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Chapter 288 A slightly sluggish Oden!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!
Chapter 280 A slightly sluggish Oden!

This is also because Kevin Durant's overall rating of initial strength is relatively low, and he still has a period of confusion.

Otherwise, Kevin Durant's current strength may have reached the peak level of B-level like Curry and Russell Westbrook.

Like Kevin Durant, Oden, who is in the adjustment period of his playing style, has not improved his overall strength as well as Curry and Russell Westbrook, and he has only reached 80, which is a B-level player. Threshold value level!

And except for these few players whose talent ceiling is at least at the All-Star level (except Sun Yue), many rookies in the 07 class have reached the b-level or above.

You know, the b-level strength is already the strength of a stable rotation player among the major NBA teams.

Players who were able to reach B-level strength in their rookie seasons in previous years, as long as their statistics are not too shabby, can generally occupy a spot for the best rookie player of the year.

But looking at it now, the rookie players of the 07 class will compete for the best rookie team spot, which will become unprecedentedly fierce.

After all, before the start of the new season, there were already more than 07 players in the 15 class whose strength reached b-level or above!

By the end of the rookie season, at least half of the 07 rookies in the class of 60 have been promoted to B-level or above!

At the same time, despite the high overall quality of the 07 rookies, there has been no player who can dominate the entire 07 rookies.

Although Oden is regarded as the destiny player in the 07 rookie class, judging from Oden's current state, at least in his rookie season, it is very difficult for him to become the best one in the 07 rookie class in terms of statistical performance. .

And without any player showing the absolute dominance that Xu Lang did last year.

The competition for this year's best rookie honor will naturally become fierce.

At least, from the perspective of personal strength, team strength, and the status of some players in the team, there are at least 4 players who can compete for the best rookie this year.

This made Xu Lang look forward to the regular season of the NBA 2007~2008 season more and more.

And it's not just Xu Lang who is looking forward to the new season now, what kind of outstanding performance these rookies and a bunch of Big Three and Big Four teams can play.

Fans and the world's major media are also looking forward to the arrival of the new season.

After all, this year's NBA is likely to directly support the world's major sports media.

There are too many breaking news to report!

This also proves once again that David Stern's various showy operations during the offseason have brought a great boost to the globalization of the NBA.

There are many Big Three or even Big Four teams in the league, and the sense of antagonism between the rookies of the 07 class that the league keeps advocating.

All of these have greatly improved the visibility of this year's NBA.

At the same time, it also allowed the NBA to sell dozens of broadcast contracts around the world.

Although compared with the broadcast contracts in the United States, the value of these broadcast contracts sold by the NBA is relatively low, but dozens of broadcast contracts together have an annual income of over one billion US dollars.

This is definitely a good thing for the NBA, and it is also a good thing for those teams that formed the Big Three or even the Big Four this summer.

After all, the NBA earns more money, so the salary cap will naturally go up, and the salary cap of players will also increase.

And because of the lineup of the Big Three and the Big Four, the major teams that seem to have tight salary space can also free up more space for new reinforcements.

Of course, for teams like the Celtics and Rockets, whose starting lineup has already filled up all the salary space of the entire team, even if the salary risk of the league has been improved to a certain extent this season, but for these players For the team, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Of course, for these two teams, in the absence of salary space, although a large reinforcement is not enough!
However, some small enhancements can still be made.

After all, as the two most championship-looking teams this season, there are too many senior veterans in the league who want to change to a championship at the end of their careers. They are willing to join these two teams with a veteran's basic salary!
And all of this has nothing to do with the Eagles. After all, as a team that everyone thinks can't even make it to the top four in the Eastern Conference, there are no capable veterans who hope to come to the Eagles to hug their thighs.

Even if there are veterans who want to come to the Eagles, they want to mix up a pension contract.

For such a player, the Eagles, a team dominated by young players and full of vigor, naturally don't want it.

So until the start of the preseason this season, the Eagles have not made any new reinforcements!
At the same time, after the Eagles gave up accepting veterans, the Eagles' final 13-man roster was also determined.

However, looking at the salaries of the entire Eagles team, which together can hardly meet the minimum salary level required by the league, everyone has to sigh with emotion, the Eagles are too young!
It is precisely because most of the Eagles' players are rookies that the Eagles' total salary this year is the bottom-ranked team in the NBA at this stage.

It is also the team with the lowest total salary among all the teams considered to be playoff capable this year.

Finally, after continuous debugging, Mike Woodson roughly determined this year's regular season lineup as follows:

Starters: Xu Lang, Tony Allen, Wally Szczerbiak, Darko Milicic, Marc Gasol.

Subs: Mutombo, Theo Ratliff, Kendricks Perkins, Juwan Howard, Paul Millsap, Josh Childress, Jose Calderon, Sally Tom Stoudemire.

As for the same-year pick of Marc Gasol who was traded from the Rockets, Aaron Brooks was sent to the Development League.

Although, Aaron Brooks has a potential upper limit of B-plus, and is a player with better potential than Jose Calderon.

But as a rookie, the 30th pick in the first round of this year, Aaron Brooks' personal strength is not enough for him to adapt to the intensity of the current NBA game.

Of course, the most important thing is that as a point guard, it is difficult for Aaron Brooks to get a lot of playing time to improve himself when the Eagles have Xu Lang as the starter and Jose Calderon as the substitute.

So after considering many aspects, after discussing with Mike Wu Desen, Xu Lang decided to send Aaron Brooks to the Development League for training.

And Xu Lang gave Aaron Brooks a system-produced training plan for his basketball characteristics.

If Aaron Bruce could calm down and honestly follow Xu Lang's training plan to continuously improve himself.

Even if he spent most of his rookie season in the development league, Xu Lang's estimation of his strength would at least improve by 1-2 levels!
At the same time, this could be regarded as a test for Aaron Brooks by Xu Lang and Mike Woodson.

After all, in a team with a very young average age like the Eagles, the quality that rookies need most is patience.

And just when the Eagles officially determined their main lineup for the regular season, the 2007-2008 NBA preseason is about to begin.

Because of the sweetness of the China game last year, the NBA has held more overseas preseason games in China this year, and the Eagles are the main team in China's overseas preseason games.

This year, the number of overseas preseason games played by the Eagles in China has reached three.

In these three games, the Eagles will face the Rockets with Yao Ming, the Trail Blazers with Yi Jianlian, and the Sonics with Sun Yue.

Among them, in the game against the Supersonics, Xu Lang's match against his younger players Curry and Russell Westbrook is also a huge attraction.

In addition to these three games of the Eagles, there are eight overseas preseason games held in China.

Of course, these eight games are not all duels between two teams with Chinese players.

There are also games like the Rockets vs. the Lakers, like the Celtics vs. Spurs.

These teams are the biggest No. [-] teams in the NBA this season.

After all, as a country with huge market potential, the NBA still needs to pay more attention!

Although, because of the substantial increase in the number of overseas preseason games held by the NBA in China this season.

For the preseason matchup of several Chinese players, tickets were not snapped up like last year.

But they are definitely the most attractive games in all overseas preseason games!

Among them, the tickets for the Eagles' extra games continue to be sold out.

Of course, because China is still far away from the United States after all, these Chinese overseas preseason games will be held in batches.

Games like the Eagles were placed in the last few finale games of the entire China Overseas Preseason.

Prior to this, the Eagles need to play four preseason games in the United States.

Although these four season games are not as full of highlights as those China games, they are also some focused matchups, such as against the Timberwolves with Oden.

For example, against the Heat who just lost O'Neal, and the Cavaliers who just got O'Neal.

The Eagles' first preseason game in the United States was a somewhat reckless game against the Raptors.

After the performance of the entire season last year, it has been proved that this transaction of the Eagles has undoubtedly made a lot of money.

Joe Smith, who was traded away by the Eagles, and the Raptors, who let Xu Lang go, became the laughing stock of many fans.

Although, last year, the Raptors management only used the No. [-] pick, not only for an All-Star player for their team, but also for a so-called super rookie that their team wanted. Gnani time.

All American fans, including Raptors fans, are praising the Raptors management for this god-level transaction.

But now it seems that the Raptors missed a player who could dominate an era. More like, the Raptors missed the next Jordan.

Especially with the Raptors, after another round of the playoffs last season.

It also made the fans of the Raptors have a strong rebellious psychology and boredom with the management of the Raptors and the important bargaining chips in the deal with the Eagles. Joe Smith, Bargnani and others psychology.

This led to the fact that when the Raptors played against the Eagles at home, the fans of the Raptors not only did not cheer for the Raptors.

On the contrary, when booing the Raptors, especially as soon as Xu Lang scored a goal, or Xu Lang made a wonderful assist, the boos of the fans in the audience would be octave higher.

Then, in this bad atmosphere of home fans defecting, the Raptors undoubtedly lost this preseason game against the Hawks.

Chris Bosh, who has slowly started to become the leading player of the Raptors, listened to the boos of the fans and Xu Lang, who was praised by a large number of fans in the middle of the court, his eyes were full of envy.

Chris Bosh himself is the only inside player among the top five picks in the 03 draft.

It is regarded by many people as taking advantage of too few outstanding inside players in the 03 class to barely enter the top five picks.

This allowed Chris Bosh to perform 20+10 last year.

But there are not many fans who agree that Chris Bosh is a player who can be at the same level as Wade, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James and Darko Milicic who completed his redemption last season of.

On the contrary, everyone knows that Chris Bosh is the biggest background board of Kobe Bryant's 81-point night.

This has made it difficult for Chris Bosh in the past few seasons.

In the annual All-Star voting, Chris Bosh rarely ranks among the top five forwards in the Eastern Conference.

Now the Raptors fans who originally supported him have also begun to defect, which makes Chris Bosh more and more dissatisfied with his current situation.

However, Chris Bosh just signed a six-year long-term contract with the Raptors in advance last year, and it is not so easy to leave.

The chaos of the Raptors did not affect the Eagles' preseason journey.

After easily defeating the Raptors, the Eagles immediately rushed to the Heat's home court without stopping to start their second preseason game of the season.

There is no doubt that without O'Neal, the Heat's overall strength is not as good as that of the Eagles.

Although Dwyane Wade scored 30 points in just 31 minutes in this game.

However, under the siege of Xu Lang with 25 points in a single game, Darko Milicic with 21 points in a single game, Marc Gasol with 13 points in a single game, and Szczerbiak with 16 points in a single game, the Heat still lost in the end. this preseason.

And look at Dwyane Wade, who has driven away O'Neal and become the real boss of the Heat, but is still very unwilling and unhappy about losing.

Pat Riley felt that everything was in place, and now the only thing left was the east wind.

After all, that's only when Dwyane Wade gets tired of losing.

Only then will it be possible to stop caring so much about the position of the leader of the team, and it will be possible for Pat Riley to realize his original robbery plan of the proud son of heaven.

With the power of two consecutive victories, the Eagles returned to Atlanta, at home against the Timberwolves, who won Oden's entry into the reconstruction this year.

There is no doubt that this game is also the most watched game of the Eagles in the past three games.

After all, Oden is known as the destiny player of the 07 class.

Although Oden was only selected with the third overall pick in the first round.

But everyone agrees that Oden's potential and talent ceiling are higher than Curry and Russell Westbrook.

In fact, in Xu Lang's view, Oden has adjusted his playing style and weakened his potential injury risks.

In terms of talent ceiling, they are indeed players at the same level as Curry and Russell Westbrook, but there is also a lower level of potential at the same level.

Oden is the lowest of the three.

Of course, being able to reach the same level of potential as Curry and Russell Westbrook is already awesome.

Especially as an inside player, if Oden can really improve his talent ceiling to A-level.

In fact, the role on the field of play may not necessarily be weaker than that of Curry and Russell Westbrook, who have also reached the limit of talent and potential.

Of course, talent is talent, and strength is strength. Because recently, Oden has been constantly adjusting his playing style, so Oden's strength has been fluctuating violently.

When it is high, Oden's strength can reach the middle level of B-level, but when it is low, Oden's strength will fall below B-level.

This is also an important reason why in the past two preseason games, Oden's data exploded in one game, with a 20+10 data performance, but only a 10+7 poor data performance in one game.

In this game, Oden's overall game state was at a low point.

This surprised the fans who originally wanted to watch Oden face off against Xu Lang, the man of destiny in 06, in this game.

In this game, Oden should not talk about confronting Xu Lang.

In the face of Marc Gasol, the second-round pick of the same year, Oden was almost blown away.

Originally, based on the strength comparison, Marc Gasol's overall strength is a level higher than Oden's.

But it will not produce the effect of crushing.

Especially when Oden's physical talent is generally higher than that of Marc Gasol.

Even though Oden's overall strength is not as good as Marc Gasol's, he is not playing too badly either.

But Marc Gasol has better teammates. Xu Lang's pass and Darko Milicic's help made Marc Gasol not alone when facing Oden.

In the end, Marc Gasol scored 34 points and 25 rebounds in 13 minutes of the game.

And this is also the first double-double data that Marc Gasol has obtained since entering the NBA.

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