lakers championship

Chapter 53
After the news that the Lakers chose Tianyang at all costs appeared on social networks, Jim Buss needed to solve two problems immediately.

First of all, we must consider how to appease Russell's emotions. The opponent is the biggest star in the Lakers team except Kobe.

If there is a stalemate, it will be a trivial matter to affect the results. Anyway, the Lakers have been unable to make the playoffs this season.

The biggest problem is to create a sense of management confusion for the big-name players in the free market, which will be very detrimental to the signings in the summer.

After failing to recruit big-name players, the Lakers will have very little hope of reaching the playoffs even if they are selected by Tianyang next season when there are many strong opponents in the Western Conference.

That Jim's three-year return to the ranks of the strong team will almost completely fail, and then the control of the Lakers will be transferred to the Jenny team.

Secondly, we must consider how to properly handle the team's relationship with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kobe Bryant.

Jim didn't know when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made a positive statement about SkyOcean.

But Kobe is optimistic about Tianyang, and only he and Kupchak are in love.

Excluding the situation where Kobe said it himself, Jim must explain to Kobe why the content of the conversation was leaked.

If this matter is not handled well, it will definitely be laughed at. In the future, the team will have many activities, and it will be ashamed to ask for the support of the team's celebrities.

For a moment, two questions appeared in Jim's mind, like two chattering minions, tumbling and entangled, which made him so impatient, he slammed the table angrily, and shouted angrily: "Why did she Be right with me! Am I not for the Bass family?"

Throughout the ages, there have been too many examples of big families causing disasters, and it is nothing more than a word of profit.

Kupchak understood it, but it was inconvenient for him to answer questions about family matters.

No matter how great his contribution to the Lakers was, he was only employed as a part-time worker. He already regretted pointing out that all of this was Jenny's conspiracy.

He thought for a while, and decided to change the subject, "It's not entirely a bad thing, maybe we can follow her plan and use our plan to counterattack."

"Oh? What are we going to do? Say it quickly?" Jim was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Thoroughly demonstrate Tianyang's ability to the public, especially the Lakers fans. Tianyang has been popular for a while, but the popularity is only about the same as the top three rookies in the past. If it can reach the level of LeBron's popularity, then the Lakers fans will Support your approach, even if you need to trade Russell."

LeBron James, the man who made ESPN's first national high school game broadcast in the United States, has not yet entered the draft, and Nike has already offered a $9000 million sneaker contract.

Its influence is frightening.

If you consider that it happened in 03, not in 16, you can only lament how terrifying it is!
There is a saying that even if all the top picks in history are placed in the same year, and LeBron is drafted together with the "big dream" Olajuwon, O'Neal, Duncan and others, LeBron is also the top 3 picks.

"Do you think Tianyang's dominance is at the same level as LeBron's?" Jim himself had some doubts.

"Even if there isn't one, we should create some momentum." Kupchak said resolutely.

"Why?" Jim was puzzled.

"Because he is Kobe's successor!" Kupchak said firmly.

"Then what should I do?"

"It's very simple. The NCAA March Madness is about to start. You go to watch every game, bring Lakers celebrities to watch, bring Hollywood stars to watch, and do everything possible to expand Tianyang's influence."

"understood."

……

After returning to Palo Alto, Tianyang didn't take any extra rest.Early the next morning, he showed up in the school's basketball training hall on time.

The training hall was empty, and the entire Sequoia team was immersed in the atmosphere of winning the championship.

According to Xiao Heipi's analysis of the 4 championship games, he will focus on practicing layup and mid-range shooting skills in the next period of time.
Otherwise, he is easily restricted beyond the three-point line by a team with a strong center through defense and double-teaming.

This was the case against the University of Oregon. Jordan Bell restricted him almost 100% at the beginning. Even though he cracked it with a backward shot, he still encountered unscrupulous early interference from the opponent. Bell definitely wouldn't dare to be that presumptuous.

Also, against the University of Utah, the opponent relied on Jacob to guard the basket, and used Jacobs to guard and double-team him on the outside without worry, but he couldn't rely on breakthrough layups to compress the opponent's defensive area. It wasn't that the opposing coach didn't believe in Kuzma at the last moment, maybe they had already lost.

And after returning from this game, Xiao Heipi calculated through video analysis that his strength, lateral agility, speed, dribbling ability, acceleration ability, bounce, reaction time, physical strength and other attributes have all improved slightly, which is enough Support him in the physical confrontation with average intensity in the paint.

It's a pity that he only has 6 days and can't train with mid-range shots and layups.In the end, he decided to learn first, the first-level 'layup finisher' technique provided by Xiao Heipi.

In the morning and on the way to school, Tianyang had already played through the video.

"Layup Terminator" takes Jordan, Drexler, Wilkins, AI, McGrady, Kobe, LeBron, Wade, Parker, Ginobili, Westbrook, Rose, Harden as an example, from the basic Layups, one-step layups, turnaround layups, throws, backhands, pull bars, jump steps, European steps, and slam dunks, demonstrate in detail how to score layups.

The video explanation was very clear, and Tianyang was very happy. He originally wanted to learn a Tony Parker turnaround layup.But after combining his own characteristics, he found that he could only learn from Harden and Wade first, because he had a foundation in practicing the Eurostep before, and Harden and Wade used the Eurostep most for layups.

But there was no one in the training hall at the moment, and he didn't want to disturb the rest of his teammates, so he could only place a chair at four positions, up, down, left, and right in the paint area, to simulate defensive players.

After warming up, he began to practice according to the video instructions.

For two hours in a row, he felt that he had evolved into a European step layup master, but when he thought of the four chairs of the practice object, he felt dull.

After much deliberation, he decided to call Cui Ren and Plum, and ask them to help with training.

But he put his hand on the dial key and stopped again.

Cui Ren had closed training with him before, but he didn't get any money. It would be inappropriate to practice for nothing this time, even if Cui Ren agreed.Plum, too, is great in the center role, but it doesn't take his time for nothing.

Tianyang really didn't have any money. If he had received a few endorsements at the beginning, he could hire two of them as his training assistants if he had the money now.

Thinking of this, Tianyang suddenly felt a headache.But after making a choice, he has to bear the result, so he can only bite the bullet and continue working with the chair.

Training continued into the afternoon, and Brad finally came.

He told Tianyang that the NCAA selection committee has already given the seed rankings of the 4 teams in the 64 major divisions of the National Championships.

Stanford University Sequoia team, ranked fourth in the South.

(End of this chapter)