As soon as George Krent took office, he told Lakers management about the tactics he would adopt in the coming season, and George said he would recreate a new "SHOWTIME" strategy for the Lakers.

George is a big fan of Pat Riley's "SHOWTIME" tactic for the Lakers in the '80s, which he believes is the closest thing to the future of basketball, and with a two-way guard player like Liu Han, the Lakers are a good fit to use it.

George believes that in the current Lakers team, only Liu Han, O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant meet their requirements, Eddie Jones, Robert Horry and Elden Campbell can barely be used, and other players are inevitably not eligible for George's requirements to a certain extent.

After winning the championship, the Lakers team is actually facing some problems, first of all, Van Exel's bent on leaving, although Van Exel has reconciled with Liu Han, but the arrogant Van Exel can not tolerate the coach arranging him as a bench, and Van Exel will admit it in the playoffs, but if he is still on the bench in the following season, Van Exel will definitely not be able to bear it.

Kobe Bryant is also bent on leaving, with Liu Han's existence, Kobe Bryant will only be used as a role player, but this is what Kobe Bryant doesn't want to see, and he also wants to slap everyone in the face with his performance in the future. In fact, at the end of the regular season last season, Kobe Bryant asked his agent to contact the right team, and after the confrontation with Jordan in the Finals, many teams are also quite optimistic about Kobe, at least this player has no fear in the face of Jordan, which is the most commendable.

The management of the Lakers is very optimistic about George's tactics, the first point is that the Lakers are a team with an excellent history, no matter what period they are, they are not known for their defense, the Purple and Gold have a luxury that other teams do not have, only sharp offense and wonderful scoring are what the Lakers should have, and George's tactics will be very exciting to watch if successful, which can attract more fans for the Lakers. The second is that George Krent asked the Lakers to try to focus on rookies or rookie players when trading, George has always believed that those players who have not yet formed their own specific style are the players who are suitable for tuning, and such players are easier to accept new blue ball tactics and ideas than players who have already become famous, George has always believed in a saying, that is, it is much easier to paint on a blank sheet of paper than to modify a finished drawing. Such a rookie or rookie player can provide the Lakers with a lot of room in terms of salary, and Liu Han will become a restricted player after completing the following season, and the Lakers must leave enough salary space to sign a suitable contract with Liu Han.

George provided the Lakers with a list of players he is optimistic about, starting with Steve Nash and Ray Allen, who trained in Liu Han's training camp, and the ability that these two players showed in training camp made George very optimistic, and they are both less valued in their respective teams, and it will be much easier for the Lakers to trade.

Then there are Brent Barry of the Los Angeles Clippers, Isaiah Ryder of the Portland Trail Blazers, Michael Finley and Jim Jackson of the Dallas Mavericks, and Kerry Kittels of the New Jersey Nets, but these players have a certain status in their respective teams and are not so easy to trade, so George Krent believes that if the Lakers management can trade one or two, it will be enough for the Lakers.

With specific goals in mind, the Lakers' scouts went into action, and they all looked at the players that George had to suggest, and while some rookies like Steve Nash and Ray Allen didn't see much right now, several other players were found to be good, so Lakers management began to work aggressively in the hope of trading players who would meet the requirements of the new head coach.

While Steve Nash was still studying three points with Liu Han in training camp, the Lakers first completed a trade with the Phoenix Suns, and the Lakers bench forward Jeromy Korsey traded Steve Nash and some cash. Nash has been underrepresented with the Suns, his height and physicality are one of the reasons why he plays, and in the second half of last season's regular season, the Suns traded point guard Jason Kidd from the Dallas Mavericks, which made Steve Nash even less valued. The Lakers traded a defensive forward for an obscure point guard, and in the eyes of Suns management, they earned it.

Then the Lakers traded Ray Allen from the Milwaukee Bucks with backup center Tyreth Knight. The Bucks have been plagued by the fact that they don't have good interior players, and Lakers' backup center Tyreth Knight looks like a good candidate, averaging less than 12 minutes per game, but can score 5.1 points and 5.5 rebounds, which is much more efficient than the Bucks' current center, and the Bucks immediately agreed to the trade request as soon as they received the trade request, and as a rookie, Ray Allen obviously does not have an interior pillar to be valued.

Next, the Lakers had some trouble in trading, and the Lakers had to pay a certain price if they wanted to trade the players that Coach George requested.

Entering September, the Lakers completed a three-way trade with the Los Angeles Clippers and the Darahi Mavericks, with the Lakers sending Van Exel and George McLeod, the Los Angeles Clippers sending Brent Barry and a '98 first-round pick, the Darahi Mavericks sending Michael Finley and Derrick Harper, the Lakers getting Brent Barry and Michael Finley, and the Los Angeles Clippers getting the '98 first-round picks, the Los Angeles Clippers getting Derrick Harper and George McLeod, and the Dallas Mavericks getting Van Exel. In this trade, Dallas is targeting Van Exel, who needs a point guard to make up for the departure of Jason Kidd, while the management of the Los Angeles Clippers is a bit strange, they always want to get instant power, and for this reason, they will lose all the draft picks in the coming year. The Lakers were arguably the biggest gainers in this trade, not only did they get the player they wanted, but they also got a first-round pick from the Los Angeles Clippers, who have not been ranked high in the regular season, and their trade pick is worth it.

Next, the Lakers completed a trade with the New Jersey Nets, and they traded Kobe Bryant Bryant to trade the Lakers' first-round pick in '98 for the Nets' Kerry Kittels. Kittels was also a rookie in '96, but he was lucky enough to be reused by the Nets as soon as he arrived, and is now an important firepower point for the team, as well as being named to the Rookie of the Year Team in '96-97. However, Kobe Bryant performed very average because of Liu Han's appearance, and the Lakers had to take a 98 first-round pick to trade Kitels. Bryant was also quite satisfied with the deal, after all, he went to New Jersey, not a small place.

In this way, the Lakers' trade before the start of the new season is basically completed, they traded the players he asked for for the new head coach George Crent, and also left enough salary space for the team, and it is not a big problem to sign big contracts with Liu Han and O'Neal at the same time in the future. (To be continued.) )