With the Grizzlies' 15-man roster full in the new season, Luke can finally usher in his holiday this summer.

The Grizzlies' operations throughout the offseason were all made by Luke. From the draft, to the trading market, to the free market where they just signed a 15-man roster, Luke can be said to be busy from beginning to end, and is definitely the busiest basketball coach in the league.

Thanks to the help of Chris Wallace, Luke only needs to plan the next plan and leave the rest to Chris Wallace.

Otherwise Luke would have died of exhaustion this summer.

Taking advantage of this hard-won vacation, Luke first took a good night's sleep at home and didn't go out for two consecutive days. Then he took the little girl Katie to the famous Miami Beach to enjoy the satisfaction of the sunbathing.

During the days when Luke was crazy about playing, many reporters have photographed him, and Luke was following Katie and Ruth Williams.

Katie is Luke's goddaughter, and it is normal for Luke to go out for fun to bring his goddaughter with him.

But Ruth Williams stayed with Luke throughout the whole time, and even reporters photographed the two staying in the same hotel at night, which revealed a bit of intriguing smell.

Many fans are speculating whether Luke is in love with Ruth Williams, otherwise how could the two stay together in a close relationship?

Although Luke and Ruth Williams both came forward to refute the rumors about the outside world.

It means that Ruth Williams is Katie's enlightenment coach. He brought Ruth Williams with him when he went out for a trip just to express his gratitude to Ruth.

However, outside fans did not believe Luke's statement, but instead started to make excuses online, which made Luke, who was far away in Miami, feel a little amused and crying.

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However, happy times are always short. In a blink of an eye, September is coming, and teams have begun to contact players to return to the team for training, preparing in advance for the upcoming new season.

As the defending champion, the Grizzlies are no exception. Although the Grizzlies' core framework has not changed much in the new season, they have added many new faces to personnel changes.

Chris Paul and Kevin Martin are both taken out separately, both of whom are one of the best defenders in the league, but when the two are about to cooperate in the new season, it is still unknown what threat this will be able to play against the backcourt double guns.

Fortunately, Paul is a player with a very high basketball IQ. No matter who his teammates are replaced by, Paul has a way to integrate into this team.

Martin is a player who can play his offensive threat regardless of whether he has the ball or not, and Chris Paul can also play without the ball at a certain stage.

This also allowed Paul and Martin's backcourt double guns to perform well in team training in September, without any difficulty in running-in doubts from the outside world, and mutually exclusive phenomena.

As for Artest, who also just joined the Grizzlies this summer, it has been more smoothly working with the team.

Artest's style of playing is more suitable for this Grizzlies than Gerald Wallace. Through observations of two team training matches, D'Antoni was very satisfied with Artest's integration, and even had a hint of surprise.

In this Grizzlies whose offensive talent has reached the historical ceiling, Atai's most important task is defense. Secondly, he only needs to stand at the bottom corners of both sides and wait for his teammates to pass the ball, and hit those open three-pointers that are not very difficult.

In fact, Artest, now 29 years old, is not only at the golden age of a player, but also has certain ball-holding and offensive ability on the court.

However, Artest's most stable method of attacking with the ball is to use his muscles to force his opponent under the basket.

This style of play is both simple and rough, but once you enter the playoffs, it is easy to be targeted by the opponent, which is why Artest can never go further.

Last season, Artest was able to score 38% of his shooting percentage per game.

For a player with a defensive ability that is the top in the league, this shooting percentage is already very impressive.

Artest's positioning for the Grizzlies in the new season is very clear, he is a standard 3D player, but compared with other 3D players in the league, Artest is indeed a bit fierce.

Even if Arte's way of cutting into the basket is very efficient, but for the Grizzlies, Artest does not need to be as versatile as the Timberwolves. He only needs to do the best defense and three-pointers, which is the greatest help to the Grizzlies in the new season.

Compared with Gerard Wallace, who was efficient with the Grizzlies last season, Artest's shooting ability is better and can give more offensive space for other teammates on the court. This is what both D'Antoni and Luke are very satisfied.

Chris Paul prefers to finish the attack at mid-range, while Kevin Martin takes the most shots on the outside and near the penalty area.

When Artest, a defensive player, can open up space on the offensive end, the Grizzlies' offensive methods will refresh the perception of various teams in the league.

The smooth running-in of the starting lineup made the Grizzlies coaching staff feel good, and Louis Williams and Michael Reed also had a clear division of labor on the bench, but compared to Paul and Martin, it still takes a certain amount of time to run-in with each other.

It was not until this time that chief assistant coach D'Antoni felt glad that Luke accepted the offseason's deal was Michael Reed, not "Martial Saint" Jackson, otherwise a basketball would not be enough to play on the Grizzlies' bench.

Michael Reed is an outside star who is very good at playing off the ball. In a sense, he completely released another player in the backcourt, Louis Williams.

Otherwise, once both of them need the ball on the court, plus Capono and Novak who are standing on the outside waiting to pass the ball, the Grizzlies will definitely look very bad when playing on the bench.

Fortunately, Luke seemed to have thought of this when building the team, so he rejected the Golden State Warriors' offer and chose to reach a deal with the Bucks.

Looking at Luke, who was standing on the sidelines, supervising Hibert training one-on-one, D'Antoni couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder the outside world has compared him to the hand of God. In terms of building a team, Lu is indeed the best coach I have ever seen."

Hearing D'Antoni's sigh, Ranbir, who was talking about something bad with Artest, turned around, "After time, you will find that Lu is not only excellent in building the team, but also a good player in cultivating players."

"I have imagined more than once that if Lu had chosen not to be a coach, then he would have been the best scout or trainer in the league now."

Luke is naturally not sure about the conversation between D'Antoni and Ranbir.

Since the players returned to the team for training in September, Luke has focused most of his training on rookie Hibert.

The Grizzlies selected a total of two players in this year's draft, but Roy Hibert was the only one who stayed in the team in the end.

As the only rookie in the team who just entered the league, Hibert was naturally given special care by Luke.

Luke is very clear about the way these players play at their peak, so the suggestions Luke put forward can often help players avoid many detours.

As soon as the player enters the league, he will find the most suitable position for him, and avoid things that are confused and unable to find the direction.

Hibert is not a center with particularly outstanding offensive ability. Even Hibert at his peak just used his nearly two meters tall to send the ball into the basket.

Instead of using specific offensive skills to end the game, Hibert has a relatively gentle turn, throwing and rolling back.

Although the offensive distance is limited, with a height of up to 2.18 meters, Hibert can basically ignore more than 80% of the block interference when standing in the penalty area.

Luke, who knew this, greeted the trainer in advance, and asked Hibert to practice turning and throwing and turning back on both sides of the basket, and practice less things that are not available in the game.

As for the defensive end, what Hibert needs to do at this stage is to try to control the fouls and avoid being taken off on the spot by the opponent's center.

During the leisure stage, some strength training is interspersed with to make the body stronger.

Whether it is the strength of upper limbs or lower limbs, Hibert currently lacks something and does not need to set upper limit standards.

Defense is not something that can cause qualitative changes through training. If you want to become an excellent defensive player, your body, experience and experience are indispensable.

Now Hibert only has physical advantages, but his game experience and defensive experience are lacking.

The NBA league is different from the NCAA. In NCAA, Hibert can become a low-level killer that dominates the side by his height.

But when it comes to NBA, height is no longer the only criterion for measuring a center player. In addition, Hibert also needs to improve his skills and strength.

Once Hibert's strength in the new season can reach the league average, a height of up to 2.18 meters and sprinting to the basket will be a mountain.

Except for Yao Ming and other centers, it is difficult for other centers to ignore Hibert when facing Hibert.

As for players like LeBron James who are good at breaking through and scoring, Hibert's existence is even more useful than Gasol Jr.

Throughout September, the entire Grizzlies team was conducting targeted training.

Each player's main training focus is different. According to the plan formulated by Luke in advance, the Grizzlies trainers strictly implement it in an orderly and strictly along the way.

For players like Capono and Novak, except for the three-point shooting training, other aspects of training can be reduced.

Whether it is a mid-range shot or a breakthrough layup, Capono and Novak do not need to do these, after all, these two people can't do anything except three-pointers.

Under the premise of crazy training of three-point shooting, Capono and Novak trained the most physical fitness.

Judging from the static talent that the two cannot shake, Luke does not expect their defensive abilities to reach the league average, but as long as they make a little progress compared to last season, it is already a surprise.

Since players like Capono and Novak both rely on three-pointers to make a living in the NBA, Luke did not dare to let the two gain too much weight in strength training.

Otherwise, the sudden increase in strength will seriously affect the feel of the two people when shooting, which makes the Grizzlies trainers have to deal with it carefully.

While letting the two men try to hang up the meat, they must also maintain the best tonnage that does not affect the shooting feel.

It is worth mentioning that after a whole summer of hard training, Paul Gasol also developed a three-point shooting. Although he was not as casual as his younger brother Mark Gasol, he also developed and improved his offensive range again.

The starting point guard of the Grizzlies in the new season is Chris Paul, who just won the league assist king last season, which means that other Grizzlies players will get more offensive opportunities.

Paul Gasol is trying to end the game at any position on the court and avoid dragging the team's offensive end. Therefore, while other players eat, drink and have fun in the summer, he has to shoot 1,000 three-pointers every day to train his feel.

What made Paul Gasol train hard was not to taste the sweetness of the championship, but to have fans outside the world put Paul Gasol and Tim Duncan together to compare it.

This made Paul Gasol, who had never dared to think about before, feel a different kind of pleasure.

The team has added new players in the new season, and Paul Gasol is not far from his second career championship.

With the transfer news that Kevin Garnett made this summer, everything made the Spanish insider even harder.

Whether it is to beat Tim Duncan in career honors after retirement, or to avoid being pulled too far by Chris Paul and Kevin Martin on the team.

Paul Gasol felt a pressure, a pressure that would sooner or later be eliminated by the alliance.

Especially Kevin Garnett's experience, it made all the stars in the league start to cherish the present.

The first player in the league was traded by his team for more than ten years because of a torn Achilles tendon. Even if he got to his new boss, Celtics, Garnett was no longer the number one player in the league who called the wind and rain. Instead, he was just a defensive machine to assist Paul Pierce.

Garnett's decline made many players see the facts clearly, and they felt sad that the rabbit died and the fox was sad.

No one knows when the injury will come to you. Faced with injuries, players often don’t have many ways, but they can work hard to improve when they are healthy, and strive to get a huge contract that is enough to support their elderly care like Garnett.

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At the end of September, the team's running-in was getting smoother and smoother. Before the new season arrived, the team held a press conference.

At the press conference, the outside world was still quite interested in the luxury lineup that the Grizzlies have collected in the new season.

Especially the fact that former Bucks star Michael Reed actually played a substitute with the Grizzlies has become the most popular topic in the league.

When the reporter asked Paul why he left the Hornets to join the Grizzlies during the offseason, Chris Paul's answer still surprised many people.

"It's not because I'm in conflict with the team's management, nor is it because of Byron? Coach Scott is not good enough."
To be continued...