Coach: Coaching the Grizzlies at the beginning, playing the bantam

Chapter 71 The list of 15 players for the new season is released!Crazy preseason experiments!Master the winning password!

Two days later, the Sonics signed veteran Bunch Wells in the free market, a swingman with a height of 1 meters and a weight of 96 kilograms.

Although Wells has not been selected as an All-Star in his career, he was also a well-known player in the early [-]s.He mainly plays shooting guard and sometimes serves as a small forward, but he looks more like a miniature power forward when playing low singles.

As a swingman, his rebounding ability is superb, he has a strong sense of fighting, he has a lot of experience in protecting defensive rebounds, and he has benefited the team a lot in terms of offensive rebounds.

In his peak season, Wells averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game. After retiring, he became the head coach of the men's basketball team at Rimoen Irving College.

Even though Bunch Wells fell into a career trough last season and only played 28 games for the Rockets due to injuries, he could still score 21.1 points, 7.8 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.9 times in 0.6 minutes of playing time The overall data of blocking is an outside line with both offensive and defensive skills and good at hitting the basket.

The Sonics offered him a two-year, $650 million contract, more than the Rockets' $220 million annual salary.

Everyone feels that Bunch Wells is getting old, and his state will definitely decline seriously in the new season.

Only Lu Yong knows that this signing with the Sonics is guaranteed to make money, because Wells can contribute 9.1 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1 steal in the last season of his career, and his 49% shooting efficiency is not bad.

The only thing to worry about is his weight. Wells, who shut up and is free from injuries, is definitely an excellent bench gangster.

The Sonics, which are all composed of rookies, need such a veteran to prick the head and play a role when the smell of gunpowder breaks out on the court.

In the parallel world, Bunch Wells, who left the NBA, joined the Shanxi Zhongyu team of the CBA League next summer.In Shanxi's first show, he scored a double-double of 48 points and 11 rebounds. He played a total of 14 games that season. Wells averaged 34 points per game for the Shanxi team. He was the most capable foreign aid in the CBA at that time.

Sam Presti has great insights in team building. He knows that a team cannot be full of honest people. Can help young players.

This is the right decision. The free market has added two powerful veterans one after another, and Lu Yong is more confident in coaching in the new season.

The Sonics lineup is reasonable, including veterans, rookies, and stars in their prime. Those teams who underestimated the Sonics in the offseason will definitely pay the price in the regular season.

Time entered September, and the Supersonics' 15-man roster for the new season was released.

Center: Noah, Wilcox, Collison.

Power forwards: Carl Landry, PJ Tucker, Mirza Teletovic, Kurt Thomas.

Small forwards: Durant, Szczerbiak, Michael Finley.

Shooting guards: Bunch Wells, Delonte West

Point guards: Luke Ridnour, Ramon Sessions, Earl Watson.

Presti originally wanted to sign a star in his prime, but some well-known players in the free market this year have already found their homes, and the rest are some low-level players.

Being able to poach Michael Finley and Bunch Wells from the Spurs and Rockets is already very powerful, although this lineup is still not competitive in the eyes of the management.

During the supersonic management meeting, everyone had strange expressions on their faces, and they looked at Lu Yong with helplessness in their eyes.

The players on this roster are either rookies or veterans. This lineup does not look like it can make the playoffs, and it will probably be at the bottom of the new season.

Lu Yong is indeed a capable coach, but unfortunately, with such a lineup, even the famous coaches in the league dare not say that he will be able to lead the team to achieve results.

However, Lu Yong has long been happy in his heart. No one except him knows how promising the Sonics are.

When a team has many star seedlings, experienced veteran stars, and rookies who are ready to play and fight their lives, Lu Yong really can't find any reason to be depressed.

There was a smile on his face, and the thought in his head was: "If all these players are at their peak, can the Green Army, which is sitting on the Big Three, be able to hang up and play in the new season?"

In another week, the preseason will begin. Lu Yong does not plan to arrange players to risk their lives, but focuses on running-in tactics and matching lineups.

Winning or losing the preseason is irrelevant, the key is to take the opportunity to find problems and improve them.

Lu Yong is very aware of the advantages of the Supersonic lineup, and he has already made plans in his heart.

The new season is about to start, and Lu Yong and his assistant team have officially entered a busy state.

Before deploying tactics, what the head coach usually needs to do is to arrange training and help players who have played for a holiday find the state of the game.

If the players are not consciously training in the summer, it is inevitable that the state will decline.

Fortunately, the Supersonics are a team dominated by young people. Many of them are new melons who have just entered the league. They train very hard in the summer. I am afraid that they will not be reused by the head coach in the rookie season. Their personal status is not bad. .

The self-awareness of rookie players made Lu Yong a lot less worried when arranging training. The main inspections were old people such as Szczerbiak, Delonte West, Michael Finley and Bunch Wells, and the progress was quite smooth. .

After Sam Presti came to the arena to watch a few practices, he decided to let Lu Yong go.

He is very good at cultivating rookie players, which can be heard from the evaluations of Durant, Noah and others, and he is deeply supported by young players in the team.

In October, the warm-up preseason officially started.

Lu Yong used six different sets of starters in the six preseason games. Except for Durant, other players were sent to the second team and started a crazy lineup.

Durant and Noah brought surprises to Lu Yong in the preseason. The hard training this summer was not in vain after all, and they both played amazing personal performances.

季前赛第二战对阵快船，杜兰特出场26分钟16投10中，三分球6中3，罚球5中5，高效砍下28分6篮板2助攻1抢断。

Al Thornton, the No. 14 pick in the first round of the same draft, proved his talent to Seattle fans.

Joakim Noah scored 11 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks in the fourth game against the Raptors. He completely exploded the No. [-] pick in the draft last year, Bargnani, and let the team manage He was quite surprised. He didn't expect Noah to adapt to the confrontation in the NBA so quickly, playing particularly hard on both ends of the offense and defense.

Although this is only a phenomenon-level performance, it is difficult for the two of them to play stable data every game in the regular season, but the preseason itself is a game of nature, and these two amazing performances are enough to prove their talents.

Of course, what surprised Lu Yong the most was the state of veteran Bunch Wells. In six preseason games, he averaged 11.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.2 steals and 0.8 blocks per game, and his shooting percentage was 54.3%. The three-point shooting rate is 32.1%, and he has completely got rid of injuries this summer.

Wells, who has no hidden dangers of injury, is an outside gangster. The performance of offense and defense reminds Lu Yong of the Rockets star Robert Reed in the 80s, and his aggressive playing style is exactly the same.

After six games in the preseason, the Sonics have achieved a record of 4 wins and 2 losses. Although they are still not favored by the outside world, Lu Yong, who frantically adjusted the lineup and experimented, has gained a lot.

Lu Yong, the starting five of the team in the new season, has already made up his mind. He used the warm-up preseason to successfully master the winning code.

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