Preseason is in full swing, is the new season still far away?
All past achievements will be over, and all teams and players in the new season will start from scratch. Whether you are the champion of last year or the MVP, anyone will start a brand new challenge.
and those wounded people who have been away from the arena for a long time will also stand on the starting line and are looking forward to the moment when starts its gun fires.
If you use a keyword to summarize last season's NBA, it may be the word "chaotic". The sudden injury interrupted the plans of some teams, and some people who broke up with the team and would rather be suspended than play...
Last season's NBA league was not a fully competitive league, because many names left the field temporarily. For example, the Jamal Murray , Porter Jr., the Clippers Leonard , and the teammates Paul George who are recovering from injury with him. Simmons , which has been in trouble with the 76ers, has not played for the entire season.
One of the themes of the new season may be the word "return", because the above mentioned names have been unveiled in the preseason.
539 days without playing Murray , and Porter Jr., who has also been absent from the arena for a long time, announced their return at Denver .
Simmons, who was "worrying about money when he got it", chose to regard his old team 76ers as his debut in Nets , returned to the court after 470 days, and became the "model worker" with the longest playing time in the Nets.
, and , which lasted 476 days away from the arena, Leonard , also came back with Paul George.
I wonder if you have noticed that the above four players are all maximum-paid players. This is equivalent to the fact that the clubs of these four players play for each have one more powerful player of the maximum salary level in the upcoming new season.
The change of a maximum-paid player is enough to change the competition form of the league. What's more, four maximum-paid players "come to invest". It's hard to say that they won't loosen the league pattern of the new season, right?
Although last season Nuggets stopped in the first round and lost to the final champion Warriors with a big score difference of 1-4, we should pay attention to the Nuggets' season's premise - they not only lack Murray, but Porter Jr. also announced the season's reimbursement after 9 games. In other words, the Nuggets' lineup gap last season is difficult to make up. If Jokic is removed, how different is this lineup from the team that is badly selected by the dive No. 1 pick?
However, Jokic still brought this lack of competitiveness to 48 wins and 6th in the West. This also shows that the Nuggets have tested the lower limit of the lineup, and the first round of playoffs is the bottom line of their record.
So, on this basis, adding two top-level signings is obviously not a beautiful painting, right?
Of course, do Murray and Porter Jr. still have the maximum salary level they had at the time? This also takes time to tell us the answer. Porter Jr.'s back and forth had repeated back and forth, and Murray's knee injury was even more difficult. Although he scored 10 points on 4 of 7 shots in the preseason, this was far from convincing fans that believe that Murray could return to the super-god level of the playoffs that year.
The situation of the Clippers is similar to that of the Nuggets. Last season, they also tried to "study the bottom" in the absence of core. But the difference between the two teams is that Jokic, the Nuggets' absolute core, is still there, while the Clippers directly lost the eldest Leonard, and the other core, , George, , only played 31 games.
Most of the time, the Clippers have been the civilian lineup, but they still won the 8th place in the West with 42 wins and 40 losses.
So, we can assume that the lower limit of the Clippers' lineup is 8th in the West. This is their achievement based on teamwork and bench thickness, but they lack a little bit of the creativity and breakthrough of the stars.
So, now Tyron Lu has certified that George has fully recovered from health, and Leonard also looks full of blood and is even stronger than before he was injured. What reason does fans not be optimistic about this Clippers' championship?
Clippers are undoubtedly the popular seeds for the championship in the new season, but the premise is that Leonard and George can maintain absolute health, even if they take some rest in the regular season, it doesn't matter. As long as they guarantee a stable output of 40-50 games in the regular season and a full-time playoff effort, that's enough.
But this is easy to say, but it still takes some luck to achieve the basketball god!
The Nets are completely opposite to the situation of the above two teams. Although Simmons also has certain potential for injury, the reason why he stayed away from the court for 470 days was not because of injury (although he said it was because of a back injury), but because of his heart disease.
In other words, Simmons is still the same Simmons, and his skills will not decline due to injuries at all. Simmons himself is not a player who relies on skills. His absolute physical advantage is the basic basis of his game content. Simmons, 26, is not at the age of decline in physical function. So even if he has been away from the arena for a long time, it will be difficult for him to experience a significant decline.
So, compared with the Nuggets and the Clippers, the Nets have actually "reinforced" a maximum salary.
As long as Simmons doesn't make a fuss, his game content will inject valuable energy into the Nets, because the rebounding and defense he is good at happen to be the things the Nets need most urgently.
In this way, Irving and Durant , as well as a group of pitchers with strong offense and weak defense, have built a strong backing. If Simmons can implement tough defense throughout the season, the Nets' ceiling will be infinitely raised, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he will rewrite the league's championship pattern.
Just think about it, which team in the league is willing to meet Irving, Durant and Simmons who are all out?
However, in the end, the game still talks with the ball, and the level is still there to be a fight. No matter how much the fans talk about it, the players are still executed in the end, and there are countless variables inside and outside the court that affect the direction of the plot. What is the result in the end? Only time can tell us the answer.
So, we just need to move a small stool and wait for the arrival of historical moments. Are you right?
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