In the new season, Wall’s wall is too critical to the Clippers. Whether they can fight it depends on how much oil can be contributed in the wall’s tank.
You may say that as long as the Clippers are healthy, they are strong with or without Wals. I think so too. After all, the Clippers who lost Leonard halfway a year ago were killed in the West. But now the NBA men and men are together, relying on the strength of the front line group alone, it is difficult to guarantee the end.
This is a modern combat force that anyone can attack with the ball, but on the other hand, it is also a team that does not really organize defenders. Wall is the first.
The Clippers had high hopes for wall and expected his engine to run normally. If Wall can prove this, he will replace Reggie Jackson and take the top position of the point guard.
Discussing the prospect of Clippers will add a premise-as long as they are healthy. Yes, the Clippers have almost been supported by role players in the past two years. Leonard and George, the two bosses in the team, have experienced too many injuries, and Leonard has not played even for more than a year. This is the fourth season for both of them to join hands, but they played 104 games together in the first three years.
Wall was also born as a serious injury in people’s impression. He only played 113 games in the past four seasons, and two of them did not play in the whole year. However, it must be pointed out that he was not injured last season, and his wish to return was slapped to death by the Rockets: I paid you more than ,000 yuan to rest for a year, raise knee joints and heels, what’s wrong with having to compete with children for time? Wall and the Rockets reached an agreement, and the war was closed for one year. Finally, the buyout was completed at the cost of 6.5 million dollars. The money was actually made up by the Clippers.
In the absence of any money loss, Vole’s motivation to join the Clippers was too simple. It was just like a rookie who first entered the league. He only wanted to play. After all, he was only 32 years old, if you can prove that you are healthy, have speed and shoot, you can guarantee an annual salary of 10 million +.
However, his passing didn’t need to be proved. In his best four years, the total number of assists was 720 +, and the highest one reached 831 times. At that time, Wall was alive and alive, sometimes playing 82 games, at least 77 games, and was elected as an All-Star for 5 consecutive years.
Lu’s guidance didn’t give him any promise. From the starting substitute to the playing time, wall needed to fight for it himself. After the start of the training camp, the Clippers played two preseason games, the first match against Israel Maccabi, all the bosses rested, and the second match was against the Blazers in Seattle. The first match was Reggie, and Wall played a substitute, the appearance time of the two is almost the same. There will be another match tomorrow morning. The opponent will be the Timberwolves. Then wall will start and Reggie will replace it.
Wal played NBA in his life. The regular season and playoffs added up to 650 games, and only 12 games were played as substitutes, all because he needed to adapt to the injury after returning. Now Wall expresses his determination, saying that it doesn’t matter if the starting substitute does not matter. I believe what he said is his heart’s truth. This mentality was cultivated after the rocket sat on the bench for a year without a ball. I think as long as he is willing to play a substitute, he can play in the rockets, like Gordon, but he is not prepared to accept the reality.
The people around them became Leonard and George, as well as Reggie, zubatz, Batum and Mann who worked hard to support the team in hard years. Wall finally stood on the ground, unlike in Washington, he always flies in the ethereal clouds or is surrounded by a group of hairy children in Huaguo Mountain. Wall said that he didn’t have to be “Batman–
“Of course I want to be John Wall in 2016, but I don’t have to work so hard every night. I don’t have to be Batman every night to win for us…… But I still have those skills in 2016.”
It is probably difficult for you to restore wall to the state of 20+10 five years ago, but Lu’s guidance is very realistic. He has figured out a way to use Wall, and he said:
“Ensuring his health is a top priority. The most important thing is his own feelings. We need him to keep a good feeling. At first, we didn’t need him to play too long and play so many back-to-back. Our goal is to ensure that he can reach March and April healthily, which is our main goal.”
Wall was very lucky. The Clippers he joined had two characteristics: neat attack lines and tall figure; The bench was deep and the army was sufficient. These two characteristics ensure that the Clippers are a modern army with abundant physical strength and fast attack and defense conversion speed.
The Vanguard Group of the Clippers is enviable. Leonard, George, Batum, Morris, Mann, Coffey, Kennard and Boston are all between 196 and 203 tall, and only wall is 190 outside, reggie 188, Powell 191, that is to say, except for the two major center zubatz and Moses Brown, most players can be deployed back and forth between the 2nd and 4th positions.
They lack a person who actually played number 1, and now they have wall.
The Clippers don’t need the 100 percent Wall five or six years ago. He doesn’t even need to hold the ball in his own hands all the time, because George and Leonard have enough ability to dominate the ball. However, the Clippers need wall to take out something different and use the idea of a guard to play the game. This is what the Clippers did not have before. Guidance Lu also said that he needed Wall to push fast and beat the rhythm and counterattack.
Clippers are a team without much news, because the boss Leonard doesn’t talk much. George didn’t talk much except during the interview, but his position was not inferior to Leonard. To some extent, he was more like that big brother who was proud and righteous.
When Reggie was switched to the Clippers by the piston, he just caught up with the outbreak of the epidemic and the NBA suspended. Reggie had nowhere to stay in Los Angeles. It was George who took out a vacant house for him to live in. This summer, George and Leonard took the lead and held a mini training in San Diego and Los Angeles, bringing together most of the players to get familiar with each other. Some young players were shy, george took care of their eating and living out of his own pocket.
Obviously, this is a United team and everyone has the same goal.
As long as we stay away from injuries, this Clippers must be afraid of people, and NBA general managers know this. Before the start of the new season, NBA as usual asked the general managers of 30 teams to vote for the championship, MVP, newcomer King, best coach and so on in their hearts. In predicting the championship, Clippers scored third, the first and second are Bucks and Warriors respectively.
However, it is predicted that who can represent the West to play the finals. The total score of the Clippers is the first, and the votes in the first place are equivalent to the Warriors, which are 48 percent.
All the predictions are blind, but this shows the weight of the Clippers in the minds of the general managers.
Su Qun column