Chapter 202 New season player list

   At 12:00 local time on the 15th, the two landed in Los Angeles, and their agent, Lance Hoxman, came to pick them up.

   "Brother Changfeng, how do you feel?" Sitting in the car, he asked.

   Liu Changfeng looked at the bustling streets on both sides in the car, and sighed with two words: "Developed."

   "It's developed, but you didn't pay attention to those slums. There are many people sleeping on the streets. I slept in the sewers for five months." He said.

   "Tie Jun, then it's really not easy for you, fortunately you are in the early stage now." Liu Changfeng said.

   "Remember, Brother Changfeng, no matter where you are, you have to stay at home at night. In the United States, it is very dangerous at night." He warned.

   "Got it." Liu Changfeng nodded as if he understood.

   Stayed in Los Angeles for one night and lost the jet lag. At noon on the 16th, he returned to Phoenix with Liu Changfeng.

   "Tie Jun, this is your home in America? It's not as big as your hometown!"

   "Enough is enough, it's useless to get too big."

   When he saw his villa, Liu Changfeng was not surprised. The villa was just foreign in style, but it couldn't compare to the five-story building in his hometown.

   "Brother Changfeng, this is my room, you can choose an empty room by yourself."

   Putting down his luggage, he contacted Kevin Johnson and the others, knowing that Barkley had already left Phoenix, and the villa was listed for disposal.

   Some newcomers have come to the team, and some old people have also left.

  For example, the former inside core, one of the Suns locker room leaders, the black belt of Jeet Kune Do, and Tom Chambers, who was seriously injured last season, the 35-year-old veteran was traded to the Jazz.

   In addition, the team is playing the preseason outside. It ends on the 20th. The whole team gathers to report on the 22nd, and the whole team starts training before the game.

   "System, exchange me for a physical training card."

   Now that all the training has been completed, he decided to use the last two hundred points, and it is useless to keep them.

   "Yes, redeemed."

The content of    came out, two months, two levels, uninterrupted, maintaining an hour of training every day, and ending in mid-December.

   This physical training should not be rushed. It is a process of physical training and reserve. It is fixed for one hour a day, neither less nor more, and it is enough to do it according to the quality and quantity.

   In the next regular season, he also plans to gain points and then continue to gain weight, at least for one period, to increase the tonnage to 130 kilograms before the playoffs.

   In the next few days, in addition to physical training, he conducted shooting training and other training with the ball.

  Although it is not a systematic training content, it is also helpful for the improvement of strength.

   After training, he paid attention to the media's evaluation of the Suns.

   But I am very disappointed. No media is optimistic about the new season of the Suns. Even the local media have a very pessimistic attitude. The Suns who gave up the super giant Starbucks seems to have become a fish and belly team under the pen of the media.

  At 8 am on the 22nd, Wang Tiejun drove to the headquarters of the Suns.

   "Hey, old K, welcome back." The **** security guard at the door greeted cheerfully.

   "Hello, Harriman," he also greeted.

   ran into Daniel Marley in the underground parking lot, and the two greeted when Kevin Johnson's Ferrari came in.

   "Dan, you played preseason?" he asked.

   "Yes, it's time to prepare before the regular season." Dan Marley laughed.

   "Old K, a little stronger, you have been practicing extra in the offseason?" Kevin Johnson shouted after coming over to look at him.

   "126 kilograms." He said with a smile.

   "Will you continue to gain weight in the new season?" Dan Marley asked with a smile.

   "Yes, I plan to gain 130kg this season," he said.

  Dan Marley suddenly sighed: "Unfortunately, Charles is gone. It's difficult to defend the title this time. The outside world is not optimistic about us."

   The three of them were silent for a while, and walked away, old man, the Suns' strength this season is indeed far worse than last season.

   However, after being silent, Kevin Johnson suddenly cheered up: "Although I am a year older, I have also practiced in the off-season. I am in good shape now, and there is still hope for our new season."

Wang Tiejun nodded quickly and said: "Yes, Kevin, you are not old, you are only 27 years old. It is the year when we are fighting, so we may not be able to do it. My strength has improved compared to last season. Let's work together and we will know at the end. Who is the strongest."

   He is also under a lot of pressure now, which is different from last season.

   Last season, he basically had no pressure at all, with Barkley on it, and it has nothing to do with him if he loses, and his desire to pursue a championship is not strong, and he is not very interested in gains and losses.

   But this season he is the core, he is responsible for this team, the team loses is his responsibility, the media will target him.

   If he fails to defend his title, for whatever reason, he will have a great responsibility.

   At least one cannot escape. The team gave up Barkley for him, but he did not lead the team to defend the title. The responsibility is his, and the media will frantically spray him.

  The three of them came to the training hall while talking. The other teammates had already arrived, and the three of them were the last to arrive.

  The management and coaching staff also arrived, and the head coach was Paul Westphal.

   He just led the team to win the championship. Last season, he also won the honor of the best coach with the first record in the regular season. He is regarded as a rising star among the coaches in the league.

   "Player collection."

  As soon as the assistant coach Lewis saw the three of them arrived, he immediately shouted.

  After the players gathered, Westphal stood in front with a few pieces of paper and said loudly: "Welcome to the 93/94 season, we are about to usher in a new promising season..."

   After a few opening remarks, he read the list of players.

The twelve contract players are Wang Tiejun, Otis Thorpe, AC Green, Oliver Miller, Cedric Ceballos, Robert Horry, Corey Blunt, Kevin Johnson, Dan Marley, Frank Johnson, Danny Ainge, Elliott Perry.

   Of these, seven were champions last season, five were rookies, and one was a rookie.

Westphal glanced at the players and said, "Guys, Barkley is gone, we're missing a superstar averaging 25.6 points, 12.2 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1 block per game. It's a huge gap, no matter what. Whether it's offense or defense, someone has to make up for it."

   After saying this, almost all the players were excited, especially someone like Ceballos.

   He started a lot at the 3 last season, but his shots were limited. Now that Barkley is gone, he should be expected to get a piece of that huge scoring gap.

  Westphal said solemnly: "Old K, Kevin, Dan..."

   Having said this, he paused again, and when Ceballos was worried about his gains and losses, he continued: "And Ceballos..."

   "There is me."

  Cerballos was excited, and his adrenaline surged instantly.

   The head coach's words are undoubtedly saying that he will get the main position in the new season, and he will have a large number of shots, and he will no longer be restricted like last season.

   "The four of you will be the main players in the one, two, three, and five positions, and you have to take on the main scoring task." Westphal continued.

"awesome!"

  Cerballos squeezed his fist excitedly.

   Behind him is Robert Horry, who was just traded in. The Mosaic team started small forward last season. He didn't get a starting chance with the Suns. At this time, he was a little disappointed.

He feels that he is more suitable for the Suns' lineup, because he knows that after being traded to the Suns, he practiced three-pointers in the offseason. He rarely shot three-pointers in his rookie season. In addition, his mid-range shooting is not bad, so he doesn't need to. Like Ceballos, encroach on the old K's basket space.

   Westphal said again: "Number four..."

The spirits of Otis Thorpe and Iron Man AC Green (Ethgreen) immediately concentrated. They are the people most likely to play the main power forward. The former was the main power forward of the Mosaic team last season, and the latter was the main force of the Lakers. Small forward, but can also play power forward or even temporarily serve as center.

  Iron Green joined the Suns as a free agent. The Suns gave him a good contract, 15 million for three years.

   Both Green and Thorpe have been selected to the All-Star team. They are both good at rebounding and scoring more than 10 points per game. Thorpe is stronger. Both are very classic blue-collar players.

  The reason why Colangelo chose them is their rebounding ability, which can basically make up for Barkley's vacancy.

   And their scoring ability only belongs to the blue-collar, but it can also make up part of it.

   Thorpe's attacking area is closer to the paint area, and his near-two-point shooting rate is close to 40%, while Green's far two-pointer is good, 43.8% of his shots are there, 44.4% of his shots, and he has the ability to pull away.

  The important thing is that the defense of the two of them is also good. Green has also been selected for the second team of defense once, which is one of the reasons why the Suns selected them, which can make up for Wang Tiejun's weak defense.

   To put it simply, they have a very important task, which is to do the dirty work by Wang Tiejun's side, which is what the power forward does.

"Otis, AC, you will rotate this position. I need to choose who will be the main power forward according to the different opponents. One of you can pull near the three-point line, and the other can only pull to the edge of the paint area, but there will be Opportunity," Westphal said.

   Both of them couldn't help being a little disappointed, but that's all they could do. Who made them have similar types, even their height was 206 cm, and their weights were also 100 kg and 102 kg.

   After the head coach talked for a while, it was Colangelo's turn.

He looked at the lineup he had established for the new season. Although there were several All-Stars, except for Kevin Johnson, who was beginning to age, including Dan Marley, the stars were actually very weak, and their real strength was not enough for All-Stars. The standard, even Thorpe they are only blue-collar players.

   For the goal of the new season, he hopes to reach the second round in terms of record, and the real goal is on Wang Tiejun.

   He hopes that through one to two seasons of training, the old K can truly become the core and leader of this team.

   So in fact, his goal for these two seasons is to hone and build a new core of the team, and at the same time, through continuous reinforcement, he will rebuild a finals-level lineup after a season or two.

   "Gentlemen, the new season is about to start, and our team has a new lineup..."

   Having said that, his eyes were fixed on the tall players in front of him, and he said very seriously: "...and the new core."

   As soon as the words came out, all the players looked at Wang Tiejun.

  Wang Tiejun couldn't help but puff out his chest. At the same time as the pressure increased, the feeling of excitement also emerged spontaneously.

   "Defending the title! Winning the championship! What Barkley can do, I can do too." Clenching his fists, he secretly said in his heart.

   "Old K?" Colangelo shouted loudly at this time.

   "Here!" Wang Tiejun replied loudly.

   "It's your turn." Colangelo said.

   He was stunned, what... what should I do?

   "Idiot, now you're the boss, say a few words to boost morale." Kevin Johnson next to him raised his hand and poked him, and whispered.

   "Whoever disagrees with you, beat him up!" Dan Marley on the other side whispered.

   Colangelo and Westphal in front of them heard the words of these two people, and they only pretended not to hear them.

"oh oh!"

   He hurriedly took two steps forward, turned to look at the players, and after thinking about it, he shouted: "Guys, I went to Japan recently, do you know what I did?"

   "What are you doing?" Danmar asked cooperatively.

   "My agent negotiated three sponsorship contracts for me and gave me five million dollars in business income a year." He said with a smile.

   "Shet!"

   Kevin Johnson and Dan Marley secretly scolded, **** old K, let you talk about morale, not let you show off in front of us.

  Other players were shocked and envious when they heard this.

He continued to shout: "But it's not important, the important thing is that those sponsors arranged a long line of Japanese little beauties for me, including some Japanese little stars, you know how long they are together. ?"

He actually stretched out his arms for a comparison, and shouted, "It's longer than you guys are lining up now, haha! Too bad, when I left Japan, I couldn't walk, and now I eat a kilogram of food every day. Goji berries to replenish the body, hahaha…”

   "Damn old K, is he tempting us?"

   "It's wonderful, I'm going to Japan too."

   "Sheet, why didn't the Japanese sponsor come to me?"

  The eyes of the players lit up, brighter than a light bulb, and the hormones in their bodies surged rapidly.

   Colangelo and Westphal and other management and coaching staff want to cover their faces. Is this what a core leader should say? Old K is too unreliable!

  Kevin Johnson and Dan Marley looked at each other, old K, do you know what you are talking about?

   At this moment, Wang Tiejun suddenly put away the smile on his face and shouted loudly: "But you are not qualified to enjoy all this now, because you are nothing."

"Ugh!"

  The crowd could not help but sigh.

   "Then you want to have all this?" he asked again loudly.

"think."

   Everyone shouted with excitement, even a veteran like Danny Anji.

   "Then fight with me for a season, we successfully defend the title, and then I will take you to Japan to have a good time and experience the Japanese chicken culture. What do you think?" He growled.

   "Defending! Defending! Defending..."

   There was a uniform roar in the training hall of the Suns, and the morale was twisted into a ball, which was very strong.

   Colangelo and the others looked at each other, is that okay?

   (end of this chapter)