The Wizards remained in excellent competitive state in the next few games, and it is hard to lose since the start of the new season.

At the same time, Paul George's personal performance was perfect. He made great progress after the start of the new season and soon became the core player on both the Wizards' offense and defense.

If the Wizards last season have always relied on the two towers to fight, then the Wizards have become a complete team with both internal and external capabilities in the new season.

In the game, in addition to Aldridge and Yao Ming being able to attack, Paul George and Wall also gradually began to take on more responsibilities.

Especially Paul George, in his last five games, George averaged 32.1 minutes per game, and he can contribute 22.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.1 blocks.

This data is enough to make George one of the top small forwards in the league. What's more, George is very balanced on both offense and defense, and can contribute well-deserved personal performance both on both offense and defensive ends.

This also leads to the fact that when George is not good on the offensive end, he can still stay on the court and contribute on the defensive end.

In a sense, George is definitely one of the favorite players of all coaches in the league.

In addition, Yang Fan gave Thomas Jr., Vucevic, Crawford and McGee a lot of playing time in the new season, including some garbage time, and let the four of them try their best to brush data.

Because if the Wizards want to seek a trade in the new season, the chips the team can take out will undoubtedly be generated among these four people.

After all, Wall, Thompson and Paul George are currently all non-selling products, or in other words, there are only a handful of players who can convince Yang Fan to trade these three as bargaining chips in the entire league.

So if nothing unexpected happens, the Wizards' chips are no longer available.

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"Yang, you're sure I need to contact the Grizzlies, the head coach of the Grizzlies is Lionel, and you two have had an unpleasant experience before."

"And he is one of the coaches that hate you the most in the league today. If you want to trade with the Grizzlies, then this guy will definitely interfere." Hearing Yang Fan let him contact the Grizzlies, General Manager Grenfeld frowned and reminded.

The Grizzlies' head coach is Lionel Hollins, a real defensive coach. To be precise, he is a professional defensive coach who focuses on defense and does not pay attention to offense.

For defensive coaches like Hollins, coaches like Yang Fan who focus on the outside are originally an alien.

In addition, Yang Fan's rise has caused a wave of three-pointers in the league, which undoubtedly has brought a lot of trouble to defensive coaches like Hollins.

The most important thing is that Yang Fan not only confronted Hollins across the air, but also led the Thunder to fight a "Memphis Massacre" in Memphis that shocked the league.

This incident also completely formed a grudge between Yang Fan and Hollins. Even now, Hollins often belittles Yang Fan in front of the media.

It’s just a pity that Yang Fan has been too dazzling in the past two years. With his current identity and status, he can completely get rid of Hollins. Otherwise, Hollins will definitely attack Yang Fan even more violently.

"What a troublesome guy. Although he has a headache, the Grizzlies are not the final word for him, Lionel."

"Even if he is the head coach of the Grizzlies and has the greatest say in player changes, as long as the chips we give are tempting enough, Lionel can only stand aside and watch." Yang Fan said calmly while sitting on the sofa and rubbing his forehead.

"Okay, I'll contact the Grizzlies later, but Mark is the defensive core of the Grizzlies, so it's probably not that easy to get him."

"And even if the Grizzlies are moved by our bargaining chips, that guy Lionel will definitely make things difficult for a while."

"But if you are not in a hurry, then I will talk to the other party slowly." Picking up the jacket on the sofa, Grenfeld responded to Yang Fan while preparing to go out.

Perhaps Grenfeld has nothing special in his vision and his business acumen is not as top of the league, but he has one advantage, that is, he never drags on the mud.

The proposals of boss Leon Sis and head coach Yang Fan can always be implemented as soon as possible.

The so-called diligence can make up for weakness is the most standard evaluation of General Manager Glenfeld.

As for Yang Fan, he would let Grenfeld contact the Grizzlies, it was naturally because he fell in love with Grizzlies center Mark Gasol.

Although the Wizards have Yao Ming and Vucevic in the interior, Yao Ming's health is always a hidden danger.

Vucevic's defensive ability is average, especially in the tough playoffs, which has declined severely. Even though Vucevic's data looks very good, he is not the most perfect center puzzle.

So in this case, Yang Fan would place his reinforcement target at No. 5.

However, because Yang Fan has strict requirements for the center, in addition to making achievements on both offense and defense, the most important thing is to have shooting ability and support passing.

This kind of center forward is naturally rare at this time, and the best among them are definitely Yao Ming and Marc Gasol.

There is no need to say more about Yao Ming. As the champion center who just won the FMVP last season, Yao Ming's current position is even above Howard.

If someone discusses the issue of the league's number one center, then Yao Ming is definitely an unavoidable topic.

As for Mark Gasol, although he is not the top in the league in all statistics, he averaged 14 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1.5 blocks per game this season.

But I'm afraid only Yang Fan and Grizzlies head coach Lionel know that many of Gasol's roles on the court are invisible to data.

Even if Yang Fan remembers correctly, Gasol was selected for the All-A Second Team this season, surpassing Howard and becoming a great god who cannot be avoided in the center position.

However, Gasol Jr.'s efforts can be traced back to the late stage of the season. The Grizzlies' record in the early stages of the season has been very poor, and even ranked last in the West for a while.

Gasol Jr. was even more unpresented behind Guy, Randolph and Conley.

At least there is no title of "Black and White Two Bears" at this time, because the boss of the Grizzlies is Rudy Gay, and Gasol, Jr., are just about to rise.

So if Yang Fan wants to get Gasol Jr., then it is definitely the most perfect opportunity and the last chance at the moment.

Gasol Jr. not only has shooting ability on the offensive end, but also has excellent defense ability in the penalty area. The most important thing is that Gasol Jr. is probably the second center forward who is now second only to Yao Ming in the center position.

Under various reasons, Yang Fan really couldn't find a reason to give up Gasol.

Even though Cousins' comprehensive ability is probably better, considering his defense and overreaction on the field, Yang Fan still doesn't want to take this risk.

After all, the most important thing about a champion team is not paper strength. Often, mentality and team atmosphere are essentials on the road to winning the championship.

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"Nicolah, you are ready to start the game against the Rockets tonight. Yao Ming will take a few games off. I hope you can seize the opportunity." During training in the afternoon, head coach Yang Fan announced a news that excited Vucevic.

In fact, Vucevic played very well last season, and last season was Vucevic's rookie season.

Vucevic can contribute 13.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game while averaging 26.6 minutes.

This data will probably be trained as the core when put on any team. Unfortunately, as a team that is determined to compete for the championship, Yang Fan has no time to vigorously train players.

What players can play often depends on themselves.

I can only say that the biggest benefit of a rookie player after joining the Wizards is that he can get a training plan tailored for him by Yang Fan.

After all, when players just entered the league, no one in the league knew the direction of players' development better than Yang Fan, and no one knew their stadium positioning better than Yang Fan.

For Vucevic, joining a team like the Wizards is his luck and misfortune.

Fortunately, Vucevic's career starting point is much higher than other rookies in the same class. In a few years, his achievements will be a little further away from other rookies in the same class.

Unfortunately, even though Vucevic has potential visible to the naked eye and has made a perfect debut season, he can only play as a substitute behind Yao Ming.

So when Vucevic learned that Yao Ming would take a few games and that he would serve as the starting center during this period, Vucevic felt very excited.

As for Yao Ming's consecutive games, it is naturally not because of Yao Ming's injury relapse, but because of Yang Fan's plan to rest for Yao Ming.

In Yang Fan's rest plan, Yao Ming only needs to play 55 games in the regular season, which is about 65% of a full season.

Although this number seems to be very small, it can ensure that Yao Ming avoids all back-to-back games and the fatigue accumulation brought by some long journeys.

If Yao Ming was injured and left the scene in the end, Yang Fan could only admit that he was unlucky. After all, Yang Fan is a human being and not a god. He has arranged everything he could think of, and he can only leave it to God's will next.

The Rockets team is getting worse every year, especially when Yao and Mai go their separate ways and all the old faces left the team one after another, the Rockets only have some feelings left.

Last season, the Rockets ranked ninth in the Western Conference with a record of 34 wins and 32 losses. This ranking not only made the Rockets successfully miss the playoffs, but also made the Rockets miss the opportunity to win the No. 1 pick. It can be said that they were useless and neither side got any benefits.

The Rockets' situation in the new season is also not very good. In terms of the original historical trajectory, the Rockets should have won James Harden this season.

However, due to the butterfly effect, Harden was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats, so the deal between the Rockets and the Thunder naturally did not happen.

Even though Harden was not doing well with the Bobcats, at least he wanted to be free and finally he didn't have to be scolded by fans.

In addition, Morey also used a three-year, $29 million contract to grab Jeremy Lin in the offseason, which also attracted many people's dissatisfaction at the time.

Most people regard this contract as a garbage contract. Even Yang Fan is not optimistic that the Rockets can make a profit because Jeremy Lin’s flaw is too obvious, which is that he lacks defensive ability.

Especially after entering the playoffs, when the physical confrontation between the two sides begins, Jeremy Lin’s shortcomings will be infinitely magnified.

It is even very likely that the opponent will be replaced by pick-and-roll and beaten up. Not to mention anything else, this alone limits Jeremy Lin's upper limit to leading the team.

Of course, Yang Fan has long been accustomed to the "sand-sculpture operation" of Morey, a pig brain.

Although Morey can often gain some benefits by picking up bargains in the free market, in most cases Morey is a sand sculpture.

He shouted the Rockets' championship slogan every year, but in the end he was the first round of the playoffs, and in the past two years he has been unable to even enter the playoffs.

If this continues, then the position of General Manager Morey as the first general manager will be really going to be over.

In addition, due to the butterfly effect, James Harden did not come to the Rockets, so Kevin Martin is still on the team and formed a double-gun in the backcourt with Jeremy Lin in the new season.

That's right, it's a backcourt combination that can break out and shoot on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, it's a backcourt combination where thousands of people can steal thousands of people miss it.

As for the reason why Yang Fan chose to start in this game, it was mainly because the Rockets center was Asik, a Turkish striker who was two meters tall and one three meters tall.

Although Asik's personal data this season looks pretty good, and he can contribute a double-double by 10 points and 11 rebounds per game, Asik's defensive ability is obviously overestimated.

So Vucevic's data-making journey is really comfortable starting with the Rockets.

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The Wizards' home court. Before the game started, Rockets head coach Mike Hale took the initiative to walk to Yang Fan to show his affection.

McHale is also a good candidate for head coaching. So far, he has coached for four seasons and his winning rate remains above 50%. However, if compared with Yang Fan, McHale can only be said to be a fledgling.

Speaking of McHale, I have to say that this guy has a very cool and weird title, that is, "refrigerator".

The origin of this title is not because McHale is as cold as ice, but because McHale's choice in substitution.

Unlike other head coaches, McHale's substitution always makes people look so confused.
To be continued...