As soon as the match ended, Zike Hearn yelled at Leewan, "Man, you're really amazing, keep it up, I'm looking forward to your even more crazy performance!" ”

The Lakers live commentator, who is present every night at the Lakers' home court, hasn't been so excited about a rookie's performance for a long time.

Li Wan smiled and nodded, but there was a bit of seriousness in his eyes. His stats were okay in this game, but from Jeff's defensive strategy and the matchup with Gerard Wallace with the ball, he still exposed two problems.

The first problem is that as he gradually builds a little bit of fame, the coaching staff of other teams in the league are already watching his game and studying him;

The second problem is that his ability to handle the ball is a bit lacking when he meets a player above him, such as Gerrard Wallace.

It seems that it is necessary to study my footage and spend a little more time on the off-ball run.

This is the solution that Li Wanneng can think of.

His current progress is fast enough, but his foundation is too poor. Now that the regular season is coming, it is unlikely that his ability to hold the ball will increase by leaps and bounds in just three or five days.

Then you can only think more about how to better combine your strengths.

On the 22nd and 24th, after playing two more preseason games, the Lakers played all the games before the regular season.

The team's preseason record is 3 wins and 3 losses, which is exactly half the win, and no one cares.

In six preseason games, Li Wan played an average of 28.6 minutes per game, and could get 16.5 points, 3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1 steal. He shot 43.5 percent from the field, 39.7 percent from three-point range and 86.6 percent from the free throw line.

Among them, he averaged 16.5 points per game and beat Kevin Durant and other pride, ranking first among the rookies in the class of '07.

This performance led ESPN to rank him at No. 4 in the '07 class when predicting the "Rookie of the Year" for the new season, and only one of the top four players in the list of players who are most likely to win the "Rookie of the Year" was Li Wan after the 15th place in the first round. He's in a higher position than Mike Conley.

You can see how his performance has attracted attention in the league's pre-season stage.

After six preseason games, Phil Jackson found Lee Wan again.

"As I said before, I will use you as the sixth man of the team in the new season, and I can tell you clearly that 20 minutes is just the beginning, not the end, how much time you can have, it's up to you, you know, "Soul Train" is just a stage, whether you can become a star depends on your own efforts!"

"Okay, Coach Phil, I don't think I'll let you down!"

Li Wan expressed his attitude very confidently.

It's not that after playing the preseason, he is blindly confident, he knows that the NBA preseason is a completely different intensity from the regular season, and his test has just begun.

But this alliance has always been like this, the winner survives, and the loser exits.

Li Wan is not afraid of competition.

Phil Jackson didn't say anything more, and he re-emphasized these things as nothing more than expressing his position.

In the past two days, many media have gradually noticed that Kupchak is still accepting trade offers from other teams for Li Wan, and they believe that the Lakers still have the possibility of trading Li Wan. Phil Jackson had to pick himself out.

Li Wan was quite excited to get this assurance.

Of course, he himself will not be satisfied with the position of the sixth man of the team, whether it is from his personal goals or the tasks that need to be completed by upgrading the system, the sixth man of the team is just the beginning!

Arriving at the arena as usual, Odom handed him a few newspapers as soon as he saw him.

"You're famous, man, you now have a nickname, trash talk kid!"

Li Wan took the newspaper and looked at it twice, he knew that the origin of this news was ESPN's edited video, they cut out all the conversations between Li Wan and his opponent in 6 preseason games, and found that he was a "language master", and they went to read Li Wan's dialogue with his opponent on the NCAA game, which was also outrageous, and the golden sentences were comparable to "If it's better than basketball, it's really several times better than you", "The villain dies of talking too much".

The nicknames "Trash Talker" and "Dirty Talker" have spread far and wide.

I didn't expect my first nickname after entering the NBA to be this......

He didn't know how saying two trash words caused such a reaction, there are many "trash talk" masters in the league, and I don't see a few of them getting similar nicknames for this.

Just because he's a newcomer? Or is it because of his status as a Chinese player?

After all, only he will chatter and spray each other with his opponents among these Chinese players in the NBA.

In the end, Li Wan came to the conclusion that whatever he wanted, it might have some impact on his image, and scolding was not a positive image.

But if he wants to eat with his face, he has already gone to be a trainee, and it is estimated that he has been practicing for almost two and a half years now.

There is one less person in the dressing room today.

All six preseason games were over, and the Lakers traded Morris Evans for a small amount of cash.

Morris was taking a shower when he learned the news, and he calmly cleaned up his locker closet. When Li Wan played a brilliant performance, he knew that he was gone.

Losing to such a newcomer, he has nothing to complain about.

Or he doesn't have a chance to complain either.

The name tag on his locker cabinet was taken off by the staff after he left.

There was no trace of Morris in this room. Even Morris played 10 games with the Lakers last season......

This is the NBA.

The other two rookies, Marcus Williams and Karl, are on the team, and they are only partially guaranteed contracts, which are only worth about 200,000, mainly to fill the roster. In addition, the team's water cooler needs to be watched.

The Lakers have officially confirmed their 13-man roster for the new season:

"Point guards: Fisher, Jordan Farmar, Karl;

Quarterbacks: Kobe Bryant, Levan Lee, Vujacic, Marcus Williams;

Small forwards: Luke Wharton, Radmanovic;

Power forwards: Odom, Ronnie Turiaf;

Centres: Bynum, Kwame Brown; ”

The two vacated positions are Kupchak's preparations for subsequent reinforcements, mainly to give Kobe Bryant room for imagination.

This list unexpectedly caused a "war of words" in China.

Some "Li Hei" said that Li Wan could play, mainly because he was lucky, and there was no one on the Lakers guard line, so he was reused by Phil Jackson, compared to him, Yi Jianlian is much more competitive in the Bucks' No. 4 position.

It can be seen from this list that Li Wan's competition for the Lakers is not small, with Derrick Fisher Jackson and Kobe Bryant starting the game, and there is also a Jordan Famar and Vujacic standing behind them, these are actually players competing with Li Wan for the playing position.

Li Wan's ability to win the position of the Lakers' "sixth man" is not "Phil Jackson is useless" as "Li Hei" said, but he really relied on his own strength to fight.

ESPN put together a power ranking ahead of the regular season, and the Lakers are currently ranked 16th. That is, eighth in the West, barely making it to the playoffs.

Most ESPN pundits aren't as optimistic as the Los Angeles media, and they don't expect Bynum the "Little Shark" to be in for a qualitative transformation this season.

In addition, the sense of surprise brought by Li Wan did not reach the level of making this team go up a level.

"He's going to be a great newcomer, but that's about it!"

They think the Lakers' best of the year is just standing still.

Due to ESPN's disfavor, the Lakers shouted their slogan for the new season: "Make the Lakers Great Again!" ”

As soon as the slogan came out, the Lakers fans were covered with goosebumps, this slogan was so morale-boosting, they couldn't wait for the opening game to start immediately, and then shout this slogan in the Staples audience!