294. Evaluation of Passive Soaring Ability

After playing a game with all our strength in advance, we naturally cannot waste such a case of fighting until the end.

The Trail Blazers coaching staff started working overtime for the first time this season, and made a preliminary evaluation and analysis of the players based on this game in the hotel room that night.

First up are the 6 new players.

Varejao has acceptable mobility, not as good as Kwame Brown and McDyess, but faster than Dale Davis. The advantage is good physical strength. He weighs 211 centimeters and 120 kilograms. As long as he plays, he will spare no effort on the defensive end.

He has good talents in running, defense, and pick-and-roll defense; he has more flaws, basically no offensive ability, and his defense is too rough.

Overall, the coaching staff believes that selecting such a center at the end of the first round is quite good.

Another rookie, Delfino, is not good enough. Compared with others, he is not competitive and does not have the kind of talent that the coaching staff is willing to cultivate regardless of current strength.

Lynch Hunter and Joan Barry, the two veterans are very good. Every coach uses complimentary words to describe them. Both of them can be called models of veterans.

Kwame Brown, the player that the coaching staff has struggled with, seems to be more talented than the outlaws. He has been tossing around for three years to reach this level, and after being tossed for three years, he is still the Trail Blazers this season.

The best signing of the offseason.

After analyzing the new signings, the Trail Blazers coaching staff discovered that O'Neal was there to seduce their appetite during the offseason. They were very calm and restrained in trading and signing, and kept the possibility of trading O'Neal, which was detrimental to their signings.

It helped.

But not every signing is good. Ron Mercer, the 28-year-old No. 6 pick in the 1997 class, performed disappointingly.

The nine old players who stayed on the team, Warden and Butcher, have made great progress. The improvement of the latter's mid-range shot made the shooting coach want to quit the game...

Although the outlaws are not talented enough and have average learning ability, they cannot stand up to their good physical fitness. God will reward them. They have unique advantages in both offense and defense, and they have made great progress.

Flying Squirrel, Raheem, and McDyess are all more accustomed to their new roles.

The little flying squirrel hits the waves, Raheem's role player is the end point + necessary singles, and McDyess is a pure role player.

Dale Davis is another year older, and his decline has been quite big, which is expected.

Derek Anderson is still the same as before, with all-around skills and ability to play in all three positions on the outside. He is best at using his size to deal with opponents at the point guard position.

Reuben Patterson's performance is still outstanding. In his playing years, his statistics were not outstanding, but his role on the court allowed him to firmly occupy the starting position.

No matter how impressive the Warden's defensive progress is and how much pressure the Outlaws' defensive talents can put on their opponents, Reuben Patterson is still the best perimeter defender on the Trail Blazers.

After working overtime to discuss, analyze and evaluate the players this time, Maurice Cheeks finally said: "Whether we can go further this season depends on the Warden and the Butcher!"

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The Trail Blazers' last preseason game was played at home on the 26th, against the Utah Jazz.

At noon the next day after playing the Kings, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland.

In the evening, Liu Xiu went to the airport again. His uncle, aunt, sister, and one-month-old brother came from China.

Actually, my aunt wants to stay a few more days, but work is still very important.

The Trail Blazers have customized several suits. Although the studio has no problem with the production and has been communicating on details by phone and email, my aunt was still worried and rushed back before delivery.

Also, I don’t want to miss the opening game of the new season.

When Qing'er came back, she saw that all the land had been plowed, and crops had even been planted on some of the land. Moreover, her yard excavator was dirty and full of soil. Her mentality exploded, and she chased her unlucky brother for nine streets.

...and then went to wash the excavator with great pain.

After a night's rest, on the 25th, the Trail Blazers were preparing for their last preseason game.

After gathering at 9 a.m., the coaching staff announced two things.

Delfino was sent to the Development League and Ron Mercer was waived.

The originally relaxed atmosphere immediately turned serious.

During the summer vacation, I always feel that there is still a lot of time to relax and play.

But suddenly one day I met the teacher and he asked you how many days left before the summer vacation ends. Have you finished your homework?

Whether you have finished your homework or not, you will feel the pressure of the new semester.

That's how the Trail Blazers players feel right now.

Many people felt sorry for Mercer and sounded the alarm for themselves.

Mercer, one of the representative players of the 1997 generation, averaged 15 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game in his rookie year. His performance once made All-Star Anthony Walker and rookie Pierce give up the small forward position for him.

But just after he turned 28, he was already in the tragic situation of being laid off!

There is no guaranteed stability.

Everyone has seen Mercer's poor performance in the preseason. Some people guessed that such a situation would happen, but it happened so suddenly and so early. The Trail Blazers players immediately understood it - even for a wealthy team like the Trail Blazers.

The team will not waste money on supporting idle people.

Mercer was signed with a non-guaranteed basic salary and would be waived before the start of the regular season, which would not cause any loss to the Trail Blazers.

In addition to Mercer, Delfino was sent to the Development League, which also put pressure on players on the fringe of the rotation.

No one wants to be replaced by Delfino!

During today's training, the coaching staff saw that the expressions and demeanor of the players had changed.

There was less laughter and laughter, and everyone was more serious and serious.

The coaching staff is very satisfied. It’s not that they don’t like the relaxed atmosphere in the team, but even Maurice Cheeks, who indulges his players the most, feels that he must be serious when he should be serious. For example, the beginning of the season is the whole season.

The stage of laying the foundation.

However, after the team training, the coaching staff discovered something that surprised them.

In fact, there was such a scene yesterday afternoon, but they were too busy to notice it.

Randolph, who was at the end of the first round of the 2001 class, is coaching the No. 1 pick in the 2001 class to play!

Just teach him, Randolph was extremely patient!

The new coach was okay, but the old coach couldn't believe his eyes when he saw this scene.

But there have been a lot of strange things going on with their team over the past year or so, including this one.

No, didn't they have a wonderful and fierce battle with the Kings two days ago?

What became a hot topic was that Warden's good looks helped the Trail Blazers' season ticket sales rate reach 60%, becoming the first team in the new season to achieve a season ticket sales rate of 60%...

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On the night of October 26, the Trail Blazers defeated the Jazz 96-89 and ended their preseason tour with 6 wins and 1 loss.

Playing against the Kings, the Trail Blazers got a taste of the power of a strong offensive team under the new rules.

Playing against the Jazz, the Trail Blazers learned about the defensive performance of traditional strong teams after they gradually adapted to the new rules.

This is the first time in 4 games that the Trail Blazers have scored less than 100 points. After scoring less than 100 points in the first two games of the preseason, they scored more than 100 points in all the next 4 games.

That is to say, the referee's call was very strict, otherwise the Jazz could defend better under the leadership of Kirilenko.

With 4 blocks in a single game, Liu Xiu felt that the new rules had almost no impact on Kirilenko! Kirilenko's supplementary defense and assistance were not confrontational in nature.

The Jazz's new aid, Boozer, has greatly increased the Jazz's inside strength and its inside offensive capabilities.

However, the Trail Blazers players discovered something exciting.

The Jazz have adjusted well defensively under the new rules, but they seem to be adjusting even better!

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On October 27, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a handsome young man woke up from his sleep.

After extracting the simulation training results, the system prompts did not stop and continued to come!

"Due to changes in league rules, ability evaluation and player detection reports have been affected."

Seeing this prompt, Liu Xiu excitedly opened the main interface of the system to see his ability evaluation...

"Name: Liu Xiu, English name: Jess.

Age: 22 years old (February 17, 1982)

Height: 188 cm, wingspan 203 cm, weight: 94 kg.

Team: Portland Trail Blazers.

Ability rating: 84.

Athletic ability: speed 90, strength 92, jumping 85, flexibility 93, physical strength 91.

Basic skills: 72 three-pointers, 82 mid-range shots, 92 layups, 93 ball control, 89 passing accuracy, 83 turns, 69 strides, 79 turn overs, 74 emergency stops...

Skills: Post-up play 88, shooting after dribbling 79, accelerating layup while traveling 79, European step 69, emergency stop jump shot 67, fadeaway 62, rhythm flow breakthrough 76, forward change of direction breakthrough 81..."

‘?’

Liu Xiu looked at his own ability evaluation and a question mark appeared on his head.
To be continued...