NBA: Top 3D talents to start

Chapter 428 Cavaliers' Two Lineups
It can be said that it is the mask incident that has made Gilbert. Affected by the mask incident, the income of many enterprises and ordinary people in Quanmi has been seriously affected. Gilbert's mortgage business was growing exponentially, making money every day.

But in this time and space, I don’t know if it’s because of the concept of parallel time and space, or the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Feng’s time travel. Nearly ten times the big boss of the Cavaliers has a big gap.

In this case, he is naturally more eager for more opportunities to make money.

Wang Feng's return to the Cavaliers will not only bring a lot of attention and advertising endorsements from Huaguo to his team, but more importantly, it will also be an opportunity for his mortgage company to enter Huaguo.

As the world's second largest economy, Huaguo's market is extremely broad and is still developing at an ultra-high speed.

Many American companies have made a lot of money in China, including the NBA and the Houston Rockets that once owned Dayao.

In the past four years, the Los Angeles Lakers have made a lot of money in China because of Wang Feng.

Making money is even more important to Gilbert as a businessman than the team's championship.

The reason why he spent huge sums of money to build a championship team for James, on the one hand, was indeed out of his love for the team, but more importantly, he knew that once he brought an NBA championship to Cleveland, a city that had never had a championship The championship will be of great benefit to him and his team.

All of this directly determines that Gilbert's attitude towards Wang Feng is no less than that towards James.

During the banquet, Gilbert enthusiastically introduced Wang Feng's family and some celebrities who attended the meeting, all of which showed the importance he attached to Wang Feng.

Wang Feng was well aware of Gilbert's thoughts, and accepted it frankly.

With his current status in the arena, he deserves to be treated like this by any team owner.

Wang Feng also knew that while Gilbert expressed kindness to himself, he also had some selfishness in it. The minds of capitalists are always more delicate and vivid than ordinary people.

As long as these small thoughts don't affect Wang Feng's completion of his goal, which is the task of upgrading the system, then he will just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye to it.

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General manager, head coach, team owner, Wang Feng, after meeting a series of Cavaliers characters, soon made an appointment for dinner with the team's only star player, Kevin Love.

For Le Fu, Wang Feng feels pretty good.

When he was in the Cavaliers, Love was an approachable personality, a star who didn't fight or grab, which is one of the main reasons why he had the worst data among the Big Three.

During this Olympic Games, Love also took the initiative to say hello to Wang Feng under the pressure of coaches and teammates, which also made Wang Feng feel good about Love.

Of course, the most important thing is Love's strength.

Although last season, Love's performance can be described as bad. He was always injured and stopped, and his competitive state was also quite worrying. In the case of more than 30 games, he averaged only 12.2 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. , the outside world thinks that Love has been abolished.

After all, when the inside players reach the age of 33 and close to 34 like Love, most of their competitive status will decline sharply.

But the final performance of Love in the 2021-22 season surprised everyone.

In another time and space, Love, who was persuaded by the coaching staff to serve as a substitute, played 74 games in the new season, only 4 of which started. With an average playing time of 22.5 minutes per game, he can contribute 13.6 points and 7.2 rebounds, and his shooting percentage is 43. %, and the three-point shooting rate is as high as 39.2%, becoming the main scorer of the Cavaliers' bench.

This fully proves that Le Fu still has some strength, but it depends on how to use it.

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"I didn't expect that you actually beat us and won the Olympic gold medal..." At the dinner table, Le Fu smiled wryly and shook his head. "You didn't see the atmosphere in the locker room after the game, it felt like someone was dead."

"Maybe it's because I know you and I will be teammates in the new season. No one talked to me on the way back. I regret participating in this Olympics."

Hearing Le Fu's complaint, Wang Feng also smiled. "Who told you to run over to say hello to me at the opening ceremony, some people will remember it when they see it."

"What does that have to do with it? Saying hello doesn't mean I'll put water on the court." Love said angrily: "Everyone is a colleague who plays in the same league. Even if there is a competitive relationship, it shouldn't be like this. "

With that said, Le Fu shook his head, unwilling to mention it again.

This trip to the Olympics, especially the finals, was a bad experience for him. In the finals against the Huaguo men's basketball team, Love did not appear on the stage at all, and he sat on the bench throughout the whole process. I don't know if it is Popovich was worried that Love would release Wang Feng.

"Forget it, stop talking! Wang, what is your goal for the new season? To lead the Cavaliers back to the playoffs?"

Le Fu finally asked the question he was more concerned about.

He felt that a player with a personality like Wang Feng would choose to join a team at the bottom of the league like the Cavaliers, and he must have his own ideas and goals.

"Of course not." Wang Feng shook his head, and did not hide Le Fu's thoughts. "My goal in the first year of coming to the Cavaliers is to at least win the Eastern Conference championship. If the goal is achieved, I can consider competing for the championship in the second year."

"East... East champion?"

Although he was mentally prepared, Ke Lefu still opened his mouth wide in surprise at Wang Feng's understatement.

Wang Feng's appetite is too big!

Is the Eastern Conference Championship so easy to get?

The current Eastern Conference is not the period when James won the Eastern Conference Championship for eight consecutive years and reached the finals.

The environment where the west is strong and the east is weak has changed significantly in recent years. Although the championship is still monopolized by the west or the Warriors and Lakers in recent years, the east is currently full of powerful players.

The Brooklyn Nets have three top superstars Durant, Irving, and George.

The Milwaukee Bucks have Antetokounmpo, a new generation of super strikers second only to Wang Feng.

The Philadelphia 76ers with James Harden + Joel Embiid dual-core and a lot of capable players.

And in recent years, under the leadership of the famous young coach Brad Stevens, the Boston Celtics have always maintained good competitiveness.

These four teams are currently the four strongest teams in the Eastern Conference.

If Wang Feng is still with the Los Angeles Lakers, he can still compare with them in terms of lineup depth.

But now Wang Feng is playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Apart from Wang Feng, let alone an All-Star in the team, there is not even a player who averaged more than 15 points per game last season.

With such a team of Cavaliers, how will Wang Feng lead his team to win the Eastern Conference Championship?
A miracle like the one in the Olympic finals is enough to happen once or twice. The NBA playoffs are 7 games and 4 wins. If you want to win the series, it is very difficult for one player to do it , The overall strength of the team is indispensable.

"Wang, there is something I still want to ask you about." Le Fu showed a little tangled color. "Some time ago, the coaching staff had already talked with me, and they hoped that I would play the role of a rotation substitute in the new season."

"You also know that last season I wasn't in a good state. The reason why the Cavaliers are at the bottom of the record is directly related to my performance."

"If it's for the team's victory, I don't think it's completely unacceptable to be a substitute..."

Wang Feng shook his head slightly when he heard the downbeat Le Fu in his voice.

"Kevin (Love), you don't have to worry about this issue. I have already thought about the Cavaliers' lineup for the new season. You are the team's starting center, which has very important tactical and strategic significance."

"What?" Le Fu was stunned for a moment, followed by surprise in his eyes. "is this real?"

After all, he is a former 5-time All-Star, a star who was selected to the best team twice, and Love, who is less than 34 years old, is still in his prime. If possible, who would be willing to become a substitute rotation player during this period?
"of course it's true."

Wang Feng was not joking.

In the 21-22 season, Love made 39% of his three-pointers and averaged 2.5 three-pointers per game. He is the most accurate of all inside players in the league!

At the same time, in an average of 22.5 minutes per game, Love can still grab 7.2 rebounds. According to this efficiency, if the average playing time reaches more than 30 minutes per game, Love's average rebounds can still be maintained at more than 10.

What are the requirements of inside players in the small ball era?
Can protect the basket and grab rebounds, has a certain mid-range and long-range shooting ability, and can create enough space for the team.

These conditions are perfectly met by Love, wouldn't it be too wasteful to let him play as a substitute?
When Wang Feng was with the Lakers, the team's center forward was always Brook Lopez.

Lopez's ability to protect the frame and rebound is not very good, his feet are slow, and his ability to help defend smaller players is also poor.

But even so, he is still firmly established as the starting center of the Lakers, and his annual salary of 400 million has been called a high-quality contract with high quality and low price by the media more than once.

If it weren't for Wang Feng's foresight to let the Lakers sign Lopez first, the latter would be able to win a contract with an annual salary of 1300 million U.S. dollars when he moved to the Bucks.

Why is an insider who averaged only a little over 10 points per game and often even less than 5 rebounds per game so popular?It is because Lopez's shooting rate from outside the three-point line is close to 35%, which can pull down the outside line and involve space, and attract the opponent's inside defensive players for Antetokounmpo.

What Lopez can do, Love can do, and even better, why can't Love start?

In Wang Feng's view, in another time and space, it is a helpless move for Love to serve as a substitute. The Cavaliers do not have top perimeter players who can take advantage of Love's range, but it is too much for a player with an annual salary of 2800 million to play as a substitute. wasted.

"Don't worry, you are the starting center of the Cavaliers, I told you." Wang Feng said bluntly to Love: "I have discussed this matter with the head coach before, and he has no opinion. "

"That's really great...thank you." Le Fu was so pleasantly surprised that he ignored some contradictions in Wang Feng's words.

The head coach has to listen to the players and dare not have any opinions. This is very James...

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For the current lineup of the Cavaliers, Wang Feng is actually quite satisfied.

Although it seems that the lineup is very simple, even to the point of being completely unbearable, in fact, the players he asked the Cavaliers to trade and sign after the opening of the free market should perform well in the new season without any accidents. .

In another time and space, Kevin Love averaged 13.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, shooting 39% from three-point range.

Jordan Poole of the Warriors averaged 18.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and his three-point shooting percentage was 36.4%.

For the Grizzlies, Desmond Bain averaged 18.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, and made 43.6% of his three-pointers.

In addition, there are high-quality and efficient players such as Malik Monk, Max Struth, Desmond Bain, Otto Porter, etc. who averaged close to 10 points per game.

Although they are still unknown, they do have great potential.

Wang Feng also knows that data does not necessarily represent strength, but this is already the maximum signing and reinforcement he can do under the constraints of the system upgrade task.

He also has every reason to believe that these players will perform better than in another time and space with the increase of his two purple top badges, organization core and defensive core!

At present, he has a preliminary idea of ​​the Cavaliers' lineup for the new season.

In terms of starting lineup, he has prepared two plans.

The first set of plans: starting point guard Jordan Poole, shooting guard Desmond Bain, small forward Otto Porter, power forward Wang Feng, center Love.

This lineup is the most typical small-ball lineup. All members have three-point shooting ability, and Jordan Poole, who has the weakest three-pointer, also has a 36% three-point shooting rate. He has good mobility and strong offensive firepower.

However, due to the constraints of the lineup, the height of the team's inside lines is insufficient. Love's real height is 2 meters, Wang Feng is 03 meters, and Otto Porter Jr. is also 2 meters. The defense and rebounding of the frame are weak.

The second set of starting lineups is a reinforcement for this shortcoming.

Starting point guard Wang Feng, shooting guard Desmond Bain, small forward Otto Porter Jr., power forward Kevin Love, center Jarrett Allen.

The blue-collar center signed for $5 million over five years will come into play at this time.

Jarrett Allen is 2 meters tall, with long arms, excellent frame protection ability, and not low mobility. He can play pick-and-roll cooperation with Wang Feng, who is a point guard, on the court.

At the same time, Desmond Bain, who is the shortest in this lineup, is 1 meters, followed by Wang Feng, who is 96 meters tall. The average height is quite outstanding.

In addition to the two starting lineups, the Cavaliers' bench is full of talents, including Gary Payton II, the son of the famous "Glove" Gary Payton, Cedi Osman, the original forward defensive expert of the Cavaliers, Ma Players such as Rick Monk and Max Struth will get at least 15 minutes of playing time and have the opportunity to give full play to their strengths.

Both sets of starting lineups make Wang Feng more satisfied, which is also the capital for him to have a certain degree of confidence in competing for the Eastern Conference championship in the new season.

It's just that at present, only he, a traveler who has the advantage of foresight, knows that the Cavaliers' lineup is not as vulnerable as it seems, and the so-called four strong teams in the East are definitely not as strong as they seem.

There are still many opportunities, as long as you can grasp it!
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In the following days, Wang Feng's life began to return to peace.

Every day is to go in and out between the mansion and the training hall arranged by the team, conduct daily training with Love and other Cavaliers players, get acquainted with new teammates, discuss and study tactical cooperation.

The head coach of the Cavaliers is obedient to the two starting lineup plans given by Wang Feng.

But this is not entirely because of Wang Feng's identity.

As the head coach of an NBA team, Bickerstaff also has some real talents.

Just two simple intra-team matches, Bickerstaff tested the pros and cons of the two lineups given by Wang Feng, and was keenly aware that this seems to be what the current Cavaliers can make up. The most suitable lineup.

Even if Wang Feng doesn't give this set of plans, let Bickerstaff judge by himself, after a period of training and inspection, he will most likely list a similar starting lineup.

This undoubtedly surprised Bickerstaff.

I have been an assistant coach for many years, and then became the head coach with good working ability.

Wang Feng, a player under the age of 30, has such a vision. No wonder he averaged double figures in assists per game for two consecutive seasons.

A simple incident successfully made Bickerstaff understand Wang Feng's level.

Although at this time, including most people in the team, they don't have much hope for the new season of the Cavaliers, but everyone also feels that under the leadership of Wang Feng, it should not be a problem for the team to enter the playoffs.

Unknowingly, the time soon came to the beginning of September.

The NBA's preseason starts in early October, but in September, most of the team's signings and reinforcements have been completed, and training and preparations for the new season have begun.

Even if there are signings and trades, most of them are inconsequential, and many of them are not even worthy of being in the news.

But at this time, Wang Feng received a call from Huaguo.

The call was from Zhou Qi, a teammate of Wang Feng's national team and known as the Big Devil in the CBA.

However, the purpose of Zhou Qi's call surprised Wang Feng. Zhou Qi's inability to compete in the CBA is considered a major event in Huaguo. This kind of thing did not happen at the time he traveled. I don't know if it is a parallel time and space. The reason is that he didn't catch up to eat this melon in time travel.

Wang Feng is completely unaware of the cause and effect of the matter, and has not paid much attention to the CBA matter, so he does not know who is right and who is wrong in this matter.

He even has some regrets, because judging from Zhou Qi's matter, it should be a problem with the entire CBA system. Guo Ailun and others are facing the same situation as Zhou Qi, but they all chose to compromise and complete the contract renewal with the team , only Zhou Qi and the team fought to the end, and in the end they lost both sides. The team lost its star, and the players could not continue to compete in the CBA in the new season.

(End of this chapter)