Healing Basketball

   Chapter 536 536. The preseason is coming

  October 1st, a new month has arrived, and the official NBA training camp has begun.

  Everyone's attention was drawn by the Pistons, and even the defending champion Trail Blazers were taken away.

   But the Blazers coaches think this is good, they can calm down and polish the team system.

The addition of   Blake, Mourning, and Louis Williams has little impact on the Blazers' play style, just three role players.

   But with Ray Allen in, the Blazers had to make a drastic change in play.

The biggest change is that Liu Xiu returns to the core position of holding the ball, but this change is the easiest, because he has never been the 'all-round play' and 'all-round thinking' of a 'combination guard', which the Blazers discovered last season. That's why he boldly asked Liu Xiu to switch to shooting guard.

The most important adjustment is to get used to the team having the best shooter. Ray Allen must not be used as a containment point like Fred Jones or Van Horn, but to learn to play around a 3-pointer like the Pacers. attack.

   Fortunately, there are homework that can be copied. Although he has no experience, Maurice Cheeks is not a person in a hurry. Under his leadership, the players can stabilize and adjust their play slowly.

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  The training camp went by day by day, Yao Ming joined the Pistons, and the chain reaction continued.

Fans on every team are saying the Pistons have 'no future', but if they could get five first-round picks in return for a duo like Carter and Yao Ming, who would want to, because those draft picks really got two An All-Star player in the prime of his career.

  The Warriors have been rotten for more than ten years, what is left? Just look at the last few years, they have lost Jamison, Larry Hughes, Arenas, Dampier, if not given tens of millions of annual salary, Jason Richardson and Troy Murphy would have to run away .

Well, there are always loopholes in the rules. In the late 1970s, the Hornets and Cavaliers sent them to Magic and James Worthy of the Lakers through a series of rude operations. The NBA quickly patched up the loopholes in the rules and increased Rank protection and the bi-annual principle of first-round picks have been added.

   This time, although it has not yet formed a large-scale impact, and it is not known whether the Pistons will make a profit or lose, in short, the NBA officials smell the danger.

  The operation of the Pistons is not bad. Yao Ming and Carter are a very hard-core duo. As long as the record can rise, the two may squeeze into the second team or even fight for the first place, and they are still young.

   But what if a team is in a tough spot, and use his four or five first-round picks to replace a veteran who has passed his peak? That's what really costs a team to play.

  So, David Stern convened the rules committee and representatives of the players union to draw up a new rule.

   After discussions within the players' union, they also felt that this new regulation is a good thing for the team and players, and the players don't want the NBA system to collapse.

On October 4th, the NBA Rules Committee announced that a new rule has been added to the rules on draft picks: Unrestricted overdraft of future draft picks will no longer be allowed, and only first-round picks within seven years will be allowed to be traded. The rules are implemented in conjunction with the 'Biennial Principle'.

   In other words, from now on, a team can trade up to 4 or 3 of its own team's first-round picks.

   This rule is named the '7-year rule', also known as the 'rule of giants'.

   However, the introduction of this rule by the NBA did not cool the enthusiasm of the Pistons. Instead, the matter of "the Pistons lost their future" was fired even more.

There is also the fact that the Pistons can't afford such a high salary to renew the three star players, which has become the most lively topic at present. Yao Ming's salary of $5.59 million this season, Ben Wallace's salary of $7.5 million, the Pistons The new season's salary just exceeded the salary cap, but to keep two people, the luxury tax for next season is to be paid.

The owner of the Pistons has long since lost his arrogance. Looking back 20 years ago, the market value of the Pistons team was $30 million. The owner of the Pistons, William Davis, spent $70 million to repair the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena. Putting the overall market value of the Pistons to $80 million, William Davis, who owns one of Detroit's top auto glass brands, has a personal fortune of more than $3 billion. That was in the 1980s, but now...

  The time has come to October 8th, the training camp is over, and the preseason will begin on the 10th. The enthusiasm for the Pistons' trade has gradually dropped. The focus of the basketball league still has to return to the game.

   That's right, this face-slap came a little quickly...

At noon on the 8th, some media broke the news that a number of glass companies from China took the initiative to contact the owner of the Pistons, hoping to start business cooperation, and even sponsor the Pistons, and even some Chinese car brands wanted to name the Pistons, but they were rejected. , want to name the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena.

  A week after Yao Ming was traded to the Pistons, some Chinese businessmen who saw business opportunities made up their minds to take action. Some people rushed out first, and others refused to lag behind.

   One brand after another came to the door, and the happiness that fell from the sky made William Davis, who has been selling iron and assets in recent years, bewildered...

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   Yao Ming has only been in the NBA for three years. During this period, Liu Xiu stole the limelight for two years. When American fans mentioned Chinese basketball players, Liu Xiu is the first thing that comes to mind.

But in such a huge Chinese market, Liu Xiu can't eat it all alone, and, in the minds of Chinese basketball fans, Yao Ming is the first player to gain a firm foothold in the NBA. Although Liu Xiu is more popular, Yao Ming is a 'pioneer'. Their identities are there, and Liu Xiu is an outsider and Yao Ming is an insider. There is no competition between the two in terms of domestic positions, and the two have very different personalities. Liu Xiu is flamboyant and proud, Yao Ming is restrained and modest, and the differentiation of the fan base is also Pretty big.

  Stu - Jackson's judgment is correct, the Rockets can make money in the Chinese market because of Yao Ming, not how good the Rockets are.

Moreover, the Rockets went to great lengths to develop the Chinese market, but the result was far less than the revenue of the Trail Blazers, which carried out market development. What the Trail Blazers did was simply to spend money on signings, pay the luxury tax, and play out. good grade.

  The turn of public opinion is always so fast. In just two days, the Pistons and Detroit have become the darlings of the Chinese industrial market.

   Seeing the popularity of the Pistons, Americans are now curious, how much money the Rockets make in the Chinese market?

  But the owner of the Rockets wanted to vomit blood, but the Chinese businessmen didn't pay so much attention to them in Houston.

  William Davis has the top automotive glass technology and manufacturing equipment in the United States. What does he have in Alexander? To steal aviation glass and sell it to the Chinese?

   I have been working in the low-end manufacturing industry for more than 20 years. The new century has come, and we have money in our hands. Chinese enterprises need technology and advanced technology.

   For many manufacturing industries in China, Detroit is much more attractive to them than Houston.

  Houston's high-end technology will definitely not be sold to China, and cooperating people will look down on you and guard you.

But Detroit is different. The sunset city, the devaluation of assets, the exodus of the population, the unsold products and the high government debt... Yao Ming went to Detroit. For the Chinese industrial market, there is a connection to the world's top industrial city. The bridge, for Detroit, also has the opportunity to open up new markets.

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   Liu Xiu had long expected that the Pistons could not afford the luxury tax, and some people would pay for them.

The Rockets have been crying poor for the first two years, and the sponsorship fees have been rising. The Chinese market has helped them create signing conditions, but the Rockets have started a 'replacement mode', and the introduction of a Tyronn Lue can be blown into a 'dynasty team' Point guard', regardless of the record, just fool the sponsors.

   However, the strength of the Pistons' popularity with domestic capital exceeded Liu Xiu's expectations.

   This kind of thing is really impossible to infer with common sense. They all think that Los Angeles and New York are big markets, and Yao Ming has gone to many, many good.

   But think about it, will domestic fans like Yao Ming more because he plays for the Knicks? Or just don't like him because he's playing for the Bobcats?

   On the contrary, industrial cities like Detroit are far more attractive to domestic capital than Hollywood and Aerotropolis in the current era.

There is also the statement that the Pistons 'lost the next ten years', Liu Xiu was quite puzzled, and he asked reporters a question in an interview: "Don't the Pistons trade Carter and Yao Ming back, their draft rights in the next ten years can be All-star selection? Will it be a title contender for the next ten years?"

   Not surprisingly, this sentence was ignored by the media.

  The time has come to October 11th, and Liu Xiu has been watching the news about Yao Ming in his spare time these days.

   Watching Yao Ming being sprayed and the Pistons being ridiculed, Liu Xiu was in a good mood. Who told Yao Ming to hang up? Should!

But the liveliness is almost the same. The matter on the Pistons side has been settled. The potential competitor in the finals is +1, and it is a strong competitor. Regarding the Pistons' overdraft in the future, they will return to the 'Big Three' combination in 2015. Liu Xiu made a brief summary.

   Tonight's preseason is about to start, and Liu Xiu will focus on actual combat. The next 7 games are very important for their Trail Blazers, and it is a very critical adjustment stage before the start of the season.

  After a day of preparation, at 7:15 pm, Liu Xiu and his teammates entered the stadium together. Although there was no entrance ceremony, the enthusiasm of the fans on the scene did not diminish!

   This atmosphere is called Mania!

  Louis Williams has never played in the NBA, he just feels that the atmosphere makes his blood boil.

  The other three new recruits and the training camp contract players who played in the NBA felt what a shock!

   Even Ray Allen's eyes widened. Is this the legendary home of the Rose Bay Devils?

It was only a preseason game, but Ray Allen actually felt his blood boiled, and he had the idea of ​​'I should have come here to play a long time ago', and his attention was placed on Liu Xiu. , rely on, this is it!

  Morning didn't think too much, he only had one thought - this thigh must be hugged right!

   (end of this chapter)