In the last two days before the regular season, the Grizzlies set the tone for the start of the season, but the Grizzlies don't know anything about the current Lakers.

The opponent's lineup has changed dramatically! Last season's Lakers were a slow-paced team, leaving only a handful of slow-paced players this season, bringing in a large number of young, athletic players, and the style of play is bound to change drastically.

There wasn't much to see in the preseason, the Lakers were just running tactics, and the first meeting of the new season, with both sides aiming for the championship, was a tentative process.

Moreover, before the start of training camp, the Lakers played a wave of maneuvers, re-signing last season's assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff with a two-year, $9 million contract, and swapping the positions of 68-year-old veteran coaches Bernie Bickerstaff and Mike Brown.

Bernie Bickerstaff became the head coach of the Lakers, and Mike Brown became an assistant coach with four years and 16 million remaining on his contract, making him one of the most expensive assistant coaches in the NBA.

According to the media, this is an adjustment that Paul strongly asks the Lakers management to make, through the cooperation last season, Paul is very clear that Bernie Bickerstaff coaches better than Mike Brown, Mike Brown has the ability to build the team's defense, but there is no head coach should have the overall situation, on-the-spot adaptability, and these Bernie Bickerstaff have.

Sun Ce was also surprised by the Lakers' operation at the time, but Sun Ce knew Bernie Bickerstaff's ability, in the original time and space, after the Lakers formed a Big Four in the 12-13 season, Mike Brown coached 5 games, 1 win and 4 losses, and was fired, and interim head coach Bernie Bickerstaff 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, Jeanie Buss supported Bernie Bickerstaff as head coach, Buss Jr. wanted to sign D'Antoni, and finally Buss Sr. listened to his youngest son's advice.

But this time, Paul used the contract extension as a weapon, and with the support of Kobe, he strongly demanded that Bernie Bickerstaff be turned positive, so there was this commotion operation.

As for how the Lakers will play in the new season, Sun Ce and the Grizzlies coaching staff have a rough guess, which must be based on blocking and dismantling offense, but how the opponent will play is only known when they play the first game.

On October 31, the Lakers came to Memphis to prepare.

The Grizzlies, for their part, are also intensively preparing for Game 1.

There were a lot of problems on the team, but everyone wanted to get off to a good start, and the first game was the day the championship ring was awarded, so of course they wanted to win this game.

On the Grizzlies' side, the morning pregame meeting and final practice session were over, and the afternoon was rested to prepare for the 7:30 p.m. game.

At the end of the session, Sun Ce said to assistant coach Bickerstaff Jr., "Jerry, do you know how your father will coach?" I heard that you worked as a defensive assistant coach for him for 4 years. ”

Bickerstaff Jr. replied: "My dad is a very thoughtful person, don't look at him almost 70 years old, but he is very capable, in '07 the Mavericks invited him to be the head coach but he didn't go, and finally went to be an assistant coach, I can't guess what he was thinking." ”

Even the son doesn't know what his father thinks, such an opponent is difficult!

However, Sun Ce didn't expect Bickerstaff Jr. to put forward any constructive suggestions, if there were, it would have been said in yesterday's team meeting and would have been provided to the team.

After all, there are no fathers and sons on the court, even if they are fathers and sons, they want to play on the opposite side.

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After the training in the morning, Sun Ce returned home, at half past eleven, after eating the nutritious meal sent by the nutritionist, it was not yet 12 o'clock, Sun Ce stayed in the study to read the news.

Today is the announcement day of the final list!

In the NBA team power rankings, only the top three have not yet been announced.

The ranking of player power has not yet been announced, and only the top five have not yet been announced.

In terms of team power rankings, the rankings given by the three authoritative media all rank the Thunder fourth, the rest of the Bulls, Lakers, and Spurs are all fifth to seventh, and the Mavericks are the eighth is the same, and the Nuggets and Pacers are all ranked ninth or tenth.

The Grizzlies, 76ers, and Heat are the only three teams that have not been announced.

In terms of player power rankings, Evans and Rose are ranked sixth or seventh by major media outlets, ESPN and .T both put Kobe Bryant in eighth, but Sports Illustrated has not yet released Kobe's ranking, that is, Kobe Bryant is in the top five in Sports Illustrated, and Sports Illustrated has put Howard, who has not announced the rankings, in tenth place.

Now there are only three left, Sun Ce, James, Paul, and Durant who have not appeared in the rankings, and Kobe Bryant and Howard have already appeared once.

On the Grizzlies' side, Randolph's highest ranking is 11th, which is the highest ranking in Randolph's career, and after winning the championship, Randolph finally got the respect of the three major media, and the three lists are all in the top 20.

However, Randolph himself did not respect his stomach and spent the whole summer eating and drinking......

Gasol Jr. is ranked 19th, Nash is 20th, Paul George, Klay Thompson, and Tony Allen are all in the top 100 in all three lists, Yi Jianlian is ranked 101st, Battier is ranked 149th, and Prince is ranked 171......

The rest of the players are all outside the top two hundred, especially Beverley, ranked after Thackeray, the 60th pick rookie this year, Thackeray's three major lists are between 411-415, and Beverley, who was later signed, after the three major media updated the list, Beverley was just one place behind Thackeray in the three lists.

4 players are in the top 20, 7 players are in the top 100, the three authoritative media have given the defending champion enough face, but also to other teams, and the Grizzlies players are ranked high, so that the stars of other teams are right to lose.

At 12 noon, the three major media announced the final rankings at the same time, and Sun Ce directly refreshed the entire browser, and all three web pages were refreshed.

First of all, of course, it depends on the player power rankings, which is also the headline!

. In terms of T, Sun Ce has been praised in the past few years, and there is no doubt that Sun Ce, who is the MVP of Lianzhuang and the double MVP, won the first place! The headline was "Lords Rise to the Top of the Alliance".

The second is James, the third Paul, the fourth Durant, and the fifth Howard.

In terms of Sports Illustrated, Sun Ce also put him first, James second, Kobe Bryant third, Paul fourth, and Durant fifth.

In terms of ESPN, James is still number one.

Sun Ce guessed that ESPN would definitely put James first, after all, they praised James.

But what Sun Ce didn't expect was that ESPN only put him in fifth place!

The top four are James, Durant, Paul, and Howard!

And, ESPN's assessment of him is that he is one of the best five players in the league in our opinion because the Lords play superstar performances in the system that suits him.