In order to slim down the team's roster, the Bulls' outside line also cleared some unnecessary players. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info**** dropped Boozer, and Augustin, a point guard who signed a one-year contract with the Bulls that just ended the season, was not able to renew his contract with the Bulls because of Rose's imminent comeback. In addition, last season's short-term workers Ronnie Brewer, Fredt, Louis Armondson and Greg Smith failed to stay with the team.

In addition to cleaning up, the Bulls naturally want a new batch of personnel. In addition to Pau Gasol and Mirotic, the Bulls also gained a potential rookie this year, Doug McDermott. Doug McDermott was drafted by the Nuggets with the 11th pick in the first round this year, and the Bulls have been keeping an eye on the Clayton star all year last year as they traded the 16th and 19th picks in the first round with the Nuggets.

McDermott has an excellent set of back-to-back weapons and can always score a lot of unconventional points. His abundance of skills on the offensive end has always been a problem for his opponents: he can play with his back to the average small forward, and he can pull away from the long range against the big forward. He has excellent off-ball ability and can always find open shots from beyond the three-point line.

The only bad news for him is that the Bulls already have a player with the same technical style as him - Mirotic, and Mirotic is better than his rebounding ability. In addition to this, the Bulls also signed veteran Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy is more than just a player for the Bulls, and he's just as much of a mentor to young players as Gasol. In order to put the No. 1 spot on the insurance, the Bulls also signed Brooks.

At present, the Bulls lineup has 12 people: Noah, Gasol, Gibson, and Mirotic at the center and power forward positions, Butler, Snell, and McDermott at the small forward position, Sun Xiaotian and Dunleavy on the scoring guard, and Rose, Hinrich, and Brooks on the point guard.

The average age of the Bulls roster is 27.2 years old, and the roster structure is also very reasonable. But there is also a weakness in this lineup, and it is the existence of this weakness that makes the team stay in the ranks of the strong teams, not the ranks of the champions.

In this star-studded league, if a team doesn't have more than two All-Stars, it wants to win a championship, and the Bulls may be a special case for many years to come.

Sun's presence ensures that the Bulls are extremely competitive, and although Gasol is still an All-Star caliber player, he is 34 years old and his prime is over.

Team manager Gary Forman also said that the current squad guarantees the team a place in the playoffs, but there is still some way to go to win the championship. Of course, this problem is left to the management to solve!

Sun Xiaotian is quite satisfied with this lineup, and now this Bulls team can be described as balanced offensively and defensively. On the offensive end, Sun Xiaotian still has no solution. At that time, if Rose returns, the combination of Ross and Sun Xiaotian will definitely be a nightmare for the opposing defender. In addition to Rose and Sun Xiaotian, Jimmy Butler has begun to show talent on the offensive end since last season. This past season, Butler began to unleash on the offensive end due to the departure of Ruhr Deng, and his average of 13.1 points per game also speaks for itself.

On the defensive end of the team, the combination of Sun Xiaotian and Butler is also a nightmare for the opponent's forward players. Moreover, the Bulls' interior configuration is very reasonable, and Gasol and Noah have a very large defensive area. Such a line-up is ostensibly stronger than the squad they won the championship.

This season, the rest of the league has also changed a lot, the biggest being James' return to Cleveland. In doing so, the Bulls' biggest enemy in the East changed from the Heat to the Cavaliers.

Another potential opponent for the Eastern Conference Bulls this year is the Hawks, who have been on the cusp since former Spurs assistant coach Budenholzer coached the Hawks last season, and they look like the Eastern Spurs. This summer, the Hawks have made minor repairs to the lineup, and the balance of the lineup has exceeded expectations.

Compared to the eastern teams, the western teams have relatively little changes in their lineups. But the biggest change is the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr's arrival, may bring changes to the Warriors who have been unhappy in the past two years, and if the tuning is good, the Warriors may become an obstacle on the way to the Bulls winning the championship.

A lot of things are changing, and of course Sun Xiaotian is also changing. This summer, away from the national team, he threw himself into rehabilitation and training, and he was not idle all summer. The biggest takeaway for him this summer has been training with Olajuwon.

Olajuwon has said more than once that the most suitable person in the league today to learn his offensive skills is actually a guard player, and Kobe Bryant learned from Olajuwon back then.

If there are any weaknesses in Sun Xiaotian's offensive skills, it is that Sun Xiaotian's back-to-back singles skills are not mature enough, and learning from Olajuwon is just to make up for the weaknesses in this regard.

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As mentioned earlier, in the East in the new season, the Bulls' biggest enemy has changed from the Heat to Cleveland. The drama was that the Bulls' opening game of the new season was against the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers have changed dramatically this summer, with James' return to Cleveland being one and Cleveland bringing Love to the Cavaliers with two No. 1 picks.

Love came to Cleveland because of a three-way deal the Timberwolves made with the Cavaliers and 76ers. In fact, the price to be paid for this deal is the new champion Wiggins and last year's champion Bennett.

In this way, the Cavaliers version of Irving + James + Love has also brought the Cavaliers into the favorite industry to win the championship. In addition, the Cavaliers also signed J.R. Smith and Shambaugh, and the Cavaliers are strong.

Both sides see each other as their biggest rivals, so both sides are sure to take this opener seriously. In fact, the two teams have similarities in the lineup configuration, and the balance between inside and outside is the biggest feature of both sides, and this opening game is a test for the new lineups of both sides.

Of course, the two will definitely run in the new lineup before the opening game, so the preseason gives both sides a rare training time.

In the new season, the Bulls' starting lineup had an accident, it should be the starting center Noah, the big forward Gasol, the small forward Butler, and the scoring guard Sun Xiaotian.

For the Cavaliers, if there are no injuries, the starting lineup should be: center Thompson, big forward Love, small forward James, the position of the point guard should be one of Shambaught and Smith, Shambaugh will be a little more likely, Smith is more used to the sixth man after all, and the point guard position is of course Irving. (To be continued.) )