Chapter 276 [Shooting Machine, Crazy Deal]
That night, Michael Reid went back to the hotel and lost sleep with excitement. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
As soon as it was reported, he had already fallen in love with the Raptors and was ready to fight for a long time in the city, and die as a confidant.
No other coach would place such a high value on a rookie, especially a rookie who is not a high pick. Reed was already very high to be able to join the Raptors at the end of the first round, and in Yang Rui's previous life, he fell to the 14th pick in the second round, and was selected by the Bucks at 43rd in total.
However, his strength is unquestionable, and he is a super shooting machine.
In college, Reed was the team's leading scorer and was responsible for attacking with the ball, which led to his poor shooting options from outside the three-point line, frequent throws at people, and a low shooting percentage.
In the draft manual, the scout's evaluation of Reed is very funny, and his strengths are ball control and physical fitness, strength and speed are not bad, and he has a strong ability to impact the basket, but his long-range shooting ability is not good. It is precisely because of his "poor long-range shooting ability" that scouts of various teams are not optimistic about him.
In fact, Reed was very accurate in college training, but he didn't show it when he played.
In Yang Rui's previous life, Reed was also unlucky after entering the NBA, he was considered the strongest rookie in the class of 2000, but he actually failed to reach the heights he deserved.
Reed was a backup to Ray Allen in his rookie season with the Bucks, and the coach didn't give him enough opportunities to perform, only letting him play in garbage time. He wanted to perform, he was very brave, and as a result, he suffered a serious injury to the tendon in his left knee after playing 6 games, and he was reimbursed for the season, averaging 2.2 points per game.
After returning from injury, Reid began to be heavily used, and George Karl put him with the right cover tactics, albeit as a substitute, but with a clear effect on the team.
In the second season, Reed averaged 21 minutes per game, scoring 11.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists, shooting 48.3% from the field and 44.4% from three-point range. In the third season, in 28.2 minutes, the statistics rose to 15.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.4 assists, shooting 46.9% from the field, 43.8% from three-point range, and shooting 2.2 three-pointers per game.
Reed averaged just 1.7 and 2.3 free throws per game in the past two years, playing mostly off the ball, the highest two seasons of his career.
If he continues to play in this style, Reid is efficient, does not possess the ball, and is likely to become an off-ball star like Klay Thompson, which will help the team a lot.
It's a pity that George Karl is gone, and the next coaches have let Reed attack with the ball, although his stats have improved, his shooting percentage has decreased, and he has become a core with unreasonable shooting timing. And his passing ability is average, averaging 3.4 assists per game at his peak, and he can't lead the whole team when he breaks through to attract the bag.
Yang Rui felt that Reed was not suitable for attacking with the ball, and he was obviously accurate in three points, so why did he have to rush in to score two points? The breakthrough also required a lot of changes of direction, which caused him to damage his knee and retire early. Grant Hill suffered a knee injury and was forced to transform and stay healthy later in his career.
Another example is Derrick Rose, that is, a player who doesn't know how to play other ways except for breakthroughs, so he was injured and injured, and after his comeback, he still broke through, and he didn't transform when he died, and finally succeeded in his death and was completely abolished.
Reed's consecutive serious injuries just didn't meet a good coach, which could have been avoided.
Yang Rui will show Reed a path that is not easy to get injured, and only needs to be physically strong, mainly running and shooting, supplemented by singles, which will prolong his career and be more suitable for the Raptors.
The next day, another big deal happened in the league.
The Heat traded Eddie Jones, Anthony Mason and Brian Grant from the Hornets for the toughest assault on the championship.
The Hornets acquired Mashburn and PJ Brown, and experts believe the deal was to send Eddie Jones away and prop up last season's "Pick and Eye" Steve Francis to the top.
Eddie Jones is really an unfortunate player, when he was an All-Star when he was an All-Star, he was squeezed out by his younger brother Kobe, and when the Hornets just had a tendency to become the boss, he was squeezed out by the newcomer.
The Heat were immediately regarded as the favorites to win the championship next season, retaining the original core lineup of Hardaway and Mourning, and the offensive power was significantly strengthened.
Two days later, veteran Cedric Ceballos announced that he had joined the Heat, going to Miami to hug Mourning's thigh, and the roster depth continued to improve. The Heat are trading like crazy, of course, to fight the Raptors.
The Pacers traded with the Trail Blazers after center Rick Schmitz announced his retirement, sending Dale Davis in exchange for Marcus Camby and Joe Kleney.
Camby is injury-friendly but younger, and the Pacers are willing to gamble on his potential.
After losing Brian Grant, the Trail Blazers traded back to a veteran blue-collar player, weakened and withdrew from the championship race.
The Raptors won the championship, and it also triggered some new butterfly effects.
Jermaine O'Neal, who was not supposed to break out until the 2001-2002 season, topped supersonic power forward Weinbeck and was selected for the Dream Four team, and represented the United States team with Vince Carter at the Sydney Olympics that began on September 15.
Both of them wanted to win the gold medal and happily participated in the training camp.
The team is once again made up of NBA players, with Carter being the biggest star, Garnett, O'Neal Jr., Mourning, Payton Kidd and others are also All-Stars, as well as shooters such as Steve Smith, Alan Houston, and Ray Allen.
Yang Rui prefers that the core of the team can have a good rest, after all, they only finished the finals in mid-June, but he can't influence the players' thoughts.
In addition, in Yang Rui's previous life, forward Austin Crohill, who was supposed to shine in the Finals, failed to sign the 7-year, 51 million bad contract with the Pacers.
Crohill only averaged double-doubles in two seasons in his career, 10.3 and 10.1 points per game, and the Pacers couldn't trade him later. The only thing he can do is the three-point shot, he lacks strength at power at power and has no speed at small forward, and although he has comprehensive skills, he has no tricks, which is equivalent to renewing a strengthened version of Matt Bonner with a high salary.
Krohill entered the free agency for a month, but no team was willing to offer a big contract, and in the end he had to accept a mid-level contract extension from the Pacers.
Coaching has also been affected by the butterfly effect, with Jeff Van Gundy resigning and leaving the Knicks a year and a half early.
In fact, he was swept away by the Knicks, and after winning the championship in 98, the strength of the Knicks declined year by year, and he didn't even pass the first round last season.
The Knicks signed veteran coach Don Cheney as their new head coach. Cheney won the NBA's Best Coach award with the Rockets in 1990-91, and funnily enough, he was fired the following year and replaced by Rudy Tomjanovich, who failed to make the playoffs that year.
Cheney hasn't coached an NBA team since leaving the Pistons in '95, and the Knicks' choice is too risky for him to make the team better.
Van Gundy's life changed, as did the Pistons.
In Yang Rui's previous life, Van Gundy took a two-year break after leaving the Knicks before going to the Rockets as head coach. Now that he's been invited, he's on the Pistons, and the team is ready to start rebuilding.
The Magic didn't have Ben Wallace, and Van Gundy didn't like Chaggie Atkins, so the two teams didn't trade, and after missing out on Maddy and Duncan, Grant Hill didn't join the Magic.
Hill suffered a major injury last season, and Pistons management was worried about his injury concerns and was ready to trade other teams, this Pistons is definitely different from history.
Although there is no Ben Wallace, there are former Knicks players Oakley and Mickey Moore, and no matter who Hill eventually resets, the Pistons will not be weak.