God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 442 The Two Extremes
What Dior didn't expect was that he quickly adapted to the power forward position. Although he was often squeezed out by Thomas when he was stuck at the basket, his ball-handling skills and agility also gave Thomas a big headache. .Not only him, but other Pistons players were also surprised. After all, no one would let a small forward swing up to the power forward position at the beginning.

This also made them admire Chang Wei even more. Judging from Dior's performance, he should play a good role as a power forward in the rotation in the new season.But admiration is admiration, there is no awe, who made Chang Wei not much older than them?He is even younger than several veterans on the team, which makes it easy for him to mingle with the players.

In fact, this is why Chang Wei prefers to suggest that the team recruit young people to build the main lineup. Veterans are good, firstly, they have proven themselves, and secondly, they can bring more experience to the team, but young people always have Higher plasticity, and relatively speaking, the annual salary is lower, and it is easier for Chang Wei to establish prestige in the team.With his training intensity, it is impossible not to get the recognition of the players, not to mention that the relatively older players are also difficult to bear.

The mini training camp is not long, but Chang Wei is still very satisfied with everyone's training results, especially the two rookies Wade and Diaw. Their progress makes Chang Wei more confident about the new season.Now Brown has basically let go of personal training and left it all to Chang Wei. Obviously, Chang Wei will submit a satisfactory answer this time.

After the team's training camp started, Brown was greatly surprised by everyone's performance. He only needed to polish his tactics before he could directly appear on the field.While watching the players run tactics under the leadership of other assistant coaches, he asked Chang Wei curiously: "Chang, you are not really a magician, are you? You can train them to be like this in one summer?"

Chang Wei laughed and said, "It's only been less than a month. I've been training Yao Ming before."

Brown looked at Chang Wei like a monster, and after a while he said helplessly, "You are the most amazing guy I have ever seen... Seriously, Chang, you really don't think about being the head coach of a team in the future." Is it? I believe you have such strength."

"Coach, don't you want to drive me away?" Chang Wei said with a smile, "You know I'm lazy, and this is fine now. Helping you build a dynasty team together, in my opinion, is also good." Nothing wrong with that, right?"

For Chang Wei's laziness, Brown has always had nothing to do. Hearing that Chang Wei still used the same reason to prevaricate himself, he smiled slightly and did not speak. He turned his head and continued to watch the players' training situation, showing satisfaction again. look.

In this year's playoffs, Brown does not plan to send his own rotation players, but only plans to let Wade and Diaw take other fringe players to deal with it.But to his surprise, under the leadership of Wade and Diaw, the Pistons averaged 107.2 points per game in the summer league and won the summer league championship with a record of victory. Wade also averaged 25.7 points and 6.2 points per game. An all-around performance of 5.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.5 steals and 17.2 blocks was named Summer League MVP.And Diaw also performed well, averaging 7.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and [-] assists per game compared to his pick, which can be said to be worth the money.

Brown is very excited about this, and he believes that the Pistons have a chance to win the championship.But he thought about it again, it seemed that the Pistons' bench lineup would have no one to defend. Is this really all right?You must know that the Pistons have been labeled as a strong defensive team now, and it is a bit weird to come up with a pure offensive lineup now, even if it is just a substitute.

Chang Wei knew that the old coach was playing tricks, so he had no choice but to comfort him in private: "It doesn't matter whether it's offensive or defensive, as long as it can win, it's a good team. So what about the full offensive lineup from the bench? Maybe they can beat the opponent." One is caught off guard! And in this way, there is more room for the formation of troops, attack if you want to attack, and defend if you want to defend, isn't that great?"

Brown thought for a while and laughed dumbfounded. This is indeed a good thing for the team. Such a deep lineup is more than enough for a whole season.For most head coaches, the more people who can play, the better, but there are only about ten players in a game. The Pistons currently have a total of ten players in the starting lineup and the bench, which is basically enough.

Brown, who was finally no longer in a dead end, regained his spirits and was ready to see the players' running-in situation in the preseason.The intensity of the preseason is of course not comparable to the regular season, and the record is not worth noting. Many strong teams can lose in various fancy ways in the preseason, but many weak teams can kill the Quartet in the preseason .Brown didn't take victory or defeat to heart either. For him, as long as the players can fully master the conventional tactics and integrate into the team system in the preseason, it will be fine.

In the first game of the preseason, the Pistons met the old rival Raptors, and both sides had a tacit understanding to give more time to the substitute players.The Raptors also made reinforcements this summer. They brought in Jaylen Rose, the best sixth man in the 99-00 season, to further enhance the strength of the bench.It's a pity that they entered the playoffs last season with the third record in the Eastern Conference. The few high-ranked rookies in the 2003 class have nothing to do with them. Fortunately, McGrady did not leave like in his previous life, which makes them still quite competitive. .

For any head coach, the running-in of the preseason is the running-in, and the playing time of the main players should be controlled as much as possible, otherwise it will not be worthwhile to consume energy or even get injured.Wilkens thought that his team could overwhelm the opponent on the bench, but he didn't expect that after the two sides put on the bench one after another, the Raptors were directly stunned by the Pistons. Wade's continuous attack with the ball alone made the Raptors His substitute insider is in a hurry, not to mention that there are a group of chaotic masters playing with him.

The Pistons' substitute scored an astonishing 52 points in the game, more than twice that of the Raptors' substitute. Although this is only a preseason game, it is enough to explain the problem.After easily defeating the Raptors, the Pistons made persistent efforts in the next few preseason games and ended this stage of the game with a perfect record. The performance of Wade and Diaw has also been touted by the local media in Detroit.Of course it’s normal to praise Wade, no matter what people say, it’s this year’s No. [-] show, but Dior is different. The general managers of many teams are beating their chests with regret. Why didn’t they see such a good seed in the draft? Woolen cloth?
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