Healing Basketball

   Chapter 1004 1004. Is this the hardest road?

   With the 48th pick behind them, they selected Mike Taylor of Iowa State University, and with the 57th pick, they selected former Southern League power forward Damian Rudez.

   Liu Xiu is not familiar with the former, but only saw the name in the news when he was crazy. Liu Xiu really knows that there will be a player with a nickname in China in the future——Lu Dairi.

  The national teams have played against each other. In the World Championships two years ago, the former Yuzh League stars were afraid of offending Yingjiang and refused to participate in the last World Series in Serbia and Montenegro. Only Milicic bravely chose to participate.

  Rudez, who was 20 years old at the time, was one of Milicic's followers, and he was strong at spotting and shooting.

The two rounds of the show were just selected. Last year, his junior was selected, and then the right to sign was waived. Later, he played a few games with the Bulls and the Nets. Already working.

  These two don't look much better.

  The Clippers were so determined to exchange Westbrook and Livingston for Love, Liu Xiu now finally knows the real reason.

  If you don't open your eyes, you can get Baron Davis, who is in his prime, who would bet on a physical point guard? And this draft pick can also be exchanged for a talented insider.

  Baron Davis played the best performance of his career last season, averaging 21.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 8 assists and 2.3 steals per game, full attendance, and a 44% shooting rate is also the highest in his career.

  Liu Xiu thought about the Clippers' operations in this draft, and discovered one thing-the Los Angeles team, it is true that anyone who comes here can be better than the Baya King.

  The new general manager of the Clippers is concurrently served by their head coach Mike Dunleavy. There are two positions for one salary, which is better than Baylor's operation in the past two years.

  …

Liu Xiu's family returned to China on the "Rose Bay Prison". Anne-Hathaway and the three cubs started another round of visiting relatives and friends with their parents. Liu Xiu started the 3 stops before he returned to the team promotional activity.

  Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou three stations.

  There are very few promotional activities this year, but each stop takes a little longer, and there is a complete two-day promotional activity, which is divided into several parts.

   Promote basketball to teenagers, basketball teaching activities for teenagers, basketball shoes sales promotion for adults, and a charity event based on advertising.

  The main publicity activities arranged by Hook are all in BJ. The sponsor of Chinese men's basketball team is Hook. For this Olympic men's basketball event, Hook pays more attention to Chinese men's basketball team than to American men's basketball team.

  Dream Team is no match for the popularity of Liu Xiu and Yao Ming, who have won FMVP for 4 consecutive years.

Liu Xiu's "Jess Senator" series of boots was officially launched. The first generation is not called the first generation, it is called "Dragon". Style, red base, a golden dragon around the ankle.

   With the blessing of the Olympic Games, the new series of boots became popular before they were released.

  The second generation of 'Jess Senator', which is expected to be released together with the fifth generation of the warden before Christmas, is directly called the second generation.

  In order to ensure that the contract renewal can be successfully completed at the end of this year, Liu Xiu became the second spokesperson to own the "dual series" boots after Michael Jordan in the player era.

   While participating in commercial activities, Liu Xiu continued the previous simulation training while communicating with the team to discuss the feasibility of offensive basketball.

  Duncan and Kobe are to be blamed at this time, because the Spurs were hacked and the Lakers lost in the Finals, public opinion's confidence in offensive basketball has seriously declined.

   After people stopped pursuing offensive basketball, they began to analyze "sensibly", and came to the same conclusion as Liu Xiu's family - under the current rules, the style of play of the Pistons has an advantage in the playoffs.

   But hearing Liu Xiu’s analysis of running and bombing, analysis of fast break, analysis of NBA development... The boss and coach were moved.

  In addition to adhering to the goal of competing for the championship, the Trail Blazers team has another thing to consider—Liu Xiu's development prospects.

   Liu Xiu, who is only 26 years old, has good physical fitness, strength, and good skills. He said that he can maintain his peak period for 10 years. The Blazers management and coaching staff absolutely believe it.

  There is a big difference between the NBA 10 years ago and the NBA now, and they all have deep feelings.

  If the team fails to keep up with the changing trend of the times, it will be holding Liu Xiu back.

  Everyone is a professional, and the basketball style of play must be iterated in the direction of giving priority to offense. This is an unstoppable trend, and everyone understands it.

   It's just that defense is still the safest way to win the championship. The first one to rush may not necessarily get a crab.

  However, hearing that Liu Xiu knew so much about the fast break, the coach and Huo Tu asked many questions, and the other party was able to answer them. The management and coaching staff were gradually persuaded.

   Even the vice president, who has always been 'stubborn', did not explicitly object, and did not express his concerns later.

  Because the thing Liu Xiu wants to play is very different from the running and gunning of the Suns and Warriors, and it is different from the Spurs. It seems to be playing a very new thing.

  After a few days of discussion in the air, Paul Allen, who was tangled and tangled, made a decision—go on a business trip to BJ!

   After Mr. Jess finished the publicity activities, we will discuss face to face!

  …

  In the past few days, Liu Xiu did only a few things-chatting and video calling with his family, flying, publicizing activities, and communicating with the team management.

   And there is the code word!

  Write the new style of play on a notebook computer and print it out.

   On July 7th, Liu Xiu finished the promotional activities and returned to BJ. The team members had arrived two days in advance. He joined the team members immediately and handed several printed materials to them.

   Didn't say anything more, he said everything he could say in the last two days of June and the first three days of July.

  The team is willing to play a new style of play, so let's take a gamble together.

  If he doesn’t want to, he has nothing to do. He may become the one who eats crabs, but he may also become the next Spurs. It’s normal to have concerns.

  And even if the team doesn't change their style of play, his "Son of the Wind" talent is not wasted. The comprehensive training method of basic skills and skills to promote fast break can still be practiced.

  Those are not special skills, but intensive training on counter-starting, counter-propelling, counter-passing, rhythm in high-speed sports, and coordination concepts... etc., he can still practice.

   The tactical theory of running and bombing, he can still learn it if he wants to, and these things will always be useful in the future.

  In fact, he also thinks 'conservative' is the best choice, but he has already won three consecutive championships, and he wants to be more exciting.

   As for whether you will feel sorry for your teammates if you fail... The old teammates have enjoyed the glory of the dynasty together, and it is okay for everyone to suffer together, right?

   But these dozens of pages of information directly confused the management and coaching staff!

  In fact, two days after the communication with Liu Xiu, the management and the coaching staff basically reached an agreement-listen to the warden, and everyone can do great things together, and maybe they can become people who lead the new era.

   But they felt that Liu Xiu only had that kind of idea, and everyone was ready to start from scratch, start a business together, and walk the most difficult path.

   As a result, Liu Xiu told them—I am all ready, let’s take a look at my new system.

  This shit...

  The key is that after they spent an afternoon reading and discussing, they felt that except for a small part of the content that seemed a bit whimsical due to the current rules, most of the ideas were feasible!

  Yes, it is the idea.

These things written by Liu Xiu are all the characteristics of the style of play in the small ball era, some famous tactical concepts, some successful systems and concepts of play, and some are extracted from the knowledge of running and bombing theory that he just obtained. s things.

   There are basically no specific tactics and system details.

  It’s all conjectures, some theories... But in the eyes of the management and coaching staff, most of them are feasible!

  And it is indeed very different from the running and bombing of the current Suns and Warriors. They pay more attention to defense than they expected.

  This is great for the Trail Blazers front office and coaching staff who are ready to start from scratch!

  At least there is a basic theory around which they can build.

  If they don’t even have a basic theory, they might rush forward excitedly, and they might get blood on their faces, and they don’t know how many detours they will take.

"Look," Paul Allen said proudly, "I said that Congressman Jess rarely made a request in terms of style of play. He must have been fully prepared. If we rejected him, it would definitely destroy our harmonious relationship over the years." relation."

  The employees echoed the words.

  But everyone is slandering—the big dog knows to put gold on his face.

Paul Allen was indeed the one who supported Liu Xiu first, but he stopped supporting after a while, worrying about this and that, but every time he finished chatting with Liu Xiu, he had to change his mind. change of mind...

   is now his wise leader again.

  But everyone is used to it. The big capitalists who play real-life NBA simulation manager games can say whatever they want.

  The coach asked: "What are we doing?"

  Boss: "Of course!"

  Vice President: "I support it!"

  Bu Shuai: "I support it too!"

  John Nash and Huo Tu looked at each other and expressed their support.

   They don't support it, and they don't oppose the change.

  Paul Allen made a decision: "Ouke, that's the decision, let's study this system carefully.

  Now that you have decided to usher in a new era, start working immediately.

   The style of play is adjusted, and the lineup is also adjusted, so don't waste time!

   Fortunately, we focused on offense last season for the sake of health, which is very beneficial for our subsequent adjustments.

  When I visited Mr. Jess’s new home, I liked a sentence he said—life should have a sense of ritual.

  I think work should also have a sense of ritual, let’s give the new system a name first, let me mention one…”

   Before Paul Allen finished speaking, the coach interrupted: "The warden has already taken his name!"

"Watt?" Paul Allen was upset at the time, staring at the coach and questioning: "He told you? Didn't he say not to contact him privately? You actually discussed this with him behind our backs! You pretended to have nothing have no idea!"

  The coach was speechless, closed the document, turned 180 degrees on the table, and faced the boss.

   Gou Dahu looked at the cover of the data, and it was written on it—the era of small balls.

   Big dog: (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻

  …

  Early the next morning, Liu Xiu received a notification from the vice president that the team accepted his suggestion, so he stopped thinking about it.

  Professional things are left to professional people, who are not good at coaching those things.

   Ask him to temporarily direct a tactic during the game, and he is very happy because he is competent.

   If you are not good at it, don't meddle in it.

   Today and tomorrow he will rest for two days to spend time with his family. The day after tomorrow is the 10th. He will join Yao Ming and return to the national team.

He will not study running and bombing for the time being. He will take advantage of these two days to clear his mind. After returning to the national team, he will devote his time to new training every day. The number of triple-doubles in a single season training promotion card training task...

  Before he was too busy, he didn't pay much attention to the news, and finally he was free, he surfed the Internet and browsed forums.

  The most popular thing after the opening of the free market is the boss meeting on June 30, which passed a regulation on the "shark-cutting tactics", which will be implemented in the new season.

   This rule is called the 'Superman Rule'.

  New regulation content: In the last two minutes of each quarter, deliberate fouls on players without the ball are not allowed, otherwise they will be called a physical foul, two free throws and one throw.

   Basketball fans who regard Howard as a "fake smile boy" laughed at him wildly.

  Some media put this rule together with the league’s modified three-step layup rule that can take two steps and then a jump step or take another step within the conditional range, and the name is the pro-son rule.

   People can directly link the new rules to Howard because the Pistons' shark-slashing tactics against Beast in the first round of last season discredited the new star that the league has touted.

  And last season, O'Neal's free throw percentage in the first round was not bad, especially in the last two minutes of each game, O'Neal's free throw percentage was 64.3%, which prevented the Trail Blazers from hacking the sharks.

  Howard only made 31% of his free throws at critical moments in each quarter, and the Magic didn't have to play at critical moments.

   This rule is definitely a very big enhancement for Howard.

   Seeing this, Liu Xiu felt sorry for the big sharks. What were the rules set by the NPC Sharks League at their peak?

  It is to expand the three-second zone to make him farther away from the basket.

It is to join the defense for three seconds, so that he who has just won the championship with an invincible performance of 15 wins and 1 loss in the playoffs cannot stay at the basket all the time while defending. Defensive performance has dropped a lot.

   Look at the treatment of beasts again, there is no harm without comparison.

   In terms of the free market, so far this summer has been some small deals.

  The biggest player who has changed teams is Baron Davis.

   In the past few years, there were too many free agents. This year, few players have their contracts expired. Like Arenas, they renewed their contracts in advance.

  The star-level players whose contracts expire this year are mostly rookies whose contracts expired in 2004, and their contracts were renewed soon.

   Now, there are two most popular non-04 stars in the free market.

  One is a Clippers player. Although he introduced a beard and got the future insider twin towers, the backyard caught fire.

  Corey Maggette, who averaged 22.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1 steal per game last season, rejected the contract extension offered by the Clippers.

  But the market did not give Maggette positive feedback, and this matter also tends to become a joke.

   However, considering Maggette’s strength, Liu Xiu thinks it’s okay to win a big contract, but if Maggette insists on wanting a maximum salary like Lewis, he will probably become the next madman.

   Another popular free agent, also a super muscular man - Ron Artest!

His six-year, $40 million long-term contract signed in the summer of 2003 has reached the final year of player options. Last season, he rejected the Pacers' early contract extension. After the Eastern Conference finals, he immediately jumped out of the contract. , becoming a completely free agent.

   Maggette's free market has been cold, which is largely related to Artest also becoming a free agent.

   The teams are waiting for Artest to make a decision.

  Liu Xiu didn't go to the soap opera rumors about Artest, 99% of them are false, just wait until the time comes to see his decision.

   As for whether to contact or not, it is something the team should consider. They have Hill, the outlaw lunatic, good temper, outstanding strength, suitable for fast play, and tacit cooperation...

During the two-day break, Liu Xiu stayed at home, abused his hapless younger sister, moved his two daughters, accompanied his son to watch Captain America, took photos with visiting relatives and neighbors, and signed photos with his fiancée... and discussed with his fiancée about the wedding after the Olympics. , the pastor has already made an appointment, the professional pastor will come from the United States, and the marriage certificates of China and the United States can be settled together by then.

  After Liu Xiu goes to the Olympic Village, the family will start preparing for the wedding.

  Two days passed in a flash, and on the 10th, Liu Xiu finished breakfast, took the luggage prepared by his family, and drove to the hotel where Yao Ming was staying to pick him up.

   Just as he was about to go out, he received a call from the vice president.

  The other party said something, which made him swear directly...

   "Jess, we are going to sign D'Antoni for 5 million in one year and let him be our offensive strategy consultant for one year. What do you think?"

  (end of this chapter)