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Chapter 500 Big List

In late October, the weather turned cooler.

The Warriors, who have gone through the preseason, finally determined the candidates for the new season roster.

Exactly the big list of 15 people.

Point guard: Billups, Blaylock, Dell Curry

Shooting guard: Qin Fei, Ginobili, Reid, Arenas

Small forwards: Artest, James Posey
Power forwards: Jermaine O'Neal, Clifford Robinson, Barkley, Kenny Thomas
Centers: Ben Wallace, Mark Jackson

In this list, Artest, Posey and Kenny Thomas are all first-round rookies, and their contracts will expire next year. This is their contract year.

Dell Curry and Barkley are determined to be in the last year of their careers, so they will not appear in the lineup until next season.

By 03, Qin Fei and O'Neal will become free agents.

As for the contracts of Billups, Ben Wallace and others, there is still a period of time for performance.

Ginobili, Arenas and others are still in the first year of their rookie contracts, and it is far from the time to consider contracts.

As for Okur, who was selected in the second round, he is still playing in Turkey, and the contract has not yet been fulfilled.

Because there are many people who are in contract years, players who are in contract years are a little anxious.

Kenny Thomas was the first anxious player. He expressed to the team through his agent that he wanted more playing time, or traded him.

Rowell was also very helpless. In the summer, he had already sought some deals.

But the Warriors are indeed too competitive, which has caused Kenny Thomas to lose his reputation in the past two years, and he didn't even perform well. In the middle of last season, he got some performance due to injuries.

Kenny Thomas does not have much market value, and the quotations are not very high.

Some transactions also need to catch up with other players, but the Warriors have no willingness to trade other players, so the transaction has been stranded.

Until the new season, Kenny Thomas took the initiative to submit this application.

It is not much different from a paper transaction application.

After the roster is established, the Warriors are about to usher in the opener.

This year's NBA regular season time is slightly earlier than previous years, and October 10 is the opening game time.

At this time, the league didn't intend to make a gimmick in the opening game. The opening game on the first day was a very real chaos, with a total of 12 games set up.

The Warriors also have a game on Day [-], hosting the Portland Trail Blazers.

At this time last year, the first game of the Warriors should have been with the Pacers in the finals.

The tradition of the NBA still exists.

So this year's first game arranged for the 76ers to play against the Lakers, which attracted attention.

On game day, the Warriors determined a 12-man activation list.

There are three players who have not been activated, namely Reed, Arenas and Dell Curry.

Among them, Arenas and Kenny Thomas were the ones competing for the last activated player spot, and Arenas was squeezed out by Kenny Thomas in the end.

In fact, Arenas has already shown impressive fighting power in training.

Compared with Mike Reed, who has been trained for a year, Arenas is more capable of attacking the ball and weaker in defense, but Reid's defense is not much better. After learning defense for a year, he still fails to meet Carlisle's requirements.

So in Carlisle's heart, Arenas is still ahead of Reid.

Arenas was not able to enter the activation list, very disappointed.

The NBA is more cruel than he imagined. Entering the team's roster is the first step, and improving his status in the team is the next step, and then he has to find a way to get a stable playing time.

Overall, the Warriors are full of talents, and each position is relatively balanced.

The internal competition pressure is still relatively small, and the outside lines are almost bunched up.

Moreover, among the outside players, Qin Fei needs more than 35 minutes of playing time, Billups also takes up 30 minutes of playing time every night, and Blaylock and Artest together get rid of 50 minutes of playing time, and the total outside minutes are only 144 minutes.

Then so many people compete for the 29 minutes, and they are ranked according to the status in the coach's mind and the actual situation. How can it be their turn to play marginal players like them.

"It's not easy to score in the starting lineup in the middle of the season!"

Arenas is a player who is unwilling to be lonely. Now thinking of the wild words he released before, he feels that he has slapped himself in the face. It is too difficult.
Sure enough, the Trail Blazers did not wait for Sabonis.

Sabonis, who suffered serious injuries last season, decided to leave the NBA and go to Lithuania in Europe to play.

It can be regarded as playing while recuperating from injuries.

Compared with the NBA, the confrontation in the European league is not so intense, the rhythm is not so fast, and the chance of injury is much smaller.

In this way, the Trail Blazers lost a top center, the entire system built around Sabonis was completely overthrown, and the team's standing power fell by more than one level.

Although there are still star players such as Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, and Dale Davis, their strength is no longer the top in the West.

The Warriors are relatively familiar with the Blazers, and they played against the Blazers in the first game of their career.

Looking back at the Trailblazers at that time, it is simply a matter of fact.

The entire NBA is in constant change, including the Warriors.

From the time Qin Fei first joined the Warriors to the current lineup of the Warriors, there is a world of difference.

Facing the Warriors, the Blazers lined up Stoudemire, Bunch Wells, Pippen, Rasheed Wallace and Dale Davis, with Steve Kerr, Eric Barkley and Sean Kemp, whom Qin Fei is very familiar with, on the bench.

Qin Fei stepped in, causing Camp to not have the experience of wandering in the east.

However, Kemp's decline still happened, but the speed of the decline was not so fast. This was something Kemp himself did, and Qin Fei couldn't help him change it.

After a few years in the Sonics, the 33-year-old Kemp was sent to the Blazers by the Sonics.

After sending Kemp away, the Sonics helped the young Jamison, thinking that Jamison could completely offset the gap after Kemp left.

For this reason, they signed a multi-year full middle class with Jamison, intending to use the combination of Payton + Jamison to hit the championship again.

The key to this combination depends on how far Jamison can grow.

Peyton didn't express any opinion on this, but he didn't believe it in his heart.

Even if it was a combination of him and Kemp at their peak, Qin Fei would have to be added to win the championship. With just the two of them, what trouble could there be?
"Yes, we are very competitive, and we will attack the championship."

When Payton faced the media, he firmly expressed his expectations for the new season and gave his teammates the greatest encouragement.

"Antoine is very young and has great potential. He is a very good player. I am optimistic that he will be selected for the All-Star team this season."

The Grizzlies have moved, the Trail Blazers are weak, the Supersonics are half-dead, and the entire area in the northwest corner, which was strong at the beginning, is abolished.

Now the focus of the West is California. The Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento Kings. The away teams that come to California for a walk have to lose a layer of skin before they can go back.

Fortunately, a Clippers are usually added in the middle, and many teams point to winning the Clippers as a guarantee.

The first battle of the Blazers.

The two teams were tied in the first half, 47-47.

In the second half of the game, the Warriors had the advantage on the court. Qin Fei scored 11 points in the final quarter of the game, helping the team beat the Trail Blazers 103-95 at home and gain their first victory of the season.

秦飞首场比赛22投10中得到29分11篮板和14次助攻的三双数据。

But at the same time, he also made an unprecedented 6 turnovers.

Qin Fei generally makes relatively few mistakes, and it is possible to reach 5 assists only when the assists are in double figures.

Most of the time, he will not make more than 3 turnovers in a game, and he is the most stable player among NBA ball-handling superstars.

After the game, basketball commentators talked about the impact of the new NBA rules.

"It can be seen that even a superstar like Qin Fei needs some time to adapt to the new rules that have changed drastically."

At the beginning of this season, the NBA officially abolished the illegal defense rules and allowed teams to zone defense.

This is actually one thing. Zone defense has long been popular among many teams in the NBA. Many teams have set up some defensive systems that are free from illegal defense and zone defense in order to limit outside super scorers.

"Before this season, there was a very clear trend of the outside scorer scoring up."

According to basketball experts, the reason why the officials agreed to introduce zone defense is also to find a balance.

Before, in order to make the NBA more enjoyable, the NBA refined the rules of hand contact, stipulating that you can only "get started" in a certain area, so the scores of scorers have increased every year.

Last year, many stars averaged more than 25 points per game, the highest number of players averaging more than 25 points per game in a decade.

At the same time, the rules of basketball in international leagues are constantly improving.

Including zone defense, various changes have also been derived under the background of the new era. As a unique product of the NBA, illegal defense is already somewhat out of line with the trend of the times.

After the illegal defense is abolished, it is equivalent to allowing zone defense.

In the first game of the season, Qin Fei's singles was obviously much more difficult.

This is the most basic change. When Qin Fei's side holds the ball, the Trail Blazers obviously began to exert overall defensive pressure on Qin Fei's side. Looking around, there are many players on the way to the inside. Qin Fei either shoots directly, or hits three, or passes the ball.

One-on-three is unscientific, but you can try dry pulling, and the passing line has also become significantly longer. The longer the passing line, the higher the probability of being intercepted halfway and making a mistake.

This simplest defensive tactic has a special term called "strong side stacking defense".

The changes that the NBA official committee can think of immediately when formulating new rules are not in line with the basic policy that David Stern hopes to see superstars leading the game.

Therefore, in order to give some benefits to singles superstars, the NBA pioneered the three-second rule of defense when it abolished illegal defense at the beginning of this season.

This is definitely an original in the history of basketball, and it is also a new and unique product of the entire NBA.

This means that the defender cannot stand in the penalty area for more than three seconds without anyone defending.

This rule is aimed at the frame-protecting centers who stand on the inside and defend, and it does not have a great impact on the Warriors. After all, the Warriors are very motivated inside, and they are not very traditional insiders.

The real bad news of this rule is that compared to O'Neal, Sabonis and other traditional centers who are not particularly mobile.

The "mobility" here does not mean that they can't run fast or can't run.

It's that they can't flexibly and easily jump repeatedly in and outside the penalty area like Ben or Garnett. Playing in this way, with their weight, no matter how strong their physical fitness is, they can't withstand the consumption.

So as soon as the new rules came out, the inside and outside stars were very dissatisfied.

O'Neill even shouted words like "they ruined the sport".

Therefore, anyone who comes into contact with the new rules will have an uncomfortable side, even Qin Fei.

After all, he is an old man who has played in the league for five seasons, not a machine.

The inertia of some old rules emerges as a matter of course.

All of this will take time to slowly settle.

So on the first day of the opening game, the league's scorers were all in Waterloo.

Carter scored 28 points, Iverson scored 25 points, Marbury scored 23 points, Kobe Bryant scored 22 points, and O'Neal scored 20 points.
There are only a handful of players who have scored more than 30 points in a single game.

You know, in the opening game last year, many players scored 40+ points.

Other effects under the new rules have not yet been reflected.

Under the first condition, some offensive habits of scorers may have to be adjusted.

Of course, don't doubt the adaptability of NBA players.

Although I feel that such a rule is unreasonable now, after a period of trial, there will inevitably be the first wave of players who quickly adapt to the rules.

There are two days of competition in October.

The next day is Halloween, which is the busiest time of the festival.

On this day, five games are scheduled in the league.

The Warriors have the day off.

After a night of ghost dancing, time spanned to November.

In early November, the Warriors continued to play at home, and the first game in November was against the Phoenix Suns.

Before facing the Suns, the official announced the latest transaction dynamics.

The Warriors and Bulls completed the trade.

The Warriors sent 24-year-old power forward Kenny Thomas + a second-round pick to the Bulls in exchange for a first-round protected pick from the Bulls.

What the Warriors sent away was their own second-round pick, leaving behind the second-round pick they got from the Rockets when they traded Bob Sura in the previous summer.

The Bulls' first-round pick is the 03 (lottery-protected) pick.

The value of the transaction is actually not very high, and the process of connecting Kenny Thomas with the Bulls is naturally unknown to the Warriors, but since they can get a first-round pick, it is not considered a loss, and they readily agreed to this transaction.

The two years Kenny Thomas spent with the Warriors were relatively unsuccessful two years.

But his ability is still there, especially in the middle of last season, when the Warriors were plagued by injuries for a while, Kenny Thomas seized the opportunity during that time and even played a single game of 20+10.

As long as the Warriors can not lose money, the transaction will be traded.

And Kenny Thomas didn't know about the trade before, and when he was informed that he had been traded, he was still warming up and preparing to play today.

It's really an impermanence.

Kenny Thomas looked blank, for a moment, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

(End of this chapter)