Obviously, the Cavaliers have several potential young people who still have opinions on the status of the team.

After all, Irving, James and Love are famous, and Zhang Xiaotian and Vallejo occupy the starting position is not so convincing, especially Zhang Xiaotian's forward team occupies the team's No. 2 position.

Although he won two championships, he was not a core player, and Zhang Xiaotian's status in the rivers and lakes was not very high.

He didn't want to explain too much, and it was good to leave this kind of thing to the head coach and the nosy James.

He's okay with his quality and the team has to give him enough respect.

"Hmph, Zhang, how about we have a heads-up in front of everyone."

In between trainings, Vitesse walked over with the ball in his arms, and there was a strange smell in his tone.

"Not interested." Zhang Xiaotian directly refused.

The other party obviously doesn't plan to communicate with him well, and he is not the boss of the team, so he can not give face.

Vitesse's face changed, and he began to scold, "Zhang, what do you mean, are you afraid, the coach really mistook you." ”

Zhang Xiaotian ignored him at all, Vitesse has been in the league for two years, and he is the same as him, but he hasn't even played in the playoffs, and Zhang Xiaotian is more famous than this one.

Vitesse was a little annoyed, "You can't hide, when you wait for the confrontation training, I will blow you up, you don't have the strength of the main force at all." ”

There are still a lot of teammates around, and Vitesse has a temper, which is extremely embarrassing.

James frowned and said to Zhang Xiaotian: "Zhang, don't pay attention to him, your strength has been tested in the finals, and the coach knows it very well." ”

After that, he went to talk to Vitesse, and James talked to almost all of his teammates at the beginning of the training camp, especially the young players, who have always looked like a mentor.

Even if some people don't like it, they can't help but give him face.

James's status is there, he is a good-looking person, and he can't offend the team boss if he offends the coach, who is the first of the big three, everyone knows very well.

Vitesse was a little disobedient at this time, and walked away reluctantly, which made James a little unhappy.

Zhang Xiaotian was not affected, even if the other party was looking for trouble during training, it didn't matter.

The starter is not about the strength of heads-up, Irving and James have the ball in hand, and Vitesse wants to play the starter, but he is afraid that his brain is not good.

I think that before the Cavaliers, only Owen had to press him, but now that James is coming, Owen has to change, let alone him.

Relatively speaking, Tristan Thompson is a bit smarter.

Of course, he and James belong to the same agency and have already made a little brother gesture.

Zhang Xiaotian's company, the United States, hired people to do it, and Eddie Company also cooperated.

Yang Feiyu will go back after a while, the company on the other side of the ocean is the focus, and the framework will be completely set up in the next two years.

As for the team's side, Zhang Xiaotian is still sure.

Although he was decent in training, his advantages would be reflected in the official competition.

And as his strength improves, he won't be so surprising in training.

It's just that when it comes to the Cavaliers, James's status is much higher than others, and a player like him who is not a junior brother seems to be more withdrawn.

Fortunately, the knight was also alone, and Zhang Xiaotian sometimes went over to chat a few words.

The Cavaliers' quality is not much important for the preseason, mainly depending on the tactical response and whether some role players can help the team.

On October 6, the Cavaliers ushered in the first preseason game of the 2014-15 season, against the team's new coach Blatter's old owner, the Israeli giants, and the new Champions League champion Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The gap between European teams and NBA teams is not small, and this game is not so much a test of the lineup as a good omen.

The Cavaliers, whether they are the main force or the substitute, are all pressing the opponent to play.

James only played half the game, and Zhang Xiaotian only played a little longer.

He scored 8 points and 4 rebounds, and his performance was neither good nor bad, after all, he didn't play the whole game.

However, unlike in the Heat, the Cavaliers still had rebounds on several insiders, with Love, Vallejo and Tristan Thompson all rebounding double-doubles, and the Cavaliers played easily and happily throughout the game.

After the game, just as they expected, the media praised them to the sky.

So it's wise to play a weak team in the first game, and a team like the Cavaliers, who are chasing a championship through a big trade, will definitely get off to a good start.

As for the real test lineup, there will naturally be a lot of time later.

Zhang Xiaotian's fans are also used to him changing teams every season, although it can also be said to be a wanderer, but it is also true that he has a championship every season.

Many fans have said that no matter what team Zhang Xiaotian goes to, they are all fans of the gods.

The next preseason game is extremely concerned by fans.

The international game of the league, the Cavaliers and the Heat Brazil Rio battle.

The Heat's Big Three broke up, Wade and Boshk both stayed on the team, and there were many championship teammates.

In addition, the Heat also had some additions in the summer, and the first meeting between the two teams attracted a lot of attention even in the preseason.

However, the preseason is the preseason, and James only played half a game, and actually ended the first half with a 15-point lead.

In the second half, Zhang Xiaotian played the No. 3 position, and James did not play, and the strength of the team decreased slightly, but it still maintained a 10-point lead, and Zhang Xiaotian also scored a double.

However, in the fourth quarter, which he is best at, neither side sent their main players on the court.

In the end, the two teams also played overtime, which made the exotic crowd addicted, and the Cavaliers also won the game by three points.

In this game, some players began to be divided into different grades in the coach's mind, but they were all role players, not to mention the main force like Zhang Xiaotian, even the main rotation players were not the focus of the inspection.

Pre-season games don't matter much at all to players who have established themselves in the league.

Zhang Xiaotian had to prove himself last year, but there is no need for it this year.

After the game, he also went with James to greet his teammates from last season.

won the championship together, and now they have become opponents again, which is still quite embarrassing.

But that's the league, professional athlete friendship is friendship, and competition is competition.

For those former teammates of the Heat, Zhang Xiaotian actually did not have a good relationship with his teammates of the Spurs, but he missed Spoelstra a little, from distrust to reuse in the playoffs, it was also a mentor-apprentice friendship.

Spoelstra also persuaded him to stay with the Heat, but it was a special period, and he obviously did not have the ability to intervene in management, and in the end, he was not able to do so.

In seven preseason games, the Cavaliers won five and lost two, because the main team did not play in the final quarter, Zhang Xiaotian's performance was decent.

When Irving, James and Love all played well, it was a bit gossip that Zhang Xiaotian was not amazing enough, but the head coach promised that there would be no change in the main team, and outsiders had no choice.