NBA: Rising Superstar!-Chapter 478 - 390: Frenzied Slaughter of Opponents!

Chapter 478: Chapter 390: Frenzied Slaughter of Opponents!

Playing basketball with a capable leader is really damn comfortable.

When Zeng Xingyang left the court, he even signed autographs for many fans waiting at the player tunnel.

There are more and more fans waiting for Zeng Xingyang here now, and Zeng Xingyang occasionally satisfies them.

This opener game made all Nuggets fans extremely satisfied.

This can be considered as a perfect debut.

The Jazz lineup didn’t seem too weak, but facing the Nuggets was like being crushed completely.

Zeng Xingyang led the Nuggets team to showcase their new season’s dominance in offense and defense.

After the game at the press conference.

Mitchell expressed his admiration for Zeng Xingyang: "Zeng is a role model for many of us, he showed us the upper limit of what a rookie can achieve. He gave me huge difficulty on defense tonight, and for a moment, I couldn’t score. This is something I couldn’t feel back in college. Of course, I’ll work hard to catch up to his pace."

When reporters asked Gobert who is stronger between the Warriors and the Nuggets.

Gobert said: "Although the Warriors are strong, I think the Nuggets are harder to deal with. The Nuggets have very deep lineup depth, almost every player can cause us big trouble, while the Warriors are more like a team that relies on the Splash Brothers."

The reporter then asked: "You don’t like the Warriors?"

Gobert shrugged and said: "Compared to teams formed by superstars banding together, I prefer teams like the Nuggets."

Although an opponent, Gobert unabashedly expressed his preference.

This is also the attitude of many NBA players towards the Warriors.

The Warriors were already strong, a championship-level team, and then they recruited superstars, how can we survive?

The strength of the Nuggets often comes from their good draft picks, their willingness to spend time developing rookies, and their recruited players are more often role players and secondary stars.

Everyone came from rookie days, preferring such team management and approach.

After all, superstars are few, and they still take shortcuts, which is very annoying.

Besides the Nuggets winning the opener, the Warriors also smoothly defeated the Lakers to achieve their first win of the new season.

The score of this game was 131 to 105, the Warriors also had a big win.

With Klay Thompson out due to injury, Curry scored 30 points and 11 assists, Durant got 28 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, Green had 10 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, their coordination looked better than last season.

Before Green put on the "closed loop" mode, his coordination with Durant was very tacit.

Although Durant doesn’t quite like Green, he has to admit Green is one of the smartest players on the Warriors, even though he occupies the ball, he passes very comfortably.

After the opener between the Nuggets and the Warriors, they became the two most formidable teams of the season.

The offseason changes for both teams were minimal, almost maintaining last season’s core lineup, continuing to ensure their core competitiveness.

In the East, with Owen going to the Celtics, the Knights became even less of a threat.

Of course, there’s still one team in the West that cannot be ignored, and that’s the Rockets, who defeated the Kings with a score of 121 to 115 in the opening game.

Their winning margin wasn’t large, but the way they showed was very dominant.

After Paul joined the Rockets, their organization looked more stable, and their three-point rhythm was better. In this game, they threw 22 three-pointers, making their three-point scores more than their two-point and free-throw scores combined.

D’Antoni’s magic ball system fully unleashed Harden’s attacking power, with Harden alone scoring 48 points, 14 assists, 8 rebounds, an incredible statistical performance.

Judging from the data, Harden led all the league’s superstars.

After the opener, the Nuggets faced the Kings who lost to the Rockets.

This game had no suspense whatsoever, the score was 131 to 90, the Nuggets won the game by 40 points away.

Facing Zach Randolph, Jokic showcased his all-around magician stance, achieving a triple-double with 18 points, 15 rebounds, 11 assists.

Meanwhile, facing De’Aaron Fox, Zeng Xingyang continued to teach the young kid a lesson, scoring 31 points, 10 assists, 6 rebounds, 6 steals, 3 blocks, an all-around offensive and defensive spectacular statistical performance.

Unlike Mitchell playing shooting guard, Fox faced Zeng Xingyang directly. He was defended to 2 out of 11, completely showing none of the performance when scoring 22 points against Paul and Harden in the last game.

Fox’s characteristic is speed, good at breaking into the inside to score.

Zeng Xingyang had complete physical advantage on defense, being stronger, taller, and still faster.

Whenever Fox attempted a dribbling breakthrough, Zeng Xingyang would swipe at the ball. He succeeded almost every time, eventually making Fox scared to even attempt a breakthrough.

out of Zeng Xingyang’s 6 steals came from grabbing the ball from Fox.

Butler continued to play joyful basketball, effortlessly getting 12 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists.

Winning games with little pressure, Butler enjoyed his days with the Nuggets more and more.

Butler’s crucial role is on defense, he stuck to Buddy Hield, limiting Hield to 1 out of 8 on three-point attempts.

Buddy Hield couldn’t believe Butler was his nightmare. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t shake him off.

Then Butler’s trash-talk almost caused him to collapse inwardly.

Hield considered Butler the greatest opponent he’d met, while Butler barely remembered him, forgot about him after the match.

In the third game, the Nuggets faced a back-to-back game, but they returned to the home court, against the Wizards, who had a 2-game winning streak start.

The Wizards played well in the first two games under the leadership of the dynamic duo Wall and Bill, with three-point help from Porter, making the Wizards look hopeful for the playoffs this season.

Zeng Xingyang recalled the Wizards indeed burned bright for a time, with both Wall and Bill at the peak of their careers, creating a lot of opportunities for teammates.

The Wizards also hoarded a bunch of players who could shoot threes, making their offense very aggressive.

This game, the two faced the mighty Nuggets’ backcourt and went quiet.

Zeng Xingyang primarily defended Wall, Butler primarily defended Bill. Both of them had more talent and experience for these hard battles.

Wall scored 14 points, 8 assists, but made 6 turnovers.

Bill scored 22 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, but he attempted nearly 30 shots.

Porter performed the best for the Wizards; Siakam had difficulty keeping up with him, allowing him to sink 7 three-pointers alone.

Of course, one Porter’s good performance couldn’t help the Wizards win.

The final score was 95 to 122, the Nuggets continued their rout with a big victory.