Eight Hundred and Fifty-Six. The Game Is Finally Going to Resume!

Time flies to September 20. James left Los Angeles the day before and went to New York to meet with key members of the players union to prepare for the last negotiations before training camp with representatives of the league owners today.

Players such as James, Fisher, Paul, Wade, Kidd, Nick Collison, and Kobe Bryant will participate in this negotiation, and we attach great importance to this negotiation.

If this negotiation is still unsuccessful, training camp and preseason games will be cancelled.

However, all those participating in this negotiation are American players. Overseas players such as Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Nash, and Sun Ce were not called to participate. All those who serve in the NBA Players Association are American players, and those who are usually responsible for operations are also It's American.

In the morning, Sun Ce and Wang Keying said goodbye at the airport and returned to Memphis with Zugoose.

Stockton also has to go back to Spokane first, take a week off, stay home for a few days, and then go to Memphis. He also has to go through the transfer procedures for his youngest daughter and son. He can't trust these two bastards to let them go to school. Boarding school, and his wife is an important official in Washington State. She is usually very busy and has no time to take care of the children.

As for the third son David, who is the most talented in basketball, he continues to play at the University of Spokane, and the eldest daughter has already reported to the University of Phoenix.

After returning to Memphis, Sun Ce immediately took Zugoose to register at school. It had already been half a month since school started. After getting settled, Sun Ce received a text message from Battier when he returned home.

Battier has already summoned his teammates. We will all gather together tomorrow to talk about what to do in the event of a shutdown, as well as renting a local arena to train together. There are also several players with senior team experience or high status in the team. Take charge of expenses together.

Battier, Nash, Randolph, and Tony Allen are doing this, and Sun Ce only needs to pay.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Sun Ce received an email from Fisher to all players in the league.

Because the NBA had to reduce the player share to 47%, although it was an increase from the beginning, it was still far below the players' expectations, so the negotiations broke down.

NBA officials also announced the cancellation of training camp and preseason games after the conclusion of this labor negotiation. The next negotiation time is to be determined, but the official will continue to communicate with representatives of the players union and team owners.

“Sure enough, we have come this far.”

Sun Ce watched the news that the players union and the bosses had different opinions. The boss insisted that he had suffered a big loss, but Sun Ce felt that these bosses expected that the TV broadcast agreement would expire in 2016 and the broadcast fees for early renewal in 2013 would be It will reach a sky-high price level. After all, the ratings in the past 10 years have been too good, so the players will be divided to death.

The players' side is much simpler, they just don't want to take less money.

Especially players with high salaries want to veto the clause that the bosses want to include in the labor negotiations that "the salary of the old contract will be reduced in proportion to the new version of the sharing agreement."

All players are reluctant to accept this clause, and the highest-paid players are the least likely to accept it.

Sun Ce saw the follow-up emails sent by James, Paul, Kobe and others, and would help free agents who have not yet signed a contract with interest-free loans or help find jobs overseas.

Survive the downtime.

Sun Ce feels that this is also a means for the players union to put pressure on the league.

Just for Kobe's large email, Sun Ce was sure that it must have been written by Kobe's team. It would be impossible for this guy to type hundreds of words in an hour. It would take at least three days and nights to write until midnight. .

The NBA continues to be suspended, and Sun Ce can only continue to wait.

Now it depends on the players' own control ability. Self-control ability is very important. During the last lockout, many people gained dozens of pounds in a few months and became fat, or became addicted to alcohol and ruined their bodies. No, the future is ruined.

Sun Ce didn't particularly understand what the shutdown meant to other people. He couldn't empathize with this kind of thing, but for him, it had two sides.

The lockout gave him no chance to immediately enter training and preseason games to display his skills. He couldn't start to understand his current strength in the game through actual combat early, and he couldn't start thinking and adjusting early.

But it also gives him more time to think and plan before the start of the season, which may allow him to adjust faster at the beginning of the new season. If it's just a shutdown, it's a shutdown.

Comparatively speaking, no shutdown is definitely better than a shutdown, and he currently needs to test his abilities through cooperation with teammates and games. Although he cannot be said to have transformed this summer, due to changes in teammates and adjustments in technical focus, There may be some changes in the physical aspect, and the changes in playing style may be quite large.

But Sun Ce can't control this kind of thing. He can only try his best to reduce the impact of the shutdown on himself and start from the good side.

Sun Ce looked at his latest ability evaluation.

"Ability evaluation a,

Physical fitness a: speed s, strength b, endurance a, jumping c, leg explosive power a, static confrontation b, explosive confrontation a

Shooting evaluation b: three-pointer c, mid-range shot a, mid-range on the right side of the baseline a, mid-range on the front of the basket a, mid-range on the right side of the three-second zone a, mid-range on the left side of the three-second zone b, bottom line on the left side of the three-second zone c , layup a

Technical evaluation a: ball control a, passing a, jump shot after pick and roll b, shooting after dribbling a, emergency stop jump shot c, low post skills a, high post skills a, three-threat stance f"

If you have to count, Sun Ce can regard his rookie season as playing for a year in college. It was not until the second year that he officially had the experience and mental preparation to play professional basketball.

Especially mental preparation. Compared with the rookie season when he had no idea what to do at the beginning, he was already fully prepared at the beginning of the second year.

Compared with those players who started playing basketball at a young age, became star players in junior high school and high school, reached their peak in college, and then entered the NBA with a high draft pick, Sun Ce only started to really get in touch with the American basketball system at the age of 19, and then directly entered the NBA. It is incredible to improve to this point in two years, even with the help of a learning machine.

This is mostly due to Sun Ce's extraordinary perseverance.

Perseverance is a good thing. Sun Ce gritted his teeth and completed all the training goals every day. In 6 days, there was no day when all 6 sets of training were completed at one time. However, he resisted the idea of ​​giving up that set after failure and persisted.

This is the most unique thing about Sun Ce.

It is precisely with this perseverance that Sun Ce did not miss the opportunity to improve his physical fitness brought by two phased burst cards and a random attribute training card, and from extremely poor basic skills to now having a good shooting and technique, especially the mid-range shot on the right side of the three-second zone, which has reached the quasi-top level, which is the shooting area where he is most likely to break through to the top.

The random attribute training card used a while ago, Sun Ce not only improved his burst confrontation to the quasi-top level of level A, but also improved his static confrontation from level B to the quasi-first-class level of level B. Although his endurance evaluation is still level A, Sun Ce is estimated to be very good in level A, which is a significant improvement compared to when he just upgraded to level A.

If he could only have a stable performance time of about 28 minutes in a game last season, he probably wouldn't have a problem playing a stable performance of 35 minutes per game this season.

Because unlike other players who may have physical effects on back-to-back games the day before, he has the Nash training method. As long as he sticks to it and eats well, there will be no physical effects. Except for the effects of touch, emotions, etc., his performance will be very stable.

Emotions are important and uncontrollable. For example, whether or not there is coriander in the food you eat at noon will affect your mood when you work in the afternoon.

However, Sun Ce feels that he is still a system player. If he leaves the system, he will only be at the edge of the first-class level, so whether his teammates play well is also very important to him.

Therefore, Sun Ce has made preparations. In the next training camp held by his teammates, he needs to understand the current status of his teammates. The strength of his teammates may improve or decline. He needs to judge the strength of his teammates without formal games and make adjustments to his playing style based on his current abilities.

It will be hard, but Sun Ce feels very happy.

It is a happy thing to develop a hobby into a career.

It is the same as game masters who can make money from games and become more and more powerful and love games more and more, but the efforts and hard work are different.

After confirming the continuation of the suspension, the Grizzlies players gathered on the 21st.

Except for Yi Jianlian, who will play in the Wuhan Asian Championships on September 25, all the players with contracts have returned to Memphis to gather.

Haddadi also has to play in the Asian Championships, but his contract has expired, and there are CBA teams that offer higher salaries than NBA teams, so it is uncertain whether he can come back.

The European Championships have ended, and Gasol has returned to Memphis after helping Spain win the championship.

So, including Sun Ce, there are a total of 12 players gathered.

Sun Ce met Klay Thompson for the first time. His big square face was amazing, and his head was bigger than what he saw on TV and in his impression.

I got to know the two new pitchers Thompson and Neil. Jimmy Butler has been familiar with him in the past period of time. Nash is a teacher who has a good relationship with him for a long time. The remaining 7 teammates are all old teammates.

After having lunch together at noon, Sun Ce discussed the next things with Battier, Nash, Randolph, and Tony Allen in the afternoon.

The four veterans had almost discussed it before Sun Ce came back. Now they mainly exchanged views on the cancellation of the training camp and preseason games yesterday. God knows how long the shutdown will last.

There is one more thing. Randolph's body shape needs to be taken advantage of the lockout to let Randolph lose the weight he gained in the summer.

"I am plump, not fat, okay, brother Sean, I will lose weight, okay?"

Randolph was stared at by Battier and decisively admitted his defeat

If he focuses on weight loss and personal recovery training, Randolph will get back to his personal form before the end of the lockout and the start of the new season. The other four feel that this is not a big problem.

But for team training, they don't know what kind of adjustments the coaching staff will make based on the current team lineup. There will definitely be adjustments. Some of the rotation players last season have left the team, and the new Nash will definitely be an important player in the back line. With Gay gone, Paul George's role will definitely become more important. Morrow left and became two new shooters whose current shooting ability is definitely weaker.

What can be determined is that the running and gunning style of play in the rotation stage will not change, and team training in this regard can be started, but Yi Jianlian is not here again.

There are many problems. After some discussion, the five decided that in the next period of time, they would focus on individual training, plus small-scale cooperation training between teammates, and running and gunning could also be practiced. Nash would be the main point guard, and Sun Ce would temporarily replace Yi Jianlian's position, and try to practice with Paul George, Jordan, Thompson or Neil.

The next period of time is to calm down and not be affected by the real lockout.

For these players with contracts, the offseason lockout is actually nothing. The cancellation of training camps and preseason games is the beginning of the real lockout for them.

Being in a team with a good atmosphere and in a rising period is the best thing that Sun Ce feels after entering the NBA. In such a team, he has reduced many troubles that other rookies will encounter in the early stage of his career.

For example, when the season was suspended, the second- and third-year players on bad teams didn't know what to do. Those bad teams didn't even have a clear leader. Sun Ce saw that Lawson, his classmate on the Nuggets, had been arrested twice in Colorado for drunk driving and was prosecuted by the prosecutor. He paid a $500,000 bail to escape the crime, but still had to do 40 hours of community service.

Under the leadership of four veterans, Nash, Battier, Tony Allen, and Randolph, Sun Ce and other young players started the player training camp in an orderly and organized manner.

Time passed day by day. The negotiations initiated by the players' union on September 30th broke down, and the negotiations initiated by the NBA boss on October 7th also broke down. The negotiations on the 17th, 24th, and 30th all broke down. After the negotiations on October 30th broke down, the NBA announced that the regular season would be suspended indefinitely.

The following series of negotiations broke down, and the Grizzlies may be one of the least affected teams in the league.

After the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Jordan and won the Asian Championship, Yi Jianlian returned to the team for training; Haddadi also returned. Regardless of whether he can get a new contract or not, he will return to train first. Even if he ends up playing in the CBA, it is a good thing to train with NBA players.

Over time, the anxiety caused by the lockout has less and less impact on the Grizzlies players, and they focus on preparing for the new season.

On November 13, Haddadi left Memphis and joined the CBA Qingdao Double Star Men's Basketball Team.

On November 15, Lakers player Ron Artest changed his name to Metaward Peace.

During the lockout, the major media, except for following up on the NBA labor-management negotiations, had little impact on other things, such as the player strength rankings.

On October 31, the three authoritative media announced the top ten player strength rankings, which caused another bloody storm among the fans.

This time, the three authoritative media ranked James first.

ESPN is making trouble again this time.

Sports Illustrated still ranked Kobe second, Howard third, Nowitzki, Sun Ce, Rose, and Evans seventh to tenth.

TNT ranked Durant second, Kobe third, Howard fourth, Nowitzki, Sun Ce, Rose, and Evans also ranked seventh to tenth.

ESPN's ranking of Nowitzki, Sun Ce, Rose, and Evans is no different from the other two media.

However, ESPN ranked Wade outside the top ten, and Anthony, who ranked 1115th in the other two media, was ranked fifth. Kobe was also ranked outside the top five.

ESPN's ranking is James first, Howard second, Durant third, Paul fourth, Anthony fifth, Kobe sixth, Nowitzki seventh, Sun Ce eighth, Rose ninth, and Evans tenth.

This ranking is simply amazing. Finals VP and regular season VP are ranked seventh and eighth respectively. Not many people question it. Although Nowitzki performed well in the playoffs last season, he seemed to return to normal in the European Championships. He was not as good as he was in the playoffs last season and was ranked seventh.

No one doubted that Sun Ce was in the top ten this time, and Rose and Evans should have been on the edge of the top ten. Rose defeated Evans in the playoffs, so he ranked first.

But Kobe was sixth

In fact, when Wade No. 30 appeared in the 11th place given by ESPN, there was already a big argument.

However, at this point in time, the stars didn't have the heart to care about the rankings, and the fans' arguments were not in the minds of the stars.

Maintain training concentration, avoid affecting the competitive state, wait for the suspension that may end at any time, and survive the next possible long suspension

Time passed day by day, and Sun Ce has been back to Memphis for almost three months.

During this period, Sun Ce went through a lot of psychological tests. Although he knew that the lockout would eventually end, as a player, he felt much more uncomfortable than the mentality of a fan in his memories.

But he still held his temper and trained day by day. During this time, he tried to integrate what he learned from Kobe and Stockton in the summer into his own playing style.

Stockton also brought his youngest daughter and son to Memphis at the end of September and lived in Sun Ce's house to guide Sun Ce's training, mainly to help Sun Ce integrate the skills he learned this summer into his playing style, and to guide Sun Ce and Nash's cooperation.

His youngest daughter became a classmate of Zu Ge, a year older; his youngest son went to the private St. Mary's Guild School, where baseball is good.

In this way, one day passed and another, and finally, on December 6, Sun Ce received an email from Fisher, the chairman of the Players' Union, and the NBA lockout ended

NBA officials held a press conference immediately, announcing that the NBA will fully resume operations at 6 pm today and open the free market. On December 10, the training camps of each team will be opened, and two preseason games will be announced for each team. On December 17, the regular season will resume, and the specific schedule will be announced together with the preseason schedule.

Looking at the apology email sent by Fisher and the screen of David Stern announcing the resumption of NBA operations on TV, Sun Ce finally got excited, and the game finally came back

Even though he had been mentally prepared, as a basketball player, it was too hard to play without games

Now, he can finally play again