It's the end of September, and the preseason of the NBA2009-10 season is just around the corner.

All teams in the league have begun to call their players back for duty and begin to prepare for the new season.

The Magic recently held a make-up photo shoot for the new season and a press conference to welcome the new players.

At the press conference, the general manager of the Magic team enthusiastically introduced Jamal to the local fans in Orlando. Crawford and other new members of the team, and a look forward to the new season of the Magic.

But most fans aren't buying it, and they can't be blamed for that.

The Magic's recruitment work in the summer, the outside media can generally give a B rating, which is not low, after all, even the Cavaliers who introduced O'Neal and Carter at the same time in the summer only got an A- evaluation, of course, this is also related to the high salaries of the two superstars and the state that has passed their prime.

For Magic fans, the team missed out on Carter in the summer, opting for Crawford and two lesser-known players.

For this reason, they also let go of Tekoglu, and the strength of the new season may not rise but fall, and the future is uncertain.

However, the fans of the Magic are quite reasonable, although the general manager of the team has thrown the blame to Wang Chao in various ways, but they still don't have many people to blame Wang Chao, after all, Wang Chao is the reason for the rise of the Magic team in the past two years, and it is also the biggest contributor to winning the championship.

Compared with spraying Wang Chao, they scolded the management even more.

Is this the deal that Wang Chao asked for? Who are you? A dignified team general manager will be taken care of by a player? That's not how the pot is thrown! Even if this is true, it only shows the incompetence of your management.

The general manager of the Magic team can be regarded as shooting himself in the foot, at least during the period when Wang Chao is still the scoring core of the Magic team, his relationship with the fans will be in the honeymoon period, and it is by no means something that can be shaken by some operational means.

It's not just Orlando fans who don't like the Magic, who can only rank fourth in the power rankings given by ESPN before the start of the new season.

There is no suspense in the first place, it is the Cleveland Cavaliers who have just formed a big three, James + O'Neal + Carter is equivalent to two MVPs, and the partner combination of three All-Star voting kings, even if two of them are already declining, it is enough to bring people infinite reverie.

In second place is the Los Angeles Lakers, who managed to retain the main lineup last season.

Although the Finals lost to the Magic, the Lakers, who were reversed by Wang Chao's three-point kill at the last minute, generally seemed to lack a little luck.

In third place is the Boston Celtics, even if they lost to the Magic in the Eastern Conference finals for two consecutive years, but the Big Three are the Big Three after all, and Garnett's salary cut and contract extension this summer also allowed the Celtics to free up some salary space and successfully signed former All-Star power forward Rashid. Wallace, although they are all a team of veterans, their strength should not be underestimated.

Defending champions Orlando Magic are fourth, and there are a number of factors to consider, the most important of which is the departure of starting forward Turkoglou.

As the most important ball handler in the past two years of the Magic's rise, Turkoglu is still quite important to the Magic's tactical system.

Don't look at the Magic's claim to be a star, but Howard's one-star shooting is fundamentally different from James's one-star shooting, and Howard, who has never averaged more than 2 assists per game in a season in his career, is actually a super blue-collar who grabs rebounds and defends inside in the Magic's one-star system.

What really makes the Magic team have strong offensive ability on the outside is Wang Chao and Turkoglou.

Wang's presence provides the Magic's maximum limit on outside firepower, while Tekoglu's presence determines the team's minimum floor on outside firepower, and his assists can help other teammates shoot three-pointers in open positions.

Now that the Magic don't have Turkoglou, who will do his original role? Wang Chao? Or Nielsen?

At least a number of professional basketball commentators have analyzed it and felt that Turkoglou's position on the Magic team is irreplaceable, and without him, the Magic's offensive ability in the new season will inevitably be affected.

Wang Chao is dismissive of the analysis of these so-called brick beasts, they know a hammer basketball?

What was the state of Tekoglu later, and did Wang Chao, as a traverser, not know?

07-08,08-09These two seasons are the two best seasons of Turkoglou's career, after these two seasons, Tekoglou is really dispensable for the team, considering that the other party still has an annual salary of 12 million, it is really not necessary.

Now the lineup of the Magic team is very perfect in Wang Chao's opinion.

Point Guard: Jameel. Nelson, Golan. Dragic.

Shooting Guard: Jamal. Crawford, Aron. Afflaro.

Small forward: Trevor. Ariza, Matt. Barnes.

Power forward: Wang Chao, Qian Ning. Fry.

Center: Dwight. Howard, Massin. Gortat.

There are good substitutes in all five positions, and these players have excellent competitive form and performance in the next few years, plus Wang Chao and Howard, who have become stronger, are definitely not one of the strongest teams in the new season.

The completeness and reasonableness of the lineup made Wang Chao full of confidence in the team's defense of the title in the new season.

On the day the team took the makeup photos, he also gave an interview to the media.

The issue that reporters are most concerned about is, of course, to find out whether the question about the Carter deal revealed by the general manager of Magic is true.

Regarding this issue, Wang Chao chose not to talk about it and diverted the topic.

His goal has been successfully achieved, and if he wants to boast proudly in front of reporters, it will be a bit too crazy.

In the future, Wang Chao's achievements may dare to do this after reaching the level of Jordan, but there is no need to be so hateful now.

Seeing that Wang Chao couldn't ask the answer to this question, the reporters could only change the question.

"SEPN's assessment of the strength of the Magic team in the new season does not seem to be ideal, only ranked fourth in the league, do you think the Magic still have a chance to defend the title?"

"Last season, we were the first in the league in the regular season and the NBA championship, do you think we have a chance to defend it?" Wang Chao looked at the other party and asked rhetorically. "As a championship team, we have only one goal for the new season, which is to successfully defend the league championship, and if we don't achieve that goal, we will fail, and all the team's operations throughout the summer are also aimed at defending the championship."

Wang Chao's sonorous and powerful answer, anyone who hears this interview can feel the strength of his will to win the championship.

At the beginning of October, the NBA preseason begins.

As always, as a warm-up game before the regular season for each team, there is not much time for the main players to play in the preseason stage, and more time will be given to the role players on the bench.

The players who have played the most minutes on the Magic's side are undoubtedly the three players who just got it in the summer, Jamal. Crawford, Ariza and Channing. Fry.

Unexpectedly, the Magic team had an 8-2 record in the preseason, and several bench rotation players played remarkably. Van Gundy was a little shocked.

"Could it be that Wang Chao already knew their technical characteristics and abilities at that time?"

No wonder Van Gundy was surprised, but the three players brought in by the team in the summer have shown excellent individual ability, at least in the pre-season and in the daily training phase.

First up is Jamal. Crawford, he showed excellent offensive ability with the ball as a shooting guard on the court, which was only possessed by Wang Chao in the previous Magic team, including Nelson and Turkoglou's offensive ability with the ball.

Top-notch dribbling skills, nerve knife mid-to-long-range projection, and one of the best breaking speeds among defenders undoubtedly make Crawford extremely explosive in scoring on the court.

As for his shortcomings, his height of 1.96 meters is slightly short at the position of shooting guard, and at the same time, he is underweight, lacks strength, and lacks physical confrontation ability, so his performance on the defensive end is also inconsistent.

But such shortcomings have nothing to do with the fact that the shooting guard on another player Aaron. Afflaro is a top-tier side-shift defender with a tough style and no fear of physical confrontation, and the two can complement each other well on the court.

Trevor. Ariza hasn't been consistent on the offensive end, especially as a 3-and-D player, and his three-point accuracy is really disappointing.

However, as a forward player, Ariza's defensive ability is more than enough to make up for his lack of consistency in three-point shooting.

Although Ariza has never been selected to the All-Defensive Team in his entire career, his defense has been recognized by the league and is also recognized by the league as a template for high-quality 3D players.

The Magic are not short of defenders at the forward position at the moment, with Afflaro available as a small forward. Barnes is an orthodox small forward, but even if the two are combined, the defensive effect is not as strong as Ariza's.

In fact, in the daily training after the team gathered, Ariza had already defended the outside players of the Magic team, except for Wang Chao, the offensive efficiency of other outside players of the Magic team would be greatly weakened whenever they faced Ariza.

Compared to Crawford and Ariza, Channing. Frye was a little more low-key.

But being low-key doesn't mean being incompetent.

After learning about Channing. Once Frye's technical characteristics were taught, Van Gundy had a clear idea of what he was doing on the field.

As a big man with a height of 2.11 meters, Qian Ning. Frye's three-point shooting percentage is quite impressive.

That's what surprised Van Gundy, as he didn't make many three-point shots in his first four years of career, averaging just 0.5 three-pointers per game last season while shooting 33.3 percent from the field.

Van Gundy couldn't understand it, but Wang Chao knew very well that Qian Ning. Fry was influenced by the team and the coach at the beginning of his career.

He's an outside pitcher with a style similar to Nowitzki's and Jamison's, but with his 2.11-meter height, both the Knicks and the Trail Blazers require him to play as close to the interior as possible.

How could Frye, who has a very average physical confrontation ability, play well on the inside?

In the 09-10 season, after the expiration of his rookie contract, Channing. Frye chose to sign with Phoenix, which coincided with the Suns' trade of the cancerous O'Neal from the team, and the team returned to the run-and-gun era, and Frye was completely liberated and almost perfectly integrated into the Suns' run-and-gun tactical system.

He is averaging 4.8 three-point shots per game from 0.5 last season and can hit 2.1 shots for a 43.9 percent three-point shooting rate, the third in the league that season and the best three-point shooters in the league.

If it is luck to choose one player, then all three players have shining points, which can completely explain the viciousness of Wang Chao's vision.

Van Gundy is keenly aware that Wang Chao has an extremely amazing sense of smell in the selection of players, and in his third season with the Magic, there have been as many as several players introduced by Wang Chao, except for Jamal. Crawford, Ariza, Channing. In addition to Fry, last season's Dragic, Barnes and Afflalo were also brought in at the suggestion of Wang Chao, and these players have now become the team's main rotation role players and even development targets.

What made Van Gundy even more stunned was that Wang Chao had even thought about the positioning of these players.

Before the preseason, Wang Chao privately provided him with a list of starters and substitutes.

To his surprise, Wang Chao actually suggested that Afflalo be the starting point guard in the new season, and put Jamal Crawford, the third highest-paid on the team and averaged 19.7 points per game last season, on the bench.

And Wang Chao himself wants to promote the small forward from the position of big forward, so that Qian Ning. Frye was the team's starting power forward.

Originally, as a well-known head coach in the league, Stan. Van Gundy subconsciously wanted to single out the starting list suggested by Wang Chao to show the authority of his professional head coach.

However, after careful study and analysis with the assistant coaches, he was shocked to find that Wang Chao's starting list was perfect, and it was completely designed for the current situation of the Magic team.

The starting lineup is a standard one-star lineup, ranging from Nelson at the No. 1 position to Channing at the No. 4 position. Frye, all players with amazing accuracy outside the three-point line, and because the second position is Afflalo, who is good at side-shifting and helping defense, the team's outside defense has not even decreased compared to last season, but has declined slightly on the offensive end because of the lack of Turkoglu and Petrus, but considering that Wang Chao and Howard are in the starting list, as long as the blocking and dismantling cooperation of the two is as good as last season, the team's offensive ability will not decline too much.

Corresponding to this is the Magic's bench lineup.

Jamal. The arrival of Crawford, for the Magic bench is simply a change of shotgun, his offensive ability with the ball on the bench is completely a dimensionality reduction blow, Van Gundy can fully imagine that when the game is in the second quarter, when both sides are replaced by substitute players, the other side will face Crawford who scores like chopping melons and vegetables.

Looking at the league, there are very few teams with this level of sixth man, one is to have Manu. Ginobili's Spurs, the other is the one who owns Jason. Terry's Dallas Mavericks.

"Huh? Why won't I settle this account? ”

Stan. Van Gundy snapped his fingers, feeling like he was blinded.

"Didn't you say that the team lost by letting go of Tekoglu? Why does it seem like it's bloody now? ”

(End of chapter)