the great gatsby

Chapter 245 Watching the fire from the other side!

Gatsby recruited Stoudemire for the Knicks, but the turmoil in the Knicks management not only did not stop, but also became more fierce. James Dolan was very angry at not being able to sign LeBron James. Even his arrival did not cheer him up.

In James Dolan's view, LeBron James is the top superstar. Although Stoudemire is not bad, he is far inferior to James. Moreover, both of them can get it!

If James and Stoudemire are both recruited to the Knicks, it shouldn't be a big deal for the Knicks to win the championship next season.

But this matter caused Donny Walsh, an old man who was greedy for credit, to do bad things. James Dolan was extremely angry for a while, and he was already planning to lay off Donny Walsh.

Gatsby has a clear view of the relationship with the Knicks management, but he did not get involved easily. He watched from the other side. It is not in Gatsby's interest for James Dolan to fire Donny Walsh, because Gatsby is really I can't believe Isaiah Thomas. Isaiah Thomas's operations are frightening. Who knows if he will make another moth come out in a good situation and ruin the whole good situation.

But it's not in Gatsby's interest to speak for Donny Walsh now. Although Gatsby doesn't want to cooperate with James, but this time Donny Walsh recruited James without telling him and wanted to monopolize the credit. Gatsby sensed the crisis.

Although Gatsby is not angry, he must ensure that the two rights of trading and drafting are in his hands. Simply being a player who is traded at will is not what Gatsby wants - he wants to control his destiny in his own hands , but also to hold the fate of the team in their own hands.

Those who want to make great achievements cannot be manipulated by others.

——If James does not go to the Heat to form the Big Three;
——If Kobe doesn't trade himself as a bargaining chip to force the Lakers to strengthen;

——If Durant does not go to the Warriors;

——If Michael Jordan didn't force the team to strengthen, then these great players are likely to be great players, but the degree of greatness is far from it.

If you want to be a top great player, you must learn to take your destiny into your own hands. Donny Walsh wants to control his own rights, so he betrays Gatsby, and Gatsby wants to regain control of Donny Walsh What, he has to use James Dolan's rights to beat Donny Walsh.

The NBA is a business league. It is a vanity fair and a workplace. There is no such thing as hello, me and everyone. Only by learning to fight and grab can we live a better life here.

Cardinal Auerbach, fortune teller Pat Riley, Spurs' Povich, Zen master Phil Jackson, these people have never been as great and upright as they are described in the biographies, robbing people, setting up traps, and forcibly taking the rich. To rob, instigate players to cheat, dig the wall behind their backs, which of them has not done these things?
But the accumulated victories push them to the altar to enjoy the incense of believers, and those who disdain small actions are either doing nothing, or being overturned from behind, or being stabbed, Gatsby does not want to be a Conspirator, but if he wants to become great, he has to learn to hold these rights in his own hands, and then he can stand on a fair stage with the enemy for a decisive battle!

He doesn't want to work hard to win the game, and then in the middle of the game, he is notified which team he has been traded to, just like Harrison Barnes of the North Carolina Blackhawks. The well-known small forward of the Warriors' five small forwards, the core of the Dallas Mavericks, seems to be beautiful, but his destiny has never been in his own hands.

The next season is too critical. What Gatsby thinks is that next season must produce results. Now the strength of the team has reached Gatsby's expectations. Even if Anthony and Billups cannot be traded next season, Gatsby also has the confidence to say goodbye to the Heat.

But his task this offseason is not small. The first is to help the team's two rookies grow. Both Stephenson and Jeremy Lin are players that Gatsby is very optimistic about. Their growth is very important for strengthening the Knicks.

The Knicks can only use him and Martin in the backcourt. Stephenson is 196cm tall and weighs 96kg. He is an offensive guard who is good at breaking through. The disadvantage of being prone to fever, but overall, this is a very good player. As long as he grows up, the depth of the Knicks' backcourt bench will be greatly improved.

Jeremy Lin is what Gatsby wants to train as his substitute. Du Hong is a good player, but it is difficult to be the core. Jeremy Lin's style of play is the core style of play. As long as he is given a chance, he can play very well The game shows that although he can't be the leader of a strong team, it is more than enough to be the leader of a weak team. As the sixth man of the team, it is perfect.

Gatsby didn't want to encounter a situation where the team would lose points as soon as he stepped off the field this season. Although it can show that he is very good, it is really tiring!

So Gatsby devoted most of his time to it. He even followed the two of them to participate in the summer league. Gatsby sat on the sidelines and watched while recording. Cibi compared the videos and pointed out the flaws of Jeremy Lin and Stephenson one by one.

Jeremy Lin was born in 1988, Stephenson was born in 1990, and Gatsby was born in 1991, younger than both of them, but Jeremy Lin and Stephenson did not dare to underestimate Gatsby, and were even a little apprehensive.

One is because of Gatsby's status in the team, and the other is that although Gatsby looks easy-going, the toughness and maturity he occasionally shows are far behind the two of them. Willingly call Gatsby the boss.

Gatsby looked at the respectful two people and secretly snickered in his heart. He could make these two young men surrender with just a few tricks.

After observing the summer league, Gatsby feels that the level of the two is not as good as in the previous life, which is normal. It is difficult to grow quickly without tempering, and Gatsby does not have this idea.

The main purpose of him coming to give advice is to help them get rid of some bad habits, especially Stephenson. His style of play is exaggerated and nervous. Others look good, but Stephenson is really ugly, and it is very easy to make mistakes.

Jeremy Lin plays more steadily, but both of them have shortcomings, that is, unstable three-pointers. Jeremy Lin is good at playing pick-and-rolls. If Jeremy Lin can practice three-pointers in pick-and-rolls, his threat will be upgraded to a higher level. This is the focus of Gatsby. , Stephenson's three-point shooting is even more disastrous, and his career three-point shooting percentage is only 30.3%. Gatsby caught two people to practice three-pointers after the end of the summer league.

(End of this chapter)