"Lord, that No. 1 show is amazing, neither Paul nor Clay is his opponent."

"I said, call me General! How? Mr. Tony, do you want to go up and defend him? ”

"Oh, damn it, don't call me Mr. Tony, I have a psychological shadow, don't look for me next time I cut my hair!"

"Haha......"

"But seriously, I want to go up and try it, and I want to predict how good he will be in the future."

"I guess it's going to be as strong as Ellis."

"Really? You're not kidding? You say this guy has the talent to average 25 points per game? ”

"Don't believe me? Why don't we bet 100 bucks? ”

"No, I don't bet with you, you have a good eye in this regard, I heard that Clay is the one you want the team to pick back and give you a bag? He's got a beautiful three-pointer, and Jimmy is great, a lot like when I first got into the NBA, and I think he's going to be a better student than you, and he's probably better than me. ”

“……”

Sun Ce glanced at Mr. Tony speechlessly, Jimmy's little brother is going to become a 20+5+5 all-round swingman in the future! Why did it become the kind that can't get into an empty basket? Although Jimmy Butler went up and played 5 minutes before, he did get rid of both layups......

But the defensive end is really positive and has the style of Tony Allen, which Sun Ce admits is stronger than Tony Allen, and Jimmy Butler is the hardest working in the team's training.

And after a summer of one-on-one with his grandson, the sense of defense slowly developed.

But it's not enough, at least you have to be a sparring partner for a year or two as a teammate, and the development league can't play, the skills are too poor, the people in the development league are basically the strongest and strongest among the players in the NCAA who have not entered the NBA, Jimmy Butler may still have a team in the NBA at this time is willing to cultivate, but to go to the development league where everyone wants to play well and want to be looked at by NBA teams or overseas teams, Jimmy Butler will really pay fees.

Sun Ce felt that the young teammates who came to him, if it weren't for Gasol Jr., an older rookie who was very mature in the NBA, would basically go astray, saying that he was developing in a very different direction from the "he" in Sun Ce's impression.

For example, Paul George, who practiced holding the ball well with James in the summer, and Kobe Bryant occasionally pointed out, but when it came to the game, he still floated on the outside to catch and shoot, and he didn't like to have physical confrontation in positional battles, and he rushed faster than anyone else in the counterattack, and he partnered with Nash for more than 4 minutes and three counterattack dunks.

The Hornets are currently pure swing and practice Irving's lineup, and the whole team is a bright spot for Irving, and the expired players of other teams such as Ariza, Landry, and Carman who were thrown back by the Hornets half a month ago have not yet found their form.

And Sun Ce thinks that Irving is really good and plays well, as for why the wind review will be like that in the future, Sun Ce can't understand, at least now, it seems that he is much more talented than the champion show of the Wizards.

Of course, only on the offensive end, after Sun Ce and Nash went off the court, Neil brought Wazquiz, Klay Thompson, Development League player Andre Bullock, and the team's fifth interior player Speights to the Hornets played well.

Lost, the Grizzlies were probably about to lose, but Irving, who was not soaring by the score, led the team to open up the difference, and under the tandem of Wazquis, Neil and Klay Thompson were on fire, and the difference remained within 10 points.

In the end, the Grizzlies lost the first preseason game 106-114.

Paul George, who started the longest game for the Grizzlies in this preseason, played 24 minutes, Nash only played 13 minutes, and I don't know if Coach Hollins did it on purpose, Nash wore No. 13, he gave 13 minutes to play, and so did Paul George...... Fortunately, Sun Ce played 5 minutes, not only 3 minutes as the jersey number says.

If you lose in the preseason, you lose, and Coach Hollins saw a lot from the first game that he needed to adjust.

For example, Paul George looks like he has a very good ball-handling offense in training, and he can hardly see it in the game, but the setter outside the scope of the tactical plan, Paul George has done a good job, a bit like the feeling of the expanded version of Battier, but Paul George's current defense and setter are still much worse than Battier at his peak, and the shooting stability is also much worse, and it needs to be improved.

The situation of the game is far from the prediction during the training camp, this can't be helped, like last season, before Sun Ce returned to the team, the coaching staff took the whole team to practice for a week, and in the summer, I have been observing the rookies and the strength and technical changes of the main players at close range, this time the time is too tight, so I can only take my time.

This kind of shrinking season, the regular season record Coach Hollins doesn't care so much, it is enough to squeeze the Spurs or Mavericks into the top four in the West, it doesn't matter, the playoffs are back-to-back, and their Grizzlies have an advantage in roster depth.

……

The Grizzlies began to prepare for the regular season intensively, using preseason training and team problems, hoping to complete the run-in in the early part of the regular season, and other teams are also actively preparing.

Whether it's for a championship, or for a playoff spot, or for the top pick, each has its own direction of effort.

Los Angeles UCLA Medical Center, the Lakers just finished the first game of the preseason with the Clippers, and Bryant came to the hospital after the game, he didn't play for a few minutes, just waited for the game to end, and enjoyed the empty connection between Billups and Griffin for a while.

I rushed to UCLA Medical Center, the best medical institution in Los Angeles, because Paul was transferred from Texas Medical Center in Houston.

Seeing Kobe Bryant coming, Paul got up from the couch with a brace on his knees.

In terms of ligament repair, Paul has ended treatment in September and is now at the tail end of a long recovery period, but the more now, the more cautious he needs to be, so Paul is doing rehabilitation every day, and now he is not going out to the hospital every day, at most going to the basketball court in the hospital to shoot basketballs until he recovers.

"Oh, Chris, he's XXX, what the hell, my god ......" Kobe Bryant was a little incoherent and full of swear words when he saw Paul.

When the team was asked to exchange Bynum for Kidd, the team didn't agree, who knew that now it would be exchanged for Paul!

Although Paul had just experienced two major injuries in a row, he ...... It won't be worse than Kidd, who was already 34 years old in '07.

"It's really incredible, I was in Houston doing rehab and all of a sudden I was notified that we were teammates...... Ha ha! "Paul thinks of his new teammates Kobe, Odom, Gasol, it's amazing! It's like a dream!

And finally I don't have to fight that damn run!

The running bomb did make him play the highlight of his career last season, which was better than the 07-08 season, but that style of play consumes the core too much, and the eight-man rotation per game, that is, as long as the core can play, it has to stay on the court, not everyone has a grass-resistant body like Nash and a team doctor as good as the Suns.

The two were excited for a while, and Paul calmed down first: "Kobe, did you come here today to practice with me?" That's not going to work, I'm going to have to recover for at least a month before I can start practicing, and I can't practice with you all morning like that little guy in Memphis. ”

"No, I'm not here for this today." Kobe Bryant also got serious.

Seeing Kobe's serious look, Paul asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?" ”

"Yes, I want to talk to you about the change in my style of play, I first want you to believe that when you come back, you will definitely be the core of the outside ball, you and Paul are the tactical core, and I am just the endpoint in the tactics.

I said this to Paul four years ago, and then we ......"

"And then you took the MVP from me, and you won two championships by the way?"

"Yes, that's it."

"Oh my God, I want to punch you in the nose, but no, I'm going to have you throw the ball in and give me more assists when I come back."

'Let's talk about tactics, our new manager defends well, very well, attacking ...... Let's have a good discussion, and I'll bring Paul and Bernie tomorrow. ”

"Bernie? Bickerstaff? ”

"Yes, he's good, we're going to have a good talk about the offense."

"Kobe Bryant, although I'm happy that I just came to talk to me about the team, can you make me happy a little longer and talk about the game? What a disappointment! ”

"I thought you'd be happy talking about the game......"

"I'm not you, paranoid."

"I love the nickname."

"OK, I can't understand your train of thought, but I think I'll be happy to play with you."

"But we may not be happy right now, the NBA has changed."

"Yes, the NBA has changed, since the Heat broke the rules and the two superstars in their prime did not leave any property to their parent team to join forces with another superstar, the NBA is no longer the NBA we are familiar with."

"Is the Big Three ...... the Heat?"

Now the NBA is so chaotic that the Heat team started to huddle, and Kobe Bryant thinks so, but he always feels that it is not only like this, but he can't say which link is the most critical.

However, in just over a year, the entire NBA landscape has changed dramatically!

……

In Los Angeles, Bryant and Paul had a long conversation all night before finally falling asleep.

In Miami, James is said to have been drinking and singing at the beach again......

In fact, James doesn't drink much often, occasionally but in moderation.

James is very melancholy right now, he wants the team to fight for a heavyweight interior lineman, the target is Elton Brand, and it turns out that a heavyweight center is back, but it's too heavy, it's called Eddie Curry, and Brand goes to the Lakers.

He wanted a better pitcher, and the target was Morrow, who the Grizzlies couldn't keep, and then failed, and the team was unwilling to give the full middle class, and if there was a full middle class and the status of the first outside pitcher, Morrow was willing to come to Miami to play, but it was useless for Pat Riley to hold on to the middle class contract, and the team didn't want to pay too much luxury tax.

After Chalmers completed a four-year 16 million contract extension, the Heat's total salary exceeded the luxury tax threshold by more than 1.1 million, and the full middle class was gone, leaving only the mini middle class.

Pat Riley chose to tap into the team's talent, allowing him James to officially switch positions to play power forward and Bosh to play center......

Although from the current point of view, the Heat is still the strongest team in the East, the 76ers have Howard on their side, and it is estimated that it will take time to run in, and James is also confident to deal with the Bulls.

But watching the 76ers youth army fight day by day, the Bulls also signed Richard Hamilton with the middle class...... James is in a hurry!

With Sloan's Bulls and the talented 76ers, James doesn't know how many years he can last.

finally formed a big three and boiled the big three of the Green Army until it was disbanded, but it was only a year since the formation of the new big three, and James found that the east had changed!

In addition to the Bulls and 76ers, the Knicks, who make up the interior combination of Stoudemire and Bynum...... Although James doesn't look down on them, they are not easy to fight when they encounter, and they dare to bully him and Bosh when they come to a center.

But the current lineup is already the best lineup of his career, and the team's salary is not as good as the Cavaliers, but the other two cores are at their peak, James has nothing to complain about, and he now feels that he will not leave the Cavaliers to play completely, let alone wrestling with the 76ers and the Bulls, and even the Celtics who are old like this may not be able to play.

However, seeing the 76ers and the Bulls rising, the Pacers also poached David West, and the Hawks, Knicks, and Celtics were staring at them.

James's heart is bitter!

……

……

may still be the best scoring player in the NBA, and the strongest player in the NBA is now two days of ice and fire, one happy, the other happy.

Sun Ce continued to work hard with his teammates, and after playing the first game with the Hornets on the 17th, he returned to Memphis on the 18th, rested for a day, prepared on the 19th, and won the challenge of the Hornets at home on the 20th.

Back at home, although it was a preseason, it was still necessary to win, which made the fans who had not watched the game more than two months later than in previous years happy, so Mr. Tony personally went into battle with Owen.

Not only Tony Sensei, but Sun Ce, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr. also started together and played the entire quarter.

This lineup, the defense is tacitly coordinated, and the offensive end is ...... I didn't think about it at all.

19-8 in the first quarter, the Grizzlies made the Hornets score a double-double in the preseason.

Sun Ce and the others didn't expect the Hornets to be so careless...... However, Sun Ce thought that the scouting report said that the Hornets would continue to mess up this year, so he felt normal.

In the second quarter, the Grizzlies switched to a lineup of Wazquis, Neal, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Jordan Jr., and they were ready to play well tonight to win the beautiful kind.

Nash and Randolph were wearing suits, and Nash was rubbing against the opponent with his own team's ultimate defensive lineup, his eyes were straight, and it was bloody, he had played for so many years, and he had never played in such a team.

Nash feels like he's dragging his feet!

"Lord, you just had a ball that was a little slower, if you were faster, they would only get 5 points!" Tony Allen said dissatisfied.

What Tony Allen said was that Son Ce didn't immediately expand to make up for Ariza's catch-and-shoot three-pointer after supplementing Irving, and Ariza threw one in.

"Yes, yes, I see, Mr. Tony, you should pay more attention to your beloved apprentice, there, Brother Jimmy hasn't played today."

"He has a strong mentality, he knows that he is not strong enough, so don't worry."

“……”

Nash listened to the conversation between Tony Allen and Sun Ce, and was a little broken, and they both defended each other to only 8 points, is it not enough?

Nash looked at the other party and was a little suspicious of the new champion of life, feeling that this guy had just entered the NBA and met Tony Allen, which was really miserable! Appalling!

However, in such a game, Nash feels that it does not have a particularly big effect, the opponent is too weak, so weak that he can't bear to look at it directly, and there is a high probability that he will take the first three picks again.

If it's a normal preseason, there will be two or three really strong opponents, so that they can find their flaws and use the games against the weak teams to run in.

But there is nothing to be done about this situation at the moment, Nash can only communicate more with his teammates, and he originally wanted to talk more about tactical details with the coaching staff.

But! Coach Hollins only laid out the tactical framework, and the specific details were up to the players themselves.

Nash is feeling weird right now.

It's okay when training, and there is also a lot of tactical preparation for frame training, especially for the Grizzlies, with the Princeton style of play with Gasol Jr. as the core, the triangle offensive style of Sun Ce + Gasol Jr. + Nash, the ordinary blocking and dismantling play, and the singles split-ball play...... In addition to these conventional tactics, there are also run-and-bomb tactics, and the specific tactics are no less than those of other teams, but the tactical choice on the offensive side is actually left to the players themselves!

On the defensive end, Coach Hollins is very precise in his substitutions, and the lineup layout is also very good, and in addition to playing and running, he often makes substitutions on the premise of the first priority of defense, and maximizes the substitutions according to the state of the players, the situation with the opponent, and the lineup structure.

It's completely different from the teams that Nash has been to, and it's almost out of the ordinary.

Nash didn't know how such a team made it to the Western Conference finals, but they did, and they overturned the Lakers who he had been fighting so hard with Stoudemire......

Battier, who is also a veteran, saw Nash's strange expression, and came to Nash to sit down and watch the game together: "Steve, don't worry about the offense, we will get better slowly, we have the lord and the mark...... And now there are you! ”

"You're used to it?" Nash remembered that Battier was also new to the team last season.

"I'm not used to it, but we win when we fight, we can't fight offensively, don't we still have defense?"

“……”

Nash remembered that the Grizzlies conceded just 89 points per game last season...... He felt like he had better think about the Grizzlies' run-and-shoot that was quite different from his previous one, and by the way, he should be a positional catch-and-shoot pitcher and pick-and-roll playmaker......

It's the sense of confusion after changing teams, Nash feels like he is a lot younger, his hair is shaved, Sun Ce designed, Tony is shaved on both sides, mousse is played on the top of his head, bangs are combed obliquely, the whole person is young, plus playing in such a team full of uncertainty, Nash feels as if he is young physically and mentally, and it is also the reason why he wants to integrate so hard, not only Sun Ce hooked him up.

Watch a series of deals, amnesties, signings after the shutdown ends...... The entire NBA landscape has changed dramatically, and the NBA situation that often had to be stable for several years before 10 years ago is completely different, the entire NBA is full of uncertainty, and may not even be able to break out of the new version of the Big Three in the East, the West ghost knows which team can break out of the West, Nash is really a little in love with the current NBA, and sighs that his peak is not in this era, who doesn't like to be in a star-studded era at his peak?

So he has to make sure that he can fit into the team better, and the current squad of this team is really not lost to any team he has been in.

The teammates are young and positive, the defense is excellent, no one is afraid of the playoffs, the team atmosphere is good, it seems that it is still on the rise, it seems that there are countless problems that can be solved, and the teammates have active efforts to find a way to solve them, and if they can't solve them, they will start from the defensive end......

Nash can't express his emotions, so he wants to have a good fight with this group of teammates who are so selfless that even Randolph and Sun Ce, the team's top two scorers, are willing to score in single digits!