Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 26 The Tranquil Undercurrent

In the pre-season training camp that is ready to go, the Toyota Center welcomes back their real masters, pass and cut, run, dry pull, dunk, smooth flow...

McGrady frowned and looked at his slightly sunken knee... The team doctor Jones shouted at him behind him, "Okay, you have just been allowed to participate in non-confrontation training..."

Maddie turned around with a friendly smile...

Players in twos and threes also came to the training ground, but when they saw the man with bags under his eyes trying to find the rhythm at the same time, they all exclaimed in unison: "Oh my God! McGrady! Am I dreaming?"

Carl Landry made an exaggerated movement and soon bumped into the back of Tracy McGrady, who was back from injury.

"The goal I set yesterday was the Western Conference finals. Now that I think about it, there is no challenge. It seems that I still hold the O'Brien Cup and kiss wildly, which is more suitable for my style. Hahahaha..."

"Just now I watched the CNTV report, and I thought you were talking nonsense again!" Shane Battier murmured heartlessly.

"Hi! McGrady!" Ariza approached with reverence, but the others looked at each other in blank dismay...

"Although this kid looks cold, he has a natural affinity." Ron said to Yao Ming who was beside him.

Suddenly, he yelled loudly in a bad mood: "Oh, Dayao, are you getting fat again, how about I call you Fat Giant instead?"

Big Yao is happy...

He looked at McGrady, and suddenly his face became serious.

"Why..." Ron asked.

"...Oh no...no..." Yao Ming smiled, with complicated eyes: "I just hope this guy is a real prodigal son who won't change his money..."

In fact, as early as the media open day a few months ago, Ron had already seen some clues. After leaving McGrady's house last night, he also checked some information and learned that McGrady and the entire Rockets team were incompatible in the past few seasons...

No one is perfect, you can't ask him to do everything properly and comprehensively.

McGrady in front of him seemed a little embarrassed, as if he was in two different worlds with all his teammates. Others were talking and laughing. When he tried to get involved in other people's discussions, his teammates also coped with it without saying a word...

Until Adelman's debut.

Ron's longing eyes are always inseparable from this kind old man who is the master of Princeton. In fact, from the kind eyes of other players, it is not difficult to see that he is a very popular old man...

Ron knew that Van Gundy, who was called "Baldy Fan" by Chinese fans before, was a bad coach who didn't handle the relationship well with the players. Swift, Spann and even Boss Ferrer publicly complained about his monopoly in front of the media more than once.

Van Gundy was too controlling and didn't like anyone to interfere with the Rockets, even Dawson, the general manager of the team at the time.Before Dawson became the general manager, he was the inside coach of the Rockets, and Olajuwon was educated by him.

Dawson had thought about training Yao Ming alone, but was stopped by Van Gundy. He didn't want to see anything or anyone that would affect his control of the team.

Van Gundy is still not good at using rookies. No matter what kind of rookie, as long as he makes a few mistakes, he will definitely be scolded by Van Gundy. After scolding, he will be thrown on the bench and almost never stand up.

A Greek genius, the later Mr. European Basketball was unfortunately deposed by him.

But his successor, Adelman, was different. He was much gentler and more relaxed.In his view, players are adults, and they don't need to be taught everything, just like elementary school students.His task is to set the framework and control the overall situation. As for the relationship between players and in the locker room, it all depends on the players themselves. He can't control it, and he doesn't want to control it.

On the court, Adelman is not as inflexible and unambiguous as Van Gundy. On the contrary, Adelman hopes that players can make up their own minds based on reading the game, and don't have to turn their heads to look at the coach on the sidelines.

The first impression he left on Ron was: this old man is simply breezy.

Feng Qingyang pays attention to flowing clouds and flowing water, and to do whatever he wants, so he taught Linghu Chong in this way: "Idiot, idiot! No wonder you are Yue Buqun's disciple, you are rigid and don't know how to adapt. The way of swordsmanship is like flowing clouds and flowing water, and you can do whatever you want. After you use the move 'White Rainbow Piercing the Sun', the tip of the sword will go up, won't it be dragged down? Although there are no such postures in the sword move, can't you be ingenious and cooperate with it?"

Stubbornness and inflexibility are exactly the hats on Van Gundy's head.

In front of him, Ah Shuai called everyone to divide the red and black teams at will, and started to play an intra-team confrontation match. Then he pulled a chair and sat on the sidelines, flipped through the information, and watched the game...

"Adelman is such a strange old man with style!" Ron sighed to Dayao.

"Actually..." Yao Ming hesitated: "Actually, he is more suitable for a civilian team without privileged players..."

That's right, Ron looked through the information at hand. No matter which team A Shuai leads, he has been in charge for a long time. This shows that he does have two brushes, but when it comes to dealing with player relations and conflicts in the locker room, he will never stand up and say something, leading to intensified conflicts...

The king of the year, the aces of the team have been changing one after another, the new one is in the top position, and the old regrets leaving...

Ultimately tearing apart one of the most pleasing teams in history...

This is also a point where he is slightly inferior to the Zen master.

In fact, the coaching staff is very opposed to the management's dictating, even the team manager's words are ignored, and Ron is not willing to touch the ashes.

But he just doesn't care, let you mess around with Maddie...He is like a tutor in a university, he is not like a high school teacher at all, and urges you not to sleep in class, deserting, etc... If you want to degenerate, please...

There are many such examples, such as Iverson to Larry Brown, Kobe to Zen Master, even Captain Jack, who is naturally rebellious, can only submissively do his own job in front of Popovich.

One thing is one thing, maybe McGrady is only suitable for polishing under a controlling coach like Van Gundy...

But this does not mean that Adelman's ability is poor. Take the upcoming intra-team match, Adelman's division alone is quite masterful, red team: Lowry, Budinger, Battier, Joey - Dorsey, Scola, black team: Brooks, Tracy McGrady, Ariza, Landry, Hayes.

There is also offense and defense, and the tip of the needle is against the wheat awn.

It's not a main force against the second lineup at all. It seems that this old man plans to adjust the lineup on the first day of the training camp.

"Dayao, do you think that side will win?" Ron asked.

"It's hard to say," Yao Ming frowned and shook his head.

"Why do I think it will be a crush without any suspense?" Ron's muttering happened to be heard by Adelman who was on the side. He turned his head sideways and hugged it with a kind smile.

At the beginning of the game, Lowry slammed all his strength and slammed into Brooks. After a few steps of resistance, he ran into a thick wall. Haiye's defense was really not covered.

Fast attack!

Ariza made a long pass, and Landry had already made a quick pass to catch the ball. Scola was still a foot away from him, and easily dunked in.

Lowry organized again, and now Battier came to cover for him. He kicked his ass and ran over Brooks, which was a counterattack. Scola watched the ball fly out of bounds.

McGrady holds the ball!Brooks and Ariza ran over to single-block at the same time. He stepped away from Budinger, who was too slow to move laterally, and went straight to the basket.

"This..." Lowry held the ball up a few times helplessly.

"Should we call timeout?" Battier smiled.

Scola also ran over.

Several people kept talking.

"If you keep fighting like this, you will definitely lose money. How do you divide people!" A staff member beside Ron was fascinated.

"No," Ron said solemnly, "I guess, it won't be long before the other side gets beaten..."

It won't be long before Ah Shuai will definitely replace him.Ron glanced at the old man who was thinking about something with his chin resting on his hands.

Lowry handed the ball to Battier just after halftime. Facing the tall, long, athletic Ariza, he quickly stuffed the ball to Lowry.

Lowry held the ball, pretended to project a hit, and immediately accelerated. He rushed against Brooks, and Ariza came, and Hai Ye was waiting in front of him, but suddenly the ball was gone. Scola was slightly a little bit, the old teammate, tied his horse, and waited for him to see it. Line, McGrady, a dragon, and Baddingg, who lived a dragon and lived, took the ball and took the ball without hesitation. Hey!

Hollow into the frame!

Is this Princeton?Except for Dorsey, who was in charge of grabbing the rebound, the ball passed through everyone's hands before making a shot.

Ron glanced back at Dayao, as surprised as himself.

Brooks dribbles!With a change of direction, Lowry saw Lowry shrinking back and directly hit an unreasonable large three-pointer. This time, regardless of whether there was "reasonable or unreasonable" guided by Zhang, the ball flew into the net with a spin.

"I'll go!" Seeing Brooks' smug face, Ron also began to wonder whether it was reasonable or not.

Lowry dribbled again and made a breakthrough, and the little tank rushed directly to the basket. Haiye definitely quit, but before he arrived, the ball was immediately transferred to the weak side. At this moment, McGrady didn't look at the defense, and seemed to want to teach the rookie. This is the Argentine. Empty!
He got up and shot without even thinking about it. Brooks, who was turning around, just stretched out his hand symbolically, and turned his head to see Hollow into the net...

These 5 people, except for Brother Patch, who is in the first grade, are almost all muscular. I didn't expect them to be big, with good consciousness and surprisingly strong execution ability. On the other hand, they are full of talent. Except Hai Ye who is desperately covering, everyone is playing catch and play, let others act as spectators...

Finally, McGrady attracted two people to double-team, and he couldn't do it any more. With an elegant pass behind his head, Ariza faced Battier's block with one hit and three non-sticks, which satisfied everyone's appetite.

Soon, as Ron expected, Scola's support, Lowry's strong attack, Battier's rotation rotation, Budinger's bottom line slip, even Dorsey, who can only dunk, scored frequently.

The point difference was quickly recovered, and then the 10-point goal difference widened...

Brooks hit another 3-pointer with no brains and broke out of the box. McGrady shook his elbow angrily, "ShiT! Stop hitting!"

He picked up the towel outside the field and draped it over his shoulders, panting heavily.

"Well, that's right!" Ron smiled triumphantly at Dayao, and Dayao shrugged helplessly.

At this time Adelman stood up and reassigned.

Red Team: Brooks, Ariza, Battier, Scola, Hayes.Black Team: Lowry, Budinger, Jermaine Taylor (replacing McGrady), Landry, Joey Dorsey.

This time, the two sides got ready to fight. Landry dunked the ball after receiving the ball, while Battier and Scola made unselfish passes.

The scene was very exciting for a while, the two sides came and went, the black team's sports scoring ability was fully displayed, but the red team made the opponent complain incessantly in restricting the opponent's scoring.

Even Tracy McGrady was moved, and ran to Adelman several times to request to play again...

Soon seeing the satisfied smile on Adraman's old face, Ron was also relieved, and had already crossed the old man in his heart.

It's just that he doesn't know what this lineup will look like in an official game.

Soon the pre-season training camp passed day by day, and the pre-season game was about to start...

On the sidelines, a temporary worker at the Toyota Center, who was in charge of cleaning the floor, hunkered down and sent a message nervously...

"Mr. Bourne, you've been fired..." A dignified-looking team manager surrounded by several security guards caught this guy squarely.

"Okay..." He shrugged, took off the staff's badge and vest with a face full of surprise, and left in full view.

"This guy has a much better attitude than the scout from New York a few days ago. At least he didn't go to the Labor Department to make trouble..." Several security guards whispered among each other.

...

"...I see...how about Houston?" Staples, Los Angeles, in the scout's office.

"McGrady seems to be recovering well, can dunk. Ariza is still the same..."

It didn't take long for a detailed scouting report to appear in front of Jenny Buss...

In the camera, old Buss like a silver fox, smart Jenny Buss, violent Jim Buss and Kupcheko gather together...

(End of this chapter)