After signing Ibaka, Cousins ​​and Mike Dermott's contract renewal was quickly reached. After knowing that Tang Shuai had sacrificed a salary of 25 million for the team, even Cousins ​​reduced his salary by 2 million on the original basis, and finally renewed the team with a starting salary of 28.45 million and a five-year contract of 166 million.

Similarly, Mike Dermott also chose a contract with a starting salary of 17 million and a three-year, 56 million yuan extension.

In this way, the team's salary was basically controlled at the salary cap line. Then, the middle class special case signed back to Grant, and Gasol also decided to renew the team's basic salary for another year, and the team's lineup was finally determined.

Compared with last season, Norris Cole and Landry left, but got Ibaka, the team's strength has improved significantly compared to last season.

And more importantly, the renewal of Cousins ​​and Mike Dermott also determined the main structure of the next few years. After Tang Shuai renews the contract next year (although he also wants to pay the contract, I believe all the bosses are willing to pay the deal for Tang Shuai Rui. According to statistics, in the past two years of Tang Shuai's participation in the Lakers, Buss Jr. has earned more than 500 million yuan in the past two years, and this data will only increase and not decrease in the future). The Lakers can maintain dominance for at least five or six years.

This series of operations by the Lakers also made other general managers helpless. They planned to watch the Lakers jokes, but they did not expect that Tang Shuai's choice would perfectly solve the problem.

However, the Lakers are not completely without opponents, because during this offseason, the team has been making crazy moves.

The Cavaliers also made heavy blows after the Lakers completed a series of contract renewals. They gave up Smith and Fry's team options and instead signed James' former teammate Wade with a two-year, 35 million contract. Then they signed Chris Bosh, who was cut by the Heat for one-year, 10 million contract, but after one-game period cultivation, they had obtained a playground license.

In this way, the Cavaliers formed an unprecedented Big Six lineup, with Irving + Wade + James + Anthony + Thompson, and the super team of substitutes Bosh + Shampoot + Dunleavy + Chalmos officially established.

Such a team has really scared other teams. How can I play this?

But no matter what, the new season kicked off with two super teams in the east and west.

In the preseason game, the three Lakers' Big Three were watching from the wall, and Billups gave more training opportunities to others, including the running-in between the newly joined team Ibaka and other teammates.

After a few preseason games, Ibaka showed his excellent competitive state, averaged 13.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game. Although it was only a preseason and the Big Three did not play, anyone with discerning eyes could see that Ibaka's strength is still there. The marginalization of the Magic team is more related to the team's direction of building the team. The Lakers' signing has really gained a big advantage.

After the preseason, the Lakers' record of 5 wins and 2 losses also shows the strength of other players in the team.

After the preseason journey ended, the team ushered in the 2018-2019 seasons.

The Lakers' opener's opponent is the Warriors, just like last season. The league may be interested in creating a bunch of old enemies, so it arranged such a game again.

The Warriors' reinforcement in the offseason can only be considered ordinary. They just signed Tyson Chandler, who was cut by the Suns, to fill the gap in the team's interior substitute. However, for them, these are not the key to determining the outcome, and the performance of 4 is what determines the team's upper limit.

And as long as there are 4 in, they have the strength to wrestle with any team.

What is different from last year is that this year's opening match was held at the Warriors' home court, Oakland Oracle Arena, which has attracted the attention of a large number of Warriors fans. Many people even called this game a "revenge battle". We hope that the Warriors can avenge their elimination last year at home.

The Warriors' 4 also made a bold statement before the game, saying that the team had summarized and trained wildly during the offseason, hoping to make a comeback in the new season.

Compared with the Warriors' ambitions, the Lakers' reaction to this game is much more low-key. The Big Three all claimed that this is just an ordinary regular season game. Ibaka also said that he should run-in and score the team as soon as possible and not pay much attention to the outcome of the game.

In these two completely different atmospheres, the competition between the two sides was officially staged in Auckland.

Fans flocked into the stadium to cheer for the home team.

However, at the beginning of the game, they caused shock in their hearts, and the person who caused shock was Tang Shuai.

After averaging 40+ games in the finals last year and successfully defending Anthony and James, Tang Shuai's strength has also been recognized by everyone, including Warriors head coach Cole, who also made targeted defenses during the game.

But what Cole and everyone else did not expect was that after one offseason, Tang Shuai actually improved again!

Especially when he played this move from low post, he hit Thompson several times, and the height difference seemed to not exist in front of him. Coupled with his already unsolvable power and pass, Tang Shuai really became a nightmare.

Because I didn't play in the preseason and the attention of fans in this game, the visual impact brought to the fans by the game was absolutely shocking.

After Ibaka joined the team, the team's overall defensive strength in the inside line, and Tang Shuai's elusive assisting defense, the team's defense has also been improved to a higher level overall.

32-16, this is the result of the first quarter of the game between the two sides. The Lakers easily tyrannized the Warriors for more than half a quarter, and only after they came on the bench, the two sides played a similar game.

This result surprised the fans. The fans were unwilling to expect the home team to stage a Jedi counterattack, but the reality is that Tang Shuai's continuous strong attacks in the second quarter resulted in a double-three foul by Green and Durant, and the Lakers also took advantage of the situation to make another attack. At the end of the half, they widened the gap to 62-40.

The ruthless crushing continued. The Warriors could not defend against Tang Shuai. The 4 was also lost on the offensive end. They had no advantage on both offense and defense. They could only lose.

The Lakers' best performance is still Tang Shuai. He only played 30 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 steals in the whole game. His shooting percentage of 12 of 16 shots shows that he played very easily.

Westbrook and Cousins ​​also contributed 20 points respectively, and the stable performance of the Big Three is the key to the team's victory.

But what excited the fans the most was that Ibaka. In his first official game to join the Lakers, he contributed 10 points, 15 rebounds and 3 blocks in the game, and also made a wonderful all-connect dunk in the second quarter, which completely dispelled the so-called "preseason performance does not mean anything" and successfully corrected himself.
Chapter completed!