Chapter 407 [Big Deal, Play and Wait]
In July, there were many big transactions in the alliance, and Yang Rui's lawsuit was gradually forgotten. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Wizards have problems within the team, and with the departure of Yang Rui and Hamilton, the hopes of other teams competing for a championship have been greatly increased.
The team that started was the Lakers, who signed Clippers power forward Lamar Odom in the free market for 6 years and 71.7 million.
With O'Neal leaving, the Lakers vacated salary space and wanted to strengthen the interior line, and hit it off with Odom's agent.
Odom was comfortable in Los Angeles and didn't want to leave Angel City. Of course, his strength is far from being comparable to O'Neal, the statistics are beautiful, and he can only be regarded as a second-rate star, and it will be difficult for the Lakers to enter the playoffs next season.
The Heat signed O'Neal on a free basis, and there is no salary space to sign a player of Odom's level, so they can only find veterans in the free market and make simple repairs to the roster.
The Mavericks are making the biggest moves in order to compete for a championship next season. Antoine Jamison, Danny Fortson, Chris Mills and Czech player Giri Welsch were traded from the Warriors. The Warriors got Van Exel, "Little General" Avery Johnson, Frenchman Riga, rookie Jones known as "Popeye" and fringe man Esmeyer.
The Warriors are ready to rebuild with Jason Richardson as the core, and the deal is clearly a big loss.
The Mavericks then made another deal with the Celtics. The Celtics sent power forward Antoine Walker and 188CM shooting guard Tony Decker to the Mavericks. Got Mavericks center Lafrentz, small forward Chris Mills, and a 2004 first-round pick.
After finally sending off the drunkard Wenbeck, the Celtics got another garbage contract. Poor Paul Pierce, even the only teammate who can help him is gone. The management of the Green Army actually thought that Lafrenz could help the team, and he was getting sicker and sicker.
The Mavericks were beaten 4-1 by the Wizards last season due to poor interior defense, and the elder Nelson still found a group of attackers who could shoot and put together a seemingly luxurious, but actually unreasonable offensive lineup.
Even some old fans can see that Jamison, Walker, and Nowitzki overlap in position, and they are all spatial interior lines with strong offense and weak defense, but the Mavericks firmly believe that there will be a future next season, which is very old Nelson.
The Timberwolves recruited and signed the Clippers' parallel champion Olawo Kandi, traded point guard Sam Cassel from the Bucks, plus the team's star forwards Szzczebiak and Garnett, and the Timberwolves' roster has improved significantly.
However, the Timberwolves failed to trade for "madman" Sprewell like Yang Rui did in his previous life, and there was one less star.
As a result, it will still be difficult for Garnett to lead the team through the first round of the playoffs, and history is about to change. Without the support of an excellent record, it would be difficult for Garnett to win the regular season MVP, even if he brushed up 20+10+5 data every year, it would be in vain.
Sprewell had an honest season under Larry Brown, played well, and established himself with the Knicks.
Brown is a coach who likes to plan his game for outside players, and after Grant Hill's injury, the "madman" became the centerpiece of the team's perimeter and got a lot of the ball, just like Iverson did with the 76ers. With the ball, he is naturally willing to play in the Knicks, and if Hill can ensure his health next season, the Knicks also have a good future.
In order to produce results, the Western giants are throwing money, and the Spurs have also shot.
Popovich kept his eye on Raptors point guard Tony Parker and traded him for rookie center Kendrick Perkins. Billups and Parker overlapped, Parker made it clear he wanted to go, and the Raptors traded to avoid locker room conflicts.
Perkins is an excellent defensive blue-collar who won the 2008 championship with the Celtics in his previous life and later helped the Thunder reach the Finals.
The Raptors are weak on the inside, and the trade can be considered a win-win. But the stars change to blue-collar workers, the Raptors must be at a loss, and the Spurs have reassembled the "GDP portfolio".
David Robinson retired, Popovich built a lineup around Tim Duncan and needed a meat shield center, so Perkins was chosen. The reason why Perkins was given away was because there were better candidates.
The Spurs poached Slovenian center Nesterovic from the Timberwolves, a big man who can shoot and resist.
Also, to add three-point shooting points, the Spurs poached forward Hido Turkoglu in the Kings. Turkoglu was frustrating with the Kings last season, with Stojakovic and Christie in solid form and his playing time not guaranteed.
The last signing of the Spurs, Yang Rui was surprised, and the strength of the team was obviously stronger than in his previous life. Because Jazz veteran power forward Karl Malone chose to join with a base salary, and Duncan formed the twin towers together.
This is not your average twin tower, both of them are both offensive and defensive, and they have a lot of experience. Malone also averaged 20.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game last season, and Duncan is an MVP-level superstar.
Both of them can shoot steadily from the ground up and attack the basket, and have strong rebounding ability and playmaking ability.
As soon as O'Neal left, Malone couldn't look down on the Lakers. He was thinking about joining the Wizards, and although the Wizards were champions last season and went to hug their thighs, he wanted to play under Yang Rui. The negotiations had just begun, and they ended because Yang Rui and Wizards had a falling out.
At the end of July, Yang Rui found that even if he could join other teams, there was no good choice for the time being.
So, when he was interviewed by reporters, he was asked, "Which team will you coach next?" ”
Yang Rui replied: "I just happened to encounter a lawsuit, and I was going to give myself a long vacation and stop being a coach next season." In the past two years, I haven't had much time to spend with my girlfriend and family, so if I invest in making movies on vacation and go out with the crew, I must be very happy. Last year, I regretted not going to Tokyo with Steiner. ”
People who think that Yang Rui can't put down his basketball work are a little uncertain. He really didn't seem to want to do it, and he could choose not to. Previously, he made a fortune by investing in "Resident Evil", and later invested in "Lost in Translation", which has been scheduled to be released in the United States at the end of August.
Yang Rui is certainly not joking, because he doesn't want to appear on any other NBA team worthy of coaching. Not all teams want to change coaches at this juncture, and he has no interest in joining small city teams at all.
Chicago is a big city, and the Bulls won't fire Thibodeau.
The Suns were an option, but it was a little early this year and Marbury was still there. Yang Rui felt that it would not be a pleasure to coach this "lone wolf", not to mention that there was a garbage contract from Gugliotta in the team.
Philadelphia is also a big city, but trying to bring Iverson to the championship is definitely hellish difficulty. Although the Wizards' defense is not too good, at least there are no obvious defensive holes in various positions. Iverson is the team's defensive black hole, and he can't play good team basketball on the offensive end.
Iverson is suitable for the kind of system where one person attacks and four people defends, and the credit for winning is his, and his teammates are responsible for losing, and there is not enough support for Iverson on the offensive end. Yang Rui is self-aware, he is a coach who is strong and weak in attack, and going to Philadelphia will definitely be his Waterloo.
The Warriors are also a choice and are rebuilding, but he doesn't want to go, thinking about the Big Four Warriors in his previous life, the Warriors who have reached the Finals three times in a row, and then looking at the current team, he is not very interested.
What Yang Rui wants to do now is to play and wait, waiting for the opportunity to come to him.