Eighty-Nine. The New Season Begins!

On October 1st, along with the motherland's birthday, Sun Ce officially started his career in a foreign country.

The first season has begun!

As a newly promoted member of the national team...a member of the national training team, Sun Ce once again became the target of domestic sports media.

Of course, the amount of media that Sun Ce has attracted cannot be compared with that of Houston, or even that of New Jersey.

But compared to the rest of the Warriors... Sun Ce has the most reporters around him.

Originally, the Warriors hadn’t paid much attention to the Warriors in recent years, except for the black eight, and not many people even remembered the tragedy of their 48 wins in the 07-08 season and their failure to enter the playoffs...

The Warriors training camp has begun. On media day, the major TV stations just sent interns to take pictures. As a team that won the No. 7 pick and selected a thin pitcher, the Warriors in the eyes of the American media Nothing to reveal.

There is a Chinese player...Chinese players are nothing new in recent years. There were three Chinese players playing in the NBA last season, and the only one worthy of attention is Yao Ming.

On media day, envy, jealousy and hatred are not only revealed from Curry's eyes, but also envy and hatred from other people!

Hearing that Sun Ce was besieged by domestic reporters, Bill Duffy hurried to Oakland to help Sun Ce, not to drive people away, but to teach him how to deal with the media.

In this regard, Curry actually knows. As a member of the small green room during the draft, the league specially hired people to train them how to accept interviews before the draft.

But now Curry... Kong has a skill that can't be used... no one interviews!

On the media day, Sun Ce's performance was much better than the previous two days. At least he didn't hold back for a long time when he heard difficult questions to answer, and his skills in changing topics were much better.

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"What kind of training camp is this? Let's just change the name to pre-season chores handling week." Sun Ce complained.

"..." Curry didn't want to talk to Sun Ce.

But Curry also felt that the training camp was very painful and delayed his training!

There are all kinds of chores every day during the day, real tactical training... two to three hours a day at most, including the explanation part.

There are various "chores" most of the time.

In fact, for old players, those who help to place "opening advertisements" for various stores in the arena, and help the team chat with visiting local dignitaries and sponsors are things to do in training camps every season, and they have long been used to it. up.

It's just that the two experienced this for the first time, and it felt awkward.

And to be honest, the time for these activities is not long. Those famous people in Oakland and San Francisco only come for a while, but they need time to adapt to these people. It is just because of these things that they cannot devote themselves to training. It's only a few days, and it doesn't affect Sun Ce. Every afternoon after the team's activities, he will stay for extra practice. Curry can't stand it anymore. He occasionally stays and occasionally goes back early by himself.

There is no way to compare with this madman!

The real "training camp" can't be completed in a week, and the 20-plus days of preseason is the real time to prepare for the regular season.

Compared with last season, the Warriors lineup has changed a lot this season, mainly because the second lineup has changed a lot. After completing the pre-season training in a week, the biggest gain is probably a tactical manual. Just explain the tactics.

Some players simply don’t remember, like Monta Ellis, Sun Ce has been looking for an opportunity to strike up a conversation with the new boss. After seeing him get the playbook, he threw it into the shoe cabinet under the closet.

The core players have privileges, and they have the final say on how they play on the court.

And Sun Ce must remember that when the boss wants some tactics,

He has to cooperate.

As for the tactics of the Warriors...it's a mess, with all kinds of things, Sun Ce can only feel that he is worthy of being a "mad scientist".

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The messy first training camp trip ended on October 7th.

It was less than eight o'clock in the morning on the 8th, and Sun Ce and Curry still came to the arena early, but this time the others came quite early, and they all arrived before nine o'clock.

They are all energetic and motivated, and at 5 pm, it is the first preseason game!

The eight players who did not get the contract all wanted to perform better in the preseason and strive to get a contract.

Role players want to strive for good performance to gain playing time in the regular season.

Neither Sun Ce nor Curry did much training.

Curry is okay, mainly Sun Ce. His 19-year-old age has limited his endurance to a certain extent.

He didn't want to admit it, but he could only accept the fact that he was still in the developmental stage.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the old Nelson came to the training ground. The assistant coach had already arranged the tactical training. As soon as the old Nelson came, he divided into two teams and started the offensive and defensive movement training.

It is mainly offensive tactics training, and defensive training is very basic man-to-man, high-post flanking, low-post flanking, and it is gone. It is not as much defensive training as Sun Ce watched in the Suns before.

There are two 80-minute training sessions in the morning and a 40-minute training session in the afternoon. Old Nelson and Smart are directing the training very seriously, correcting any mistakes, and recording each player's tactical memory and skills. The ability to run...

Starting today, the "selection" of the regular season lineup has officially begun.

In the past few days, whether the new players memorized the tactics well or not, can be seen at once in today's three training sessions.

Of course, it's also related to strength. Ellis, who still remembers tactics well in his rookie season, basically can't remember tactics now-in his heart, I am tactics!

But even if he makes the most mistakes in training, it will not affect his status of unlimited firepower.

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"Well……"

Sun Ce sat on the bench in a daze.

The first preseason game of the new season started as scheduled at 5 pm.

But in the first game, he reached the fourth quarter and didn't get a minute of playing time.

Curry, the player with the longest minutes on the court today, played poorly and was ravaged by the opponent's Baron Davis in all directions.

The best performers were not Ellis, Maggette, Stephen Jackson and others, who went down after a few minutes of starting.

The Warriors' best performers were CJ Watson and Reggie Williams, both of whom scored more than 20 points.

The 23-year-old Reggie Williams is really strong. He beat the opponent's second-year genius Eric Gordon. Sun Ce feels very strange why he lost the selection.

But what is even more strange about Sun Ce is that even Coby Carr and Antoine Walker, two players who have no or no NBA strength, have gone up and played for more than ten minutes...

102 to 106, the Warriors lost their first preseason game.

In general, in the first preseason game, there was a proper pecking between rookies, one was sixth from the bottom in the power rankings, and the other was seventh from the bottom in the strength rankings... a well-deserved pecking match between rookies.

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Sun Ce was very depressed when he didn't get a minute of playing time. When he was interviewed after the game, a reporter from China asked why he didn't get playing time. Sun Ce could only say that it was the arrangement of the coaching staff and he could accept it.

But is it really acceptable?

The heart is unacceptable.

There is no big list limit in the preseason, 20 players can be replaced, and Sun Ce is one of the three players who have not played for a second.

The game was over. Curry played 35 minutes and scored 4 of 17. He was exhausted and went back to rest. Sun Ce stayed and continued to practice.

I can't do anything, I can only practice more.

However, just as Sun Ce finished warming up and began to practice free throws and close-range shots, someone came again.

Ellis!

"Monta, are you coming to train too?" Sun Ce greeted as usual.

"Yeah." Ellis replied as usual.

Sun Ce touched his nose and continued to practice shooting to lay the foundation.

After his arms became sore from training, Sun Ce came to the gym to continue to train his waist, abdomen, thighs and other strengths. These trainings were arranged by the Nash training method section in the systematic learning section.

The kind that is trained to the limit of physical fitness.

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The game was over at 7:20 p.m., and by 9:20 p.m., after two hours of shooting drills, Ellis came to the gymnasium in the arena according to the habit of the past few days.

"Sure enough, this kid is here again! Today he left even later than a few days ago."

Ellis looked at the rookie who was obviously exhausted but still holding on to training, and it felt incredible.

"How can I leave the arena earlier than a rookie?" Ellis also sat down to practice back strength.

In the past seven days, Sun Ce has come here to train every night after the team's chores are over, and he will continue to practice even after Curry is gone.

Ellis practiced until Sun Ce reached his limit every time, and left after reaching the training goal of the Nash training method.

For Sun Ce, there was no other way, he had to train like this.

But Ellis had observed Sun Ce for a long time.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Sun Ce had finally trained himself to the limit, and when he was about to drag his tired body to take a shower and take a taxi home to sleep, someone spoke to him.

"Don't be too depressed, you will definitely have playing time in the next game, and there will be a lot."

"ah?"

Ellis suddenly said something, which surprised Sun Ce.

Elliston stayed for a few seconds, and felt that since he had spoken, he should say a few more words: "You and CJ are in a competitive relationship. The coaching staff wants you to observe your performance as the main point guard in different games."

Hearing this, Sun Ce thought for a while...it should be like this!

Curry played 35 minutes today, and Watson played 31 minutes. Curry was there when Watson was on the court. Sun Ce thought it was probably the coaching staff to see who could cooperate better with Curry. They are all on the field, and no one will pass the ball to anyone. It is impossible to verify this.

"Then is it possible that the first four or five or five or six games are all about selecting the regular rotation lineup of the regular season, and the last two or three games are for real running-in?"

Thinking of this, Sun Ce thought it was very possible!

Ellis was also a second-round pick before, so he must have experienced this.

"Okay, boss, I understand!" Sun Ce became much more energetic.

Ellis nodded and walked to the locker room.

When passing by Sun Ce, Ellis glanced at Sun Ce, feeling puzzled in his heart: "This rookie's physical strength is not good! I am half exhausted from such middleweight training every day, but I am full of energy the next day... Physical recovery is fast, which is considered a talent, you can't lose to him in training!"

Ellis would like to remind Sun Ce that the key is that Sun Ce has certain talents.

Sun Ce found a glimmer of hope and felt much more comfortable. He was about to go back to the locker room to take a shower and take a taxi home when the system panel popped up.

"Humility: Challenge the arena rat to the trigger."