The preseason is over, and the regular season is just a few days away.

The schedule of the regular season has been released, the Grizzlies' first opponent is the Trail Blazers, this game is obviously not easy to play, the preseason game just ended, the Trail Blazers won the Grizzlies by two big scores, against such an opponent, even Qiao Hai felt that if he didn't use cheating, maybe this season, he would have a black start.

"If the door is black, the door is black, it doesn't matter." Qiao Hai doesn't care, but Qiao Hai doesn't care if the others don't care.

Before the start of the regular season, major media make various predictions or previews for the new season.

There are also media outlets that have rated the transfer operations of various teams in the off-season.

Stu Jackson seems to be paying attention to these predictions, previews and scoring, and every day, the Grizzlies general manager's office sends a large number of newspapers and magazines, including those from major North American media outlets.

Stu Jackson will look at them one by one, especially the local media in Vancouver, and he is very concerned.

After the preseason, the local media in Vancouver did not pay much attention to the Grizzlies, although the Grizzlies are an NBA team, but in the past few years in the NBA, the Grizzlies' performance has not improved, so the local media in Vancouver are also a little lazy to pay attention to the Grizzlies.

Stu Jackson flipped through the local newspapers and newspapers in Vancouver and saw not much about the grizzly bears, and he was immediately disappointed.

None of the local media reported on the Grizzlies, which meant that Vancouver's ball market was almost exploding.

Stu Jackson flipped through the national media coverage in North America.

Sure enough, in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, they rated the transfer operations of each team in the offseason.

Stu Jackson doesn't like to follow other teams, and he has always thought that just being himself is enough, so Stu Jackson went straight to the back and saw the Grizzlies.

For the Grizzlies' evaluation of the transfer operation this season, Sports Illustrated scored D+, and Stu Jackson frowned, obviously, this rating is not good.

Every trade the Grizzlies have made this season, and Sports Illustrated has commented on it.

In the draft, the Grizzlies made four trades.

The first officially announced trade was the signing of Gbryan Reaves for the No. 5 signing of Gabracy McGrady.

Sports Illustrated's assessment of the deal was: "While Tracy McGrady had a good preseason, can score an average of 18.75 points per game, compared to last season, Tracy's improvement is obvious, but the main body of this deal is two draft picks, Toronto signed Steve Francis with the list, although Francis clamored not to go to Toronto, in the end he still went, compared to Tracy's performance, Steve Francis's performance was even better, in the preseason Vince Carter was absent, Steve Francis directly played the best rookie level performance, averaging 25 points per game......"

"And Sean Marion, who was selected by the Grizzlies with the No. 5 pick, is difficult to stand up and lead the team to win in the summer league, and he is still playing off the bench in the playoffs, and it seems that it is difficult for Sean Marion to make any contribution in the regular season......

"So, missing out on Steve Francis, only to get a Tracy McGrady who looks to be improving, and to sum it up, this deal, the Grizzlies have a small loss."

The second officially announced trade was the No. 51 pick plus Cheroki Parks for the Bulls' 32 picks, and then the Grizzlies selected Wang Zhizhi with 32 picks.

Sports Illustrated's assessment of the deal is that the Grizzlies have lost a lot.

"A second-round pick for a second-round pick, and also a Cherokie Parks, and the Chinese player Wang Zhizhi selected by the Grizzlies performed much worse than Cherokie Parks, this deal is not the No. 51 pick, the Grizzlies are all losses, so in summary, the Grizzlies have a huge loss."

The two official deals announced were Philip Lopez for Rasione Estrovic plus a second-round pick, and two second-round picks for Brad Miller.

The two deals, Sports Illustrated's evaluation: "Philip Lopez for a water cooler center plus a second-round pick, considering that Rasione Nestrovic has performed well in both the preseason and the summer league, so this deal of trading starters for substitutes and insignificant second-round picks should be a small loss." ”

"And Brad Miller, who was traded for two second-round picks, performed well in the preseason and propped up the Grizzlies' interior line, but Brad Miller has little potential, so this deal is not a loss or a profit."

The four trades on the day of the draft, judging from Sports Illustrated, were one big loss, two small losses, and one no loss and no gain.

After the draft, the Grizzlies made two more trades, one for Tony Massenberg for Billups and the other for Doug West plus Michael Smith for Elden Campbell.

"Tony Massenburg in exchange for Chauncey Billups, starting for the bench, or the kind of very inefficient substitution, I don't understand this deal, so it's a huge loss."

"It's Doug West and Michael Smith's deal that is beautiful, two inconsequential benches in exchange for the league's scarce center Eldon Campbell, this deal is beautiful, and the Grizzlies make a lot of money, but the problem is that Eldon Campbell didn't get playing time in the Grizzlies, which makes people can't figure it out......"

"Overall Rating: D+."

As soon as Stu Jackson finished reading this article, Joe Hay arrived.

Just in time, Stu Jackson pushed the Sports Illustrated report in front of Qiao Hai, Qiao Hai read it, read it, smiled, didn't say anything, and then, he found ESPN's pre-season prediction.

In ESPN's preseason predictions, the Grizzlies are predicted to be 13th in the West, which is the second-to-last in the West, and only the Clippers will be worse than the Grizzlies.

There is also a regular season preview of USA Today, in which USA Today predicts that the Grizzlies will improve in the new season, but not by much margin, and the Grizzlies will improve from the bottom three last season......

All in all, no one thinks the Grizzlies will make the playoffs this season.

After reading these reports, Qiao Hai wanted to say: "What kind of garbage prediction is ahead, and there are scores." ”

At the same time, Qiao Hai is also waiting to see a good show.

Sports Illustrated's evaluation of the Grizzlies' several trades this season, Qiao Hai feels that as the season progresses, the facts will slap Sports Illustrated in the face.

In the first trade, Maddie will gradually grow into a superstar, and Sean Marion is not a rookie with immediate combat power, but now Shaun Marion, who has a total rating of 75 points, is capable of playing as a starter, but Qiao Hai feels that as long as he is a rookie, he has to press it, but he is too much to help him.

Therefore, for the time being, Sean Marion will be a substitute, and as long as Marion seizes the opportunity himself, Qiao Hai will hand over the position of starting small forward to Sean Marion.

Compared to the Raptors' injury and a thorn, the first trade will obviously be a big profit for the Grizzlies.

The second transaction was exchanged for a rough idea, Qiao Hai really didn't have much confidence, and this deal was not mentioned for the time being.

In the next two trades, future All-Star center Brad Miller will prove that his trade will be a big deal, and Rasian Nesterovic will also prove that a tiny Philip Lopez is clearly no match for him.

Chauncy is bigger than Lups, can a small NBA starter-caliber player really compare to a future civilian MVP?

"Stu, don't worry, this season, we're going to make the playoffs?"

Stu Jackson was immediately stunned: "Enter the playoffs this season?" Isn't it a three-season period? ”

"Three seasons is too long, Stu, just wait and see."