Li Yuan quickly realized that it was not that the Raptors are very strong now, but that the New York Knicks were too weak. They met the defending champion Pistons in the third stop of the preseason. As a result, the Pistons' "Five Tigers" easily widened the score difference of 13 points by the Pistons in the first half. Li Yuan and Chris Bosh, who performed well in the first two games, were lost in their somewhat suffocating defense. The two players combined to score 15 points, but they used 23 shots. This performance was really comparable to the previous two days.

Fortunately, all the main players of the Pistons were replaced by Larry Brown in the second half, and the Raptors had a chance to breathe and tied the score. Finally, with Chris Bosh's mid-range shot, the Raptors "escape day" at the Pistons' home court, achieving three consecutive preseason wins with a 101-99 win.

However, after the game, more media reporters still followed the "Pistol Five Tigers" for interviews. No one cared about all the Raptors who finally won the ball.

After being interviewed by several reporters sporadically, Li Yuan went back to the locker room to take a shower. He finally scored 18 points in this game. Its score was not low, but his shooting percentage was only an ugly 35%!

Sure enough, if you don’t turn on the skill card, it’s really a bit forced to face an opponent like the Pistons…

Li Yuan was a little unlucky in this game. He couldn't even trigger a skill card. He relied on his personal abilities and felt a sense of powerlessness that he hadn't felt for a long time in front of the Pistons' defense.

Fortunately, the final winner of this game is the Raptors!

That's all. As long as he wins continuously and plays three more games, he can get another chance to draw a B-level skill card, which can give him more support. So unlike the summer league, he should be more concerned about whether the team can win, rather than his personal data.

Besides, it's just a preseason game. From the fact that there are still not many reporters interviewing the Raptors players after the game, no one cares about who loses and who wins in this game. The goal of these reporters is only those league stars.

Even if he entered the league under the title of "a newcomer who lets the Raptors management give up Vince Carter", it still cannot attract much attention now. Everything will have to wait until the regular season starts to be the real beginning, and all he has to do is to complete the task before this to improve his strength.

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The preseason was established to make players who have not played for several months find the feeling of the game, so in terms of schedule, they try to focus on the East and East teams, the West and the West teams, and at the same time, they have to stagger some focus battles, such as the Raptors. They will definitely not encounter the Wizards and Bobcats in the preseason, which makes most of the Raptors meet teams that are the same Atlantic zone as them. Except for the Knicks who have played, their opponents will be the Philadelphia 76ers, the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets in the next three games...

Judging from the schedule of the entire preseason, the biggest difficulty for Li Yuan to win six consecutive victories is naturally the Detroit Pistons and the Nets that he has not met yet. Now the Pistons have solved it, and there are still teams that may make the Raptors lose. In Li Yuan's opinion, the only one left is the Nets.

It’s not that he looks down on the 76ers with Allen Iverson, but he is sure that Allen Iverson will definitely not play in the preseason. As for the Boston Celtics, even if they are all in a uniform manner to compete with the Raptors, Li Yuan doesn’t care much. They are all bottom teams. Who can be afraid of who will not be able to do so in the preseason?

Li Yuan was right. When the Raptors returned to their home game against the 76ers, Allen Iverson was too lazy to take off his training uniform. He leaned against the back of the chair, sat in a big shot, and yawned as he watched the 76ers lose the preseason game 89-98.

But just like the last game, after the game, except for the media chasing and interviewing a few words from their own media, other reporters went to interview Allen Iverson. Compared to the Raptors who won the 76ers without Allen Iverson, it was obviously the grudges and hatreds between Allen Iverson and Larry Brown that were more interesting.

Because without Allen Iverson, Li Yuan performed very well in this game. He activated the A-level skill Kakobe's basket finishing ability, scored a preseason high of 28 points, and his shooting percentage was above 43%, which was the best game in the preseason. Unfortunately, except for the Toronto media whispering a few words, it did not cause any other noise.

However, Li Yuan did not feel calm as usual, but felt a little unhappy because he saw a lot of reports about "No. 1 pick" Howard after the game.

This guy made 8 of 10 shots tonight, made 1 of 4 free throws, and scored 17 points. In addition, he also had 12 rebounds and 2 blocks, showing his talent visible to the naked eye.

This caused crazy reports from many media, including national TV channels such as TNT, all of which reported on Howard's game.

This kind of targeted report made Li Yuan very dissatisfied. Howard played so many preseason games and played in such a game. The reports of these guys were so eager to arrange. He scored 18 points in the worst game so far, but he did not attract their attention at all. This difference is too obvious, right?

Now it seems that this preseason will not only report on those stars, but also rookies who have the potential to become top players in the league in the future will also attract attention.

They did not interview Li Yuan, which means that these guys are not optimistic about Li Yuan.

As for the reason... Li Yuan thought for a long time and probably had many reports in the summer league that he had to do with his shooting choices, which had a significant impact on his reputation during that period!

Li Yuan, who had a breath, played very hard in the next game against the Celtics. The Celtics were originally the bottom team, and the head coach also let the team's core Pierce rest. A group of new players and role players once made Li Yuan feel like he was back in the summer league. In this game, Li Yuan scored 30 points in an excellent state, scoring 30 points for the first time in the preseason, leading the team to beat the Celtics 104-84, and achieving a five-game winning streak, it finally attracted the attention of some media in the league.
Chapter completed!