The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

On the second day in Detroit, Yang Dongxu invited Dave to dinner. Although Detroit is in decline now, some people have status both in Michigan, where Detroit is located, and in the United States. Dave is one of those people.

And a basketball player, after retiring, actually became a steel magnate billionaire from scratch. There is no doubt about such a person's ability and emotional intelligence. Want to make friends.

"There is no problem with the wheels, and I can even help you produce the car site according to the size you require. These are not problems. The problem now is that if you really want to enter the American car market, not only you are under pressure, but I am also pressure."

Although he is not familiar with him if he has not met a few times, Yang Dongxu feels very good to Dave. In addition, he learned from his friend Derek that the young man in front of him is a very capable boss, so Dave didn't want to hide anything.

The United States is a free economic market, but it is precisely because of its freedom that it has many restrictions. For example, there are many ways for local companies to block foreign companies even within the scope of the law.

If the environment in the East is that the economy serves politics, then in the United States, politics serves the economy. And when you come to seize the economic market in the United States, you are undoubtedly going to war with some consortiums of the last power. It is not surprising that you are blocked or even lose your money.

In the past few years, the U.S. auto manufacturing industry has indeed been somewhat sluggish, and it has been severely squeezed by Japanese, German, and even French auto companies. But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that the US market is still their home field.

"BMW is preparing to raise funds and go public in the United States." Yang Dongxu said.

Dave nodded and didn't say anything else, apparently already understood the inner meaning of this sentence. There are undoubtedly two concepts between having the support of local big shots and not having the support of local big shots. At present, it is undoubtedly a very good solution to seek financing from American venture capital for listing.

Leaving Yang Dongxu from Detroit and coming to Philadelphia, the performance of the 76ers this year can be said to be extremely dazzling. Before the Christmas game, the 76ers' performance has reached 61 wins and 8 losses. There are still 13 games left. If you work hard, you may enter the 70 wins in team history.

But even if they can't reach 70 wins, with the current state and results of the 76ers, the position of the leader of the Eastern Conference has been firmly established, and the door to this year's finals has been half opened to them.

So now the atmosphere of the team is fairly relaxed, but at the same time everyone is holding back their energy. Compared with last year's missed championship, their hope of winning this year is undoubtedly greater.

Although what they need to face to win the championship may be the mighty West, but their lineup is not bad at all, especially the growth of rookies, which has made many NBA team owners smash their heads. I feel that God is very unfair. Good rookie.

And those teams that traded rookies have already hit their heads against the wall, especially the Clippers who traded Odom before, and now their intestines are green from regret.

After combining the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, although Odom's current mind-wandering has not been cured, he already has a way to maintain absolute concentration.

Although he will still get lost and uncontrollable from time to time on the court, but he can take the initiative to control it for a period of time.

Although this time is not very long, only ten minutes, it has already given him hope of becoming a superstar. After all, Odom is also very strong when he is distracted. Although he cannot become a superstar, his comprehensiveness can still help the team a lot.

And once he entered the critical moment, under the reminder of the coach next to him, he began to enter absolute concentration, and ten minutes was enough for the 76ers to reverse the situation. In short, this obviously has a very good talent and has the potential to become a superstar, but many teams dare not bet because of distraction.

Now you can have ten minutes of superstar time, so the 76ers have seen a treasure. Of course, it would be even better if his private life could be more self-disciplined.

If Odom made the Clippers regret it, then the performance of Yao Ming and Michael Reid this year has personally annoyed many teams. The latter made the general manager of the Bucks dismissed get out of class.

The 2000 NBA draft year can be said to be the worst year in NBA history. Many players performed unsatisfactorily, especially the draft champion Kenyon Martin.

Although the performance is still excellent compared to other No. 2 picks, it has not met the requirements of the Nets to sign someone with superstar potential as the core to develop into a superstar.

The team that won the No. 1 pick is definitely one of the worst results in the league last year. Why is the team so poor? On the one hand, the team's strength is not good. On the other hand, the team naturally sees no hope, so it just plays badly and wants to fight for the No. 1 pick and get a future superstar.

And Kenyon Martin, whether it is the information collected by scouts, or physical talent, or the results in the college basketball team. Many teams think he has the gene of a superstar, but this gene seems to be gone after half a season.

Of course, judging like this after only half a season is a bit unfair to a rookie. After all, he is still a rookie and needs time to grow. Under normal circumstances, being able to play in his rookie year is considered to have good potential, so we can't demand too much.

But there is a saying that there is no harm if there is no comparison. Compared with Kenyon Martin, the No. 1 pick in the second round, Yao Ming and Reed, the former is more eye-catching because of the Eastern face, and the latter can be said to be a little transparent in the draft.

Because at the beginning Reid felt that he could enter the first round of the draft with his own results, but the scouts were not optimistic about him. After all, in this era when super big centers are popular, shooting guards do always feel a little bit worse.

So no team wanted him in the first round, and the Bucks didn't want to sign him until the second round. The Bucks first looked at St. John's University's Laver Poster. As a result, Laver was preempted by the Knicks in the 39th order, so the Bucks had no choice but to select him in the 43rd place.

Afterwards, Yang Dongxu had a certain impression of Reed. As a half fan who often watched NBA games, in 2000, a poor year in the draft, a player who counterattacked from the 43rd order to the first in the draft, this kind of inspirational story was naturally sung. very high.

So Yang Dongxu asked the team manager to operate, and this rookie entered the bag of the 76ers. He could just supplement Iverson as a point guard, or he could come off the bench.

But Yang Dongxu did not expect that he gave Reid the opportunity to perform so explosively. As a rookie guard, his average scoring has reached 12 points per game in his first season, which is not a lot for a shooting guard. But for a rookie, don't be too arrogant. After all, a rookie has little playing time, let alone the ball.

Being able to average 12 points per game with very little playing time and not many possessions, Reed may not be able to become a superstar and be recorded in history, but his performance definitely surpasses other players in this year's draft.

Compared with Reid's performance, Yao Ming is much slower. After all, in terms of physical fitness, although he is a big man, he is adapting to both muscular confrontation and physical strength.

But even so, his performance as a backup center is still good. After all, this is the winner of the No. 1 pick a few years later, although the Rockets signed him with a gamble.

But his personal ability in basketball is unquestionable. After all, if you are not strong enough, you can't play at all, and you can't play the corresponding results. Even if the Rockets want to bet, they can't bet on a water dispenser player, right?

Therefore, although the performance is a bit slow, everything is adapting, but Dayao's delicate touch, flexibility that does not belong to a big man, and the ability to block shots by using his height advantage have made many people see that if this big man grows up, he can play in the basket. under the dominance.

So the 76ers picked up a treasure this year. The team originally had the potential to win the championship. Now they have picked up two rookies a year. If they win the championship this year and grow to a certain height next year, this is the rhythm of building a dynasty.

Therefore, during this period of time, whether it is the team coach or the general manager, the expressions on their faces are smiling every day. Dynasty, looking at the entire NBA team, several teams have done it, and they have now seen the light.

"Don't be too relaxed, and don't tell me to look at the future, what will happen to the 76ers in the future, how to build a dynasty in the future. What you have to do now is to win this year's championship. The future is very important. But the present is more important.

If you win the championship this year, you are the players who won the championship. Regardless of whether you are in the 76ers or not in the future, with this qualification, you can at least get a salary increase when you sign with other teams.

So get nervous, before you put the championship rings on your fingers, tense your nerves. Especially for some old players, if you miss this year, then you may not be able to touch the championship ring for the rest of your life. "

It is good that the team has a good and relaxed atmosphere, but this time is undoubtedly not the time to relax and make the team atmosphere harmonious. The 76ers have a great hope of winning the championship this year, but there are many examples in the NBA that many teams with a high probability of winning the championship were turned over in the end.

After all, it’s true that the 76ers have the ability to win the championship. This ability has not reached the level of crushing the opponent. For example, the OK combination of the Lakers has a good history. They are the champions. Not only will they be the champions this year, but they will also be the champions next year. The champion the year after will be the Spurs. , It has nothing to do with the 76ers.

And the Eastern Conference of the NBA League has always given people the feeling that they are not as strong as the Western Conference. Although the 76ers now dominate the Eastern Conference, they are naturally shorter than the rulers of the Western Conference. Therefore, if they enter the finals without the determination to win, the 76ers will be like the previous two years. Obviously the championship is within reach, but in the end they can only look at it with their eyes and cannot touch it with their hands.

This year is already the fourth year that Yang Dongxu acquired the 76ers, although the results of entering the finals twice in four years are very dazzling. But if you don't have a championship, even if you go to the finals a hundred times, it's useless.