You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 692 Draft Planning
Henry Ford Training Center
The player's season is over, and for those with high ambitions, the new season has just begun.

The next draft, summer league, free market and trading market are all excellent stages for them to show their skills.

In ten days, the NBA Draft will be held at Madison Gardens.

After a year of competition, where there is a will, there is a way, and those teams that want to rely on supernovas to complete the reconstruction have already achieved results.

The biggest winner this year is the Orlando Magic. Last summer, Penny ran away, leaving his people behind. Chuck Daly’s smart wife can’t live without rice. Fortunately, the magic management still has a shred of reason and did not put the knife on Daley. The neck forced him to hit the grades.

Therefore, with advanced perseverance, the Magic scored 14 wins and 68 losses, and won the No. 2000 pick in the [-] draft with the highest probability.

Now they have a chance to take Kenyon Martin in the draft.

Although Mo Mengchen didn't know what was wrong with this draft, if he was in the management team, he would find a way to trade the No. [-] pick.

In today's training hall, there are about ten draft players participating in the trial training.

Mo Mengchen stood on the sidelines, and these people greeted him one after another. He nodded in response as if he was in a hospital, and then continued to watch their training with a straight face.

In fact, he only cared about one of them.

A white man in a black training suit, Hedo Turkoglu from Turkey.

With the draft pick in the hands of the Pistons, it is very difficult to win him. He also knows that the Pistons do not have a suitable draft pick, but after receiving the invitation to try out, he still "condescends" to come to Detroit.

"Have you seen him?"

Westphal did not have a holiday and has been observing rookies these days.

"Not bad." Most of Mo Mengchen's impressions of Turkoglu came from his previous life.

The draft was picked by the Kings 16th. In 2002, he formed the king's "bench gangster" together with Bobby Jackson, Scott Pollard and others. Unfortunately, he was inevitably assimilated into a soft guy in the king's team full of soft guys.

Moreover, speaking of it, it seems that the gangsters on the bench of the Kings team were all beheaded by Mo Mengchen.

Mo Mengchen also discovered this.

Bobby Jackson, Pollard, and the Turkish agent he's already set his sights on.

A smart European player who was buried by his team in the first few years of his career. If the Pistons want to transform in the future, this kind of jack-of-all-trades player is indispensable.

It's just that the market in the middle of the first round is really difficult to handle.

Turkoglu also noticed that Mo Mengchen was watching him, walked slowly, and said hello: "Mo, I'm not only your fan, but also yours."

"Thank you." Mo Mengchen replied politely.

This is probably Mo Mengchen's best response. The people around him looked sideways. Although Turkoglu is in the middle of the first round, he plays in Europe. In this era, although the NBA has begun to have an international trend. , but the young players from Europe and the NCAA players who took the American campus route can be said to be inseparable. The other rookies don't know the young Turkish agent at all.

"I watched your game, the final free throw was really thrilling, I was so nervous watching it"

The way he talks is very like Hill, familiar, annoying, meaningless content.

"Don't get close to me, I don't know you well."

Mo Mengchen decided to be more cautious, one Hill is already very annoying, another one?
"What do you think of him?" Westphal had also been observing Turkoglu.

"It has great potential." Mo Mengchen said.

It is not easy to get such an evaluation. Westphal remembers that the last rookie who was evaluated by Mo Mengchen with similar words was Ginobili.

He doesn't know any further, after all, he has only been here for two years.

Although Ginobili's performance in the first year was mediocre, as long as he keeps improving, he will definitely bring great help to the team in the future.

"ESPN even had him in the lottery in their draft picks," Momochen muttered.

Westphal said lightly: "This also just shows that this draft is not favored."

Even if they are not favored, it is impossible for others to hand over the draft picks. If the Pistons want Turkoglu, a trade is inevitable.

Joe Dumars was there too, watching the rookies with the scouting team.

Mo Mengchen walked over to him. Dumas had been the general manager for a year. He was obviously fat and wore glasses like an intellectual.

"What about the guy you're looking at?" Dumars asked Turkoglu.

Because of Mo Mengchen's request, Dumars invited this international rookie who was hovering on the edge of the lottery zone, but it was a pipe dream for the Pistons to want him.

"I checked with him."

"Ok?"

"I mean," Mo Mengchen paused, "we need him."

Dumas looked at him strangely. Since Mo Mengchen asked them to invite Turkoglu to come to try out, they have prepared for this, because Turkoglu's draft prediction is outside the lottery area, so, and Not inoperable.

"I contacted two teams." Dumars talked about the transaction, although this is not in accordance with the rules.

Management and players are two completely different groups, but in the Pistons, it is an exception.

Dumars' predecessor, Dean Osgers, left him with a piece of advice to "ask Dor.Mo first".

This is not difficult for Dumars. When he was a player, he and Mo Mengchen were good friends. As a rookie manager, he has a lot to learn, and he often consults with Mo Mengchen.

This time Mo Mengchen fell in love with Turkoglu, and he went to make deals before the trial training started.

"About draft picks?"

"Yes, Sacramento has the 16th pick in the first round, and they are also interested in Hedo, but it is not impossible to trade, as long as we sell Brad and the first-round pick." Dumars smiled lightly.

Mo Mengchen looked at him mockingly, "What stupid thing did you do?"

"What are you talking about?" Dumas rolled his eyes.

"Otherwise, why would they propose such a plan, thinking that you can take advantage of it?" Mo Mengchen's eyes made Dumas feel like a mentally handicapped person.

Maybe in Mo Mengchen's eyes, he really is.

"So I hung up on them on the spot!" Speaking of this, Dumas is particularly proud.

The guy who licked his face and begged for a deal didn't even cut the price after the other party opened his mouth, and hung up the phone in anger?

My goodness, that scene can still come to mind.

Mo Mengchen laughed even more disgustingly, and Dumars had to change the subject immediately: "Then I immediately contacted Milwaukee, who really wanted a good insider."

Mo Mengchen asked: "What is their offer?"

"They gave two options, the first round of the big Pujia next year; Scott plus the second round of this year." Dumas said.

"This is the partner who wholeheartedly wants to do business with you and treats you as a human being." Mo Mengchen said happily.

Although Dumars knew he wanted to say that both proposals were good, why couldn't he just talk about it?

"What do you think?" Dumas asked.

Lauderdale and Pollard can be said to be the same type of insider. Pollard is stronger. He can play the main rotation in any team. In the finals that ended not long ago, both of them were consuming O'Neal's strength. He has made great contributions to this strategic-level task.

The Pistons' fourth crown, they definitely deserve a medal of merit.

OK will only be stronger next year. If nothing else, their opponents in the finals will still be them.Before O'Neal is completely old, it is necessary to hoard insiders, but if you want to get Turkoglu, this is a necessary sacrifice.

It's ridiculous to say that a player like Turkoglu can be acquired in the current market with only one main rotation plus a second round. From the side, it can be seen how much the NBA teams have no expectations for this draft. .

Only someone with open eyes like Mo Mengchen can make it through the waves in this draft.

"We'd better keep this year's draft pick." Mo Mengchen said, "Keep Dapu and try to keep this year's second-round pick as much as possible, and we can trade the second-round pick for next year or the year after next."

"Why keep Dapu?" In Dumas' view, Pollard is more valuable to stay.

Mo Mengchen asked him playfully, "What do you think?"

Lauderdale can only play garbage time. In addition to O'Neal being useful, Pollard is more useful in most cases.

The point is, Lauderdale is a better fit for O'Neal than Pollard.

This is the first big thing before OK falls apart.

"Well, it seems we have to say goodbye to Scott." Dumas sighed.

"At the same time, we have to prepare to say welcome to Detroit to the Turks." Mo Mengchen was used to people leaving every year.

He won't be sentimental. Leaving the Pistons is better for Pollard's development. Here he can only play more than ten minutes per game. In the Bucks, he is at least a stable first inside substitute, and there is no problem for 20 minutes per game. .

If you are lucky and the main force is injured, it is not impossible to take the opportunity to replace it.

He has two rings on his finger, he's young, it's time to show himself.

Starting this year, every year, something like this happens.

However, they will not leave in vain, and their departure will bring more fresh blood.

"By the way, Michael Reed, did you invite him?"

This is the most insurmountable part of the 2000 draft.

The most awesome player came from the second round.

"You mean that Michael Reid?" Dumas looked disgusted, "We've all seen it, he... doesn't seem very good."

The familiar look that Dumars wears whenever he calls out a rookie who doesn't look particularly good.

"The scouting team is unanimously optimistic."

"They are not as optimistic about Swift's future as Scott, so don't listen to the advice of those idiots." When the traveler didn't follow the routine and predicted directly, there was no suspense in the game.

But it's still scary.

Will Stromile Swift, the top-three guaranteed No. [-] pick, fare worse than Scott Pollard?

"Are you serious?"

"no doubt!"

　There are only two updates today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)