Chapter 542 Bahamas Assembly, Declaration of Victory!
On September 6, after breaking records with Olsen in New York for a few days, Lin Yi set off for the Bahamas to prepare for the team's training camp in the Bahamas.
In September, the NBA also announced some rule changes for the new season.
The first is that the voting for the All-Star Game in the new season will cancel the center position, and the second is that the rosters of the NBA teams in the new season will be expanded from 12 to 13.
It is a helpless move to vote to cancel the center position in the All-Star Game. It is an indisputable fact that the traditional center has declined. In this small ball era, that kind of serious center has become a rare species.
As for the roster of on-the-spot games changing from 12 to 13, it is a rule that is very conducive to the play of those tactical masters.
Spurs coach Popovich gave a big thumbs up to this new rule.
As we all know, the roster of an NBA team is 15 people, but the roster of each team is 12 people. A 13th person was added to the list.
The emergence of this rule is a good thing for the Knicks, because the Knicks with sufficient reserves can make on-the-spot responses according to different situations during the game.
After all, D'Antoni is now obsessed with the rotation.
In addition, the current lineup of the Knicks for the new season has been preliminarily determined. After McGrady renewed his contract with the Knicks with a veteran's basic salary, the Knicks' 15-man roster for the new season has been released.
Centers: Tyson Chandler, Yao Ming, Draymond Green
Power forwards: Morris, Motel, Battier
Small forwards: Lin Yi, Chandler Jr., Morris Jr.
Shooting guards: Danny Green, Klay, Tony Allen
Point guard: Paul, Livingston, McGrady
This lineup makes Lin Yi full of confidence in winning the championship. In the new season, Lin Yi plans to suggest that Lao De let the freshman Green swing in the fourth and fifth positions. "Dream Chasing" practiced hard for three-pointers in summer, but in On the first day of the Bahamas training camp, Lin Yi told Green that he was not allowed to shoot from outside unless there was an absolute vacancy.
After all, there are risks in brushing the frontcourt rebounds. If you are not careful, it will become an extra backcourt rebound for the opponent.
During the first day of joint training, Lin Yi also found that Green was easy to get on the top, and when he got on the top, he would have some bad moves. He will keep his teammates close, but once it comes to the actual game, after he lets go of his hands and feet, these actions can easily cause conflicts on the court.
"Draymond, if you repay my trust with this kind of performance, you won't be able to get a minute of playing in the new season." Can't draw an equal sign, isn't the Knicks' defense tough in the 10/11 season? But they have received unanimous praise from the outside world.
The defensive level of this lineup obviously does not need to be improved by being dirty.
Under the influence of Lin Yi, Paul's dirty moves are much less, because Lin Yi knows very well that such dirty moves can easily make enemies for the Knicks, and now, the Knicks have enough enemies, there is no need to become Enemy of the league, because that would only make it harder for the Knicks to win the title and reduce the prestige they would have gained.
And Lin Yi is also beating Green. After all, this guy has a very broken mouth, and sometimes it is easy to offend his teammates.
Lin Yi hopes that the dream chasing in this life is really chasing dreams, not chasing eggs.
As for Green, he didn't dare to offend Lin Yi. After Lin Yi's lecture, he nodded his promise again and again, and wrote it down in his small notebook.
No matter how angry you are, you have to put it away in New York. Lin Yi is not trying to put on airs, but in the United States, no one will buy it if you coax it.
Lin Yi started the new season with his domineering look, because he wanted every player to understand that the Knicks in the new season have no way out.
After the end of the first day of the training camp, Lin Yi said to his teammates: "On the day of the media open day interview, I will say our championship slogan to the United States, guys, we can't make excuses for ourselves in the new season, and we can't make excuses for ourselves. There is no way out."
Yao Ming, Shane Battier, Tracy McGrady and others all nodded their heads. The three veteran Rockets players all understood that there was not much time left for them. Although Battier got a ring, no one would care about that gadget. One more piece.
Paul, Livingston, and Morris all suffered injuries last season, and all three are eager to pay more for the team in the new season.
Danny Green, Little Chandler, Clay, and Teacher Tony are Lin Yi's followers. own worth.
In a team, it is useless to have only one or two people working hard. Only when everyone is united, can it be possible to hit the championship.
Even if there are thorns ahead, the Knicks must fight their way out.
So in the Bahamas training camp, the Knicks team was full of fighting spirit and morale.
Before the start of the new season, Lin Yi and Paul also secretly ate fried chicken for the last meal before the new season.
The two frantically ordered dozens of fried chicken and had a good time. Paul also made an agreement with Lin Yi that neither of them should mention the word fried chicken in the new season, otherwise they would give each other $1,000.
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In this training camp, while Lin Yi gained weight, he was also honing his inside skills. Now his elbows are thicker than the boxing champion. Of course, this is also related to the boxing champion Xia Tian's choice to lose weight.
Tyson Chandler has started to lose weight slightly since the 12/13 season, which is to extend the longevity of his career.
When Lin Yi was specially training his inside skills, Dayao gave him a lot of advice from the sidelines. The poor boxing champion really survived the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day.
This was the beginning of the hard life of the boxing champion, and this time it was even worse, because Lin Yi was fighting him directly. You must know that this kind of one-on-one hand-to-hand combat is the most tiring.
After the boxing champion lost his waist strength, Dayao also acted as Lin Yi's training partner. It has to be said that Dayao's foot is really stable. Now Lin Yi's weight is about the same as that of Dayao after losing weight, but still It's hard to beat Yao Ming.
Dayao smiled smugly, jokingly, brother is a man who surpasses O'Neill.
Dayao told Lin Yi that there are still some problems with his way of exerting force, and in order to ensure bounce and flexibility, Lin Yi's lower limbs are thinner than Dayao's. Of course, Lin Yi doesn't need to be able to hit Dayao, because Dayao is his teammates!
In the new season, as the interior weight of each team in the league gradually loses weight, Lin Yi really has no natural enemies in the interior.
What's more, what I don't want Bilian the most is that Lin Yi's backs are all the opponent's flank players...
What the hell, how many flanks in the alliance will stupidly gain weight to 120kg to fight against Lin Yi!
You have a sick mind to do this!
In addition, Mr. Tony has now taught Danny Green and Clay everything he knows. In the words of Mr. Tony, although these two people are still inferior to him in defensive skills, they are already ready to be teachers.
Livingston's mid-range stability is getting higher and higher, and it is not much different from Livingston of the Warriors in Lin Yi's memory. The Morris brothers have quite good physical talents. McGrady and Battier are old and old, but These veterans also give newcomers a lot of experience.
In Lin Yi's words, Chris, just lie down!
Of course, Paul responded by hitting Lin Yi's knee ten times in a row.
"Lin, in the new season, let's fight back together!" After beating Lin Yi, Paul also stretched out his fist to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi smiled, and under the sunset in the Bahamas, the two bumped fists, "Of course!"
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PS: The fifth update!