At the end of September, the Lakers' main players returned from vacation, and the Lakers' preseason training camp officially started, and in the coming month, their priority is to play more games and speed up the adaptation to the NBA game under the new rules.

In the past, there weren't many in-team training matches during the pre-season, but this year is different, and the new rules are destined to bring a sea change to the game.

Zhang Yu secretly rejoiced that his cheat was awesome, he had played more than 50 playoff games under the new rules, and he was already aware of the series of changes caused by the new rules.

Let's put it this way, he can play the role of head coach for a season, and no one in the league, whether a coach or a player, knows the new rules better than him, and no one will take advantage of the pros and cons of the new rules.

Two days before the start of the pre-season training camp, Zhang Qi called his new and old teammates to his home to have a good time, and then rented a yacht to go out to sea for a wave, barely fulfilling the responsibility of the boss.

After the pre-season training camp began, Zhang Yi gave two pairs of his "three generations of dragonborns" to all his teammates, and it was also a handmade version ordered half a month in advance according to everyone's physical test data, which was much stronger than the version on the market in terms of quality and foot fit.

Battle and Ginobili can't put down this sneaker with the same style as Zhang Zhu, especially after Ginobili wears the full body of the "three generations of dragonborns", and even feels that his breakthrough speed is faster.

Of course, there is no doubt that this is an illusion, but a pair of top-quality shoes that fit well can really make a difference in a player's condition.

Although Battle is a large-tonnage insider, strictly speaking, it is not suitable to wear the shoes of outside players, but fortunately, Zhang Mao's tonnage is not small, so his shoes are a rare all-round version that can be worn by inside and outside players on the market.

Nike has made a lot of money this year, and almost all the pressure box bottom technology has been piled up on this pair of "three generations of dragonborns", especially the cushioning performance is epoch-making, Zhang Zhu is really stable when he lands on the ground, and even the urge to dunk is greatly enhanced.

At the moment, Kidd could only watch with envy as Ginobili and Battle and others changed into Zhang Mao's sneakers on the spot, but he couldn't wear the three generations of the Dragonborn to play, because he was endorsing Air· Max· Uptempo series, which he can only wear during the game.

The status of a star can be seen here, and players like Zhang Qi and Jordan who have their own production lines and brands certainly belong to the top star treatment.

Zhang Wei is a little more excessive, he is equivalent to naming his nickname to Nike, that is, he is only famous, Nike is responsible for human resources and material resources to help him build a factory and publicity, basically part of the Nike part of the effort is all inclusive. In addition to getting a large amount of naming fee first, Zhang Zhu can enjoy a huge share in the unit of "100 million" every year during the ten years of the contract period, and the more sneakers are sold, the more he will share.

But don't think that Nike earns more than Zhang Qiu, you must know that he doesn't have to worry about anything except for naming his name, and he doesn't even have to invest a dime, but in the end he can get a share of the net profit, which is basically equivalent to making money lying down, and he has nothing to do with him at all.

Nike is working hard here, they are not only responsible for everything, but also bear all the upfront investment and risks, and when they finally divide the cake, they have to give a large piece to Zhang Zhu, who does nothing, and then the shareholders in the company also have to share a piece, although Nike must get more profits than Zhang Zhu in the end, but on the one hand, you don't have to sit and wait for dividends, but you have to do everything well.

When it comes to dividends every year, it is estimated that Phil Knight is jealous of how easy it is for Zhang Zhu to make money, but who made the name Zhang Zhu valuable.

However, except for Zhang Mao, the treatment of other stars will be in a pyramid structure.

Other superstars in the league, such as Hill and Hardaway, are unlikely to be treated like Zhang and Jordan, but they all have their own signature shoes, which are named after them.

For stars of this level, first of all, the endorsement fee will be very high, and there will even be a little share, of course, it can't be compared with Zhang Zhu, but the income of nearly 10 million US dollars through sneaker endorsement and sharing in a year is still no problem in the past two years, this is the sneaker endorsement second only to Zhang Zhu and Jordan in the league.

Further down, it's Kidd, they can only endorse a certain brand under Nike and other brands, and this brand usually has a lot of players to endorse together, so the endorsement fee will not be much, most of them are hundreds of thousands of dollars in this era, and more than one million is the end.

In fact, this is to let them compete with each other, and whoever continues to rise in popularity and becomes a superstar in the future can be promoted to the second echelon and enjoy higher treatment.

On September 28, the first day of the Lakers' preseason training camp, it was still the usual physical testing session, and the coaching staff needed to know how each player was physically fit after the holiday.

Harris dreamed that his players had become big fat men last night, and today he first looked around a group of people, and found that most of the players' bodies were not out of shape, and most of the big stones in his heart were put down.

Lakers players don't dare to indulge too much this summer, they know that the competition will be more fierce in the new season, if the body shape is out of shape, then the entire preseason training camp is afraid that you will have to recover before you can participate in training, which will miss the most important run-in stage, and the team will probably not reuse you after the start of the regular season, because the team's chemistry has become more important in the new season.

Zhang Qi is the most concerned by the Lakers coaching staff, but also the most reassuring person, and the result is the same, his static body side has not changed much from last season, his height is still 204cm barefoot, 207cm tall with shoes, his weight has increased to 250 pounds, and his body fat percentage is 6.0%.

Subsequently, in the dynamic physical test link, Zhang Qiu's bottom line switchback ran down to 11.18 seconds, 3/4 sprint time dropped to 3.26 seconds, 2 of the 5 bounces on the spot were in the early 90cm, 3 times the bounce height of the run-up exceeded 100cm out of 5 times, 84 kg bench press easily pushed 30 times, the maximum bench press was not very laborious to push 150 kg, it is estimated that it can be pushed to about 160 kg in earnest.

This physical test data makes the Lakers coaching staff no longer satisfied, Zhang Fu's physical condition is amazing, and it is no problem to play in the playoffs now.

Although his explosiveness and speed may seem to have dropped and his bounce doesn't seem to be as good as last season, it is important to remember that this was measured after he gained 250 pounds, and his athleticism is actually improving, as can be seen in the bench press test that followed.

Now Zhang Yu is standing there, his body size and size are stronger than Daben, and he is also 2cm taller, and others can know what kind of energy is contained in his body from the naked eye.

The Lakers players also found that when they stood next to Zhang Qi, there was an inexplicable calmness and peace of mind in their hearts, just like when the sky fell, someone around them would hold it with one hand, and those usual anxieties and tensions disappeared in an instant, and everyone looked calm.

Zhang Zhu also looked at the physical test data of his teammates, and the veteran players from last season basically maintained a good physical condition, and most of them could start training in a week at most, and players like Big Ben and Finley who had been training could even play immediately like him.

"Jason, did you eat two pigs in the summer?"

But not everyone is so self-conscious, Zhang Fu is very dissatisfied with Kidd, who has a body fat rate of 11.5%, and wants to kick him in the ass.

The body fat rate of this product is 2.5 percentage points over-standard, and little O'Neal only exceeds the standard by 0.5 percentage points, hasn't he kept training this summer?

Kidd didn't dare to talk to the sidelines, and after returning in the summer, his body fat percentage exceeded 11%, but this is nothing at all with the Mavericks, and he didn't expect it to become a negative teaching material in the Lakers.

He also thought that the team's requirements before the holiday were just like summer homework, but he didn't expect the Lakers to have such high requirements for players, and they really required that the body fat rate of outside players should not exceed 9%, and the body fat rate of interior players should not exceed 12%, but this is too harsh, right?

However, what made him even more embarrassed was that he exceeded the standard the most in the whole team, most of the players remained within the range required by the team, and even O'Neal Jr. only had a body fat rate of 12.5%, which was not much exceeded.

This makes Kidd a negative lesson for a month of public criticism on the Lakers' background wall, and he will be the one responsible for buying drinks for everyone in the next month, Zhang said that he will do all the work until Kidd's body fat percentage drops below 9%.

Battle was also a little embarrassed because his body fat percentage also exceeded the standard 1%, reaching 13%. This is already relatively fat in the NBA, if it weren't for his strength to be obvious to all, and he is a new international player who doesn't know the rules, I'm afraid he would have to go to the wall with Kidd to be criticized.

"Keep your weight and get your body fat percentage below 10%, and I promise you'll be able to hold O'Neill 1-on-1."

This is Zhang Zhu's nonsense to Battle, he doesn't know if that kind of Battle can resist O'Neill, anyway, he doesn't need money to say this kind of thing, so he will fool him!

Battle was convinced, and he really decided to reduce his body fat percentage to what Zhang said in the new season, and maintain his weight at about 300 pounds, becoming a real MT.

This year's NBA preseason starts on October 6 and lasts for 16 days until October 22.

The Lakers will play six preseason games during this period, but unlike last year's four consecutive overseas games, this year's Lakers only need to play one game each in China and Japan, and Zhang can still go to Asia for a few days.

Currently, the Lakers' preseason roster reaches 21 players, although at the end of the preseason, they can only keep a maximum of 15 of them.

Harris doesn't even want to keep 15 people in his heart, the Lakers only need 12 people for the new season, and too many people are easy to cause conflicts, especially for a team like the Lakers, which has young and peak players as the backbone, they don't have many opportunities for bench players.

Wilkins felt this, he found himself at a disadvantage when competing with Finley and Starks, and even that Ginobili was more energetic than him, which made Wilkins, who has the awesome nickname of "the essence of human cinema", very lonely, how to say that sentence - it is really like a knife, and heroes are easy to grow old!

Zhang Zhu said: The most terrible thing is not that the hero is easy to get old, but that there is no successor, but fortunately, now it is the back waves of the Yangtze River that push the front waves, how can there be so many exclamation points? !

"It's important to defend for three seconds, and you have to pull out the cover inside and clear the defense of the area under the basket. Moreover, I need not only one cover, preferably two walls. ”

"The outside players have to look for opportunities to cut in the air, now is not the era of man-to-man, we can't disrupt the opponent's defense if we don't move, we have to be proactive and look for opportunities."

"Pass the ball more, even if it's a few blind passes, and get our ball moving! You know, everybody is figuring out how to defend under the new rules, and even if our rotation isn't flexible enough, their defense isn't tight enough. So as long as we spin the ball up and pass it a little bit faster, they definitely panic even more! ”

"Also, when defending, always pay attention to the position of your opponent and teammates, and don't stand still like a log. We can now wrap up the clip casually, and we have to change the guard immediately after leaking, which is of course to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, and after the west wall is repaired, we will have to demolish it again to make the east wall, the purpose is to try to make it circulate in 24 seconds, as long as it can survive 24 seconds, we will win. ”

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On the third day, Zhang played a match against nine of his best-in-form teammates, and as a result, he was there to perform the role of head coach for the entire game, and the real head coach could not speak more than half of his words in two hours.

Harris's old face naturally couldn't hang up, but most of Zhang Mao's arrangements made sense, and most of them were correct voices, which made him very embarrassed!

But there is a phenomenon that has to be said that after the defense has a joint defense, the overall situation and defensive vision of the players are more tested, that is, the requirements for the ball quotient are higher, so the defensive ability of some players has risen, and some have declined.

Mason also felt the crisis, after a few team training, he found that his performance was not as good as Big Ben at some times, although he could still make fewer mistakes with experience, but this year's Big Ben had many shining points that he couldn't do, and these were the crises he felt.

A year ago, he thought it would take at least three years for Big Ben to catch up with him, and he was almost old by then. But what I didn't expect was that the league would suddenly make a major update that changed the entire game mechanics.

This update has greatly reduced Mason's experience advantage, and the NBA that allows for joint defense has been many different from before, and the maneuvering ability of Ben Wallace and Mutombo has kept Harris's eyes shining, and the two can even defend to the three-point line.

Mutombo + Big Ben, this set of inside combinations is really suitable for joint defense, as long as the young Big Ben doesn't make mistakes and makes fewer mistakes, the Lakers' restricted area can be leaky!

Starks has also shown himself to be better than Finley under the new rules, and although his athleticism is much stronger than Finley now, Starks' ability to fill in the position is better.

Finley has become a stunned young man under the joint defense system, he is always unsure of his position, and he does not realize what he should do at what time, which is a double lack of experience and awareness.

Half a month later, Kidd showed his talent after participating in the first confrontation game, and instantly let the Lakers' coaching staff and players understand what kind of power a set of combined defense with enough tacit understanding can have.

To be honest, the current Lakers have not been able to build a mature joint defense system, and at this stage, the five people on the court rely on their own personal awareness to cooperate with each other, and this requires everyone's awareness to be very good, but some people are obviously a lot worse.

Darik Martin has not been able to integrate into the system for half a month, whenever Zhang Zhu goes to fill the position, Martin is difficult to fill the vacant position of Zhang Zhu, and when the team needs him to participate in the packing, it is difficult for him to keep up with the beat of others in the first time, in a word - he is a superfluous person on the field.

This is not nonsense, this kind of game that pays attention to cooperation, once someone can't keep up with the beat, it's very slow, it's basically equal to 4 defense 5, and there will be loopholes for the opponent to catch, in short, it's very hurtful and uncomfortable!

Kidd is different, Xiao Zhengtai, who has just recovered eighty percent of his body, echoes his teammates in every move, he knows what to do at what time, what kind of reaction to make in emergencies, and even how to cooperate when his teammates encounter emergencies......

This is also where Big Ben is stronger than Mason, Starks is stronger than Finley, and now defense really depends on awareness, and it is no longer an era when you can run rampant with a good body, you have to have a good overall view and vision, plus a good body.

Therefore, Finley also sensed that he was in great danger, because he was not as good as Wilkins and Ginobili in the links outside the body?

It's no joke, Wilkins played more than 25 minutes in the last two games of the preseason, and his experience in Europe made him no stranger to joint defense, and the Lakers' well-coordinated defense also made up for his athleticism shortcomings to a certain extent, and this guy did well on both ends of the floor, although in large part the difficulty of the preseason was too low.

In the end, the Lakers won all six preseason games and averaged a staggering 22 points per game! But that's not the scariest part, the Lakers' defense in the preseason has scared many teams!

In the preseason, most teams are still figuring out how to use joint defense to strengthen their defensive capabilities, but the Lakers will actually set a three-second trap? And the joint defense is also good, at least now no team can play such a tacit defense and complement as the Lakers.

Don Nelson, who has just coached the Bulls, and the Zen master who is scolding Kobe Bryant for being a bastard than Jordan are the most shocked!

Of course, Popovich, Pat Riley, Sloan and others are all question marks, he didn't expect the Lakers to integrate joint defense and new rules into their defense so quickly, is this team into the house of time?

The Lakers, on their part, showed no mercy to the layoffs, and as soon as the preseason game was played, they had already decided to only need these 12 people in the new season-

Centre-forwards: Dekembe Mutombo (88), Jermaine O'Neill (77)

Power forwards: Anthony Mason Jr. (83), Ben Wallace (80), Battle (76).

Small forwards: Zhang Mao (99), Dominic Wilkins (80).

Shooting guards: Michael Finley (85), John Starks (83), Ginobili (70).

Point guards: Jason Kidd (87), Daric Martin (78).