Yang Jian didn't practice football, but he had a thorough understanding of the situation in the new season.
He has two options. One is to play selflessly, pass the ball more to drive his teammates, and try to help the newcomers integrate into the team as soon as possible. In this way, he is likely to win the scoring and assists titles at the same time again, but his average points per game will not be special.
If it is high, it will be difficult for the team to achieve the best record.
Rookies are prone to making mistakes, and it is not easy to help them integrate into the team. Even if they perform well in the regular season, it will be difficult for them to be effective in the playoffs because of their lack of experience.
Rookies can easily get injured if they play for too long, and their physical strength cannot compare with NBA players.
There are very few NCAA games, and the physical strength of high school players like Rashard Lewis is even worse. The confrontational nature of the games cannot be compared with the NBA.
The second way is for Yang Jian to play more selfishly and take crazy shots. He can use his personal ability to lead the team to victory just like he led the Chinese team. This is easier to win than being a nanny for newcomers.
In the 1996-97 season, Yang Jian proved that he was not afraid of being double-teamed. He was more threatening when attacking with the ball than without the ball.
If this was a normal season, Yang Jian would choose the first path. The schedule of a normal season is not intensive. After 82 regular season games, the rookie can accumulate a lot of experience. This is how Yang Jian came here.
There are many rookies who have played very well in their rookie seasons and have fulfilled their potential, and Yang Jian is not the only one. All lottery picks are likely to break out in their rookie seasons.
Not this season, it's very unfriendly to newcomers, and the NBA schedule after the suspension is too intensive. The regular season starts on February 5th and ends on May 5th.
What is the concept of each team playing 50 regular season games in 3 months? And there are only 28 days in February! Teams play more than 15 games every month, four games a week, back-to-back.
This kind of schedule is a headache for everyone, and the newcomers simply can't bear it. Give them more ball rights and playing time, and they will be exhausted in a month.
To sum up, Yang Jian decided to rely on his personal ability to lead the team to win, and he wanted to produce super statistics.
If the Sonics win the championship in the end, it will be a championship with a very high gold content. It will not be too late to train new players next season. They are not lottery picks, so they will not have any objections.
Yang Jian really wants to know if he produces better statistics than in previous years this season and leads the team to the best record in the regular season, whether he will win three consecutive regular season MVP awards.
If the league wants to praise someone, it has to look at the data. If Yang Jian averages 40 points per game and Karl Malone, who finally averaged less than 25 points per game, wins the regular season MVP, the controversy will be too big for the league to bear.
In a parallel world, Malone won the MVP this season, and his statistics were a mess. He averaged only 23.8 points, 9.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.3 steals per game, and his record of 37 wins and 13 losses was the same as the Spurs.
According to the relationship between the two sides, the Spurs' record ranks first in the league. Duncan failed to win the MVP purely because he was too young and the league did not want him to win the award. Duncan's data does not have an overwhelming advantage over Malone. Yang Jian can crush the data
Malone's.
Ma Long is 35 years old this year. Even if he has a body of steel, he cannot have better physical strength or more stable performance than Yang Jian.
There are only two games in the preseason, and the team has no time to adjust. Any team that undergoes major changes will find it difficult to succeed in team basketball.
There is not even a training camp, and only two games are used as training. How can the newcomers integrate into the team?
Yang Jian took very few shots in the preseason and mainly passed the ball. George Karl arranged the usual tactics he played last year and gave the newcomers a lot of playing time to run the tactics.
Entering the regular season, the Sonics can only train through games. It is impossible for the coach to arrange high-intensity training to familiarize newcomers with tactics. Players must take vacations and rest when they have time, and recovering their physical strength is the most important thing.
On February 5, the regular season opener officially started.
The SuperSonics' first home game against the 76ers was the focus of this round. Yang Jian vs. Iverson attracted a large number of fans.
The two teams have never met in the playoffs. Why the league arranged it this way is completely unclear to the media.
The reason is actually very simple. Last season, the SuperSonics won the playoffs and won the championship. President David Stern didn't think any team played against the SuperSonics in the opening game was a gimmick.
The Jazz vs. Sonics can no longer be arranged. The Jazz have been abused the most, and the players have had enough.
The 76ers are a team that the league is ready to support, and Iverson is one of Yang Jian's chosen challengers. If the 76ers win, they can brag about Iverson. If they lose, they can try this super team.
The speed of sound is astonishing.
If a star wants to stand out, he must not be afraid of any opponent. League officials are optimistic about Iverson and believe that he has an unyielding temperament. Moreover, he has won the support of many black fans in the slums and is very popular.
Iverson is particularly attractive to low-level fans because of his temperament. His hip-hop outfit and furrow hairstyle have been imitated by many young people and have become a very trendy hairstyle in North America.
The most important thing is that Iverson gave the black fans at the bottom a great sense of belonging. Countless people had the same experience as him and couldn't help but want to use him as an example.
He was born in a slum, with a low IQ and low emotional intelligence. He was abandoned by his father as a burden since he was a child. He was not good at anything except sports.
Many black fans hope that Iverson will defeat Yang Jian, thinking that his potential is extraordinary, and his speed and skills are not inferior to Yang Jian. Yang Jian's weakness is that he has been playing crazy for a long time during the holiday and has not practiced ball. This is a good opportunity to defeat him. Iverson is on holiday
Here...well, he didn't practice football either.
Before the game started, the Sonics held a championship ring awarding ceremony. Yang Jian received his third championship ring and expressed some simple thoughts.
Barkley also came to Seattle today and received his championship ring. He was very excited, and the fans were very surprised to see him. He was as fat as he was last season.
Yang Jian said in an interview that he doesn’t blame Barkley for being fat, the fans do. Many people feel that Barkley’s lack of self-discipline has directly affected the SuperSonics’ title defense this season. He could have waited until four consecutive championships before retiring.
Barkley is only 36 years old, so he retired a bit early.
Except for the Celtics, who won eight consecutive championships in ancient times, no team has ever completed four consecutive championships. SuperSonics fans hope that Yang Jian can lead the team to create a greater record, and now it is twice as difficult to defend the title.
After the awards ceremony, the players went to the locker room to rest for a while before going out to warm up.
TV5 broadcast the game live, Zhang Lijia said: "After two hundred days of suspension, the NBA is finally about to start."
Sun Zhengping said: "I don't know how Yang Jian will perform. He has been living in Los Angeles some time ago and will only return to Seattle when the season is about to start."
Zhang Li said with a smile: "He is addicted to living in Los Angeles, so he can hang out with his friends. He is a neighbor of Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, and it is said that he visits every day."
Sun Zhengping said: "The romantic comedy he produced will be released in North America the day after tomorrow. If it weren't for his busy schedule, I guess he would still attend the premiere of the movie. His album has also been recorded, and he is just waiting for the release of his movie
Released on time."
Zhang Li said with a smile: "He has done too many things. I hope this will not affect his game state. He still has a good shooting touch during the warm-up, which is bad news for the 76ers."
At this time, the starting players of both sides came on stage.
SuperSonics Five: Payton, Jian Yang, Schrempf, Anthony Mason Jr., Ben Wallace.
Ben started the first game of the new season in order to strengthen interior defense. Last season, the coaching staff discovered that when Ben and Mason played together, the Sonics' defense was very tough.
Schrempf is still the starting small forward. He maintains excellent condition and can shoot accurately and open up the field. The starting four are good at defense, so it doesn't matter if he is a little bit worse at defense.
76ers five players: Iverson, Bobby Fiers, George Lynch, Matt Geiger, Theo Ratliff.
The 76ers did not dig up Snow and traded for Fiers to be the starting shooting guard. He is good at catching and shooting, has excellent defense, and has certain organizational skills.
In a parallel world, Fiers joined the Hornets in 1997 and died in a car accident in the 1999-00 season. Now that he has played for a different team, he may be able to escape the disaster.
Ratliff and Ben Wallace won the jump ball and the game was on.