Chapter 374 [Dark Horse and Black Heart]
Experts predict that the Bulls will definitely be eliminated, and neither the Bulls coach nor the player agrees with this.?
This team is very young, first- and second-year rookies. Most young people are newborn calfs and not afraid of tigers. Even without Curry, they still have the confidence to fight the Nets.
The Bulls arrived in New York a day in advance and underwent adaptation training.
After the end, coach Skeles gathered the players and put on a pose of "bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes". He shouted on the court: "We lost four games against the net team in the regular season, and those experts are not optimistic about us because of this, but they forgot our identities and we are dark horses!"
Skeles continued: "At the beginning of the season, no one thought we could make the playoffs. We were much behind, but in the end we caught up. We were very strong and getting stronger. The Nets had weaknesses, and the offense was swaying people, and the three of them had overlapping positions. This playoff, we would continue to be dark horses!"
"good!"
The emotions of young people are easily driven. They can fight to win, and they don’t even need to pay much salary. The Bulls’ good playing this year has nothing to do with experience and strength, they rely on fighting spirit.
The Nets have the strength and morale, the Bulls are not inferior to any team.
On the side of the net team, the coaching staff are having a headache about how to arrange the lineup.
After Jefferson returned, he played as a substitute for a while and performed averagely, and was very dissatisfied with this.
He is not a veteran like Kittles, and he can't ensure efficiency after playing for a long time.?? He is in the year of playing, with strong physical fitness and abundant physical strength, making it a waste to make him play less than thirty minutes.
The boss Bruce was not satisfied with the use of Jefferson and called Thorne into the office to discuss.
Before being injured, Jefferson averaged nearly 25 points per game, proving himself. After returning from injury, he averaged only 14 points per game, with all the shooting times and playing time decreasing.
When this happened, Bruce actually asked: "Will Lawrence use people? Why did the three offensive masters all drop in his hands? Shouldn't we play better after Richard's comeback?"
"I think this is normal." Thorne sighed.
"What?"
Thorne explained. "Three people who average 25+ points per game will get together in one team and their scores will be reduced. It is normal for two to drop below 2o points, because the team's offense and defense conversions in each game are limited, and all players will score. The outside offense is equivalent to dividing the two's shots into three parts."
Bruce was angry: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"
Thorne rolled his eyes.
My fucking voice was hoarse. You must stay with Jefferson in the mid-sb period, and now you blame me?
He couldn't directly scold the boss, and thought for a while and said, "If you want all three of them to swing, you can only play small ball tactics, let Richard play No. 4, the Bulls Curry is not there, and the inside offense is average, you can try it."
If Xia Tian wants to disassemble the three, Jefferson must play beautiful data. The substitute will definitely not work. It is best for the three to play small ball tactics together. In other words, this is the only way.
Only when you have data and trade can you exchange useful players.
Bruce asked: "Can you let Richard play more and reduce Wang Jun's playing time?"
Thorne was stunned. "What? Don't you know he almost became the scoring champion this year? If it weren't for Carter's mid-term trading and giving him some ball rights, he might have succeeded."
"I know, but I hope Lawrence can arrange for Carter and Jefferson to play more in the playoffs, control Wang Jun's number of shots, at least not let him play such beautiful data." Bruce sneered.
"Then will we win or not?" Thorne's face turned cold. Even if the "rice bowl" is in the hands of others, he cannot tolerate such stupid things.
This kind of problem occurs when an outsider manages an insider. As the real estate boss, Thorne is used to making decisions by himself and wants to use the usual business style to manage the team.
Former Mavericks coach Nelson and Cuban had a lot of conflicts because of disagreement. Last year, Cuban came to "release the military power with a glass of wine", and then asked Nelson to serve as the team's consultant and no longer serve as the team's head coach and manager.
Then the brain-dead thing was born. The Mavericks let Nash go for nothing. The blue-collar center Danpier was introduced with high salary. It turned out that Danpier was a waste of money, but Nash was a star defender.
Now, Bruce also wants to point fingers at the team's affairs and let the management follow what he said.
Faced with Thorne's questioning, Bruce was not anxious and smiled and said, "Wang Jun is a man who is not careful in speaking. He loves to cause trouble and has been suspended for two seasons, but his data is pretty. How much do you think such a player is worth?"
Thorne didn't answer, knowing that he had some more information.
Bruce continued, "We sent Martin away and Kittles away. What did you have after that? Didn't you forget?"
Thorne nodded.
"They played badly after leaving the Nets. Martin was rated as a bad contract. Kittles was nothing in the Clippers, and no one liked them. Now, Wang Jun's situation is somewhat similar to Martin. He relied on the team's tactical system to play data. Do we have to give him a maximum salary in the summer?" Bruce asked.
Thoren understood what the boss meant and wanted to renew Wang Jun's contract when the price was lowered.
Despite the Arenas clause, new labor-management negotiations will be held in the summer. It is difficult to say what the final result will be, and it may also be beneficial to the players.
Wang Jun's data will definitely have teams willing to give him a high salary. As long as the Internet team matches, they will have to pay a lot of luxury taxes in the future, unless they are like trading Martin last year, and they will use Jefferson or Wang Jun for draft picks in one or two seasons.
Bruce sneered: "I can invest a lot of money to let you operate in the summer and sign up. As long as the person you find is worth the contract price, I won't say anything. Just like Carter and Jefferson, they can get high salaries because it is worth it. Wang Jun's current data, if he also makes more moves in the playoffs, the whole team watches him play, and he plays good data. Maybe a team will give him a maximum salary. How can we match him at that time? Is he worth the maximum salary?"
"..." Thorne was speechless and didn't know how to answer the conversation.
He felt that Wang Jun was worth it and had potential for young people, but the boss obviously didn't think so.
Bruce gave an example: "Think about it, you bought Celine Dion's concert ticket, but she couldn't sing "My Heart Eternal". Is this ticket worth it? You would hope that she would sink like the Titanic when she was on the boat!"
In the final analysis, what the boss cares about is the word money.
Seeing that the data of the three players had dropped, Bruce immediately worried that Wang Jun's data would drop sharply next season, becoming a character player who averaged only 20 points or less than 20 points per game.
He didn't want to give a high salary, and he could accept it like Jefferson, and he would be depressed if he had a high salary.
Thorne said helplessly: "I will keep my original opinion and trade Richard in the summer to get an insider. Although his contract is not signed high and worth the price, his strength is not as strong as Wang Jun."
"Trading is OK. He can make more moves in the playoffs. The data is beautiful. Don't get a blue-collar worker who has no data!"
Thorne had a headache, and what he said didn't count.
Without him, many people could be the president of the Nets. But before the boss sold the team, he was the boss of the Nets.
With such a bad-hearted boss who only looks at money, how can the Nets defend their title?
Chapter completed!