The Basketball Court Swordsman

At the end of August, the Indiana Pacers held a jersey press conference at the Conseco Arena for the new players who joined the team this summer. At this belated jersey press conference, the Pacers are famous and one of the greatest scorers in the NBA. Reggie Miller of One was invited to show Ray Allen's new No. 34 jersey in front of more than a hundred media, and gave it to Ray Allen.

After joining the Pacers for nearly two months, Ray Allen, the league's super shooter, finally raised his corn yellow jersey for the Pacers in front of everyone.

Ray Allen did not continue the size 20 he wore in the Celtics, but chose the size 34 he wore in college and supersonic periods. Because the Celtics' 34 was occupied by Paul Pierce, Ray Allen only wore the No. 20 for that long.

Now that he finally separated from the Celtics, Ray Allen naturally changed back to his favorite number. And changing back to No. 34 also means that he has completely separated from his green shirt career. And inviting Reggie Miller to give Ray Allen's jersey, there is some inheritance in it.

Of course, not only Ray Allen attended the meeting today, but also the young point guard D.J. Augustine newly signed by Henson also showed off his jersey in front of everyone. But everyone knows that Augustine is not the protagonist. To put it bluntly, Augustine was just "by the way" brought to the press conference.

After that, Henson and Bird also came to the stage and said casually. Starting today, the Pacers' championship has become history. The new season has begun!

After August and early September, NBA teams have gradually begun their pre-season training camp arrangements.

This year’s pre-season training camp plan has been drawn up very early, and it has been formulated more detailed and comprehensive than ever. The reason is that Henson and Vogel no longer have to scratch their heads for the preparation of the pre-season training camp. The new member of the Pacers coaching staff Brad Stevens handled everything very well.

What Henson and Vogel had to do was to revise the framework developed by Stevens. Undoubtedly, this greatly improves work efficiency and the quality of the plan.

So when the players appeared in the training ground of the Conseco Arena grinning, they didn't know that the "cruel" coach Henson Joe had planned 10,000 ways to "torture" them.

Before that, Henson finally moved out and got a badge of guards after winning the championship last season, a pre-season training camp level!

The effect is that if a certain player is designated to participate in a certain type of training, then this player's ability will be permanently increased by 5%, and the effects can be superimposed!

This badge can only be used once a year, that is, during the pre-season training camp. Currently, the effect can only be applied to one person at a time. Henson didn't know whether he could benefit more players at the same time after the upgrade of the badge.

There is no doubt that this is a way for players to quickly improve a certain ability, and it is worthy of being a reward after winning the championship.

And this summer, Henson applied this effect to Paul George!

Leonard himself has a cumulative 40% improvement speed bonus. There is no need to worry about his shooting. I believe Leonard has definitely improved a lot this season. Therefore, Henson will specify George to train his dribbling skillfully, and then apply the badge effect to George.

In other words, regardless of George's next performance in training, his dribbling ability will be significantly improved after the end of the pre-season training camp.

George's only shortcoming on the offensive end is the weak dribbling ability caused by the high center of gravity, but Henson believes that after such a pre-season training camp, George will be transformed into a more versatile scorer in the new season!

The rookies who were selected by Henson into the league at the time have come to fulfill their talents. This is also why Henson only reinforces Ray Allen and Augustine this summer, he still can guarantee that the team will definitely be stronger than last season.

They did not bring in more and stronger players, but the group of people that Henson originally had, with the improvement speed bonus, will definitely become very different from last season.

Paul George, Stephenson, Danny Green and Leonard...Henson is really looking forward to it. I want to see this group of youngsters overturned on the court!

Before the start of the new season, the signs outside the Conseco Arena are undergoing a large-scale replacement. Because the name of Conseco Arena will become history from next season, the home court of Henson and the Pacers will be renamed "Banker Life Arena."

As early as last year, Conseco Insurance Company, a sponsor of the Pacers Arena, officially changed its name to CNo Financial Group. Therefore, the name of the Pacers Arena must be changed this year, and the life of a banker is the main product line of CNo Financial Group, so the new name "Life of the Banker" was born.

Although the name of the arena has been changed, the fans' love for the team will not change, and the players' determination to successfully defend their title will not diminish.

The training camp went very smoothly, and everyone has their own special training. Then every afternoon, Henson will organize a 24-minute adversarial training game to let the players integrate into the system as soon as possible and find a feeling for the game.

In the past few days, the main team defeated the substitute team without any suspense. But today's game was so intense that it exceeded Henson's expectations.

At this time, the main team wearing a white training vest is attacking and they are only leading by one point. Paul deliberately passed the ball to George, and both he and Henson hope that the thin and tall No. 24 can adapt to the role of leading scorer as soon as possible!

But the No. 21 guard who defended in front of George has become the reason why the bench has been biting the score today!

"Jimmy Butler's progress is greater than I thought!" Seeing Butler defending George almost perfectly again, Henson couldn't help exclaiming.

Last season, the high-potential first-round rookie Jimmy Butler, who was exchanged by Henson with a try mentality, was very active in the training camp.

He always defends the top scorer of the main team, and he does a good job. On the offensive end, Butler's shooting is also much more stable than last season, and he is also a good offense with the ball. In general, apart from the slightly lower three-point shooting rate, there are almost no obvious shortcomings!

Last season, Jimmy Butler didn't get many opportunities to play, and he failed to make the 12-man squad in the playoffs. But Henson has never forgotten the kid who looked a bit like Jordan, but he also did not expect that Butler would bring him such a huge surprise.

While talking, the substitute team moved forward quickly after successfully defending. Jimmy Butler took advantage of Yi Jianlian's cover to directly kill the penalty area and let the back fly dunks to help the team overtake by one point!

"Good job, Jimmy!" Henson couldn't help yelling, but Butler just smiled confidently at Henson.

Last season, Brooks relied on James Harden, the best sixth man, to reach the finals. After watching Jimmy Butler's performance, Henson found that he had finally found a "best sixth man" candidate.

In the new season, Jimmy Butler, who turned out, will definitely be able to join forces with Stephenson to become the breaking guard combination on the Pacers bench!

Jimmy Butler's unexpected joy made Henson find that his wealth has increased.

Paul George, Stephenson, Danny Green and Leonard... Well, don't forget there is another Jimmy Butler.

Throughout the summer, every team was busy strengthening from the outside. The Heat are eager to find shooters and centers, and the Los Angeles Lakers have formed a more terrifying F4 than the Big Three...

However, the reinforcement of the Pacers has been unconsciously started from the inside...