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Chapter 34 NBA Concerns

Donnie Nelson returned to Oakland and immediately reported to his father Don Nelson's office.

In the 1988-89 season, mad scientist Don Nelson became the head coach of the Warriors. This season is already the fifth season.

Compared with his first coaching career-the Bucks career, Don Nelson is like a different person now.

During his career in the Bucks, he emphasized defense and valued stability and long-term prospects, so he has been in the Bucks for ten years.

Now when it comes to the Warriors, he surprisingly and unexpectedly began to emphasize offense, resorting to the later famous running and bombing offense.

As the Warriors' vice president and head coach, Nelson Sr. is also fully responsible for the team's operations.

His operating style is also very different from that of the Bucks. In the past few years of coaching the Warriors, he likes to experiment and make various changes.

So much so that in the first few seasons of coaching the Warriors, the core of the team: the "Run-TMC" combination composed of Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond has been established, and he still sent Mitch Richmond away.

The public claim was that Nelson Sr. felt the team needed a more versatile big man.

But the Billy Owens they brought back, the No. 91 player in [-], did not meet their expectations in his rookie season, and the current sophomore season is also troubled by injuries.

On the other hand, Richmond, after transferring to the Kings, was quickly selected as an All-Star.

Old Nelson's experiment was a failure, but he did not give up.

With the diving of the team's performance this season, the Warriors have a chance to get a lottery pick.

So, once again, Nelson Sr. set his sights on next year's draft.

The goal remains the same, he needs a more versatile striker.

"I went to see it. This guy's physical fitness is very strong. After a game, he is either taking off or on the way to take off."

"The offense is just one move, break through and then divide the ball."

"However, this guy's cross step is interesting. Although there are not many moves, his speed is extremely fast."

"As for the pass, to be honest, it's nothing special, nothing special. I can only say that he can pass, but his pass is so-so."

"The defense is excellent. His opponent in this game is Alan Houston, a top NCAA scorer who has played in the NCAA for four years and averaged over 20 points per game every year. He only scored 17 points in this game."

"The rest, there is nothing worth mentioning."

"Oh, by the way, he's not a forward, he's a point guard. He's a point guard with a height of just over 2 meters. That's the most surprising thing."

"Look at this posture, he is going to use the magician as a template..."

Once in the door, Nelson Jr. talked eloquently, as is the case with scouting reports these days.

There are not many video materials, so I either describe it with my mouth, or record it with pen and paper.

Little Nelson felt that as far as the relationship between the father and son was concerned, mouths were enough, and hands were redundant.

There were other people in the office, and little Nelson didn't care, anyway, they were all his own people, how could his own people cheat his own people?

Listening to little Nelson's narration, old Nelson knocked on the table and suddenly turned his head: "Greg, what do you think?"

The rest of the office was Greg, a white-haired, middle-aged Caucasian who looked a lot like Popovich.

When Old Nelson asked this question, he shook his head: "Obviously, he doesn't meet our requirements, especially after comparing with Chris Webber."

"Greg is right, Chris Webber is our best choice, but this Stalin, let's continue to investigate, what if our draft pick is not so high?"

The old Nelson seems to agree with this Greg, and Lin Xing can continue to be investigated, which is entirely due to the fact that the Warriors' draft position is very uncertain at this time.

……

In Boston, a yellow-skinned scout in a suit and leather shoes walked into the Celtics' training facility.

"I'm back, Chris, and here's my scouting report from my trip."

Chris Ford, the current head coach of the Celtics, in a training T-shirt.

He took over the scout report from the scout without any hassle.Looking at it, he asked:
"Where have you been all this time, Louie?"

"Mainly the west coast swayed around..."

"West Coast...Let's not talk about those clichés, let's talk about the newcomers, do you have any special recommendations?"

"Cal's Jason Kidd, a point guard with an outstanding overall view, passes the ball first, but the disadvantage is that the desire to attack is not strong enough..."

"I know that, forget it, let's talk about one that you find particularly interesting?"

"Interesting, it should be Stalin who has been noisy and hot during this time!"

"Stalin? Did you go to his games too? How was he playing?"

Chris Ford raised his head. During this period of time, the whole United States was buzzing, and the Boston Herald also got involved.

The Herald reporter named Bill Simmons took a clear stand on Lin Xing's side, which made Chris Ford, who had always admired Bill Simmons, very curious about Lin Xing.

"Not bad, well, to be precise, he completely dominated the offense and defense against the University of Tennessee,

All kinds of sudden points on the offensive end, and on the defensive end, he also switched defenses and locked up Alan Houston.
I think he is a genius, the most important thing is that his physical fitness is too outstanding, so outstanding that his future is boundless..."

"Hey, you're so optimistic about him? Then why don't you recommend him in particular?"

"Because I like Jason Kidd more?"

"Okay, your taste is always different."

Chris Ford smiled and shook his head, "Is this scouting report still the same as before, including video data?"

"Yes."

"Then you can rest for a week, and wait until I finish watching the video."

"Ok!"

……

In Dallas, the Mavericks were crazy, and the general manager Norm Songno got Lin Xing's scouting report the day after Long Beach won Tennessee;

Milwaukee, Bucks head coach Mike Dunleavy, who had a poor record, watched the game, and he commented: He is indeed a genius, let the scouting department investigate him more;

Minnesota, the same crazy Timberwolves, general manager Jack McCloskey said: "Okay guys, our next focus is to make a choice between Penny and Stalin!"

Los Angeles, Indiana, Houston, Sacramento, Detroit...

Lin Xing didn't know that almost overnight, he appeared on the desks of countless NBA team general managers or head coaches.

The eyes of the NBA have already turned to him, and bundles of beautiful knives have already locked him.

……

What is Lin Xing doing at this time?He called Tim Hardaway.

Truth be told, he's grateful for Tim Hardaway.

Although Hardaway's voice was a bit late, it did not save him from danger, but it was just icing on the cake.

But Lin Xing knew very well that it took courage for Hardaway to admit that Lin Xing defeated him one-on-one.

The NBA lacks everything except trash talkers.

With Hardaway's admission, it is foreseeable that he will be ridiculed in future games:
Yo, isn't this a bug?Why can't you beat college students?
No, you are not a college student who is still riding a horse. To be precise, Stalin was still a high school student at that time!
Lin Xing, who was very grateful, called Hardaway to express his gratitude.

"Thank you, Tim, for your kind words."

"Don't be so polite, Sta, we're friends, aren't we?"

"Yes, Tim, we're friends."

Lin Xing directly hit the shot, not only that, but he also focused on Hardaway's stunt:

"So, Tim, since we are friends, can you teach me a half-step crossover?"

During this period of time, he has indeed been practicing his two-stroke and one-style crossing steps. Lin Xing really wants to upgrade these two moves and one-style crossing steps to three moves and two moves or four moves and three moves.

But he practiced on his own without anyone to guide him, and he couldn't get the details of many movements. He practiced for a long time, but he couldn't make any progress.

"Cross step?"

"That's right, I've been practicing my cross step all this time, but after practicing for so long, I still only know how to sway left and right or right and left..."

"Okay, what do you want to learn?"

"As for the cross step, as long as I don't know it, I want to learn it."

"That's too much..."

On the other side of the phone, Hadaway pondered for a moment,

"Well, I'll ask my trainer to send you a copy of my training plan, which contains some dismantling diagrams of cross-step movements, and you can practice according to that."

"Thank you so much, Tim!"

……

Soon, Lin Xing received a package from San Francisco.

He opened the package and got Tim Hardaway's training plan.

The disassembly diagram of the cross-step movement in the training plan is indeed very detailed, and every subtle movement is highlighted.

Lin Xing felt that this was a bit like a secret book of martial arts, and every dismantled movement was a move and a style that was also disassembled in the secret book.

Of course, what surprised Lin Xing even more was that Tim Hardaway's training plan was very professional, and Lin Xing, who was worried about how to develop his training, suddenly had a direction.

"Just practice like this!"

Lin Xing started his hard training, and he wanted to engrave the label of hard work on himself.

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(End of this chapter)