"Ding Yanyuhang, 21 years old, 200 cm tall, 197 cm arm span, 254 cm tall standing......"

Sun Ce looked at Ding Yanyuhang's physical measurement data, and after reading only two, he almost choked him.

This arm span is on par with the quasi-chairman of the Blue Association!

However, when he saw his ability to run and jump, Sun Ce was a little surprised.

"Weighing 95 kilograms, the vertical bounce is 87 cm, the run-up jump is 96 cm, and the maximum touch height is 350 cm."

"Pros, excellent traversing, highly motivated, good at confrontation.

Disadvantages: explosive power, average jumping in confrontation. ”

The free throws and three-point lines in the basic test are not tested, mainly because the opponent is not used to them, the NBA's three-point line and free throw line.

Moreover, just looking at the very pertinent comments given by Tim Hardaway at the end, you know that it is difficult for Ding Yanyuhang to have a chance to enter the list of development players if you change teams.

Indeed, Sun Ce knows that Ding Yanyuhang is far from the NBA level, but in this summer's Basketball World Cup, in 8 games, except for him Sun Someone, Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu, the only one in the national team who scored a double-double in a single game was Ding Yanyuhang.

From September 19th to October 8th, the national team also participated in the Asian Games, Yi Jianlian did not participate this time, and only won the fifth place, Ding Yanyuhang is the national team has the most double-doubles in a single game, and has scored doubles five times in 7 games.

Originally, Sun Ce thought that if Ding Yanyuhang tried to play the development alliance, and made it very clear that it was to play the development alliance, Ding Yanyuhang might not agree, after all, in China, Ding Yanyuhang is the core of the Shandong team, and his annual salary is almost 1 million US dollars.

But on the evening of the 2nd, that is, on the morning of the 3rd in China, I asked Yao Ming to inform Ding Yanyuhang that he arrived in Memphis on the morning of the 4th!

Now domestic basketball is very different from 10 years ago, if a player has the opportunity to go to the NBA, the club will release him, of course, the premise is to return to play in China, or play in the original club, and the contract will be extended according to the time of the break.

After yesterday's training, Sun Ce went to the hotel to see the national team teammate and chatted, today the Grizzlies ended the training camp and held a team trial, to select two "development players" as team reserves, Ding Yanyuhang got a separate trial opportunity.

However, there is no NBA ability, but it does not mean that there is no ability to develop league players, not to mention, Ding Yanyuhang is a very good performance among the trial players, but most of the people who come to the trial can't play in the NBA, the Grizzlies' 15-man roster is full, and those veterans with certain strength will not come to them for trial, and the Lakers, Bulls, and Spurs are all in a similar situation.

Because the Grizzlies have been having rookies to be put in the development league for training in recent years, it is not too embarrassing to always borrow the spots of the Falcons and Luo Fengqun teams next door, at the end of the NBDL league last season, when the NBA officially held an expansion registration for the development league teams, Grizzlies owner Robert Pera invested 4 million US dollars to establish a new team, the Memphis Struggle, and the team name was determined in the local fan vote.

NBDL games are usually in the afternoon, because local TV stations have live broadcasts, and occasionally the NBA and NBDL will definitely have overlapping schedules, not to mention live conflicts, there are so many local TV stations, they can't grab the ratings.

The head of the Grizzlies NBDL team is Isaiah Kyle, the younger brother of the team's press officer Chris Kyle, Sun Ce asked Isaiah Kyle, the undrafted picks signed by the Struggle Team this year, the abandoned second-round picks, overseas players, past free agents, and there is really no player better than Ding Yanyuhang on the outside.

In this case, Sun Ce first went to consult Chris Wallace and got a positive response.

Development players can be replaced, and if the team does have an injury situation and needs at least two players to step up, then it is enough to sign someone else.

And 21-year-old Ding Yanyuhang still has room for improvement.

After getting a positive response, Sun Ce didn't immediately help Ding Yanyuhang come down, and he had to agree to it.

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After the trial in the morning, Sun Ce asked Ding Yanyuhang to have lunch at the restaurant in the square outside the stadium and told Ding Yanyuhang the actual situation.

didn't deliberately say nice things and give extra hope, just told the truth and told the other party the team's true expectations for Ding Yanyuhang.

How to choose, leave it to Ding Yan Yuhang himself.

Sun Ce knew that Ding Yanyuhang, who was twenty-five or sixteen years old, would choose to play in the Development League in the future, but now Ding Yanyuhang, Sun Ce didn't know.

After all, people will change, and now Ding Yanyuhang has just begun to make a lot of money, and he is reluctant to give up the high salary in China and go to NBDL to get a salary of up to 75,000 US dollars a year.

This salary was only raised from $35,000 last season after the NBA increased its investment in the NBDL.

Contrary to Sun Ce's expectations, Ding Yanyuhang responded without thinking: "I choose to stay, if I can get a two-way contract, there will still be a chance, I want to play in the NBA like you and the United Arab Emirates, I will work hard." ”

I wasn't discouraged by not getting a chance to play in the NBA, and I didn't want to rely too much on others.

Ding Yanyuhang's reaction made Sun Ce feel that this young player was very good.

However, Sun Ce is not very optimistic that Ding Yanyuhang will eventually enter the NBA, but if he has the ability to help this national team teammate create opportunities, then do him a favor.

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Ding Yanyuhang joined the Memphis Struggle and signed a development player contract with the Grizzlies for the 2014-2015 season, which caused another wave in China.

Some people, Sun Ce feels that he really has no family, no matter what he does, someone sprays, and someone actually posted on the Internet asking why he couldn't help Ding Yanyuhang enter the NBA directly...... Sun Ce opened a trumpet and replied - do you pay your salary?

There are always sensible people, and they account for the majority, Sun Ce's answer lit up a lot.

For Sun Ce, this is just a small episode, Ding Yanyuhang signed a standard contract, and after going to the team to report, Sun Ce didn't pay attention to this matter anymore and continued to devote himself to preparing for the new season.

During training camp, the Grizzlies regained several sets of tactics that had been used over the past few years, with the most important being the division of roles.

Two defensive lineups dominated by Randolph and Larry Sanders, Aldridge and Gobert, and a run-and-gun lineup dominated by Paul George, Sun Ce, and Yi Jianlian.

There's also a new tactic that may be used this season.

This year, the team's assistant coach Chris Irving went to the NCAA as head coach, and the Grizzlies brought in a new assistant coach, former Nuggets head coach Brian Shaw.

An alternative triangle offense with Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Paul George at the core.

Unlike the Lakers and the Bulls, it's about three threes, Son Ce's low post and Klay Thompson's three-pointers...... and so on to create a tactic.

Sun Ce heard that Brian Shaw originally had a few hairs, and after losing half of his tenure as a head coach with the Nuggets last year and being fired, he tried to find a job again, but no team was interested in the triangle offense, and he was frustrated in the summer, at which time the Grizzlies threw an olive branch to him and recruited him as an assistant coach, saying that they wanted to create a triangle offensive strategy for Sun Ce.

In Brian Shaw's view, the first person in the league should play the triangle offense, and the assistant coach also admitted, not that no other team wanted him to be an assistant coach, but he just wanted to use his rich arsenal of tactics instead of using the triangle offense, but he chose to accept the Grizzlies' invitation.

As a result, Brian Shaw, who came to the Grizzlies in high spirits, found that the team was nothing more than a bunch of evil capitalists trying to squeeze his last few hairs dry!

But there is no way, although there are too many requests not to want, but he has entered the den of thieves, Brian Shaw can only watch the game videos of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Paul George every day, observe the characteristics of other players on the Grizzlies team, think, study, and then consult with the team's offensive assistant coach David Fitzdale.

After the regular training session, the team deliberately took time to give Brian Shaw a try......

Finally, training camp has just ended, and Brian Shaw is completely bald!

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"Sister, don't worry, I will definitely keep an eye on my brother, huh...... Okay, I got it...... ...... to the

Sun Ce looked at Zu Gee and Lily Collinstone's video call, and felt that his sister had been raised in vain!

In Los Angeles, Lily Collins is approaching her due date, she is 37 weeks old, and she is admitted to the senior ward early, ready to give birth.

Originally, Lily Collins wanted to play at home for two more weeks on the grounds that it was not the first time she had a child, but she was strongly rejected by Sun Ce's mother and moved directly to live near the hospital, staring at the hospital every day.

Even if I wanted to wear a wedding dress for a wedding in the summer, my mother vetoed it, worried that the weather would be too hot and the fetus would have problems, so I had to wait until next year.

Fortunately, it is normal for European and American children to get married when they are several years old.

Although going to the hospital early is not quite in line with British habits, the last time I had a baby, Lily Collins did not complain.

In general, Sun Ce feels that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law usually want to accommodate each other and worry that the other party will not adapt to the customs and habits of their side, so when it comes to some important points in time, the side that makes sense can always have the upper hand.

The first game day of the preseason has arrived, and with only five preseason games this year, the Grizzlies have only brought three unofficial rosters to the preseason this year.

Terrence Thomas, the No. 4 pick in the '06 class, Russ Smith, who was selected by the 76ers with the 22nd pick in the second round this year, and Ding Yanyuhang.

Terrence Thomas hasn't played in the NBA for two years, and Russ Smith was waived by the 76ers.

But the NBA's new development player exception gives players who should be away from the NBA a chance to show their abilities in the NBA, and if a team gets injured, they may play, and they may get a contract with their own team or a trade offer from another team.

I haven't watched the game on the scene for half a year, Zu Goose is very excited today, although Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian and Klay Thompson don't play tonight, mainly to examine Paul George and Aldridge as the tactical core of the play, but Zu Goose likes Sun Ce's team, so for Paul George, new signing Aldridge, who has improved this summer, as well as Carter and Pierce, the performance of the two Hall of Fame veterans.

On the night of the 5th, the Grizzlies ushered in the preseason opener against the Magic.

On the side of the Magic team, for them this season, last year's bad year is equivalent to a bad one, and the selected Tanhua Show Embiid has no other news except for tweeting and pointing out the country and touching Rihanna, and it is said that the recovery is not good, and there is a risk of a second operation, and it is still in the observation period.

There is no suspense that the Magic team will continue to mess this season.

But Vucevic is really good, tonight's game, facing Aldridge, Randolph, Larry Sanders, Gobert's rotation of defense, 8-of-19 shooting got 24 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists.

But Vucevic defended ...... Whiteside, who is about the same as weight enhancement and no block, can protect the three-second zone okay, but limited by explosive power and bullet speed, he was rushed in by Yi Jianlian and dunked one, and he couldn't expand out, and was hung by Aldridge and Yi Jianlian.

The tonnage was not particularly strong, and it was 118 kilograms like Aldridge, and was beaten by Randolph while sitting......

Today, the Grizzlies don't show much outside players, Paul George and Blake, Livingston are all playing for the interior when they play, first playing Paul George and Aldridge's cooperation, and then focusing on the state of several interior players.

A-level Vucevic has good strength, although the shooting rate is not good, but due to the new rules, Vucevic scored 12 free throws in a single game.

In addition to Vucevic, Oladipo improved significantly, scoring 15 points under Klay Thompson's defense.

The Magic team has really had a surprising number of players this season, and this summer's Nuggets, who were saved money to make room, gave Evan Fournier to the Magic team almost for free, and he was extremely accurate from the outside three-point line, shooting 3-of-4 from three-point range in the first three quarters.

But apart from these three, the Magic team has nothing else to play, and none of these three have the ability to be the core of the winning team.

At the end of the third quarter, the Grizzlies had a 26-point lead at 91-65.

In the middle of the last quarter, Ding Yanyuhang got a 4-minute chance to play, mainly to feel the NBA-level confrontation, and then was taught a lesson by the veteran Ben Gordon.

In the end, the Grizzlies easily defeated the Magic 112-97 to win their first preseason victory.

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After playing the Magic, on October 7, the Grizzlies came to Charlotte to challenge the Hornets.

The Hornets let go of Josh McRoberts because they got Marvin Williams from the Jazz.

But it turns out that McRoberts has been important to the Hornets in the past two seasons, McRoberts is really not strong, but he happens to be the key point that connects the inside and outside of the Hornets, similar to the Spurs' Dio, McRoberts wants to stay, the Heat offer is full mid-range, the Hornets are unwilling to give the same contract, and McRoberts naturally leaves.

Then the day before yesterday, in the first preseason game between the No. 5 Hornets and the Hawks, the Hornets only scored 75 points in the whole game, and the new arrival Lance Stephenson did not have the ability to be a core player as the owner of Joe expected.

Bennett, however, improved a lot in his sophomore year, and his outstanding athleticism in college was showcased.

Sun Ce felt that the position was very important, and put Bennett in the position of the champion, he may have talent and was also crushed by the pressure of the champion show, just like in the original time and space, there was news breaking that because of the pressure, he had to eat a 7-inch cream cake every night to sleep, and as a result, his weight was as high as 130 kilograms.

But with the Hornets, Bennett, who only averaged 6 points and 3 rebounds per game in his rookie year, did not fall, and became lean and lean in his sophomore year, a bit of the feeling of a young Dior.

It's true that he doesn't have the talent of a first-class show, but it's not a big problem to develop into a featured player like Tabit.

Sun Ce feels that Bennett can maintain his confidence last season and not be crushed, in addition to not being the top show, the pressure is not so great, and the Hornets had a good team atmosphere last season and are working hard to impact the playoffs, so it is difficult to say this year, he can only hope that this relatively honest college talent can have a chance to gain a foothold in the NBA.

In this game, the Grizzlies focused on positional warfare, offense and defense, Sun Ce played the ball during the time he was on the court, passed the ball, ran the position, and shot when he had the opportunity, played 9 minutes in the first quarter, and got 5 points, 5 boards, 1 assist and 1 block on 2 of 7 shots, and was replaced, and he didn't go on later.

Just let Sun Ce go up and familiarize himself with the confrontation of the game, Walker, Henderson, Stephenson, and Marvin Williams of the Hornets are all extremely good players.

Although the offense is not good, the Hornets defense is still okay.

101-88, the Grizzlies won two in a row.

After returning to Memphis on the 12th, the Grizzlies began to lose, losing to the Heat 101-119 on the night of the 12th, and on the 13th, the league's new "preseason back-to-back experience games", the Grizzlies lost to the Hawks 121-129.

In the last preseason game on the 15th, the Grizzlies defeated the Hawks 115-106, ending a two-game losing streak and ending this year's preseason with a 3-2 record!

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More or less uncomfortable, there were more back-to-back games in the preseason, and there were two or three fewer games, Sun Ce felt a little weird, and there was a feeling that he was interrupted just about to enter the rhythm of the game.

Ding Yanyuhang's side, played 5 times in the preseason, and there was a lot of garbage time in the next three games, Ding Yanyuhang played an average of 11 minutes per game in 5 games, got 4.4 points and 1.2 assists, and was decent.

At the end of the preseason, Ding Yanyuhang returned to the fighting team again, preparing for the new season with his new teammates, and if he can win an MVP or the best team in the development league, he may be favored by some teams.

In terms of the team, Sun Ce feels that this year's run-in problem is still quite big.

The good news is that Aldridge quit the U.S. team this summer and has stayed in Memphis to communicate with the coaching staff and learn the team's tactics.

Aldridge's best thing is his tactical learning ability, which is so strong that Sun Ce feels that Aldridge knows how to execute tactics more than Randolph.

But there are other problems, the defensive end is not tacit enough at the moment, Randolph did not play for most of last year, Gobert just got regular playing time, Carter and Pierce are aging on the defensive end, and they have to be used on a case-by-case basis...... Everything was fine in training, but when it came to the game, the problems came to light.

The new season has not officially started, and the preseason is used to find problems, and it is only at the beginning of the season that you can make good adjustments.

On the 17th, the opening game with the Pelicans is about to be played, and Sun Ce feels like he is boiling!