Chapter 923: Ready

Before the start of the new season, the Kings made another contract.
Divac won Li Liang's old teammate, Matt Barnes, with a basic salary in the free market.
That's right, Barnes got his basic salary again.
This loyal man, with his strength and ability, a middle class is not a problem.
But don't know why, he just likes to get a basic salary.
Maybe a person wants to do what he likes, wants to go to his favorite team, wants to be with the person he likes, just to pay some price.
Barnes expressed his hope that he could play with Li Liang again, so he accepted the double-team from the Kings without hesitation and became a member of the Kings team.
At the same time, the Kings also denied a contract.
Divac originally wanted to take Ty Lawson to supplement the team's back line.
But after some investigation, Ty Lawson's drinking problem still discouraged the king.
After all, no team wants an alcoholic in the team.
Lawson had high hopes in the Rockets last season.
It turns out that alcohol addiction is not so easy to quit.
He was arrested for drunk driving and was later bought out by the Rockets.
After adding Barnes, the new season for the Kings is about to begin.
The schedule for the first game is set on October 26, and the opponent will be the underdog Phoenix Suns.
This is Li Liang's fifth season in the NBA.
In the past four seasons, Li Liang was the final winner.
But he won the final crown as a player.
This year is different, he has a new identity, he is also the head coach of the Kings.
As a player, the focus can only be on yourself.
As a coach, we must take care of every player.
Before the game started, Li Liang counted the people he had on hand.
Cousins, a person who is always happy off the court, and is unhappy when he hits the court.
Fortunately, after Li Liang signed the King, Cousins ​​felt a lot happy.
What boss position, Cousins ​​didn't want to do it, he wanted to win.
In the entire league, no one knows more about winning than Li Liang.
Rondo, Li Liang's good assistant on the field, Zhi Duo Xing, off-court cross talk partner, offensive supporter, third assistant coach of the team, and an important topic initiator for the Kings sideline cross talk.
Because there are always many problems with this product.
Especially in the last week before the start of the game, when Mike Brown promoted "Swarm Defense" to the whole team, Rondo had the most questions, and he could always ask Mike Brown.
There are indeed many flaws and loopholes in this defensive system that has not been verified in the professional arena.
However, Rondo also admitted that this defensive system is indeed very creative, a different approach, and is very suitable for the current NBA trend of focusing on offense and defensive.
Under the guidance of Brown, the entire Kings started their "defensive revolution" in a rush.
But whether it is effective or not depends on the regular season performance.
Eric Gordon, a shooting guard with a face as round as the ball.
After taking Li Liang's Boiled Pills and straining his stomach for two days, Gordon's knee injury was well relieved.
Gordon's three-pointer shot, already a certain degree of offensive ability with the ball, is very valued by Li Liang.
Li Liang considered putting him on the bench as a sixth person.
But because his face is too round, I think it would be better to put it on.
It's just that sometimes when he sees his crappy dribble under the crotch and makes a mistake at every turn, Li Liang still wants to twist his head off and kick the ball.
Rudy Gay, from the head coach's point of view, this is a typical star of a weak team, a medium-strong team can improvise, a strong team's tasteless player.
After the Rockets drafted him, they sent him to the Grizzlies, in exchange for Battier, you can see the league manager's positioning of him.
Compared to Shane Battier, Shane is a typical player who wastes on weak teams, is the spiritual leader of medium strong teams, and is a champion puzzle player on strong teams.
Therefore, Li Liang also has a headache on how to use Gay.
He also wants to put Guy on the bench and be the sixth man. His technical characteristics are indeed suitable.
But in this way, the King's striker cannot be seen.
Another useful third position on the bench is Cassby, which is a little too thin.
It's okay to be a rotation point, but it's a little far behind to be the main force.
Fortunately, there were two old comrades-in-arms David West and Barnes on the bench, which made Li Liang calm.
Let's take a look at the luxurious assistant coaching staff that Divac has assigned to Li Liang.
In the one-month training camp, Li Liang sometimes feels that two people are enough for the assistant coach.
With D'Antoni in the offense, Li Liang basically doesn't need to worry too much.
Li Liang gave D'Antoni full power on offense, and even Li Liang hoped to give Mustache the work of explaining offensive tactics in future matches. He didn't bother to paint on the tactical board.
There was Mike Brown on the defense. After the hair that Li Liang forced to grow out, Mike Brown finally gave a good answer.
As for whether the effect is good or not, the truth is seen on the court.
As for Tylen Lu, sometimes Li Liang doesn't know what it is for.
Eat rice?
If you say anything, you just say "Okay, I think it's right, no problem, give the ball to Bruce..."
What use is it for you?
But after a long time as the head coach, Li Liang slowly discovered that such people around him are essential.
When the leader speaks, sometimes it is necessary to have such a voice.
Just like the teacher is asking questions in class, there will always be an active student raising his hand to ease the embarrassment of no one raising his hand to call the name.
Even if this student always answers incorrectly, it also gives the teacher the opportunity to correct the mistake and show the correct answer!
It seems that Divac was very meaningful when he recruited Lu in the first place.
On October 24th, two days before the start of the UU reading www.uukanshu.com, Li Liang moved into a luxury villa in the suburbs of Sacramento.
The feeling of having a big contract is still different.
After a month of redesigning and decorating, Li Liang and Zhu Shu moved into this manor house on the Sacramento River.
Open the door of the yard and you can see the winding Sacramento River, and the yard is full of vines.
Zhu Shu doesn't like to grow flowers. On the contrary, she likes to grow fruit trees similar to grapes and vegetables. Not only can they eat, but when they see the fruits they produce, they will also feel very fulfilled.
This may be the vegetable growing plot hidden deep in the Chinese genes.
On the 25th, Zhu Shu flew to Los Angeles to continue her work as an agent in Los Angeles.
Recently, she will talk about some new commercial endorsements for Li Liang.
Li Liang and the whole team flew to Phoenix to prepare for the new season.