Four Hundred and Seventy-One. Two Stumbling Blocks as Big as a Mountain

"Zach, it's time to lose weight..."

"Is it that fat?"

"Don't you know it yourself? Your weight is even higher than Mark's last year!"

"Really? God! So it's true! I'm actually fatter than that fat man!"

The thin Gasol was envied and hated by two unscrupulous teammates.

Because today is the media day, Gasol Jr. shaved his beard specially, which attracted a lot of shots.

It's not that Gasol didn't feel refreshed before, but he was fat before. Although he has a good face, he is really too fat. After Sun Ce and Battier joined the Grizzlies, his appearance can only rank third in the team.

Shane Battier's wide-opened forehead lines and middle-aged masculine face are indeed quite attractive.

Randolph's ruffian appearance is also quite popular in the local area.

But now the little Gasol has lost weight, successfully lost weight, and shaved his beard... Gasol's family has good genes!

Gasol, who was practicing free throw line shooting next to Sun Ce and Randolph, was very interested when he heard the conversation between the two, but what Randolph said...

Sun Ce and Randolph began to be hunted down by Gasol again...

Fighting back to fighting, Sun Ce felt that Gasol was really awesome, and made up his mind to lose weight, but he lost almost 10 kilograms in one summer!

Last season Gasol was the heaviest when he was 133 kg. At the end of the season, he looked like 130 or 131 kg. The latest weight is 121 kg!

Although it affects the shooting feeling and the defensive habits at the basket, the shooting needs to be re-adapted, the defensive method at the basket needs to be adjusted, and the strength will be affected in a short period of time.

But in the long run, this laid the foundation for Gasol to truly become the best defensive team-level inside gate!

He used to be similar to Yao Ming in that he was very good at defending the basket, but the help defense outside the three-second zone was far lower than his defensive awareness. Therefore, like Yao Ming, as the core defensive core of a defensive team, his ability to protect the frame is extremely high. Strong, but there is a certain distance from the best defensive team.

Although in terms of athletic ability, Gasol Jr. may spend his career and cannot be recognized by the coaches and cannot be selected for the first defense, but losing weight has laid the foundation for the second defense.

On the other hand, Randolph, after one summer, the 29-year-old's strength has not advanced but retreated. He has dropped from the S level last season to the S-level.

The main reason is the weight, which has risen from 126 kg at the end of last season to 133 kg.

It's Tennessee O'Neill!

But in the regular season, it is enough to lose weight slowly, and with his athletic ability and style of play, that is, he only plays a little less time, so he can be used as a layup version of O'Neal who is 10 centimeters shorter.

On Yi Jianlian's side, seeing Randolph's weight gain... felt like this was an opportunity! Can get a little more playing time early in the regular season.

I just saw that Sun Ce became more lively when he came to the club. Yi Jianlian was really envious that he had such a good relationship with so many teammates. He has been back for more than ten days, and there are many teammates who have not even said a word.

But this has become a characteristic of Yi Jianlian. If he and Sun Ce defeated the US team together in the World Championships, he would be regarded as unsociable and withdrawn by himself in such a silent training, and the statistics of the World Championships would not be so important. .

But now, his World Championship data has been converted into a world champion, and it will be different immediately.

After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, defeating the US team's World Championships has a higher gold content than the US team winning the World Championships!

Being low-key and hard-working has become the new impression of his teammates on him.

Honor can change a lot of things. For example, before Billups won the Finals MVP in 2004, he felt like a homeless man, and it was difficult to integrate with the core of the team wherever he went.

But after winning the Finals MVP, Billups is part of the core of tactics wherever he goes. No, the Rockets are actively pursuing Billups. Although Billups is 34 years old, the Rockets still I want to poach him as a core point guard.

At present, the Nuggets also have a tendency to mainly train Lowry and Lawson. Billups went to play shooting guard as a pitcher in the second half of last season.

Just in terms of the asking price, the Nuggets are not very satisfied with the Rockets giving the Mavericks the pick + Brooks as a bargaining chip.

But in terms of Billups' big contract, the Rockets want to eat it.

There is no doubt that the Rockets are now pursuing Billups and have been ridiculed by the media again.

When Sun Ce saw the news that the Rockets were pursuing Billups, he felt so spiritual!

Wanted to renew Yao Ming at a low price, but Yao Ming left, and was forced to sign a big contract first and then exchange it back for Al Jefferson. He was unwilling to offer a ten-million-dollar contract to the 30-year-old Nash, but now he has to go after the 34-year-old Billups has two years left on his $27.5 million contract.

In 2004, Nash was not regarded as a running and bombing point guard! At that time, Nash was selected as an All-Star substitute in the positional battle and offered tens of millions of contract offers. Nash, who was unwilling to leave Texas at the time, would choose them in all likelihood, and the Big Three of Nash + McGrady + Yao Ming became.

As a result, the Yao-Mac team has been working together for 5 years, and there is not a single starting point guard. The best point guard is actually Brooks, who was played after McGrady was reimbursed for minimally invasive surgery...

Sun Ce expressed his confusion when talking about the matter with former Rockets player Shane Battier.

Mr. President thought for a while and said: "When Yao was here, the Rockets probably didn't care much about the results. It's fine if they can make it to the playoffs. It doesn't matter if they don't make it. With Yao here, they don't worry about not making money. But now that Yao is gone, They built a team around Anthony and needed a good record to keep the commercial market."

Sun Ce agrees with this analysis. He thought that in the original time and space, after the Rockets got Harden, they actively signed Howard and Paul, and maintained high popularity in the Chinese market for a long time, in order to continue the market left by Yao Ming.

Now that I have Anthony, Anthony, who is currently at his peak, should be about the same strength as Harden in the three seasons of 12-15. He can win the second team and the strength of the scoring champion. The Rockets have not experienced two or three years without a core, and directly opened the impression of Sun Ce The team building mode in .

This kind of operation, Sun Ce is really convinced!

If the Rockets traded so many chips last year for Billups, even if they didn't get Anthony, Kevin Martin was used as the team's first scorer, Brooks and JR-Smith supported the bench, and the lineup would be more Reasonable!

But the Rockets only want to sell tickets and increase the ratings. Otherwise, they will dismantle the bargaining chip for Anthony. After the trade for Billups, they may be able to trade for a power forward or a backup center with upper-mid-range strength.

However, no matter how weird the Rockets are, they still attract the attention of the Chinese people. Even if Yao Ming has left, Sun Ce will still pay attention to it from time to time. After all, he is young...

...

As the training camp started, Sun Ce started to get busy again.

Remember some changed tactics every day, and then receive "VIPs" with the team. For the first time in the history of the Grizzlies team, the sales of season tickets exceeded 5,000. Among them are some of the top country singers and rock musicians in the United States. "Hometown" and "Music Capital" have been transformed into commercial value.

Obviously, this has the most direct relationship with Sun Ce.

There are also many officials and business people from Sun Ce's hometown to visit the Grizzlies arena, and Sun Ce also had to take a group photo...

Yi Jianlian is naturally one of the focuses of the Chinese media. Even because of the performance of the World Championships, some fans and media in the United States think that the Bucks and Nets have trained Yi Jianlian unreasonably. A sporty power forward who developed into a space-based inside line, but was trained by these two as the core and placed in the inside line. It is obvious that Sun Ce's use of Yi Jianlian is the correct way to open Yi Jianlian.

Although the World Championships for a while... It is estimated that at the peak period, it will be at Scola's level, and it will be difficult to even reach Scola's level.

But at least it is better than getting 13+8 with the core style of play but it has no effect on winning.

And Scola is not bad, and he is also a middle-class player in the NBA.

Originally, other Grizzlies players only needed to envy and hate Sun Ce on the interview day, but now... there is another Yi Jianlian!

However, seeing that the number of reporters was at least 30% more than last season, and the number of reporters interviewing next to them became more than last season... the teammates were all smiling.

Time passed day by day, and on October 6th, after the Grizzlies had dealt with some things that had to be dealt with, they entered a closed training state, did not accept any interviews, and began real tactical preparations.

This surprised Sun Ce. When he was in the Warriors last year, the Warriors management seemed to wish for a longer period of commercial activities. There were still commercial activities until the day of the first game of the preseason.

The management of the Grizzlies doesn't seem to care so much. After the necessary entertainment is done, they will devote themselves to preparing for the new season.

Not many team owners can have this courage.

But thinking that my boss is a guy in his 30s who buys a football game...

...

From the 6th to the 8th, three days of tactical training were carried out. Since the core lineup did not change much, the outside line was centered on two point guards. Gay was responsible for catching and shooting and necessary singles. No change, basically no change in tactics.

Most of the new players are plug-and-play players who are traded or signed back according to the team's needs.

Tony Allen is used as a perimeter defensive gate when playing defensive counterattacks. He is not needed on the offensive end...and can't be counted on.

Yi Jianlian was used as a poor man's version of Jordan last season.

Jordan has now gained weight successfully, and his weight has increased to 115 kilograms. He is no longer suitable for playing power forward on the defensive end, but his athletic ability is still the top in the league, and he can still run on the offensive end.

Yi Jianlian and Jordan Jr., who are two meters tall but have a B+ speed almost as fast as Morrow, run together...the scene...it's spectacular!

It's just that the defense of these two people is hard to describe. Sun Ce doesn't know how Jordan got the first defense in his peak period. If it's the season when Gasol won the best defensive player, he will only be the second defense.

In Sun Ce's impression, Jordan's defense in the first defense season looks the same as it is now. The blocks and rebounds are very good, but the awareness of single defense is extremely general. More blocks do not mean good defense. Less than first-class or top-level, quasi-first-class defense depends purely on physical fitness. Compared with Howard, who has similar physical fitness, Jordan's defensive use of his body is far worse.

This cannot be taught, and defense does not mean hard work. Otherwise, Nash and Vujacic would have won the best defensive player for their hard work. Defense also requires talent. Physicality is one aspect, but consciousness is more important.

But such a combination of substitute insiders is completely sufficient.

The newly added Morrow is easy to use on any team, similar to Korver and Mike Miller, who were signed by the Bulls and Heat in the middle class. Excellent, a little slow but solid enough, 198 cm and 95 kg in weight, a solid off-ball pick-and-roll, as a tall shooting guard, the possibility of shooting interference is very small, upgrade Anthony Parker to Morrow... It is undoubtedly a huge improvement for the Grizzlies.

With the addition of Battier, the options for outside shooters have become richer.

Paul George is used as a guy who only shoots and defends.

Although Vazquez is good, he can still be a backup point guard, and his talent is there. Once he gets thicker and adapts to the confrontation and rhythm of the NBA, he will also have the potential to start a point guard in the future.

The Grizzlies currently consist of 12 players including Conley, Sun Ce, Vazquez, Morrow, Tony Allen, Paul George, Gay, Battier, Randolph, Yi Jianlian, Gasol Jr., and Jordan Rotation, leaving aside the two rookies at the end of the active list... the déjà vu of the poor man's version of the Mavericks!

The tactical training on the offensive end went well, but the main reason is that the defensive end needs to rebuild tacit understanding.

The addition of a defensive player of Tony Allen's level will definitely cause tearing damage to the Grizzlies' previous defensive system, because the outside line must build a defense around him, and the previous three of Conley, Battier, and Gay Defensive level is definitely a huge difference compared to the balance.

Sun Ce is not worried about this. He knows that Tony Allen will run in very well, fully integrate into the team, and become a rare super perimeter defensive gate who can be selected for first defense and second defense after only playing 20 minutes per game!

When a team is growing and starting to realize its potential, everything will be smooth, until it reaches the bottleneck, it will be very smooth.

For now, everything is going well for the Grizzlies!

On the afternoon of October 8th, after tactical training, a team meeting was held. Tomorrow, we had to leave Memphis for Miami, and then transfer to Real Madrid.

"Our basic goal this season is to reach the second round! We need to conduct more investigation and research on the Lakers and Mavericks in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs. The goal of the regular season is to get the top four and avoid Meeting these two teams in the first round..."

The Grizzlies coaching staff, as well as most of the players, regard the Lakers and the Mavericks as their biggest opponents.

The same is true for Sun Ce, but Sun Ce has a different point of view. Everyone believes that the Lakers and Mavericks will compete for the first place in the Western Conference this season, but Sun Ce knows that a black and white army is about to attack.

If it is possible, Sun Ce feels that the Lakers and Mavericks may meet early in the second round as in the original time and space.

But the old man in San Antonio... crossed over to become the real favorite to win the championship with the Mavericks, and the Lakers are sideways there, and he may also be regarded as an opponent by the Spurs...

With so many changes, God knows what this wise and demonic guy will do!

The current Popovich, the future logo man, why does Sun Ce feel that his road to the championship is full of stumbling blocks?

It's better not to know how crazy these two will be in the next few years!

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