Chapter 213: Road Trip

Rookie Li Qian, who can be said to be the earliest one of the Lakers' drafts in recent years, has now averaged 19 points and 6 assists per game, and the number of three-point shots has reached 150. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Lakers will face a six-game road trip in a row, and the game can be described as very difficult, and there is no shortage of league powerhouses, so it is very good for Wharton to emphasize that the team must stay alive and try to win two or three games.

Why is it so difficult to travel on the road?

Here's why

The home stadium is the stadium in the city where the team is playing, and the away stadium is of course the stadium in the city where the opposing team is located. In the NBA, or in sports, the difference between home and away is huge. When there is fan support at home, the referee will also give more face; On the other hand, they can look isolated. That's why a lot of NBAs play a great record at home, and when they get on the road, they show their original form right away. In the 2007-2008 season, the Celtics won the championship, and home court advantage played a decisive role, as they played seven games in the first three series. It can be regarded as making full use of the home field advantage.

This advantage was also well demonstrated in the finals. And the away team can only grit its steel teeth and swallow it in the stomach when it is unfair to the referee, because this is already an unspoken rule, whoever gets the home advantage is almost equivalent to getting the promotion permit, and has to play the regular season next season and strive for home advantage. So in this sense, this is also conducive to the team's attention to the regular season, improve the viewing of regular games, and undoubtedly a blessing for fans.

Of course, continuous away battles will consume the physical strength of the players, and the lack of rest time, the need to finish the game, and rush to the next game venue without stopping, these factors make the continuous away games very painful, continuous battles can continue to win, of course, very strong teams.

The Lakers are now going to face the slowest team in the league, the Memphis Grizzlies!

This team is based on defense, and the offensive round is very good, there are not enough scoring points, Conley is the Grizzlies' top scorer, and he is also the face of the Grizzlies.

The NBA Salary Cap is the NBA's most well-known wage limit. The total amount of wages spent by a team on a player must not exceed this figure. The concept of a pay cap was introduced in 1984, and negotiations between the NBA league and the players' union first took place, and the pay cap was only officially published if both parties agreed. The NBA's salary cap is increasing every year.

Unlike the football league, the NBA is a closed league with no relegation, so they must have their own rules to maintain the "ecological balance" of the entire system, so that teams with no money also have their own living space, and avoid the situation where one or more giants win the championship. In a word, in the NBA, there are also various restrictions on spending money.

In order to limit spending money, the NBA introduced two concepts, the salary cap and the luxury tax.

Without the salary cap, teams with better financial resources would have had easier access to better free agents than other teams. The basic idea is that if the team's total salary stub doesn't exceed the salary cap, the team can only sign one free agent. If any of them exceed the salary cap, they will have to pay the NBA luxury tax to the league. So all the teams are on the same starting line.

The exact amount of the salary cap is closely related to the total income of the NBA in the previous year. Specifically, this salary cap is based on the total income of the NBA in the previous year, and then take 48% of this total income as the capital of the NBA team to spend money, and then take this 48% of the income and divide it by 30 (the total number of NBA teams last season), and the average is the salary cap for the current year, and the total salary spent by each team on players must not exceed this number.

The salary cap for the new season is a staggering 10,000 dollars, and the rising salary cap makes it easier for players to get their money in.

And next season, the rookie could reach $10 million a year, and think about how terrible it is.

Li Qian likes basketball and money, who would think that there is less money, I guess not, so he needs to work hard to play the most exciting game, dedication to everyone, and also need the recognition of his teammates every day, and the means of the agent.

After arriving at their destination, the players took a brief break and then showed up at the stadium to train and prepare for tomorrow's game.

The Lakers' current record is really very good, much better than last year's pitiful 17 wins, there is no shadow of last year at all, and the team's winning culture has been cultivated, and other aspects of the team need to be cultivated, some places are immeasurable, and they are very helpful to the team.

Grizzlies home: FedEx Forum Arena

When the Los Angeles Lakers came to the arena, Li Qian began to throw them indiscriminately, but all the balls that seemed to be thrown indiscriminately were thrown, but Li Qian was not surprised, which was still very good.

The Grizzlies are a playoff team that has dominated the playoffs all year round, but has not reached higher heights, which is what they have been criticized for, plus their style of play has not been able to keep up with the rhythm of modern basketball, so there are very few fans and very low exposure.

In the Lakers' practice, the interaction between the players is very interesting, and all kinds of jokes make people laugh.

Mike Conley (male), born October 11, 1987 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is an American professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.

Mike Conley became the Lakers' most important research opponent.

In the 2007 NBA Draft, Mike Conley was selected by the Memphis Grizzlies with the fourth pick in the first round and officially entered the NBA. In the 2012-13 season, Conley was named to the NBA's "All-Defensive Team No. 2"

Conley single-handedly carried the banner of the Grizzlies' outside offense, forcing him to start focusing on defensive tactics.

Of course, the Lakers will not let go of such an opportunity, lock Conley, the Grizzlies' outside line is estimated to be paralyzed, as long as the inside line can resist the pressure, there is still a good chance of success.

The Lakers started running tactics, practicing defensive tactics, offensive tactics. Wait a minute.

The Grizzlies want to win this game after three consecutive home losses, so the mood will definitely be completely different. (To be continued.) )