It's still fun to play in China, especially with Xu Xuan, the head snake.

Although the players of the Lakers team lost, one or two were not sad, and at Xu Xuan's suggestion, they went out directly to have a good time.

The fans are also very enthusiastic, they love the house and Wu, and even Nick Young has a lot of fans looking for him to ask for autographs, which is in Los Angeles, don't even think about it.

As for taking pictures, there are even more, and Nick Young has been smiling from ear to ear as if he had taken a stimulant for the past two days.

On the third day, the second China race began.

Compared to this one, the meaning of the two teams playing is stronger.

It's time to be serious in front of you, and it's time to relax below.

But even if it is relaxed, the Lakers' side still hasn't won, and so far, they have played 7 preseason games and only won 1 game, which is really a bit pitiful.

But Xu Xuan didn't really care much about this, and Coach Frank didn't care too much about it.

The fake is now also the head coach of the championship, and he really doesn't pay much attention to the victory or defeat in the preseason.

After playing the China game, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles.

They also have just one game left in the preseason, and they will face the Phoenix Suns.

On the morning of the 21st, U.S. time, Xu Xuan and his entourage took an overnight flight and returned to Los Angeles from the magic capital after a long journey.

After a day of rest, when he got up the next morning, Xu Xuan had already recovered from the jet lag.

Wake up early for a run, then take a shower and go straight to the gym.

Surprisingly, the coaches are already working.

Xu Xuan came to the training ground and saw the chief assistant coach Jr. Wharton who was passing by, and asked curiously, "Luke, don't you have to get jet lag?" ”

"I should ask you this, God, what is the structure of your body, more energetic than me, who is used to staying up late," Wharton Jr. exclaimed for a moment, and continued: "I usually only sleep 5 hours a day, so I'm used to it. ”

"Me? Just get some sleep. ”

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Let's talk about it first, Xu Xuan went to his own training, and it is not easy to be a coach, especially the coach of the NBA, the best basketball league, of course, the salary of an assistant coach is not low, especially Wharton Jr., Xu Xuan heard that Wharton's salary is a little lower than Frank's, and it is not much lower.

It's when talent comes to cultivate.

In other words, the Lakers' original head coach was Wharton Jr., but he was just intervened by Frank's third party.

Time passed day by day, individual training, team training, intra-team matches, pre-season games......

Find problems, find ways to solve problems, change your thinking if you can't solve them, don't care if you can't do it, strengthen your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.

In the last preseason game, the Lakers also carried forward their good qualities and lost to the Suns cleanly.

Yes, 8 games in the preseason, 1 win and 7 losses, a perfect ending.

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It's also heart-wrenching, and Lakers fans aren't worried about it in the slightest.

They don't care at all if the Lakers are losing more or winning more right now...... In their opinion, it is enough to have Xu Xuan, even if they lose now, they can win it back in the future...... Very simple idea.

The Clippers next door are indignant, they are all in the same city, they are still playing in the same arena, they don't see each other when they look up, they know each other best, and the news spreads the most.

Griffins like this couldn't help themselves and let out words to mock.

Xu Xuan also ignored him, in fact, the Clippers' record is not much better, 3 wins and 3 losses in 6 games, average.

But this person, I'm afraid of comparison, this heart, which is still a little hazy than the original, instantly became happy.

"Look, they all say that we didn't play well, and there is a big shabi who has only won one game in 8 games, if we don't play well, then shouldn't they all wipe their necks and kill themselves?"

Although they are all fans in Los Angeles, they are also gangs.

A batch on the Lakers' side, a batch on the Clippers' side.

Back in the day, the Clippers were little weak chickens, shivering under the wings of the Lakers.

But now it's different, the Lakers are losing ground day by day and continue to mess up, while the Clippers are as topical and vigorous, and now it's hard to say which side has more fans, and this problem can't even be investigated on the Internet.

ESPN and TNT have both conducted surveys on the Internet, but in the end, there were no results from the census, because the census was being conducted, and the fans on both sides quarreled, and then they shook each other, faster than who typed faster than whom, faster than the Internet......

In the end, it had to be stopped.

However, although there is no statistical result, everyone still has a number in their hearts.

There are a lot of old fans for the Lakers and a lot for new fans for the Clippers.

Just like doing business, the fans are also realistic, if you can win, he will support you, on the contrary, no one wants the team they support to lose and lose every day...... So now it is basically the feelings that can still support the Lakers, especially after Kobe Bryant retired, many people can't even find this feeling.

If it weren't for Xu Xuan joining, it is estimated that the few fans of the Lakers would be divided up by the Clippers, except for those who have been fans for more than ten or twenty years or even longer.

Now, Xu Xuan is here, and the result is different.

The Lakers were lifeless in the past, but now, they are full of energy!

Because of Xu Xuanlai's relationship, it has also attracted many neutral and even fans who originally turned to the Clippers, but there is no way, Xu Xuan's popularity is really high.

In the past, when Xu Xuan was in Indiana, it was a small city, and people like Los Angeles had the pride of their own big cities and looked down on the stars of small cities, but now, do you dare to look down on Xu Xuan again?

I can't kill you!

Pride is serious, and protecting shortness is also serious, and the two are not in conflict!

And what do you say about Xu Xuan's playing...... Sao, it's really Sao, all kinds of Sao operations, you can't usually see it once when you watch ten games, but when you look at Xu Xuan, you may see it ten times in one game.

This time back and forth, the fans were naturally attracted back by Xu Xuan, and even seduced many loyal fans of the Clippers. 53 Chinese Net

It made the Clippers players very unhappy, and it's no wonder that Griffin is looking for trouble.

Xu Xuan didn't care about this, and Lakers owner Jeanie Buss was about to laugh.

Since the Lakers started selling tickets in advance after the schedule was set, not to mention the scattered, there have been 30% more people buying season tickets than last season!

Don't underestimate this 30%! It doesn't seem like a lot of money in your hands, but it adds up to a lot of her.

Not to mention the profits from various peripheral goods that have officially started to be sold, including jerseys, photos, posters, and various small commodities, the Lakers have made a lot of money during this time, and their faces are bursting with smiles.

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By the end of the preseason, the Lakers coaching staff had a clear idea of where their team was doing.

There was a three-day break after the preseason, and the regular season began on October 26, and on the morning of the game against the Suns, the Lakers had a team meeting.

The assistant coaches, trainers, and players all expressed their views on the current state of the team, the technical strength of the players, the state of the players, the run-in situation, etc., some people said less, some people said more, and more or less expressed their opinions.

There are also some veterans and players who are tactically aware and willing to express themselves, and have proposed a strategy to adjust the current situation of the team.

Xu Xuan listened to it for a while, synthesized it, and came to several conclusions.

First of all, the team currently has an ample pool of pitchers.

In addition to him, there are also Loewe, Nick Young, D'Angelo Russell, Ingram, Matt Barnes and even Yi Jian Lian have the ability to pull out and shoot threes, but they have a problem, that is, they are not very stable, Lowe is a twitch, not to mention Nick Young, Russell and Ingram are still rookies, Barnes and Yi Jian Lian, you can't look at them as pure pitchers.

Moreover, they are pitchers who need to put a considerable amount of their energy into defense.

Therefore, there is a problem, it is very likely that the shooting feeling will decline because of the big confrontation.

And except for the stage when Xu Xuan led the run-and-run, they didn't have too good players who could open up the situation.

Defense is also a big problem, Lu Wei is a big defensive colander, although positive is positive, but there will always be some inexplicable mistakes, Russell and other young defenders can not mention it for the time being, they are all quite vegetable, so the outside defense in the end is still to blame on Ba Ye, Wesley Matthews, and Ci Shiping.

Among them, Ba Ye must be the main force.

Ci Shiping's defense is fierce, but over the years, his physical fitness has declined so much that it's okay for him to go up and be a "little clever ghost looking for trouble", let him really take his life to defend James or Durant for the whole game, he is estimated to leave Xu Xuan first......

Wesley Matthews is too, although he is a black and tough, but since he was injured, whether it is the offensive end or the defensive end, his strength has regressed to varying degrees, counting on him to fight hard, not to mention whether he can hold on to the death, it is estimated that he will be gone.

Perimeter defense is a big problem.

It was Xu Xuan who gave Frank and the Lakers coaching staff a big surprise, especially Frank, who never expected that after a summer, Xu Xuan's defensive ability would rise to this level.

For example, in the past, Xu Xuan's defense could only be regarded as fourth-rate or even fifth-rate, but now it has become third-rate or even second-rate.

You must know that second-rate defensive players have a chance to be on the All-Defensive Team, how can this not surprise Frank.

But in the end, after careful consideration, Frank still talked to Xu Xuan.

To put it bluntly, he didn't want Xu Xuan to put too much energy into the defensive end, even if the outside defense was directly exploded, he also had this idea.

Nothing else, Xu Xuan's defense has improved so much, if it was still placed in the previous Pacers, then he would only be happy, and he would ask Xu Xuan if he wanted to take care of the team's defense more, but now, he wouldn't ask, let alone let Xu Xuan participate too much in the team's defense.

Because it used to be a dual-core, but now it is a single-core, and the single-core team means that Xu Xuan resisted the offensive end alone, and in this case, he still wants to "step on two boats", and he has to take care of both offense and defense, and in the end it must be worth the loss.

Frank has a lively mind and clear ideas.

Teams can lose.

The team can lose because of the defensive swing.

But the team must not collapse because Xu Xuan's energy is distracted.

That's the general question, and Frank knows that very well.

Outside defense is a big problem, and the Lakers' interior defense isn't that bad in comparison.

The interior combination of Randall and Yi Jianlian, who started the game, came off the benches with Larry Nance and Tariq Black, who both had good defensive and co-defensive skills.

To sum up, in other words, they may start the new season with an attack-oriented style of play.

No way, it's true that defense wins championships, but three-point is the mainstream now.

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The morning meeting set the tone for the start of the season, and the players had no opinions, most of the players were keen to attack.

Especially rookies like Russell and Ingram, if you ask the offensive coach to give them a day of tactics, they're happy to do it, but if you ask the defensive coach to give him a day, they're probably going to have to take a day off......

At the end of the meeting, there is no training scheduled for today, a day off, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to prepare for the season opener against Mosaic.

In the last two days before the regular season, the Lakers set the tone for the start of the season, but they still didn't have much confidence in the first game.

The mosaic is still very strong, and last season's Mosaic was undoubtedly disappointing, being eliminated in the first round after reaching the playoffs. So he hired "Running Master" D'Antoni in the offseason, gave up Howard to correct Capela, and brought in Anderson and Eric Gordon from the Pelicans, supplemented by the original lineup, anyway, in Xu Xuan's opinion, this mosaic is undoubtedly much better than last season's team.

It's hard to deal with.

Especially the point of head coach D'Antoni, Maxima meets Bole, Bole meets Maxima, probably the thing that people want to see the most. Cardinal Auerbach to The Lord of the Rings Russell, Popovich to Duncan, and Zen Master and Jordan are all the most compatible masters and apprentices in NBA history, but Xu Xuan estimates that the master-apprentice combination of De Shuai and Ha will definitely not be weaker than anyone.

D'Antoni has always had the habit of digging point guards, from the madman Van Axel during the Nuggets and the two-time MVP passing master Nash during the Suns, to Jeremy Lin during the Knicks and Marshall, the assist demon during the Lakers, etc., De Shuai has never disappointed everyone at the point of point guard.

Many people are speculating whether there will be a huge change in Mosaic in the new season, and of course, it is unclear whether this change will be good or bad.

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On October 26th, Mosaic came to Los Angeles to prepare for the game.

The first game against the Lakers was at home.

Although there are many problems in the team, Xu Xuan wants to get off to a good start, and the first game is the day when the championship ring is awarded, and of course he wants to win this game.

The Lakers' pregame meeting and final practice session in the morning are over, and the afternoon is rested to prepare for the 7:30 p.m. game.