September 15, 2005

The 2005-2006 NBA preseason training camp officially opened.

In recent years, the Pistons' preseason training camps have been set up in the city of Detroit.

The location is the Naruo Sports Center in Naruo neighborhood.

As we all know, this large gymnasium is an industry under the name of Mo Mengchen. It is usually open to citizens for free. Except from mid-September to mid-October every year, during which time, the training center is completely closed.

Since 2003, the Pistons have chosen to hold a preseason training camp here. Because the Naruo Training Center has the most advanced equipment in the world and is located in Detroit, it is located here to train. Players can go home directly after training without worrying about food, clothing, housing and transportation, Mo Mengchen himself did not object. Therefore, the Naruo Sports Center has begun to become the Pistons' fixed preseason training camp training camp.

Today is the first day of the training camp.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Mo Mengchen walked from home with a cup of hot milk, got into the car and headed straight to the Naruo Sports Center.

Galiton Apartment is located on Naruo Street, and it only takes a few minutes to drive from Momonchen to this place.

He drove the car into the parking lot and judged who came and who didn't come through the car in the parking lot.

Unless some people change cars, he won't make a mistake.

Even if someone changes to a new car, he can still judge who changes the car based on the style of the car.

Generally, rookies who have just joined the team will drive some good cars in order not to lose face.

Therefore, as long as it is a new and expensive car, Mo Mengchen can basically determine who the owner is.

The Pistons are just a rookie this year.

Last season's draft expansion, the Bobcats took away Korver after activating the Pistons' exception, thus giving this year's first-round draft pick to the Pistons.

The draft pick became the sixth pick in the first round, and the Pistons used it to choose Martel Webster.

This is a 3D forward who is defensively first.

The reason I chose him is because in this year's Lotto area, only Deron and Paul who can really control the situation are the superstars.

One of these two players was selected by the Bobcats and the other was selected by the Jazz, and neither of them was involved in the Pistons.

Although there are also good players like Danny Granger behind, the Pistons' current structure does not require so many offensive players, so a relatively safe option was chosen.

Webster may not be able to become an All-Star in the future, but he will definitely become a starting 3D above the level.

There is a crucial reason here, 3D will become more and more important in the future.

It's not that the ball has nothing to do with the ball.

Due to the strong dominance of the Pistons and the so-called decline in prosperity, the six finals and Lakers in the 2004 Finals reached a record-breaking 22 ratings.

A few months ago, the overall ratings fell to 15.

No one knows whether the Spurs are unliked or whether people are fucked by the Pistons' undefeated myth.

The league's moves from winning over the Pistons to checking and balancing the Pistons, and now deliberately suppressing and weakening, proves that they don't want any team to dominate the league like the Celtics half a century ago.

Modern sports should not have such a team.

Therefore, starting from the expansion draft, a series of targets were aimed at weakening the Pistons.

This incident seemed to have become the league's strategy and also pushed back the dark era of defense that should have arrived.

Mo Mengchen remembers that at this moment of his previous life, the league introduced new regulations to completely ban handchecks in the 2004-2005 season that had ended.

Although there were various prohibitions on handchecks before, most of them were prohibited in certain areas within the three-point line.

As soon as this rule came out, the NBA in his previous life immediately underwent earth-shaking changes.

The league's average offensive efficiency rose from 102.9 to 106.1, the highest increase in history. The offensive efficiency of 106.1 has even approached the level of the 1996-1997 season.

As the league does not completely ban handcheck, the dark era of defense continues.

This is a good thing for most fans who are used to watching strong confrontations. At least in the next few years, the game will be as intense as usual.

Under the heavy restrictions of the league, the Pistons still achieved seven consecutive championships, just one step away from the ancient Celtics' eight consecutive championships.

The outside world believes that their biggest enemy is not outside, but inside.

This enemy is called time.

By June next year, Hill will be 34 years old and Mo Mengchen will be 33 years old.

They have maintained good condition in recent years, but every flower has withered for a day. The most critical point of whether the Piston Dynasty can continue is whether Curry and Anthony can bear the dynasty.

Curry has made a steady progress. In the 2003-2004 season, his personal data rose to 18 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and he was only one step away from being selected as the All-Star.

Curry benefited a lot in his first season when he changed to Princeton. In addition, he gradually developed a top three-pointer with a very good and unsatisfactory arc, as well as the strengthening of the triangle offense and defense dependence on inside offense and defense. He averaged 21 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and was selected as the All-Star for the first time in his career. This year, he received a five-year contract renewal of the Pistons.

Curry's rise and transformation mean that Mo Mengchen's transformation has been completed.

But doubts are increasing day by day.

Because he didn't become an All-Star until the fourth year, the progress of a person who is regarded as the future hope of the dynasty is difficult to satisfy the outside world.

"Grant Hill is the All-Star vote king in the second year, and Eddie Curry is only selected as the All-Star in the fourth year. The gap is so big that it can be seen from the naked eye."

The outside remarks caused quite a lot of trouble for Curry.

It was during the season, and the Pistons changed to a triangular offense and had to be stable inside. Therefore, Mo Mengchen rarely stood up to speak for Curry: "Grant was indeed selected as the All-Star in the second year, but he had been honed for four years in college before that year. That year, he was 24 years old."

"I need to remind everyone that although Eddie was selected as the All-Star in the fourth year, he entered the league at the age of 18." Mo Mengchen said heavily. "He is only 22 years old this year. In this regard, he is no worse than Grant, nor is he worse than me."

Mo Mengchen stood up for Curry and stabilized the latter. The Pistons also found the feeling of a triangular attack in the remaining games. Then they played a singular song and swept all the way. They entered the finals and were at their peak. They were known as the Spurs, who had great hope of overthrowing the Pistons dynasty, had six games in the battle, knocked them down for the second time and achieved seven consecutive championships.

As for Anthony? He is the one that the media prefers.

But just like Curry at the time, he was hard to get Mo Mengchen's recognition.

Anthony is a talented player who has won great success since childhood and has attracted much attention from the United States.

But he is different from Hill.

Hill is from a wealthy family and grows up with a golden spoon in his mouth. Anthony is an inspirational representative of the American Dream of Black people at the bottom. He lacks a sense of security in his heart. After becoming famous, he indulges in the outside world and self-identity. From the bottom of his heart, he believes that he is the best player in the world and can trample the world without giving anything.

After joining the Pistons, he thought he had come to the team that belonged to the winner. He has been a winner since he was a child and can definitely integrate into the team quickly. He was very wrong.

First, he was going to play as a substitute, not the sixth man, but the seventh man, and his appearance order was after Zach Randolph.

It doesn't matter, he accepts it.

When you are new to the Tanhua Show, you have to accept the team's arrangements.

But Mo Mengchen set a series of indicators around Anthony, targeting him only, and only he needs to complete.

The first indicator is that as a Tanhua Show, Anthony plays 23 minutes per game and has 10 shots. (The shots that caused the opponent's foul are not included)

This is a strictly limited number of attacks, but it is not a dead rule.

If he is not good at defending on the court, or has a bad defensive performance, or is easily scored by his opponent without making active defense, his number of shots will be reduced once.

For this reason, a brand new technical statistics appeared in the Pistons: bad defense.

In order to comprehensively count Anthony's defensive performance, the team specially hired professional statisticians.

In his rookie season, Anthony averaged three poor defenses per game.

Why do you do this? The reason is naturally that Anthony in his previous life has never been a good defender.

After watching his game, Mo Mengchen felt incredible.

Anthony in his previous life, his average positive and negative value of the league defense in his career was -1.2, and the best year I think is just the league average.

The magical thing is that Anthony is a defender above average in the playoffs, and his average positive and negative value of defense in the league in his career is 0.1.

This data reflects: as long as he wants to defend, he can defend well.

Why have people been criticized for having bad defense? A bad attitude, no concern, and no attention, thus developing bad habits that are difficult to change.

There are regulations that punish him for not being active on the defensive end and thus deducting his right to take action. Naturally, there are regulations that rewards when he performs positively. This will be discussed later.

In Mo Mengchen's eyes, Anthony had many problems. His attitude towards the latter was comparable to his previous treatment of Curry.

However, Anthony's instant combat power is much stronger than rookie Curry.

As the seventh man, he averaged 15 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists per game during his 23 minutes of playing time, and won 70 wins with the team.

To this end, the first Celtics fans on this planet recommend that the league present the award of "The Seventh Person of the Year" or directly name the award the Cameron Anthony Award.

Anthony lost to his teammate Randolph with a slight advantage.

Third-year Randolph took Reed's gun and averaged 18 points and 7 rebounds per game and was selected as the Sixth Man of the Year.

In the 2004-2005 season, Randolph was taken away by the Bobcats for his expansion. He himself did not want to join the Bobcats at all, but the regulations were regulations. Even if he was determined not to play for the Bobcats, he could not return to Detroit to play for the Pistons according to regulations. Therefore, due to his extreme hatred of the Bobcats, he changed his temperament and became a selfish big shot. He averaged 24 points and 13 rebounds per game in a single season, helping the Bobcats to set the second-to-last place, and finally selected Deron Williams with the second pick, indirectly helping the team complete reconstruction.

After Randolph left, Anthony took the lead and entered the ranks of the sixth man, averaging 28 minutes of playing time, scoring 20 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and finally selected as the All-Star as the sixth man and was also selected as the sixth man of the year.

Everyone knows that Anthony is about to enter the starting lineup.
Chapter completed!