"Boss, we are ranked first in the league!"

"It should."

"But it's so annoying. We're discussing who is the first favorite to win the championship in the Heat, Bulls, 76ers, Kings, and Mavericks. It seems that all the media put us outside the top five."

“Normal.”

"Boss, aren't you angry?"

"It's enough for you to be angry on behalf of our team, and everyone doesn't have to be angry."

"Can I represent the whole team?"

"certainly."

“It’s so cool, boss!”

Artest is so excited!

"Boss, I'll go to train first. My basic skills are still not enough. The accuracy of mid- and long-distance shots and free throws after the confrontation has become worse."

"good."

Zhang Hao was very satisfied with the look at Artest who was running to practice with a lot of fun.

On October 30, 2003, the NBA regular season had begun, and some teams will play the regular season opening game tonight.

The opening match of the Supersonics is tomorrow. Yesterday, Zhang Hao started to prepare for the entire team.

With the help of Collins brothers, Silver Fox and Hornersek, Zhang Hao led the team for the first time to prepare for the game that was truly included in career statistics, which was very smooth.

After training this morning, the Supersonics team has almost prepared, have a rest in the afternoon, run tactics twice tomorrow morning, and can play the game tomorrow night.

And the Supersonics, tomorrow's opening match against the Indiana Pacers, the first champion of the new century!

The schedule is very interesting. Unlike in the past few years, the team's mortal enemies are always used as gimmicks and players' grievances are used as gimmicks.

"Ron Artest, 24 years old, 201 cm, 115 kg, ability evaluation 90, offense 86, defense 95..."

‘The defense was cut by NO-handheak! Otherwise, it should be close to the full value of 99. For an outside player, defense is not allowed to be used, and the impact is too great. Almost the entire defensive habit needs to be readjusted. However, in this way, world peace and 95's defensive evaluation are awesome...

This year, the weight of world peace has not continued to increase. After the weight gain period, 115 kilograms. Even if world peace is in the limit, it should reach its limit. If weight gain is increased, the absolute impact on the speed.

This talent, if only I could have such a big weight and maintain my speed... emmm...

But the weight remains unchanged, but the body size becomes thinner and the muscle density is even greater... I suffered losses in shooting experience. Last season, the 37.3% three-point shooting rate was probably lost for a while, but I should be able to practice back.

Fortunately, the close range of the preseason has increased from 57.5% last year to 64%. The close range and basket shooting percentage in the new season should be able to break 60%, reaching the top level of the outside line, at the cost of a temporary decline in mid-range shots... worth it!’

Zhang Hao analyzed Artest in comparison with the refreshed player detection report, preseason performance, etc., and Kassel complained: "Aix, why does Ron feel so smart?"

"It's okay, just don't let him do things with your brain."

"That's right... Actually, like him, you should live a happy life."

"yes."

"Sam heard you want to change careers and become a shooting coach?"

"Yes, I'm going to be a shooting coach after retirement. My back-playing skills are pretty good... I won't be an assistant coach like you."

"What a pity, there was a thought in my mind. Will one day our entire team be players except the head coach?"

"This idea is cool! But it doesn't seem like a good idea."

Kirilenko next to him listened to Kassel's fancy flattery and felt like he wanted to integrate into the team's core circle, and the road was long and difficult!

But he was so mean to stay last year, and now he has what he wants.

The playing time has increased, and the importance has increased... and he really wants to stay and become the core of the Supersonics' series defense in the next stage... or even the core of offense and defense!

Artest and Chandler are individual soldiers, Odom is well-behaved in defense, and although Kassel maintains his condition well, he will definitely grow old. He is less than 23 years old, AK47, and may be the future tactical core around Zhang Hao!

Flattery, the fighting nation will not.

But, you can tell the truth!

"Boss, look here, these media outlets call you the first active person!"

I won't flatter AK47 took out several newspapers prepared.

This is what Kirilenko collected in recent days.

After the preseason began, major media were hyping up the team strength list, player level division, etc. for the new season.

Since ESPN began to emerge, major media have become more and more routines... similar.

Sometimes Zhang Hao feels that the media becomes boring. In the past, major media have all kinds of tricks. Although their ability to do things is not that outstanding, major media have their own characteristics.

Now, we are all trying to attract attention. The news content is basically just to copy me and I copy you. Even the way of reporting news is unified, and how to get the title party.

However, with the increasing development of technology, information dissemination is becoming more and more convenient. At present, major media are too busy with traffic competition in traditional information dissemination media and the last quarter of the new era communication. They do not need to consider quality at all. If you post a random news, countless people will read it... In this case, how to write more news is more important than quality.

This has also led to ESPN's crazy market seizing in the past two years.

Although the number of website traffic, newspaper sales, and even live broadcasts of TV stations is increasing.

But when the news is similar and a lot of spam is flooded, the increase will definitely be related to quality in the end.

As ESPN, which has turned on the ‘traffic mode’, has gradually gained an advantage in the sports information era they have started.

Zhang Hao can see this because he knew that ESPN would come from behind and take the lead when the Internet was just emerging, and later stepped on those old media.

Just like in previous years, major media have divided the players into grades.

Zhang Hao, O'Neal, Duncan, Kobe, Garnett, and Kidd. According to his performance last season, these six people were divided into T1.

Next is Iverson, McGrady, Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Wallace and Pierce are divided into T2.

Almost all media have divided these 11 people into first-class superstars and second-class superstars.

Some divided Iverson and McGrady into T1, while others adjusted Garnett and Kidd to the second...

Nowitzki was regarded as the first superstar before last season's Western Conference Finals, but after the Western Conference Finals... life is so magical that he can't even enter the second level.

The news became similar once, and the views of major media were consistent.

However, when everyone's grades are similar, ESPN once again became unique and was divided into S1 level separately.

This operation immediately makes it look very different from others.

ESPN means that people interpret it as the league has the first superstar and the second superstar, and Zhang Hao is the first person in the league.

The reactions of other media...the morning newspaper of the next day was immediately followed.

Zhang Hao didn't care much about the newspapers prepared by Kirilenko. He saw very interesting news about rookies.

Sports Illustrated said that the new No. 1 pick LeBron James will be the next magician and may become a magical player like Zhang Hao.

ESPN evaluates Anthony of Syracuse University as the No. 1 pick, only 7 months older than James, but has won the NCAA Basketball Championship for adults and is talented and capable. If James wants to compare with Zhang Hao, he will surpass Anthony first.

And ESPN's template for James Ron Artest.

‘Time Warner and Sports Illustrated Praise James, ESPN says James is a small world peace… This is really weird…’

...

The day before the regular season, Zhang Hao finally saw the latest version of the player detection report he had long thought about.

World Peace has arrived at the top level of 90 in one fell swoop. Zhang Hao felt a pity that NO-handheak was released when Artest was about to enter the golden period of his career. World Peace was forced to start adjusting his defense before it showed his defensive ability based on "horizontal".

Fortunately, Artest is very obedient in training!

Artest has been practicing the basic skills of Jordan, Zhang Hao, Artest, Kassel and others very hard, mainly with basic skills on the defensive end, and is very solid.

Just looking at the present, no one would have thought that 4 years ago, Artest, who had just entered the NBA, even stood on the defensive end, like he had to be 6 fouls in 20 minutes.

But Artest played for half a season in the rookie season, and his position and basic defensive posture were already very good. He had first-class defense since the second grade, and approached the top in the third grade. He formed the most terrifying defensive combination with Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace in the fourth grade. He led two teammates at the back line to play iron-blooded defense.

Zhang Hao was not worried about Artest's subsequent adjustments at all.

Others are a little good, some are not satisfactory, or in their Supersonics, they are not that good.

"Sam Kassel, 34 years old, 191 cm, 88 kg, ability evaluation 91, offense 93, defense 77, pass 92..."

‘The top-end skill mechanism of aliens is easy to use and easy to operate, with distinctive features, obvious advantages and disadvantages… Except for the poor skin, the rest are all full-level.’

"Manu Ginobili, 26 years old, 198 cm, 93 kg, ability evaluation 84, offense 89, defense 77..."

‘The Demon Sword is too much. The evaluation was only 77 after the game last season. NO-handheak just came out and went to the top mid-range game? Judging from the preseason, it was indeed a bit stronger than last year, and the stability... It is true that the Demon Sword's performance in regular state is quite average. Because he explodes frequently, it looks very stable. In addition, he may be a bad start in the first quarter but will run wild in the second quarter, and it may be a good idea to take off in the third quarter. It seems that Argentina lost to the American men's basketball team led by Reed this year in the Pan American Basketball Championship final, which was caused by Ginobili's 0-of-5 scores and 2 mistakes in the final quarter...

But a sophomore player, at the prime of his career, his strength, this 4-year contract is worth it! He made a lot of money!

This feature is quite bad at its peak, but if you are 36 years old, you can still complete the explosion in a single quarter?’

"Tyson Chandler, age, 6 cm, 110 kg, ability evaluation 75, offense 66, defense 83..."

‘The boxing champion just turned 2019, and he didn’t know if he liked the birthday gift he gave him... Progress was not satisfactory, not meeting expectations, but not bad either.

When high school students are in the high position, I always look at boxing champions with the improvement speed of Garnett or Howard, but the talent gap is obvious.

The boxing champion is different from the two. He is the kind of center who really takes a long time to polish and slowly cultivate. He doesn't have a strong presence in the game, there are not many steals, and there are not many blocks... but it is quite effective.

You can't compare those monsters. At the age of age, the boxing champion has done a good job.'
To be continued...