After the All-Star break, everyone got back into the regular season. The Pistons are relatively the most consistent because they don't have a position to strengthen and don't need to make offers to other teams. Of course, there are teams that covet their roster, with second-year rookie Prince getting the most offers, even more than the team's backcourt combination.

Chang Wei was very surprised by this at first, but then he reacted. Prinz is the least expensive player to poach relative to other starters, and the Pistons may be embarrassed to overbid a player who has only played for a little over a season. But what they didn't expect was that the Pistons didn't make an offer at all, and directly announced Prince as a non-sale for the team, which made the general managers who were ready to poach scold: If you don't trade, you won't trade, why should you treat a sophomore as a non-sale for the team?

What they don't know is that for Brown, Prince is indeed not for sale, and even if other teams want to trade for a famous star, maybe he will think carefully about it, rather than directly agreeing to it. Although Prince is only a sophomore, he is no less important to the team than his more experienced teammates, and his contribution on the defensive end is still excessive, and if he loses Prince, it means that a big piece of the Pistons' defensive system has been dug up, and there is nothing wrong with saying that it is not for sale.

Chang Wei watched from the sidelines to see the reinforcements of other teams, in fact, there are few big deals that shake the league in the middle of the season, unless a strong team does not meet expectations in the first half of the season, they may break the big position and make a blockbuster trade directly, otherwise they still prefer to maintain the team's chemistry. It's the same this season, most of the trades are reinforcements in some corners, which makes Chang Wei drowsy, and feels that these teams are really too bold, can't they give it a go for the playoffs?

After not seeing the expected big deal, Chang Wei refocused on the player's training. Although it seems to the outside world that this Pistons have matured enough to compete for the championship, Chang Wei knows very well that most of the Pistons have not yet reached their peak, and the closest to the peak of the main players is Big Ben, Chang Wei can see in the system that Big Ben's potential score is 87, including 76 offensive and 95 defensively, and his current offensive and defensive ratings are 75 and 93 respectively, with an overall rating of 85, in other words, Big Ben has not much room for improvement, and maintaining the current state is the most important thing.

In addition to Big Ben, the other main players are still some distance away from their peak state. Needless to say, those who have just entered the league for a short time, none of them belong to the players who are at the peak of their debut, and there is room for growth, but they can all be further improved. Even Billups, Hamilton and Thomas, three players who have been in the league for a short time, Chang Wei believes that they still have potential to tap, so targeted training is still necessary, and it can also make them stronger.

Under Chang Wei's training, the Pistons' players have subtly become stronger than before, of course, they themselves are not aware of it, for them, what they want to do on the court every game has been ingrained, they are more concerned about how to complete the tasks assigned by the head coach, as for whether the process of completing the task is easier, they don't have time to think about this.

But the team's record can't fool anyone, they have always maintained the first position in the East, although the Raptors behind them are in hot pursuit, but their stability is far less than that of the Pistons. Of course, more importantly, they don't have a coach like Chang Wei who can maximize the protection of players from injury, Maddy didn't suffer many injuries because he trained well at Villanova University, but Carter didn't have such good luck, he suffered an ankle sprain in Game 3 after the All-Star and missed 12 games, during which the Raptors only won 6-6, and was instantly opened up by the Pistons.

It's fair to say that the Pistons are now dominant in the East, and if nothing else, the Eastern Conference regular season championship is in their pocket. For them, the league regular-season championship is even more challenging, and while this year's Western Conference isn't as competitive as in previous years, the best teams are just as strong. Needless to say, the Timberwolves and Mavericks, two young teams that have already made their mark, the Spurs and Kings are still very competitive, especially the Spurs, who are fully worthy of the title of defending champions and look even stronger than last season, which is also the credit of Popovich's coaching.

But now it's not them who are leading the way in the West, but the desperate Lakers. Just like in previous lives, they poached Malone and Payton, who were eager to get a championship ring and then retire, last offseason, to form the most luxurious starting lineup in the league, and they did play super dominant, and the Spurs temporarily trailed them by 3.5 wins.

If the Pistons want to win the league regular season championship, the Lakers are the biggest opponent, not even one, the gap between the two sides is very small, the Pistons are only 1.5 wins ahead of the Lakers, and they will be overtaken by them if they are not careful. For the Pistons, all they have to do now is not make a mistake themselves, then quietly wait for their opponent to make a mistake, and if they can win the regular season, they will have home-court advantage in any series of the playoffs, and the Pistons have the best home record in the league so far.

Of course, there is another way to get rid of the Lakers in a short period of time, and they will meet on March 12 local time, a game worth one win. The two sides have met once before, but O'Neal was sidelined with injury in that game and the Pistons won a hard-fought 98-90 victory, so you can imagine how strong they will be when O'Neal returns.

But Chang Wei is very confident in the Pistons, that time they beat the Lakers not long after the start of the season, after most of the season of training, the overall strength of the Pistons has improved a lot, and this time against the Lakers should not suffer. You must know that the Pistons in the previous life made the Lakers' F4 a joke in the finals this season, so there is no reason why this stronger Pistons can't do it. The Lakers' roster looks luxurious, but there are also a lot of problems, and beating them is not a big deal.

What's more, the Lakers are now the strength gap between the main team and the bench is becoming more and more obvious, and the Pistons' bench players are very violent, ranking fifth in the league in average points per game on the bench. And with Wade here, even if the Zen master lets Kobe stay on the court with a substitute lineup, he may not be able to take advantage of it.