The Godfather of Basketball

With a 3.5 million contract a year, Rondo has no reason to reject the Nets.

With the exception of the Pelicans and the Nets, no other team is willing to offer him a contract above the basic salary.

After the Nets promised him that he would become the team's first backup point guard early in the season, he signed the contract without hesitation.

Having playing time and having the opportunity to chase the championship is what he has always wanted, and now the Nets have given him a chance.

After signing Rondo, the Nets' roster for the new season also reached 14 people, and they still have a place.

However, Tang Tian is temporarily unused.

On the one hand, the team has exceeded the luxury tax, and it does not make much sense to sign another 15th player who does not play very much. On the other hand, if there is a real need, they can wait until the transaction deadline or even the buyout deadline to make a decision.

After that, the Nets presented a two-way contract invitation to Ding Yan Yuhang, a Chinese player who performed well in the summer league.

The latter did not reject it as before, but chose to accept it.

This is somewhat unexpected by Tang Tian.

However, it seems that I can understand after thinking about it. The Nets still have 1 place, two-way contract players have a chance to turn right, and the Nets now have the big brother Yi Jianlian, which will help him a lot.

In addition to Ding Yanyu Hang, the Nets signed center Adrian Payne with another two-way contract.

Last season, the Nets' two two-way contracts, Ferrer and Dillon Wallace, both won guarantee contracts in the free market. This success rate also made some NBA bottom players happy to choose the Nets.

After finishing the lineup, Tang Tian directly organized the training camp and did not take the same vacation as last year.

This year the team has changed a lot. If the goal is to defeat the strongest warriors, this team needs to make more efforts, at least the new players need to become familiar with the team as soon as possible.

The tacit understanding of the Nets' ability to reach the Finals and grab a championship from the Warriors in the past two years is a very important part.

Owen began training after the team reported. He also trained with several rookies of the team, in addition to Dillon Brooks who had been traded, the remaining Mitchell, Markkanen and Kuzma It's all there, Ding Yan Yuhang.

These are all directly played in the summer league, just to connect with the training camp.

Two days after the start of training camp, Tang Tian also met Paul George, who completed the team's physical examination and officially became a member of the Nets.

"Hey, coach." George still respects Tang Tian, ​​not only because of his identity as the godfather of basketball, but also because of the fact that he is willing to send him Devon Booker, who has been trained for 2 years, for trading. .

"Well, George." Tang Tian didn't call his name just after meeting George, but he was more polite.

The two chatted for a while, even if they had met face to face.

George also went to say hello to Irving. The two had a good relationship in private, and it was a luck to be together in the same team.

Because George has other arrangements this offseason, he will not join the training camp.

Tang Tian didn't care, and now George's mind may not be completely on the Nets. Although he is confident to stay with him tomorrow summer, it will definitely be a long process.

The training camp was proceeding in an orderly way. Tang Tian took the time to go back to China and spent most of his time in the training camp.

Over time, other members of the team also joined the training camp one after another.

Butler, Jokic, Tucker, and Green are the second batch, while Yi Jianlian, Brogden, and Oden are the third batch. George also reported to the training camp in early September.

The training hall of the Barclays Center is very lively, and the players are sweating and accompanied by laughter during the training.

They want to prove themselves and beat the Warriors. This is a group of like-minded fellows.

Among them, Ding Yan Yuhang's progress is particularly obvious.

The domestic cba foreign aid system has been criticized by fans, but it must be mentioned that it is because of the excellent ability of foreign aid that domestic players have to improve themselves, and a group of outstanding defenders such as Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei have emerged Large foreign aid is mostly defenders).

The majority of Ding Yanyu Hang's domestic confrontations are local players. When he comes to training camp to compete with people who are a few stops stronger than him, he naturally likes to compete and will work harder.

According to this improvement, even if the Nets do not get a chance to play in the new season, he has a great chance to play next season.

Time flies, and in October, after a long period of long grass, the preseason game finally opened.

New Nets lineup, pre-season game is still running.

Compared to the Deron period of the previous two seasons, the Nets still have relatively big changes in the new season.

In the new starting lineup, both Butler and George can shoot and defend, but they do n’t know how to organize. Yi Jianlian naturally does n’t need to say ~ www.readwn.com ~ Even Irving plays more of a terminator role .

This also means that the new lineup Jokic will be the core organization point, which will also maximize his organizational ability.

The results of the several preseason games are also very good. Although the playing time is not long, the Nets still give the fans a sense of great strength, and make fans look forward to the upcoming new season.

After all, like the previous season, the Warriors have booked a championship season in advance and they don't want to see each other again.

In addition to the starter's expectations, fans of the preseason are even more delighted by the Nets' newcomers.

Mitchell, Markkanen and Kuzma shine in the summer league, but after all, it is only the summer league. Many people who perform well in the summer league may not get an unsecured contract. Compared to the season The pre-match is the stage for really examining the players.

The performance of the three Nets stars did not disappoint the fans.

Kuzma averaged 20 minutes of playing time in 7 games and delivered a performance of 9.2 points and 3.5 rebounds. In addition to his outstanding rebounding ability, his three-pointer surprised everyone, and 39% of his three-point shooting allowed other The team was annoyed, which scout said that this is a forward that can't make three pointers? !!

Markkanen's performance is stable, averaging 25 minutes, 10.2 points and 5.6 rebounds, shooting 45% from the field and 35% from three.

What really exploded was Mitchell. His ball-breaking lethality was full. He averaged 15.6 points and 2.8 assists in 25 minutes per game, even a 28-point performance!

This is not a summer league, but a real preseason game!

It wasn't until then that other general managers came to their senses. No wonder Tang Tian dared to exchange Booker for George. It turned out that such a baby was selected!