I just want to play healthy basketball

Chapter 14 Summer League (for collection)

Luo Hua intends to be ruthless, He Li wants to get close to Reed and Alston, and establish a revolutionary friendship from now on, but he doesn't want to, but in the end, what he waits for is: "Rookie, grab my bag and follow me!"

There is an unwritten rule in the NBA. When a rookie joins the team, he will have an embarrassing experience of being tricked. Veterans take pleasure in teasing rookies.

At this time, the rookie must be like LeBron James, even if he is the No. [-] pick, he also accepts the unspoken rules, gives Ricky Davis shoes, and actively chooses to integrate into the team.

Or, like Kobe Bryant, who couldn't stand being teased by O'Neal, he went to the team's general manager to report to the logo man, and the team's general manager came forward to establish his position in the team early.

Or just sternly refuse, and then stay out of the group altogether.

Before He Li came to the team, Jeff Austin had done ideological work for He Li, and He Li could still accept such trivial things as carrying bags.

But if it involves insulting personality, country, or race, He Li will definitely refuse. At that time, he can only report to head coach George Karl or general manager Ernie Grunfeld.

After He Li signed the rookie contract, he has money, and now he also bought a mobile phone, so it is very convenient to make small reports.

A little bit about He Li’s current salary. The first year’s annual salary is 123 million US dollars, but the salary is paid monthly, once every half a month, twice a month. The official salary will wait until the start of the regular season, which is October 10.

The NBA fully considers the rookie's lack of money, and the team can judge by itself, and can advance up to 50% of the rookie's salary for the year.If it is a team star, the advance amount can be as high as 80%.

As for the remaining 20%, it is actually impossible for the head star.

Because the NBA was affected by the strike in 99 and suffered heavy losses, it has been studying the salary limit order for stars in the past few years to weaken the influence of stars and keep them from the masses, but it does not affect the income of middle and low-level players.

Just this year, the third-party hosting system began to be implemented.

According to regulations, at the beginning of the game, the league officially withholds 10% of the player's salary in an escrow account. If the player's annual income does not exceed 30% of the total income of the league's 55 teams (that is, the luxury tax limit), then the escrow salary can be returned to the player in full.

On the contrary, the hosting salary will be confiscated by the league.

For the players who signed the maximum salary, basically the money was confiscated.Middle and bottom players are not affected.

The salary ratio agreed in the third-party hosting system is not fixed. Every time a labor dispute occurs or the season is suspended, this ratio will increase.

During the 20-year NBA lockout, the most eye-catching news during this period is that the salary ratio of the third-party hosting system has increased again. NBA superstars lose tens of millions of dollars per capita, while NBA officials earn hundreds of millions.

Among the 20% salary, in addition to third-party trusteeship, there are also pensions and fine reserves.

Closer to home, He Li carried three bags, and another rookie selected by the Bucks in the second round this year, Andre Hutson, also carried three bags. The two supported each other and followed the veterans to the General Mitchell Airport.

Next, He Li and other Bucks players will go to Orlando under the leadership of coach Terry Stotts to participate in the summer league.

Today's Summer League is a separate game, and NBA officials do not come forward. It is a semi-public game played by some teams in private, and it is not a part of the NBA in the strict sense.

Some years, there will be seven or eight summer leagues, other times there will be only two or three, and only the summer leagues that are really making money continue to operate.

The oldest summer league is the Rocky Mountain Summer League, which was founded in 84. In addition to the Utah Jazz, there are also Utah university teams. Later, it gradually became the summer league of NBA western teams.

Because some teams are far away, it is troublesome to participate in the summer league, and it is a waste of money, so there is a Southern California summer league with bonuses.

The existence of two summer leagues in the West has affected the strength of the East and West to a certain extent.

It was after the Spurs and the Lakers won the championship one after another that the Eastern giants Celtics couldn't sit still and held the Boston Summer League.

The Orlando Summer League where the Bucks go now was actually only established this year, and the first NBA teams to participate were the Magic, Bulls, Wizards, Eagles, and Bucks. They didn't even participate in the Heat.

The Bucks are a championship team, and they didn't have to pay attention to the newly established Orlando Summer League.But because George Karl couldn't wait to see He Li's actual combat level, he had this trip to Orlando.

When the Orlando Summer League is over, He Li and others will go to Boston to participate in the Boston Summer League, which is the highlight of this summer.

After flying in the sky for more than ten hours, the coaches and players of the Bucks finally arrived in Orlando, and there are still two days before the official start of the Orlando Summer League.

During these two days, the training ground at the Amway Center, home of the Orlando Magic, is completely open to the Bucks.

Coach Terry Stotts also took advantage of these two days to continuously teach He Li and other rookies, the running, passing, blocking and quick counterattack under the Bucks' offensive system.

Although He Li has previous playing experience, but what kind of tactical literacy can he have in high school basketball, most of the time he relies on his personal strength to play blindly.

Now that I have learned the tactics summed up by George Karl's coaching career, it is like a treasure for a while, I am immersed in it, and I can't extricate myself.

George Karl's offensive system is a bit like the small ball system in the future.

Use highly mobile guards and forwards to speed up, weaken the positioning and role of the center forward, and rely on the forwards to run back and forth inside the interior, flank and steal, cut off the enemy's passing route, and block the opponent's internal and external connections.

Even if the ball is passed to the enemy's center forward, the forward can also be used to double-team, reducing the enemy's center's hit rate, and consuming the enemy's center's physical strength through defense and fast break.

This is exactly what the saying goes, the star is immortal, but can be consumed.

George Karl's supersonic striker group can kill Olajuwon, and the Bucks' striker group can also consume O'Neal.

In the regular season of the 00-01 season, no team could beat the Lakers with the peak O'Neal one after another, only the Bucks!

The Bucks won the final victory by more than 5 points in the only two regular season games they played against the Lakers.

Of course, limiting the opposing center is only an insignificant part of George Karl's offensive tactics.

The main purpose and function of offensive tactics is to attack. George Karl's set of tactics is mainly to create singles opportunities for the stars in the team through running and passing the ball.

Sometimes, with the help of tall, mobile forwards to do some pick-and-rolls to provide the three musketeers with open shooting opportunities, in this way, the scores of the three musketeers will naturally be greatly improved.

And the three musketeers use their super scoring ability to attract double-teams. When other role players run, block and cut, there may be a situation where the defense is empty. The role players can also shoot open and score easily.

In addition, George Karl advocated that players shoot three-pointers, so the Bucks' scoring ability is very strong.

The last is all steals and rebounds, so as to get a lot of ball rights to make up for the lack of defense in the penalty area.

After being scored by the opponent, the fast-break counterattack is another reason for the Bucks' high scoring average per game.

In the following summer league, He Li, as the small forward of the Bucks, enjoyed the treatment of the team's boss, the big dog Robinson.

He Li felt: "I rely on the offensive tactics of the Bucks to score a healthy basketball data of 20 points per game. It shouldn't be a problem, right?"

(End of this chapter)