"Zach, it's time to lose weight......"

"Is it that fat?"

"Don't you know it yourself? Your weight went to last year's mark is high! ”

"Really? Oh, God! It turned out to be true! I'm fatter than that dead fat man! ”

Gasol, who has lost weight, is envied and hated by two unscrupulous teammates.

Because it was a media day, Gasol Jr. deliberately shaved his beard, which attracted a lot of shots.

It's not that little Gasol hasn't been refreshing before, but he used to be very fat, although his face shape is still good, but he is really too fat, and after Sun Ce and Battier joined the Grizzlies, his appearance can only rank third in the team.

Battier's face with a middle-aged manhood when his eyes are wide open is indeed quite attractive.

Randolph's ruffian appearance is also quite popular in the local area.

But now little Gasol has lost weight, lost weight successfully, and shaved his beard...... Gasol's genes are good!

Gasol Jr., who was practicing at the free throw line in the half court next door to Sun Ce and Randolph, heard the conversation between the two and was originally very interested, but Randolph's dead fat ......

Sun Ce and Randolph began to be hunted down by Gasol Jr. again......

Playing and fighting, Sun Ce felt that little Gasol was really awesome, and he made up his mind to lose weight, and he lost almost 10 kilograms in one summer!

Last season, Gasol Jr. was at his heaviest 133 kilograms, and at the end of the season he was almost 130 or 131 kilograms, and his latest weight was 121 kilograms!

Although it affects the feeling of shooting and the defensive habits under the basket have been affected, the shooting needs to be re-adapted, and the defensive method under the basket needs to be adjusted, and the strength will be affected in a short period of time.

But in the long run, this lays the foundation for Gasol Jr. to truly become the best defensive team-level interior gate!

Before, he was similar to Yao Ming, he was very strong under the basket, but the co-defense outside the three-second zone was far lower than his ability to defend with defensive awareness, so like Yao Ming, as the interior defensive core of a strong defensive team, he had a strong ability to protect the frame, but he was a certain distance from the best defensive lineup.

Although Gasol Jr. may not be recognized by coaches in terms of athleticism, and cannot be selected for the first defense, the weight loss has laid the foundation for the second defense.

Randolph, after a summer, the 29-year-old has not advanced but regressed, and has been relegated from the S level last season to the S- level.

The main thing is the weight, which has risen from 126 kg at the end of last season to 133 kg.

It's really Tennessee O'Neal!

However, in the regular season, it is enough to lose weight slowly, and with his athleticism and style of play, that is, he has less playing time, and he can use it as a layup version of O'Neal who is 10 cm shorter.

And Yi Jianlian, on his side, saw Randolph's weight increase dramatically...... It feels like this is an opportunity! You can get a little more playing time early in the regular season.

It's just that seeing Sun Ce become more lively when he arrives in the club, Yi Jianlian is really envious, he can have such a good relationship with so many teammates, he has been back to the team for more than ten days, and many teammates have not even spoken.

However, this has become Yi Jianlian's characteristic, if he was before the World Championships and Sun Ce overthrew the American team together, training alone in silence like this would definitely be regarded as unsociable and withdrawn, and the data of the World Championships would not be so valued.

But now, when his World Championship stats have been converted into world championships, it's a different story.

After the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, the world championship that defeated the United States team has a higher gold content than the United States team won the World Championships!

Low-key and hard-working have become the new impression of his teammates.

Accolades can change a lot of things, just like Billups felt like a homeless man before he won the Finals MVP in 2004, and it was difficult to integrate with the core of the team wherever he went.

But after winning the Finals MVP, Billups is part of the tactical core wherever he goes, no, the Rockets are actively pursuing Billups, even though Billups is 34 years old, the Rockets still want to poach him as a core point guard.

The Nuggets also have a tendency to develop Lowry and Lawson in the second half of last season, and Billups went to play shooting guard as a pitcher in the second half of last season.

It's just that in terms of asking price, the Rockets gave the Mavericks draft pick + Brooks as a bargaining chip, and the Nuggets were not very satisfied.

But in terms of Billups' big contract, the Rockets want to eat it.

There's no doubt that the Rockets are now pursuing Billups and are being ridiculed by the media again.

Sun Ce saw the news that the Rockets were pursuing Billups, and he felt too spiritual!

wanted to renew Yao Ming's contract at a lower price, but Yao Ming left, and was forced to use a big contract to sign first and then exchange for Al Jefferson, who was unwilling to offer a 10-million-dollar contract to the 30-year-old Nash, and now has to chase Billups, who is 34 years old and has two years left on his $27.5 million dollar contract.

In '04, Nash wasn't seen as a run-and-gun point guard! At that time, Nash was still selected as an All-Star substitute in the positional battle, and he made an offer for a contract of tens of millions, and Nash, who was unwilling to leave Texas at the time, would choose them nine times out of ten, and the Big Three of Nash + Maddie + Yao Ming became.

As a result, the Yao Mai combination has been together for 5 years, and there is not a single starter-level point guard, and the best point guard is actually Brooks who played after Maddie's minimally invasive surgery......

Sun Ce expressed his confusion when he talked about it with Rocket veteran Battier.

Mr. President thought for a while and said: "When Yao is here, the Rockets may not care much about the results, as long as they can enter the playoffs, it doesn't matter if they don't enter, and if Yao is here, they are not afraid of not making money." But now that Yao is gone, they are building a team around Anthony and need a good record to keep the commercial market. ”

Sun Ce agrees with this analysis, he thought of the original time and space when the Rockets actively recruited Howard and Paul after getting Harden, and maintained a high popularity in the Chinese market for a long time, just to continue the market left by Yao Ming.

Now that Anthony is getting Anthony, Anthony, who is currently at his peak, and Harden, who is in the prime of three seasons, should be about the same strength, and the strength of the second team and the scoring champion, the Rockets have not experienced two or three years without a core, and directly opened the team building mode in Sun Ce's impression.

This kind of operation, Sun Ce is really convinced!

If Billups had traded so many chips for the Rockets last year, even if they hadn't gotten Anthony and used Kevin Martin as the team's leading scorer, Brooks and JR Smith would have been more reasonable to prop up the bench!

But the Rockets only want to sell tickets and only want to increase ratings, otherwise they will trade Anthony apart, and after trading Billups, they may be able to trade for a mid-range power forward or backup center.

However, no matter how strange Team Rocket's approach is, it still attracts Chinese attention, even if Yao Ming is gone, Sun Ce will still pay attention to it from time to time, after all, it is youth......

……

As the training camp began, Sun Ce began to get busy again.

For the first time in the history of the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies sold more than 5,000 season tickets, including some of the nation's top country singers and rock musicians, and finally turned the names of "Elvis Presley's hometown" and "music capital" into commercial value.

Obviously, this has the most direct relationship with Sun Ce.

There are also many officials and business people from Sun Ce's hometown to visit the Grizzlies Stadium, and Sun Ce also has to take a group photo......

Yi Jianlian is naturally one of the focuses of attention of the Chinese media, and even because of the performance of the World Championships, some fans and media in the United States also think that the Bucks and the Nets have cultivated Yi Jianlian unreasonably.

Although the World Championships were ...... for a while It is estimated that at the peak of his life, he will be at the level of Scola, and it will be difficult to even reach the level of Scola at his peak.

But at least it's better than getting 13+8 with core play but not playing any role in winning.

And Scola is not bad anymore, he is also at the middle level in the NBA.

Originally, the other players of the Grizzlies only needed to envy and hate Sun Ce on the interview day, but now ...... Another Yi Jianlian!

But seeing at least 30 percent more reporters than last season, they have more reporters next to them than they did last season...... The faces of his teammates were smiling.

Time passed, and on October 6th, the Grizzlies went into closed training without any interviews and began real tactical preparation after dealing with some of the things that had to be dealt with.

This surprised Sun Ce, who seemed to wish that when he was with the Warriors last year, the Warriors management would have liked to have been in business for a little longer, until the first game of the preseason.

And the Grizzlies management doesn't seem to care so much, and after the things that must be entertained are done, they devote themselves to preparing for the new season.

Not many team owners have the courage to do so.

But I thought that my boss was a 30-something guy who bought a football game......

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From No. 6 to No. 8, three days of tactical training, because the core lineup has not changed, the outside line is dominated by dual point guards as the tactical core, Guy is responsible for receiving and shooting and the necessary singles, and Gasol Jr. as the core of the interior organization has not changed, and the tactics have generally not changed.

Most of the new players are plug-and-play players who are traded or signed back according to the needs of the team.

Tony Allen is used as an outside defensive gate when playing defensive counterattacks, and he is not needed on the offensive end...... I can't count on it.

Yi Jianlian was used as a poor man's version of Jordan Jr. last season.

Jordan Jr. has now gained weight, his weight has increased to 115 kilograms, and the defensive end is no longer suitable for playing power forward, but his athleticism is still the top in the league, and he can still continue to run on the offensive end.

Yi Jianlian and Little Jordan ran together on two inner lines of two meters or two, but with a B+ level speed that was about as fast as Morrow...... That picture...... It's spectacular!

It's just that the defense of these two people is indescribable, and Sun Ce doesn't know how Jordan Jr. got the first defense at his peak, and if it was the season when Gasol Jr. won the best defensive player, he would only have the second defense.

Sun Ce's impression of the first defense season of Little Jordan's defense looks no different from now, blocks and rebounds are very powerful, but the awareness of single defense is extremely average, more blocks do not mean that the defense is good, and the assistant defense is quasi-first-class level, not up to the first-class or top level, the quasi-first-class defense purely depends on physical fitness, compared with Howard, who has similar physical fitness, Jordan Jr.'s use of the body on the defensive end is far worse.

This can't be taught, and defense doesn't mean hard work, otherwise Nash and Vujacic would have worked so hard to win the best defensive player earlier, defense also needs talent, body is one thing, awareness is more important.

But such a bench interior combination is completely sufficient.

The new Morrow, which is easy to put on any team, is similar to the Bulls and the Heat's middle-class signing of Korver and Mike Miller, who are good at running, blocking and picking off off the ball and with the help of the off-ball block, the speed is a little slower but the body is solid enough, 198 cm and 95 kilograms, the off-ball blocking is called a solid, and the possibility of interference as a tall scoring guard is very small, upgrading Anthony Parker to Morrow...... It's definitely a huge boost for the Grizzlies.

With the addition of Battier, the outside pitcher options have become even richer.

Paul George is used as a guy who only shoots and defends, which can be considered plug-and-play, and is only a third choice for shooting guard and small forward, which is excellent.

Although Vazquiz is a rookie, he can still be a backup point guard, and his talent is there, he has a thick body, adapts to the confrontation and rhythm of the NBA, and has the potential to be a starting point guard in the future.

The Grizzlies currently have a 12-man rotation consisting of Conley, Sun Ce, Wazquis, Morrow, Tony Allen, Paul George, Gay, Battier, Randolph, Yi Jianlian, Gasol Jr., and Jordan Jr., leaving aside the two rookies at the end of the activation list...... The poor man's version of the Mavericks' sense of déjà vu!

The tactical training on the offensive side went well, mainly because the defensive end needed to be reconstructed.

The addition of a defensive player of Tony Allen's caliber will definitely have a tearing damage to the Grizzlies' previous defensive system, because the outside line will definitely have to build defense around him, which is definitely a huge difference from the relatively balanced defensive level of Conley, Battier, and Gay before.

Sun Ce is not worried about this, he knows that Tony Allen will run in very well, fully integrate into the team, and become a rare super outside defensive gate who can be selected for the first defense and second defense after playing only about 20 minutes per game!

When a team is growing and starting to reach its potential, everything will go smoothly until it reaches a bottleneck.

So far, everything is going well for the Grizzlies!

On the afternoon of October 8, after the tactical training, there was a team meeting, and tomorrow we have to leave from Memphis to Miami and then transfer to Real Madrid.

"Our basic goal this season is to make it to the second round! We need to do more research and research on the Lakers and Mavericks in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, and the goal of the regular season is to finish in the top four and avoid a first-round meeting with these two teams......"

The Grizzlies coaching staff, as well as most of the players, see the Lakers and Mavericks as their biggest rivals.

Sun Ce is the same, but Sun Ce has a different opinion, everyone thinks that the Lakers and Mavericks will compete for the first place in the West in the regular season this season, but Sun Ce knows that there is a black and white army coming.

If possible, Sun Ce feels that the Lakers and Mavericks will meet in the second round in advance as they did in the original time and space.

But that old man in San Antonio...... With the Mavericks crossing over to become the real favorites to win the championship, and the Lakers sideways there, they may also be regarded as opponents by the Spurs on their side......

With so many changes, God knows what this wise and almost demonic guy will do!

The current Popovich and the future logo man, why does Sun Ce feel that his road to the championship is full of stumbling blocks?

It's better not to know how good these two will be in the next few years!