the great gatsby

Chapter 471 The best way to solve troubles is not to be afraid of troubles!
Long Xiaoman's worries did not happen. Scott did not make any big announcement after he left. Regarding his departure, there was only a tofu-like mention in some media. This was determined by the nature of the scout itself. of.

Scouting is a behind-the-scenes job. Most of them will never be famous in their lifetime. Only those inside the industry will know each other's existence. When it comes to outsiders, basically no one knows each other.

Not to mention Scott, even his father, Knicks fans who have watched football all his life, may not know him. Those who know him may only be fans of Dick Maguire, because Maguire was once a Knicks player and retired. Then he became a scout.

Maybe Gatsby's words inspired him, so Scott kept silent. If he proved Gatsby's words to be true, then it wasn't Knicks who was wrong, but Scott, So what position does he have to blame the team?

Scott's silence only reduced the trouble for the Knicks, and there was still a lot of trouble waiting for Gatsby.

Scott is gone, but the Knicks still have a dozen senior scouts. Although they didn't come out to say anything when Scott left, it is obvious that they are dissatisfied with the team!

Scott is the director of the Knicks scouting department, and one of his colleagues is quite well-known, Rodney Hurd.

Rodney Hurd is also an old employee of the Knicks. He came to the Knicks in the era of the smiling assassin. He is known because of his boldness.

The NBA clearly stipulates that before the start of the draft training camp, no team may privately arrange or participate in trial training with players who are eligible to participate in the draft.

Not only did Hurd often do this kind of thing, but he was also known to the outside world many times.

Hurd worked out Wilson Chandler for several weeks before the 2007 pre-draft training camp, and the team selected Chandler with the 23rd overall pick.

DePaul guard Dar Tucker said Hurd worked out him and other players twice a day on multiple days before the 2009 draft.According to NBA regulations, the team can only arrange two tryouts every three days.

The reason why these things broke out was that in May 2007, the Knicks secretly tried out Brandon Rush, the NCAA All-American first-team star who was playing for the University of Kansas at the time. During the trial, Rush Suffering a devastating torn ACL in his right knee, Rush was forced out of the 5 draft and rested for as long as six months.

When Gatsby knew about these things, he probably understood what Hurd was like.

This person is ambitious and extremely ambitious for his work. The boss loves and hates such employees.

Love is that this kind of employees will easily make achievements, and they are very good;

What I hate is that this kind of employees tend to regard laws and regulations as nothing, and it is easy to cause trouble.

"Heard is in charge of work on the east coast. He is very important to the Knicks. Although he has not been with the Knicks for a long time, his influence is very large. Gerry Boyesson is also his man." Donny Walsh said.

Gatsby asked, "What is Hurd's own view on big data?"

In the original history, because Wilson Chandler stayed in CBA for a long time, Hurd was Chandler's most trusted person, so Hurd also returned to CBA, but now Chandler stays in the Knicks. Well done, Hurd is still working as a scout.

"His thinking is relatively advanced. He does not reject big data systems, and is even a little excited." Donny Walsh laughed.

Gatsby nodded and said, "That's enough. It really doesn't matter whether the scouting department will form a group or not. As long as they can achieve results, it doesn't matter if they want to run their own company."

Donnie Walsh said with a smile: "We have to reorganize the scouting department if they operate themselves as a company, but if they want to become a company, they have to compete with many economic companies on the market, which is not easy."

"Then make him the head of scouting?" Donny Walsh asked.

Gatsby said: "Please help me arrange a conversation with him first."

The conversation between Gatsby and Hurd was relatively pleasant. Hurd got what he wanted, and Gatsby also learned about Hurd's attitude. Hurd had a very good personal relationship with Wilson Chandler, and Chandler's attitude towards Gatsby also affects his understanding of Gatsby.

"Wilson often tells me how he admires you, my God, I'm getting worms in my ears, you don't know how he supports you!" Hurd complained.

"He doesn't know about my conversation with you this time. If he knew, he would definitely ask me to cooperate with you in everything. Alas, but this is exactly what I want to do.

I have been thinking about these issues over the years. The existence of scouts is mostly as a supplementary existence. It is difficult for scouts to discover peerless talents, because most of them are noticed in college, high school or even junior high school. Most of those people Is a high draft player.

Generally speaking, high-ranking players are not too outrageous no matter how they are selected, but there are only a few high-ranking players. The rest is to pick gold from a pile of sand. This is the real power of scouts. The place.

But the question is-how to confirm that this player has potential, how to confirm that this player can be cultivated, and what kind of player does the team need?
Although experienced scouts can rely on their experience to select some almost good players, this is all the scouts' own perceptual understanding. If we can combine the experience of the scouts and use a big data method to distinguish the false and retain the true, then we can You can truly select those potential rookies! said Hurd.

Gatsby looked at Hurd in surprise. He thought that this person was just fooling him at the beginning, just to become the head of scouting. Gatsby didn't care too much at first, as long as this person didn't come to hinder him. He just established the big data system, but he didn't expect to meet someone of the same kind.

Gatsby nodded and said, "Hurd, are you interested in being the CEO of a company?"

"Huh?" Heard looked up in surprise.

Gatsby nodded: "It's the big data system company I'm about to establish. This is to improve our team, but it is an independent company. Technology and finance are handled by someone. Now we need a company that can To support the company, people who give direction must also control it.

This person must understand not only management, but also basketball knowledge, and a deep understanding of people. Among the people I know, you are the most suitable. "

Hurd pondered for a moment: "You're talking about part-time jobs..."

Gatsby nodded: "This company is temporarily unprofitable, or in other words, its only client is our team, it needs to customize a system for our team, and it needs to be upgraded at any time, so that big data more perfect.

So now it can basically be used as a team under your guidance, allowing the scouts and the company's technicians to use their talents to do this thing well.

And you, the person who coordinates the cooperation between scouts and technicians, also need to use your contacts to protect it. For example, in terms of tactics, you have to find people from the coaching staff to improve it. In terms of the player database, you have to work with others. Scouts work it out together.

Then connect some university player information and try to improve the data so that we can select the players we really need among thousands of players. "

Hurd said happily: "Okay, then I accept."

Gatsby is also quite happy. In this way, the scouting department has someone he can control, and the big data system he planned has hopes to start to improve. This is related to the future development potential of the Knicks, even if it comes to When his prophet expires, the team can also maintain a strong competitiveness.

It is very unsafe to maintain the development of an organization on one person. Once this person loses normal judgment, the organization will face the loss of the future, unless there is someone who can take over all this in terms of prestige and ability. The emergence of people, otherwise the decline will become inevitable.

The wood show will be destroyed by the forest wind.

The Knicks have become the target of public criticism. Only by uniting all the forces that can be united can we safely get through most crises.

Gates is sorting out all the forces that can be united to make the Knicks more resistant to risks.

After dealing with these things, the threat from the same city also came.

The owner of the Brooklyn Nets, the rich Russian Prokhorov, bought the shares of the Nets last season. He was ambitious as soon as he entered the NBA. He boasted that he would win the championship within five years, so he recruited Deron Williams and smashed it. The next 1.2 million was signed to Deron, and then another [-] million was spent to attract Joe Johnson.

This season, Pierce and Garnett were recruited to form the Nets into a luxury super team on paper.

Among them, the Nets paid 9000 million US dollars in luxury tax alone, and the total salary expenditure was even close to 2 million!
If you don’t consider the age of the players on this team, let’s take a look at the names of the players on this team: Lopez, Pierce, Deron, Garnett, Joe Johnson, Jason Terry, Alan Anderson, Kirilian Coe, Plumlee, Reggie Evans and other names, you will think that they will definitely reach the finals this season.

But look at the birth dates of the players: Pierce in 1977, Garnett in 1976, 36-year-old Pierce, and 38-year-old Kevin Garnett. No one knows how much energy these two still have!
But the fans are happy. In the 2013-14 season, the Nets' ticket sales revenue ranked fifth in the league, and almost all the boxes were sold out. It is not yet known whether they will win or not, but the team has moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn. Reached.

Prokhorov's ambitions are obvious, which makes the Knicks' management feel threatened. The Nets are not yet rivals in the same city. After all, this is just the beginning. The Nets' history is not as good as the Knicks, and their record is not as good as the Knicks. The Knicks are now a dynastic team.

But Prokhorov's aggressiveness made the Knicks management pay attention to it. Gatsby naturally didn't care. In his eyes, the Nets were just a farce. The championship, but the NBA is not something that can be won by spending money.

Things in the NBA are very delicate. If you want to win the championship, you must spend money, but if you spend money, you may not be able to win the championship, so many owners are very cautious, let alone small market teams. Even teams in big markets are very cautious about spending money, unless they feel that the opportunity has come, they will look forward and backward.

Rich people like Prokhorov do not understand this truth, and their pockets are bulging. They spend money as soon as they come. Of course, the players are happy, but it does not have much benefit in winning the championship.

The challenge of the Nets led to several consecutive meetings between the coaching staff and the scouting department. Gatsby didn't say a word. Anyway, this attitude is good after all.

Although the Nets Garnett and Pierce are old, they are not casual roles to be bullied, especially in this special regular season, facing the dynasty team, facing the rivals in the same city, and in the basketball game of Madison Square Garden. Mecca is also better prepared to win than the Nets!
2013 11 Month 13 Day.

Madison Square Garden was overcrowded. This was the rare time this season that all seats were full. The dynasty was established, but the Knicks' popularity dropped a bit because the fans were tired of the Knicks, or they were a little numb to victory. .

In general games without gimmicks, Knicks fans don’t even come to watch the game. In the past two years, almost every game must be full. Even in the first and second rounds of the playoffs Sometimes, there are also seats that are not occupied.

D'Antoni pointed at the fans who were still playing on their mobile phones and smiled: "They have already developed their appetites, and victory can no longer satisfy their appetite. What they want to see is that we not only have to win, but also win wonderfully. Winning beautifully, winning with ups and downs, and even a decisive victory over a decisive victory is enough to taste!"

Gatsby smiled and shook his head.

But today is a game with a lot of gimmicks. The most sensitive Russian rich man in the United States bought a team in New York, USA, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars. They want to win a championship in the NBA. They formed A lineup of the Big Five, and what they are going to challenge this time is the Knicks, the NBA dynasty team. This kind of gimmick is indeed enough to attract discerning New York fans.

No matter how picky the fans were, when Gatsby played, the cheers, applause and other sounds in the stadium still reached the highest point.

For Knicks fans, it is not too much to praise Gatsby. When other teams hang a championship banner above their pitiful arena, and some even don’t even have a division championship banner, the Knicks But it has five championships and a newly born dynasty.

And this dynasty, this undrafted pick, did it when he entered the Knicks in his fourth year!
As for what achievements Gatsby will achieve in the future, fans can only shake their heads and say, "Maybe he will become one of the greatest players in NBA history?"

(End of this chapter)