Chapter 694 Draft Planning
Henry Ford Training Center
The players' season is over, and for the ambition management, the new season has just begun.
The following drafts, summer leagues, free markets and trading markets are all excellent stages for them to show their skills.
In another ten days, the NBA draft will be held in Madison Garden.
After a year of competition, those who have ambition have achieved success, and those teams who want to complete reconstruction with superstars have already achieved results.
The biggest winner this year is Orlando Magic. Last summer, Penny left and left his people alone. Chuck Daly's clever wife couldn't cook without rice. Fortunately, the Magic management still had a trace of rationality and did not put a knife on Daly's neck to force him to achieve results.
Therefore, with advanced perseverance, the Magic scored 14 wins and 68 losses, and won the No. 1 pick in the 2000 draft with the highest probability.
Now they have a chance to take Kenyon Martin in the draft.
Although Mo Mengchen didn't know what would be good at this draft, if he was the management team, he would find a way to sign the No. 1 pick.
In today's training hall, there are about ten fresh draft players participating in the trial.
Mo Mengchen stood on the sidelines, and these people greeted him one after another. He nodded and responded as if he was in the hospital, and then continued to watch them train with a stern face.
In fact, he only cares about one of them.
A white man, wearing a black training suit, is from Turkey.
With the Pistons' draft pick, it was difficult to win him. He also knew that the Pistons did not have a suitable draft pick, but after receiving the invitation to try out, he still "condescends" to Detroit.
"Do you like him?"
Westfal has not had a holiday and has been observing rookies these days.
"Not bad." Mo Mengchen's impression of Tkoglu mostly came from his previous life.
The draft was taken away by the Kings 16. In 2002, he formed the Kings' "bench bandit" with Bobby Jackson, Scott Pollard and others. Unfortunately, the Kings team full of soft eggs was inevitably assimilated into a soft egg.
Moreover, speaking of this, the bench bandits of the Kings team seemed to have been intercepted by Mo Mengchen.
Mo Mengchen also discovered this.
Bobby Jackson, Pollard and the Turkish agents he already likes.
A smart European player was buried by his team in the past few years of his career. If the Pistons want to transform in the future, such panacea players are indispensable.
However, the market conditions in the middle of the first round are indeed difficult to deal with.
Tekoglu also found Mo Mengchen observing him, walked slowly and greeted him: "Mo, I am not only a fan, but also your fan."
"Thank you." Mo Mengchen replied politely.
This is probably the best response from Mo Mengchen's attitude. People around him looked at each other. Although Tekoglu was in the middle of the first round, he played in Europe. In this era, although the NBA has begun to have an international trend, young players who have developed from Europe and NCAA players who take the American campus route can be said to be old and dying. Other rookies do not know young Turkish agents at all.
"I watched your game, and the final free throw was so thrilling that I was so nervous..."
He spoke in particular like Hill, with familiar, annoying, meaningless content.
"Don't get close to me, I'm not familiar with you."
Mo Mengchen decided to be cautious. One Hill is already very annoying. Another one?
"What do you think of him?" Westfal has also been observing Tkoglu.
"It has great potential." Mo Mengchen said.
It is not easy to get such an evaluation. Westfall remembers that the last freshman who was evaluated by Momonchen in similar words was Ginobili.
He didn't know if he went further, after all, he had only been here for two years.
Although Ginobili performed in his first year, as long as he kept improving, he would definitely bring great help to the team in the future.
"ESPN even put him in the lottery in the prediction draft," muttered Momonchen.
Westfal said lightly: "This just shows that this draft is not favored."
Even if it is not favored, others cannot give up the draft pick. If the Pistons want to get Tkoglu, the deal is inevitable.
Joe Dumas was also on the scene, and he watched the rookie with the scout team.
Mo Mengchen walked towards him. Dumas worked as the general manager for a year. He gained a lot of weight and wore glasses to look like an intellectual.
"How about the person you like?" Dumas asked Tkoglu.
Because Momonchen asked, Dumas invited the international rookie who was hovering on the edge of the lottery zone, but with the Pistons' draft pick, he was dreaming about it in the daytime.
"I've confirmed his eyes with him."
"Um?"
"I mean," Momonchen paused, "we need him."
Dumas looked at him strangely. They were ready since Momonchen asked them to invite Tkoglu to come for a trial, because Tkoglu's draft prediction is outside the lottery zone, so it is not unworkable.
"I contacted two teams." Dumas talked about the deal, although it was not in line with the rules.
Management and players are two groups that are absolutely incompatible, but for the Pistons, it is an exception.
Dumas's ex Dean Osgus left him a "ask ahead of time" advice.
This is not a difficult task for Dumas. When he was a player, he was a friend of Mo Mengchen. As a rookie manager, he had too many places to learn, and he discussed it with Mo Mengchen very frequently.
This time Mo Mengchen fell in love with Tkoglu, and he went to make a deal before the trial training began.
“About the draft pick?”
"Yes, Sacramento has a 16-pick in the first round, and they also like Xidu, but it's not that they can't trade, as long as we take action against Brad and the first round pick." Dumas smiled faintly.
Mo Mengchen looked at him mockingly, "What stupid thing did you do?"
"What are you talking about?" Dumas rolled his eyes.
"Otherwise, how could they propose such a solution? I think you can take advantage of it?" Mo Mengchen's eyes made Dumas feel like a mentally retarded.
Maybe in Mo Mengchen's eyes he is really.
"So I hung up their phone on the spot!" Dumas was particularly proud of this.
The guy who licked his face and came to the door to ask for a deal was so angry that he hung up the phone after the other party's lion spoke up.
My God, that scene can appear in my mind.
Momonchen smiled even more disgustingly, Dumas had to immediately change the subject: "Then I immediately contacted Milwaukee, who especially wanted a good insider."
Mo Mengchen asked: "What is their offer?"
"They gave two plans, the first round of Grand Puga next year; the second round of Scott Gaga this year," Dumas said.
"This is the partner who is dedicated to making transactions with you and treats you as a human being." Mo Mengchen said with relief.
Although Dumas knew he wanted to say that both proposals were good, why couldn't he speak well?
"What do you think?" Dumas asked.
Lauderdale and Pollard can be said to be the same type of inside line. Pollard is stronger and he can play main rotation in any team. In the finals that ended not long ago, both of them were consuming O'Neal's strategic task and made great contributions.
The fourth crown of the Pistons, they are definitely worth a medal of merit.
OK will only be stronger next year, and if nothing unexpected happens, they will be their opponents in the finals. Before O'Neal gets old completely, it is necessary to hoard the inside, but it is necessary to get Tkoglu.
It's ridiculous to say that players like Tkoglu only need a main rotation and second round to get the hands. From the side, we can see how unsatisfied NBA teams have no expectations for this draft.
Only Mo Mengchen, who has opened his eyes, can wash sand in the waves at this talent show.
"We'd better keep this year's draft pick," Mo Mengchen said. "Leave the big guys and try to keep the second round picks this year. You can trade the second round picks next year or the next year."
"Why stay with DaP?" In Dumas's view, Pollard has more value in staying.
Mo Mengchen asked him playfully: "What do you think?"
Lauderdale can only play garbage time. In addition to being useful to O'Neal Pyre, Pollard is more useful in most cases.
The point is that Lauderdale is more suitable for O'Neal than Pollard.
Before ok collapses, this is the top priority.
"Well, it seems we have to say goodbye to Scott." Dumas sighed.
"At the same time, we must also prepare to say welcoming to Detroit to the Turks." Mo Mengchen has become accustomed to having someone leave every year.
He will not be sentimental. Leaving the Pistons will have a better development for Pollard. Here he can only play for more than ten minutes per game, while in the Bucks, he is at least a stable first-place substitute, with no problem with 20 minutes per game.
If you are lucky enough to get injured in the main force, it is not impossible to take the opportunity to replace it.
He has two rings on his hand, and he is very young, and it's time to show himself.
Starting this year, every year, such things will happen.
However, they will not leave in vain, their departure will bring fresher blood.
"By the way, Michael Reed, did you invite him?"
This is the most unsurpassable part of the 2000 draft.
The most awesome player actually came from the second round.
"You said that Michael Reed?" Dumas looked disgusted. "We've seen it all, and he... doesn't seem to be very good."
A familiar expression, Dumas is the expression whenever he says a rookie who doesn't look particularly outstanding.
"The scout team is unanimous."
"They are optimistic about Swift, even Scott, in the future, so don't listen to the advice of those idiots." When the time traveler does not follow the routine and directly predicts, there is no suspense in the game.
But this sentence is still terrifying.
Will Stromayer Swift, the top pick with the top three guaranteed pick, not as good as Scott Pollard?
"Do you take it seriously?"
“No doubt!”
Chapter completed!