basketball pope

Chapter 154 [Do not cooperate, fight talent]

Today, the home is full again.Owner Richard Peddie is overjoyed. Since there are no particularly high-paid players on the team, he has just reached the salary cap of 3000 million, and he has made a profit.

The Raptors players received warm applause when they came out, and their popularity increased to varying degrees. Carter finally waved at the players with a smile on his face.

Yang Rui knows the reason. Carter finalized the sneaker contract yesterday, signing with Nike for five years and 4000 million US dollars.The huge advertising fee made him a super rich man, and Nike immediately began to make exclusive boots for him.

Nike's higher offer than Adi is the reason for winning. Adi is reluctant to give Carter a bigger contract because they signed Kobe in 96 and only gave him 5 million for 1000 years. Although it leads to constant conflicts in the future, there are still future renewals. possible.If they sign Carter several times higher price, Kobe will definitely be angry.

As Yang Rui predicted, Carter was favored by advertisers, and before the regular season was over, he locked in the best rookie.If he had signed with Puma, he must have cried to death, and the contract is now half as big.

For this, Carter and the new agent are very grateful to Yang Rui. The good relationship between the star and the coach is a good thing for the team.

After the players warmed up, the starting lineup arranged by Yang Rui was eye-catching.Christie, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Detrev, and O'Neal Jr. went on four swingers, the shortest being 198cm tall.

The commentator David said in shock: "The Raptors didn't have a point guard. Did McGrady play a point guard today?"

Clark laughed: "Jerry has started experimenting with new tricks again. This is the Heat. No one has ever used this lineup."

Pat Riley was also surprised, looking at Yang Rui across the court with mixed feelings.

In 93, Riley made a bold prediction, "The blurring of positions on the basketball court will continue to intensify. In the future, basketball will belong to five swingers with a height of about 5 meters."

At the time, he thought, a team of five Pippen would be very strong.

There will be many big teams with four small teams in the future, and it is the first time for four forwards with similar heights on the outside like Yang Rui.Even O'Neal is not a center, he is suitable for playing a power forward, and his confrontation ability is less.

If you want to play in this mode, in addition to requiring the five swingers to have comprehensive skills, you also need an absolute core person to maintain the orderly operation of the team.

In Yang Rui's previous life, this model first appeared not in the NBA, but in the international basketball arena, that is, the American Dream Team with many big-name stars.

After Old K became the coach of the Dream Team, until Yang Rui passed through, they only lost one game in ten years, and the five omnipotent perimeter players worked together to attack and defend without a solution.

The Heat still have a fixed starting lineup: Hardaway, Dan Marlier, Mashburn, PJ Brown, Mourning.

Although Riley said that there will be five swingers in the future, but that is the future after all. He has the right to speak in the management team, and he did not build the team according to that model. The division of labor among the players in the Heat team is still very clear, and the point guard is a breakthrough. Organized little guy.

Mourning beat O'Neal on the jump ball. Before kidney disease, Mourning was really a beast, with a height of 208cm and a wingspan of 229cm. His jumping ability was amazing.

The players pulled away, Mourning picked and rolled, Hardaway broke through with the ball, O'Neal Jr. immediately switched defense, Hardaway passed the ball to the middle, Mourning couldn't make a direct mid-range shot, because the person defending him was McGrady, and his wingspan was not weak.

Mourning paused for a moment, and gave the ball to Mashburn, who was running. Carter was the main defense. Mashburn failed to break through because of his body. He made a pull-up jumper by taking advantage of his height. grab.

The Raptors attacked, Christie controlled the ball to the frontcourt, not fast, relying on his height and wingspan to protect the basketball, using the court space to make Hardaway unable to break.

McGrady caught the ball in the middle, without a screen, and the face frame was pulled up to make a three-pointer. The 198-year-old veteran Dan Marley, who was 34cm tall, couldn't bounce, and he couldn't even seal his eyes.Tracy McGrady's arc is very flat, the shot is very positive, hit. 3 to 0.

This is a natural dislocation. Yang Rui encourages McGrady to pull out, but if he wants to shoot, he can shoot a three-pointer, or shoot from a position close to the basket, which is the style of play during the Magic period.

The pinnacle of McGrady, chic and elegant, the stunt of fame is this dry pull shot.Ordinary jumpers rely on both feet to take off to complete all actions.Dry pulling relies more on the power of the waist.With his amazing talent, McGrady interprets this action to the extreme.

McGrady can pull up in front of any defender before his injury declines. He doesn't have to go through screens to catch and shoot like Ray Allen; Like Nash, increase the arc of the ball.

He just has to jump up, and if it's a perimeter player guarding him, there's nothing you can do.His release point was almost parallel to the hoop, and then he threw it flat to the hoop, and everyone was waiting to hear the sound of his ball hitting the back of the hoop.Of course, there could also be popping sounds.

This season, McGrady has mainly practiced one point in the middle of the team, and almost never casts in other positions. With a certain level of accuracy, in Yang Rui's system, he does not need to be comprehensive.

The Heat attacked from the position, and McGrady was in charge of the defense in the middle. This time, Hardaway chose to break through with the ball directly, and used the famous "killer crossover", dribbling the ball under the crotch and crossing the step.

This technique uses a deceptive first step to make the defender misjudge the direction of travel, causing the defender to shift the center of gravity, lose the defensive position, and break through to the other side.

However, Hardaway could not get rid of this step completely, McGrady put a step and a half distance, preventing breakthrough but not throwing, the distance is far, it is easier to judge the direction of the breakthrough.

Hardaway made an emergency stop jumper, and McGrady was half a beat slower when he stepped forward, but he was tall and had an amazing wingspan.

Seeing McGrady's performance, Riley also sighed in his heart: This talent is really incredible, the starting point is much higher than most people, even if you don't practice much, you can still gain a firm foothold in the NBA with your body.

Carter retreated and grabbed the backcourt rebound. He was very active in dribbling the ball to cross half court. The Heat players returned to defense quickly. Carter did not rush to the inside line. He pulled up 70 degrees on the right and also shot a three-pointer.

In Yang Rui's previous life, if there are any players who like to do pullups like McGrady, the first thing everyone will think of is Carter. These two are really cousins, and their jumping is amazing.

Carter doesn't have a lot of rhythm, and before the defender has left him room to shoot, he takes jump shots and uses his back in the air to avoid blocks.

Marsh himself is 203cm tall, weighs 109kg, and is stronger than Carter. He knows that his lateral movement speed is not as fast as Carter's, so he retreated a little back.

Marshburn only had time to stretch out his hand, slightly interfered, the ball drew a beautiful arc and entered the net hollow! 6 to 0.

Riley was on the sidelines, frowning.

He saw that Yang Rui not only changed the starting lineup this time, but also the number of offenses was different from the previous two games. The players didn't cooperate, and they just competed with the Heat players for talent.

(End of this chapter)