basketball pope

Chapter 408 [Big deal, play and etc.]

In July, there were many big transactions in the league, and the matter of Yang Rui's lawsuit was gradually forgotten by people.

Problems occurred within the Wizards, leaving Yang Rui and Hamilton, and other teams' hopes of competing for the championship have greatly increased.

The first team to start was the Lakers, who signed Clippers power forward Lamar Odom in free agency for 6 years and 7170 million.

O'Neal left, and the Lakers vacated the cap space and wanted to strengthen the inside line, and they hit it off with Odom's agent.

Odom is very comfortable in Los Angeles and doesn't want to leave Angel City.Of course, his strength is far from comparable to O'Neal, the data is beautiful, and he can only be regarded as a second-rate star. The Lakers will not be able to enter the playoffs next season.

The Heat signed Shaquille O'Neal freely, and there is no salary space to sign a player of Odom's level. They can only find veterans in the free market and make simple repairs to the lineup.

The Mavericks will make the biggest moves in order to compete for the championship next season.From the Warriors, Antoine Jamison, Danny Fortson, Chris Mills and Czech player Giri Welsch were acquired.The Warriors got Van Exel, "Little General" Avery Johnson, French Riga, rookie Jones known as "Popeye" and marginalized Esmeyer.

The Warriors are preparing to rebuild with Jason Richardson as the core, and this transaction obviously suffered a big loss.

The Mavericks then struck a deal with the Celtics.The Celtics sent power forward Antoine Walker and 188CM shooting guard Tony Delk to the Mavericks.Got the Mavericks center LaFrentz, small forward Chris Mills, and a 2004 first-round pick.

After finally sending away the alcoholic Weinbeck, the Celtics exchanged another rubbish contract.Poor Paul Pierce, who lost his only teammate who could help him.The management of the Green Army even thought that LaFrentz could help the team, and the disease became more and more serious.

The Mavericks were beaten 4-1 by the Wizards last season due to their poor interior defense. Old Nelson still found a group of attackers who could shoot and put together a seemingly luxurious but unreasonable offensive lineup.

Even some old fans can see that Jamison, Walker, and Nowitzki have overlapping positions. They are all space-based insiders with strong offense and defense, but the Mavericks firmly believe that next season will have a future, which is very old Nelson.

The Timberwolves recruited and signed the Clippers' parallel No. [-] pick, Olafokandi, and traded point guard Sam Cassell from the Bucks, plus the team's star forwards Szczerbiak, Garnett, and the Timberwolves. The lineup has improved significantly.

However, the Timberwolves failed to trade for the "madman" Sprewell like Yang Rui did in his previous life, missing a star.

As a result, it is still difficult for Garnett to lead the team past the first round of the playoffs, and history will change again.If there is no excellent record to support, Garnett will be difficult to win the regular season MVP, even if he brushes 20+10+5 data every year, it is in vain.

Sprewell had an honest season under Larry Brown, played well, and established himself with the Knicks.

Brown is a coach who likes to arrange tactics for perimeter players. After Grant Hill was injured, "Mad Men" became the core of the team on the perimeter and won a lot of the ball, just like Iverson did with the 76ers.With the ball, he is naturally willing to play in the Knicks. If Hill can be healthy next season, the Knicks also have a promising future.

The Western powerhouses are throwing money at their results, and the Spurs have also made a move.

Popovich kept his eye on Raptors point guard Tony Parker and traded him for rookie center Kendrick Perkins.Billups and Parker overlapped, and Parker indicated that he wanted to leave. To avoid conflicts in the locker room, the Raptors traded.

Perkins is an excellent defensive blue-collar. In Yang Rui's previous life, he won the 2008 championship with the Celtics, and later helped the Thunder reach the finals.

The Raptors are weak inside, and the trade is a win-win.But if the star changed to blue-collar, the Raptors must be at a loss, and the Spurs have reassembled the "GDP portfolio".

David Robinson retired, Popovich built a lineup around Tim Duncan and needed a meat shield center, so Perkins was selected.Perkins was given away because there were better candidates.

The Spurs recruited the Slovenian center Nesterovic from the Timberwolves, a big man who can shoot in the middle and can resist people.

In addition, in order to increase the three-point shooting point, the Spurs dug forward Hedo Turkoglu in the Kings.Turkoglu was very depressed in the Kings last season, Stojakovic and Christie were stable, and his playing time was not guaranteed.

Yang Rui was surprised by the Spurs' last signing. The team was obviously stronger than his previous life.Because the Jazz veteran power forward Karl Malone chose to join at a minimum salary and formed the twin towers with Duncan.

This is not an ordinary twin towers, both of them are both offensive and defensive, with rich experience.Malone also averaged 20.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game last season, and Duncan is an MVP-level superstar.

Both of them can make steady mid-range shots, can also storm the basket, and have strong rebounding and coping abilities.

As soon as O'Neal left, Malone looked down on the Lakers.He originally considered joining the Wizards. Although the Wizards were the champions last season, he wanted to play under Yang Rui.The negotiation had just begun, and it ended because Yang Rui and the Wizards fell out.

At the end of July, Yang Rui found that even if he could join other teams, there was no good choice for the time being.

So, when he was interviewed by reporters, he was asked, "Which team will you coach next?"

Yang Rui replied: "Just in time for a lawsuit, I'm going to give myself a long vacation, and I won't be a coach next season. In the past two years, I haven't had much time to spend with my girlfriend and my family. If I have a vacation to invest in filming, I will go out with the crew. It must be fun to play. I regretted not going to Tokyo with Stana last year.”

Those who thought that Yang Rui couldn't put down his basketball job were a little unsure.He really looked like he didn't want to, and could choose not to.He made a fortune by investing in "Resident Evil" before, and later invested in "Lost in Translation", which has been set to be released in the United States at the end of August.

Yang Rui is not joking, of course, because he can't think of any other NBA team worth coaching now.Not all teams want to change coaches at this juncture, and he has absolutely no interest in joining small city teams.

Chicago is a big city and the Bulls won't fire Thibodeau.

Sun is an option, but it's a bit early to go this year, and Marbury is still there.Yang Rui feels that coaching this "lone wolf" will not be a pleasant thing, not to mention that there is a garbage contract of Gugliotta in the team.

Philadelphia is also a big city, but it would be hellishly difficult to take Iverson to the championship.Although the Wizards' defense is not very good, at least there are no obvious defensive loopholes in each position.Iverson is the team's defensive black hole, and he can't play wonderful team basketball on offense.

Iverson is suitable for the system of one person attacking and four people defending. If he wins, the credit goes to him. If he loses, his teammates take the blame, and it is not enough to support Iverson on the offensive end.Yang Rui has self-knowledge, he is a strong offensive and defensive coach, going to Philadelphia will definitely become his Waterloo.

The Warriors are also a choice. They are rebuilding, but he doesn’t want to go. When he thinks about the Big Four Warriors in the previous life, the Warriors who have made three consecutive finals, and then look at the current team, he is not very interested.

What Yang Rui wants to do now is to play and wait, waiting for the opportunity to come to him.

(End of this chapter)