Time flies in a blink of an eye, and it is September in a blink of an eye.

Throughout September, all the Wizards, who intend to make a three-game winning streak in the new season, are preparing for the game.

Especially when the team's lineup changes in the offseason, this period of September will become more important for the Wizards.

This moon player mainly focuses on running-in tactics, and then you can basically see two teams of people fighting in groups every day in the Wizards' training hall.

This grouping against Yang Fan will disrupt the player allocation every day, and then use different formations to study different effects.

At present, the Wizards' 15-man roster for the new season has been confirmed. Although this list does not mean the final roster for the Wizards to enter the playoffs next season, from the momentum, these 15 people in the new season have joined forces to compete.

Defender:

Wall, Thompson, Mo Williams.

The swaying man:

Paul George, Ray Allen, Kevin Martin, Mason.

Front line:

Aldridge, Guy, Bathir, Draymond Green.

Inside line:

Reggie Evans

Center:

Gasol Jr., Gobert, and Oden.

As can be seen from the roster, the Wizards still retain their core lineup in the new season, and are also very comprehensive on both offense and defense, and have not changed much compared to last season.

Even in terms of offensive ability, this lineup is stronger than last season, and the fault tolerance rate of the entire lineup is also better than last season.

However, the current flaws in the 15-man roster are also very obvious, that is, the team's lack of organizational capabilities.

It's okay to say in the starting lineup. John Wall's organizational ability can definitely reach the top level in the league, but once Wall is out, the current Wizards' support and pass will become a problem.

Mo Williams, Kevin Martin, Ray Allen, these players are mainly shooting in the Wizards' tactical system.

Although Mo Williams plays No. 1, his playing style is more like an offensive guard.

Regarding this, Yang Fan has been wondering whether to cut Oden and then look for a veteran point guard with excellent passes in the free market.

After all, with the Wizards' current status in the league, as long as Yang Fan has this demand, there will definitely be many people who are willing to join and try to get a championship ring with the team.

It’s just that although point guards who can pass the ball are easy to find, it will be difficult to find a point guard who can pass the ball, shoot, and have no loopholes.

So in the end, Yang Fan gave up this idea and decided to wait until the new season starts to see if he can get a flaw in other teams.

It really doesn't work. Yang Fan is considering taking his former disciple "Martial Saint" Jackson. Anyway, Jackson is currently idle at home, and there is a high probability that no team will extend an olive branch to him this season.

Although Jackson, who has excellent shooting and passing abilities, is not a purebred No. 1 player, he can still play a big role in the Wizards' tactical system.

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Time is coming to early October, and it is getting closer and closer to the start of the 13-14 season.

In October, all teams can use the preseason period to get their own lineup together and try to determine the starting lineup they want to use most before the regular season arrives.

On October 6, local time in the United States, the Wizards, as the defending champion, met their first opponent, the Mavericks in the preseason.

The Mavericks' lineup changes this season are still very huge. In the offseason, the Mavericks lost many powerful players such as Mayo, Brand, Collison, and Carman respectively.

At the same time, the Mavericks introduced Monta Ellis, the Bucks' star last season, during the offseason, but the Mavericks and Ellis signed a three-year, $25 million contract.

Logically speaking, Monta Ellis's value should not be like this. After all, last season, Allis was the Bucks' nominal star, and he averaged 19 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals per game.

This data can be worth more than 10 million US dollars, but Ellis finally signed such a contract, and the reason for this matter starts with the Wizards.

Last year, the Wizards swept the Bucks 4 in the first round: 0, and at the same time, the Wizards' excellent defensive ability also allowed the Bucks to be double-shot Jennings and Monta Ellis to be very sluggish.

In the entire series, Monta Ellis' shooting percentage has been limited to 40.7%, and his three-point shooting percentage is only a dismal 23.6%.

So this battle is equivalent to directly losing Monta Ellis' maximum salary contract. At least in the offseason, the Bucks are only willing to provide Ellis with a four-year, $30 million contract.

Faced with such a contract with an annual salary of only about 7 million yuan, Elis naturally felt disdainful, so he chose to try the free market without hesitation.

However, Alice obviously overestimated his current value in the league. After testing the free market, although many teams were willing to provide quotations for Alice, none of the salary given was above 10 million US dollars.

Finally, after measurement, Ellis had to join the Mavericks with an annual salary of more than 8 million yuan.

In the last year of this contract, Alice has the option of player, which means Alice can choose to jump out of the contract after the end of the second season and try the free market again.

But no matter what, Ellis's net worth was suppressed to less than 10 million US dollars, and this is due to the Wizards, or the Wizards are the mastermind behind all this.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning, Yang Fan had the idea of ​​taking Monta Ellis into his pocket.

But in the end, considering Ellis' current positioning and the arrogance in his heart, Yang Fan gave up this idea.

After all, although Alice's contract is not much different from Kevin Martin, Monta Alice's playing style is more like a star.

In other words, if you want to play Monta Ellis' biggest threat on the court, you must make him a ball holder, let him participate in the offense continuously on the court, and use a lot of ball rights to feed his score.

In comparison, Kevin Martin's style of shooting by running without the ball is the most suitable player for the Wizards.

So after pondering, Yang Fan decisively gave up the idea of ​​attracting Monta Elis.

Reality is not a game, nor is it not that the higher the player's attributes, the more fierce the player can play. Often, what determines a team's championship is whether the players can be compatible and whether the playing style on the court is reasonable.

"Hurry up, guys, while it's just a preseason game, there's some changes in our roster during the offseason."

"In addition, everyone has been away from the stadium for a long time, so I want to see your status through this game."

"Compared with the others, you five will definitely not have too much playing time, but I hope you can take it seriously on the court and play a performance that satisfies me."

"If I see your condition declines severely in the new season, then I will delegate you all to the Development League." Before the game started, Yang Fan joked at the starting five players with a smile on his face.

As Yang Fan said, in the preseason training stage, the starting five players will definitely not play too high.

After all, these five people are the core lineup for the Wizards to win the championship last season, and their cooperation with each other does not require any adjustment.

Relatively speaking, the Wizards' second lineup takes more time to get started.

"Don't worry, coach, I feel that I'm in great shape now, and I can't even help but attack the MVP in the new season." After hearing Yang Fan's words, Paul George, who missed the match with the MVP in the regular season last season, patted his chest.

Paul George's condition has been improved again in the new season, and he is gradually reaching the peak. Yang Fan has discovered this in his team training in September.

After experiencing the hardships of the previous few seasons, Paul George has become more aggressive in both breakthroughs and shooting, especially the stability outside the three-point line makes Yang Fan feel more relieved.

If George can maintain this level in the new season, then there is a real chance of winning the regular season MVP.

Especially when the Wizards can definitely enter the top three in the league, Paul George does not need to worry about the team's record dragging him down.

As long as his personal performance can surpass the heroes, then Paul George will already win at the starting line.

After the game started, the ball was first obtained by the Wizards. The Wizards' starting lineup in this game were: Wall, Thompson, George, Aldridge, and Gasol Jr.

The Mavericks are: Calderon, Monta Ellis, Carter, Nowitzki, and Delhamport.

From the lineup, we can see that the Wizards and Mavericks are completely two extremes. The Wizards' lineup looks balanced in offense and defense, and is very comprehensive on both offense and defense.

As for the Mavericks, they are all offensive players, only Delham Porter is considered a defensive player.

Of course, this defensive player's career protection rate is actually very average, but he once scored 23 rebounds in a single game, which makes people feel that Dalemport is a very strong inside monster.

In fact, Dalemport is a real second-rate center. If you really need to calculate it carefully, it is hard to say whether you can be considered a second-rate center.

Otherwise, Sanders would not have been snatched from the starting center position by the Bucks, and then he would have to get less than $4 million in salary this year, and he would barely gangster in the Mavericks' days.

As soon as the game started, the Wizards, who had multiple personal advantages on the offensive end, did not play individual singles, but instead ran tactics in an orderly manner on the offensive end.

Because Yang Fan had given instructions before, the winner and lose in this game are not important. What is important is that Yang Fan wants to use the preseason period to let everyone adapt to the rhythm as soon as possible.

Therefore, we tried to make efforts at the beginning of the regular season to break the best record of 75 wins and 7 losses that we had previously achieved in the Thunder!!

That's right, Yang Fan, who has never paid attention to preseason, suddenly cared about his preseason performance this season because Yang Fan wanted to break the best record of 75 wins and 7 losses in the team he led before.

This matter sounds a bit crazy. After all, after the Thunder achieved a 75-win record that year, espn has defined this record as a record that cannot be broken again.

But what cannot be broken is naturally someone else. For Yang Fan, who set this record by himself, his ambitions are not something that ESPN can guess.

Especially as time is getting more and more urgent, this year and next year, the past two years are likely to be the year that Yang Fan has the most hope of breaking the record.

Otherwise, once the Wizards need to face the pressure of renewing the contract, the Wizards' lineup will be broken up, and the difficulty of breaking the record will also be greatly increased.

In the whole first quarter, the Wizards played very smoothly on the offensive end. Even though they had not played together for a summer, when everyone wore the Wizards jersey and returned to the field together, tacit understanding only needed a look.

As the Wizards gradually began to get better on both sides of the offense and defense, Yang Fan, who was standing in the field, nodded with satisfaction from time to time.

Obviously, the players' competitive state made Yang Fan very satisfied, especially Gasol Jr. His excellent support ability perfectly replaced Yao Ming's losses after retirement.

Even though Gasol Jr. may not be as stable as Yao Ming in terms of projection, on the defensive end, Gasol Jr.'s ability is definitely above Yao Ming.

In contrast, Gasol, who is in a completely healthy body, is more practical than Yao Ming, because Yang Fan does not need to manage Gasol's load. As long as Gasol's physical strength allows, Yang Fan can keep him on the court.

Seeing the players' outstanding competitive state on the court, Yang Fan, who looked pleased, began to rotate the lineup, took all the main players off the court, and replaced them with rotation players for observation.

Among them, Yang Fan is even more looking forward to Draymond Green's performance in the new season, because Yang Fan hopes that Green can shoulder some of the organization's heavy responsibilities in the new season.

Not to mention that it is to support the organization of the second team, it can at least solve Yang Fan's problems to the greatest extent.

In the whole first half, Yang Fan did not take the main players back to the court, but simply used the third lineup to rotate, and it would adjust every time, as if he was trying to achieve the best state of the lineup.
To be continued...