Super Small Forward

27-55, ranked 12th in the west, and Kobe was 25th in the player rankings.

This is ESPN's ranking for the Lakers before the start of the preseason.

Seeing this ranking, Liu Ren felt very honored because he was also on the list.

238th

Well, Liu Ren admitted that the ESPN's prediction was a ghost. Last season, the Knicks, the second in the East, predicted that the Knicks would not enter the playoffs, and the eastern row would be more than 10. As a result, in Liu Ren's memory, the two ranking predictions were accurate.

Kobe came back in a hurry, and his left Achilles tendon ruptured, which led to the use of crutches by his right foot during the healing period. As a result, his left foot muscles were not used for several months and lost a lot of weight. Then, before his left foot recovered to be strong enough, he worried about problems with his left foot, used his right leg too much, and then his right leg was under too much pressure. After playing six games in his comeback, his right knee was injured and his season was reimbursed.

In those six games, Kobe had a lot of key shots, which was about 20 in the league.

ESPN's own people said it was a ghost. They ranked the Laker ranking or ranked according to what happened in reality, excluding the Knicks. Then they really wanted to make a news. Who knows it really came true. They wonder if they really look at who is pregnant?

However, although Liu Ren knows that the curse of ESPN to see who is pregnant this time is really accurate, but he is not happy with the ranking of 238!

It's full of unhappiness!

Although I had expected that his ranking would not be very high, which young man who just became an NBA player didn't want to be the first person in the league? Liu Ren has the memory of this body before, but he is really just a new NBA player.

Liu Ren knew that the ranking would not be high, but he was still angry.

But seeing Whiteside next to him, Liu Ren was happy.

438, 438, Whiteside saw this ranking did not say anything, just nearly crushed the water cup in his hand. Liu Ren almost didn't spit when he saw 438.

"Well, there are more unfortunate children than I am." Liu renman thought of it maliciously.

By the way, Liu Ren suddenly remembered something and asked Whiteside, "Hasan, I hear you like playing 2K?"

Whiteside looked at Liu Ren. He had a good impression of him. He saw that Liu Ren was an old player who liked to take care of new players. The apartment he rented was the apartment that Liu Ren had rented before. When he first came, Liu Ren introduced him to him.

Whiteside is a man who loves face. In the rookie season, he pays wages in advance to buy sports cars, treats people to eat and drink everywhere. Later in the NBA no ball played, almost bankrupt, those friends who usually call him brothers all ran away, let him see the warmth and coldness of human nature.

Now, although he is not in the habit of spending money lavishly, he still loves face. He is only generous to himself and his real friends, which is relatively economical. Renting a house in a prosperous area, the rent of $10000 a month is not too expensive for him.

Whiteside asked, "Liu, do you like it too?"

"Yes, but my ability value is only 72, the shooting is not accurate, the speed is not fast, I will raise my ability value every time."

"I'm lower than you, only 56." Whiteside said gloomily, "but I can't change it. I'm going to ask 2K to do it for me! Let them know that I'm not a 56 player on the field! Let them raise my ability

"That's a good idea. I'm the same as you. The two of us should let them have a good look at our strength, the 12th in the west? I want to know which eleven teams are better than us

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On October 6, 2013, after the end of the Laker training camp, seven preseason games began.

They played with warriors, Nuggets, kings, and jazz, basically with teams from California and nearby states.

Naturally, Kobe will not play in these seven games, but he also went out with the team. His injury has been healed and his rehabilitation has been completed. He began to do recovery training. He has not played for half a year, so it is inevitable that his hands are unfamiliar.

In the first four games, the Lakers have been training the players they just signed. Liu Ren, Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill were replaced just after warm-up. They were more concerned about the main substitutes.

There are 13 Lakers who can actually play, that is, one person who has been on the inactive list for a long time in regular games.

The Laker is the leading player in this year's preseason China game, and will play with warriors in BJ and sh respectively.

The Laker team has always been the most popular team in China, and even the Rockets are a little inferior. This is puzzling to many Americans, but that's it.

The warriors began to rise last year, and curry has become a team focused on by the league. It has been very popular in the United States. The first stop for the League to push them to the world is naturally the Chinese market.

On the plane to BJ, Kupchak is negotiating with D'Antoni about the start-up.

At the end of these four games, d'antony basically determined that before Kobe's comeback, the starting list of the Lakers will start from this Chinese game until Kobe's comeback."Is that OK, Mike?" Kupchak asked hesitantly.

"Mitch, Drummond is such an excellent young man. He can do almost everything, even the three-point ball. Although he looks like he is not fast enough to play small forward and not high enough to play power forward, he will make good use of his advantages. The most important thing is his defense. He is like a combination of Marion and Dior! And he can also control the ball, cultivate him and Hassan, will definitely become the pillar of the future inside, if you can keep Paul better D'antony said passionately that he had a little regret. In order to please Howard last season, Gasol was offended to death, so this year he decided to start as long as Gasol played.

Kupchak holding the starting list said: "Mike, I know what you said, Drummond is very good, small forward and power forward can be competent, but you line him up with the center!"

"Center?" D'Antoni was surprised and asked, "isn't the center canceled? All star voting is only front court and back court two areas, Liu and Paul, Drummond are just front court players

Kupchak took a silent look at d'antony. He seemed to feel that this guy was trying to get into trouble! In the solar period, he dared to start the interior line with Dior, Stoudemire and Marion. On the surface, Dior played small forward, Marion played power forward and stadimer played center forward. In fact, it was Dior's central forward's support. Stoudemire's power forward took the ball and hit the air, and Marion's small forward ran three points.

This is not the most critical, the most important thing is that D'Antoni occasionally let Dior go to the high ball control organization!

That is to say, there is no concept of position in Ya's eyes!

If Pat Riley was the proponent of the concept of no position, and later Cole used the warriors' lineup to carry forward the concept in another way to play the best record in history, then d'antony was the first pioneer of this concept!

Cole can play the death of the five small lineup, the most important point is not curry, not Thompson these two super three break up, but green! Green attack and defense organizations are all-round skills is the key!

"Mitch, I even want to try to get Drummond and Liu on the inside, put three pitchers and run to death." There was madness in d'antony's eyes.

Kupchak saw D'Antoni's eyes, as if he saw the warrior's madman, but he is not like many management, he will not interfere with the arrangement of the head coach unless it is necessary to do something bad. What if he succeeds? He dare to believe the current head coach, this is the purple gold Legion so many years of accumulated strength, afraid of losing how can success?

Therefore, Kupchak asked weakly, "Liu is only 6 feet 6 (1.98 meters), is it too reluctant?"

"Oh? Mickey, don't you know? Liu has grown tall again this year... "