Chapter 126: A Preseason with Variety of Tricks
The preseason of the NBA2010-2011 season began on October 5, and before that, the Wizards' official website announced two news, the first of which was that the team officially hired Steve. News of Kerr as assistant coach of the team.
The second is that the team signed a development player, Madson, who focuses on shooting guard.
No fan cares about hiring an assistant coach, even if that assistant coach was previously the Suns' general manager.
And the new players signed by the team have also disappointed the fans.
Madsen? Who's this? I've never heard of it, but can he help the team? Apparently impossible!
This summer, Wizards fans were not very excited, and even a little disappointed.
The team did a poor job of recruiting in the offseason.
Haywood, the team's interior mainstay, didn't get an offer and didn't keep the good role players like Miller and Blatch.
It's just a matter of letting go of last season's meritorious players, and the team hasn't signed any decent stars for a summer!
After last season, the Wizards freed up a lot of salary space.
Jamison and Butler's annual salaries are just over 10 million, while the rest of the players are basically in the rookie contract period, and the highest is the second-round pick Harden, $4.48 million.
At the salary cap of the 10-11 season, the Wizards have every room to sign a top star.
There are also a lot of big fish in the 10-year free market, James, Wade, Bosh, Stoudemire......
However, the Wizards got nothing in free agency, with James Wade Bosh building a Big Three with the Miami Heat aiming for a championship, and Stoudemire going to the New York Knicks for big contracts and markets.
The Wizards didn't attract superstars at all, but rather they didn't make any moves at all.
Glenfield, the general manager of the team, would simply throw the pot to Wang Xiao when he was asked this question in an interview.
'Our head coach has a very strict roster system, he has a detailed plan, he knows what kind of players the team needs, and if you want to know which player the team is interested in in free agency, it's best to ask the manager.
And when the reporters asked Wang Xiao this question, Wang Xiao always avoided answering, and he was really annoyed by the question, so he replied. "This is a secret of the team, and it is inconvenient to disclose it for the time being."
However, when fans waited for a summer, they were stunned to find that the Wizards had not signed a single player, but only ran to the Development League to find an unknown bench player when the preseason was about to start.
So, Wang Xiao is not ready to bring in reinforcements at all?
Many media reporters were very angry with Wang Xiao.
If you don't plan to bring in reinforcements, you can just say it directly, what is the pass?
Throughout the summer, the media made various predictions about the Wizards' recruitment, and even some basketball commentators swore that the Wizards would definitely make an expensive offer for Da Yao, who was in the 10-year player option period.
The commentator also listed several reasons for this, such as the first one, Wang Xiao and Da Yao are both Chinese, and the two should be looking forward to cooperating.
Second, the Wizards' interior strength is too weak, and Da Yao, as the top interior player in the league, can effectively improve the Wizards' offensive and defensive capabilities.
Third, the Rockets have not had any good results in the playoffs in recent years, and after Maddy was traded, the Rockets' roster has no hope.
Wang Xiao led the Wizards to the Eastern Conference finals in his first year, and if he wants to win more honors, Da Yao may consider leaving the Rockets.
Such a prediction, in the eyes of experts, is naturally unreasonable, it is simply nonsense, Da Yao, as a typical traditional center, has slow steps and large tonnage, how can he keep up with the fast-paced small-ball tactics of the Wizards?
With O'Neill's lessons in the past, it is impossible for Wang Xiao to do so as long as he is not a fool.
What's more, Da Yao has always been in the injury stage, and it is impossible to judge how his career will be in the future, and the Wizards are unlikely to take risks for Da Yao.
But after all, this still scared a lot of Wizards fans who didn't particularly understand the game.
And when the time passed, Yao Ming announced the implementation of the player option, the fans found that the news was completely nonsense, and the commentators who made the remarks were even more slammed.
As for whether this commentator doesn't know anything and beeps blindly, or just to attract people's attention, no one knows.
Anyway, when the preseason is about to start, the Wizards still don't have any reinforcements, and the fans in Washington are a little disappointed.
Last season, the Wizards' miraculous performance surprised them, and the team made an unprecedented appearance in the Eastern Conference finals, which made them feel that if Curry stayed healthy, would the Wizards have the possibility of defeating the Celtics to reach the Finals? Even beating the Lakers in the Finals to lift the championship trophy is not out of the question!
But these days, that is really unlikely.
The departure of Haywood, Miller and others has weakened the team compared to last season, and at the same time, there has been an unimaginable behemoth in the East.
The Big Three of the Heat!
James, Wade, and Bosh have joined forces, and it's hard to imagine any team that can beat them.
Even the Celtics may not be possible, let alone the Wizards?
With this in mind, the NBA preseason began.
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As a preseason game to prepare and adjust for the regular season, all teams are grinding in their lineups and don't care about winning or losing.
The same goes for the Wizards.
In the first preseason game, four of the five players who started the Wizards were all starters in the regular season last season.
Curry, Danny. Green, Butler, Jamison.
The only difference was Jordan Jr., who replaced Haywood as the starting center.
Not surprisingly, this lineup will also be the main starting lineup of the Wizards this season.
However, in the second game, the Wizards had a very different set of starters than the first game.
Beverley, Harden, George, Whiteside and McGee.
For this situation, fans of the Washington Wizards are also commonplace, this is Wang Xiao's consistent style, in the preseason last year, Wang Xiao played this set, so that at first many people couldn't even guess what kind of starting lineup the Wizards were going to put in the regular season.
Wang Xiao did not disappoint the Wizards fans, and in the third preseason game, he went to Curry, Harden, and Danny. Green, George and Jamison's revamped version of the Death Five, with a frantic fast-break rhythm that left fans cheering.
And in the fourth preseason game, the Death Five Little became the Death Five.
Harden, George, Jamison, Whiteside plus Jordan Jr., with an average height of a terrifying 2.06 meters, made opponents look up to them almost the whole time......
The Wizards' preseason game is like a guessing game, and before the start of each game, many people predict what the Wizards' starting lineup will look like.
There are many people who find this interesting, but there are also people who find Wang Xiao's approach boring and very naïve.