859. Angry Vajra, Buddha Lowers His Eyebrows

"Remember, Klay, as long as you make a three-pointer, you put your hands together... That's it, right, right, if one day you make a buzzer beater... How is it impossible? How can a person not have some dreams? Your three-pointer in training is the best in our team. Anthony's three-pointer when he just entered the NBA is not as good as yours... Right! That's it, you must have confidence! Otherwise, what's the difference between you and salted fish... You don't even know salted fish? You are really ignorant..."

"What was I talking about? Right, right, if you are lucky to make a buzzer beater... Ah, what is luck, you must have confidence! Although I am a substitute, didn't I also come from the bench?"

"What do you mean I am different from you? I said confidence! Confidence! If you say that again, I will beat you to death... Right! Confidence! That's it! That's right!"

Looking at Klay Thompson's face full of "I want to be confident", although Sun Ce felt that he was a little forced to be confident, he felt that it would be good to develop like this.

It's just a feeling that no matter whether Klay Thompson believes it or not, if others believe it, Sun Ce estimates that Klay Thompson will slowly believe it himself.

Entering the NBA and playing in a strong team has both advantages and disadvantages. There is no need to say much about the advantages. As for the disadvantages, in addition to the less playing time, the teammates are too good. Among the substitutes, you may not be the best. It is difficult to have the casualness of "no one else, I will let go of shooting" in a weak team. This casualness can also be called confidence.

"Remember, in the future, once you make a buzzer beater or a key shot and the opponent calls a timeout, you put your hands together and bow to the opponent gently... Yes, just like that, bow gently, not too much, just polite, after attracting the other party's attention, you say..."

"Amitabha, save all living beings!"

"Amitabha..."

"It's not five blessings... It's For! Come, I'll use phonetic symbols to annotate you... You don't understand phonetic symbols? How did you learn English... Uh, I forgot, you Americans have been using English since childhood and don't know what phonetic symbols are... It's okay, you will understand after learning..."

...

After half an hour of tossing, Klay Thompson was finally settled.

Klay Thompson faced the mirror, clasped his hands together, bowed gently, and said kindly: "Amitabha, save all living beings!"

The square head, which is much larger than that of ordinary people, is matched with the Tathagata hairstyle and a large beauty mole on the forehead. This picture looks very harmonious to Sun Ce!

This is the gold medal right protector he wants!

Klay Thompson's big hair was not good for Sun Ce. It is said that this guy went to find a hairstylist with Jimmy Butler to design it in order to cater to the team. Sun Ce felt that these two rookies really had no taste.

Seeing Klay Thompson practicing well, Sun Ce went up and put his arm around the future Buddha's shoulder and said, "That's right, that's it. In the future, you should do this to your opponents in addition to scoring key shots and buzzer beaters. If you play well and the team wins again, you should also say this as the first sentence when a reporter interviews you, especially when our Chinese reporters interview you. You must do this."

"Okay, I understand, but what does this sentence mean? And why do you do this?" Klay Thompson was confused. If he was not afraid of being beaten by Sun Ce, he would have asked long ago.

"This is the celebration action I carefully designed for you. The meaning of this sentence... You can understand it as 'I don't want to kill you, but I'm too strong and I can't'... What's too arrogant? Others don't understand, right?"

"Yes... Others don't understand..." Thinking about it this way, Klay Thompson felt that it made sense, but he just felt like he was fooled?

But looking at and listening to Sun Ce's expression and tone of "You have to believe me", Klay Thompson felt that this should be right.

It was his own look… his beard was shaved clean, and there was a hairstyle that Sun Ce called “Rulai head”, and that beauty mole… Klay Thompson felt weird, but it seemed to suit him.

So be it, Klay Thompson accepted his fate, as a rookie, he had no room to struggle.

On the other side, Tony Allen was confused while shaving Jimmy Butler’s head. Yi Jianlian watched Sun Ce tricking Klay Thompson into changing his look, and recalled the scene when he was fooled by Sun Ce. He didn’t want to remind Klay Thompson at all, and everyone was happiest drinking beer together.

Jimmy Butler didn’t care about the hairstyle. Many black players were bald. He kept his hair for a summer and permed it into an afro, which was originally to cater to the team’s hairstyle trend. Recently, Yi Jianlian’s cherry wood has evolved again. While maintaining the original look, he also added corn silk effect. It’s just that because he has to play in the national team game, the hair is dyed black with hair oil.

After shaving his hair, Jimmy Butler came to Sun Ce with expectation and asked, "What about me? What should I say?"

"You..." Sun Ce didn't expect Jimmy Butler to be so proactive, but he said badly: "If the other party wants to hit me or Klay, you stand in front of us and yell at them: What are you looking at?"

"What are you looking at?"

"Gude! The pronunciation is very standard!"

"Just one sentence?"

"Of course, you and Klay have different routes. He is kind and is my right protector... that is, the right hand. You are cold and cruel, and you are my left protector. One sentence is enough."

"Cool! I am cold and cruel... But what does this sentence mean?"

"Let me think, translated into English... It probably means to say 'what are you going to do' very coldly. Remember, the tone must be cold!"

"I know, but I have a question, why does the other party want to hit you?"

"How do I know why the other party wants to hit me? Maybe I'm too good and others can't stand it."

"..."

No matter what others think, no matter how angry Tony Allen feels and keeps saying that he is not a barber, no matter how big Yi Jianlian's eyes are, no matter what the left back protector feels, anyway, Sun Ce is in a good mood now.

Taking these two rookies out, Sun Ce feels very proud!

……

Tactical training is always smooth. After all, it is just running training, and the training state is usually ideal. In addition, most of the core members of the team have not changed, and the new outside core Nash is such an experienced veteran. The Grizzlies' tactical training went smoothly at the beginning.

On December 10, the NBA officially announced the schedule for the new season.

The training camp is from December 10th to 15th. The Grizzlies' preseason starts on the 17th. They will play the Hornets away and at home on the 17th and 20th. In the preseason, most teams play against teams in the same division. The remaining team will play against the team closest to the adjacent division.

The preseason of each team ends between the 20th and 22nd, and then the final preparations before the season begin. The regular season starts on December 25th.

The regular season starts directly from the Christmas game. The Grizzlies are fortunate to play the Christmas game for two consecutive years. The Christmas game with the Spurs will start the Grizzlies' regular season this season.

When Sun Ce saw the schedule, he could feel that the league had tried its best to give all players more time to prepare before the start of the regular season to reduce the risk of injuries.

There are 66 games in the new season. The regular season starts on December 25 and ends on April 27. The league has tried its best to negotiate with the operators of the stadiums used by each team, mainly with the operators of those teams that do not have their own stadiums, such as the Lakers, Clippers, Hornets, Raptors, etc., which has delayed the regular season by at least 10 days compared with previous years.

In terms of the schedule, it is very tight. Sun Ce saw that his team had a total of 18 back-to-back games, including a back-to-back game in early April, and a series of games against Thunder, Warriors, Mavericks from April 3 to 5...

However, they are still good. Teams with less than 20 back-to-back games are considered preferential treatment. Most teams have at least 20 back-to-back games. The worst Cavaliers, Warriors, and Timberwolves have a total of 24 back-to-back games. In other words, the league did not consider how these three teams felt at all, and used them to make up the numbers. The same is true for the Nets, Kings, Clippers, and other teams.

…

The training camp time passed day by day, and the final recruitment of each team was in full swing. The Grizzlies did not move and did not use the last mini-middle class so easily. Anyway, the team currently has 14 players available, so there is no need to rush for the time being.

There are offers for both Vazquez and Jordan, but the Grizzlies rejected all trade requests for Jordan. Although they will definitely not be able to keep Jordan in the future because Gasol has already renewed his contract with a high salary, even if they let Jordan go in vain in the future, they cannot trade Jordan now - the championship is more important than any return. Jordan and Yi Jianlian are irreplaceable to the Grizzlies' second lineup.

When Jordan was interviewed on the media day after the start of training camp, he was asked why he refused the 4-year, 40 million contract offered by the Clippers. He replied: "It is a very happy thing to play with the Lord. He is not like some stars who curse at people. If I perform well, he may not pay attention to me, but when I perform poorly, he will come to pat my back and comfort me. This is much better than those who call you brother when you play well and give you a bad face when you play poorly."

This is referring to Baron Davis, the boss of the Clippers at that time. Baron Davis led the team with such characteristics. It is a good thing for some people, such as Stephen Jackson, Brand and other rebellious people, but it is very unhappy for Jordan.

Vazquez has a trade plan, but the offers given by those teams are too low now. This is a first-round pick in his second year. Many teams have tasted the sweetness of the rookie bonus, such as the 76ers and the Bulls. The rookie contracts of Rose, Evans and Holiday are of great help to their recruitment.

Vazquez is really talented, but the Grizzlies really don't have a place for him. Originally, Conley was traded away to slowly train Vazquez, but with Nash, Nash's state is estimated to continue for two years. Wasting Nash's last years to train Vazquez? This is obviously impossible. Even if Vazquez is trained to his peak, he can't have the strength of Nash, who is about to turn 38.

It would be better to directly take advantage of Randolph's peak period to win the championship, why bother to train slowly.

Even if the trade is not completed this season, there are so many back-to-back games this year, especially 4 games in 5 days, which is so frustrating. It's not bad for Vazquez to start when Nash is resting.

So the Grizzlies are not in a hurry.

But the Grizzlies are not in a hurry, but there are teams that are in a hurry...

...

On the morning of December 14, Sun Ce sent Zu Ge to school as usual and came to the gym early for training.

Sun Ce didn't know what the final result of the team's tactical training would be, but he was working hard to learn to cooperate with his teammates, especially the new teammates.

Neal and Klay Thompson are both relatively mature among the new teammates. Neal doesn't need to worry too much. He is a team player trained by the Spurs and is very easy to cooperate with. At the age of 27, he is in his prime years and is a very useful role player.

Klay Thompson's shooting is better than Neal, and he has played in the NCAA for three years. He has a good tactical awareness, but he lacks experience and overall strength, and there is still room for improvement.

From the current point of view, neither of them can compare with Morrow last season, but Neal has the ability to hold the ball and can play point guard. Klay Thompson has a quasi-first-class defense of B+ level. On the offensive end, neither of them can compare with the role played by Morrow last season, especially Neal. He may never get the 3-year, 27 million US dollar contract that Morrow got from the Celtics, but compared with Morrow, they also have their own advantages. It depends on whether they can cooperate well in the official game.

And Klay Thompson's talent as a 3D player is really amazing. In addition to not having Paul George's offensive talent with the ball, his defensive ceiling is also limited by his physical fitness not as good as Paul George, but as a 3D player, Klay Thompson's talent is not inferior to Paul George.

The future is promising.

As for Nash, Sun Ce was a little worried that he would not adapt to positional warfare. For example, when he went to the Lakers in the original time and space, he played very uncomfortably.

But Sun Ce ignored the fact that his team and the Lakers had very different tactics. Nash needed a pick-and-roll player when he had the ball. The Lakers had pick-and-roll players except for Gasol and Odom, who had been traded in the original time and space, but no other inside players had pick-and-roll, including the new Howard, but the Grizzlies did not lack pick-and-roll players.

Moreover, Nash only needed to be a corner shooter in positional warfare. Randolph's low-post offensive ability was not comparable to Howard or Gasol, and the starting lineup did not require Nash to do so much.

Moreover, the Grizzlies had a run-and-gun lineup that the Lakers did not have!

There are some problems, that is, the defense of the double emperor combination has a ceiling. In the original time and space, Jordan could get the first defense. Sun Ce really doesn't know how the media voted at that time. When Jordan got the first defense in the original time and space, the best defensive team voting had been changed from the coach to the media...

From the defensive effect alone, Jordan's defense is very average, with only two tricks, blocking and pushing, and his defensive skills are a mess. Yi Jianlian is even more representative of strong offense and weak defense.

Fortunately, there is Sun. If he partners with these two teammates, the two of them will be responsible for blocking. Even if Sun Ce does not assist in defense, the team will not force them to do too much. It is better to be simple and direct.

Anyway, the two mainly rely on catching the ball and shooting to score.

As for Yi Jianlian, after a season and an Asian competition, the role of Sakura Mu's ability to improve the learning ability of cutting into the awareness has been developed to the limit, and there is no way to limit it.

But Jordan's progress is definitely fast. In the case of no shooting ability except free throws, the overall ability evaluation ability is slightly higher than Yi Jianlian.

In the summer, I learned to grab offensive rebounds from Randolph, free throws from the trainer Battier found, and I also learned pick-and-roll from Garnett. Although I was criticized and doubted my life...but I made rapid progress!

Talent is something that cannot be offset by hard work. Hard work can make up for many things, but when talented people work hard, talent is still more important.

At present, the team is in a very good situation. We have seen the performance in the preseason. How to adjust at that time is a matter of time.

…

After arriving at the gym, Sun Ce and Tim Hardaway started single three-point training.

"Humility:

Learning object: Tim Hardaway,

Learning goal: Three-point shooting, S-, bonus effect 25%.

Three-point shooting after dribbling, A+, bonus effect 20%, completion (0/7).

Crossover change of direction, SS, bonus effect 40%, due to the special effect of 'court bug recognition', the bonus effect is doubled, completion (1/7)."

The learning with Tim Hardaway in the summer was mainly under the guidance of Tim Hardaway, continuing to train on changing the arc of shooting, etc. The effect is good. Now Sun Ce has become accustomed to shooting with arcs, and has made progress. The 25% shooting training bonus is very effective. After the collapse period when adjusting the hand shape, the three-pointer even fell to F-level, it has slowly improved to C-level. 50 training shots can occasionally make more than 35 shots, at least 30.

However, based on his experience of training with Kobe, Sun Ce has now increased his training shots from 50 to 100. His hit rate has dropped a lot, but this kind of training is more helpful to enhance muscle memory.

After adjusting his hand shape, he began to learn dribbling and shooting three-pointers and changing directions with Tim Hardaway.

Addition is really important. The effect of crossover and change of direction is higher, and it is doubled. Therefore, in the past few months after returning to Memphis, he has not found the feeling of shooting after dribbling, but he has entered the stage of crossover and change of direction breakthrough...

The three-pointer has improved quite well. Sun Ce estimates that he is expected to break through to the passing line of C+ level this season. As for whether he can break through to the good level of B level, it depends on luck.

Shooting after dribbling still needs to be practiced. This trick is more suitable for use in games, and three-pointers after dribbling are also training three-pointers. It is two-in-one, and it is just right to practice together. He is not the type of three-pointer who catches the ball.

Just as Sun Ce continued to practice dribbling three-pointers with Tim Hardaway, Paul George rushed into the training ground in a hurry. Seeing Sun Ce, he quickly said: "Lord! Something big happened! Howard and Paul were traded!"

"What?"

Sun Ce quickly asked, and Paul George took two breaths and said: "Paul went to the Lakers, and Howard went to the 76ers!"