Chapter 310 309: The probability of entering the playoffs is only 01? The defending season has just begun!

Author: Grove Street Brothers

Chapter 310 309: The probability of entering the playoffs is only 0.1%? The defending season has just begun!

After the labor negotiations ended, Stern announced that the first game of the new regular season would start on February 5 and end on May 5, with 50 games.

And because of the shortened season, there will be no All-Star Weekend this season for the first time in history.

This season is undoubtedly a huge challenge for all players.

Because the All-Star Weekend actually means a bit of a "mid-season rest day" for the players.

While the fans enjoy the performance, the players can also take a breather.

But now that the shortened season has greatly increased the schedule density, there is no breathing time for the All-Star Weekend.

Everyone can only enter a state of sprinting with all their strength from the beginning and rush to the end. Whoever stops and slows down is the dog.

The new season is about to begin, which has revived the popularity of the NBA.

As the most trafficked player in the league, Shea is naturally mentioned in the news the most.

The whole world is paying attention to Shay's recovery, and everyone is speculating whether Shay can reach the top and create the miracle of four consecutive championships!

If this were the case last season, no one would question the strength of the Lakers, and no one would dare to say "the Lakers can't win the championship."

But this season, NBC TV polls show that 89% of fans believe it will be difficult for the Lakers to defend their title again!

Winning three consecutive championships is difficult enough, but four consecutive championships is almost impossible to achieve in modern basketball.

Pat Riley, who was invited to the show, once again introduced his theory of "greed for excess":

"Having won the championship for three consecutive years, I believe the mentality of the Lakers players is different.

Some people want more wages, others want more playing time and team status.

The high-intensity battles day after day left them physically and mentally exhausted.

What's more, the Lakers are not young anymore.

Rodman is 38 years old, and Mutombo is 33 even according to the official age. God knows what his actual age is.

Dell Curry is 35 years old, and his son has already turned into an 11-and-a-half-year-old boy. In a few years, his son will probably be able to dunk.

AC. Old man Green is 36 years old and Sam Perkins is 38 years old.

Green's brothers probably want him to retire soon.

You can hardly imagine what kind of starting lineup the Lakers will have next season.

Should we let these old guys continue to start? Or let the two young men who lack strength, Ben Wallace and Jermaine O'Neal, start?

Moreover, Shay was in trouble himself.

No one knows whether he can fully regain his original form after being injured for such a long time.

No matter which aspect you analyze it from, the Lakers are unlikely to win the championship."

Pat Riley once successfully predicted that the Lakers would fall apart in the summer of 1994 when Shea and Barkley won their second championship.

Therefore, what he said still carries a lot of weight in the hearts of fans. Almost everyone believes that Riley will once again accurately predict the Lakers' next fate!

After all, the Lakers' situation this year is indeed not good.

Those who retire retire, those who are old are too old.

Shea will still have to miss another month or two of competition.

This is simply the right time, the right place, the right people, and everything has nothing to do with it.

Let alone the championship, people don’t even know if the Lakers can return to the Finals!

Many experts also suggested that Shay simply retire where he is:

"If Shay loses the series this season, his character will definitely be affected.

In the minds of fans, he is a person who will never fail.

He has never lost in the finals, and except for his rookie season, he has only lost once in the playoffs.

Shay is perfect and invincible in the eyes of fans.

But this season, if Shay insists on playing, people will be disappointed to find that Shay is just a mortal!

So, retire.

Anyway, according to the new rules, the annual salary that Shay can sign now is only a quarter of the previous one.

Anyway, the three consecutive championships have been achieved.

Anyway, he is already a legend.

If it were me, I would not play this thankless season."

Shay looked at the news and shook his head.

Sure enough, the experts at home and abroad were all the same. For them, Shay suggested that they should not make suggestions!

This is the first time since Shea won his third championship that he was not favored before the season.

No, this is no longer not being looked down upon, it is simply being looked down upon.

In fact, it's not that Shay hasn't thought about taking a break, but it's not because this season is too difficult, but because winning last season was really boring.

Just like playing games, if you play too many easy computer games, it will become boring.

Who plays 2K and likes to beat the opponent by 20 or 30 points in every game?

But this year, public opinion is so unfavorable to the Lakers, but it has aroused Shay's desire to win and allowed him to find the joy of playing.

The more you talk about my pills, the more I want to win!

Finally, on the day the preseason training camp began, Shea attended the first press conference of the new season.

There is probably no team in the league that has a more lively press conference than the Lakers'.

The media center of the Great Western Forum was so full that some reporters even had to set up cameras at the entrance of the media center, and everyone who came to interview was overwhelmed.

Shay just walked on stage without saying a word, and the sound of the camera shutter came like a chorus.

This is the ranking of the first player in the league!

As soon as Shay took his seat, countless reporters raised their hands and started asking questions:

"Shay, how does your ankle feel?"

"Stop talking, some people have suggested that I retire on the same spot. If I say that I have fully recovered, many people will be disappointed. So, I can only tell you that my recovery is average."

Shay joked with reporters. Seeing how relaxed he was, the Los Angeles media breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Shay was not frightened by this highly targeted season.

He is still the basketball god who can face any difficulties with ease.

Immediately afterwards, the reporter asked Shea: "What do you think your chances are of successfully defending your title this season?"

Shay immediately asked: "Who do you think can be my opponent?"

Shea's rhetorical question left the reporters speechless.

Although public opinion says that the Lakers will die this season, no one really dares to say which team can end Shay.

The domineering and self-confidence shown by Shay made many reporters with malicious intentions become more honest.

After the press conference, Shay walked into the backstage and found that Bass and Logo were different from his relaxed look. Both of them had serious expressions.

The grumpy Logo kept yelling: "Damn Atlanta people, they just treat me like an idiot!"

Shay looked at Logo, whose hair was flowing from long to white. He hadn't seen West so angry for a long time:

"What's wrong?"

"I asked the Eagles to offer your old friend Christian Laettner, and they actually told me: Oh Jerry, we won't trade Laettner unless you bring Shai. He is important to the team.

components.

But just now, I learned that the Eagles sent Laettner to Detroit, and only got Scott Pollard, who averaged less than 10 minutes per game last season, and a first-round draft pick from Detroit!

Laettner is not an important part at all, they just don’t want to trade with me!"

Although Laettner, who was a powerful player in college, did not turn into what people expected after entering the NBA, he did make the All-Stars. In the 1997 season with the Hawks, he averaged 18.1 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game.

Logo thought that using him to play the fourth position would solve the problem of the fourth position having too weak attack power.

If zone defense is allowed next season, if Rodman continues to be the starter, Shea's offensive space will be catastrophic.

Laettner's ability to shoot can solve this problem.

But the Hawks would rather sell Laettner to Detroit at a low price than cooperate with Logo.

Now the entire league doesn’t want to trade with the Lakers!

Because the whole world knows that this is the best chance to kill Shay!
To be continued...