Chapter 1120 Iverson's Unhappiness

After the press conference, the whole team, management and coaching staff held a tactical meeting to discuss the basic tactics for this season.

The first one is to use Li Ba as the core of the inside line, mainly defense, counterattack tactics on the outside line, and fast break on the outside line as the main offense.

The second one is to use Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian as the inside line combination, Yao Ming is the main attacker in the low post, Yi Jianlian assists, and Li Ba is the front gate. Li Ba will lead the fast break on the outside line.

The third one is that Li Ba is the point guard, and the tactics of fast break on the outside line, half-court and full-court pressing are the main ones.

The fourth one is that Yao Ming is the organizing center in the high position, Gasol plays the fifth, and Li Ba is on the outside line.

The fifth one...

On October 27, as the champion of last season, the Suns played an opening game against the Cavaliers.

Unfortunately, the Cavaliers, the opponent of last season's finals, collapsed, making this opening game without any suspense.

That day, Li Ba drove to the American West Arena and prepared a gift for his teammates for the new season as usual, a box of his own 2006 Senbei wine for each person.

The 2006 Senbei wine has been fermented for three years. It is not as classic as the 2004 Senbei boutique, but it also received 96 Napa points and is very popular.

Before the game, the media entered the locker room for interviews.

CCTV's Zhang Heli, Yu Jia and Xu Jicheng were excited. The three major inside players of the national team gathered in the Suns. This is simply half of the national team.

Zhang Heli asked excitedly: "Dayao, since the news of your joining the Suns came back to China, it has been really exciting! Your foot injury should have recovered now, right?"

Dayao smiled and said: "Thank you for the support of the fans. My injury is fine and the training is normal."

"That's good, that's good. After this season, try to get the Suns to give you another big contract next year, and win a few more championships with the hammer Yi Lian." Zhang Heli said with a smile.

Li Ba and others laughed.

Yu Jia laughed and said, "When I came in just now, I thought I was in the national team, haha!"

The game started soon after.

"Defend! Defend! Defend..."

Li Ba raised his head and shouted out the only goal of this season, and the whole audience responded.

In this game, Dayao started, first partnered with Alian, and then moved to the high position as an organizing center. He performed well. He only played for 20 minutes in the whole game, 6 of 8 shots, 5 of 6 free throws, and scored 17 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks, 2 turnovers and 2 fouls.

Li Ba played as a small forward in this game, and also tried out tactics, but in the first half, the effect was average.

He has no mid-range and long-range shooting ability. To score on the offensive end, he can only break through, but Dayao occupies the space under the basket, which affects his performance.

However, this tactic still needs to be played, because Dayao has a very good mid-range shooting ability, and he can withdraw to play.

In the second half, when Li Ba was holding the ball on the outside, Yao Ming decisively pulled the basket to free up a huge space for Li Ba's breakthrough. Li Ba's efficiency was immediately improved, causing great damage to the Cavaliers' inside line.

On the other hand, Iverson came off the bench and played for 24 minutes, 5 of 13 shots, 5 of 7 free throws, including one three-pointer, and scored 16 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 2 turnovers and 1 foul.

A game without suspense was played, 75:121, the Suns won by 46 points.

Li Ba played for 30 minutes and scored 33 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 8 steals, 8 blocks, 1 turnover and 2 fouls.

But his performance did not surprise the media, but Yao Ming's performance was beyond the media's expectations.

Barkley said in the post-match commentary: "From this game, Yao still performed at the level of a superstar. It's just that his playing time was limited, which affected his performance. But I think this should be a good arrangement. Yao is too tall, and the team should limit his use of him. In general, the Suns signed Yao with a middle-class contract, which is absolutely worth it. He still deserves a big contract with an annual salary of tens of millions.

On the other hand, Allen Iverson's performance is also good. Although he plays as the sixth man, he doesn't have to play defense, which he is not good at, in the sixth man position, and he won't care about assists. A pure shooting guard only needs to score, which is more suitable for him."

Li Ba accepted an on-site interview.

Barkley asked with a smile: "Iron Hammer, how many giants does the Suns have this year?"

Li Ba smiled and said: "The media said that there are several giants, but the Suns have only one core, that is me."

Barkley joked: "You said that, aren't you afraid that Iverson and Yao will have opinions?"

Li Ba smiled and said: "In this matter, it is related to the stability of the team and the locker room. I will not have any other attitude."

Barkley asked again: "What do you think of the performance of Yao and Iverson?"

Li Ba said: "They all did what the team needed them to do, and they did a good job."

At this time, the Suns' team reporter asked: "Iron Hammer, we saw Iverson participating in the team's training these two days. This is very rare. What caused it?"

This sentence made other media very interested, because everyone knew that Iverson did not train, and he often had conflicts with the team in Philadelphia for this reason. Philadelphia fans also had a lot of opinions about him because of this reason. Did he change when he came to the Suns?

Li Ba smiled and said: "The team has its own requirements. It is right for players to participate in training. This is not surprising. Absence from training is surprising."

At this time, Zhang Heli asked: "Iron Hammer, the fourth regular season game of the Suns is an away challenge to the Heat. What do you want to say about this game?"

"I hope the Heat can be stronger." Li Ba smiled.

After answering two more questions, Li Ba ended the media interview on the spot.

At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked Iverson about participating in the team training, which made him feel uncomfortable.

In fact, he didn't want to participate in the training at all.

He thought that the six-hour team training every day was a waste of his time and physical energy. His personal life was greatly suppressed. He couldn't participate in various PTs and couldn't get together with friends. According to his personality, he couldn't stand it for a day.

It's just that the boss of this team is too strong. He directly told him that if he wants to win the championship, he must participate in the training, and he wants the ring too much, so...

After organizing his words, he said: "I hope to change in the new team. This will help me and the team. That's it."

"Is the cooperation with Iron Hammer pleasant?" A reporter asked.

Iverson smiled and nodded and said: "Not bad."

In fact, in his heart, his answer is the opposite. He is not happy here.

Li Ba, who was standing next to him, knew that Iverson was not very adaptable here from his training attitude and the way he got along with his teammates in the past two days.

But it didn't matter. Iverson didn't have much tactical status in the Suns, and there were people who could take over the sixth man position.