The strongest champion puzzle

Chapter 248 Easy Preseason

Obviously, several potential young people in the Cavaliers still have opinions on the status of the team.

After all, Irving, James, and Love are famous there. It is not so convincing for Zhang Xiaotian and Varejao to occupy the starting position, especially Zhang Xiaotian's striker team occupies the team's second main force.

Although he has won two championships, neither of them is a core player. Zhang Xiaotian's status in the world is not very high.

He didn't want to explain too much, just leave this kind of matter to the head coach and the nosy James to worry about.

His strength is no problem, the team must give him enough respect.

"Hmph, Zhang, how about we go heads-up in front of everyone?"

During the training interval, Waiters walked over with the ball in his arms, with a slightly weird tone in his tone.

"Not interested." Zhang Xiaotian directly refused.

The other party obviously didn't intend to have a good communication with him, and he wasn't the boss of the team, so he didn't have to lose face.

Waiters' expression changed, and he began to curse, "Zhang, what do you mean? Are you scared? The coach really misunderstood you."

Zhang Xiaotian ignored him at all, Waiters had been in the league for two years, the same amount of time as him, but he hadn't even played in the playoffs, Zhang Xiaotian was more famous than this anyway.

Waiters became a little annoyed, "You can't hide, I will blow you up when you are in the confrontation training, you don't have the strength of the main force at all."

There are still many teammates around, and Waiters' temper is extremely embarrassing.

James frowned, and said to Zhang Xiaotian: "Zhang, don't pay attention to him, your strength has passed the test of the finals, the coach knows it very well."

After finishing speaking, he went to Waiters to have a heart-to-heart talk. At the beginning of the training camp, James talked with almost all his teammates, especially the young players. He has always looked like a mentor.

Even if some people don't like it, you still have to give him face.

James' status in the arena is there, and he is a person with good face. If you offend the coach, you can't offend the boss of the team. Everyone knows who is the top of the Big Three.

Waiters didn't listen to persuasion at this time, and walked away reluctantly, which made James a little unhappy.

Zhang Xiaotian was not affected, even if the other party made trouble during training, it didn't matter.

The starting lineup is not based on single-handed strength. Irving and James both have the ball in their hands. Waiters wants to play the starting lineup, but he is afraid that his brain is not good.

I think before the Cavaliers, only Irving would suppress him, but now that James is here, Irving will change, let alone him.

Relatively speaking, Tristan Thompson is smarter.

Of course, he and James belong to the same agency company, and he has already made a younger brother gesture.

Zhang Xiaotian and his company hired people to do it in the United States, and they also cooperated with Eddie's company.

Yang Feiyu will go back after a while, the company on the other side of the ocean is the focus, and the framework will be fully set up in the past two years.

As for the team, Zhang Xiaotian is still confident.

Although the training is quite satisfactory, his advantages will be reflected in the official competition.

And as his strength improves, he won't be so surprising in training.

It's just that when it comes to the Cavaliers, James' status in the world is much higher than others, and a player like him who is not a younger brother seems a little withdrawn.

Fortunately, Knight Le Fulai was alone, and Zhang Xiaotian sometimes went over to chat.

The strength of the Cavaliers does not pay much attention to the preseason, mainly to see whether the tactical response and some role players can help the team.

On October 10th, the Cavaliers ushered in the first preseason game of the 6-2014 season. Their opponent was Maccabi Tel Aviv, the former owner of coach Blatter, the Israeli giants, and the new Champions League champion.

The gap between European teams and NBA teams is not small. This game is not so much a test of the lineup as a good sign.

Whether the Cavaliers are the main force or the substitute, they are playing against each other.

James only played half of the game, and Zhang Xiaotian only played a little longer.

He scored 8 points and 4 rebounds, and his performance was neither good nor bad, after all, he didn't play the whole game.

However, unlike in the Heat, the Cavaliers still have rebounds inside. Love, Varejao and Tristan Thompson all had double rebounds. The Cavaliers played easily and happily throughout the game.

After the game, as they expected, the media praised them to the sky.

Therefore, it is wise to show off against weak teams in the first game. A team like the Cavaliers, which is chasing a championship through a big trade, will definitely get off to a good start.

As for the real inspection of the lineup, there will naturally be a lot of time later.

Zhang Xiaotian's fans are also used to him changing teams every season. Although it can be said that he is a wanderer, it is true to have a championship every season.

Many fans have said that no matter what team Zhang Xiaotian goes to, they are all fans of Tianshen.

The next preseason game will be of great concern to the fans.

In the league's international game, the Cavaliers and the Heat fought in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Big Three of the Heat disbanded, and Wade and Bosh stayed on the team, along with many champion teammates.

In addition, the Heat also made some additions in the summer, and even if the two teams met for the first time in the preseason, it attracted a lot of attention.

But the preseason is the preseason, James only played halftime, and actually ended the first half with a 15-point lead.

In the second half, Zhang Xiaotian played the 10rd position. The team's strength declined somewhat without James, but they still maintained a [-]-point lead, and Zhang Xiaotian also scored in double figures.

However, in the fourth quarter, which he is best at, neither side sent the main players to play.

In the end, the two teams also played overtime, which made the audience in foreign countries hooked, and the Cavaliers also won the game with a three-point advantage.

Some players in this game began to be divided into different grades in the coach's mind, but they were all role players, not to mention the main players like Zhang Xiaotian, even the main rotation players were not the focus of investigation.

The preseason is of no importance to players who have established themselves in the league.

Zhang Xiaotian had to prove himself last year, but this year there is no need.

After the game, he also went with James to greet his teammates from last season.

It is quite embarrassing to win the championship together and now become an opponent again.

But that's the league, pro-athlete friendship is friendship, and games are games.

Regarding the former teammates of the Heat, Zhang Xiaotian actually did not have a good relationship with the teammates of the Spurs, but he missed Spoelstra a little bit. From distrust to reuse in the playoffs, it is also a mentorship.

Spoelstra also persuaded him to stay in the Heat, but it was a special period at that time, he obviously did not have the ability to interfere with the management, and in the end it didn't matter.

The Cavaliers had five wins and two losses in the seven preseason games. Because the main force did not play in the final quarter, Zhang Xiaotian performed quite well.

When Irving, James and Love are all playing well, Zhang Xiaotian is not amazing enough to make people gossip, but the head coach promised that there will be no change in the main force, and there is no way for outsiders.

(End of this chapter)