NBA: Top 3-D talents at the start

With the addition of Zhou Qi, the Cavaliers' roster for the new season has increased to 12 people, which already meets the minimum number of people required for the team to participate in the game.

Under normal circumstances, NBA teams will fill up the maximum number of 15 players before the start of the new season, even if they only use a 10-day short-term contract.

The Cavaliers are no exception.

Although Wang Feng no longer has any suggestions for signings, the Cavaliers still signed three players based on the scout's report. One of them was a non-guaranteed one-year minimum salary contract, and the other two were ten-day short-term contracts.

They are all rookies who were undrafted in this year's draft.

This kind of behavior can be regarded as a lottery. If there is one of them that can be used slightly, you will make a lot of money, but even if there is none, you will not lose anything.

These rookies with unguaranteed contracts do not have many opportunities to show themselves. They only have the opportunity to play in preseason games. With the start of the NBA regular season, their fate will be decided.

The preseason of the new NBA season officially started in early October, and the Cavaliers' first preseason game was on October 5, against the Charlotte Hornets.

Neither the Cavaliers nor the Hornets received much attention last season, and their records were both at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. The Hornets ranked 10th in the Eastern Conference, and the Cavaliers ranked 13th in the Eastern Conference.

The preseason match between the two teams was originally not interesting, and no one should pay attention to it.

But the arrival of Wang Feng broke this status quo.

As the undisputed strongest player in the league, Wang Feng's joining brought the Cavaliers a lot of attention, even as much as when James decided to return to Cleveland.

Some people expect Wang Feng to bring some new changes to the Cavaliers, while others hope that Wang Feng will overturn. The Cavaliers' poor record in the new season will knock Wang Feng off the altar.

In the first preseason game, the Cavaliers defeated the Hornets 109:96, marking the first appearance of the new team.

The Cavaliers completely followed Wang Feng's first lineup idea and fielded the starting lineup of Jordan Poole, Desmond Bane, Otto Porter, Wang Feng and Love.

Wang Feng actually has to play power forward in the new season, which surprised many media and other NBA teams who were paying attention to this game.

As we all know, when Wang Feng first entered the league, he mainly played small forward. Later, he briefly played as a power forward. After he switched to the point guard position with the Lakers, he began to take off completely, leading the Lakers to win three consecutive championships in four years.

Nowadays, people generally believe that Wang Feng, who mainly plays point guard, is at his strongest. It would be a waste of resources to let him play power forward again.

However, with Wang Feng's current level, there seems to be no problem no matter which position he plays.

Last season's average of 13 rebounds per game and his unbeatable performance in the paint against Davis, the thick-browed brother, prove that Wang Feng is not impossible to play as a center. His height weakness can be made up for with his excellent jumping, and his strength is also good.

Enough to support most center players in the league.

Wang Feng only played less than 20 minutes in his preseason debut. He efficiently scored 23 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists before taking a rest.

The Cavaliers more often let the players on the bench show themselves. Seth Curry, Gary Payton II, Malik Monk, Max Struth and others all have longer playing time.

And it worked.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Qi, who joined the Cavaliers less than a month ago, also got a chance to play. In 11 minutes of playing time, he scored 2 points, 2 rebounds, 1 block and 3 fouls. His performance was not satisfactory, but at least he performed.

Opportunities to play.

Wang Feng did not expect Zhou Qi to transform into an NBA-level player through this opportunity at the beginning, but the NBA's scientific and high-intensity training can indeed make Zhou Qi stronger. Under this premise, if Zhou Qi can change his career

Attitude, you will have the opportunity to surpass the Arab League.

After the first preseason show, the Cavaliers played a number of preseason games in the next half month. In the process, they also tried different starting lineups, including but not limited to the two provided by Wang Feng.

Set the starting lineup.

But after some testing, Cavaliers head coach Bickerstaff was surprised to find that the two starting lineups provided by Wang Feng were actually the best.

He also arranged several tactical systems and lineups based on his sense and judgment as a head coach, but the overall effect was not satisfactory, or the players' performance was slightly worse than Wang Feng's two lineups.

This made Bickerstaff admire Wang Feng even more. Of course he didn't know that the starting list arranged by Wang Feng was based on the data performance of players from another time and space. He chose the players who performed the best.

The starting main force.

Bickerstaff does not have the foresight ability of Wang Feng's time traveler, and has not been tested in a large number of formal games. Naturally, he does not know which players on the team are stronger, nor what kind of offense and scoring methods they are better at.

The preseason schedule came to an end soon. The Cavaliers' performance in the preseason was quite satisfactory, with some wins and losses, but overall, it didn't look impressive.

Wang Feng is still the same Wang Feng, showing dominant performance on both ends of the offense and defense, but the performance of other players in the Cavaliers seems to be the same, at least professional scouts and basketball critics have not found one of them.

Two players capable of becoming All-Stars.

Jordan Poole and Desmond Bane are the two most outstanding players on the Cavaliers. Among them, Desmond Bane is the most eye-catching. In the preseason, he averaged 21 points, 5.2 rebounds and three-pointers per game.

The rate is as high as 45%.

In the Cavaliers' first starting system, Desmond Bane was like a fish in water. He didn't need to take on any responsibilities on the offensive end. In many cases, he only had to stand in the bottom corner of the three-point line and wait to catch the ball and shoot.

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With all five positions capable of shooting three-pointers, the Cavaliers have quite a large shooting space. They can get open shots by running around and passing the basketball.

Last season, Bane got a lot of opportunities with the Grizzlies, averaging 22 minutes per game, but his data was only 9.2 points and 3 rebounds. As a substitute, it is not too bad, but it is not good either.

How excellent.

The Grizzlies value Bane's potential, but the Cavaliers gave him too much. As a combo guard, Bane has some positional overlap and conflict with Morant, whom the Grizzlies strongly favor.

The most important thing is that the Grizzlies never imagined that in just one season, Bane would grow from an average of 9.2 points per game to an outstanding defender averaging 18.8 points per game. Otherwise, they would never choose to trade Bane.

In any case, Bane's performance in the preseason made the Cavaliers coaching staff shine. They were pleasantly surprised to find an offensive player whose scoring ability is as good as Jordan Poole, and who can shoot three-pointers more accurately from long range.

As for Jordan Poole, last season with the Lakers, when Jimmy Butler was injured unexpectedly and was reimbursed for the regular season, Poole, who temporarily took Butler's position, had already proven his ability. On that team, there were Wang Feng, Ingram and

In a Lakers team with Kuzma and other players, Poole, as the starting shooting guard, can still steadily provide good scoring output and become one of the Lakers' main scoring points in the regular season.

After coming to the Cavaliers, Poole has more rights to the ball and shots, and after two seasons of growth and training, he has become more and more calm on the court.

"The situation... doesn't seem that bad."

Before Wang Feng exerted his strength, the performance of Bain and Poole exceeded Bickerstaff's expectations, and this was without taking into account the performance of other Cavaliers players.

After carefully reviewing the performance of the Cavaliers' players in the preseason, Bickerstaff was shocked to find that the current Cavaliers seemed to be the richest team he had ever fought since coaching the Cavaliers.

But in the eyes of the outside world, the Cavaliers' new season is not worth looking forward to.

Bane and Poole's scoring in the preseason is indeed eye-catching, but what does that mean?

Everyone knows that the preseason is watery. When the regular season comes and each team increases their defensive intensity, can they still perform as efficiently as they did in the preseason?

At that time, there is a high probability that Wang Feng will be the one supporting the Cavaliers as they move forward.

Therefore, after the preseason, the Cavaliers could only be ranked outside the tenth place on the strength list given by the league, ranking eleventh in the league.

The league's strength list from top to bottom is the Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, New Orleans Pelicans and Denver.

Nuggets.

The fact that the Cavaliers can rank 11th in the league is entirely due to Wang Feng, the league's number one player. Otherwise, judging from the team's lineup, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Utah Jazz, who have three No. 1 picks, are also better than the Cavaliers.

Stronger.

And even if the league gives such a strength ranking, many people still don't buy it.

"Can the Cavaliers be ranked 11th? Is this ranking high? If we calculate it this way, in the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers can reach fifth or sixth place in the Eastern Conference during the regular season? The Cavaliers' regular season rankings will only be around seventh or eighth in the Eastern Conference."

"Wang Feng is very strong, but the Cavaliers' lineup is too bad. Apart from Wang Feng, they don't even have an All-Star. Even Poole, Bane, and Otto Porter Jr. who started in the preseason are all substitutes for other teams.

Players, how can this lineup perform so well in the regular season?"

All in all, most people are not optimistic that the Cavaliers' lineup can perform well.

Wang Feng, on the other hand, is already gearing up and can't wait for the regular season to come and slap these guys in the face!

Unlike them, he has strong confidence in the strength of the Cavaliers in the new season.

This strongest lineup without an All-Star is already highly competitive in the Eastern Conference, not to mention the addition of Wang Feng, a monster with an overall rating of 99.

Don't forget, Wang Feng has activated the two core badges of organizational core and defensive core. These two core cards can even forcibly upgrade the strength of the Chinese men's basketball players to a higher level, let alone these NBA-level players?

Wang Feng even felt that with the support of the core players and the Ten Cents Badge, players like Jordan Poole and Bane would have the chance to be selected as All-Stars.

Therefore, if you want to achieve system tasks, this season is the best opportunity. If you fail to do so, next season, the Cavaliers' current lineup may not be able to meet the requirements for system upgrade tasks.

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On October 20, the entire preseason schedule ends, and on October 26, the NBA 2021-22 regular season will officially begin.

Before the start of the regular season, there was another big event that attracted everyone's attention.

The 2021-22 season is the 75th anniversary of the NBA. To commemorate the 75th anniversary celebration, the league officials will combine the media, active and retired players, coaches, general managers and team management to jointly select the 75 greats in NBA history.

's superstar.

The 75 superstars are in no particular order, but they will be the 75 greatest basketball players officially recognized.

On October 22, the league officially announced the list of top 75 players.

Wang Feng's name appeared on the list of the 75 superstars without any suspense, and aroused heated discussion.

After all, although the league's official top 75 specifically indicate that they are not ranked in order to avoid provoking a fight, this does not prevent the general public from making their own fantasies.

In the current league status ranking, Qiao Gang leader is still the undisputed number one, with six championships and FMVP, five regular season MVPs, and ten scoring champions, leading the pack.

The second list is quite controversial. Most people generally believe that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who also has six championships, six regular season MVPs, and ranks first in the all-time scoring list, is second in history.

However, some people believe that Wang Feng, who has also won six championships and has four consecutive regular season MVPs, has completely caught up with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, while James relies on three championships, four regular season MVPs, and a long, stable and efficient career performance.

, also has the qualification to rank second in competition history.

Although the opinions are different, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar still has a slight upper hand. After all, the gold content of Wang Feng's first three championships is slightly insufficient in the eyes of many people, and the number of James' championships is a bit small.

As for third to sixth, they are Wang Feng, James, Magic Johnson and Lord of the Rings Bill Russell.

One thing I have to admit is that although James is full of black spots and extremely controversial, he always occupies a high position in the media in terms of historical rankings and other personal honor evaluations.

Even though due to the butterfly effect, the fourth championship that was supposed to be won with the Lakers is still far away, it still has the best reputation in competition history.

It's just that James himself is obviously very dissatisfied with this ranking.

Durant regards Wang Feng as the nemesis of his career, and this idea also applies to James.

I have worked hard in the league for more than ten years, but I can't compare to a young kid who has played less than seven seasons. While the number of regular season MVPs is similar, the number of championships is more than doubled by the opponent.

, anyone else would feel unhappy.

The emergence of Wang Feng directly affected James' great career.

But many James fans still can't hate Wang Feng. After all, James' most important championship, the Cavaliers' championship, was won with the help of Wang Feng.

To be honest, without Wang Feng, it would be impossible to defeat the five-star warriors with just the Cavaliers equipped with the Big Three.

Of course, there are many anti-fans of James, and there are also many idiot fans, many of whom are unreasonable and can forcefully describe white things as black. Wang Feng assists James to win the championship. In their mouths, Wang Feng gets it by hugging James' thigh.

The championship can still be won even without the Wang Feng Cavaliers.

In the face of such unreasonable brain-dead fans, there is no point in reasoning. Often a debate will quickly turn into Zaun's output, and both parties will start arguing and quarreling so fiercely that they forget the original purpose.

No matter what, at least in the evaluations of major local media in the United States, Wang Feng is firmly ranked above James by having more than twice the number of championships as James, including the efficient and luxurious performance that James is proud of for more than ten years.

Data pales in comparison to Wang Feng's exaggerated data of averaging a triple-double or even 40+13+10 for two consecutive seasons.

The debate about the 75th Congress is not just about superstars such as Wang Feng and James, but also many other controversies. For example, Lillard was elected to the 75th Congress, but Howard, McGrady, Ginobili and others were not selected.

Davis, the big-browed brother, did not go to the Lakers to win his first career championship, so he was not selected. Instead, Westbrook benefited from this. Westbrook, who should have been selected into the 76th draft at the buzzer, should have been directly excluded because of Wang Feng's selection.

When he was on the list, because Brother Big Eyebrow was not selected, he was still selected into the list of 76 superstars with a tie vote and buzzer-beating selection just like in another time and space.

Amid all kinds of heated debates, the NBA finally ushered in the opening game of the 2021-22 regular season.

On October 26, 2021, the NBA regular season officially begins.

The opponent for the Lakers' first regular season opener was not a strong one, it was the Orlando Magic, which was last in the Eastern Conference last season.

The Magic were unlucky enough last season. They were last in the Eastern Conference and second to last in the league, but they only received the fifth pick. Instead, the Cavaliers got the third pick and became the key player in the trade to acquire Wang Feng.

chips.

Facing such a team that was worse than the previous Cavaliers, the new Cavaliers did not have any pressure. They attacked hard at the Amway Arena in Orlando and easily got off to a good start at 112:94.

In the official debut game, Cavaliers head coach Bickerstaff continued to use the first offensive-oriented small ball tactical lineup provided by Wang Feng, that is, Wang Feng served as the team's starting power forward and Love served as the center.

line-up.

In the first quarter alone, the Cavaliers' small-ball lineup used their offense to defeat the Magic.

Wang Feng scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in a single quarter, leading the Cavaliers to 34 points in the first quarter, establishing a double-digit lead.

In the following quarters, the Cavaliers maintained their lead until the end of the game.

Wang Feng, who clocked out at the end of the third quarter, finally scored 27 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. Jordan Poole scored 23 points, Desmond Bane scored 17 points, and Kevin Love scored 18 points. The Cavaliers

Six members of the team scored in double figures, so it was not an easy win.

No one cared much about the Cavaliers' first win.

After all, with Wang Feng, who is recognized as the number one player in the league, facing the Magic who only won 22 games last season, isn't it natural to win?

But the following two games made people begin to realize that something was wrong.

On October 28, the Cavaliers played against the Indiana Pacers at home and won 110:99.

On October 30, the Cavaliers faced the Chicago Bulls away from home and won again 118:111, winning their third consecutive victory!