Pick Westbrook

Chapter 13 Westbrook and Rose

Temporary hotel in Las Vegas.

Hammond paced back and forth in the room anxiously, and glanced at Li Lai from the corner of his eye from time to time.

It stands to reason that the Bucks just won a victory in the summer league and let out a bad breath. As the general manager of the team, Hammond should not have such a reaction.

It's just that he really wanted to say, this is Las Vegas, the capital of crime!
According to the original words of the crotch-playing boy in the past, “It’s such a beautiful time to come to Rouchi Wine Forest, how can we not invite a few chicks with bulging breasts to study Taishang Sensuojue and Dari Tathagata’s Heart Sutra together? ?”

Besides, if you come to a place of crime, you will not be guilty. Isn't that the same as marrying a daughter-in-law who doesn't sleep?

Hammond saw that Li Lai was still pretending to be a gentleman studying the game video, and felt very angry.

"I'll let you pretend for me! I'll play some flute for you, and let's see if you can't control it!"

It's just that Li Lai is watching the game videos of last year's teams and studying the opponent's tactics. He doesn't have time to care about this.

After hearing some strange voices, he absently asked the other party to turn down the volume.

Hammond: Fuck me!

Holloway pushed open the door and walked in. Hearing the strange voice, and seeing Li Lai who was concentrating on watching TV, she couldn't help but lightly frowned and gritted her teeth.

"It's still broad daylight, you bastard!"

Holloway threw a newspaper over.

It's Milwaukee's local sports newspaper, the Big Antlers.

It says that the Bucks should have been able to make it to the playoffs this season, but the management is too incompetent, and a series of trades have taken away the capable players and plunged the team into a ten-thousand-year reconstruction.

Summer league wins and losses don't matter at all, and other teams won't play seriously, so just one win proves nothing.... The Bucks need to make a change.

In the end, the Big Antlers also specifically pointed out that the current market value of the Bucks is 2.64 million U.S. dollars, ranking second to last among all NBA teams, only ahead of the Trail Blazers with 2.5 million, and also lost to the third from the bottom with 2.7 million Timberwolves.

If you lose to anyone, you can't lose to the Timberwolves!
Even compared with the small ball market, the market value of the Bucks is almost always ranked at the bottom, which is enough to show that the management has a big problem in the operation of the team in the past.

Therefore, the Big Antlers newspaper still proposes that fans unite and let the Bucks management hand over the team together, in short, sell the team.

"I pressed down on the fan parade, and we won our first summer league win, but now things are not peaceful at home."

Li Lai shook his head, vaguely feeling that the Bucks' real troubles might be more than just the surface.

Holloway reminded: "At present, the fans' emotions are still stable and there is no excessive behavior, but they seem to be waiting for the next performance of the Bucks.

Unexpectedly, this may be the calm before the storm. "

Hammond said: "After all, summer league is just a group of rookies and role players. We won only to quiet the fans, not to convince them of us.

So it still needs a big victory in the regular season! "

Li Lai didn't feel that the Milwaukee fans were too extreme because of these things, and even became disgusted with them.

Just because they care so much about the team's performance can prove that they are real fans of the Bucks.

What fan doesn't want to see the team they support win the game?
Moreover, the Bucks are still a team with a long history. Since they moved to Milwaukee in 1968, they have been with the fans here for 40 years.

During the period, he also won the 1971 championship trophy under the leadership of big O Oscar Robertson and Tiangou Kareem.

Until now, there are still people on the streets of Milwaukee talking about the legendary stories of these two historical figures.

"In any case, we must win the summer league. As for the regular season that the fans are looking forward to... we have to wait for a while.

And during this period of time, no matter what the external comments are, we don't need to care at all, just concentrate on doing the things in hand. "

Li Lai said calmly.

Hammond and Holloway nodded in agreement.

The two also know that for the current Bucks, they must win even the summer league.

Because this team has not won for too long.

In addition to this, the reason why Li Lai is eager to win is also because after winning the last game, there are some more things in the list of gods.

[Victory Points: 0.5]

"Victory points can be used to increase the level of my acquired skills, which will be of great benefit to me later in the game."

In the last game, every time Li Lai called for a timeout, the players could quickly understand the tactics and played them efficiently on the court.

The key is that there is still a good improvement in the hit rate.

Therefore, in order to continue to improve the skill level of the time-out master, Li Lai must guarantee to win more games.

.........

7 month 20 day.

The Bucks defeated the Eagles, Suns and Raptors in succession.

Although these three teams did not send strong players in the summer league, their strength is relatively weak, but being able to win three consecutive games is enough to prove the current strength of this Bucks team.

——not to be underestimated.

Li Lai finally accumulated 2 victory points in the previous games, and he added the victory points to the skill timeout master without hesitation.

Unlike the picture he imagined of upgrading to a level with 1 victory point, he has already spent 1 victory points to upgrade the pause master from level 2 to level 2.

"So the next upgrade should require 3 victory points, and a terrifying 44 victory points are required to upgrade a skill to the full level.

It doesn't seem that easy. "

Summer League, who is the most watched team?
The Bulls, of course.

Who is the most watched player?
Derrick Rose, of course.

"Kenny, if I remember correctly, the Bulls were the only team that had all of their Summer League games broadcast nationally."

Barkley laughed with his mouth wide open.

Although there are no games in the four major leagues in July, it is natural that the Bulls can enjoy the national live broadcast during this time period.

However, it is the only one in history that can completely suppress the remaining 20 teams in the summer league and enjoy all the national live broadcasts exclusively.

"The champion Rose performed well in the summer league, averaging 32 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists per game, which is simply outstanding.

All rookies have to bow their heads in front of him. "

Kenny Smith admires the vision of the Bulls. There are three cornerstone players in this year's draft, and the Bulls just selected the strongest one.

OJ Mayo averaged 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game. The data is good, but the shooting percentage is a bit dismal, less than 42%.

Michael Beasley's offensive talent exploded, averaging 27 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, but his shortcomings were exactly the same as those noted in his draft report. He struggled too much on the defensive end. Also broke out.

"Beyond the three cornerstones, it was Westbrook who was a surprise, and if I remember correctly, he wasn't doing too well pre-draft.

If the team that does not particularly need a guard may not select him so early, after all, after Rose and OJ Mayo were selected, all the guards among the rookies have not much to look forward to. "

But it was such a player that surprised Barkley in the summer league.

Westbrook averaged 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists per game, and he also had 1 steal and 1 block on the defensive end. His performance was not even lost to those three cornerstone players, and he was even more comprehensive.

Kenny Smith agreed: "In addition to Westbrook, George Hill and Dragic, who the Bucks took in this year's draft, also played well.

前者场均12分5篮板5助攻，后者场均16分2篮板6助攻。”

Because of the Bucks' super performance in the summer league and the good performance of the selected players, everyone began to take a serious look at the Bucks team, and has added Westbrook to the discussion of the three cornerstones .

"Of course, it's just summer league, and the Bucks are still a team that's playing like hell.

So there is still a lot of moisture in the data of the Bucks players so good. They have really risen to the NBA level, and they are not so easy to score. "

(End of this chapter)