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On February 18, 2008, Adrian and Kwame Brown and Paul Millsap participated in the Magic's team training as members of the Magic for the first time. Please remember the website address of this site:.

"Hello everyone, I'm Adrian." When Adrian started to speak, all the members of the Magic team stopped and listened to Adrian's words carefully.

This is because of the issue of identity.

Adrian is different from them. When Adrian came to the Magic, everyone knew that he came as a core player and team leader. The management's idea of ​​building a team around Adrian was so obvious that everyone

Under the bombardment of the media, all the players had to believe that this was indeed the only truth.

Therefore, they are particularly concerned about Adrian's attitude and thoughts.[

"I came here today. Some people are face to face with me for the first time, and some people are already very familiar with each other." Adrian smiled and organized his words: "There are more than 500 players in the league.

, we can become teammates, in Chinese terms, it is a kind of fate. Maybe you will be worried because of the current turmoil in the Magic, but I want to say that this turmoil is only temporary, and we will soon be

It's going to stabilize and it's going to surprise the league."

Adrian's self-introduction was not very impressive, but from the beginning to the end, Adrian was filled with confidence. When he proudly declared that he was going to surprise the alliance, it really gave people a sense of this guy.

It feels like it can really be done.

The Magic do intend to rebuild around Adrian.

Stan Van Gundy was quite dissatisfied with the management's hasty behavior at first. It has obviously been rebuilt around Howard for more than four years. Now he is seeing that Howard is about to mature, and the team's tactics have gradually become complete. All it takes is a few more puzzle pieces.

When you can compete for the championship with your "role", you suddenly have to rebuild again?

How could there be such a "fucking" thing in this world?

But Stan Van Gundy also knows that it will be difficult for the Magic to retain Howard under the temptation of the Los Angeles Lakers. Just like they were unable to retain Shaquille O'Neal under the temptation of the Los Angeles Lakers. Howard also stated that he wants to go

The idea of ​​playing in Los Angeles is, after all, the city of Orlando is still too small for superstars. The inherent shortcomings of Orlando make the commercial value of local stars far less than that of stars in big cities. This is the case in Los Angeles and Boston. As for the Knicks, although

The Knicks' record is too poor, but New York's ability to seduce players is too strong. If New York team general manager Isiah Thomas hadn't been playing a really stupid role, New York would be attractive to stars.

, their situation will never be as bad as it is now.

This is the key reason why the Magic did not hesitate to pay Sharad Lewis a huge contract of 100 million yuan. The Magic are not attractive enough to stars, and the only stars they can attract are Sharad Lewis. Moreover,

People don't want to come over easily.

In desperation, the Magic could only spend more money to take advantage of the situation, hoping that this method could convince Howard to keep him.

But I didn't expect that even if the Magic were willing to be taken advantage of, they ultimately failed to keep Dwight Howard. As soon as Los Angeles came to seduce him, Howard ran away.

Then the Magic got Adrian Kwilter, quickly traded away Nelson, and made large-scale adjustments to the team's lineup in exchange for some signing rights and draft picks for targeted enhancements.

The team's inside line. From the Magic's standpoint, being able to get such a supplement despite the loss of Howard is already a pretty good pick-up.

At the same time, Stan Van Gundy's dissatisfaction was also suppressed.

Mainly because Adrian's 65-point half-quarter performance and his double MVP performance in the All-Star Game in the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game were too heavy, temporarily overpowering Stan Van Gundy's dissatisfaction and concerns.

Then Paul Millsap and Kwame Brown introduced themselves respectively. Kwame Brown made it clear from the beginning that he was a loyal supporter of Adrian. He said that he would launch a championship challenge with Adrian in the Magic.

The impact. Paul Millsap's self-introduction was much more low-key. He simply said that he was very happy to come to the Magic and hoped to work hard with everyone.

Because three newcomers suddenly came to the team, Stan Van Gundy arranged an intra-team confrontation training. Such confrontation training can quickly make unfamiliar teammates familiar with each other, and it can also make it easier for the coaching staff to better observe the players' status.

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However, we encountered trouble when assigning personnel because the Magic team did not have enough personnel.

Otis Smith conducted a series of trades from the Grizzlies in exchange for the signing rights of Marc Gasol, and also exchanged the first-round draft pick that originally belonged to the Grizzlies from the Timberwolves. From a reconstruction perspective, this is

The trade is understandable. But from the team's perspective, such an operation undoubtedly made the Magic's personnel nervous. In addition, James Augustin and Pat Garrity are both injured now.

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Even counting Paul Millsap, who was unable to play in the game against the Raptors the day after tomorrow due to league rules, the Magic's lineup only had nine players. In order to allow the training game to proceed normally, Van Gundy had to let his assistant

The coach comes on stage to act as a sparring partner.

In the game two days later, the only Orlando Magic players who can participate in the game are Adrian, Sharad Lewis, Marcin Gortat, Kwame Brown, Keith Bogans, and Shida Turkoglu.

, Carlos Arroyo, Kean Dulin, eight players available.

Among them, Carlos Arroyo and Pat Garrity are both marginal people guarding the water cooler in the Magic. To be honest, their daily role is to serve as sparring partners for the Magic's internal training games, even if Stan Van Gundy wants to use them.

.Their only role on the field is to be blown away.[

Excluding these two people, the only people available to the Magic are Durant's Seattle SuperSonics, who are ranked last in the Western Conference. (To be continued. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.)

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