Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 252 Your position needs to be adjusted [First update, please subscribe]

The Lakers are happily parading and making championship rings, enjoying the praise from all over the world.

The Bulls players went home to fish.

The early morning sunlight fell on Lu Yu's bedroom from the window, and Charlize Theron lay lazily on Lu Yu, like an octopus.

"Lu, can't you rest after the offseason?"

"No, rest for a few days at most. After a while, the Chinese men's basketball team will come to the United States for training. Wang Zhizhi and I are going to participate in the men's basketball training. Wang Zhizhi is the power forward of the Mavericks."

"Then you...don't wait for Annie to come back?"

Lu Yu: "..."

Annie will be back at the end of June, her role has been completed, and she will take a few months off.

Lu Yu originally wanted to wait for her to come back, but firstly, the competition prepared for this training camp was the World Championships, so he had to participate. Second, Annie came back, and Charlize was here. Although Charlize was very sensible and knew that he should avoid it, Wan Wan One night she couldn't hold back, and she might overturn the car.

"I also wanted to travel for a while recently. I was a little bored after staying in Chicago for a long time. My mother said she was going back to France, and I happened to go back with her."

Charlize said sympathetically.

"You haven't lived in France. It's so tiring to go back so far. It's unnecessary."

Lu Yu said, "You can just take care of Annie here. She just finished filming. If she is alone at home, she must be lonely. I can rest assured that you are with her."

"Aren't you worried about me?" Charlize gave him a resentful look.

"Worry, why not worry, you are so beautiful, I know many people want to chase you."

"But I only like you, how about you?"

"I like you too."

Charlize knew that Lu Yu would not say that he only liked himself.

"Then you play well, I'll help you take care of your home, but you'll take care of your home. Do you want to give me a small reward?"

"What reward?"

"I want... a child."

Charlize showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, then turned on his horse and continued to gallop on the battlefield.

Lu Yu only felt that if he walked on the same road too much, sooner or later he would get stuck and couldn't get out.

On June 6, Cartwright and Krause visited Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

Jerry Reinsdorf has always been portrayed as an elite lawyer. It's hard to imagine that he still has a relationship with the basketball team. In fact, this guy started his career by filing real estate tax avoidance lawsuits for others. Lawyers are more savvy than people think.

In fact, he was not the boss of the Bulls at the beginning, but the Bulls encountered some difficult bosses and were eager to take the Bulls' shots, so Jerry Reinsdorf made a mistake.

Sometimes people's good luck and money can't stop it.

Jerry Reinsdorf not only transferred the Bulls into his own hands at an extremely low price, but shortly after he acquired the Bulls, the god of fate favored him again and sent the god of basketball back then. Among the Bulls, the status of the Bulls has become more stable, and the influence of the Bulls teammates has also become greater and greater.

In the end, the market value of the Bulls compared to the price he bought at the beginning was completely changed. It turns out that people who are lawyers are more savvy than others.

What is even more speechless is that just a few years after Jordan retired, the Bulls once again acquired Lu Yu, who was still a rookie.

Successfully turned the Bulls from the league's belly team to this year's Eastern Conference champion.

Although they did not win the championship, everyone knows that this is largely due to the fact that the management is not well prepared. The management's goal is even to enter the playoffs. As for the finals, they have never thought about it. .

If you didn't want it last season, it doesn't mean you don't want it next season.

They have reached the finals last season, and they must prepare well for the next season. If the Bulls do not perform as well as this season next season, it will be a failure of the management.

Cartwright proposes to trade Artest and Marcus Fetzel, even with the target selected, Ben Wallace of the Pistons, or Pau Gasol of the Grizzlies, it is better to pull them to do A three-way deal, the big deal is that the Bulls stick Brad Miller in.

As long as the negotiation is successful, the Bulls will get an inside line that can attack and defend. The biggest problem for the team last season was that they couldn't defend against O'Neal. Perhaps the only center in the league who can top O'Neal is Ben Wallace.

Originally Karl Malone was fine, but now Malone is a bit old.

The most important thing is, I heard that Malone is now flirting with the Lakers. How can other teams play?
Mourning is also considered one, but the kidney disease the year before last made all the teams discouraged from him.

Cartwright felt that although Wallace could resist O'Neal, the inside attack became weak. He had observed that Pau Gasol of the Grizzlies was not bad. He was still a rookie, and the price was cheap. Bears will not ignore it either.

The reason why he chose to trade Artest is because he feels that the team's defense on the perimeter is sufficient, and Artest is one of the few players with trade value.

Take a group of parallel imports to trade, other teams will just let the Bulls roll.

However, he was reluctant to let Cartwright trade other players. Richardson has an excellent three-pointer and a pretty good defense, and Lu Yu would give him a nod every time.

Chandler is a good addition to the inside, and Chandler is also a rookie, not much transaction value.

The only player the team can come up with is Artest.

Klaus felt that this matter was very reliable, and it was a good improvement for the team's strength, and he also helped.

If the Bulls trade is successful, maybe they can really compete with the Lakers next year.

It is this weight that may not be enough, it is possible to join Oakley, but Oakley is also older, and changing to a younger Gasol is definitely a cost-effective business.

Gasol averaged 17.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.1 blocks per game last season. He is the perfect inside core. He has both the flexibility and shooting range of a small forward, and the height and wingspan of a power forward. Pick-and-roll, and rebounds.

Unfortunately, although Reinsdorf was tempted, he finally refused.

"The first is the feasibility of the transaction, this transaction is very difficult, and the second is that by doing this, our existing lineup will be dismantled, can we strengthen it on the basis of not moving the main lineup? "

Not moving the main lineup for reinforcement?

Are you kidding me when the other teams are idiots?

Take a bunch of change for someone else's whole bill, unless the general manager of the other team is out of his mind.

Businessmen and coaches see things from different angles. Reinsdorf feels that the team is very satisfied with the team’s record. If it doesn’t even reach the current results after some adjustments next season, it will be a bit of a loss. The players are running well, and the fans like it very much. The same lineup next season will not sell less tickets.

Klaus thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Boss, if you don't use the main force, the players you can get in exchange, that is, the combat power, may be very limited."

Reinsdorf said with a smile: "I will just ask, but it is absolutely impossible to trade the main lineup for two players. We managed to create such a lineup and style of play. It is very risky to tear it down next year. Ben Wallace is all about targeting Shaquille O'Neal, what if we don't get to the Finals next year? What if next year's Finals opponent isn't the Lakers?"

If Lu Yu was present, he would have thought that Reinsdorf was also a transmigrator.

Because next year's Lakers did not make the finals, they lost to the Spurs in the Western Conference finals.

Of course, Reinsdorf is not a traverser. He is only thinking from the perspective of a businessman, because the teams that target the Lakers are not just the Bulls. There will be more teams in the West that will target the Lakers. The team is stronger and has a better chance to snipe the Lakers.

The Bulls just need to grasp their opponents in the East.

As for the finals, if the opponent is not the Lakers, the Bulls will not have so much pressure on the inside, so is it necessary to adjust the lineup?

Of course, there are advantages to adjusting the lineup, but there are also risks.

Between the two, businessmen will definitely choose the one with less risk, even if the profit is less.

Cartwright feels that there is no drama, the boss has made a decision, and there is no need to fight: "Maybe we can consider Richard Hamilton of the Wizards, I heard Michael a few days ago, they intend to trade Hamilton, if If it was him, we might not have to pay too much."

Klaus looked ugly.

The team he least wanted to trade was the Wizards. Fortunately, the general manager of the Wizards is no longer Michael Jordan, which made him feel much less grumpy.

"If I remember correctly, Hamilton played a shooting guard and traded him to replace Lu Yu?" Krause still asked his own question.

Lu Yu's substitute already has Crawford, and Crawford has been playing very well.

"We can also let Lu Yu play as a small forward." Reinsdorf said with a smile: "That's it, I don't agree with the trade this summer, first keep the lineup that leads in the East, and can only make up the corners. Strong, trading for Hamilton is a good choice."

The boss makes the decision, and what other people say is useless.

Cartwright is a little bit tempted to pick himself up, what about Hamilton. Although Hamilton is good, there is no reason to let the team's ace out of position.

If Hamilton is going to play small forward, he's a little too thin again.

It is suitable for Lu Yu to play a small forward. Lu Yu's height has grown a lot this year, and it is more than enough to play a small forward, but would he be willing to let Lu Yu play a small forward?
Krause's job has become easier, and Hamilton's trade is much less difficult than trading Wallace and Gasol.

Lu Yu was lying on the bed, just finished exercising with Charlize Theron.

Just as he was about to check the physical strength he had just consumed and how much he had improved his wind breathing technique, the phone rang.

It's Cartwright.

"Lu, I have two things to tell you."

"One is, in a few days' draft, you need to go to Madison Square Garden in New York to help the Bulls draft rookies."

"The second is... Next season, maybe your position needs to be adjusted..."

　Here comes~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)