Chapter 297 [Dismantling the Spurs, Three Meat Shields]
Yang stayed in San Francisco and discussed with manager Glenn Gruward that he would not participate in the draft this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Raptors have two draft picks and are both relatively low, but Yang Rui is confident that he will pick a strongman.
With Reid and Kirilenko in the team, there are too many potential rookies to cultivate, so Yang Rui only plans to select an offensive player, and find veterans in the free market to make up for the vacancies in other positions.
The Raptors and Spurs have the same record, because of the win-loss relationship between the two sides in the regular season, the draft is one place ahead of the Spurs, ranked 27th, which immediately became very interesting, because Yang Rui found that the Raptors could intercept the "French sports car" Tony Parker.
There are only three names on Yang Rui's list for Glenn, Tony Parker, who is 188cm tall and weighs 84kg, that is, a combat point guard, a tall and selfless ball quotient.
Gilbert Arenas, 191CM tall and 87kg in weight, is nicknamed "The General" by the future people. He is super powerful and difficult for a point guard to stop, so he is good at breaking through and making fouls, and with excellent projection, he has the potential to become a super scorer. However, Yang Rui only regarded him as an alternative, because Arenas likes to fight and is still a cancer in the locker room.
If he makes it to the first round, Arenas can sign a four-year rookie contract, and there will be no "Arenas clause" in the future.
The second-round selection is center Jalen Collins, a meat shield blue-collar worker, Yang Rui can't remember the specific order, anyway, it's very far behind. He could replace veteran Willis, of course, to deal with O'Neill next season.
Among the rookies is Jason Collins, the two are brothers, both are black and hard players who falsely report their height, and lack the ability to score. Jason is a bit better, playing two years as a starter for the Nets and reaching the Finals, and the two have the same style.
Yang Rui has never been worried about the draft, he is now worried about whether he can lead the team to win this perverted enhanced version of the Raptors in 2002 after his contract expired with the Raptors. Even without him, with the depth of the roster, the Raptors are also a super strong team.
For him, breaking up the "GDP portfolio" is not a problem, knowing that the Spurs will be strong in selecting Parker, and that they will be important competitors in the future, and now there is a chance to cause them some trouble, so why not do it?
Yang Rui is not the kind of SB Wenqing, he will not think about historical inertia hypocritically, since he has been reborn, the direction of history can be decided by him, this is talent!
On June 27, Yang Rui watched the draft on TV.
He suspected that the draft lottery was rigged by the league, and the top picks in this draft were not much different from his previous life, except for the Bulls' excellent record and low ranking.
In his previous life, the Wizards' record was better than that of the Bulls, and he was lucky to draw the champion lottery, but this time the Wizards had the worst record and won the champion lottery more easily.
Maybe Jordan is preparing to make a comeback with the Wizards, David Stern knows it, and deliberately sends the Wizards a champion to assist Jordan, which is a good story.
The result was the same as Yang Rui's previous life, Jordan handpicked the champion and selected Kwame Brown. He became the first high school player in NBA history.
Brown, the best high school student in the country, caught Jordan's attention with his extremely outstanding physical gifts. In high school, Brown averaged 5.8 blocks per game, and his excellent defensive awareness made his career look forward to a lot.
The Clippers drafted center Tyson Chandler, who is super physical and is known as the spring man who meets him once in 20 years.
The Grizzlies drafted Spaniard Pau Gasol, who is the strongest interior player, very versatile, and can both inside and out, and Tanhua was selected because many teams don't want to see foreign players.
The Warriors, who have the worst record in the West, are only fourth, and they have selected swingman Jason Richardson, who has top physicality, super dunks, and can shoot from a distance.
The Hawks had the second-to-last record in the East, the draft was only fifth, and management was quite depressed and traded the draft pick to the Grizzlies. They drafted swingman Sean Battier.
The Nets chose Eddie Curry, nicknamed "Little Shark," and that's when history changed. Because the Rockets liked Eddie Griffin, Yang Rui sent Richard Jefferson in his previous life to replace him. Now that Griffin isn't on the Nets, Jefferson doesn't have a chance to play alongside Kidd.
Coupled with Kenyon Martin, the champion selected last year, the Nets' interior lineup is not weak, and Curry only began to decline in the late stage of the ball, and his early strength was good.
The Rockets selected Eddie Griffin with the seventh pick, the madman who wanted to give the JI girl to Yao Ming in the hotel, drank too much, made trouble, wasted his talent, and finally died in a car accident at a young age.
With the eighth pick, the Cavaliers selected blue-collar center Diop......
There aren't many players with quality in the back, and the Celtics drafted Joe Johnson with the 10th pick, and if he stays, it would be a terrific signing.
Richard Jefferson was drafted by the Magic, who don't have a super scorer, and Yang feels he may have a brighter future and get a privilege.
The 27th finally got the Raptors' turn and drafted point guard Tony Parker.
When he first entered the league, Parker was not favored by the public, but this does not include Spurs head coach Popovich, who even released a smoke bomb in a pre-game interview in order to select Parker in the first round, belittling Parker.
At a draft training camp in Chicago, Popovich watched Parker's practice and didn't take long to give Parker a rating. "I think Parker is too soft to pick him, he can't fit into the NBA," he said. ”
Parker fell off the pick, and Popovich was just one step away from heaven before being cut across by the Raptors.
Popovich had no choice, and the 28 first selected point guard Jamal Tinsley, and then called Glenn to ask for a trade, but Glenn refused because Parker was the person Yang Rui wanted.
Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief, with a sense of accomplishment that changed history, and wondered if the Spurs could win the championship in the future.
Tinsley is also very powerful, with a height of 191CM and a weight of 88kg, he is very strong and has a streetball style of instant combat power.
In his previous life, Tinsley occupied the starting position in his first season after joining the Pacers, averaging 9.4 points, 3.7 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 1.7 steals in 30.5 minutes per game. His weakness is shooting, shooting just 38 percent from the field and 24 percent from three-point range.
If Tinsley shoots on time and doesn't fall into this position, it's not bad to pick him, and there is potential to be tapped.
In the second round, the most valuable Arenas was still selected by the Warriors.
The three-point meat shield center Memet Oku has never been wanted, 9 places lower than Yang Rui's previous life, and was selected by the Pistons in the second round at 18th. Oku is too underestimated, and another reason for his low rank is that he can't join the NBA directly and has a contract in Europe.
The Raptors drafted Jalen Collins in the second round 24, who has a decade in the NBA, including eight seasons with the Jazz and three seasons as a starter. He couldn't develop offensively and was excellent on the defensive end.
Yang Rui turned off the TV and was confident about next season, and the veteran Kevin Willis was skinny and not suitable for O'Neal. Now there are four high school forwards in the team, and three meat shield blue-collar workers, who can definitely fight O'Neal.
Willis won't get a contract extension from the team, and Yang Rui just asks.
The Raptors' interior lineup has been decided, and Parker, the No. 1 spot, is more than enough to serve as a backup for Billups, and only needs to sign two swingmen in free agency in the summer to complete the roster.