You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 694 The Big Tree Attracts the Wind
Next, the Spurs will have a difficult time.

The No. 2000 pick is a special pick. It is the third pick in theory, but it can always pick one of the best players. The probability of parallel imports in this pick is not as scary as the second pick, but this is [-] In this year's draft, it is too difficult to select good players.

For the Spurs, their struggle is whether to take Stromile Swift.

His freshman year was mediocre, and his sophomore year exploded like a rocket. He can be regarded as a rare talented man in the 2000 draft, enough to be tied with Miles.

If you only look at his dunks and blocks, he can be called O'Neal II, with a non-human animal body, and the visual impact in the collection is rarely matched by anyone.

However, rough technique and poor golf quotient are enough to make the Spurs wary.

Moreover, he also has problems with his emotional intelligence, and before the draft started, he said, "If you don't have the top five picks, you will go back to school."

Mentality is a factor that every team must consider when evaluating players, especially the Spurs. They are a good team. Playing in San Antonio can not only play reasonable basketball, but also learn a lot of principles of life along the way.

This is the problem, they are too lenient, which is a good thing for good babies, but it is extremely painful for those who are flamboyant and can't stand rules.

Swift is such a player. As far as the third pick is concerned, he is a player that cannot be missed. There is really no player with a ceiling as high as him.

However, the Spurs have doubts about his temperament.

The results came out peacefully.

"The San Antonio Spurs take Stromile Swift with the third pick, out of LSU!"

Ultimately, the Spurs, like talent-hungry teams, were blinded by Swift's talent.

You can't blame them because just look at the guys behind: Mike Miller, Chris Mihm, Marcus Fizel.
At first glance, there are really not many choices. Even if they know that choosing Swift is likely to be bad, they have to take risks.

Talent is as seductive and deadly as uniqueness.

Choosing Swift, the Spurs' rebuilding path will be postponed for two or three years, at least.

Mo Mengchen doesn't care where the rest of these people go. Some of them can become the main force, some can become the rotation, and some disappear in the NBA after completing their rookie contracts. A group of players who are mediocre enough to be ignored by history.

However, the accident still appeared.

This accident did not appear in the ownership of these lottery players, but the Pistons.

Turkoglu, who they have already taken a fancy to, has already discussed with the Bucks. After the Bucks select with the 15th pick, they will make a deal, and exchange Pollard and this year's second-round pick for Turkoglu.As a result, the Magic took the lottery pick and snatched Turkoglu with the 11th pick in the first round, breaking out one of the biggest upsets in the draft.

"what happened?"

It's a mess now, the things that the Pistons and the Bucks had already negotiated, have now gone awry.

Mo Mengchen urgently needs to figure out why the Magic chose Turkoglu.

Because the Magic hadn't tried out Turkoglu before, but suddenly snatched the Turk away today, Mo Mengchen suspected that other teams had taken a fancy to him and borrowed the Magic's hand to grab him.

Hussman's message is: "As far as I know, the Magic do not have any trades related to the draft. Their only trade rumor is that they tried to trade the No. [-] pick two weeks ago, but they did not get an attractive offer."

"That doesn't make sense." Mo Mengchen said, "They didn't participate in the transaction, nor did they try out Turkoglu. Why did they use a lottery pick to snatch him?"

"I didn't get any news, I think this should have something to do with you," Hussman said on the phone.

"Us?" Mo Mengchen asked, "How do you say it?"

Hussman said lightly: "The Pistons have a high rookie success rate, and your vision is obvious to all. This year, you only have the 29th pick in the first round, but it is impossible for this pick to win the Turks."

In an instant, Mo Mengchen thought of many things.

Apart from the coaching staff and Dumars, no one else knows about the selection of Turkoglu. It is certain that there is no leak, but the trade plan between the Pistons and the Bucks is very likely to be leaked.

Even if the Pistons do a good job of keeping secrets, who can guarantee the Bucks keeping secrets?
The Pistons' top pick is No. 29 in the first round. To choose Turkoglu, it is necessary to make a trade. Turkoglu is the only rookie in the Pistons' series of trial training lists with a mid-first-round pick.

After the trial training, Turkoglu started trading, and the intention was indeed obvious.

Mo Mengchen admired the management of the Magic very much. People who didn’t even have a tryout, and directly robbed the Pistons.

Mo Mengchen laughed angrily, "We were careless this time."

"The Turks were intercepted, do you have any alternatives? Or is the transaction suspended?" Hasman asked.

"I'd better see who else is on the list first."

After saying a few words, Mo Mengchen hung up the phone, and then pressed the answering machine. Dumas's message shook the 250's glass to shatter.

"The Turks were robbed! Can you believe it?!"

"Do you want to cancel the deal? Do you have a backup list? If the deal goes ahead, the scouting team recommends that we take Jason Koller."

"Time is running out, answer me as soon as possible!"

Jason Correll?Mo Mengchen had never heard of this name, so he could basically lose the scouting team's choice.

He took a quick look at the players who had been drafted, and then took out the draft list at home.

Although Turkoglu was intercepted, it is not that there is no one to choose from.

Although this year's draft is unprecedentedly bad, it is not all waste materials. As long as you search with your heart, you can find good players.

Desmond Mason and Jamal Magloire.

The former is an impact small forward, similar to Ricky Davis, but he is not as good as Davis. He has never been a reliable shooter, and his physical fitness is amazing. With amazing performances, the old Chinese fans probably don't have a good impression of him. He had a bad relationship with Yao Huang.

The latter is considered an extremely good blue-collar center with a peak of 13+10. He averaged 21+13 per game in one month and won the Eastern Conference Player of the Month. He was also selected as an All-Star in 2004.

13+10 was also selected as an All-Star?Yes, he was selected as a substitute. At that time, the starlight in the Eastern Conference was bleak. Except for Tracy McGrady and Iverson, there were not many who could get it. , Ray Allen, Peja and Yao Huang.

Mo Mengchen thought for a while, and saw that the No. 14 player in the first round had been announced on TV, and he had to make a decision.

He called Dumars.

"How about it?"

Dumas' tone was very anxious. This was the first draft he organized. He was in the war room, sweating profusely. Seeing the Turks being robbed, he almost tore off his hypocritical gentleman's mask and yelled loudly.

"Let them take Jamal Magloire."

"The one in Kentucky?"

Dumars has some research on this rookie, but judging from scouting reports and his performance in college, he is mediocre and has few attractive advantages.

"Yes."

Time was running out, so Dumars didn't ask any more questions, hung up the phone immediately, and urgently called the Bucks' draft war room, reporting the Pistons' candidates.

So, after accidents, chaos and emergencies, the Pistons failed to get Turkoglu, so they settled for the next best thing, selling an insider and selecting a younger but more talented insider.

The Bucks will regret it sooner or later. They gave up an All-Star for Pollard, although it is only an All-Star with an average of 13+10 per game.
What happened today also reminded Mo Mengchen that the bigger the tree is, the more famous it is, the more vigilant it is.

He really didn't expect the Magic to come up with such an operation. They don't even have a trial training, and they just grab people with lottery picks. Their general manager is really a genius.

The higher the rookie success rate of the Pistons, the more attention the teams will have.

He now only hopes that Turkoglu's rookie season will be a little worse.If Turkoglu's progress speeds up because he went to the Magic, the Pistons will have to worry about every draft in the future.

The success of the Magic will definitely attract the attention of other teams. What if one day these blind bastards hold the lottery picks and only stare at the Pistons' trial training, and then study who the Pistons might be interested in all day long, how can they play?
The future trial training must be more concealed, and several protections must be added to the favorite candidate to prevent people from easily seeing the target.

They can cut their beards, and the Pistons can also find ways to induce them to choose parallel imports.

Then, Mo Mengchen turned off the TV. He believed that Reid would not be intercepted, because Reed's draft price was too low. A late draft pick joined Redd in workouts.

Therefore, unless there is an insider, Reid will never be intercepted.

In the end, the Pistons selected Reid with the 29th pick in the first round as they wished, and ended this draft as a winner.

After all, the strongest person in this draft is already in the lineup.

After receiving the news, Mo Mengchen could do other things with peace of mind.

Signing rookies, summer league, free market, offseason contract renewal, etc. are all management matters. What he has to do now is to prepare the speech for the championship parade and various matters related to marriage.

The moment the draft ended, the managers of NBA teams began to put on the battlefield. For a while, many deals appeared, which made people dizzy. But none of these deals could change the league structure. Although it was very lively, there were not many people Care about the content of these transactions.

(End of this chapter)