Chapter 99 The New Season Begins, a Bad Start
Because an unplanned loss completely detonated the bomb inside the Grizzlies, casting a shadow over the team before the new season began.
All kinds of news about the internal contradictions of the Grizzlies are spreading like crazy, and almost everyone on the entire team is caught in the trade rumors. Gasol is constantly linked with Los Angeles, the Heat, the Bulls and other teams, and all the hopeful stars in the team, such as Guy, Conley, and Lowry have also received media attention to varying degrees. Manager Chris's desk was also flooded with faxes of various offers.
And the head coach Mark is also deeply involved in the rumors of dismissal. Chris has come out to the media several times to openly spread rumors, but to no avail. The media seems to have determined that Mark’s dismissal is inevitable, and this team is about to fall apart.
Chris and the team's management have already started working frantically, negotiating transactions with various teams, Chris is trying to replace all the veterans and high salaries in the team, and make the team younger, and it has potential to be replaced. Guys, it's not an easy job.
Moreover, the Grizzlies have also started the secret negotiation with the Lakers in full swing. The chips have been trained. Whether they agree or not depends on the Lakers.
Naturally, it was impossible for the Grizzlies to let go of the outside harassment. Ji Feng felt that the atmosphere in the team was almost the same as that of an icehouse.
"As expected." Ji Feng also learned from James that the Lakers were negotiating a transfer with the Grizzlies, and he was among them, but Ji Feng couldn't do much, but this made the proud Ji Feng very Annoyed, this feeling of powerlessness made Ji Feng more eager for strength, so he practiced hard every day.
Although all the players and coach Mark are still preparing for the first game of the new season against the Spurs at home on November 1st due to professional ethics, all the players and coach Mark are still preparing for the first game of the new season at home on November 1, but only the sound of equipment can be heard from the training game, accompanied by the occasional Mark With a low voice, you will know what the current situation of this team is.
Gasol and Mark have completely fallen out. He has stopped any communication with Mark, while others are fluctuating, and their minds are obviously not on training. After all, they may be traded at any time.
Ji Feng is very calm. Although he is very dissatisfied with the current situation of the team, he also knows that he can't change anything. He is only a young rookie. What he needs most now is to madly improve his strength. The NBA respects the strong. In the world, as much strength as you have, you have as much right to speak.
Now that he has become a bargaining chip, all he can do is wait quietly
In fact, Ji Feng already knew in his heart that he was not far from leaving the team, so he had arranged for James to start the company's relocation.
People related to Ji Feng in China have sent text messages of greetings, and they are all worried about Ji Feng's current situation in the team.
Hot Bar will text Ji Feng whenever she has time for filming, and hardly tell Ji Feng that she is depressed about filming, and Ji Feng is also used to the life of texting with Hot Bar every day. This is beautiful and considerate. The younger sister gradually occupied a large place in Ji Feng's heart.
"I don't know if I can go back!" Ji Feng thought to himself as he watched the time for the premiere of Hot Bar's new drama getting closer and closer.
He felt that since he had promised to help Reba, he must not just talk about it. If he could go back, Reba would be very happy. However, he still has to wait for the dust to settle here.
The outside world has almost zero expectations for the new season of the Grizzlies. They believe that the new season of the Grizzlies, which is about to disintegrate and rebuild, is likely to create the worst record in their history.
ESPN even directly announced the power rankings of all teams in the new season, and the Grizzlies ranked last. Behind the Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers and Timberwolves.
In the past, ESPN released the star power list and the team power list without exception, which will be criticized by many people, but this year, no one thinks there is a problem with the position of the Grizzlies. After all, last year without Gasol, the Grizzlies were at the bottom of the year with only 22 wins, and this year is even more thorough, so there is no suspense in the league at the end, it just depends on how many games they can win.
In the atmosphere of the world watching the decline of the Grizzlies, the new NBA season is finally about to kick off!
On October 31, the first round of the NBA's new season opener will start three games, namely the Rockets away against the Lakers, the Spurs against the Blazers at home and the Jazz against the Warriors away.
The most exciting of these three games is the Rockets vs. Lakers game!
The Lakers led by Kobe Bryant faced Yao Mai's Rockets. Kobe and McGrady were also old opponents. In the end, Lao Ke scored 45 points, which was close to half of the team's score, but Yao Ming dominated both offense and defense. At the level of the game, the inside line is crazy to score points, the two sides are going back and forth, and the fight is very anxious.
Last 10 seconds! The Rockets, who had overtaken the score at the last moment, were tied by the Lakers. Two seconds before the end, Shane Battier received a pass from Tracy McGrady and hit a three-point lore. The Rockets finally won 95 to 93. Get a good start to the season!
Kobe scored 45 points, Yao Ming scored 30 points, and McGrady scored 25 points. Both sides pushed the NBA new season to a climax at the beginning!
"Kobe is still really fierce. He can score how he wants." Ji Feng watched the game and was very envious of Kobe's kaleidoscope of offense.
"Maybe the Lakers are a good choice." Ji Feng thought to himself.
The Rockets' excellent performance also made fans have higher expectations for their new season.
The other two games, the Spurs, the Jazz also successfully won.
And on November 1, the Grizzlies also ushered in their first game of the new season. At home against last season's championship Spurs. ,
Ji Feng was still on the bench, Mark heard the wind, his commander position was stable, and Ji Feng had already been put on the shelf, so he could follow his own ideas with peace of mind, but Gasol still started, but everyone with discernment As you can see, he and Mark barely communicated.
After the start of the game, Gasol played very actively. Facing ‘Stone Buddha’ Duncan inside, Gasol was uncharacteristically and played very tough. When he came up, he used his back to hit two goals in a row.
And Gay also tried to prove himself, and he came up with a burst of slamming, and every ball had to use all his strength.
For a time, the Grizzlies played vigorously, and the audience in the stadium once saw the hope of victory. In the first half, the Grizzlies led by three points!
But the Spurs were still the same Spurs. The Spurs who had turned the corner quickly adjusted. Gino's ratio was unsheathed, and with Duncan's crazy score, Gay was lost on the defensive end again. You can't play four or six.
Some of the audience began to call out Ji Feng on the bench. It has to be said that Ji Feng still conquered some audiences in these few games.
And Chinese viewers watching the live webcast, watching Mark die and keep Ji Feng from appearing, are madly scolding the mother in the live broadcast room!
But Mark just doesn't move, he just doesn't change people, he doesn't care, he doesn't believe that Guy is really bad!
However, it turns out that Guy is really not very good. In the face of the experienced demon knife, he is still a child.
104-99, the Grizzlies suffered their first loss of the season. Gino scored 30 points, Duncan and Parker also scored 17 points.
The Grizzlies, still only Gasol scored 22 points, the lone tree is difficult to support.
"Maybe it's time for the Grizzlies to rebuild," the Memphis media said after the game.