In the next few preseason games, Yang Fan simply did not let the main players appear, but directly used the second team to reach the starter.

At the same time, it also allowed the third team, which usually played very little, to get a lot of playing time.

Because the Wizards have been working together for a long time and have just won the championship trophy last season, so there is no need for too much work with each other.

Relatively speaking, preseason is just a way to help them adapt to the rhythm of the new season as soon as possible. When Yang Fan believes that their competitive state can adapt to the game in the new season, then they have no need to play on the court.

After all, Yang Fan doesn’t care about the winners and loses in the preseason. To be precise, no team will care about the winners and loses in the preseason.

Except for those teams who are already afraid of losing, they have always maintained an extreme state of losing the word "loss".

In the next few preseason games, the team's new players Mo Williams and Kevin Martin got a lot of playing time.

Since they have just joined the Wizards and are still in a exploratory stage with their teammates, Yang Fan gives them much more time than Rudy Guy, Reggie, Evans and others.

In addition, Draymond Green and Gobert are also the key observation objects of Yang Fan. Among them, Green will shoulder more organizational responsibilities in the new season and become a reliable offensive organization point for the Wizards' second team.

As for Gobert, it is entirely because he is a rookie, and the minds of rookies are often very fragile.

Yang Fan doesn't want Gobert to bear too much public pressure. After all, playing basketball under Yang Fan is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing.

Once you can't score, you will be able to defeat the rookie player and lose your confidence in the game with the title of being selected by Yang Fan.

So in an irrelevant game like the preseason, Yang Fan gave Gobert a lot of playing time.

Let him find his playing form on the court, strive to achieve excellent personal performance, and minimize doubts from the outside media.

No matter what, Yang Fan must be full of confidence in Gobert's future, but in the eyes of others, what they see is different from what Yang Fan sees.

Yang Fan didn't want to argue about this. Even if time will tell everything, Yang Fan didn't want Gobert to become depressed as soon as he entered the league.

Especially for non-local American players entering the NBA, they have to bear huge psychological pressure. As the French center Gobert, Yang Fan cannot guarantee whether he can have a good start.

However, what Yang Fan can guarantee is that Gobert's future will definitely not be too bad. At least after the Wizards execute their four-year rookie contract, Gobert will definitely become the most popular center in the free market!!

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Time comes to the end of October. With the Wizards defeating the 76ers in the last preseason game, the Wizards also ended the preseason journey of the 13-14 season with a record of four wins and one loss.

And in the near future, we will welcome the arrival of the new season and launch an impact on the goal of three consecutive championships.

Throughout the preseason, the team's new players Kevin Martin and Mo Williams performed well.

After all, Martin and Mo Williams have been living in this league for many years. Even though they just came to the Wizards, they are not so familiar with their teammates.

But based on personal abilities alone, the two have the strength to defeat all the parties in the preseason.

Among them, Martin averaged 26.7 minutes per game in the preseason, and contributed 19.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.1 assists.

And his shooting percentage is 47.6% and his three-point shooting percentage is 41.2%. No matter which direction, Kevin Martin is very suitable for the tactical system of this Wizards.

The running-in with teammates on the court is also getting better and better, and no unpleasant things have happened.

Because players like Martin and Mo Williams who are mainly shooting can be seamlessly connected with the Wizards, otherwise Yang Fan would not have been able to target these two people in the free market at once.

As the saying goes, flies do not bite seamless eggs, bah! It’s a famous coach who doesn’t look for useless people. Yang Fan actually chose to take Kevin Martin and Mo Williams into his pocket, so naturally he has his own reasons.

Mo Williams averaged 16.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in five pre-season games.

Among them, the shooting percentage was 44.6%, and the three-point shooting percentage was 38.7%.

Although he is slightly inferior to Kevin Martin in terms of offensive efficiency, Yang Fan is still satisfied with the result considering the salary gap between the two.

What's more, before the preseason comes, the Wizards still have a lot of time to run in. Yang Fan has never been worried about this.

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On October 26, the NBA 13-14 regular season officially arrived.

And today, the league has arranged a total of five opener matches, and the most eye-catching one is definitely the Wizards vs. Nets!

As the defending champion of two consecutive championships, the Wizards are now popular in the league.

The Nets are probably the most popular team in the entire league this season, except for the Wizards. Even the Heat, which has also strengthened a lot this summer, may not be able to match.

Of course, what we are talking about at the moment is just popularity. If we talk about strength, then it is really hard to say which is stronger and who is weaker between the Nets and the Heat.

This summer, the Nets made several shocking operations, which led to the Nets' lineup this season: Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Pierce, Garnett, Lopez, Terry, Kirirenko, Livingston, etc.

These names are well-known in the league today. Except for Livingston's reputation, everyone else can definitely be called the best in every position.

There is no need to say much about the starting five players. Even Terry on the bench is a big shot in the NBA's history three-point rankings. Kirirenko is also one of the best players in the league's forward defense capabilities.

This lineup that is not inferior to the four Lakers giants that were ganging together, also made ESPN famous commentator Koenig Freke laugh: "If the Nets cannot win the championship this year, then this is definitely the biggest joke in NBA history."

Freke's words are indeed correct, although the Nets' group this time are slightly different from the top NBA team.

But considering that in order to promote this plastic surgery, the Nets traded all the team's draft picks in the next few years to the Celtics, there is only one way to go before the Nets, that is, to launch an impact on the championship.

In other words, if the Nets fail to win the NBA championship, this operation will be one of the worst in history.

Because the Nets have completely overdrawn the future, if the Nets cannot grasp the present, it is a miserable state where both the present and the future are gone.

It is precisely because of this that this NBA opener attracted a large number of fans to watch. When the Wizards faced the Nets, not to mention anything else, the lineup alone can be called star-studded.

Even most people still support the Wizards to win this victory, because it will take a lot of time to get the Nets into this lineup.

In this case, the Wizards, who have been running in for two seasons, naturally have the upper hand and have an advantage at the starting line than the Nets.

It is worth mentioning that after losing the playoffs last year, the Nets cut off Calesimo, who had just won the best coach last season.

This also made Calessimo one of the third person in NBA history to be cut by the team just after winning the best coach. In a sense, Calessimo has also become a historical coach!

As for the first two, Dolf Shays from the 65-66 season, and Riley from the 89-90 season.

In the 65-66 season, Shayce led the 76ers to a regular season record of 55 wins and 25 losses, and was successfully elected as the NBA's best coach.

But in the finals, although the 76ers had Chamberlain, they finally failed to win the championship in the face of the powerful Celtics.

After that, Dolf Shayce was fired by the team, becoming the first poor person in NBA history to be fired just after winning the best coach.

As for the dismissal of "God's Operation" Riley, the 1989-90 season occurred in the 1989-90 season, Riley led the Lakers to a league-first record of 63 wins and 19 losses in the regular season.

This also made Riley elected as the coach of the year for the first time, but in the second round of the playoffs between the Lakers and the Suns, the Lakers were eliminated 4:1 by the Suns.

This also became Riley's last season in coaching the Lakers, and also changed Riley's entire life trajectory in the future.

Back at the Nets and after relegating head coach Carlesimo, the Nets chose to hire Jason Kidd, who had just retired from the Wizards, as the team's head coach in the new season.

That's right, the Nets actually hired Kidd, who just helped the Wizards win the NBA championship last season, as the team's coach candidate for the new season.

At first, after Yang Fan learned about this, he almost fainted from laughing.

Yang Fan didn't know what the Nets management was thinking. Does the Nets management think that Kidd had played for one season with the Wizards and he himself knew the tactical system of the Wizards, so from this perspective, Kidd is fully capable of leading the Nets to launch snipers against the Wizards in the new season.

If the Nets management thinks so, then Yang Fan can only give him a thumbs up silently.

In fact, the Nets' coaching change this time is still very risky. Although Kidd was called one of the smartest point guards in NBA history when he was a player, his mentality is definitely completely different when he is a player and a coach.

As a newcomer who has just entered the coaching industry, whether Kidd can lead this star-stunning Nets to withstand the pressure is something worth pondering.

The Nets are very different from other teams. Compared with other teams, the Nets have no way out. The Nets must succeed in these two seasons, otherwise the entire team will be ruined in the future.

Under such circumstances, the Nets management still chose to hire Kidd as the team's new season coach. It has to be said that this courage is definitely worthy of Yang Fan's praise.

At least if Yang Fan chooses to retire one day and turns to work in the management, Yang Fan will definitely not have the courage to do so.

Of course, no matter what, Kidd was also a hero of Yang Fan's championship last season, so before the game started, Yang Fan also stood on the sidelines and chatted for a long time.

Judging from the relaxed and pleasant communication between the two, it is impossible to see that the two will be the opponents in the next focus battle.

On the contrary, those who don’t know may think that Yang Fan and Kidd are old friends who have not seen each other for many years, and they came to the scene today just to watch the game.

"Yes, Jason, you have transformed into a coach directly. I'm afraid you will become the fastest existence in NBA history to transform from a player to a coach, and absolutely no one."

"To be honest, when I learned the news, I thought the media was making a spoof, but you really became the Nets head coach."

"But I'm optimistic about you and I believe you will definitely succeed in the coaching industry. You were very smart when you were a player and contributed a lot of strategies to me last season."

"So I sincerely hope you can have a successful start." Yang Fan said with Jason Kid on the billboard on the sidelines while drinking coffee.

"Don't sarcasticize me anymore. Although I had long wanted to be a basketball coach, even I didn't expect that this day would come so quickly."

"If you really want to talk about it, this matter is a coincidence."

"At that time, I saw the Nets cut off head coach PJ in the offseason, so I tried to send an email, but my competitor was so bad that I became the only head coach."

"Although I have been preparing for this day for a long time, I really don't have confidence now."

"Because I only know that your horror is not as simple as the media reports."

"After that being said, if you really hope I can have a good start, why not give me some water in this game?" At the end, Kidd snatched the coffee from Yang Fan's hand half-jokingly, and then started drinking it very naturally.

"I've said it many times, but you still don't change your habit. Don't put sugar in coffee, so that the coffee will lose its original taste." Kidd spread his hands helplessly.

As if he was used to this way of getting along, Yang Fan did not feel inappropriate about Kidd's behavior. Instead, he found the feeling of working together last season.

"You guys have become the head coach of the most luxurious team in the league, and you are still unsure of this."

"The dignified Coach Jason actually wants to grab a cup of coffee. He agreed in advance that no matter who wins this game, you should spend a lot of money after the end."

"Otherwise I'll say you well in front of the media, I know all your embarrassing things." He stood up from the billboard and stood up straight, Yang Fan tidied up his suit, and then his expression instantly became serious: "Stop making trouble, please remind you with your friends that the Nets' stall is not that easy to answer."

"If possible, I mean if you are willing to give up, it's better to quit before the end of the season. This practice will be beneficial to your future."

"After all, with the current lineup of the Nets, the regular season record is not much worse, but in the playoffs, you should know what kind of team the Wizards are."

"Actually, I don't want to hurt your confidence, but what I want to say is that nothing can stop the team's three consecutive championships." Speaking of this, Yang Fan, who looked serious, paused slightly, "Even if we have a good relationship in private."
Chapter completed!