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Chapter 236 Group Competition

After the media was released, players of each team began to return to normal training and worked hard to integrate the team into a whole.

At the same time, each team has also announced core makeup photos one after another.

Needless to say, the Spurs are the defending champions. Their core makeup photos are composed of Duncan, Robinson and Sean Elliott, who are also known as the Big Three of the Spurs.

As for the Lakers, it is O'Neal, Kobe and Glen Rice. Although Fei Er Jackson wanted to trade Glen Rice, it was rejected by the Lakers general manager.

So, Glenn Rice was naturally in the core makeup photo.

The Jazz are still a combination of Malone, Stockton and Hornersec; the Heat are Morning, Jamal Mashburn and Tim Hardaway...

The most crowded and most luxurious one is the Trail Blazers’ makeup photos. Look at their lineup, which is even more luxurious than last season, Sabonis, Wallace, Damon Stadameer, Detrev Schramf, Steve Smith, Brian Grant and Scotty Pippen.

In addition, there are Bunch Wells and O'Neal Jr. This lineup is scary.

During this offseason, the Trail Blazers made two major deals, one was to exchange "problem player" for shooter Steve Smith, and the other was to exchange a bunch of substitutes for former Bulls superstar Pippen.

In addition, the Trail Blazers also signed All-Star inside Detrev Schramf with a two-year contract of 4.4 million.

Of course, most All-Star players are older and have fallen to their peak. Only Wallace, Steve Smith and Stadamire are still at their peak.

But such a powerful lineup makes the Trail Blazers and the Lakers recognized as the strongest in the league, believing that whoever can stand out from the West will be able to ascend to the championship.

Among the core makeup photos of the remaining teams, the Nets were the ones who talked the most.

Among all the core makeup photos of the team, the Nets are the most "hard" because the only one in their core makeup photos is Chi Liang.

Because among all the teams, there is only one core makeup photo of the Nets, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.

However, this is also related to Chi Liang's remarks.

After the media reported that Chi Liang would take on the heavy responsibility of the inside, most fans looked surprised. During this period, they kept complaining that the Nets' inside was weak, but they only forgot Chi Liang.

It’s not their fault that last season, Chi Liang mostly stayed in the small forward position and occasionally played as the inside, but no one could deny his dominance over the penalty area.

According to an expert, Chi Liang is like combining the characteristics of Kevin Garnett and Chris Webber.

With Chi Liang as the inside, the Nets naturally got rid of the weak inside. Many media changed their words, believing that with the Nets' lineup, they would definitely be able to enter the playoffs.

Perhaps because of confidence in the team, many Nets fans actively purchased team season tickets, jerseys, etc., which also made the Nets' season ticket sales rise rapidly next season, ranking fifth in the league, second only to the Lakers, Knicks, Heat and Kings.

The next day, the Nets' open training class, just like yesterday, today's training hall was still full of fans.

This public training class still attracted dozens of media outlets.

In the training hall, the assistant coach guides several inside players to attack and defend the basket, especially the cooperation between inside players.

As for the outside players, they trained to shoot on another field outside.

Coach Rivers said that he hopes that the whole team will use limited time to accelerate the running-in. Filling this gap is not a one-person task, but the whole team needs to make up for it together and try to form combat effectiveness before the start of the season.

About an hour later, the Nets began a group match, which is also the training content that the media and fans are most looking forward to. They all want to see the quality of this Nets.

Under the expectant gaze of the players, Coach Rivers reported the main team and the substitute team one by one. Some of these players were happy and some were frustrated, and they were all in one go.

As for the remaining players, they can only sit on the bench and wait for the call from Coach Rivers at any time, including rookie Cory Margeti.

Main team

Center: Cage

Power forward: Chi Liang

Small Forward: Newman

Point Guard: Jill

Point Guard: Armstrong

Substitute team

Center: George Murraysan

Power forward: Jamil Faik

Small Forward: Eric Williams

Pointback: Corey Kiddles

Point Guard: Billups

If Chi Liang is eliminated, in terms of strength, the main team and the substitute team are almost the same, which means that the Nets have a strong substitute, especially in the backcourt.

Due to Chi Liang's factor, the main team cooperates better, and it looks more like a whole, and the substitute team is almost powerless to fight back.

On the offensive end, Chi Liang became the most prominent point. No matter how Jamil Faik defended, he was unable to stop Chi Liang's attack and was almost asked by him.

For Chi Liang, Jamil Faik is too slow. He is not at the same level in terms of speed and flexibility. He can easily break through or pull out the gap.

It can be said that Chi Liang easily beat the other party before he could use his full strength.

In addition, Chi Liang's pass can always tear the defense and easily pass to the players in the open position. The teammates' task is very simple, they only need to catch the ball, which also makes their open field shooting percentage quite gratifying.

In addition, Chi Liang also added a lot of fast attacks based on George Murraysan's slow speed, and took advantage of the local number of players to have a high success rate.

Among the main team, Armstrong is very fast and has a good sense of fast attack. He is also the player with the most points in the main team except Chi Liang.

John Newman is a veteran, but he has great shots and always takes the opportunity to shoot the ball into the basket.

Michael Cage, who is also a veteran, has played his greatest feature well and used his excellent positioning awareness and skills to easily grab rebounds.

The only one who did not perform well was Kendal Gill, who was very uncomfortable with the defense of Corey Kiddles, who was not weaker than him and had a sharp three-pointer.

The most important thing is that Jill rarely runs, which gives people a lazy feeling. In addition, he rarely cooperates with Chi Liang, which is the main reason for his poor performance.

The highlights of the substitute team are Billups and Kiddles. They often use Murraysan's large body to run out of open positions, almost taking care of most of the substitute team's scoring.

Billups dribbled steadily, and his three-pointers became more and more stable. In addition, he had a height advantage against Armstrong, with two open three-pointers and one step back three-pointer, both hit the basket.
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