Super Small Forward

The preseason game can be said to be the most depressing time for Liu Ren. Seeing that there are games to play, but there is not much playing time.

Liu Ren has no choice. The romantic old man D'Antoni also wants to satisfy Liu Ren's idea of ​​swaying his talents on the court, just like he swayed his talents ten years ago to make the sun run wild.

But the preseason is used to integrate the less important players into the team system in actual combat. The Lakers' tactical system is specially built based on three core veterans and a few core young people, so Liu Ren, Gasol, Green and Whiteside quickly integrated into the system, like a fish in water.

But other young people, even if they are as talented as Antetokounmpo and mature as McCollum, still need time to exercise.

In the two games, the Jazz focused on the bench led by Whiteside. The second team composed of Whiteside and Antetokounmpo, Baezmore, Nick Young, and McCollum was the key to the Lakers winning!

This substitute, which is comparable to most team's starters, is the basis for the Lakers to open up the points difference and allow the starting three veterans to have enough rest time.

In the sixth preseason game, the Lakers opponent was the Phoenix Suns. It has to be said that the Suns’ management team had a tricky operation. Originally, Bledsoe and Dragic had been fighting for the starting point guard position. There are even rumors that the two of them have stopped talking in private.

These two young players have the ability to be the core of the team. Both the organizational ability and the scoring ability are top-notch in the league. It stands to reason that the Suns management should use one of them as a bargaining chip in exchange for a good center this summer. , Then the Suns’ rebuild is basically complete, and maybe they can make the playoffs.

However, the Suns management, while the point guard position is full, signed a small killer Isaiah Thomas with a three-year contract of 21 million.

Regarding this, Liu Ren felt speechless. He felt that the Suns’ vision of selecting point guards was really not overwhelming. From Nash to Dragic, to Bledsoe, other teams were not optimistic, and then showed the core in the Suns. Level of talent, Isaiah Thomas is also a potential stock with strong talent and hard work in addition to height.

But too much talent is not a good thing! It is enough to have one with top talent in one position. Do you want to play mahjong if you gather three?

The Suns’ point guard disaster was exposed before the season officially started. Two top-salary point guards and one 7 million annual salary point guard. The salaries are all starting levels. The Suns can only use three point guards. How to play...

With the Suns’ style of play, even if the Lakers use pure backup tactics to play them, the Lakers’ rebounding advantage is inherently large. In the lineup, except for Baezmore’s small forward who is short, the others are all large. Player, the Lakers have too much advantage.

The opponents in Game 7 are the Kings. There are two teams in the Western Conference that have been known as the wonders of the draft world. They spent ten years in lottery and collected countless talented rookies, but it is difficult to play one.

The Kings have selected 12 lottery picks from 2005 to now, but very few have been played. The only superstar, their current core Cousins, is a stranger.

Character aside, Cousins ​​is really strong! Facing the old and tough Gasol, and the defensive Whiteside, Cousins ​​Cousins ​​and the two hard steels have no pressure!

Cousins ​​can be regarded as the number one center forward in the end of the current center, his skills and physical ability! His offense and Whiteside’s defensive hard steel have gone up. Cousins ​​is the core of the Kings. Whiteside is the defensive core of the Lakers’ practice lineup. The best offensive center in active service and the top-ranked center in active defense have a wonderful matchup. It is a rare and beautiful game in the Lakers preseason.

Because of Whiteside's excitement in this game, the Lakers' second team defense actually had a sense of tacit understanding so slowly! It can be said that it exceeded Bickerstaff's expectations!

In the end, the Lakers beat the Kings 96-89. Whiteside scored 44 points and only got 6 rebounds. Whiteside only got 12 points but 25 rebounds and 5 blocks!

With 3 wins and 4 losses, the Lakers may not pass 50% of the preseason record this year.

The first seven games were all rehearsing tactics. In the last game, D'Antoni finally decided to play a real game!

The eighth preseason game is on October 26. Two days after the preseason, the 29th is the day of the Lakers regular season opener. In order to let the players really feel that the season has begun, we have to come here. Really, D'Antoni doesn't want to play too loosely in the preseason to affect the opening game of the regular season.

And the opponent in this game is not like the opponents in the previous games, but the trailblazers who almost entered the top four in the Western Conference last season!

In view of the very strong performance of the Trail Blazers in the regular season and playoffs last season, the major Western teams this year have regarded them as an important opponent.

D'Antoni took this game as the vanguard of the regular season opener and prevented the player meeting before the start of the season before this game!

"The opponent in this game is the Trail Blazers. Although it is a preseason, I still want to see your efforts. I don't want anyone who is not focused enough to be placed on the inactive list because of this game."

D'Antoni has not only changed his mindset and started to pay attention to the defense he didn't care about before, but his mindset has become more radical than before.

The former D'Antoni was a romantic old man from start to finish. In the past, he could tolerate losses and be eliminated in the playoffs, but he could not tolerate games without offense.

Now that D'Antoni has changed, his idea of ​​winning has become more important. He knows from many channels that he can coach this talent explosion team has not much time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He wants to prove himself.

"Don't worry Mike! Your team is the strongest team, you have to have confidence!" Kobe took the initiative to praise D'Antoni in front of his teammates, obviously he is very satisfied with D'Antoni's changes this year.

"Of course I have confidence, but we can't be careless! Everyone knows what happened to the Spurs in the Finals two years ago. Even though they won the championship this year, I still think they failed. They could have been. Won two consecutive championships! Our current goal can only be the championship, we can not be careless at any moment!" D'Antoni said coldly.

Liu Ren was surprised by D'Antoni's performance this year, but now he is even more surprised!

At the same time, he is curious about everything that will happen to his team this year...and excited!

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I continued to work **** the code, and didn't leave until five o'clock in overtime. I was also drunk and had no overtime pay.

Continue to work hard, and present the next chapter in a while!