The Basketball Court Swordsman

Paul George renewed the Pacers ahead of schedule. This news made Los Angeles fans the saddest. Because in their fantasy, Paul George is their key signing target next year. They believe that, as a native of Los Angeles, George cannot refuse the call of his hometown and the temptation of the big city.

However, George never even considered leaving. He readily signed his name on the contract. George's manager didn't even negotiate with the Pacers and signed a five-year long contract.

The conversation between Henson and George also made George feel at ease to take root in Indianapolis. Although his hometown is Los Angeles, his hometown of basketball is this huge cornfield.

After renewing George, the pre-season training camp of the new season officially began. This means that Henson will continue his busy and hard life.

At this time last year, Henson was still able to hand over the development of training plans to Stevens. But this year, Henson must do it himself. Although the new member of the coaching staff, Becky Harmon, has excellent tactics, she is an out-and-out rookie about making training plans.

Therefore, before the new season started, Henson stayed up again. Pre-season training camp is a very important part for players. The quality of this training camp will directly affect the quality of the teams and players' games in the new season. Therefore, Henson has always valued this.

In addition to formulating a training plan, Henson also has a "happiness trouble" to consider.

The badge of "Summer Training Camp" was upgraded to level 3 by Henson, which means that Henson can choose 3 players to improve a certain attribute. Last summer, Henson used this badge to enhance George's dribbling ability. As a result, George instantly changed from a catcher and shooter to an all-around star, winning the team's scoring champion and FMVP in one fell swoop.

It can be seen how great the role of this badge is. Henson didn't want to waste such an important badge. After all, there is only one opportunity to use it a year. How to allocate reasonably, he must plan carefully.

Henson thought about leaving all opportunities to Antetokounmpo. After all, he is the only one who has not yet formed, and the others have grown to the level that Henson expected. But later Henson discovered that the data analysis module did not allow him to do so. A player can only enjoy attribute bonuses once a year, and cannot be used in stacks. There is no doubt that this has greatly increased the difficulty of Henson's work.

As the work unfolded, Henson's series of physical discomforts came back to him. But as always, Henson didn't care.

On the third day after the start of the training camp, Henson finally came up with a plan to use those three opportunities. So he found Fraser, who was always doing it himself, and told him three key training plans.

First, continue to strengthen George's ability to attack the ball. Last season, George was the Pacers' top scorer. And this season, Henson needs him to be the top scorer in the league!

Second, Antetokounmpo's strength and size must be improved. Henson did not use attribute bonuses on the Greeks' shots, because in Henson's view, adapting Antetokounmbo to the intensity of the NBA game is the top priority. People with physical conditions like him have the means to score even without shooting. Therefore, shooting is not Antetokounmpo's primary reinforcement goal. If you can't adapt to the confrontation, Antetokounmpo's physical condition is no good.

The last opportunity for attribute improvement, Henson left to Leonard. For Leonard, shooting is what he needs to improve. This season, Henson intends to push Leonard into the starting lineup and let him take the first step to become a superstar! Although Leonard performed very well on the offensive end last season, in terms of Henson's expectations for Leonard, that was not enough.

Leonard needs to become a superstar with both offensive and defensive capabilities, and Henson's requirements for him this season are no longer as simple as the sixth man. So his scoring ability needs to be more stable and more powerful!

Frazier listened to Henson's plan and nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, Henson, you will see the kind of progress you desire in them in a month."

Henson believed in this. After all, the role of badges is never wrong!

A George who has the best scoring ability, Leonard who has officially started to become a superstar, Antetokounmpo who is growing fast, and Stephenson and Jimmy Butler who have become very mature on the bench.. ....

After imagining the team's lineup for next season, Henson could not help but take a breath.

Is this team too strong?

In early October, the NBA preseason officially started. As an informal game for teams to adjust lineups and experimental play, few teams will show their full strength in the preseason.

Henson's Pacers are an example. Every preseason, the Pacers' performance seems to be poor. But when it comes to the regular season, the entire league will be shrouded by the Pacers' horrible winning streak.

But this year, the situation is slightly different. Because since the preseason, the entire league seems to have been shrouded in the winning streak of the defending champion!

In the first game of the preseason against the Golden State Warriors, Leonard had 24 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals, helping the Pacers to win by 8 points. It is worth mentioning that George, the Pacers' leading scorer in this game, only played 8 minutes. In other words, if George played in a regular rotation, the Warriors would lose even worse.

The second game, the focus of the preseason game, formed the "Big Five" Nets as a guest banker life arena. Before the game began, the media received news that Paul sprained his ankle during training and needed correction for 3-5 days. In other words, this game the Pacers will lose their head point guard.

Without Paul, the Nets, fourth in the Eastern Conference last season, are naturally very keen to show their strength in front of the defending champion. However, in this game, it seems that the Pacers are more like a multi-giant team.

The performances of Garnett and Pierce are very average, it is obvious that the two have not yet adapted to the system built by the new coach Jason Kidd.

On the Pacers' side, there are more flowers. Paul George and Leonard launched a fierce attack as soon as the game opened, and the Nets' defense seemed to disperse in one shot, and there was no cohesion at all.

On the bench, Jimmy Butler and Stephenson led the team to completely dispel the Nets' hopes. In the end, in Indianapolis, the much-anticipated "Big Five" failed miserably by 14 points!

Garnett 8 points, Deron 7 points, Pierce 13 points, Johnson 15 points. For the Nets, only Lopez scored 20. It seems that the performance of the "big five" is difficult to convince.

In contrast to the Pacers, George, who got a rest in the last game, scored 33 points, allowing people to see why he was worth 90 million. Leonard also scored 18 points, including 2 of 3 3-pointers. The badge brought Leonard's improvement immediately. Jimmy Butler scored 19 points off the bench, and Stephenson scored 15 points.

In the absence of Paul, Henson led a group of young people to beat the Nets.

After the game, General Manager Kim Terry of the Nets, who created this lineup himself, explained, “In the preseason, everyone is still adapting to the rhythm of the game. So the loss of this game cannot explain any problems.”

But this self-deception explanation has not been recognized by everyone. T.NT's famous commentator Charles Barkley is one of them.

"Kim Terry is defending his stupidity. He is still unwilling to admit that he was completely fooled by Danny Ainge! Now the Celtics have all the conditions to complete the reconstruction, and the Nets once this If they can’t win the championship this season, their future will be dim! As for the Pacers, I can only comment this way..."

Barkley looked at the camera and sighed heavily, "Their reign has begun since the preseason. Henson and his players may be another team in the league with a devastating offensive this season. A team with three consecutive championships! You must feel that I am talking nonsense again, but this time, I am not alarmist."

eSPN's evaluation of the Pacers is more straightforward.

"Coach Henson's team is trying to take away all championships so that other teams have no honor to take!"

The terrifying breath of corn yellow has spread in the continental United States ahead of time.