The NBA can be called the highest basketball event at present, the NBA has a total of 82 regular season games, but there are preseasons before the start of the NBA regular season, but the preseasons are not counted in the team's record, so what is the reason and process of the preseason, the following is my understanding.
1. Get back to the game and get in touch with each other and increase the level of tacit understanding with teammates.
Before the start of the game, the players have gone through a long offseason, in this process many players due to the training intensity is not as high as before, coupled with mental relaxation, there will be no normal state of the game, the preseason can help the players find the state of the game, because the pressure is not so great if it is not counted, and the offseason team may introduce new players or have important players leave through a series of operations, new players need to increase the tacit understanding between teammates, and the game is the best way to increase the tacit understanding。
2 Propaganda and hype.
The NBA is also a business league, need to make money, after an offseason, the people's attention will decline, and the preseason will sometimes be launched in famous cities to attract attention, increase the league's income at the same time, expand the league's influence, but as the NBA is becoming more and more famous in the world, the effect of publicity and momentum is not very obvious, but this effect must still be there.
3 The coaching staff experiments with different opportunities for facelifts
Preseason is a great opportunity for coaches to find the best regular season starting lineup and bench makeover, find the right rotation, preseason is a good opportunity, because the offseason may bring in new players, the coaching staff needs to grasp the characteristics of all players, arrange reasonable playing time and rotation, and these are all need to be constantly tested in practice to get the desired results.
4 Substitutes keep their rotation spots and water cooler players compete for positions.
Preseason starters generally only play one or two quarters of game time, so the bench players get more playing time, each team has a dozen players, there are a lot of substitutes and there are also the kind of water cooler players who can only play in garbage time, for those substitute players who have a certain amount of playing time, they need consistent performance to conquer the coaching staff to keep them outside of the regular season time, and try to perform to get more playing time, and those who can only play in the regular season in garbage time, preseason is the only chance they can say, they need to have outstanding performance to conquer the coaching staff, get a regular season appearance, otherwise unless a player is injured and the team is unavailable, or they will not have a chance, and the players who can log in to the NBA, each of them has a certain talent, and they all need a chance to prove.
There are about eight games in the NBA preseason, although it is not counted in the record, and the star players do not play a lot of time, but it is still qualitatively concerned, because there are many stars who start from the bench, so we are likely to witness the rise of a superstar.