enjoyebooks Chapter 711 The new season is coming
Chapter 711 The new season is coming
Chapter 711 The new season is coming
When the Grizzlies had extremely limited operating space during the offseason, the management brought in Vince Carter and Benno Udry, who still had gas in the tank, and also used a draft pick at the end of the first round to get them. Defensive center Koufos is simply an A+ operation.
Under this operation, the current Grizzlies lineup for the new season is as follows:
Centers: White Bears, Koufos, Jon Ruel
Power Forward: Bears, Arthur, Janelle Stokes
Small Forwards: Old Prince, Old Carter, Ponteset
Shooting guard: Xie Kai, Teacher Tony
Point guards: Conley, Udry, Calathes
The Grizzlies currently have 14 players on the roster, and they have one spot that can be added during the season.Of course, they can also play with this lineup without adding players, and there is no problem at all.
The Grizzlies' offseason operations scared the rest of the league.If nothing else, this team will continue to be the most comprehensively competitive existence in the new season.The Black Bear is still in good shape, and Xie Kai, Conley, and Bai Xiong have gradually entered their peak period.This team is not like the Heat, the Big Three are all over 3 years old.
So even if the preseason has not yet started, the Grizzlies still have a huge advantage and become the number one favorite to win this season.The biggest obstacle before them is not the Cavaliers who formed the Big Three, nor the Spurs and Thunder in the West, but their own health.
As long as they are healthy, it is difficult for any team to prevent the Grizzlies from winning three consecutive championships and establishing a dynasty.But injuries are really elusive sometimes.
Xie Kai did not fully participate in the team's training camp, but when he saw Carter in the training camp who could still play 2000% of the level of the 80 dunk contest, he knew the body of this historic dunker How well kept it is.
Many fake fans think that Carter can only dunk. In fact, his off-ball ability has been seriously underestimated.He was the best off the ball among the four shooting guards that year, and his career 3-point shooting percentage was also the highest among the four.Therefore, there is no doubt that he is not a good shooter by Xie Kai's side.
On the contrary, in the season preview, many fans are optimistic about Carter's second spring in the Grizzlies, and believe that there will be sparks between him and Xie Kai.
The Grizzlies in the new season have naturally become public enemies. It's not that they play dirty, nor are they recommended by the league, but that they are the only one among the 30 teams that can solve the establishment of a dynasty.Naturally, the other 29 teams had to try to stop them.
Xie Kai is not afraid to accept challenges. He never takes any success for granted. If there are no challenges, the establishment of such a dynasty will not give people a special sense of accomplishment.
On October 10, the 9-2014 season NBA preseason kicked off.
The Grizzlies' first preseason game will be on the road against the Milwaukee Bucks.
The preseason is an occasion for NBA teams to run-in their lineups and let newcomers exercise.The Grizzlies introduced Carter and other veterans during the offseason, and they need to run in with their old teammates.Everyone is very experienced, and they all know their positions and roles in the team. They are also very professional, and there will be no chance of stealing the ball.
Consistency is the most important factor for the Grizzlies.
The Grizzlies didn't try their best or even try hard in the preseason, so it seemed that they were playing back and forth with those big teams, the point difference was always tight, and they lost from time to time.
In the 8 preseason games, the Grizzlies only won 3 of them, lost 5 games, and the winning percentage was less than 5%.But no one believes that their strength is just that, and no one thinks that they are no longer capable.
The preseason is like this, it is difficult for you to see who has the strength to win the championship and who does not.
On October 10, the opening game of the new NBA season started.
The defending champion Memphis Grizzlies will host the Minnesota Timberwolves in their first game.
There is an obvious gap in the strength of the two teams. The Timberwolves did not make the playoffs last season.So the outcome of this game is not so interesting. What attracts attention is that the Grizzlies will usher in their championship ring awarding ceremony before this game.
On the evening of the 30th, the FedEx Arena was already full.Many die-hard fans of the Grizzlies came to the scene to witness the team's glorious moments.
When the Grizzlies players put on the championship rings one after another, and when a banner with the 2014 championship was raised over the FedEx Arena, the atmosphere on the scene reached its climax.
Classes in this arena have more than one banner.There are two Western Conference banners, two championship banners.
In other words, the Grizzlies' current final winning percentage in the finals is 100%.Although they didn't win every game, they have never lost in the series, and even in terms of the finals record, they are 8 wins and 2 losses, with a winning rate of 80%!
The Grizzlies are here recalling the bits and pieces of the championship and celebrating winning the championship, while their opponent tonight, the Timberwolves, is a semi-rebuilt team.The reason why they are said to be a semi-rebuild is because their record last season was 40 wins and 42 losses, ranking 10th in the Western Conference, which is not too bad.
But they are also rebuilding, because they traded away their all-star power forward Kevin Love in exchange for two top picks from the Cavaliers.
The No. [-] pick needs to grow and need opportunities to perform, so it is destined that their primary goal in the new season is not to hit the playoffs, but to help the No. [-] pick grow.
But Lu Yizhong, Pekovic, Thaddeus Young, etc. are not rookies, they don't need to be wretched and developed.But there is no way, who told you that you cannot become the core of the team, so you can only grow up with the team.
All the players in the Timberwolves team have no NBA championship experience and no NBA championship rings in their hands, so seeing the Grizzlies players with rings, of course they are envious.But they also know that envy is envy. With their own team's strength, it will be difficult to enter the playoffs, and the championship will be forgotten.
After the ceremony, the match between the two sides will begin soon.
Before the start of this season, Xie Kai still rejected the team's proposal to let him play the finale in the opening ceremony at home.He still insisted on letting the black bear be the finale.
Xie Kai didn't want to ruin his relationship with Black Bear and other players because of this very formal thing, so what if it was the finale?Although Black Bear is no longer the strongest in the team, his qualifications and past contributions to the team are there. He has always been the finale, so why can he adjust?
Xie Kai felt that he was already the most popular existence in the team, and there was no need to deliberately adjust something for a little formality, it was too troublesome and boring.
Xie Kai's humility and humility made the Black Bears very useful, and made other old men in the Grizzlies very comfortable.No one wants to be "adjusted", and no one wants to have "one word" in the team.You're so good that you stand alone on the court and pretend to be a big boss in the locker room or somewhere, no one will like it.
(End of this chapter)