Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 236 Just ask if you are looking forward to it? 【For subscription】

On May 5, the Bulls host the Pistons.

If Yao Ming didn't want to watch this game, he would have returned to China two days ago. Bulls general manager Jerry Krause, who thought he had no chance, saw the Chinese players who had tried out a few days ago at his home court. Yao Ming was overjoyed. .

He didn't know that Yao Ming had actually been working as a sparring partner for Lu Yu in the team's training hall for the past few days.

"Hey, Yao? I'm Jerry Krause, the general manager of the Bulls. Leave a call. If there is a chance, maybe we can work together?"

Yao Ming was flattered, but he didn't have a US phone number: "I'm sorry, Mr. Claus, I haven't got a US cell phone card yet, can you give me a business card, when I get a cell phone card, I'll be the first Time to text you."

"of course."

Krause didn't expect Yao Ming's English to be so good. It seems that Yao Ming has made a lot of preparations to enter the NBA.

He handed the business card to Yao Ming: "Actually, I'm very optimistic about you, but unfortunately the Bulls don't have a higher draft pick, but I'll find a way, and I'm looking forward to seeing you and Lu Yu wearing the same team's jersey. On the field."

After training with Lu Yu for this period of time, Yao Ming realized that the training intensity in the NBA is completely different from that in China.

In China, he is a superstar who dominates the stadium, but when he comes to the United States, not to mention other teams, just what he saw in the Bulls in the past few days, every player is several levels higher than the domestic level in terms of tactical literacy and physical quality.

Lu Yu, on the other hand, can become the team leader in such a team.

How strong is Lu Yu?

Although it is impossible for Lu Yu to win the regular season MVP this year, there should be no problem with the best lineup, and Lu Yu has already locked in the best rookie.

If the NBA is the 500 best players in the world, then Lu Yu is the top [-] of the [-] best players?

Maybe even higher!
When will I reach such a height as Lu Yu?

The chances of Yao Ming coming to the Bulls are pitifully small. Based on the Bulls' record this season, it is very difficult for him to get a high-level draft pick. Krause thinks it very well. A Lu Yu has already allowed him to eat a lot of Chinese market. Bonus, if there is another Yao Ming, as long as Yao Ming can become a star player, then won't he have a hand in the Chinese market?

The other 28 teams in the league have nothing but envy.

Not all Chinese players will be able to share the market cake with their teams after they come to the NBA. It is also necessary to analyze the players' influence objectively.

Just like Wang Zhizhi, his influence is definitely stronger than Yao Ming.

Because Wang Zhizhi is No.1 in China to enter the NBA.

Lu Yu is also a Chinese player, but he was not trained by the domestic system, so it is not included. If Yao Ming wants to surpass Wang Zhizhi's influence, he must play better and become a star player as soon as possible.

In Krause's eyes, Yao Ming has the potential to become a star player.

And Wang Zhizhi is still just a substitute.

After the game started, Yao Ming finally understood why Lu Yu kept letting him stay to watch an NBA game, because training and official games are completely different intensities, of course, this is the playoffs, the intensity is even greater, under this intensity , not to mention the dominance of the CBA, it will become very difficult to play normally.

Ben Wallace led the regular season in both rebounds and blocked shots this season, and is a big hit for the Pistons on the defensive end.

Without Big Ben, just relying on Stackhouse's shameless brush, what did the Pistons get into the playoffs.

When Stackhouse was at its peak, he averaged 29.8 points per game, but the shooting rate was extremely low, and he shot wildly. The fans nicknamed him "Brickhouse", in which Brick translates as a brick, probably It means poor pitching, which is about the same as when we say blacksmithing.

Before the opening game, Big Ben walked to the Bulls' bench and hugged Oakley deeply.

The two of them have a deep relationship with each other, and everyone in the league knows that without Oakley, Big Ben might not be able to play in the NBA.

As a result, Cartwright was very moved.

With a big wave of his hand, Chandler, who had just started for 2 minutes, was replaced directly and replaced by Oakley to match up with Ben Wallace.

"Bill, I'm not saying that Tyson can't beat Big Ben. Look at the matchup between Charles and Big Ben. Will the league like it more? The league likes it. What does it mean? Will it be more influential, more fans will like us, so we can make more money."

Cartwright remembered what Jerry Krause had taught him before the game.

For the money, these managements don't even want to face.

But it's no wonder that Krause is anxious. Whoever plays with a team like the Pistons is anxious.

Pistons head coach Rick Chrisley focuses on defense, grinds with opponents, grinds the opponent's score to [-] points, the game is half won, grinds the opponent's score to [-] points, this game Just won three-quarters of the time, grinding the opponent's score to [-] points, basically holding the pinch.

Their own scoring has been consistent, around the eighties.

As a result, Oakley went up and was directly slapped by Big Ben.

Cartwright looked back at Jerry Krause, who was sitting beside him chatting with Yao Ming: "Didn't you say that they have a deep relationship between master and apprentice?"

Klaus looked embarrassed: "I didn't expect Ben Wallace to be so ignorant of martial arts."

This is not their original words, but in Yao Ming's ears it is almost the meaning.

Fortunately, Ben Wallace's defense is good, but his offensive level is average. Yao Ming feels that he can play a dozen players of this type.

Because Wallace's offense is average, the pressure on the inside of the Bulls is not great.

And the Bulls are best at defending perimeter players.

The result was Stackhouse's mad pounding on the perimeter.

When the Bulls attacked, Lu Yu and Richardson fired frequently on the outside, hitting one, two, three in a row.

Wallace stayed in the paint in a hurry. The Bulls didn't play in the paint, which made his defense in the paint do nothing. Even the Bulls' big center Miller pulled to the outside to shoot. What can you ask him to do?

In addition to blocking one shot at the opening of the master Charles Oakley, he followed the turnaround in the first quarter.

Because of this cap, he was stared at by Oakley's resentful eyes for a whole section.

The Bulls led 30-16 in the first quarter. If it wasn't for Artest's poor feel today and missing three or four three-pointers from the bottom corner, the Bulls would have scored [-] points in the first quarter.

The Pistons are good defensively, but the good thing is their rotation in the zone and rim protection in the paint.

When they really encounter this kind of outside shot, they have nothing to do.

If it weren't for Stackhouse's two final goals, they would have trailed by [-] points in the first quarter.

The two teachers, Sun Yiping and Zhang Weiping, the commentators of CCTV's live broadcast, watched it with joy. The better Lu Yu played, the happier they were, and they also saw Yao Ming of the Sharks in the camera screen.

Could it be Yao Ming going to the Bulls?
Lu Yu and Yao Ming team up?
I wonder if you are looking forward to it?Looking forward or not?Looking forward or not?

"I'm really, really looking forward to it."

This is Zhang Weiping's original words.

In the second quarter, Crawford, Hassell, Mercer, and Chandler, a group of bench gangsters bombarded the Pistons, with obvious advantages.

This lineup needs to be both offensive and offensive, defensive and defensive, and sometimes it plays better than the main force. If it is placed on other teams, this is a main lineup, although this main lineup may only have a record in the bottom of the league.

But it's more than enough to play the opponent's bench.

Many teams are envious of the Bulls, because the Bulls have received an absolute rookie bonus. Whether it is Lu Yu or Chandler, Hassel is the rookie of the season, while Richardson, Crawford, Fezer Elle was a rookie last season, and even Artest was only a third-year player. The biggest player in the team, Miller's contract.
They are young, punchy, and can save a lot of money for the team.

The team's highest salary is Ron Mercer, 675 million this year, and the second highest is Charles Oakley, 650 million this year.

Next is Brad Miller.

The salary of the entire team almost fell below the poverty line.

Such a team has reached the second round of the playoffs, making the whole league envious, and Jerry Krause is likely to win the honor of the best general manager of the year.

Originally, Cartwright had a high probability of winning the honor of the best head coach, but now it seems that the more likely to be selected is Rick Chrisley, the head coach of the opposing Pistons.

He's the other head coach who has led a poor ghost-line salary team to the second round of the playoffs.

That's right, you're watching the second round of the playoffs between the league's two least-spending teams.

It seems that they are not playing better than anyone else, they are saving more money than anyone else.

In the final game 118 to 84, the Bulls slaughtered the Pistons with 34 points at home.

In the last quarter of the Bulls, neither Lu Yu nor Miller played, and the five players sent were Crawford, Richardson, Artest, Marcus Fezer and Ron Mercer.

The Pistons took the opportunity to recover some points.

Cartwright knew in his heart that like Chandler and Lu Yucai's first year as rookies, it didn't matter whether they scored in garbage time or not. Miller's next contract is estimated to be signed at the end of the season, and it must be around 1000 million, so don't worry about it. Crawford, Richardson, Artest, Mercer and Fizer still need to fight for a little more data for their next contract.

Then there's Trenton Hassell, who Cartwright generally uses to play more in garbage time.

He is a second-round pick and signed a two-year contract. The second year is a team option. Only with good data can he fight for a bigger contract for himself.

When the head coach is not only about setting up the tactics, but also considering whether the players have a contract year or not. On the basis of ensuring the record, let them brush the data in the garbage time, and sometimes even let them play one more game in the regular season. beat.

First, you need to help your players get a good contract, and secondly, if you need to put them on the shelf with good data, you can exchange for better trading players.

Therefore, many teams traded a player with good average data, and only after giving a big contract did they find that the player was a parallel importer. This is partly the case.

Lu Yu played casually in this game, played only 27 minutes, and got a quasi-double-double of 17 points and 9 assists.

The Pistons' Stackhouse also had 17 points, but he shot as low as 30 percent from the field.

In Lu Yu's previous life, Stackhouse was also a player who once competed with Iverson for the 76ers leader. Now the two are facing each other, and Lu Yu has no pressure on the other side. When Lu Yu concentrates on defense, he keeps close to himself When pestering him, Stackhouse had a hard time getting a shot.

Lu Yu also probably knew what kind of strength he was among the backcourt players in the league.

With 33 points and 6 rebounds, Richardson almost stood on the opponent's face and shot.

Richardson originally wanted to break through the Pistons point guard Atkins, but when the opponent defended him, he put more than a meter away. Lu Yu suggested that he shoot directly and throw the opponent until he cried.

The main reason is that Atkins is too short to even get up to interfere with the shot.

Richardson is 196cm, Atkins' official height is 180cm, and the probability is 175.

In Lu Yu's previous life, many people exaggerated the fact that 175 is the strongest on the surface, because few teams would keep such a short player, but 20 years ago, there were actually quite a lot of players with a height of 1.7 meters, but they did not report it. That's all.

Anyway, after Richardson finished playing, he felt that he had evolved, and he pulled Lu Yu to practice three-pointers.

After the game, a reporter asked Lu Yu to comment on Ben Wallace, who only scored 3 points today.

Lu Yu said: "For Wallace, defense is his housekeeping skill, but it cannot be his only skill. When a player can only defend, his functionality is much simpler, and enriching his offensive means is the only way. What he needs to do most."

In fact, it’s okay not to practice. If you can gather the five Pistons from the previous life, others can attack, but after seeing many transactions in the middle of the season during this period, Lu Yu knows that times have changed, and the Pistons want to gather the five tigers. Difficulty has increased.

Wallace absolutely needs an effective offense when the rest of the team can't.

At least a game can not only get 3 points.

The reporter asked: "People often say that the playoffs are fierce and it is a big test for newcomers, but your performance in the playoffs is very easy. What is the reason?"

Lu Yu smiled and said: "Because my teammates give me enough support, they are too strong, Quentin has a stable shooting ability, Ron's shooting is also good, although he is not very good at mid-distance, Brad can also be in the distance. High post, we rarely play hard inside, but our inside has always been tough, and the most important thing is that we can defend every player on the court.”

Lu Yu was right, everyone saw how easy the Bulls were playing on offense.

But no one knows that the foundation of their life is actually defense.

Yao Ming sat in the audience thoughtfully. He seemed to think of the Chinese men's basketball team from the Bulls' training camp. He decided to tell the head coach Wang Fei what Lu Yu said. Maybe the Chinese men's basketball team could learn from the current Bulls. team play.

After a day off, Yao Ming has returned to China.

The second game between the Bulls and the Pistons is still held at the United Center...

　Ask for a monthly ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)