NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 191 The season begins!
In the arena, Presti looked at the 12 players in the new season, full of anticipation, and of course the one he was most looking forward to was still in the Thunder.

Presti said seriously to the players in front of him: "Last season we reached the semifinals and lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder. At that time, our personal ability was not good enough, but even then we fought to the tiebreaker and fought to the last second. This season, our team is much stronger than last season. Our only goal is the 2011-2012 season NBA championship!"

After Presti finished speaking, he circled the players below. Presti could feel the players' fighting spirit, nodded in satisfaction, and continued:
"What I just said was team goals, and you all have your own personal goals!"

"Talk about your goals," Presti said with a smile.

Players, look at me, I look at you, and no one said it for a long time. Presti also knew that the players were probably embarrassed, and set the goal high. It would be embarrassing if they failed to achieve it, so he said: "Then I will set a goal for you!"

The players shouted: "OK1!" Then they nodded and looked at Presti expectantly,

Presti said relaxedly: "Paul George, your best team and best defensive team last season!"

"Well..." Paul George suddenly felt a surge of fighting spirit in his heart. Entering the best double team in the second season is really an exciting challenge.

"Whiteside won the rebounding leader, and he also won the best defensive team," Presti continued.

"Well" Whiteside is also full of affection
"Gordon, take a super sixth man" Presti just finished speaking.
Gordon shouted: "OK".

"Jimmy Butler and Klay Thompson and first-year first-team Etwain Moore," Presti said encouragingly.

"Okay!" The three of them replied at the same time.

Jimmy Butler, Klay Thompson and Ettoine Moore looked at each other, and they all saw each other's fighting spirit!But Presti knew in his heart that the best result for Ettoine Moore would be to win the All-Rookie Second Team.

"David West will make it to the All-Star again." Although Presti said so, he knew in his heart that it would be too difficult for David West to make it to the All-Star again. There are too many excellent people in the power forward position.

"Well," David West agreed softly. Although he seemed careless, he clenched his fists and told him that he would work hard and fight. He has played in the league for too long. If he can't play gorgeous statistics at his age, he has no chance at all, but he also wants to do his best.

"Bradley gets the best defense!" Presti said with a smile. He believes that Bradley will easily accomplish this goal, because this is one of the reasons why Presti chose Bradley.

"Well," Bradley agreed very confidently, because he was very confident in his ability.

"Jeremy Lin come on and play "Crazy performance, Belinelli, Jason Smith, increase your three-point shooting percentage by 2%, how about Okafor as a double-double machine?" said Presti, looking at the last few players.

"Well," the four nodded in agreement. They knew exactly where their upper limit was, so they weren't annoyed because Presti set them a lower goal than the others. Instead, they felt that the coach really understood them.

Presti finally yelled: "Then training camp begins!"

"Aw! Aw!" The players responded excitedly and then clapped their hands violently. The new season is finally about to start, and they can finally play games!
Afterwards, Presti led the players to practice repeatedly. Of course, Presti's focus is, of course, Paul George, Klay Thompson and Jimmy Butler. The three of them give priority to practicing defensive ability, and then practice the ability that suits them best according to the characteristics of their previous lives. For example, Klay Thompson practiced catching and shooting, and running without the ball.

The next day, the schedule for the NBA 2011-2012 season came out. The new season officially kicked off on December 2011, 12, and the Hornets will officially start the game that day. The first game will be against the Thunder!
Due to the lockout period, the league canceled the summer league, and this season only played 66 games in the regular season. The tight schedule increased the risk of injury, but it brought good conditions for young people to develop, because the intensive schedule would make many veterans in the team take turns, so as to protect the veterans and allow them to play stably in the playoffs.

This brings opportunities to young teams, especially like the Hornets and Thunder. The core of the team is basically all young players with unlimited physical strength. They can fully cope with this tight schedule. Presti has set a goal for himself. If he can get Curry this season, he will be the first in the regular season. , Tactics, just run away!

The core players of many teams are already 30 years old. Under such a tight schedule, Presti believes that "running" will easily overwhelm many teams.

By December 12th, many teams had completed their reinforcements. The one Presti was more concerned about was the Spurs. This year, the Spurs transferred players TJ-Ford, Laver, Leonard, and Stevenson. Because in the previous season, the Spurs won 20 wins and tied for the first place in the league with the Bulls.
The other is the Heat, transferred to Battier, Eddie Curry, Bayas, Gladness, Tyrrell Harris, Weiss, because the previous life was this season, and the Heat defeated the Thunder to win the championship.

As for the Thunder, Presti is of course also very concerned, but the Thunder's salary has been locked, and the team is also full of good players, so they can't sell any of them, so the Thunder has not made any deals so far.

On December 12, the public training match of the Hornets team started. New Orleans fans came to the scene to watch with enthusiasm.

As a result, what did they see?
Klay Thompson, the No. 8 pick, throws the ball as soon as he catches it, hits the iron with a bang, or just dribbles by himself, and if no one is defending, he loses the ball!In one game, he made 13 of 2 shots and made 4 turnovers.
Jimmy Butler is very passionate, but he missed the blue sky, missed the wide open, attacked with the ball, the man passed, and the ball was gone.At the end of the game, 10 of 1 shots and 3 turnovers.

Ettoine Moore will not say, two words: mediocrity,
The reporters at the scene kept laughing, are Klay Thompson and Jimmy Butler really playing?Not to be funny?When the video of the Hornets' public practice game was posted online, many people laughed and said: "Presti's draft magic is gone."

Presti told Butler, Thompson and Moore not to care about outside comments and to train seriously. Of course, the three of them did the same. Two days later, they ushered in their NBA debut.

On December 12, the 25-2011 NBA regular season officially kicked off!

(End of this chapter)