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Before the start of training camp, the Seattle SuperSonics' roster was determined to be:

Center: Yao Ming, Coupard

Power forwards: Serge Ibaka, Kurt Thomas, Nick Collinson

Small forwards: Kevin Durant, Travis Outlaw, Omega Casspi, Grant Hill, Dufy

Shooting guards: Stephen, Allen Iverson, Von Weaver [

Point guards: Russell Westbrook, Earl Watson

In these five positions, the center and point guard are relatively weak, there are only two people, but Kurt Thomas can also play center, and Allen Iverson can also play point guard, while Travis Outlaw, Omi Cass is a player who can play small forward or power forward, Grant Hill can play small forward or shooting guard, but even so, the lineup is still not balanced, which makes Presti dissatisfied, but Sometimes it's like this, you can't have the players you need in every position.

This season, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka will turn regulars from the bench to the starting lineup, while Earl Watson and Kurt Thomas will retreat to the bench position, Yao Ming, Stephen, Kevin Durant and the three of them will not change. This is also the iron triangle of the Seattle SuperSonics, and it basically happens to be a triangle on the court.

There are Grant Hill, Allen Iverson, Coupard and Earl Watson in the bench lineup. These players who are not as good as the main force can prove the thickness of the Sonics team. This is also the consistent style of the Sonics team. , Never reduce the strength of substitute players because of the strength of the main team players, and the current ultra-luxury lineup proves this point. Both Allen Iverson and Grant Hill were former All-Stars, plus On Yao Ming and Stephen, this team already has four All-Stars.

In the internal meeting and fan meeting attended by all the players, Allen Iverson did not receive the treatment of a super-regular player. Steven still sat in the middle, Kevin Durant was on the left and Yao Ming was on the right. Other teams Sit casually, which makes Allen Iverson very disappointed. In his career, he has never been treated like this. Even when he went to the Detroit Pistons last season, the team attaches great importance to him. Separate news The press conference and fan meeting were only resisted by other players.He didn't think it was a problem with his own strength.

He feels that since Qu Zun has come to you and accepted the salary cut, you should make up for me in other ways. Even if you can’t compare with the core of the team like Stephen, you should at least be treated the same as Yao Ming. The other teams came here because Yao Ming got a little more money, but after he got to the Sonics, he found that the team didn't value him as much as he imagined, and completely treated himself as an ordinary player. How can the arrogant Allen Iverson accept it.

Jeff Van Gundy brought his own coaching team without exception. The only remaining members of the original coaching team were Robert Horry and a psychological consultant. This was hired by the team, and there was no such thing in Jeff Van Gundy's team. People, naturally stayed.

After signing the contract, when Jeff Van Gundy appeared in front of the players again, his face darkened and became serious. Looking at the unsmiling Jeff Van Gundy now, and the Jeff Van Gundy on the TV show, I feel the same. Like two people.

Jeff Van Gundy emphasized the importance of defense and strict obedience to tactical discipline when he met the players for the first time. He didn’t say anything about the team’s offense. The offensive coach of the team read it, and he is still familiar with it, but he also knows that since the Sonics can win the championship with this tactic, it means that there is nothing wrong with this tactic, so he does not intend to interfere with the offense. It is to improve defensively.

So the tactical manual he distributed only has defensive content. From now on, everyone puts aside the previous defense and adapts to the new defense. Looking at the thick tactical manual, it is only defensive content. Mo's tactical manual, offense and defense together are not more than half of his, and many people secretly groaned in their hearts.

For many players, it is not surprising that they cannot understand the tactical manual. There are a lot of difficult technical terms on it. Can't remember the tactics, which makes people helpless, either the team adapts to him, or discards him from the tactics.

As a result, something happened in the team's first joint training. According to the general training mode, the assistant coach divided all the players into the main team and the substitute team. The other players sat on the sidelines and watched, waiting to be replaced. When the two teams start training, they usually use the color of their jerseys to distinguish who is the main player and who is the substitute. The supersonic team's main team is dark green, and the substitute is off-white.

At the same time, there is a very simple way to divide is to see who is on the team with Stephen. The players of last season can easily find the changes in the team. Originally, Earl Watson has always been the main team, and Kurt Thomas is also the same. But this season, both of them are on the bench.

The main team here is Yao Ming, Serge Ibaka, Kevin Durant, Stephen, Russell Westbrook, and the substitute team is: Coupard, Kurt Thomas, Grant Hill, Allen Iverson, Earl Watson.

But when Allen Iverson saw that he was wearing a gray vest, but facing Stephen was wearing a dark green one, and immediately knew that he was assigned to the substitute team, Allen Iverson took off the vest without saying a word Throwing it on the ground, he walked to the locker room with his upper body naked. The assistant coach opened his mouth in surprise and didn't know what to say, but Stephen stood up and blocked Allen Iverson.

Allen Iverson glanced at Stephen, ignored him, and directly planned to bypass Stephen, but Stephen blocked him again, and asked directly: "What do you mean? What do you want?"

"I didn't come here to be a substitute." Allen Iverson stretched out his hand and planned to drive Stephen away, but Stephen grabbed him by the wrist and couldn't move. Then Stephen asked, "Then who do you use as a substitute?"

"Hmph, this has nothing to do with me. Anyway, I won't be a substitute." Allen Iverson glanced at the teammate next to him, but didn't directly specify who it was. Anyway, he was not a substitute.

"I respect you as a senior, but you also have to respect this team and all of us. No one stipulates who must be a starter and who must be a substitute. This is determined by ability and status, not by name. It's decided." Stephen stared into Allen Iverson's eyes and said to him seriously, although he was once very infatuated with Allen Iverson, but seeing him like this now, Stephen is still very angry, one can't recognize In reality, players who cannot accept change, no matter how good or great they performed before, cannot integrate into an unfamiliar team, let alone a championship team. [

"Very good, then let's have a one-on-one game to see who is more capable." Allen Iverson immediately challenged Stephen unconvinced.

"The court is not a one-on-one place, and you are not my opponent now, I will not bully you, if you really want to compare, come on, you compete with Russell, whoever wins will be the starter, How is it?" Stephen will not go to a one-on-one match with Allen Iverson, it is meaningless, it is obvious that Allen Iverson is in extremely poor physical condition, so Stephen immediately put Russell Wayne Sbruck pulled out.

Russell Westbrook was a little embarrassed, but also a little eager to try. After finally getting the starting lineup, he was used as a bet. Instead of being angry, Russell Westbrook was excited because his opponent was Allen Iverson.

"Him? Huh!" Allen Iverson glanced at Russell Westbrook out of the corner of his eye, snorted contemptuously, did not speak, and was about to go around Stephen to the locker room again, this time Stephen didn't stop him, Instead, he warned him later: "If you choose to leave this time, then this team will not give you any more chances." As a result, Allen Iverson ignored him.

"Okay, let's start training. If there is one less person, the others will have one more chance. Come on, Omega Casspi, you come." Without the assistant coach making a decision, Stephen directly designated the candidate.