The Bucks tragedy is happening again? Trading stars to exchange for puzzle players, it is difficult to enter the Western Conference playoffs in the new season

On August 29, in today's European Championship, Antetokounmpo beat the four sides, showing his ability to play against five, and scored 31 points in the game to lead the team to defeat Italy. Although Antetokounmpo can do whatever he wants in the European Championship, in the NBA, it is estimated that the letters in the new season will be very uncomfortable because he has no decent helpers around him. The former helpers have left one after another. The new season will be led by the letters in the single core. Although he is the top three in the league and may still be able to achieve results in the regular season, he will definitely not go far in the playoffs. The Bucks have come to this point today entirely because they are all responsible for themselves. They traded in the 20-year offseason. Relying on Holiday's excellent organization and defensive ability, the Bucks won the championship. Later, Middleton suffered a serious injury. He thought the Bucks would trade Middleton to strengthen, but they exchanged Holiday for Lillard, which completely collapsed the Bucks' system. There was no one defending the outside, and the problem of Daluo, the inside line, was exposed.

Lillard and Letters are indeed both top stars, but the dual cores do not have a good chemistry, and there is no defensive system. The teams they cooperated with were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in the two seasons. In order to help the team win, Lillard even broke the Achilles tendon, but this was not respected by the Bucks management. After learning that Lillard could not be traded, they chose to buy out Lillard. It is reported that Antetokounmpo did not tell this.

Many times trading is a bet. If you bet correctly, the team will become stronger. If you bet wrong, the team will become weak. However, like the Bucks, who know that Holiday is suitable and still trade, they can only say that they are making trouble. There is another team doing this summer. They are the Grizzlies. In this offseason, because the Grizzlies need to renew their contracts with Jalen Jackson and Aldama, they want to reduce their expenses, so they focus on Bain.

Bain is the third leader of the team. He previously signed a five-year, 197 million contract extension contract. As for the salary combination of each team in the league, such a contract is indeed a bit big, but his excellent ability can help the Grizzlies. As we all know, the boss of the Grizzlies Morant often misses the game due to injury. In this case, Bain will play the role of the team's first core offensive on the outside and help the team win.

When Morant plays, he will sacrifice his ball rights. As a space shooter to help the team, Bain can be said to be one of the best No. 2 positions in the current service. In the previous ranking of point guards given by the US media, he ranked fourth, second only to Mitchell, Edwards and Booker. These three are all first-tier stars in the league. Apart from them, Bain is the best in No. 2 positions. As a result, the Grizzlies still don't cherish them, so they want to save money.

Last season, Bain averaged 19.2 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.2 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of 48.4%, a three-point shooting percentage of 39.2%, and excellent efficiency and great ball handling ability. In the absence of most games last season, Bain, as the number one core of the outside, averaged 23.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 5.5 assists per game, which also shows how outstanding he is. If he were in the big ball market, his ability would have been selected as the All-Star long ago.

The Grizzlies probably dare not bear the high luxury tax in the future. They just wanted to make the playoffs and were satisfied. So they made a deal with the Magic during the offseason and got Pope, Cole Anthony and multiple first-round picks. Although the Magic paid several first-round picks for this transaction, they sent away two junk contracts and did not seem to lose. The Grizzlies won Pope, and they also hope that Pope can return to their Nuggets' level, so that their strength will not decline much.

But to be honest, judging from Pope's attitude last season, after winning a three-year, 66 million contract, he is not wanting to work hard now. Letting him play No. 2 can indeed provide defense that is no less than Bain, but his ball-holding offense, ball handling and space stability is far less than Bain. Of course, Pope's price is here, you can't expect him to play at an annual salary of more than 30 million, otherwise he will not be treated as a garbage contract. After completing this deal, the Grizzlies did retain the dual cores of Morant and Jaren Jackson, but it is probably difficult for them to succeed in the West in the new season. Part of the reason is that Morant's health cannot be guaranteed, and it is still difficult for Jaren Jackson to achieve results alone. Although this team is very hard, it does not have enough firepower to support it, and it is not realistic for them to win. After all, now is an era of advocating offense.

Another reason is that the West has become stronger overall. Now the Grizzlies are not stronger than the Mavericks and the Spurs. Under such circumstances, they may not even be able to enter the Western Conference playoffs. The Thunder, Nuggets, Rockets, Clippers, Lakers, Timberwolves and Warriors are all better than the Grizzlies. They basically locked in the top seven, and there are Mavericks, Spurs, and Kings. Maybe the Grizzlies can not even enter the playoffs.

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