Chapter 025: Lotto and Metaphysics

Just as the NBA went from no three-pointers to three-pointers, the NBA draft has had a lot of interesting stories in history.

When the NBA first started, the NBA draft had a special rule for the local draft, which meant that a team could voluntarily forgo the draft before the draft and instead pick a rookie from the team's home country. In doing so, you can attract the attention of more local fans. In 1956, the Celtics used this clause to pick Tom Heinsohn from Worcester.

Beginning in 1966, the NBA decided to use a coin-to-money approach to determine who would win the top pick from the bottom teams in the East and West, and the rest of the teams were drafted based on the bottom of the regular season.

By 1985, the NBA had made a historic overhaul of the draft system.

The previous rules were replaced by lottery. As a result, the teams that did not participate in the playoffs were selected in the first round of the draft, and in the second round, all teams were still ranked in reverse order of their regular season records.

In October 1986, the league's management agreed to narrow the original function of positioning the top seven picks in the lottery to the top three, except for the top three signings randomly determined by table tennis, all other signings were ranked in reverse order of regular season results. In this way, the bottom of the regular season can also get the fourth place, the bottom second can get the fifth place, and the rest of the same.

Today, as we all know, the top 14 picks in the first round are known as the lottery area, and rookies in the lottery tend to get better opportunities and attention than rookies in the same period, so many players are proud to be named rookies in the lottery by draft sites when they are fighting in the NCAA.

As mentioned earlier, 2009 was a very peculiar year.

Before the draft began, scouts were pessimistic that the rookie class would be even worse than it was in 2000, when the NBA draft was notoriously bad, and with the exception of Kenyon Martin, Turkoglou, and Mike Miller, most of the rookie class was quickly forgotten in the future.

So a lot of interesting things happened before the start of the 2009 NBA Draft, when the Clippers, who had the No. 1 pick, found that they didn't want the No. 1 pick at all, and some teams even thought it wasn't worth trading for some of their quality mid-class players......

Ignorance and weakness are not the point that hinders human existence, arrogance is.

It is precisely because of the arrogance of the scouts that the rookies of 2009 are seriously underrated.

It turns out that after Blake Griffin came back to play 20+10 after a year off, he quickly regretted those teams who were unwilling to exchange the Clippers' top picks, and the rookies in '09 were better than one another, and people could only ruthlessly complain that there was really something wrong with the level of scouting that year.

After Javier Stanford reported on Lin's latest situation, both ESPN and Draft updated Lin's projected draft to the lottery.

He is expected to be selected thirteenth in the first round.

And Stephen Curry's draft market has also risen sharply, and is now in the top five.

In fact, Stephen Curry's draft pick in '09 was rumored by too many basketball fans, and some people said why was Curry selected for the seventh place?

First of all, you need to understand that the seventh position is already a high order, and is the seventh position very low? Isn't Kobe Bryant only 13th, and isn't future Salt Lake City kid Mitchell also 13th?

It's not just Curry who was underrated in '09, but this entire rookie.

Secondly, Curry wanted to go to New York from the beginning, so he categorically rejected the tryouts of the Memphis Grizzlies and Timberwolves, because Curry's previous scouting report was not very good, and he was unwilling to go to the trial, so the teams before the Warriors and the Knicks did not dare to choose Curry at all, who would want to waste a valuable draft pick to make a gamble?

Regarding this, the manager of the Grizzlies explained before the '09 draft that if Curry was willing to come to the tryout, they would definitely be willing to sign Curry with the roster.

It's just that Curry, who is in love with New York, didn't expect that the Golden State Warriors had a madman, and that was Nelson Sr.

Nelson Sr. loves Curry too much.

And he likes Curry's kind of shooting.

How did the Golden State Warriors kill the Mavericks?

When the three-point shot was still in the development stage, the group of crazy people in Golden State used fast break three-pointers again and again to directly collapse the Mavericks' mentality.

The three-point shot is the most important weapon in the future.

So the elder Nelson cut off Stephen Curry, Curry looked confused and reluctant when he was drafted by the Warriors, and later he was overjoyed when he heard that the Suns were going to send Stoudemire to make a big trade with the Warriors, because the Suns are a run-and-gun team and have his Uncle Nash.

However, the elder Nelson directly threatened management with resignation and abandoned the deal......

So the story of Curry falling to seventh place in 2009 is not as mysterious as rumored, just a simple story of being cut off by the Warriors.

In the 4001 bedroom, Stephen Curry and Lin Yidule became fools.

"Listen, buddy! Now we're actually going to the NBA together, we're all lotto! Stephen Curry said happily.

"Oh no, you're in the top five, noble in the top five, Master Stephen Curry." Lin Yi complained.

"Oh, Lin, you have to work hard, you must be higher in the ranks." Stephen Curry said.

It's great, I was right to stay for a year, first I met Lin, and then Lin suddenly grew taller and became my best helper, it's incredible......

Thanks to God Almighty, poor and hapless little Stephen finally began to walk on the road to the pinnacle of life.

Lin Yi suddenly reminded Curry, "Stephen, the Knicks' record has been quite good recently, are you sure they can finally get the top five picks?" ”

Stephen Curry knew what Lin Yi meant, "Oh no, no, believe me, the Knicks will definitely get the top-five picking." ”

Lin Yi waved his hand, "I think the Golden State Warriors are very likely to lose all the way." ”

"Oh no!" Curry apparently didn't dare to think about being drafted by another team.

History and my own impression have changed, take this season's NBA as an example, many teams that should have had poor results are not as bad as they remember, but some teams that should have good results are now doing very badly.

Could this be the legendary butterfly effect?

Will the Clippers get the No. 1 pick, and will the Golden State Warriors do it again to cut off Curry?

Everything has become delicate.

Just when Lin Yi was thinking about what to do if history changed him, his mobile phone rang.

"Listen, Lin, you've already read the report, right? Isn't that cool, oh yes, and to give you another cool news, the Oklahoma City Thunder have sent their own scouts, and they're going to be watching you all the way for the rest of the game, Presti is my college classmate, he's interested in you, and he said he'd even be willing to sign you with a first-round pick. "The person on the other end of the phone is Javier Stanford.

Thunder?

There's something wrong with the plot!

However, Lin Yi quickly reacted, after having Durant and Wei Shao, in fact, Presti has always wanted a big man, but there is really no good big man in the rookies in 09, Griffin was selected and only Thabit remained, Presti knew very well that that guy was a parallel import, so Presti had no choice but to sign James Harden with the third pick.

That's why Presti chose Ibaka when it came to choosing between Ibaka and Harden in the future, because Presti knows that a team has a limited amount of possession and that big men are important to any team.

After discovering Lin Yi, Presti liked Lin Yi's style too much.

He can shoot.

It has the same movement speed and traverse as a defender.

His dribbling skills are even better than some NBA fringe guards.

His lateral movement dictates that his defensive potential is high, as he has a terrifying height and reach.

Think about it, Kevin Durant and Lin Yi are all misplaced, plus Westbrook's momentum! What a beautiful picture!

Presti has always been very accurate in his eyes.

He chose Westbrook last year in the face of controversy.

Because Westbrook's physical talent in high school and freshman year is not as strong as it was when he entered the NBA, and in the NCAA, Westbrook is a two-way defensive stalwart who is a backup to Darren Collisson, plus many people think he doesn't have excellent ball-handling skills.

Surprised?

Isn't it amazing?

That's exactly what happened.

If it weren't for Presti's accurate judgment, the devastating Westbrook would have been between eighth and tenth in the first round.

Just like choosing Wei Shao, Presti doesn't care about other people's eyes, he wishes that Lin Yi's ranking is as low as possible, because then the Thunder can easily choose him.

A bunch of fools, who stipulates that the inside line must go to the inside line?

Lin Yi felt a little excited, because being able to impress Presti meant that his hard work and talent had been recognized.

Since 2007, the NBA has had three major openings.

The first is that the crazy scientist Nelson Sr. intercepted the Knicks and chose Stephen Curry, Nelson Sr. is in addition to McLopp, and the second thinks that Stephen Curry will become the head coach of the All-Star......

As it turned out, Nelson Sr.'s choice laid the groundwork for a future Warriors dynasty.

The second is Presti's draft, Durant, Wei Shao, Harden, and the Thunder three young people have played NBA-level potential in the future, by the way, Presti also selected Adams, Ibaka, Collison and other elites, in that era, there were three legends of Thunder rookie, Rocket veteran, and Sun God Doctor.

The third is the story of Jerry West, Lin Yi thinks that Jerry West must be a traverser.

As soon as he arrived at the Warriors, the LOGO man found a treasure for the Warriors in the draft, and Jerry West first predicted that Klay Thompson would be 10,000 times better than Fredter, the best shooter at the time.

Secondly, the first thing the LOGO man did when he took over as the Warriors was to let Monta Ellis roll as far as he could, and Ellis had repeatedly asked the club management to send Curry away because there was no room for two tigers.

Then Jerry West flatly rejected all trades for Klay Thompson, and then corrected second-round rookie Green in the next trade, and traded Iguodala. Oh yes, Jerry West traded Iguodala for a simple reason, we need someone to deal with LeBron in the Finals.

At that time, the Warriors' top management was not light, and the finals? I'm sorry, but the Warriors executives before the 14/15 season thought that the Warriors would be good as long as they could play in the playoffs.

Well, in the end, when Steve Kerr decided to leave the Suns management, he invited Kerr to the Warriors as the head coach as soon as possible, and Kerr didn't have any coaching experience at that time.

The words of the LOGO man to impress Cole are simple, you are our champion puzzle.

Since the beginning of the 11/12 season, the only person who can believe that the Warriors will win the championship is the LOGO man. Plus after the Warriors changed their bosses, the generous boss didn't care about the luxury tax.

And then the story happened that the majority of fans knew.

Steve Kerr told Stephen Curry, you have such a long range and so accurate, why don't you shoot?

As a result, the NBA has completely embarked on the era of outside being the leader and the inside crying.

The above content is excerpted from "NBA Metaphysics", who is more metaphysical about Zidane's three consecutive Champions League championships and LOGO men?

can't be provoked, and the masters of metaphysics can't be provoked......

So to be favored by Presti, Lin Yi is quite happy.

Lin Yi told Curry the news as soon as possible, and Curry opened his mouth wide, "But, Lin, Oklahoma is just a small city......"

Lin Yi smiled helplessly, Curry really has a soft spot for New York.