Chapter 31 [The Last Dance, Please Dance with Me]
Over the course of a few days, the Knicks players began to adapt to the new tactics, practicing covering their runs, catching and shooting, and the results were obvious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Since one side of the player doesn't run, it's just a simplified version of Princeton, and the veterans will learn it as soon as they learn.
Yang Rui's headache is that this team can't play fast attack, and last season's players are used to positional battles and like slow pace. In particular, Ewing, Oakley, and Johnson, just like the Celtic Big Three in 2008, relied on reducing the number of rounds to ensure efficiency to win, and the style of play is really unlikeable.
In order to speed up the tempo, Yang Rui proposed to let Oakley play as a substitute, and Johnson took the No. 4 position, which was unanimously rejected by the coaching staff. Not only did Van Gundy find it unreliable, but the other assistant coaches also didn't support it.
In 1997, all the strong teams were fighting defense, slow-paced, and believing in defense to win the championship, Yang Rui wanted to test the Suns' future run-and-bomb tactics, which was deviant and heretical.
It is difficult to understand people who are too forward-looking. For example, if someone now proposes to make a smart phone, ultra-thin and beautiful to surf the Internet, then he will not be called a genius, but will only be regarded as a psychopath.
Now, even if you make a Meitu App app, you may apologize for making a black person a white person, and you will be accused of racial discrimination and pay money.
In the end, Van Gundy's tactics were Ewing and Houston as the main offensive points inside and outside, the point guard was responsible for organizing the pass in the middle, pulling away and waiting for opportunities to shoot, Johnson and Oakley cut at any time, and Starks continued to bring substitutes to ensure offensive firepower in the second quarter.
Well, one more side cover than last season.
The good news is that Yang Rui followed the training and fitness, and quickly got acquainted with the players. His age became an advantage, without the majesty of other coaches, the young players were the same age as him, and the veterans treated him as a junior brother, and he didn't speak inhibitedly, but no one asked him to help him carry his bag and buy things.
At noon, Yang Rui usually eats at the team, and the working meal is more abundant than he imagined.
The Knicks are currently the No. 1 team in the NBA, with deep pockets, and they have been equipped with professional nutritionists in this era. Alston Perkins is in charge of the diet in the training hall, preparing a good breakfast and lunch for the players every day, and the meat purchased by the team is sour meat, resolutely not eating feed-fed meat, and in terms of oil, there is absolutely no vegetable oil.
The method is relatively simple, but the ingredients are more elegant, the taste is good, and the amount is full.
Yang Rui's off-field life is also fulfilling, reading books and learning, and accepting a younger brother.
When Yang Rui handed over the signed jersey to Hunter Johnson, the kid immediately said that Yang Rui would be his big brother in the future. He is a thief enough, and it is beneficial and harmless to think that Yang Rui is the eldest brother, and there are people who treat them when they eat together.
Yang Rui also developed the habit of writing, recording some important events in his previous life, in Chinese, written in cursive, in order not to be understood by Thomas Bentley.
Not to mention Thomas, even if you look at Chinese, it is difficult to understand Yang Rui's unique scribbled handwriting. He could only understand half of it after a long time, and it was enough to remember what it was.
This must be done, he does not have a superior memory, and after 20 years, he may not be able to remember many major events.
In addition, Yang Rui reads newspapers every day, pays attention to current news, and makes plans and prepares for the future.
What excites him is that there is some inertia in the development of history, the big events are no different from his previous life, and his memories can definitely come in handy.
For example, on July 15, the famous fashion designer Fan Sizhe was killed in Miami.
For another example, on August 31, Princess Diana died in a car accident.
As long as Yang Rui does not participate in the incident, it will not cause a big butterfly effect, and the NBA is the same.
Before the season even began, the Bulls suffered a series of blows, team infighting, star injuries, and a bad situation in defending the title. The root of all misfortune began at this year's draft.
Considering Pippen's age and injury concerns, the Bulls tried to trade him for Raptors rookie Tracy McGrady, but the deal didn't happen because Jordan vetoed him.
If it really changes, although the Bulls can get a potential star in the future, they will definitely not be able to complete the triple championship, Maddy is only 18 years old, graduated from high school and joined the NBA, no matter how talented he is, he can't help Jordan much.
The Bulls management did not send Pippen away, and reluctantly reluctantly retained the "Zen master" Phil Jackson with the league's highest annual salary of $6 million, and then renewed Jordan's contract with a sky-high annual salary of $33 million, completely retaining the team's core lineup.
In addition, Rodman renewed a contract with various incentive clauses, with a total value of nearly 10 million, and the three people alone are $49 million.
Ron Harper 5 million, Kukoc 4 million, Pippen 3 million, not counting the bench, the annual salary of the Bulls' head coach and core team exceeds 60 million.
In the new season, the average annual salary of players is $2.45 million, and the salary cap is $26.9 million, Jordan's salary alone is higher than that of the entire team of twenty teams, and the salary of a regular season game is higher than that of some players in a year.
As a reborn, Yang Rui felt terrible when he saw Jordan's salary, at this time the dollar had not depreciated, in terms of salary cap, it was equivalent to between 73.7 million and 80.4 million US dollars in 20 years, an absolutely unimaginable astronomical amount, as for how the bulls could afford it, it was not clear.
Seeing everyone else sign high-value contracts and almost get sent away, Pippen was furious. It's not just about money, it's about how respectful the team is for the players. He's a star on the Dream Team and one of the NBA's 50 biggest stars of all time.
Pippen decides to do something to express his frustration and anger.
During the 1997 Finals, he already had a foot injury, but after the season, he did not have surgery, not only did he not have surgery, but Pippen also went to play two charity games, which provoked general manager Klaus to send a series of faxes warning him to stop such behavior immediately.
Until the new season approached, Pippen did not treat his foot injury, but just wanted to show his owner Raindorf and manager Klaus: in revenge, he did not hesitate to risk his health and the opportunities of his teammates.
Now, Pippen was unavailable at the start of the 1997-98 season with a foot injury, and the team doctor said he could be out for half a season.
Such an unethical approach made Pippen completely break with the management, and next season was decided.
Phil Jackson was convinced that the 1997-98 season, won or lost, would be the last year the gang worked together. On the first day of pre-season camp, the first team meeting, he handed out a playbook to everyone with the words "TheLastDance, The Last Dance" on the cover.
On the surface, the Bulls are an old and weak team. Jordan will turn 35, Pippen is 32, Rodman is 36 and Harper is 34. Despite his youth, Kukoc has yet to prove that he can perform at a high level consistently. As for the guys on the bench, they are very smart, but they are not talented.
Yang Rui knows that if the Knicks want to win the championship, this season is the best opportunity. Thank God for sending him to this wonderful era, and he will definitely take his destiny into his own hands.
Bull, the last dance, please dance with me.
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