NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

This offseason is absolutely exciting and lively, and the league's landscape has also undergone tremendous changes.

And it is not a change in the pattern of a few teams, but a collective change in the championship group in the entire league!
Such a huge five-party trade, the trade between the Celtics and the Pacers, and the Pacers' final initiative to break up the team, all made the fans and the media enjoy themselves to their heart's content this offseason!
Exciting, so exciting!
Various rumors, transactions, and transfer information have been flying around almost the entire summer!

Before this year, the NBA has never had a season where so many top players swapped teams. This offseason, the scale of the transactions, the stars involved, the quality of the stars, and their strength have all reached a peak!
The biggest peak ever!
To put it simply: there has never been a more lively and frantic offseason than this!
Of course, although this offseason was lively and there were so many big news, there were also some things that were not resolved during this offseason.

For example, the Pacers failed to find a suitable buyer in the end and did not trade Pierce. They could only bring Pierce into the training camp, and the two sides also conducted friendly negotiations.

If you, Pierce, want to leave, just tell me anytime and I'll try my best to satisfy your request. But I, Bird, am not going to include you in my long-term team-building plan. If someone offers a high price, I'll send you away immediately.

Where Pierce will go is destined to be the biggest suspense in this season's regular season trading market!
After all, the changes, trades and transfers that other teams should make have been finalized!
The only one missing is you, Pierce, who has nowhere to go for the time being.

It is also worth mentioning that the head coach of the Lakers has been confirmed to be Tom Janovich, the head coach of the Rockets at that time. As for Phil Jackson, he has not come out for the time being. He announced that he would take a few years off and then see the situation before talking about a comeback.

But whether or not to return, and when to return, we’ll talk about that later!

Old man, go enjoy your life.

With the Lakers' head coach finally confirmed before the start of training camp, each team is ready to start their journey in the new season!

As soon as the training camp started, Lin Tian quickly discovered that his team had undergone quite obvious changes and the players' conditions were quite different.

Especially Anthony and Stoudemire who participated in the World Championships!

These two are even more hardworking than they were after they lost the Eastern Conference Finals in their first year as a team!
For example, Anthony is a power player, but a lot of his power comes from his talent! What he hates most is boring strength training.

But in this year's training camp, this guy would come to training an hour earlier and leave later for every training session, and then do a set of strength training with the trainer.

As for Stoudemire, this guy started to add changes to his breakthroughs!
Although he had already trained himself with shooting before, every time he broke through with the ball, because of his strong shooting and athletic ability, most of the time when he wanted to break through, he relied on the threat of shooting and then broke through!

With his physical fitness, this move is definitely enough for him to beat 90% of the inside players in the league.

But of course, when the tricks are too simple, they can be easily seen through, and when seen through, they will be targeted.

So in this year's training camp, Stoudemire actually started practicing things like change-of-direction dribbling followed by a jump-step layup, quick turns to attack the basket after receiving the ball, and quick stop jump shot after one dribble.

This is more like the No. 3 position and is more like what Anthony should practice. Stoudemire practiced it every day during the training camp!
These two guys obviously suffered a great loss in the World Championships, and after learning from their mistakes, they decided to strengthen their weaknesses.

These two guys are really trying their best to give themselves a good show at the Olympics two years later!

Anthony and Stoudemire's hard work actually happened in other teams as well!

For example, James and Paul are both working hard on their shooting, with James working hard on three-pointers, while Paul wants to play to his strengths and practice mid-range pull-up jump shots.

For example, Howard would always take the initiative to look for Duncan during training, fight with him for position, compete with him for rebounds, and compete with Duncan in deterrence under the basket.

There are also Hinrich, Ben Gordon, Deron...

These players who participated in the World Championships, no matter what kind of personality they had before or what kind of positioning they gave themselves, now they have realized their shortcomings, they have seen their weaknesses, and they have decided to go all out.

They need to train hard in the coming period to improve their shortcomings and make up for their deficiencies.

Then, at the Olympics two years later, they avenged themselves!
The failure of this World Championship is definitely a good thing for the long-term development of American basketball as a whole! It is also a great opportunity for the young players of the American team to grow and improve!
Regarding the hard work of the two young men in the team, Mr. Lin said: At my age, I can’t use those things for the time being.

I have a more convenient way to improve!

Our system hasn't appeared for a long time!

Now Lin Tian has accumulated experience for such a long time, including a complete season, the World Championships, and the 2 experience points from the gift pack, plus the remaining 2 experience points.

Now Lin Tian is a truly wealthy man! He has accumulated more than 6 experience points!

With so much experience, Lin Tian did not hesitate at all. He directly upgraded the "Peak Moment" that he had always wanted to upgrade, but it required 4 experience points to upgrade from LV4 to MAX level.

After several years of accumulation, this thing has more than 14000 points of accumulated experience, so Lin Tian only needs to invest less than 26000 points to upgrade!

"Peak Moment LV5 (MAX): The host's rebounding ability increases by 22%, and the ability to find teammates after grabbing a rebound increases by 19%. If a teammate shoots directly without dribbling after receiving the ball during a fast break, the hit rate increases by 13%! If a teammate shoots within 7 seconds after the start of the offensive round, the hit rate increases by an additional 3%! When passing using Williams' passing action, the error rate increases by 2%! If a one-handed pass is used, the above pass bonus increases by an additional 7%, and the ball speed and accuracy increase by an additional 21%! After all teammates shoot, if they hit the ball that can be counted as an assist for the host, the hit rate increases by an additional 1%."

Looking at the dense introduction and numerous bonuses, Lin Tian’s first passing skill has finally reached the maximum level!

Moreover, after reaching the maximum level, this skill has an additional attribute: from now on, as long as Lin Tian passes the ball, as long as his teammate makes the shot, it will be considered an assist by Lin Tian, ​​and the teammate's shot will have an additional 1% hit rate.

Although this 1% seems to be insignificant.

But if you calculate carefully, you will find that this bonus is not only not small, but quite a lot!
Because this additional attribute increases all the attacks of teammates!

In a game, teammates will receive Lin Tian’s pass and shoot at least 30 times. If all these 30 shots increase their hit rate by 1%, that’s not a small amount at all!
Throughout the entire season, if Lin Tian plays 80 games, then his teammates will have 2400 shots to get Lin Tian's hit rate bonus attribute. If you calculate it this way, the improvement will be even greater!

What does it mean that little by little, a drop of water wears away a stone?

After upgrading this skill, Lin Tian did not plan to keep the remaining 34000 experience points, as it was useless.

Especially now that no one has given Lin Tian a new skill in the system for at least 5-6 years, who knows when the next new skill will be available. Even if a skill is released, it will be difficult to bring any essential improvement to Lin Tian.

Instead of saving that little bit of experience, it’s better to use it directly!

Lin Tian divided the 34000 experience points into three skills: 'Quick Gunner LV4', 'Flying Mamba LV4', and 'Utah Wall LV4'.

As for why we need to improve these 3 skills?
Because they were positioned very close to the front, after these three were upgraded to MAX, when Lin Tian looked at the system, the first few rows were all MAX, which looked very comfortable!
As for the remaining 12000 experience points, why not use them?

Because it's not enough! There are only two skills left, and 10000 experience points are not enough to upgrade, so I'll save them first.

Well, that’s the reason why it’s so simple!
"Quick Gunner LV5 (MAX): The host's total shooting time is reduced by 22%!"

"Utah Wall LV5 (MAX): The host's screen success rate increases by 12%, and the hit rate of mid-range direct shots after receiving a pass from teammates after a screen increases by 10%."

"Flying Mamba LV5 (MAX): The host's finishing ability at the basket is improved by 18%! The hit rate when breaking through for a layup or pulling up from the baseline is increased by 18%, and the jumping ability is increased by 13%. If the jumping evaluation reaches A-, then for every level of jumping increase, the finishing ability and pulling up ability will be increased by an additional 3%!" After these three skills were improved, Lin Tian was a little disappointed. There were no new additional attributes for the three skills. It was really boring!

This is such a shabby system!
At the same time, after these four skills were upgraded, Lin Tian’s data panel also ushered in a brand new change!

Well, no change.

Except for the hidden skill of shooting speed which is not displayed on the panel, and the S-level rebounding, the attributes and abilities of these skills have all reached S+, which is the point where there is no room for improvement. And Lin Tian's rebounding ability is obviously not something that can be broken through to the S+ level by improving a single skill.

He would have to wait.

But no matter what the attributes of the rebound are, Mr. Lin has truly blown up the system this time!
After upgrading all the skills, Lin Tian no longer hesitated, opened the panel and studied it carefully!
Name: Lin Tian

Age: 33
Height: 191 cm
Weight: 98KG
Physical evaluation: jumping S+, speed S+, strength S+, physical fitness S+, explosion S+, coordination S+, consciousness S+
Overall body rating: S+
Offensive evaluation: Shooting S+, dribbling S+, passing S+, breakthrough S+, low post S+, dunk S+, fast break S+
Overall offensive rating: S+
Defensive rating: Rebounding S, Steals S+, Top Defense A, Block A+, Help Defense S-, Positioning A-, Single Defense S+
Defensive overall rating: S-
Characteristics: All-Seeing Eye, Beautiful Boy, Lightning Speed, Human Cannon, Czech Iron Man, Chinese Leap, Big Bird Spirit, Light of Asia, Iron-Blooded Wolf King
技能：犹他城墙LV5（MAX)、飞翔曼巴LV5(MAX)、顶峰时刻LV5(MAX)、飞天神猪LV5(MAX)、快枪手LV5(MAX)、攻防一体LV5(MAX)、射手之王LV5(MAX)、精钢手套LV5(MAX)、真理手套LV3(3131/24000)、闪蝶效应LV3（5393/36000）神之背打LV5(MAX）

Items: Injury exemption (1 time), Flagrant foul (3 times), Iron Green (1 month), Status card (1 year), Health warehouse, Ramadan (one month)

XP: 12198
Task: None yet

After Lin Tian casually glanced at the system he hadn't seen for a long time, he quickly closed the system interface.

Lin Tian is no longer the young man who stares at the data panel every day, looking forward to any changes in it. Now when looking at this thing, Lin Tian already has a feeling of nostalgia.

Well, it's outrageous, but that's exactly how it feels!
Who made this thing have been around for more than ten years and there is no sign of any evolution or upgrade? The interface is out of date!

But in short, while everyone was sweating and training hard, Lin Tian had already secretly upgraded himself! This year's Knicks are definitely stronger than last year! They are all ready!
Just waiting for the order, ready to go to war at any time!
As the training camp progresses rapidly, the next season, the 2006-2007 season, is about to begin!

It is worth mentioning that because of Lin Tian’s arrival, this world now has various places that are different from or have huge differences from Lin Tian’s memory.

For example, in his memory, Auerbach passed away in November 06, but now, he suddenly passed away in the summer.

For example, the chaotic draft and the biggest deal he had ever seen.

In short, the gap between this alliance and the one Lin Tian had in mind was getting bigger and bigger.

However, Lin Tian doesn't care whether the gap is big or not.

He has destroyed countless galactic battleships and ruined countless teams that were ambitious about winning the championship.

Mr. Lin, be fearless! Come on and try to defeat me!

Then, Mr. Lin will show all of you what a real galactic battleship is!
Destroy you all!

As the training camp is about to come to an end, the schedules of each team have been arranged early.

This year, the Knicks and Lin Tian finally no longer have to travel around to play international games. Lin Tian himself has forgotten how many times he has gone out to play. This time they can finally take a break.

This is also a new attempt by Stern. He wants to see what the influence of the NBA is. He wants to try whether other people can support the ticket sales and attention of the game if Lin Tian, ​​the league's top superstar, does not go out.

Since they didn't have to go abroad, the Knicks team naturally stayed in the United States with ease and played 8 consecutive preseason games.

In these 8 games, the Knicks have won and lost. Of course, the main reason is that the main players have shorter playing time. For example, Lin Tian has not played more than 8 minutes in any of the 20 preseason games. The same is true for the other absolute main players.

To be honest, with such a short playing time, they had to sit down as soon as they started sweating. Lin Tian, ​​Stoudemire, Anthony and others even raised some opinions about this to old Nelson.

"Coach, I want to play basketball!"

"What the hell do you want to fight?" Old Nelson curled his lips at the players' request, indicating that you guys should go home and sleep early.

"I made it all the way to the finals last season, and then I went to play for the national team without a few days' rest. I was treated like a slave and played all nine games in the World Championships. Then I took a short break and started training camp."

"I feel bad for you guys! I'm afraid you'll get tired! There's no need to play so many games in a year!"

"Your coach back home is using you like a cow and working you to death! I saw our group match. He didn't dare to let you go down for a rest even when we were leading by 30 points. How can you use your absolute core player like this? It's outrageous!"

"And you two, that bastard Old K doesn't know how to use you sparingly. He lets you play for so long in a game. Damn it, they are not his own children, right? Next time I coach the national team, I will take 12 Duke players with me and tire them to death! Damn it."

After Old Nelson finished speaking, he did not forget to glance at Lin Tian, ​​and his meaning could not be more obvious.

The old man was most worried about Lin Tian. After all, his age was there, right? In the NBA, a league where youth represented everything, Lin Tian was considered an old man.

An old man plays so many games a year. What if he gets injured, loses control, or is too tired to exert his strength at the end of the season? Who can he turn to for justice?
Anyway, old Nelson has decided that this season, he will not play the preseason if he can avoid it, and will play as little as possible in the regular season. He will then go all out in the playoffs and fight hard with his opponents.

As I said: the old man wants a dynasty rather than a single championship. For the sake of the dynasty, these core players must be used cautiously in advance!
"Then coach, since you feel sorry for us and think we are too tired and afraid that we will get injured because of playing too many games," Stoudemire looked at old Nelson innocently and said, "Why don't you let us rest more during training camp?"

“Training camp is much more tiring than competition!”

"Huh?" Old Nelson rolled his eyes. He was obviously not going to explain to Stoudemire. Instead, he looked at the assistant coach beside him and said, "Starting tomorrow, Amar's training volume will increase by 10%. After the training, give him two extra strength training sets."

After saying that, old Nelson ignored the hopeless Stoudemire and looked at Lin Tian and Anthony and asked, "Do you two have any questions?"

"No more! Absolutely none!" Anthony waved his hands quickly, not daring to say another word.

Lin Tian couldn't help but laugh, Xiao Si was really reckless!
You can choose not to play in the game, and you don’t want to participate in training, isn’t that seeking death?

If old Nelson were two years younger, he probably wouldn't be so gentle and simply increase the amount of training.

If this old man didn't spit saliva all over Xiao Si's face, it would be because he didn't drink enough water today.

The Knicks only had 5 wins and 3 losses in the preseason, which was a mediocre record. For the defending champions, no one really cared if they won a few games and lost a few in the preseason.

The regular season, and even the playoffs and finals, are what New York fans care about!

I can only say that after last year’s crazy championship, New York fans’ tastes have been completely spoiled!
The only thing left in my eyes is the championship! (End of this chapter)