at this time, he rashly asked Lu Yu to play the point guard, which would only take the team just now. The established good atmosphere is destroyed.

After all, the reason why Brace Drew and A.J. Guyton are enthusiastic about Lu Yu is because they are in different positions than Lu Yu.

Hoiberg is an honest man. He knows that his strength is limited, so even if Lu Yu replaces him, he has no complaints.

As for Dalibor Bagridge and Maiso LS Marco, who didn't arrive today, they haven't officially signed due to contract issues, so they didn't come to participate in today's training.

Therefore, only by placing Lu Yu in the position of shooting guard can we avoid conflicts within the team.

Lu Yu needs to use his performance on the court to prove to others that he is suitable for playing point guard.

The training match was the best chance for Lu Yu.

Of course, Floyd won't say it explicitly, and he will let Cartwright make silent adjustments later in the game.

this training match,
The first team's coach was Floyd.

The coach of the second team is Cartwright.

"I don't set a fixed strategy for this game. You can play freely. If there is something wrong with the game, I will call a timeout in time and tell you what went wrong."

Cartwright simply arranged it, as if he had not arranged it.

A.J. Guyton had a headache.

The members of the first team are all veterans of the Bulls. Even the newly added Brad Miller has been in the league for a long time, and he can be familiar with some of the tactics that the Bulls often play by watching the video of the game.

On their own side, neither Lu Yu nor Chandler understand team tactics.

When the time comes, they can only let the two of them go to the weak side to open the defense, and play a partial cooperation with Artest and Charles, so that there is a chance to win.

He didn't know, he could have stayed a little longer at the backup point guard position.

Just because of this idea, let him go directly from the backup point guard to the backup point guard.

With the whistle of the interim referee, Lu Yu's first practice game with the Chicago Bulls began.

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