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Chapter 159 It's My Turn to Take Advantage
Sometimes fate is so magical. Just imagine that if the Bucks grab the No. [-] pick, they will of course choose Wiggins. After all, the talent is blind and visible, and then the Bucks can form a striker lineup of Middleton, Wiggins and Antetokounmpo. This is really scary to think about.

Although this way, Holiday will definitely not be able to come later, but with Brother Antetokounmpo, there is no need to worry about the organization. Just find a base line point guard and an inside lineup. This lineup is enough to hit the championship.

Especially Wiggins, they all teased him that he is Gouqi brother, but he was not like this at the beginning. Before entering the league, he still liked to show his talent. Unfortunately, he was traded just after winning the No. [-] pick.

Afterwards, I slowly lost my anger under the name of myself. Except when facing the Cavaliers, the "old club" and James, the others were just paddling.

Of course, it is precisely because he is always able to show amazing strength occasionally that it is even more embarrassing not to cherish it and not be able to see the opportunity for him to fully realize it.

Even if he was crowned in the finals later, he proved his ability, but the years that were wasted before were still there, which definitely had an impact on his growth.

Of course, now that Antetokounmpo is in the Thunder, even if the Bucks can grab the No. [-] pick next year and win Wiggins, they will not be able to group them together.

When it comes to next year's draft, Li Sheng actually has some ideas. If everything goes well and the Thunder can win the championship, their picks will definitely not be too high, but there will be real big fish in the bottom picks in next year's draft.

Although this Bucks team has changed a lot, many of its players are familiar faces, especially for Li Sheng. Gary Neal, who just joined this season, has an extra 50 salary thanks to the key free throw in the finals. Half of the credit should be attributed to Li Sheng who made the suggestion.

So before the game, the two naturally had a cordial and friendly conversation, including Udoka who also went forward. He and Neal had a better personal relationship. It may be because the two players had a similar disease in the early stages of their careers. One was undrafted and the other entered the NBA in the Development League.

Then Li Sheng also noticed that there was a person on the sidelines of the Bucks who seemed to be looking at him from time to time, which reminded him of the previous boss of the Warriors, but this person's eyes were different.

He asked Neal, only to realize that it was John Hammond, the general manager of the Bucks.

Then he suddenly realized why the other party's eyes seemed to be slightly hostile.

He had never dealt with each other face to face, but they certainly did not have nothing to do with each other.

Seeing him was like seeing an enemy, and the other party was extremely jealous.

And if you want to talk about hatred, it is of course the hatred of seizing people.

Li Sheng snatched his favorite brother Antetokounmpo, so that he could only be forced to choose Adams instead.

After all, he is the person in the little green house, who fell out of the lottery. With Antetokounmpo gone, choosing him is the most correct choice.

Some people may not understand why Antetokounmpo, who is so talented, failed to become a lottery pick in this young draft year. They may even think that many teams should like him, and it should not be so easy for Li Sheng to choose him.

But in fact, he was selected by the Bucks with the 15th pick and outside the lottery, and he didn't focus on training immediately after the selection, because the Bucks didn't have a mature team building concept at all.

They chose Jennings before, but it turned out to be a mistake, and they were sent directly to the Pistons during the offseason.

In recent years, because the record has always been inconsistent, there are no high-level draft picks, and there are no outstanding rookies, because the draft cannot compete for good talents.

The city of Milwaukee is not very attractive to stars. At the beginning, Alian couldn't say it when he was selected. One can imagine what kind of place it is, although what is more exposed is that he has no emotional intelligence, and he deserves to be unable to survive in the NBA.

Then it just kept going up and down, until Kidd came, and discovered his potential by letting Antetokounmpo play point guard, and then let the team see hope, and then began to build a team around him.

The reason is actually very simple. First of all, there are still many people in the NBA who have reservations about players from Europe, and even have prejudices. Otherwise, "Marinated" Jokic would not have fallen to the second round.

It's a good thing now. At that time, almost no teams in the NBA deployed scouts in Europe. The Spurs did this, so they were often able to pick up leaks.

Secondly, Antetokounmpo's performance in the European League before was really not particularly outstanding. If it wasn't because of his background as a point guard, Kidd might not necessarily have taken a fancy to him.

After all, his skills are not yet perfect, and his body confrontation before muscle gain is far from the NBA.

And the Bucks got Adams, and they may have forgotten about it slowly, provided that the gap between the two is not too large.

Although Adams has got some opportunities to play at present, and his performance is not bad in this rookie class, but compared with Antetokounmpo, the gap is very big.

In fact, even Hammond himself didn't think about how to use Antetokounmpo and how to develop his potential after taking it. He just thinks that Antetokounmpo's physical talent is good, and he is a striker position that the team needs to supplement. Maybe he can look forward to it.

And after Antetokounmpo was played by the Thunder, the whole league now knows how to use him. Hammond naturally thought that the Bucks could train him in this way after being selected.

And Adams, not to mention being compared with Antetokounmpo who is faintly becoming the team's sixth man, even Gobert, another rookie in the Thunder team, seems to be worse.

It's just that Adams may have adapted faster and appeared more mature because of his experience in the United States.

But it is also a defensive blue-collar, and Gobert also has one-handed passing, which makes his value instantly different.

There is not much difference in the data between the two, but in this pass, Gobert is much better than Adams, let alone watching the performance of the game, you will feel that the two may not be of the same level.

So seeing Li Sheng at this time, seeing Antetokounmpo who was practicing shooting on the court over there, and even seeing Gobert, he really felt his heart bleeding.

But things have come to this point, and there is absolutely no way to change it. All he can do is to hope that the team can ruthlessly overthrow the Thunder and save himself a little face.

But actually thinking about this is the most painful thing, because the two teams are obviously not at the same level. Although this does not mean that the Bucks will definitely lose, the probability of losing is very high, and winning is considered an upset.

After all, the Thunder are now the only two teams that still maintain a winning streak. Many people thought before the game that they were likely to win ten consecutive victories, and they only mentioned the Bucks, and the rest were talking about the Nuggets.

It is also conceivable how bad the Bucks are now. At present, they have only won two games in eight games, ranking thirteenth in the Eastern Conference.

The more critical point is actually that this game is a back-to-back game for the Bucks. They lost to the No. [-] Pacers in the East in the last game, and now they will face the No. [-] Thunder in the West.

save the child...

(End of this chapter)