Generally speaking, teams will only play 8 to 10 games in the new season, and the power ranking prediction will not be updated, and it will take at least a month to see the trend of each team.

During this period, fans pay less attention to the results, but more to the performance of the players themselves, the ability of the players to lead the team in the new season, and so on.

There are occasional exceptions, such as the current opening streak of the game.

Isn't sports competition just a group of people fighting for certain goals?

The day after the Lakers and Grizzlies both won nine in a row, there was a collective nine-game winning streak between the two teams last night, Kobe Bryant scored 44 points in the third quarter, and Sun Ce and Rose faced off against Biao...... After the heat of things began to cool down, the media made some more topics.

For example, ESPN's strong team grade classification.

They don't do rankings for the time being, the last time it became a joke, this time they changed their way of playing, and they played in different grades.

The division of grades is very logical.

The Lakers, Celtics, and Heat were placed in Pot 1 of the top teams.

The Mavericks and Magic were placed in Pot 2 of the top teams.

The Grizzlies, Spurs, Knicks, and Bulls were placed in Pot 3 of the top teams.

The Lakers are the defending champions and have a nine-game winning streak to start the game and must be in the first gear.

The Celtics have won one championship and one runner-up in the past three years, and they are also in the first pot, and their big three can fight again.

Although the Heat started the game with 3 wins and 7 losses, they had a big three, which was a strong reason and was placed in Pot 1.

The Mavericks and Magic were placed in Pot 2, the former because of the Big Three of Kidd, Nowitzki, and Yao Ming, and the latter because they reached the Finals the year before.

There is nothing wrong with these, the current performance of the Mavericks and Magic is classified as the second gear of the top strong teams, which is not a big problem, the former is still running in, and the latter has performed tepidly this year and is temporarily in the second gear.

But the Bulls, who are still the first in the East, the Grizzlies, who are currently the first in the West, the Spurs, who are the third in the West, and the Knicks, who have a double core and run and bomb, have been classified as the third pot of the top powerhouses...... The reason is very good, they are all teams in the bottom half of the playoffs last season or teams that did not make the playoffs last season, and they are all counterattackers this season, and they may fall down with their records.

These nine strong teams are divided into top teams by them.

And it's well-founded and convincing...... What a fart! As soon as ESPN's column came out on the morning of the 14th, ESPN's servers were really going down! It didn't take long for fans who knew the news and wanted to go to their homepage to complain and find that it was too slow to enter the site!

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As soon as he returned to Memphis, Sun Ce saw the news.

What do you want him to think......

ESPN's assessment of their Grizzlies is that the team that counterattacks the ranks will be difficult to deal with in the new season by relying on the defense that others don't know about them and are not suitable for them, and their record will decline after other teams are familiar with their style of play......

Regarding the evaluation of ESPN columnists, Sun Ce feels that it is actually quite pertinent.

Their nine consecutive wins so far this season have really taken advantage of their opponents' lack of adapted style of play.

Who would have thought that they would be iron-blooded at the slightest disagreement? Sun Ce couldn't have imagined it before the game.

And one thing is for sure, as the season progresses, their lack of a decisive player will certainly be magnified; Other teams have studied them a lot, for example, by the middle of the season when the teams start to adjust their overall tactics, they will definitely play a lot harder than they are now.

The middle of the season is not only the most difficult stage of the NBA's entire regular season, but also the key stage for the strong teams to start widening the gap.

Although ESPN always exaggerates things and describes them as gimmicky, most of the time their predictions turn out to be right, but when they first give them, fans are reluctant to accept them.

Sun Ce wished that opponents and fans would believe ESPN's statement that they were only in the third pot of a strong team, and it was better to think that they were only a team in the top tens......

However, it is really difficult for people to admit or believe ESPN's classification of strong teams by ranking the Heat team, which has only slightly recovered to play a wave of 3-2 and an overall record of only 3-7, in the first gear.

Looks like it's too much.

Even if they are reasonable and justified about the reasons for the classification of the other eight teams, as long as they see that the Heat, who are currently in 11th place in the East, are classified into the first gear, the whole classification looks so nonsense.

Originally, the Heat team finally relied on Sun Ce to do things to attract attention, but their attention has decreased a lot during this time, and they have a little breathing space, and they have begun to win, and now they are together to regain the focus of public opinion.

Sun Ce estimates that the Big Three of the Heat are grateful to ESPN for looking down on them so much.

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For Sun Ce, he doesn't care much about this ranking, he has more troubles now, and a ranking does not affect him to get data, nor does it affect him to get endorsement fees, it has nothing to do with him, but it may make them less hostile to their opponents, after all, they are only a "third-tier" strong team.

But the rest of the Grizzlies team is not as big as Sun Ce, and most players attach great importance to this kind of thing, even if it is a stuffy gourd like Yi Jianlian, they all mind this matter.

On the 15th, the day to prepare for tomorrow's game with the Knicks, which happened to be the regular interview day of the Grizzlies, when asked about being ranked in third gear by ESPN, most of the Grizzlies were sharper and directly scolded ESPN.

These two days are the days of a bumper harvest of news materials for the media, in fact, most of the media, including. T and Sports Illustrated, two sports outlets with older qualifications in North America, admire ESPN because ESPN is more capable of doing things, more daring, and creating more topics than them.

And the topic represents traffic, and traffic represents income! Although ESPN is paving the way for itself to occupy the North American market, for the entire news industry, ESPN dares to create and can also create hot spots, and there is really nothing to dislike.

But when they came to Sun Ce, when they felt that the biggest news might come out of Sun Ce's mouth, Sun Ce replied: "I think ESPN's grade division is very good, we are still a young team, we still have enough room for improvement, such as improving two grades, if we are classified as the strongest class, I think they are hacking us." ”

Hearing Sun Ce's words, the reporters felt like hell!

Such a rational word was actually said by Sun Ce, should the contrast be so big? Is this still the Sun Ce who ran out to "steal the limelight" and said that he was going to challenge the Lakers when the NBA was still immersed in the black 1-6 start of the Heat?

Wait, suddenly some reporters "understood" a different meaning.

Regardless of whether Sun Ce thinks so or not, anyway, some reporters understand Sun Ce's answer like this!

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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Grizzlies' preparation for the game against the Knicks ended.

Some of the players left after training, some stayed to practice, and the members of the orchestra also stayed, and today there was a very important event.

After Randolph and Guy's hard work, Yi Jianlian finally couldn't resist the attack of the two and agreed to join the orchestra, and tonight there was a welcome party dedicated to celebrating the new members.

Sun Ce came to the lounge after taking a shower and waited for others to finish tidying up and went to the booked restaurant together, and while waiting, he habitually turned on the computer in the lounge to watch the news.

It's always fun to watch the news, after the grade of ESPN was divided yesterday, yesterday was the whole day of complaints from major retired players, criticism from experts, and heated discussions among fans.

Today it is the turn of the current players to be in the news.

The general manager of the Heat has banned everyone on the team from giving interviews since yesterday, and the news came out that Pat Riley had been scolding ESPN at the American Airlines arena in Miami for an afternoon yesterday, almost smashing the entire office.

There is no news about the Heat, and the Lakers are also strangely without news, Sun Ce is probably because the Lakers don't look down on such trivial things at all.

However, the Celtics' rhetoric was fierce when they were interviewed, and the old Big Three couldn't attack the new Big Three huddle, in the final analysis, they were the first beneficiaries of the huddle in the real sense, not without superstar combinations, but it was not the same concept as the Celtics and the Heat.

Lakers Big Four...... Malone is 40 years old, Payton is also 36 years old, to talk about huddles...... If it weren't for not winning the championship, it would be more like an OK thigh.

The bull's canopy combination was chosen by himself; The Lakers in the 80s, it was Abdul-Jabbar who came to the Lakers first, and there was a situation where he didn't make the playoffs, and the Lakers themselves later somehow sent them two champions to sign Magic and Worthy, which can be regarded as the Big Three of their own choice; Most of the Celtics' group in the 80s were also chosen by themselves......

The real huddle did start with the Celtics.

The way the Heat hold at the second, third and fourth positions looks like they are imitating the Celtics.

But the imitation is not in place at all, with a 3-7 start...... Wildly ridiculed by Garnett, they all won 66 wins in the regular season in their first year of formation.

However, this didn't attract Sun Ce's attention for long. A hot post on T's expert analysis column attracted his attention.

His answer to ESPN's classification of teams is very rational and logical, and there is no splash at all, no one wants to watch the kind of interview that has no explosive point at all, and it is not as attractive as Randolph's angry scolding of ESPN.

But some reporters have a big brain, Sun Ce opened a hot post called "The Lord's Ambition" and saw the content inside...... I feel like the worldview has been refreshed!

The core of what the content wants to express is: "Sun Ce agrees with ESPN's division of the team's strength = Sun Ce agrees with ESPN = Sun Ce agrees with ESPN's player ranking = Sun Ce feels that he is the top ten players in the league!" ”

Sun Ce's head was a little down...... Did he ever express himself like that? It doesn't seem to be ......

But looking at the content inside, the logic is thorough and the thinking is clear...... He believed it himself!