The preseason can be said to be Liu Ren's most depressed time, seeing that there is a game to play, but there is not much playing time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Liu Ren can't help this, and the romantic old man D'Antoni also wants to satisfy Liu Ren's idea of wantonly swaying his talent on the court, just like he used his talent ten years ago to make the Suns play an unrestrained run.

But the preseason is used to allow less important players to integrate into the team system with actual combat, and the Lakers' tactical system is specially built according to three core veterans and several core young players, so Liu Ren, Gasol, Green, and Whiteside quickly integrated into the system and were like fish in water.

But other youngsters, even if they're as talented as Antetokounmpo or mature as McCollum, still need time to train.

In the two games against the Jazz, the main focus is the bench lineup led by Whiteside, and the second team composed of Whiteside and Antetokounmpo, Bazemore, Nick Young, and McCollum is the key to the Lakers' victory!

This bench, which is comparable to most teams' starters, is the basis for the Lakers to widen the gap and give the starting three veterans enough time to rest.

In the sixth preseason, the Lakers' opponent was the Phoenix Suns, and I have to say that the management of the Suns honey operation, Bledsoe and Dragic had fought for the position of starting point guard, and there were even rumors that the two had stopped talking in private.

These two young players have the strength to be the core of the team, both in terms of organizational ability and scoring ability, both in the league, it stands to reason that the Suns management should use one of them as a trade chip in exchange for a good center this summer, then the Suns rebuild is basically completed, and maybe they can also impact the playoffs.

But the Suns management signed the little man killer Isaiah Thomas with a three-year, $21 million contract at a time when the point guard position was already full.

Liu Ren felt speechless about this, he felt that the Suns' vision of selecting point guards was really not covered, from Nash to Dragic, to Bledsoe, other teams were not optimistic, and then the Suns showed their talent at the core level, and now Isaiah Thomas is also a potential stock with very strong talent and hard work in addition to height.

But it's not a good thing to have too much talent! It's enough to have a top talent in a position, and do you want to play mahjong if you make three?

The Suns' point guard disaster was exposed before the season officially began, with two point guards at the highest salary level and one point guard with an annual salary of 7 million, both of which are at the starting level, and the Suns coach can only play with three point guards......

The Suns' style of play, the Lakers beat them even if they use pure bench to hone their tactics, the Lakers' rebounding advantage is already large, except for Bazemore, who is short as a small forward, the others are all big players, and the Lakers have too much advantage.

Game 7 is against the Kings, and there are two teams in the West that have long been known as the odd of the draft world, and they have spent ten years in the lottery and collected countless rookies with explosive talent, but it is difficult to play one.

The Kings have drafted a total of 12 lottery picks since the beginning of '05, but very few have been played, and the only superstar who is their current core Cousins is a quirky guy.

Personality aside, Cousins is really strong! Facing the old and strong Gasol, and Whiteside, who has an excellent defense, Cousins Cousins and the two hard steel have no pressure!

Cousins is in the last days of the center, and his skills and ability to use his body can be called the first center! His offense and Whiteside's defense are hard steel, Cousins is the core of the Kings, Whiteside is the defensive core of the Lakers' practice lineup, and the matchup between the best offensive center and the center with the top defensive ranking is quite exciting, which is a rare and good-looking game in the Lakers' preseason.

This time, because of Whiteside's excitement, the Lakers' second team defense actually slowly had a tacit feeling! It can be said that it is beyond Bickerstaff's expectations!

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Kings 96-89, Whiteside scored 44 points and only got 6 rebounds, Whiteside only scored 12 points but had 25 rebounds and 5 blocks!

With 3 wins and 4 losses, the Lakers' preseason record this year may not be more than 50%.

The first seven games were all about tactics, and in the last game, D'Antoni finally decided to play a real game!

The eighth preseason game is on October 26, and the 29th, two days after the preseason, is the day of the Lakers' regular season opener.

And the opponent in this game is not the opponent of the previous games, but the Trail Blazers, who almost finished in the top four in the West last season!

Given the Trail Blazers' strong regular season and playoffs last season, the major teams in the West are looking at them as a serious opponent this year.

D'Antoni treated this game as a spearhead for the regular season opener, and prevented the players' conference before the start of the season!

"The opponent in this game is the Trail Blazers, even though it is a preseason, I still want to see your efforts, and I don't want to be put on the inactive list because of who is not focused enough in this game."

D'Antoni has not only changed his mentality and started to focus on defending that he didn't care about before, but his mentality has also become more aggressive than before.

D'Antoni used to be a romantic old man from start to finish, and he could tolerate losing, he could tolerate being eliminated from the playoffs, but he couldn't stand a game without offense.

Now that D'Antoni has changed, his mind about winning is even heavier, and he knows from many sources that he has little time to coach this team with explosive talent, and he has to prove himself.

"Don't worry, Mike! Your team is the strongest team, you have to be confident! Bryant took the rare initiative to praise D'Antoni in front of his teammates, and it was clear that he was very happy with D'Antoni's changes this year.

"Of course I'm confident, but we can't be careless! Everyone knows what happened to the Spurs in the Finals two years ago, and even though they won the championship this past year, I still think they were a failure, they could have won two in a row! We can only aim for the championship now, we can't be careless at any point! D'Antoni said coldly.

Liu Ren was originally surprised by D'Antoni's performance this year, and now he is even more surprised!

At the same time, he is curious about everything that is going to happen to his team this year...... And excited!

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