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Chapter 287 287. Pioneer Station Before the Season

The preseason can be said to be the most depressing time for Liu Ren. He saw that there were games to be played, but he didn't have much playing time.

Liu Ren can't do anything about it. The romantic old man D'Antoni also wants to satisfy Liu Ren's desire to sway his talent wantonly on the court, just like he swayed his talent ten years ago to make the Suns play unrestrained running and bombing.

But the preseason is used to allow less important players to integrate into the team system in actual combat. The Lakers' tactical system is specially built based on three core veterans and a few core young people, so Liu Ren, Gasol, Green and Whiteside quickly integrated into the system like ducks in water.

But other young people, even if they are as talented as Antetokounmpo and as mature as McCollum, still need time to practice.

In the two wars, the Jazz mainly played the bench lineup led by Whiteside. The second team composed of Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, Bazemore, Nick Young, and McCollum is the key to the Lakers' victory!
This substitute, which is comparable to most teams' starters, is the basis for the Lakers to widen the point difference and allow the three veterans in the starting lineup to have enough rest time.

The Lakers' opponent in the sixth preseason game was the Phoenix Suns. I have to say that the management of the Suns had a honey game. Originally, Bledsoe and Dragic had already competed for the position of starting point guard. There are even rumors that the two have stopped talking in private.

These two young players have the strength to be the core of the team, both in terms of organizational ability and scoring ability. It stands to reason that the Suns management should use one of them as a bargaining chip in exchange for a good center this past summer. , then the Suns' reconstruction is basically completed, and maybe they can hit the playoffs.

But the Suns management signed the small killer Isaiah Thomas with a three-year 2100 million contract while the point guard position was already full.

Liu Ren felt speechless about this. He felt that the Suns’ vision for selecting point guards was really not covered. From Nash to Dragic to Bledsoe, other teams were not optimistic about it, and then they showed their core in the Suns. The level of talent, the currently selected Isaiah Thomas is also a potential stock with strong talent and hard work in addition to height.

But too much talent is not a good thing!It is enough for a position to have one top-notch talent. Do you want to play mahjong with three?

The point guard disaster of the Suns has been exposed since the season has not officially started. Two point guards with a maximum salary and a point guard with an annual salary of 700 million. play...

The Suns play like this, even if the Lakers use pure substitutes to hone their tactics, they can't be beat. The Lakers have a big rebounding advantage. Except for Bazemore who is short at small forward, the rest of the lineup are large. Players, the Lakers have too much advantage.

The opponent in Game [-] is the Kings. There are two teams in the West that have always been called the wonders of the draft world. They have spent ten years in the lottery and collected countless rookies with explosive talents, but it is difficult to play one.

The Kings have selected a total of 05 lottery picks since 12, but very few have been selected. The only superstar, their current core Cousins, is a weird guy.

Regardless of his personality, Cousins ​​is really strong!Facing the old and strong Gasol, and the excellent defensive Whiteside, Cousins ​​and the two hard steel have no pressure!

Cousins ​​is in the last days of the center. His skills and ability to use his body can be called the number one center!His offense and Whiteside's defensive hard steel are on the line. Cousins ​​​​is the core of the Kings, and Whiteside is the defensive core of the Lakers' practice lineup. The matchup between the best active offensive center and the top active defensive center is quite exciting. It can be regarded as a rare good-looking game in the Lakers preseason.

Because of Whiteside's excitement in this game, the Lakers' second team defense slowly developed a sense of tacit understanding!It can be said that it exceeded Bickerstaff's expectations!
最终湖人队以96比89力克国王，怀特塞德拿到44分仅仅拿到6个篮板，怀特塞德只拿到12分但是有25个篮板和5个封盖！
With 3 wins and 4 losses, the Lakers may not exceed [-]% of their preseason record this year.

The first seven games were all tactical exercises. In the last game, D'Antoni finally decided to play a real game!
The eighth preseason game is on October 10th. Two days after the preseason game, the 26th is the day for the opening game of the Lakers regular season. In order to let the players really feel that the season has begun, we will come Really, D'Antoni doesn't want to affect his performance in the regular season opener because he played too slack in the preseason.

And the opponent in this game is not like the opponents in the previous games, but the Trail Blazers who almost entered the top four in the Western Conference last season!
In view of the strong performance of the Trail Blazers in the regular season and playoffs last season, the major teams in the Western Conference this year regard them as an important opponent.

D'Antoni regarded this game as the vanguard of the regular season opener, preventing the players' conference before the start of the season before this game!

"The opponent in this game is the Trail Blazers. Although it is a preseason game, I still want to see your efforts. I don't want anyone to be put on the inactive list because of lack of focus in this game."

Not only has D'Antoni's mentality changed drastically and he has begun to pay attention to defense that he didn't care about before, but his mentality has also become more aggressive than before.

The former D'Antoni was a romantic old man from beginning to end. The former D'Antoni could endure losing and being eliminated in the playoffs, but he couldn't bear a game without offense.

Now that D'Antoni has changed, he thinks more about winning. He knows from many channels that his time to coach this talented team is running out, and he wants to prove himself.

"Don't worry, Mike! Your team is the strongest team, you have to have confidence!" Kobe rarely took the initiative to praise D'Antoni in front of his teammates. Obviously he was very satisfied with D'Antoni's changes this year.

"Of course I have confidence, but we can't be careless! Everyone knows what happened to the Spurs in the finals two years ago. Although they won the championship in the past year, I still think they failed. They could have To win two consecutive championships! Our current goal is only and can only be the championship, we can't be careless at any moment!" D'Antoni said coldly.

Liu Ren was surprised by D'Antoni's performance this year, but now he is even more surprised!

At the same time he's curious...and excited about what's going to happen to his team this year!
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Continue to work hard to code, and work overtime until five o'clock before leaving get off work. I am also drunk, and I haven't been paid for overtime.

Keep going, and I will present the next chapter in a while!
(End of this chapter)