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Seeing that other teams are strengthening, but his own team has no movement, as the boss of the team, Stephen feels that he can't sit idly by, at least he has to communicate with the management, and ask the management if they have any ideas Well, it's not easy to make big deals, but it's okay to make small troubles to fix the team's loopholes.

Stephen picked up the phone directly and called Presti. They were still acquaintances, otherwise Stephen would not have dared to ask so boldly. After the call was connected, Stephen shared his worries and questions with Presti. As soon as he said that, Presti immediately let him train with peace of mind, and the team's reinforcement work is in progress.

Although he has just taken over this team, many things are complicated and chaotic, but a team's record is always the first pursuit, and strength is the basis of the record, so for improving the team's strength, he He is also always thinking and acting, and keeps making tentative offers for those players he is optimistic about.

However, Presti also told Stephen that because the team has just undergone changes from everyone, the management, down to the coaching staff and main players, it is necessary to maintain a certain stability in the lineup, and sometimes Considering the team's nostalgic psychology, and at the same time, the team's operation is still mainly conservative and stable, and it will not make such a big deal like the Boston Celtics, and such a deal is also rare .

Stephen has already considered this. Since Bennett chose Presti to be the general manager, besides trusting his vision, he also hopes that he can operate conservatively and aggressively like the Spurs, with small investment and big gains. It is the pursuit of every businessman, and Bennett is no exception.

Stephen only tactfully expressed his concerns about the current strength of the team, and then began to devote himself to training with peace of mind. Although the team has not heard of any trades, Stephen knows that he is just a player, expressing his strength Suggestions are enough, and they are not qualified to dictate to the management.

The whole summer just passed day by day, and Stephen felt that his hard training in the summer didn't seem to have any effect, as if it was not as obvious as the training trade in the penalty area last season, but Bob Deng Huade told Stephen that this is a normal phenomenon , is the proper precipitation period for rapid progress, accumulate slowly at this level, and then seek greater breakthroughs. If the last training was a qualitative change, the current training is a quantitative change. Only when the quantitative change reaches a certain scale can it cause a new qualitative change .

However, when Bob Deng Huade talked about Coupard who trained with Stephen, he was full of praise. He believed that Coupard had made great progress in this summer's hard training. Although Deng Huade was not a professional inside player coach, many of them were In common, he believes that Coupard is now enough to occupy a stable main position in a mid-level team.

In the confrontation, Coupard gave Stephen the feeling that the defense has improved the most, especially the one-on-one defense breakthrough. The offensive method in the offensive is not so obvious, but the offensive success rate has been significantly improved. , All in all, Coppard's training effect is very obvious, Stephen jokingly said that the training expenses this time will be paid by Coupard, making Coupard call the boss dishonest.

The cost of Bob Deng Huade's employment in one summer is 20 US dollars, because he has to accompany him throughout the training, and the rental cost of the venue is 30 US dollars, plus other various expenses, the training expenditure for a summer is more than [-] US dollars.

Stephen doesn't care about this amount of money, but for those players with lower salaries, it is absolutely unbearable, because after nearly half of their salaries are deducted after taxes, 200% of their funds are used by the league. Trusteeship, that is, Coupard, an expensive first-round lottery rookie, only more than 100 million US dollars a year, after seven deductions and eight deductions, he only got a little over 30 million, and [-] US dollars is equivalent to four quarters of his annual income. How could he be willing to pay more than one-tenth of it.

So Stephen took out the money, but in order to verify the training effect of Coupard, while Yao Mingye was doing business in Los Angeles, Stephen took him to the training ground and asked Yao Ming to teach Coopard a hard lesson After all, compared with Yao Ming, Coupard's physical disadvantage is too obvious, coupled with Yao Ming's rich and varied offensive methods, it seems that Coupard's performance is not as good as usual.

However, after the contest, Yao Ming told Stephen that Coupard's progress was very obvious. Last season, he didn't even have the power to fight back in front of Yao Ming. He paid three fouls in less than 5 minutes. , is now much stronger than before.

What Yao Ming did not say is that he is now very different from last season. Now Coupard can walk in front of him for a few rounds. In last season, it might not be a problem to fight halftime. In addition to the improvement in strength and physical fitness, he is more able to use his body, and his defensive methods have also improved a lot.

Sure enough, after resting for a while, when the two confronted each other for the second time, Coupard's condition was much better. After all, he was training alone during the training. Although Stephen is also very strong, he is not an authentic center after all. Suddenly encountering an inside monster like Yao Ming, he naturally couldn't adapt.

Occasionally, Coupard can score one on Yao Ming's head, which is already a great improvement, and Stephen can still see it from the sidelines, as he gets more and more used to Yao Ming's strength and height, his performance Still continues to grow, especially as he plays more and more confidently.

Stephen knows that there are two factors that limit Coupard's improvement. One is his personal lack of enterprising spirit. As a well-known player, his ability can't be fully utilized. These are the two main reasons for restricting him. However, the hard training in the summer made him feel that he should be rewarded for his hard work. In addition, Stephen is in the Next to it, it's pretty good.

After coming down this time, Yao Ming was also out of breath. The first time he confronted Yao Ming was easy, but the second time it was not so easy. After some rest, the two started the third confrontation training. This time Coupard's performance was even better than the second time.

At the end of the three confrontations, although Coupard still has no good way to take Yao Ming, he is still very strong in defense, especially in top defense. At the same time, he can occasionally score a few goals in offense, especially with Once, he used one step to retreat first, and then waited for Yao Ming to get close, and suddenly turned nimbly and squeezed to the basket and dunked the basket. Stephen couldn't help but shouted "Hello", Yao Ming also applauded for his performance.

After the training, the three went to Chinatown to find a restaurant for dinner. As soon as Yao Ming's tall figure got out of the car, he immediately caused a sensation in the neighborhood. Many people expressed their affection for Yao Ming, a compatriot who made glory for the Chinese. And kindness, after entering the restaurant, the situation is a little better.

What Stephen and the others didn't know was that not far from them, there were two people watching them all the time, optimistic that Yao Ming and Stephen had such a good relationship, one of them muttered: "I didn't expect the relationship between the two of them to be so good, look Dad’s idea is not wrong.”

During the meal, while Coppard was going to the bathroom, Yao Ming secretly said to Stephen: "Stephen, don't you think it's a waste for Coupard to stay with the Clippers?"

"What do you mean?" Stephen asked puzzled.

"With his ability, what's the hope of staying in a team like the Clippers? Why don't you let him change teams?" Yao Ming said, Stephen immediately thought of it, yes, with Coupard's current ability It's a waste to stay in the Clippers as a substitute, and there is no prospect, because with Chris Kaman and Elton Brand, Coupard is a substitute no matter where he is in the interior. With the data coming, the big contract without the data, Coupard will be able to negotiate a contract extension at the beginning of this season. If the data is not played out, this contract will not be much better than the current rookie contract.

"How about letting him be my substitute and partner? At least it can guarantee playing time and reduce my burden. Otherwise, relying on Mutombo, I always feel a little uneasy." Yao Ming put his own The idea came out, but I didn't know that Stephen was already thinking about how to get Coupard to the Sonics.

Such an excellent inside big man is hard to find now. If we say that Coupard in the past may only be a substitute, but not now. Even if he cannot be a starter, he can also be a main rotation player. , it is better to drag Kupad to his side.

"Is this it? Let me talk to him later." Stephen nodded and agreed in a coping manner.But Yao Ming saw through it at a glance: "You don't want to bring him to your place. I said, the Sonics have no shortage of big men. Why don't you let him come to us."

"He wants to go there, let him decide on his own, and you can ask him when he comes later." Stephen thought that as the boss of Coupard, if he asked Coupard to make a decision, he would definitely choose himself.

"Okay, but you can't speak first, let me speak first." Yao Ming also knew the relationship between Stephen and Coupard, and if he competed with them, he would definitely be at a disadvantage, so he asked him to speak first, and Stephen had no choice but to agree. .

Who knew that after Kupard came back, when Yao Ming asked, Kupard immediately shook his head faster than anyone else, Stephen laughed happily, who knew that when he opened his mouth, Kupard also shook his head, Kupard said He likes Los Angeles very much, and he doesn't go there other than Los Angeles, and Stephen wants to beat him up when he is angry, but Yao Ming cheers for Coupard with the mentality that I can't get you and don't even want to get it.

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