1082. ESPN again! (Part 3)
In the last two days before the regular season, the Grizzlies determined the tone of the season's start, but the Grizzlies didn't know at all about the current Lakers.
The opponent's lineup has changed a lot! Last season's Lakers were a slow-paced team, leaving only a few slow-paced players this season, and introduced a large number of young and strong athletic players, and their playing style will inevitably undergo a sudden change.
There are not many things that can be seen during the preseason. The Lakers are just running tactics. The first time they fight in the new season, the goals of both sides are the championship. This game is a test process.
Moreover, before the training camp began, the Lakers played a wave of tricks, renewed last season's assistant coach Bernie Bickstaff with a two-year contract of 9 million, and added 68-year-old coach Bernie
Bickstaff and Mike Brown are interchangeable.
Bernie Bickstaff became the Lakers head coach, and Mike Brown was appointed as an assistant coach with a contract of 16 million with four years left, becoming one of the most expensive assistant coaches in the NBA.
According to media reports, this is an adjustment that Paul strongly asked the Lakers management to make. Through cooperation last season, Paul is very clear that Bernie Bickstaff coaches better than Mike Brown, and Mike Brown has built a team
The ability to defend, but no head coach should have the overall situation and respond on the spot, and these Bernie Bickstaff have.
Sun Ce was also surprised at the Lakers' slutty operation, but Sun Ce knew Bernie Bickstaff's ability. In the original time and space, after the Lakers formed a four-four group in the 12-13 season, Mike Brown coached 5 games and won 1 win.
With 4 losses, he was fired. Interim head coach Bernie Bickstaff coached 5 games, 4 wins and 1 loss, which became a very hot thing at that time.
However, at that time, the Lakers were in civil turmoil, and Jenny Buss supported Bernie Bickstaff as the head coach. Buss Jr. wanted to sign D'Antoni, and finally, Bass Old listened to his younger son's advice.
But this time, Paul used the contract renewal as a weapon, and with Kobe's support, he strongly demanded that Bernie Bickstaff become a regular, so he had this sexy operation.
Sun Ce and the Grizzlies coaching staff have a rough guess about how the Lakers will play in the new season. They must be mainly pick-and-roll offense, but the specific game of the opponent will only be known when playing the first game.
On October 31, the Lakers came to Memphis to prepare for the game.
The Grizzlies are also preparing for the first game in full swing.
Although the team has many problems, everyone wants to make a good start, and the first game is the day when the championship ring is awarded, so of course I want to win this game.
The Grizzlies' pre-match meeting and the last training session ended in the morning. They had a break in the afternoon to prepare for the 7:30 pm game.
When the training was over, Sun Ce said to assistant coach Bickstaff Jr.: "Jerry, do you know how your father will coach? I heard that you were a defensive assistant coach for him for four years."
Bickstaff Jr. replied: "My father is a very thoughtful person. Although he is almost 70 years old, he is very capable. In 2007, the Mavericks invited him to be the head coach but he didn't go, and he actually went.
As a teaching assistant, I can't guess what he is thinking."
Even his son doesn’t know what his father thinks. Such an opponent is difficult to deal with!
However, Sun Ce did not expect any constructive suggestions from Bickstaff Jr. to come up with. If so, yesterday's team meeting would have already been provided to the team.
After all, there is no father or son on the court. Even if you are a father or a son, you want to hit the other side.
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After the morning training, Sun Ce returned home at 11:30. After eating the nutritious meal delivered by the nutritionist, it was less than 12:00 when Sun Ce stayed in the study to read the news.
Today is the release date of the final list!
Only the top three have not been announced yet.
Only the top five players' strength rankings have not been announced yet.
In terms of team strength rankings, the rankings given by the three authoritative media all ranked the Thunder in fourth place. The remaining Bulls, Lakers, and Spurs are both fifth to seventh, and the Mavericks are eighth, which is consistent.
Both put the Nuggets and Pacers in the ninth or tenth.
Only the Grizzlies, the 76ers and the Heat have not been announced.
In terms of player strength rankings, Evans and Ross are ranked sixth or seventh by major media, and both espn and t.n.t put Kobe in eighth, but Sports Illustrated has not announced Kobe's ranking, that is, Kobe in Sports Illustrated
Entering the top five, Sports Illustrated placed two other unannounced Howard in the tenth place.
Now only Sun Ce, James, Paul and Durant have not appeared in the rankings yet, Kobe and Howard have appeared once.
On the Grizzlies, Randolph ranked 11th, which is the highest ranking in Randolph’s career. After winning the championship, Randolph finally received the respect of the three major media, and all three major lists were included.
Top twenty.
However, Randolph himself did not respect his stomach and spent all summer eating and drinking...
Gasol Jr. ranked 19th, Nash ranked 20th, Paul George, Klay Thompson, Tony Allen entered the top 100 in the three major lists, Yi Jianlian ranked 101st
Name: Battier ranked 149th in the highest ranking, Prince ranked 171st in the highest ranking...
The remaining players are all in the top 200, especially Beverly, who ranks behind the 60th pick of the rookie this year. Thackeray's three major players are all between 411-415, and later signed the contract.
Beverly, after the three major media updated the list, Beverly happened to be behind Thackeray in all three lists.
4 players entered the top 20, 7 players entered the top 100, and the three authoritative media all gave enough face to defend the champion, and also gave face to other teams. Only when the Grizzlies' players ranked high can the stars of other teams appear to lose.
That's right.
At 12 noon, the three major media announced the final rankings at the same time. Sun Ce directly refreshed the entire browser and all three web pages were refreshed.
First of all, of course we have to look at the player strength rankings, which is also the headline!
In terms of t.n.t, he has been praising Sun Ce in recent years, and undoubtedly gave Sun Ce the first place in Lianzhuang MVP and the double MVP! The headline is "The Lords are ranked first in the league".
The second one is James, third Paul, fourth Durant, fifth Howard.
In terms of sports pictorials, Sun Ce also put him first when he saw it, James second, Kobe third, Paul fourth, and Durant fifth.
In terms of espn, James is still the first.
Sun Ce guessed that ESPN would definitely put James first, after all, they praised James.
But what Sun Ce did not expect was that espn actually only put him in fifth place!
The first four are James, Durant, Paul, and Howard!
Chapter completed!