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Chapter 76 No.70 What is the international joke on the third sheet

In the next few preseason games, the Warriors won and lost, highlighting an instability.

However, it is not Lin Xing who is unstable, but the opponent and his teammates.

Although he is a rookie, Lin Xing's performance is as stable as a veteran.

In the second game against the Spurs in the preseason, David Robinson ravaged the inside, almost blowing up the Warriors by himself.

但林星的表现仍然高效，只出手了16次的他命中了8个球，刚刚好得到20分，另有4个篮板7个助攻3个抢断入账。

There is also the fifth game of the preseason against the Nuggets. The same plot, Uncle Mu ravaged the inside.

The difference is that he failed to blow up the Warriors like the general.

Lin Xing cooperated with Luke Longley to resist Uncle Mu, and the game was thus reached to the last moment.

In the end the score was only a little short, Lin Xing became anxious and broke Azhan's rule.

He scored a three-pointer against the defense, but missed.

As a result, Lin Xing, who made 17 of 8 shots, did not hit more than [-]% of his shots for the first time.

But without this three-pointer, his shooting should still be 16 of 8, with a [-]% shooting percentage.

虽然如此，他还是靠着一个47.1%的命中率，掠下22分5个篮板6个助攻2个抢断。

In the two games against top centers, one was lost, and the other was narrowly won with a three-pointer from Chris Mullin.

Both games exposed the biggest problem of the Warriors, weak inside.

Old Nelson has flexibly used Luke Longley to start, and went to match up with Admiral and Uncle Mu, but to no avail.

Lin Xing teamed up with Langli to defend against Uncle Mu, but they also teamed up to defend, and they failed to withstand the general.

The gap inside is bigger than imagined.

This made Lin Xing think of the future small ball era——

Many people believe that the arrival of the small ball era is the inevitable result of the development of basketball.

But some people believe that the small ball is rampant because the NBA does not have enough good big men.

Most people agree with the former, but after these two games, Lin Xing somewhat recognized the latter.

The outside line of the Warriors is four theoretically top star players in the small ball era. Except for Lin Xing, the template of Azhan, the remaining three have the ball and long shots.

Add undersized rebounder Tyrone Hill, top support center Luke Longley, and top shooters Steve Kerr and Dale Ellis off the bench.

Pulling this lineup up to 30 or [-] years later, I am afraid that it will become a favorite for the championship if it turns around.

But now, facing the four major centers, Mutombo and Mourning, the Warriors' disadvantages inside have been completely exposed.

Fortunately, the Warriors won the game against the Nuggets.

The win of this game proved that no matter how the gap in the inside line is played, as long as the outside line can fill in the hole, the game that should be won can still be won.

A total of 8 preseason games, the Warriors 5 wins and 3 losses, the record is not bad.

林星场均22.6分4.4个篮板7.8个助攻2.4个抢断，平均命中率高达52.6%。

This average data, except for a little less rebounds, everything else is fine.

If it can continue to the regular season, the best rookie is in hand.

As for external threats?

As far as the 93 draft is concerned, Lin Xing can definitely shout: there is no one who can play!
……

Orlando, Pence doesn't think so.

In the preseason, Penny played a pretty good preseason performance.

He averaged 17.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 2.0 steals per game, making him the second-best player.

But it is still not as good as Lin Xing, who is half of the world outside the United States.

The reason Penny found was that the combination of him and the Sharks is still running in.

"Yeah, we're still looking for a position where he's comfortable and I'm comfortable,
It's hard because we're all players who need the ball,

But I believe that soon, we will be able to solve this problem. "

Facing reporters, Penny looked forward to the future: "As long as we solve this problem, we will be able to become the most powerful combination of inside and outside in the league."

In the end, he hadn't asked Lin Xing yet.

"Stad? I know the Magic was eager to get him, but now, I am joining the Magic, and I will prove that there is no problem with the Magic's choice."

Pence didn't mention how he would prove it, but his remarks made many people focus on the regular season.

Halfway through the preseason, the regular season schedule is announced.

There must be two battles between the Warriors and the Magic, but the two games are very far away. The first game alone is as far away as Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve two months later, Penny had no reason to run in. There was bound to be a big battle between him and Lin Xing.

……

In Washington, Chris Webb doesn't think so either.

At this time, he is very grateful that he refused to go to Minnesota a few months ago with a lot of ridicule, which gave him the opportunity to join the Bullets.

Although Washington is not a big city like the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or New York, at least it is not a small city.

After all, it is the capital, much better than a ghostly place like Minnesota.

More importantly, the general manager and head coach Wes Unseld, that is the top insider in ancient times.

With a height of less than 2 meters, he is an invincible inside player, earning him the nickname of a bone crusher.

At the same time, Unseld became the master of the regular season MVP in his rookie season.

But because of the different styles, Unseld couldn't guide Webber on a technical level.

In terms of guidance, Unseld, who has averaged 10.8 points and 14.0 rebounds per game in his career, can only guide Ben Wallace.

Coincidentally, Big Ben started his career in the Wizards, and it was Wes Unseld who discovered him at that time.

Although Unseld cannot guide Weber at the technical level, Unseld can brainwash Weber at the ideological level.

During this time, Unseld has been instilling an idea in Weber——

"Don't think you are worse than others. You have to understand that the NBA is different from the NCAA. This is another completely different battlefield."

"In the NBA, the inside is king. You have to believe in yourself and be able to defeat your opponent in this completely different battlefield and complete your revenge."

In the end, Weber was really brainwashed successfully.

On the one hand, his performance in the preseason was not bad, averaging 17.2 points, 9.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.0 steals and 2.2 blocks per game, not much worse than Lin Xing.

On the other hand, he has seen the Warriors' preseason performance.

"Hmph, no matter how strong Si Da is, he was abused by David Robinson?"

Because the Warriors were abused by the Spurs, Weber believed in Unseld's guiding ideology of "the inside is king", and he believed that he could win this competition with Lin Xing.

But unlike Pence, he didn't put the focus of this competition on a certain game.

Instead, regard this competition as a protracted war.

The reason is definitely not because he clearly knows that he must not be Lin Xing's opponent in a head-to-head confrontation.

Waver would never admit it——

He lost too badly in the NCAA finals, not only the team lost, but also the matchup was a fiasco that he couldn't fight back.

Before his personal skills improved significantly, Weber really didn't have the confidence to win a head-to-head confrontation with Lin Xing.

……

Oakland, just after the preseason, the Warriors announced their roster for the new season——

Centers: Tyrone Hill, Luke Longley, Chris Gatlin

Power forwards: Lin Xing, Victor Alexander, Josh Grant

Small forwards: Chris Mullin, Dale Ellis, Byron Houston
Shooting guards: Latrell Sprewell, Jeff Greer, Todd Rihdi
Point guards: Tim Hardaway, Steve Kerr, Dale Demps
It is worth mentioning that Demps stayed.

He was able to stay, it really wasn't his strength.

During the period from the summer league to the preseason, Dempsey licked all kinds of dogs, carried bags for Lin Xing, helped Lin Xing run errands, and passed the ball to Lin Xing and practiced with him during training.

He was short of signing a personal assistant contract with Lin Xing directly.

Lin Xing even felt that if he really offered a personal assistant contract, maybe Dempsey would really be willing to sign it.

On the contrary, Lin Xing was unwilling.

I really want to find a personal assistant, black silk, OL outfit, big headlights, long legs... all are indispensable.

It is also necessary to meet the requirements of being an assistant director when you have something to do, and an assistant when you have nothing to do.

Dempsey?He didn't even meet the requirements for long legs.

Lin Xing could only shake his head, and he had to.

The roster is confirmed, and the main rotation lineup is also determined.

Old Nelson also likes to fuck the main force very much, so he only framed a nine-man rotation.

However, after the preseason, he has planned to separate the playing time and even the main attack time of the four core players.

Most of the ball is still concentrated in the hands of Lin Xing, because Lin Xing is the core of Nelson's style of play.

In addition, the ball is basically divided equally.

A ball crisis has been strangled in the cradle by old Nelson.

The next focus, of course, is the regular season.

A few seasons ago, the TMC combination led the Warriors all the way and became a strong team in the regular season.

But in the playoffs, the TMC combination with poor defense is to deliver food.

So Nelson Sr. decided to make a change.

He sent Mitch Richmond away directly and dismantled the TMC combination.

Billy Owens, who was introduced first, ended in failure.

Lin Xing is his second attempt. Judging from the preseason, at least one thing is certain, Lin Xing will not become a parallel importer like Billy Owens.

This also made old Nelson see the hope of success, but he still told himself:
"Don't worry, take it step by step."

The first step to success began with the regular season opener of the 93-94 season.

In 93, the NBA did not have the concept of only arranging a small number of heavyweight games on the first day of the season to heat up the atmosphere of the game.

On the first day of the regular season, 27 of 26 teams played directly, and the Warriors were not the only team that did not play on the first day.

They will play against the Phoenix Suns on this day, and the next day, they will travel to Dallas to challenge the Mavericks back to back.

It can be said that the intensity of the regular season has been fully exhausted from the first day of the new season.

The Mavericks who challenged back-to-back on the second day of the season are lucky to say that they don't have Kidd yet, so they don't even have the Dallas Three Musketeers.

With only Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn, they are still a big fish, so there is nothing to worry about.

On the contrary, the sun in the opening game was already so strong that it made people panic.

"What the hell, the opponent in the first game of the preseason was the Supersonics who made it to the Western Conference finals last year. The opponent in the first game of the regular season went a step further and replaced it with the Suns who won the Western Conference finals last year!"

When the schedule was announced, Xiao Chong complained in various ways.

No one wants to play against top teams from the beginning, especially a team like the Warriors with a lineup, core and even tactics that have changed drastically.

They need to run in, and the best targets for running in are fish bellies like the Mavericks and Timberwolves.

It would be good to meet a top team like the Suns in the first game of the season and not lose confidence.

So, how strong is this sun?
First of all, reaching the finals last year is the strength of the Suns from the record level.

Looking at the lineup again, last season's regular season MVP Charles Barkley is in the lineup.

On the outside, there are veteran star point guard Kevin Johnson, top shooter Dan Marley, Lakers champion member AC Green, and Cedric Ceballos, who is about to explode this season.

It can be said that this Suns, regardless of the style of play, only depends on the composition of the lineup, which can basically be regarded as an enhanced version of the Warriors.

But the enhanced version here mainly refers to Barkley and Lin Xing.

Both are power forwards, one is a pure power forward, and the other is a guest power forward, the gap is initially reflected.

Lin Xing is the No. [-] pick, but Barkley is the MVP, and the gap is further widened.

There is nothing wrong with saying that Barkley is an enhanced version of Lin Xing.

If it wasn't for Lin Xing's lack of backing, the best template for him in the draft should actually be Fliggy.

The first game of the season will be against Feizhu. To be honest, Lin Xing is still under a lot of pressure.

From the first game of the preseason to the opening game of the regular season, his opponents can be said to be increasing step by step.

Kemp is a representative of the younger generation of power forwards, but his style of play is simply hard steel from the front, with nothing fancy.

Barkley is different. Although it is also hard steel, Barkley can not only use frontal steel, but he can also turn around and use butt steel.

If Lin Xing wants to use his body to keep him on the perimeter, he still has a precise mid-range shot.

Coupled with his back, Lin Xing has no possibility of copying the preseason defense against Kemp.

Lin Xing was still thinking about defense. On the other side, when Old Nelson was making targeted arrangements before the game, he shouted directly:

"Don't think about defense, let's attack!"

It's not because you don't think about defense because you know you can't defend, but only about offense.

But from the very beginning, Nelson didn't think about defense.

The beginning here does not refer to the beginning of the targeted arrangement of the game, but the beginning of his coaching the Warriors.

From his first core lineup TMC combination in the Warriors, to the many changes made later.

If he really thinks about defense, the Rock won't get Billy Owens, but Mourning, Mutombo and even Sharks.

It is impossible to defend, the old Nelson's warriors can only attack!

……

Charles Barkley is looking forward to the new season, but he will never admit that his anticipation is entirely because of Jordan's departure.

He only knows that the new season is his best chance to win the championship trophy.

They had reached the finals last season, and finally lost to the Bulls with a total score of 2 to 4.

Now, the Bulls have lost Jordan, and last season's runner-up went one step further to become the new season's champion. Isn't that a logical thing?
Therefore, Barkley is very confident about the new season.

As soon as Jordan retired, he couldn't wait to stand up and summarize the current NBA structure——

The four major centers, and him.

Although he mentioned the four major centers first, he mentioned himself later.

But deep down in his heart, he thinks he is unique.

And this summary also made him asked questions about Lin Xing by reporters before the regular season opener.

"You should know Stalin, right?"

He replied casually: "I know, this year's rookie."

As a result, the reporter refuted him shamelessly.

"No, it's not that simple. He is still the No. [-] pick, and he has won the first rookie contract in NBA history, as well as the first rookie shoe contract in NBA history."

Barkley's face gradually turned cold, but the reporter continued to say——

"If his rookie contract is converted to every year on average, his annual salary is tens of millions of dollars, which is three times your current annual salary, and his sneaker contract is much higher than your sneaker contract."

I am personally afraid of comparison, let alone Barkley who thinks he is at least the top five in the NBA at this time.

Being overwhelmed by a rookie in terms of the contract and the sneaker contract, it is impossible to say that Barkley has no idea.

To be honest, even Jack Ma, who claimed to have no interest in money, couldn't stand being pulled out to compete with other people who had more money.

Not to mention Barkley, who has never made much money in his career.

Everyone is humiliating the skin with money, just because Pippen signed a contract with not much money regardless of dissuasion.

But in fact, Pippen earned much more money than Barkley throughout his career.

At the end of his career, he signed with the Rockets and directly signed a five-year $5 million contract.

In contrast, Barkley's total salary for the entire career is only 4361 million US dollars.

At this time, the reporter told him that Lin Xing had a 12-year $1.2 million contract and a seven-year $7 million sneaker contract.

Barkley didn't change his face and didn't get angry, so he should be called Ball Saint instead.

"Then all I can say is that both the Warriors and Nike have brain twitches. They gave someone a super contract that shouldn't be given."

At this time, he didn't even need the reporter to guide him——

"Just wait and see, I will prove it in this game!"

The reporter still asked a bit more: "How to prove it?"

"I heard that he averaged more than 20 points per game in the preseason? Then I will guard against him not even scoring 10 points!"

So, before the game, Lin Xing heard that Barkley couldn't get 10 points against him.

With these harsh words, Lin Xing's expression immediately became serious.

But in fact, he was not surprised that Barkley could say this.

Well, Barkley, the big mouth that will be famous in the future, has a style of being able to say anything.

"What does he say? I'm teased. If I am really defended by him until I can't score 10 points in this game, I will go find a donkey and kiss the ass of the donkey."

"But if he can't do that, I hope he can give something."

"Otherwise, who wouldn't say big things with empty mouths?"

In this way, facing the reporter, Lin Xing spread his hands.

When the reporter heard kissing the ass of the donkey, he immediately became excited.

Without Lin Xing's urging, they quickly found the Suns who had just arrived in Oakland and found Barkley.

Barkley is a typical example of not using his brain no matter what he does. Lin Xing stimulated him, and he was immediately hooked.

"Kiss the donkey's ass? Well, if his score exceeds 10 points, I will find a donkey and kiss the donkey's ass."

"Don't worry, I will prove that I am not talking big!"

In Barkley's view, he's just a rookie, how good can he be?

Wait until the reporter leaves——

"Then what, Cedric, and Oliver, all of you will lean towards me tomorrow, understand?"

"Are you panicking, Charles?"

"I, the great Sir Charles Barclay, panic? What international joke!"

　The second update of 5.2k, the total is 8.4k today, so there is no update.

　　Mainly at the beginning of the new season, I need to sort out the plot a little bit and write less

　　
　
(End of this chapter)