As the clock ticked through September, October crept in, and so did the pre-season.

In the preseason, the Grizzlies arranged 8 games, home and away against the Trail Blazers, two games against the SuperSonics, two games against the Raptors, and two games against the Timberwolves, which are about the same as last season, but the difference is that the Grizzlies at this time are already the top teams in the league, and the eight games in the playoffs naturally have to determine some goals.

Qiao Hai's goal is to train and win at the same time.

In the first game at home against the Trail Blazers, Qiao Hai's starting lineup was point guard Mike Bibby, scoring guard Maddy, small forward Sean Marion, power forward Raheem and center Patrick Ewing, which was also Patrick Ewing's debut at the General Motors Arena.

From this game onwards, the Grizzlies will be testing the new tactics they will play in the new season.

The first game of the preseason kicked off, the opponent was the Trail Blazers, in the new season, the main core lineup of the Trail Blazers has not changed, and the Pacers have introduced the starting center Davis Davis with a 5-year 40 million contract to strengthen the hardness of the interior line.

After the jump ball, both teams fought the defensive end, and neither of them was very efficient offensively.

The game was not broadcast nationwide, only local television in Vancouver broadcast the game, and the narrator of the game was Joni Wagner, a well-known Canadian sports commentator, who commented on the Grizzlies several times last season.

For this preseason game, as soon as the game began, Jonny Wagner spotted the Grizzlies' changes.

The game played more than three minutes, and the Trail Blazers called a timeout, because of more than three minutes, the Trail Blazers only scored 3 points, Damon Stadamire broke through the cross inside, assisted Davis Davis dunk and scored 2 points, and Rasheed Wallace made two fouls and made one free throw, and in more than three minutes, the Trail Blazers only scored these 3 points, Damon Studammier, Steve Smith and Bunch Wells made various outside shots.

During the pause, Jonny Wagner didn't stop: "I really didn't expect that the style of the Grizzlies would change drastically this season, for more than three minutes, the Grizzlies have maintained high-intensity defense, and the Trail Blazers' offense has always been Damon Starmeyle and Bunch Wells' outside ball-holding breakthrough, or Rasheed Wallace's mid-range singles, but the problem is that the Grizzlies will always deploy multiple defenders on the strong side of the Trail Blazers with the ball, and the Trail Blazers' singles cannot be opened, and the offense is naturally extremely difficult." ”

Strong side multi-person pressing defense, this set of defense is to form more defense and less in the local area, this kind of more defense and less is not a simple package tactic, generally speaking, it will be three defenses on the strong side, and then two defenses on the weak side, forcing the opponent's ball-holding player to pass the ball to the weak side, but when passing to the weak side, the Grizzlies' defense will pounce back, in short, as long as it can continue to maintain the strong side of the multi-person defense with the ball, this set of defensive tactics is successful.

In the opening game, the Grizzlies' defense played quite successfully, except for a ball stolen by Davis Davis, the Trail Blazers did not score any athletic goals at all.

After the timeout, the Trail Blazers increased their strong offense under the basket, and this move had some effect.

Compared to other Grizzlies players, the new Patrick Ewing is obviously still adapting to the Grizzlies' defensive tactics, and the game ended in the first quarter, with the Grizzlies leading by five points at 22-17.

Most of the Trail Blazers' scoring came from the inside, so, after the first quarter, Qiao Hai assigned a new task to Interior Development Coach Lloyot: "Money, starting tomorrow, give Patrick, Latheus and Jamal a new training task to keep 2 in mind. In the 9-second period, every 2.9 seconds, there is a round trip from the restricted area. ”

Lloio nodded, though he didn't understand the use of this new training assignment.

Although Ewing's defense has some minor flaws, relying on the overall defense, the Grizzlies have maintained the lead, and on the offensive end, Maddy and Mike Bibby are in good shape, and Billups, who came off the bench, also controlled the rhythm.

In the end, the Grizzlies led all the way, winning 97-86 and winning their first preseason victory.

As the defending champion, although this game was not broadcast live in the United States, there were still a lot of reporters at the scene, and the Grizzlies in this game opened their eyes, and the defensive Grizzlies were actually so strong!

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Two days later, the Grizzlies played the Trail Blazers again.

In this game, Qiao Hai tried different starting lineups, Billups started, Ewing played a bench, but the result was the same, the Grizzlies continued to win, two consecutive wins in the preseason, two games, the Grizzlies continued the same style, continued to defend.

Patrick Ewing also started to practice the 2.9-second round trip to the penalty area, Lloyot didn't understand what the purpose of this training was, Qiao Hai explained: "After this training, Patrick Ewing can stay in the box for a longer period of time......"

After a back-to-back win over the Trail Blazers, the Grizzlies fought the SuperSonics again.

Patrick Ewing almost transferred to the SuperSonics, and was finally cut off by the Grizzlies, so the two teams also had some conflicts.

Although they failed to trade Ewing, the SuperSonics still made a big change, mainly because Hollis Grant was sent away, which caused the SuperSonics to never find a new starting center, and their core lineup also changed dramatically, with newcomer Rashad Lewis entering the starting line-up and Winsbeck forced to top the No. 5 position.

The height of the interior line has been reduced, and the defense has been weakened by a notch.

Therefore, the strength of the supersonic in the new season has been weakened a lot, but the supersonic itself does not have much feeling.

In both games, the Grizzlies not only played well defensively, but also opened up offense.

A 109-89 victory, followed by a variety of substitutions, combinations, and waves, followed by a 99-92 victory.

After playing the supersonics, the Grizzlies played the Raptors twice, two teams that are also Canadian, and these two preseason games are called the Canadian derby, but with the Grizzlies winning the championship, the gap between the two teams has also widened, although there is Maddie on one side and Carter on the other side, but except for these two leading stars, the Raptors' backwardness is all-round.

From last season, the biggest gap is the head coach, on one side is the NBA's youngest and promising champion coach Qiao Hai, and on the other side is the mediocre coach Butch Carter, who has no achievements at all.

In the new season, the Raptors have changed coaches.

They poached veteran coach Lenny Wilkens from the Hawks, and Vince Carter switched to shooting guard, so Doug Christie was sent to the Kings in exchange for Collis Williams, and other than that, the Raptors' main lineup did not change.

However, like the Grizzlies, the Raptors are also in the run-in period, and in comparison, the Grizzlies naturally have a greater advantage.

Two games, two more big wins, six games played in the preseason, and the Grizzlies won six in a row.

In the last two games, the Grizzlies played the Timberwolves twice.

Because of Kevin Garnett's huge contract, the Timberwolves' reinforcements are still unfavorable, and only the veteran Lafonso Ellis was signed from the free market base salary, and the main core lineup has not changed at all.

The Grizzlies' defense gradually got into shape, and it was another two-game winning streak.

The preseason games are all over, and the Grizzlies have won 8 consecutive victories in a wave! Stand out from the crowd!