: 2015. South Coast Storm

Who would have thought that it was the Grizzlies and the 76ers who reached the finals?
It’s not that a rising emerging team really has a chance to win a championship. Not to mention the championship. Most of the young emerging strong teams that once shined on the NBA stage have not even entered the finals of the division, such as the Eastern Conference. The Wizards of the Three Musketeers, the Western Supersonic Three Musketeers.
Entering the finals is even more extravagant. In the past 13 seasons, the Western Conference finals team is the Lakers Bulls. There are Kings, Jazz, Nuggets, and Suns... Many teams have risen, but they have not broken the Lakers Bulls against the Finals. Rule.
Moreover, since the new century, only two teams have won the championship for the first time in team history-the Mavericks and the Heat.
Several other champions, the Lakers, Spurs, Pistons and Celtics, have all won championships in the last century.
Therefore, it is difficult to add a championship team, and even many superstars have not entered the finals in their careers.
When Kobe and James were eliminated, the media in the wall began to support the Grizzlies, hoping that the Grizzlies could win the championship.
In addition to the emergence of a new champion team, there is also Nash. The Grizzlies eliminated the Lakers 4 to 1 to advance to the finals. The image of Nash tearing the stadium touched the tears of many old fans.
The day after the Sixers advanced, on June 12, the Sixers immediately came to Memphis and began preparing for the game.
After a day of rest, the Grizzlies also started preparing for battle.
All major media have begun to do programs to analyze the pros and cons of the Grizzlies and 76ers.
From the comparison of regular season games, the Grizzlies have an advantage.
In line-up comparison, the 76ers have stronger stars.
Evans, Iguodala, Howard's starting giant combination is very strong. In terms of role players, Holleti, who has been selected for the second defense in the second grade, Louis Williams, who has the best sixth man strength, and high-quality pitcher Zhu Di Meeks, unreliable defender but able to shoot Saidis Young and Hawes inside the two...The bench will not drop, just Louis Williams, Meeks, Hawes three People are reliable, Lavoie Allen and Sam Young are more pitted.
Basically, the 76ers rely on Evans, Iguodala, Holiday, Howard, four offensive and defensive stars and the rise of sixth man Louis Williams.
For the Grizzlies, if you fight for the stars, you really can't compete with the 76ers. Only Randolph can compare with Evans and Howard in terms of strength.
However, the Grizzlies have better overall coordination and stronger team strengths. Sun Ce, Nash, Gasol Jr. and Tony Allen all have their own characteristics. They are first-class players in the eyes of the media and experts and fans. The areas they are good at are top players.
Paul George and Jordan Jr. are all quasi-first-class players, and have the performance of first-class players when doing what they should do.
Klay Thompson and Yi Jianlian, Neil, Ridno, Battier are also very good role players.
Jimmy Butler still can’t see if there is a future, the Development League has not played well, but the Grizzlies did not send him away in the transaction. Lewis signed it back mainly because he did not want other teams to sign it. Of course, if he used The best, but only played twice in the playoffs, it's all garbage time.
And Aron Gray, the fifth insider who has performed well against Yao Ming.
In this year's playoffs, the media believe that the Grizzlies are more stable and the overall strength is stronger, because once the Grizzlies determine the advantage, they play very stable. The Thunder and Lakers are in 5 games. Solved by the Grizzlies.
The 76ers, two 3 to 1 lead, failed to solve the opponent immediately, was dragged by the Bulls to tie-break, and was almost dragged by the Heat to tie-break.
To analyze and analyze, the media feel that the Grizzlies have more advantages.
Perhaps it is because people want to see team-based teams beat the star-studded teams.
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Even if you don't pay attention to public opinion, the media and fans hope that the Grizzlies, who are famous for their team, will win the championship. It will also spread to the Grizzlies players' ears.
Sun Ce was very pleased when he knew the changes in public opinion. As a socialist successor born under the red flag and growing in the spring breeze... But all players who truly integrate into a team hope that their team will be praised.
This sense of team honor may be more exciting than personal honor.
However, Nash and Battier have been urging teammates not to be too proud. They have been playing for so many years, and they understand the difficulty of winning the championship.
"Be happy to wait until you hold the O'Brien Cup". This is a sentence that Nash and Battier have been talking about since they advanced to the finals.
Why do championship teams want to bring in veterans who have never won a championship but are experienced, once superstars or famous leaders? It is because they have the majesty and know the difficulty of winning the championship, they can urge young players.
Under the tireless supervision of the two veterans, the teammates did not feel noisy, because the glory of the champion was near, and what the two said made sense, they both settled down to prepare for the battle.
After all, they didn't know much about the 76ers. Even the coaching staff began to study the 76ers and prepared for the tactics that night after they defeated the Lakers to reach the finals.
Moreover, they saw the active preparations for the visiting team training field next door.
Evans + Howard, one of the league's three best point guards, and Evans on a par with Ross and Paul, coupled with the league's best center Howard, is extremely deterrent.
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When the Grizzlies and the 76ers are actively preparing for the battle, the basketball world on the South Coast has a stormy prelude.
Pat Riley sent an email to team owner Mickey Allison, then leaned back in his chair and sighed. At this time, he was sitting opposite their Heat star LeBron James.
Last night, they lost to the 76ers. After stopping the East, James flew back to Miami overnight and came to Pat Riley's office to force the palace early this morning.
After making an anxious look, Pat Riley began to flicker: "LeBron, you must believe me, we will find a suitable center for you."
James has been listening to this for two years. He was confused when he came to the first season of the Heat. Why is the team's best center coming to Miami with him?
After the big Z retired, the team's true center is only Eddie Curry and Dexter Pittman, two big fat men who have not played more than 140 kilograms in a season.
So, he changed from small forward to power forward, and in the Eastern Conference of the 76ers, he had to play center and Howard.
Already on this one, James doesn't care about his face or anything. Even if Pat Riley revealed that he had forced the palace, he would have to do the same.
James said directly: "I need a clear signing target. Dwyane and Chris and I both cut the salary, not to save the luxury tax for the team. Our total salary is only 71.11 million this year, but we have three All-Stars. , Three! Actually, no luxury tax was paid, and even this year's middle class clause was useless.
Dwyane and Chris are reluctant to say, but I want to say that our salary reduction is not to save the team money, but to use this part of the money to bring in better teammates.
I now need a clear signing target. If not, I will apply for a transaction this summer. "
This was very clear. Pat Riley heard James' seriousness. He knew that James could definitely do it.
This person, don’t be afraid of bad guys, I’m afraid of setting up a good guy to collapse, but now the James guy has collapsed, and the egoist rookie has already been deeply rooted in people’s hearts. Yes, even if the palace is forced to recruit, James will no longer be scolded for this kind of thing, but it is in line with his current design.
And this time their Heat have no reason to say that the four teams in the division finals, except for the 76ers with Evans and Holidays two rookie contracts, only their Heat did not pay luxury taxes, the Lakers and Gray The Bears have to pay more than 10 million luxury taxes.
As for the lack of salary space, Pat Riley knows that James knows the team's salary space very well. At present, except for James and Bosh's salary of 16.02 million US dollars and Wade's salary of 15.69 million US dollars, only Chalmers and Mike -Miller and Haslem have guaranteed contracts. The others are short-term contracts. For example, James Jones, a friend of James, holds a low salary and signs a year. Joel Anthony and Juwan Howard , Eddie Curry's contract has also expired, and this season's middle class exception is useless~EbookFREE.me~ I just don't want to keep a long contract, I want to try my best to keep the total salary below the luxury tax threshold .
Chalmers, Mike Miller and Haslem are all good bargaining chips. That is to say, they only have the Big Three on the Heat’s fixed contract. Even in the offseason, the Big Three start the following season. The salary calculation space, the salary of James and Bosh is only 17.55 million US dollars, Wade is only 17.12 million US dollars, which is less than 53 million. According to expectations, the salary cap will be between 64 million US dollars and 66 million US dollars next season. At least 11 million dollars can be freed up.
After a quick thought, Pat Riley kept the anxious expression and said: "I understand, LeBron, I have been working hard, but you understand this kind of thing, saving money is definitely not my original intention, it is the boss's Ask, I will try my best to talk to him, but you have to give me a clear goal and let me know how to talk to him."
James nodded, thought for a while, and said: "I hope that the introduction of Tyson Chandler or Andrew Bogut, who has athletic ability and excellent pick-and-roll teammates, can help Chris share the pressure inside and let Chris return to the power forward. The position of the can help me and Dwyane reduce the pressure on the pick and roll!"
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