What Dior didn't expect was that he quickly adapted to the position of power forward, although he was often squeezed out by Thomas when he was stuck under the basket, but his ball control skills and agility also gave Thomas a big headache. Not only him, but other Pistons players were also surprised, after all, no one would let a small forward swing up to a power forward position in the first place.

This also makes them admire Chang Wei even more, judging from Dior's performance, he should have a good effect playing as a power forward in the rotation lineup in the new season. But admiration is admiration, there is no awe, who makes Chang Wei not much bigger than them? He is even younger than several of the team's veterans, which makes him easy to get along with the players.

In fact, this is why Chang Wei prefers to suggest that the team recruit young people to build the main lineup, veterans are good, first, they have proven themselves, and secondly, they can bring more experience to the team, but young people always have higher plasticity, and relatively speaking, the annual salary is lower, and it is easier for Chang Wei to establish prestige in the team. With his training intensity, it is not possible not to be recognized by the players, not to mention the relatively old players are also difficult to eat.

The mini-training camp was not long, but Chang Wei was still very satisfied with everyone's training results, especially Wade and Dior, two rookies, whose progress made Chang Wei more confident in the new season. Now Brown has basically let go of personal training, and handed it all over to Chang Wei, and it is obvious that Chang Wei will hand in a satisfactory answer this time.

After the start of the team's training camp, Brown was amazed by everyone's performance, and only needed a little more tactical polishing to be able to go straight to the field. While watching the players run tactics under the leadership of other assistant coaches, he asked Chang Wei curiously: "Chang, you can't really be a magician, right?" You can train them like this in a summer? ”

Chang Wei smiled: "It's only been less than a month, and I've been training Yao Ming before." ”

Brown looked at Chang Wei like a monster, and then said helplessly, "You are really the most amazing guy I've ever seen...... Seriously, Chang, are you really not thinking about becoming the head coach of a team in the future? I believe you have that strength. ”

"Coach, you don't want to drive me away, do you?" Chang Wei smiled and said, "You know I'm lazy, it's good now, to help you build a dynasty team together, in my opinion, there's nothing bad, right?" ”

Brown has always had nothing to do about Chang Wei's laziness, and when he heard Chang Wei prevaricate himself with the same reason, he smiled slightly, didn't speak, turned his head and continued to look at the players' training, and showed a satisfied look.

In this year's playoffs, Brown doesn't plan to send his own rotation players, but only plans to let Wade and Dio bring other fringe players to deal with it. But what surprised him was that under the leadership of Wade and Dior, the Pistons averaged 107.2 points per game in the summer league and won the summer league championship with a winning record, and Wade was also named the summer league MVP with an all-round performance of 25.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.7 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. And Dio also played well, averaging 17.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, which can be said to be excellent value for money compared to his pick.

Brown was thrilled by this, believing the Pistons' chance to win a championship. But he thought about it, as if this would leave the Pistons' bench with no one to defend, is that really okay? You must know that now the Pistons have been labeled as a defensive powerhouse, and it is a bit weird to come up with a pure offensive lineup now, even if it is just a bench.

Chang Wei knew that the old coach was drilling the horns, so he had to comfort in private: "Whether it is offensive or defensive, as long as you can win, it is a good team, what about the all-round attack of the substitute lineup?" Maybe you can catch the other party off guard! And in this way, there is more room for arranging troops, attacking if you want to attack, and defending if you want to defend, isn't that great? ”

Brown thought about it and smiled dumbly, which is indeed a good thing for the team, and this kind of roster depth can be said to be more than enough for an entire season. For most head coaches, although the more people who can play, the better, but there are only about ten people on the court in a game, and the Pistons' current starters and benches add up to a total of ten players, which is basically enough.

Brown, who is finally no longer on the tip of the bull's horns, is back on his feet and ready to see how the players are going in the preseason. Of course, the intensity of the preseason is not comparable to the regular season, and the record is not worth noting, many strong teams can lose in various fancy ways in the preseason, and many weak teams can kill all sides in the preseason. Brown didn't care about the outcome either, as long as the players were able to fully master the regular tactics and integrate into the team system in the preseason.

In the first game of the preseason, the Pistons met their old rival Raptors, and both sides tacitly gave the bench more time. The Raptors also made reinforcements this summer, bringing in Jalen Rose, the sixth man of the 99-00 season, to further strengthen the bench. Unfortunately, they made the playoffs last season with the third-best record in the East, and a couple of high-pick rookies in the class of 2003 had little to do with them, but Maddie didn't leave like he did in his previous life, which made them still quite competitive.

For any manager, the run-in of the preseason is a run-in, and the playing time of the main players must be controlled as much as possible, otherwise it will not be worth it if it consumes physical strength or even gets injured. Wilkens thought that his team could overpower the opponent on the bench, but he didn't expect that after the two sides sent substitutes one after another, the Raptors were directly stunned by the Pistons.

The Pistons' bench scored a staggering 52 points in the game, more than double the Raptors' bench, and while it was only a preseason game, it was enough to tell. After a comfortable win over the Raptors, the Pistons continued to build on their preseason games to end the season with a winning record, and Wade and Dior's performances were touted by the local media in Detroit. Of course, it is normal to praise Wade, no matter how people say it, it is also this year's flower show, but Dior is different, many team general managers are so regretful that they beat their chests, why didn't they see such good seedlings in the draft?