As the new season approaches, major media outlets are beginning to predict the ranking of NBA teams this season.

At the top of the list is not last season's championship San Antonio Spurs.

It's the Los Angeles Lakers, who made a big splash in the free agency market in the summer.

The "F4" Tiantuan is too scary just to be "famous"!

There's no way not to put them in the first place.

Even if the relationship between the Lakers' "OK" combination is getting more and more strained.

Kobe Bryant's defendant, he was exhausted from running around the courtroom and training ground, and he was tired of dealing with the media, and he angrily said "Shaq did it too", which pushed Shaq O'Neal to the forefront.

He was angry that his teammates didn't speak for him, and chose an extremely irrational way to counterattack.

Shaq O'Neal also publicly counterattacked because of this, accusing Kobe Bryant of making such a fuss about himself, and he should have the consciousness to bear it alone!

News leaking from within the Lakers that these two people are no longer talking to each other at the training ground!

The "OK" combination is the foundation of the Lakers, and there is a rift in their relationship, which has also left Lakers fans worried about the upcoming new season.

The Heat finished third from bottom in the East and fourth from bottom in the league last season, failing to make the playoffs.

In the summer of this season, only three rookies were signed in a row.

The only signings are "PDD".

Although they both have potential, especially Woody and Wade, it will take time to realize the potential, and they don't think the Heat can make much of a breakthrough in the new season, so the media led by ESPN ranked them in tenth place in the East.

This position has also been downgraded by one place in the latest edition of the Team Power Rankings.

Because, there was a sudden change in the management of the Heat, and Pat Riley stepped back into the background and no longer served as the head coach of the Heat.

The head coach position is held by Stan Van Gundy.

The Van Gundy brothers worked as an assistant coach for Pat Riley when they were with the New York Knicks. Therefore, it is not surprising that he came to inherit this position. But the whole thing happened suddenly, so it caused a lot of discussion.

Pat Riley said in an interview: "It's all about the future of this team, I don't have enough energy to focus on both the head coach and general manager at the same time, and I have to make a trade-off for this team! ”

But......

After all, this is Stan Van Gundy's first time as head coach.

For the "rookie" coach led this "rookie" team, the media is even more optimistic about their prospects, and ESPN even ranked them in the thirteenth position in the East.

This should be the lowest-ranked team in this year's rookie core.

Among the other teams centered on the class of '03, the Cleveland Cavaliers are in ninth place in the East, and ESPN's reporter believes that "as long as LeBron James adapts as fast as he does in Summer League, this team may even make the playoffs in the next season!" ”

The Cavaliers have Ricky Davis, who averaged 20 points per game last season, and Big Z, who was just selected as an Eastern Conference All-Star last season, all of whom belong to the players of their playing years, with LeBron James who is modeled after Magic Johnson......

Everyone knows that ESPN blows LeBron James, but don't say that in terms of squad strength, in the east, where the West is strong and the East is weak, this is really the configuration to enter the playoffs!

The Raptors with Chris Bosh are also hovering between eighth and ninth in the East, but it has little to do with Bosh, the main reason is that Vince Carter is back from injury, with Vince Carter, the Raptors have reached the playoffs for three consecutive years, and if it weren't for Vince Carter's injury last season, they would probably be able to enter the playoffs.

The Nuggets with Carmelo Anthony are predicted to be 10th in the West, but the overall record is predicted to be higher than the Cavaliers, but who keeps them in the competitive West?

The Pistons with Milicic are the highest-ranked team in the East, and that has nothing to do with Milicic.

The Pistons were originally the No. 1 team in the East!

Milicic spent almost 2 months with the team in the summer, and finally paid more than 4 million, and finally came to the "gold rush" United States, and successfully caught up with the Pistons' training camp.

It's just that life after coming is very unsatisfactory.

Larry Brown's positioning of him is actually an "inside tank meat shield", which makes him a little confused on the training ground because he can't adapt to the inside confrontation.

In Europe, he is more accustomed to playing with the ball.

What made him even more devastating was that Larry Brown had a problem with his team positioning, and he also liked all kinds of "mental attacks", and words like "fxxk you mother" at every turn, which made him have the urge to go berserk for a while.

But these days with the Pistons, he's well aware of the power Larry Brown has, and even general manager Joe Dumas has turned a blind eye to him, let alone the players.

If this is a punch, I am afraid that his "American dream" will end before it has begun.

So he could only choose to endure it.

He suddenly felt a little nostalgic for his time in Europe, where he could fight in nightclubs with impunity, open a bottle of whiskey without restraint, and even get angry inexplicably.

"Of course he's the right choice for this team, does that go without saying? He's getting better and better, of course, it's still a long way from what I expected, but I can guarantee that he's getting better and better, so let's wait and see what happens next! ”

Larry Brown finished the interview with a smile on his face, and the moment he walked into the players' tunnel, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he turned to the assistant coach next to him and said:

"Show me that little cub's training record today, who can tell me, what is the use of this special thing besides height? Is this guy a pig? Where is he? Call me back, plus two sets of training, and I can't even do a top person, what else can I expect this pig to do? fxxk！ ”

Damn it, I already knew I was going to pick Cameron Anthony!

Larry Brown finished scolding and muttered in his heart.

Actually, he didn't want to choose Milicic, but because Joe Dumas wanted to choose Woody, he chose Milicic......

Why!

The rights were earned, and the Pistons finally signed Milicic with the second pick in the first round, which represented his victory.

Originally, he thought that this guy was in good physical condition, and he could play a role on the defensive end no matter what, and the defensive end was grounded, and there were so many people on the offensive end who were there to contain him, and it should be no problem to score eight or nine points per game on average.

But he really didn't expect that such a big and three thick guy would be a "soft egg"!

Even the most basic "top person card slot" is difficult to ensure quality.

What a shit!

But when he let his words out, Milicic had to live the way he wanted.

There's a kind of "line" called Larry Brown thinks he can do it!

Stan Van Gundy also met with the newcomers of the Heat during this period, and he had no problem integrating into this team, after all, he used to be an assistant coach of Pat Riley, and everything related to basketball, he learned from behind Pat Riley's ass, which belongs to the same lineage.

And Pat Riley also discussed with him when formulating offensive and defensive tactics for the new season, including the finalization of the starting list, and he was involved in the whole process.

"We hope we can have a good time working together, I'm very optimistic about our team, we have too many talented players, so I don't think we're only 12th or even lower in the East, give this league a little bit of a shock from Miami!"

As the head coach's first speech standing in front of the Heat players, Stan Van Gundy successfully conquered all the Heat players with a hoarse voice.

Including Woody.

Blood is the main theme of youth!

However, in Woody's eyes, the most eye-catching thing is the chin that I don't know if it's a three-layer or a four-layer, which makes people want to reach out and "Duang Duang Duang"!

On October 15, the preseason game was coming, and a new poster was posted on the advertising wall of the American Airlines Arena:

Heat's No. 95 Woody stood side by side with No. 3 Dwyane Wade with the confidence that countless Heat fans had come to expect.

In the "post-Mourning era", the Heat seem to have found a new owner!

And the day before the preseason, Pat Riley announced that his first trade after stepping down as head coach came, and he sent Rasol Butler to the Kings in exchange for Gerald Wallace of the Kings!

'02 second-round pick Rasol Butler averaged 6.8 points per game last season, shooting 2.4 three-pointers per game, and could hit 1.1 three-pointers per game, shooting 46.3% from three-point range!

It's a great addition to the Kings of the Princeton system.

In contrast to him, the Kings sent Gerald Wallace, the team's No. 25 pick in the first round in '01, who averaged just 12.1 minutes per game and only 4.2 points and 2.2 rebounds per game last season.

He is technically rough and is not liked by head coach Adelman.

In training camp for the new season, Gerard Wallace almost fell out of the rotation and couldn't even play a few training games.

Because it was a small deal, there weren't many people talking about it, but in the opinion of Heat's reporter Arts, the deal was made by the Heat.

He's got a bit of a knack for Gerrard Wallace, so he's not going to talk about the ability for a while, but he's definitely a motivated player, full of enthusiasm and energy in the game.

In terms of style of play, it's definitely the kind of player that Pat Riley likes.

Precisely, this is the most important reason why Pat Riley chose to trade him for him.

He likes that the team is such an energetic "madman".

The Heat's first game of the preseason is at home against the Chicago Bulls.

Compared to the regular season, the preseason is still much less exposed, especially in Miami. Passionate Miami fans aren't as fanatical about basketball as they are on the beach.

However, I don't know if Woody and Wade's choice really fits their hearts and gives them fantasies.

There were thousands of Miami fans coming to the American Airlines arena tonight.

This is already very good, after all, this is not a giant like the Lakers, with tens of thousands of "die-hard fans", if it weren't for Johnson calling these two people another pair of "Jordan and Pippen", which aroused their interest, there really wouldn't be so many fans.

Eddie Jones and Grant didn't play long in this game, and they were dropped after more than six minutes in the first quarter and never played again. Stan Van Gundy has given Woody, Wade and Haslem plenty of playing time as well as the newly signed Gerald Wallace.

It's the same on the other side, who are basically newcomers, and they played almost 36 minutes with the seventh pick in the first round selected this year.

There are also basically "training camp contract workers", and the fate of these players will be decided in these preseason games, whether they will be eliminated or converted to guaranteed contracts.

So it's all desperate.

But even if these players stay, they are only "water cooler players", so the intensity of this game is not much different from that of summer league.

At most, a "Grade 1 typhoon" has become a "Category 2 typhoon".

Woody played 32 minutes and 15 seconds, shooting 6-of-11 from the field and 3-of-5 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points, in addition to 12 rebounds and two blocks.

"I'm still adjusting to my form and I think I'm going to get better and better!"

In an interview after the game, Woody confidently said that he could be stronger.

The confidence of these words comes from the changes in his attribute panel.

With the help of Mourning, both defensive rebounding and offensive rebounding have both improved to 80 points and reached 81 points, which allowed him to successfully unlock another badge, "rebounding smell".

He now has a rebounding prediction that is far beyond the average "rebounding king".

But he still needs to get used to it.

In addition, under the guidance of Mourning, a two-time "block king", Woody, who has a potential value of 94 blocks, has also risen in terms of blocking, breaking through 80 points.

In addition, on the whole, he has reached the physical fitness of the average All-Star level - although in terms of physical fitness, except for injury resistance, no data has reached more than 90 points, but he has basically reached 80 points and above, and there are many points above 85 points, even in the NBA, there are few players like him, and his physical fitness is so comprehensive that there are almost no shortcomings!

Like his old teammate LeBron James, his strength has indeed improved in the summer league, but his physical flexibility has obviously decreased a bit.

Therefore, LeBron James' physical fitness can be regarded as "All-Star level", and Woody's physical fitness can also be regarded as "All-Star level".

It's just a "partial subject" and a "comprehensive"!

This is the college entrance examination......

I don't know who is higher!

But what pleased Woody the most was his performance on the offensive end of the game.

There are not many shots, and most of them are open runs...... These are the means by which he survives!

But because the Heat team in the new season is mainly defensive counterattack.

So his methods have become the mainstream!

Originally, he was worried that his self-serving means were not enough, and he would not have a presence on the offensive end.

But now it seems that the NBA's tactical system is too much for a player!

As long as the tactics of the whole team serve this player and match the characteristics of this player's abilities, then he can show more power than he has!

This makes Woody even more excited about the new season.

The second watch is coming.

Regarding Milicic's personality traits, these are also the author's verifications.

After Milicic was with the Pistons, he had a habit of drinking and fighting, not accepting opinions, being arbitrary, and arrogant, all of which he said himself, as evidenced by his own interviews.

Then his former teammates in Europe also said that he was always inexplicably angry.

In addition, his wife confirmed that Milicic's temper is prone to getting out of control, especially after coming to the NBA, and reaching its peak with the Grizzlies.

Then, Milicic mocked Pau Gasol as a softie, and later mocked the American players as crying ghosts, and said that Love was a data brush.

You can say that what he says is true, but at the same time you have to admit that there is really not a complete heart in his character.

It's just that he has his own pathos buff, which makes people can't help but want to speak for him.

These words,I'll take screenshots later to respond to the previous questions.,It's just that I'm too tired to explain all the time.,I just checked the information and wrote the plot I wanted.,It's too late.。 So I don't usually explain, if you have a lot of doubts, I may post a chapter to say. Above.

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