The invincible kryptonite of basketball

Chapter 900 Deals or Layoffs

The Pelicans' second preseason opponent is the Nets.

The Nets signed Jeremy Lin in the summer, and reached a training camp contract with Guo Ailun not long ago.

They unknowingly became the team with the second most Chinese elements.

This game has also attracted much attention domestically.

However, the process of the game did not have much suspense.

Although the Pelicans' preseason was dominated by running-in lineups, even though the Nets made the Eastern Conference playoffs last season, they were strengthened in the summer.

But the strength of the two teams is still quite different.

After halftime, the Pelicans had already led the Nets by 60 points 40 to 20.

In the third quarter, the Pelicans used all substitutes and maintained the point difference. The last quarter directly became garbage time.

The Pelicans finally defeated the Nets 110 to 95, ushering in a two-game winning streak in the preseason.

布罗格登再砍15分5助攻，乔·哈里斯有9分入账，哈雷尔得到6分6篮板2抢断2盖帽。

Guo Ailun was replaced 5 minutes before the end of the game. He made all 2 shots and scored 4 points, 1 assist and 1 steal. He performed well.

But this is a point of concern for domestic fans. For other fans, the Pelicans' two preseason games gave them the feeling that the depth of the bench is bottomless!

Generally speaking, an NBA team has 8 to 10 players who can play, which is already a strong team configuration.

But the feeling of the Pelicans is that as long as they are given a chance, everyone can play with 16 people!

This is a very scary thing, which means that this team is not afraid of the injury factor of the season at all!

It's just that for head coach Stevens, he will encounter happiness troubles in the new season.

Just like NBA2K, if the player's playing time is not handled well, it is easy to cause problems in the locker room.

The only good news is that most of the bench players are rookies, and their demand in this area will not be so strong.

The Pelicans' third preseason game was against the Rockets.

The Rockets formed the Big Three, but they were almost swept by the Pelicans last season. After strengthening in the summer, they tried to win the Pelicans, including the preseason.

In this game, the Pelicans continued to run in the lineup and train newcomers, but the Rockets played normally.

In the end, the Rockets won the game, but the Pelicans continued to show the depth of the bench.

Harrell had an eye-catching performance and scored a double-double of 19 points and 11 rebounds. Brogdon showed the rare stability of a rookie and continued to contribute 13 points and 4 assists.

Zhou Qi did not get a chance to play in this game.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the end of October, and the NBA preseason game ended soon.

The Pelicans have a record of 6 wins and 5 loss in 1 games.

Because it is running in the lineup and training newcomers, this record is completely acceptable.

And after these few games, the Pelicans have gained a lot.

One of the biggest gains is naturally Brogdon.

The senior showed extraordinary stability, averaging 6 points and 13.6 assists in 4.3 games, and his three-point shooting percentage was as high as 44%.

Although it was only a preseason game, this performance has already impressed Stevens.

The other person who has performed well is not Siakam.

Siakam's shooting weakness was infinitely magnified in the preseason, and he still needs time to grow.

The other one is Joe Harris.

The third-year averaged only 8.2 points per game, which is not much, but his three-point shooting percentage reached an astonishing 51%!

With two stable three-point shooters in one preseason game, the Pelicans made a lot of money in this wave of scouting rookies!

With the end of the preseason, the footsteps of the new season are infinitely approaching.

The management of each team is busy again at this time.

According to the NBA's season rules, there is no upper limit on the number of teams before the start of the regular season, but the roster must be reduced to 15 before the start of the regular season.

Every team will have personnel changes in the summer, and most teams are not all guaranteed contracts.

Most teams will sign rosters with more than 15 players before the season, and compete to determine the few players at the end of the lineup.

The Pelicans are also facing this problem now.

With consecutive signings in the summer and the addition of Siakam and Brogdon, even though several non-guaranteed contracts were cut before, the team still has 16 players on the roster.

Now they have to consider final layoffs, or trades, before the season starts.

The team's rotation lineup, as well as the team's rookies who have signed a guaranteed contract, will basically not be sent away.

After the selection, all the Pelicans have to do is to choose one of the two non-guaranteed contracts of Joe Harris and Gary Forbes to lay off.

This is not a simple multiple choice question.

Despite Harris' stellar preseason performance, Forbes also had a stellar season last season.

The latter scored 23 points in a single game against the Spurs in the season-ending game. The quasi-lore helped the Pelicans win their 74th victory.

After communicating with Stevens and Tang Tian, ​​Dempsey finally made a choice.

Both stay.

The guard line of the Pelicans is still relatively weak. Deron's preseason state is mediocre, Brogdon is still a rookie, and Stephenson often loses power on the court.

In this case, it is a good choice to leave one more defender.

In contrast, it is a wiser choice to trade an insider.

There are two star insiders, Jokic and Davis, and most of the time they only need a substitute insider to play a three-man rotation.

David West is that guy, and his preseason form, combined with his stretching ability, is more than adequate.

And Boban is the nuclear weapon. If he encounters a team that mainly plays positional warfare, he can stand up as a substitute insider to protect the frame.

Even against a fast-playing team, Harrell, who had outstanding performances last season and preseason, can still play for a few minutes.

In this way, Biyombo will not seem so important.

His speed is not fast, and his defense is relatively limited because of his height. When he was in good form last season, he also shared a small amount of playing time with McGee.

Back this season, he was in average form in training camp and preseason, and it would be a good choice to trade him away.

Time was running out, and after deciding on the candidate, Dempsey contacted the general managers of each team immediately, and the results came soon.

The Raptors are willing to trade Biyombo with a second-round pick.

The Raptors lack a substitute insider who can protect the frame, and they are at the top of the Eastern Conference, so the second round pick is worthless.

The deal was reached quickly, and the Raptors traded Biyombo with a non-guaranteed contract and a second-round pick.

After the deal was concluded, the Pelicans cut the non-guaranteed contract and successfully reduced the roster to 15 people.

Pelicans bid farewell to Biyombo in the locker room. The latter also played for the Pelicans for more than a year and helped the team a lot when he first came.

And he's a nice guy too.

The NBA is a cruel commercial league, but the atmosphere of the Pelicans minimizes this commerciality.

In the past three years since Tang Tian joined the Pelicans, many people from this team have left one after another, but apart from Whiteside, everyone else is more grateful to the Pelicans.

Chapter 9 and One Irregular Bravery (Second update!)

At the same time, other teams also completed layoffs one after another.

Among the three Chinese players, Guo Ailun was waived in the middle of the preseason, Ding Yanyuhang was also waived by the Mavericks at the last moment, and Zhou Qi successfully stayed on the team.

Just like what he said to Tang Tian at the beginning, after Ding Yanyuhang was waived, he signed a one-year contract with the Dallas Legends, an NBDL team affiliated with the Mavericks, to continue chasing his dream.

On October 10, after a long draft period, the curtain of the NBA26~2016 regular season finally kicked off.

There are a total of 10 games on this day. There is a focus game in each of the East and West. The Cavaliers face the Raptors, and the Warriors face the Spurs.

Among them, the game between the Warriors and the Mavericks has attracted much attention.

The Warriors signed Durant in the summer, which is the most popular season to win the championship, while the Spurs traded Bogut to fill Duncan's vacancy and still maintain the championship.

This is a head-to-head confrontation between two powerful teams.

The Pelicans game was a day late, because the two teams were major competitors, and he also took Davis to watch the game live in the training hall.

League president Adam Silver also appeared at the game.

With Duncan retiring, Ginobili getting old, and Parker's team status declining, the Spurs' GDP era has basically come to an end.

The Spurs are now a double-edged core of Kawhi Leonard and Marcus Aldridge.

After the game started, it fell into a stalemate.

In the sixth season of his career, Leonard has shown super potential.

Whether the Warriors use Iguodala or Green to match up, they can't limit him well.

He and Durant entered the offensive mode after the opening, and neither side could guard the other.

After the first quarter, the two teams tied at 30.

The turning point of the game occurred in the second quarter, when Aldridge led the Spurs to play a wave off the bench in this quarter.

Thompson, who led the Warriors, didn't feel good, and the point difference was quickly widened to double digits.

When the main players of both sides came back, the Warriors' running-in problem also began to appear.

The Splash Brothers plus Durant, the three super shooters together can be called the Tsunami Brothers, but the priority of the three is a problem.

Curry has that feeling of dependence, and his shots are very casual.

Thompson, on the contrary, is the kind of strict running tactics.

The two complemented each other before and got along very well.

But Durant's positional combat ability is stronger than both of them.

In the first quarter, Durant felt good because he was the main attacker. In the second quarter, he might feel that he took too many shots, so he began to be humble.

As a result, Curry and Thompson knew that Durant felt good and passed him the ball.

The attack of the three people was unclear, hesitant, but the fight was not going well.

After halftime, the Spurs took advantage of the victory and pursued, and the point difference has been opened to 18 points.

Durant added 73 wins to the Warriors. Before the season, fans were optimistic about breaking the historical record of the regular season, but he suffered a sap in the opening game.

The fans on the hotline had a collective orgasm.

The Warriors formed a four-star lineup. Although there was no black box operation in it, it made fans of other teams very unhappy.

After all, signing Durant after 73 wins is like the feeling of the billionaire richest man winning the world's largest lottery, which is quite hateful.

It's so pleasing to be beaten by the Spurs now.

However, Tang Tian and Davis are relatively calm. They have played against the Warriors for two years and know that this team is not so easy to beat.

Especially the third quarter, has always been the strength of the Warriors.

Sure enough, back in the third quarter, Aldridge's hand feeling declined, and he couldn't score consecutive backs, and was counterattacked by the Warriors.

The Warriors started the third quarter, which they are good at, and quickly closed the score to single digits.

However, the Spurs are not soft persimmons, Leonard began to show super potential at the critical moment.

He first successfully defended against Durant alone, then succeeded in attacking Thompson, and then intercepted Green's pass for a one-stop dunk, directly igniting the ATT Arena.

Leonard's strong rise has made San Antonio fans gradually come out of the shadow of losing Tang Tian.

Spurs owner Holt grinned from ear to ear in the VIP box.

Everyone's eyes are on the Warriors and Pelicans, but no one noticed that the Spurs after Leonard's rise are stronger than these two teams!