Chapter 115 The preseason starts
The training camp was eight o'clock in the morning, and the players arrived in groups of three or three, and there was no lateness.
Davidson was quite satisfied. At least these players didn't give any warning to him, the new coach...
Because of Richmond's easy-going personality, the atmosphere of the Kings is still good.
After meeting with his teammates, he greeted him warmly. When he saw Davidson, the outrageous young head coach, he nodded respectfully.
"Okay, guys."
"I won't say much nonsense. This season our goal is to ensure the Western Conference semi-finals, that is, to reach the second round of the playoffs!"
Hearing Davidson's words, the scene suddenly became quiet.
Western Conference Semi-Finals?!
The last time the Kings reached the Western Conference semi-finals was in 1981. At that time, the Kings' home court was not in Saramento, but in Kansas City...
Since entering the Western Conference semi-finals in 1981, the Kings have only played twice in the first round of the playoffs in the past 14 or 5 years, not to mention the Western Conference semi-finals, even in the first round of the playoffs, and they were all eliminated 3:0...
Now Davidson is going to the Western Conference semi-finals as soon as he comes to the beginning, and he is guaranteed to play to this position. The corners of the Kings player's mouth twitched, not knowing what to say.
If Davidson shouted a slogan that he would make the playoffs this season, they would still be able to respond.
Ritchmond frowned. He originally thought Davidson was the kind of young and mature person, but now it seems that he has overestimated the level of this young coach.
The Kings' lineup for the new season has not changed much.
There are three more players, namely Murraysan, Eric Snow and Bartel.
Richmond ignored the two behind him. He had seen too many performances of these low-court newcomers and did not think Snow and Bartle could do anything.
As for Murraysan, his strength is naturally strong, and Richmond also admits this.
But the original Polynes was not much different. Relying on Murraysan's strength to be stronger than Polynes, can the king's record be improved by several levels? Richmond would not believe it anyway.
He felt that Davidson's words were too big, and fortunately this was the King's training ground. If a press conference said such a thing and failing to enter the Western Conference semi-finals by then, it would definitely make the King a joke.
"You can see that you don't seem to have any confidence in my words." Davidson said with a faint smile.
"It's okay, time will tell."
Davidson didn't say much, he was naturally extremely confident in the current king.
Murraysan, Bartel and Richmond, this is a standard Big Three lineup.
And it is the most suitable lineup of the three giants with double towers in this era.
How can the record be poor?!
Of course, if you want to win the championship, Davidson must not be so arrogant that he thinks that their lineup can win the championship.
The reason why Davidson gave up the plan to trade Grant and Weber before was because he knew very well that the possibility of this lineup winning the championship was not particularly high, and there was a high chance that even the West would not be able to rush out.
But by the end of this new season, Davidson will be three years old and can advance to an intermediate buyer. At that time, he will have one more natal player, and then he will have three natal players in his hands, plus Richmond, Davidson is confident of fighting the Bulls.
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The half month from mid-September to early October is usually the start-up training time for each team.
On October 3, Davidson finally ushered in his first game after he took the position of head coach.
Although Davidson led the team before when he was at the Nets, he was not the head coach at that time, so he was just a formality.
And now it's different, Davidson is a real head coach.
The Kings' first preseason match was the Western Conference's Dallas Mavericks.
The Mavericks have been a little crazy in the draft in recent years.
He chose Mashburn in 1993 and Kidd in 1994.
Coupled with Jim Jackson, who was chosen in 1992, it happened to form a backcourt trident lineup.
It’s not that the players they chose are not strong enough, but in fact, these three people performed very well.
Kidd even won the Best Rookie in 1994.
But this trident lineup is obviously a bit in line with the trend of the times...
The entire league is piled up inside, and even teams like the Bulls have to introduce Rodman, but the Mavericks have been piled up outside, and no one knows what their management is thinking.
Dad talked to Davidson a few days ago. In Dad's opinion, Mavericks may want to copy the "run-tmc" combination of the previous Nelson combination.
This combination can be translated into self-propelled cannons. You can tell from the name that this is a combination with sufficient offensive firepower.
Richmond, Tim Hardaway plus Emperor's left-handed Chris Mullin, these three are members of the self-propelled artillery combination.
Three outside players with first-class offensive firepower attacked like machine guns...
You don’t have to think about it and know that the coach who can come up with such a crazy thing must be the mad scientist Old Nelson.
Relying on this crazy combination, Old Nelson led the Warriors to the playoffs.
Now the calf probably wants to imitate old Nelson, but unfortunately, he won’t be able to become a dog like a dog…
"Doudu!" The referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game.
Davidson sent the Kings' lineup.
The lineup is actually no different from the Kings' original lineup, which is to replace the original center Polynis with Murraysan.
Power forward Brian Grant, small forward Walter Williams, point guard Webber.
The Mavericks' lineup and the backcourt Trident are all very famous players, and their two inside players are actually quite famous.
The power forward is Puober Jones, who is 203 cm tall.
Jones' fame is not because of his strength, but because of his peculiar appearance.
There is really nothing worth mentioning about strength. You can't do anything and eat nothing left. You can grab a lot of players in the league.
He looks quite recognizable, with a pair of ears that attracts wind, and the nickname given by fans is "Popeye".
There are various strange lists in the NBA, such as the handsomest star list or the ugliest star list...
Jones is a regular on the list behind. He can make it to the list almost any list about ugly or strange-looking.
To be honest, Davidson didn't actually think Jones was ugly...
Center Roy Tapree.
This guy is also a regular customer on the list. He is a desperate list and makes his bright future career lively.
I entered the league in 1986, and in 1990, I was directly cleared by the league because of my sucking...
You should know that when this guy was cleared, he already had an All-Star data averaged 20 points and 11 rebounds per game.
Now, five years later, he has the opportunity to return to the league.
But everyone knows that dogs will definitely not be able to change their eating x, and maybe this guy will be removed after ten days and half a month.
Chapter completed!