One Hundred and Two: [Red and White War]
Half an hour before the start of the game, the Orlando training camp had already gathered big names. Almost all the big names from the 30 teams in the league came. Some teams that failed to enter the playoffs or were eliminated early even had their head coaches and general managers. Coming together, the strength of the lineup is far better than the draw a week ago.
Not only did the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks come, the head coach came, but the owner Mark Cuban was also present in person. Although they don't have a lottery pick this year, this year is a small year in the draft. Even the Chicago Bulls, who hold the No. 1 pick, don't rule out the possibility of a trade.
In addition, Miami's president Pat Riley, head coach Spoelstra and core player Dwyane Wade Qiqi were present.
From this lineup, it is not difficult to see how much they attach importance to this year's draft. Since overdrawing the future in the summer of 2004 and attracting the Sharks to join and win the championship in 2006, Miami is now in a downturn, like the sun is fading away, and it has fallen into a fish belly. With Pat Riley's character, it's time to harvest a wave of potential stocks in the draft.
Pat Riley has released trade plans for draft picks to other lottery teams more than once, but so far, there has not been any substantive negotiations.
Therefore, when so many general managers in the league gathered together, Pat Riley had to step forward to discuss the feasibility of this matter.
This year's draft is dominated by centers and power forwards.
It is a good opportunity for teams that urgently need internal reinforcement.
While the general managers of the team were discussing and analyzing the current draft candidates in twos and threes, three groups of players entered the field one after another. They were wearing red, white and black training vests.
After the three parties warmed up briefly, professional referees specially transferred from the NBA called the captains of the three teams to the center of the field, and the three drew lots to determine the two sides of the first battle.
When Doug walked to the center of the field on behalf of the red team to draw lots with OJ Mayo and Michael Beasley, the general managers and reporters sitting on the stairs were surprised. Logically speaking, it should be Derrick Rose?
Derrick Rose's agent was also very surprised, he almost rushed forward to protest: Obviously the protagonist is Derek, why should that Chinese kid steal the limelight? Just because he sings well?
Americans care more about rankings and positions than Chinese, especially the big event of representing the entire team to draw lots. How can a guy whose draft pick is predicted to be outside the 20th place perform it?
But inside the red team, no one thinks this is a strange thing.
It is true that Derrick Rose is the top pick, but Westbrook may not convince him.
But Dug is different. He is not only the MOP, Ibaka's boss, but also the general representative of "role players". He is the most important glue of the whole team, and it is of course the most reasonable thing for him to go to the lottery.
only.
"Your luck is very bad." OJ Mayo held a white ball and told Duger who was also holding a white ball: "For the next 20 minutes, you will accompany me as a loser."
"You?" Doug raised his eyebrows and told him honestly, "To be honest, you are really useless."
Hearing this, OJ Mayo immediately glared at Doug fiercely, full of gunpowder. Duge's expression was calm, his eyes were level, and there was a bit of disdain in his calmness.
Having played in the NCAA for so long, he has long been familiar with the style of black players, which is nothing more than talking trash, staring, and making some small moves. These things may interfere with people who are not particularly good psychologically, but to Duge, it's very naive!
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The two sides quickly arranged the starting list.
Red team: Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Dante Green, Kevin Love, Snoopy.
White Team: Jerry Bayless, OJ Mayo, Brandon Rush, Anthony Randolph, Brook Lopez.
The red team has no head coach, only an assistant coach arranged by the training camp is doing personnel scheduling,
This is a uniform arrangement for each team in the training camp for the sake of fairness.
However, in addition to the assistant coaches arranged by the training camp, the white team led by OJ Mayo also specially invited Tim Floyd, a coaching staff consultant from the University of Southern California. OJ Mayo played a leading role in this matter.
Floyd, who was on vacation with his daughter in Orlando, accepted the invitation last night and perfectly replicated the USC offense for this makeshift team.
It is still based on OJ Mayo, but the team lineup has been upgraded a lot. After all, Lenny Coon on the inside has become Brook Lopez, and there are defensive experts Brandon Rush on the front line, plus rebounding men Anthony Randolph and Jerry Bayless.
Tim Floyd believes that if USC had this lineup, then last season's NCAA championship must have belonged to USC.
Standing on the center line with Doug to jump the ball is Anthony Randolph, a super bouncer. His physical fitness is extremely amazing, and people can't help but associate it with Kevin Garnett.
However, there is one more regrettable thing. Since Kevin Garnett entered the league, none of the forwards who have modeled on him have made a name for themselves. Whether it's Eddie Griffin who died in a car accident, Jonathan Bender who played soy sauce in the Pacers, or Darius Miles who was trapped in a Portland prison and couldn't extricate himself.
Becoming the second KG is not an easy task.
beep!
When the head coach blows the whistle, snap!
Before the audience on the sidelines could even see what was going on, Snoopy had already slapped the basketball to Derrick Rose.
"With the comparison of Anthony Randolph, Snoopy's bounce rate is even more amazing." Lakers general manager Kupchak and Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace whispered.
They don't shy away from their relationship at all, even though they jointly concocted a big deal that affected the league structure half a year ago.
At that time, Kupchak only used Kwame Brown as the main bargaining chip to switch to the All-Star player Pau Gasol, which made the Zijin Army the favorite to win the championship overnight.
This transaction detonated the league, and no one thought it was a normal transaction.
In this regard, Bulls general manager Gal Forman even publicly stated that this is a fucking robbery. You must know that the offer he made in the summer of 2007 even included Nocioni, Tyrus Thomas, Joakim Noah, Safolosha, plus this year's pick trade for Gasol and Warrick.
But Chris Wallace turned it down, and then sold Pau Gasol to the Lakers a few months later.
This broke Gal Forman's overall plan. Originally, he wanted to trade Gasol in exchange for Kobe Bryant's joining.
But now... Kobe and Pau Gasol are on the Lakers.
Whenever he saw this scene, he gritted his teeth.
Fortunately, God did not let him fall into despair. This year, he has a 1.7% chance of getting the No. 1 lottery.
He firmly believes that this will be the beginning of another take-off for the Bulls.
boom!
Derrick Rose on the court rushed into the paint area and completed a dunk with a lever like lightning.
His dunk caused a burst of exclamation.
Derek's style of play is so eye-catching, his dunks are a combination of strength and beauty, and he is one of the few players in the entire training camp who has superstar potential.
But at present, Gal Forman is still hesitating whether to choose Michael Beasley or Derrick Rose. Even though it was revealed in the training camp yesterday that Beasley's barefoot height is only 201, but his innate scoring sense and talent It's completely irresistible.
He couldn't help but look sideways at Pat Riley, who was five seats to the left.
It seems much easier for him to have the second pick, because now everyone knows that between Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley, no matter which one the Bulls choose, Pat Riley will not hesitate to pick the other.
At this time, the magic operator is talking with Dwyane Wade.
He whispered, "Did you see that? Sixty percent of the credit for the dunk just now should be credited to Snoopy. It was he who withstood Brook Lopez's bottom plate and created enough space for Rose to take off. In the future... if you work together, your breakthrough will be more efficient."
Wade nodded, but he soon became terrified again. He stared at Pat Riley with wide eyes and lowered his voice: "Boss, you don't want to choose him with the second pick, do you?"
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