The game finally entered garbage time in the final quarter. In the end, the Thunder, playing at home, beat the Kings and gave their new season a good start with a big victory.

The cheers on the scene were getting louder and louder. It was obvious that this team needed to rise. They had accumulated enough talent and needed to show everyone some results. If they could shock this league, then of course they would.

better.

The Thunder's Durant, Jeff Green and Krstic all scored 20+ points. Although Westbrook did not score 20+, he scored 14+13.

For the Kings, only Kevin Martin scored 27 points.

Xie Kai made 7 of 14 shots from the field, including 1 of 3 3-pointers and 4 of 5 free throws. He scored 19 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks. His performance was quite versatile, but he was unable to recover.

New prospect James Harden had an average performance in this game, scoring 5 points and 2 rebounds on 2 of 3 shots. No. 4 overall pick Tyreke Evans made only 5 of 16 shots, scoring 10 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

, in addition, there were 3 mistakes and the performance was unsatisfactory.

After the game, Xie Kai and Westbrook hugged near the center circle.

"You slapped me today, I will definitely slap you back next time!" Westbrook said seriously.

"You won today, we will win it back next time!" Xie Kai said deliberately pretending to be serious.

The two looked at each other and then smiled.

The Kings locker room was very calm after the game. For them, losing is nothing new. They lost more than 60 games last season and have long been numb. For this team, winning is the big news.

In the locker room, without veteran Bobby Jackson, Xie Kai felt as if something was missing. Think about it, Evans got a lot of the ball in his debut, and even took 16 shots despite having poor touch.

It feels like people are completely different from each other. A high-ranking rookie has a lot of opportunities to try and make mistakes. Obviously, the team plans to focus on developing him.

After the game, the Kings' new coach Paul Westphal said in an interview with reporters that the team's defense needs to work harder. The team is currently in a running-in period and needs to be familiar with many tactics. The team needs to end this period as soon as possible.

Two days later, on October 31, the Kings challenged the New Orleans Hornets away.

The Hornets just completed a big deal in the offseason. On July 29, they made a trade with the Bobcats, the team's main center Tyson Chandler and the 2004 second overall pick Emeka Oka.

Fu exchange owners.

For the Hornets, with Chris Paul, they naturally aim to compete for the championship, so the purpose of the transaction is to improve the team's strength.

Xie Kai still played as a substitute in this game. Before the start of the season, some media wrote that if he played as a substitute this season, he would be one of the strong contenders for the "Best Sixth Man" award.

In this game, facing the underdog Kings, the two teams entered an anxious stage from the beginning of the game.

The Hornets rely heavily on Paul. Once Paul goes off the court, they seem to not be able to play anymore. The Kings' offense in this game was limited by the opponent's excellent defense and was not very efficient. The Hornets' offense was also inefficient.

He is evenly matched with the other party.

The game was tense until the last quarter. In the end, the Hornets, who were playing at home, were superior. They seized the critical period, defeated the Kings, and gave their opponents two consecutive losses.

Xie Kai played 21 minutes in this game and scored 17 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal. But at the critical moment of the game, the team's backcourt combination was Kevin Martin and Tyreke Evans.

After losing the last game to the Oklahoma City Thunder, which was considered a failure last season, this game's away loss to last season's playoff team, the Hornets, seems acceptable.

The outside world didn't find it much of a surprise that the Kings lost to the Hornets on the road. It was a surprise that they won!

On November 1, the Kings challenged the Spurs away from home. As expected, they lost to their opponents by a huge score of 20 points in the away game, ushering in a three-game losing streak.

After the game, coach Paul Westphal seemed a little helpless: "The Spurs are too strong. They destroyed us in this game. We need to learn from them on both offense and defense. We hope to get out of the predicament as soon as possible and usher in the first game."

A match victory!”

A three-game losing streak at the beginning would be a very bad thing for a team that aims to win the championship, and fans would find it difficult to accept it. But if all this happens to a team that ranked last last season and is currently

For a team still in the process of rebuilding, this is "normal operation."

On November 3, the Kings returned home for their first home game of the season.

That night, many fans came to Sleep Train Arena. Even though they knew that the home team was currently rebuilding, the fans still wanted to come to support them in the first home game.

In this game, the Kings' opponent is the Memphis Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies have just gone through a turbulent season. In the past season, they changed coaches twice. The current coach is Lionel Hollins.

Last season, the two teams were inseparable. Both teams were bad teams. The Grizzlies finally won the second pick and selected the 221cm tall center Hajim Thabeet.

The Grizzlies are also a team in the process of rebuilding in the past few seasons. Their rebuild does not seem to be as effective as the Thunder, and their talent is overflowing. But taking a closer look at their lineup, their talent reserves do not seem to be inferior to any rebuilding team.

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At the center position, Gasol, who joined the league last season, has grown rapidly. He averaged 11.9+7.4+1.7+0.8+1.1 last season and has the potential to become the league's interior defense gate. The backup center is Thabeet, the second overall pick, who has a static body.

He has incredible talent and great potential; at the power forward position, there is Zach Randolph, who was traded in the offseason. This guy averaged 20.8+10.1 points per game last season and is a real low-post killer; at the small forward position, he was acquired in 2006

Rudy Gay, the No. 8 pick in the first round, scored 18.9+5.5 last season, with both physical talent and potential; the shooting guard was last season's top pick and OJ Mayo, who was in the Rookie of the Year team, and the backup shooting guard is

Allen Iverson, the 4th NBA scoring champion; the point guard is Michael Conley, the No. 4 pick in 2007, who is considered a low-key player.

Compared with the Grizzlies, the Kings' reconstruction assets are simply not available to the opponent.

Of course, talent on paper is one thing, but whether it can be played is another matter. I don’t know if the Grizzlies will be as turbulent as last season this season. What is conceivable is that this team
Chapter completed!