Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 83 The idea of ​​strengthening the deviation, finalizing the starting lineup for the new season.

Woody is also being interviewed.

This is the first time he has shown his Heat jersey to the media. China has specially sent an interview team. One of the leaders is Su Qun who has met Woody two or three times. The other is not Yang Yi, but Xu Jicheng. An old reporter, similar to Su Qun in terms of qualifications, but this is his first interview with Woody.

Asked about some summer arrangements, it was not surprising to hear that Woody had gained weight this summer. He saw it when Woody appeared in front of the media just now.

"Coincidentally, Dayao also gained weight this summer..." He would often tell Woody about Yao Ming.

Thanks to him, the image of this "little giant of the East" gradually became more and more full in Woody's heart.It's just that he hasn't met Yao Ming yet.

Xu Jicheng asked a question that he was very concerned about. Just now Woody raised his jersey, and when he saw the number 95 written on it, he wanted to ask.

"Woody, why did you choose this number?"

It's no wonder he is so careful, it's because this number is too easy for him to think of the "Ninth Five Lord"!

Woody is not surprised that they have such an association. Originally, he also chose the number according to this meaning. He said briefly: "Give yourself some goals, I want to make some achievements in this league!"

This is not "some tricks"!

Xu Jicheng said something silently in his heart.

But thinking about Woody's talent, and thinking that it's not a bad thing to have such a big ambition, it's normal for young people to be a little arrogant.

On the way back, he said to Su Qun who was puffing at the side: "We have to translate the nickname of LeBron James more accurately, so as not to confuse him with Woody's nickname in the future! "

He is sure that Woody's number will definitely remind domestic fans, isn't "Nine-Five Supreme" the "Emperor"?

But when they translated LeBron James, they already called him "little emperor."

Can an alliance have two "emperors"?
Seriously speaking, "King" means king, similar to the great kings of the Warring States period, the vassal kings of various dynasties belong to the ceded side, and they are not yet at the level of "emperor"!
Su Qun understood what he meant, and nodded with a smile: "From now on, let's call him King LeBron James, or translate it into king, or vassal king..."

Xu Jicheng doesn't care about this, anyway, the nickname "Emperor" has to be reserved for Woody...

"Let's not put the meaning of Woody's number on the emperor now, let's talk about it after Woody has made some famous tricks."

Su Qun took this very seriously. He really had to give Woody ample space to grow up. Don't put him under so much pressure as soon as he came up. This kid is only about 18 years old and 100 days old.

The two of them are here to prepare for a rainy day because of Woody's nickname. After the interview, Woody walked to the locker room, but saw Wade in the player tunnel. This guy looked hesitant. When he saw Woody, he saw him. Like a savior: "Wu, you've finished the interview!"

Woody thought something was wrong, but after careful questioning, he found out that this girl dare not go back to the locker room alone.

"Who knows what meeting ceremony these veterans have prepared for us!"

With Woody on board, Wade's mentality has stabilized a lot.

Woody looked at him, and wanted to complain, brother, you are already 21, why are you acting like a girl!
For some reason, Woody thought of "Magic" Johnson's second son, EJ Sauce.

Just pushing the door and going in, what Woody and Wade saw was two rows standing straight, each with their heads held high, their fingers sticking to the seams of their trousers, as if they were standing in a military posture, and they didn't dare to show their atmosphere.

Looking back, the front of the queue is a familiar little old man: Pat Riley.

He stood by and watched with a serious face, and when Woody and Wade opened their locker doors and changed their clothes, he said: "Okay, let's all go back, at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, On the training ground, if someone is late, run laps for me! If you are late for 1 minute, run 10 laps, do you hear me clearly?"

"Clear!"

With barely any gaps, Eddie Jones leads the response.

This militarized management is simple!

After he left, Woody changed into his training clothes and went to the arena. He still made an appointment with Mourning for a special training session at the basket today.

"Hey, wait for me, wait for me!" Wade shouted anxiously, and followed him out of the locker room.

"How do you say it? Are you going to punish the two of them?"

Rasoul Butler, the 45th pick in the second round of last season, asked.

Brian Grant, one of the only second veterans of the Heat in the new season with a dreadlock, replied angrily: "Is it the whole fart? Didn't the old man come over to stand for the two of them in person?"

He didn't have any malice towards the two rookies, but he still felt that the rookie process had to go through.

Eddie Jones said from the side: "I told you earlier that Pat values ​​these two rookies very much, so don't worry about it!"

"What about the popcorn I bought? There are so many, and I can't refund them!" Butler asked again.

"I have an idea, sneak back into Karon's car later, and treat him as a welcome one more time!"

Raschel Butler smirked and suggested that Caron Butler was in the same year as him, and both entered the Heat last year, but Caron Butler's draft pick was higher, the 10th pick in the first round So even though he was 22 years old when he entered the Heat, he was reused by Pat Riley. He played a total of 78 games in his rookie season, starting all of them, averaging 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.

And he is low in the draft, so he can only be used as a substitute, so this idea has some personal emotions in it.

Eddie Jones couldn't stand it anymore: "Then welcome you again, anyway, your name is Butler!"

Grant was not a fool, so he agreed at the time: "Good idea!"

Rasoul Butler understood a truth in this way: Why should Butler make things difficult for Butler!

***
On the first day of training camp, Pat Riley introduced a new member of the Heat.

It was Haslem who played in the summer league with Woody and Wade in the summer.

After Woody and Dwight Wade withdrew midway, he continued to stay in the team to compete in the summer league. In the next 4 games, he averaged 15.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Li finally gave him a basic salary of 2 million for two years, which was only 100 in the first year.

The money is a little less, but he is very excited, and finally successfully logged into the NBA!

In addition to him, Pat Riley also used a basic salary contract with an annual salary of 69 to win the "streetball king" Ralph Alston.

With him, the Heat's 15-man roster has only one seat left.

Pat Riley would love to add another big man at the five...

Now in the Heat's roster:
The striker positions are: Woody, Odom, Grant, Haslem;
Back line: Wade, Caron Butler, Eddie Jones, Alston, Russell Butler;
Just these 9 people are enough to satisfy the remaining four positions, and the competition will be fierce.

Only for the fifth position, Pat Riley does not have a suitable candidate.

The tallest player in the lineup is Odom, who is 2 meters tall, which is the standard power forward height.But his style of play is more outside, and he can rush for rebounds, but it is a bit too much to expect him to be able to get in the basket.

Pat Riley's favorite candidate for the fifth position is Grant. Although he is only 2 meters, he is a bit "pocket" in the power forward position, but he weighs 06KG, and it is no problem to defend against people.

But he is already 31 years old, expecting him to last 36 minutes in the fifth position is considered an overfulfillment of the task, and someone must be on top for the remaining 12 minutes.But the training camp has already started, what "legacy" can there be in the free market at this time?
After a long time, Wang Zhizhi, who is also a Chinese player like Woody, meets the standard. He is 2 meters tall and looks very solid.Just looking at Wang Zhizhi's past game videos with the Mavericks, Pat Riley can clearly see that this kid doesn't like confrontation at the basket and always avoids physical contact.This kept him from making up his mind.

The training camp started for a week, and the number of training matches gradually increased.

Woody's performance on the training ground surprised him.

Especially on the defensive end, the high-quality supplementary defense brought by his ubiquitous figure can often allow his team to play wave after wave of defensive counterattacks.

Woody's defensive ability has indeed improved rapidly.

This stuff depends on consciousness and physical fitness.

Consciousness, to put it bluntly, is an accurate judgment, which is related to experience and also related to defensive thinking.

Woody's ability to understand tactics has improved significantly recently, and his physical fitness has increased rapidly. Therefore, this summer he has made good progress in all aspects, especially his strength and his rebounding. Speaking of the most improved aspect, it has to be his ability to assist in defense!
Before the start of the training camp, his defensive assistance ability broke through 80 points. With the increase in the number of team training games in the training camp, the speed of accumulating experience accelerated, and the increase in the experience bar of his assistance defense ability was terrifying.

It's almost 83 o'clock!

After the closed training camp is over, it should be 85 points, there should be no problem.

Coupled with his excellent dynamic and static talent, without enough game samples as data support, his opponents will of course find it difficult to guard against him, feeling like a ghost on the court.

This actually gave Pat Riley a new way of thinking.

If you really can't find your favorite No. [-] position, then just find another striker. Everyone helps each other to defend, can't you make up for the defensive vacancy in the interior without top defenders?

Pat Riley has never forgotten his idea of ​​"five swingmen", but he also knows how difficult it is.

But after the team has Woody, he feels that this idea can actually be implemented first!

And half a month later, Odom, whose body fat rate reached his standard, joined the team training game, and he became more determined about this idea, and the idea of ​​reinforcement in his mind began to deviate towards the front line.

"I'm finally alive!"

After playing the first training game, Odom expressed his feelings.

He didn't expect Pat Riley to be so ruthless, his body fat percentage was not up to the standard, and he didn't even go to the training ground. He thought it was good, and he went to the nightclub to have fun for two days, but seeing Pat Riley When Li Zhen didn't exist, he was in a hurry, so he took the initiative to go to the gym and exercised hard for half a month, and finally brought the body fat rate back to the level that Pat Riley was satisfied with.

His current evaluation of Pat Riley is just two words:
Wolf off!

"Man, you have to comfort me, or introduce me to two female stars!" Back to the first thing, he pestered Woody again, but this time, he never mentioned that he would be in the team Take care of Woody's affairs.

Ok……

As far as the current situation is concerned, he should take care of himself first, and then take care of Woody!
"You're playing for yourself, buddy!" Woody didn't dislike Odom's "familiarity", but there was one thing that he didn't understand. Why did he ask him to introduce female stars?
Although he has been rumored a few times, but they are all with Megan Fox, just the little transparency in the entertainment circle...

Who is the beneficiary? I really can't tell, right?
"Man, don't you know? There are media reports that Scarlett Johansson said you are a very attractive man!"

"what?"

Woody is more concerned about this matter:

Odom actually knew Scarlett?

This should also be a small eighteenth-line artist, right?

After listening to Odom, I found out that during the filming of "Super Perfect Score", Scarlett Johansson's other movie "Lost in Translation" was released, and the response was very good, and her reputation suddenly increased.

Various interviews followed, and in these interviews, Scarlett talked about Woody.It's just that Woody started the rebound training program with Mourning after he came out of the crew, so he didn't know the news.

There was Megan Fox before, and there was Scarlett later. It is no wonder that Odom thinks he knows a lot of female stars.

By the third week of the training camp, the Heat's starting lineup for the new season has gradually come out:

Ralph Alston at No. [-], Eddie Jones at No. [-], Woody at No. [-], Lamar Odom at No. [-], Brian Grant at No. [-]...

Wade substitute!

It's not that his ability is not up to standard, but that the Heat's lineup has changed a lot in the new season. Alston, Woody, and Odom are all new members of the Heat.

A more experienced No. [-] player is needed to sit on the court. In this way, he will definitely not be able to play the No. [-] position.

In the second position, Eddie Jones is also more calm than him. Originally, Pat Riley thought about pushing Jones to the third position and letting Wade play the second position. After coming down, he found that Woody's technical characteristics are still safer to play in the third position.

Whether it is "eating cakes" on the offensive end or assisting defense on the defensive end, standing on the wing is more conducive to Woody's performance.

Besides, Grant at the fifth position is only 2 meters tall, and Odom's height is needed to fill the inside height.

Woody's current height exceeds 2 meters, but it is still a little less than Odom's 05 meters.

Looking around, there is no other way but to put Wade on the bench first!
In order to prevent Wade from having an idea, Pat Riley specially looked for him, patted him on the shoulder, and said affectionately: "Dwyane, this is also so that you can adapt to the intensity of this alliance more smoothly. , I believe that I will send you into the starting lineup soon, the reason is your performance..."

Wade really didn't expect that Pat Riley had already thought of this step for him, and almost dropped the little pearl.

I, Dwyane, had the good fortune in my life to meet such a good head coach!

He almost couldn't hold back, and called "Father" directly.

　First update today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)