Chapter 831 [The lineup is confirmed, and it is extremely embarrassing]
In July, the Suns gave Spanish center Gasol Jr. a four-year contract for the first round before the Olympics began, and the 14-man roster for the new season has been confirmed, with no major trades or star signings, and reinforcements are very simple.
Simple but not weak, find a few swing people with height and arm span, stand up in the area in the joint defense system, and rely on physical defense to not be far behind. Their biggest advantage is that they are well-rounded, and they can defend all positions on the field except for the center.
The last spot of the Suns is ready to sign a veteran, give him a chance to win the championship with his legs, and choose whoever is pleasing to the eye, and pick slowly.
Centres: Marc Gasol, DeAndre Jordan, Amare Stoudamire.
Power forwards: Udonis Haslem, Paul Millsap, Marcin Gortat.
Small forwards: Grant Hill, Gerald Green, Jamario Moon.
Shooting guards: Brandon Roy, Anthony Morrow.
Point guards: Guo Xu, Kyle Lowry, Goran Dragic.
If this group of people are at the peak, they are all-star teams, and other teams have no hope of competing for the championship at all, so that the Mengba team may end up hating them, mainly depending on which team Guo Xu is on.
However, in the eyes of most people, the Suns lineup is still relatively shabby, with a majority of newcomers, but they are very athletic. These young players are all rookies at the end of the first round and rookies in the second round, and they have not proven themselves on other teams.
Guo Xu wants this effect, and he doesn't want a salary cut for players who have already played and are in a period of decline. For example, Marbury, he can go to China to accept socialist transformation, but if he wants to join the sun, he can't stay where it is cool.
Marbury was cut by the Knicks and is now a complete free agent, with a base salary that can be taken, and he chose the Celtics.
Last season, the Knicks made big news, on December 3, 2007, Marbury's father had a heart attack while watching the Knicks' home game and was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment, and coach Isaiah Thomas, who was already aware of the situation at the time, deliberately concealed the situation in order to let Marbury play.
Unfortunately, by the time the game was over, Marbury's father had already passed away, and Marbury was almost insane when he learned about the situation after the game. He tore his face with Thomas on the spot, and the conflict was irreconcilable, and Marbury was eventually swept away by the Knicks.
Then the inhuman Thomas was also swept away by the Knicks, and he had tossed the whole team into a miasma as a manager, and his record as a coach was even worse. What led to his disrepute was the sexual harassment of a female subordinate in the office, and he was not harassing a beautiful woman, but a black aunt, who accompanied a lot of money in the lawsuit......
Marbury is a bit of a player, and veterans like Sam Cassel, Michael Finley, Pat Garrity, Chris Webb, Alonzo Mourning, etc., can't play, and the Suns are the last man to choose.
In the training camp of the Dream Eight team, Guo Xu completely conquered the coaching staff, "Old K" no longer pursues positional tactics, he and D'Antoni are ready to play small ball after discussion, and take the path of the Sun's five small.
CENTER "MONSTER" HOWARD IS KNOWN AS 211CM, BUT IN FACT HE IS SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER THAN BOSH, WHO IS 211CM TALL, AND ABOUT THE SAME HEIGHT AS XIAO SI, WHO IS 208CM. He can not only stabilize the defense of the restricted area and protect the rebounds in the backcourt, but also launch a counterattack with a pass, and sit firmly in the starting position of the inside.
The big forward starter is Carmelo Anthony, and Lao K is the first to find that Anthony is more offensive than a small forward when he plays a big forward, and his strength can resist most of the No. 4 positions and has the skills of a small forward, and he has an obvious advantage in pulling out one-on-one against the opponent's forward.
LeBron James's small forward starts with thunder, is tough at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and it is almost impossible to limit the opponent's one-on-one when rushing up on a fast break, and the disadvantage is the range.
There is a lot of controversy about the starting point guard, and after the players have been running in for three weeks, Lao K decided to let Michael Reed of the Bucks start, and Kobe Bryant and Wade came off the bench, because Reed is more suitable to partner Guo Xu and has three points accurately.
Reed was a man whose fortunes were changed by the early arrival of the small-ball era, switching to a no-ball run-and-catcher shot, averaging 3.3 three-pointers per game and shooting 43.8 percent from three-point range last season.
His stats are a little worse than in his previous life, he rarely attacks with the ball, and averages only 22.7 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3 assists per game at his peak, but his offensive efficiency is higher. The overall strength of the Bucks is not good, it all depends on him and Mo Williams to attack, and the interior defense is also very poor, so they can't win.
As soon as Reed met Guo Xu, it was the feeling of encountering a dragon in a storm, and his strengths were brought into play all at once. He can throw opponents to death when he gets open space, and he can play fast attacks without being physically bad.
Wade and Kobe Bryant's performance outside the three-point line was disappointing, and they could only take one or two steps to the inside to shoot, and their shooting rate was not as good as Guo Xu's three-point accuracy under the interference of defenders.
Wade had to come off the bench, and he didn't shoot even 40 percent from midfield last season, and his performance was all about breaking through with the ball. And Kobe Bryant has become the team's third choice for the No. 2 position, because his speed of fast break is not as good as Wade, his breakthrough is not as good as Wade, and his overall shooting percentage is not as good as Wade, and he also needs to hold the ball.
There is such a superstar as Guo Xu in the team, so that Kobe, who has the lowest shooting percentage at the No. 2 position, can hold the ball and attack? Unless Kobe Bryant is the father of Old K, he can't arrange it like this.
The coaching staff found that Bryant was not yet suitable to play with Paul and Wade, and those two also had to carry the ball, and the most suitable role for Kobe Bryant was to defend the blue-collar line on the outside. Kobe Bryant wanted to prove his strength in training, but his ability to lead the team was indeed not as good as Guo Xu, and James and Wade were also more efficient in attacking with the ball than him, and they couldn't grab the ball.
Guo Xu is the core of no controversy, his performance is very stable, shooting, breaking, and assists are the strongest in the team, except for the fact that he likes to write wheels when defending, but he deliberately saves face for his teammates, otherwise the opposite side will be stimulated.
Paul, DeLong and Guo Xu went head-to-head every day and never won.
The training location is in Las Vegas, Guo Xu occasionally goes to play two, gambling is better than his teammates, one night he played at 21 o'clock and won 1 million and was directly invited out of the casino, on the grounds that he can remember cards. The casino also issued a "lifetime ban" on him, and he was never welcome to play at the casino at 21 o'clock.
The Class of 2003 Tri-Ball Star and Paul who went to play with Guo Xu were both O-shaped when they returned to the hotel, and it was the first time they had seen someone leave the casino like this. This matter is also in the news, but no one says that Guo Xu is addicted to gambling, and 1 million is a small gambling pleasure for him.
Guo Xu often has news coming out, stealing everyone's limelight, causing some people to be forgotten.
Kobe Bryant became extremely embarrassed in the national team this time, when Guo Xu did not participate in his previous life, although his performance on the court was average, he was the most popular star of the Dream Eight team.
He took 104 shots in eight games at the 2008 Olympics, 21 more than James, who had the second-most shots, and finished third in the scoring line, shooting fourth from the bottom of the team and shooting 32.3 percent from three-point range. What's even more terrifying is that all of this is based on the premise that Kobe Bryant said in an interview that "I want to be a defensive spearhead of Dream Eight".
The most amazing thing is that Kobe Bryant shot a 3+1 in the final, and was blown by Chinese fans as "Kobe Bryant led the Dream Eight team to win the championship, and the team can't do without him". He just won the regular season MVP that season, and he was the scoring champion in the first two seasons, and his popularity is booming.
Now that the pot is 6 billion, Guo Xu has various scoring and assist records, Kobe Bryant's highest 62 points in the regular season, the highest 48 points in the playoffs, and the highest score against the Kings in 2001, the coaching staff doesn't have to give him face at all.