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Now the Seattle SuperSonics have a total of players under contract, Stephen, Kevin Durant, Coupard, Chris Wilcox, Nick Collinson, Earl Watson, Luke Crednor , Damien Wilkins, Russell Westbrook, Serge Ibaka, Jerome James, Jared Jeffries twelve people.

There are still three places left before the 15-man roster. Under normal circumstances, it is enough to sign a few second-round picks or free players, as long as there are enough players, or sign a few more unguaranteed players, and decide to stay depending on who is in good condition, but Due to the freedom of operation, although there are a few good seedlings in the team's summer training camp, such as Du Fei recommended by Stephen, Presti decided to take another look.

The number of people is almost the same, but the structure of the lineup is not reasonable. The inside lineup removes Jerome James, and there are five players, but the pure center is relatively small. There is only one Coupard, Wilcox is a power forward and He can play as a center. In fact, he can only be regarded as a power forward at best, and he is not a powerful type.

As the team's controller, Presti is very clear that this inside lineup is enough to become a playoff team, but it is far from enough to become a championship team, especially If you want to stand out in the West, you must face the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.

And these two teams have good inside ability. Fortunately, the Spurs have only one Tim Duncan left. The team's offense has begun to shift to the outside, but the inside of the Los Angeles Lakers is not ordinary. In addition to Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, Bynum is also about to return from injury.

Although none of the three of them can be regarded as top inside players, Pau Gasol has outstanding skills, Bynum has strength and tonnage, and Lamar Odom is flexible and comprehensive. With these three inside players, the Los Angeles Lakers only rely on the inside lineup It is already a top team, not to mention that they have superstars like Kobe Bryant on the outside.

If you want to compete with such an inside lineup, there are two strategies. One is to find a top inside player, like Tim Duncan, who is still in his prime, supplemented by a player who can make up for his weaknesses or help him. assistant, that's it.

Or, like the Los Angeles Lakers, two or three first-rate or near-top players form a lineup. With a large number of people, they can also bully most teams in the league, especially now that the interior is getting weaker and weaker. case.

But with this lineup of the Los Angeles Lakers, they couldn't take advantage of the Rockets with only Yao Ming alone. In the end, they relied on Kobe to win the series.

As for winning the Spurs, it should be related to the fact that the Spurs spent too much energy on the Sonics, otherwise the Lakers would not be able to win easily.

Then in the Finals against the Boston Celtics, just a combination of Perkins and Garnett limited the inside of the Los Angeles Lakers.

But at that time the Lakers did not have Bynum, and Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom did not have the ability to attack inside, so facing dark and thick muscles like Yao Ming and Perkins. Not cheap, with Bynum, the situation will be much better.

So, to face the Los Angeles Lakers again, it is not just a muscle. The stick can solve the problem, because they also have their own muscles. The stick, and it is also a very thick one.

For the Sonics, if they want to go further and succeed in the playoffs, the first task is to stand out from the encirclement in the West. Certain weaknesses.

Presti doesn't worry much about the outside line. With Stephen around, he can basically have no worries on both ends of the offense and defense. At most, he can do some sewing and repairing work. The biggest player, Chris Wilcox, is just a quasi-first-class player. If Coupard excludes the factors of youth and growth potential, he is no more than Chris Wilcox, so the problem inside is still very serious. .

There are two solutions to this problem. One is to pursue a top or near-top inside player. It's also top-notch.

Another way is like the Dallas Mavericks in the past. Prepare a few more players who can resist and dare to fight. If you really can't prevent them, use people to play and use fouls to limit the opponent. The reason why Presti is in Kurt Thomas He wasted so much time and so much energy, on the one hand, he was interested in his experience, hoping to use him to guide these young players, on the other hand, he also hoped to recruit more defensive players like this.

It is indeed too difficult to find good inside players now, just like the Spurs have always wanted to find a suitable helper for Duncan, so that Duncan can be rescued from the coolies and concentrate on attacking and organizing the team. It has not been possible for several years As he wished, Presti could guess that although Nesterovic couldn't see it on the surface, he must regret letting Nesterovich go so easily in his heart. There is nothing wrong with his salary requirements and professional attitude.

The Rockets have always hoped to find a qualified substitute for Yao Ming. It is also very difficult. They have to rely on the old Mutombo. This is the status quo of the league. There are a lot of offensive swingmen. , Almost everywhere, but it is very difficult to find an inside line who can defend.

Otherwise, the Rockets would not keep Chuck Hayes. Presti shook his head, returned his thoughts, and began to think about how to solve his own team's problems. It is said that Kupard is following Olajuwon Training, I hope this guy's brain can be enlightened, if he can perform better, Presti doesn't mind raising his salary for the next contract.

Tyson Chandler, Emeka Okafor, Kendrick Perkins, Kristich, Nazr Mohamed, Eric Dampier, Presti wrote down all the players he could think of, Then design the transaction plan and evaluate the difficulty of the transaction later.

In the current roster of the Sonics, Stephen belongs to the untouchable ranks. Any trading plan cannot involve these two players. Kevin Durant and Coupard are non-trading players. Untradeable, but their importance is equivalent to Stephen's natural decline.

For example, if the Cleveland Cavaliers want to exchange LeBron James for Kevin Durant, then Kevin Durant is naturally not a non-trade player. Of course, the general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers will never do this unless it is like Yu is the same, able to control the other party.

Except for the three of them, basically all players can be traded, but the premise is to make the team better. After changing the new boss, there is no pressure on wages, which makes people feel much more comfortable, at least Don’t worry that hoarding players will cause wages to rise to the point of no control, and it also brings a lot of convenience to the transaction. Sometimes if you want to trade a good player, you have to swallow the opponent’s junk contract. It was impossible to replace it before. of.

But the transaction is not so easy. If you like the opponent's player, the opponent must also like your own player. This is not easy, so sometimes you have to introduce a third party. At this time, the phone rang suddenly , Presti laughed when he saw the number being included in the peer group.

I hope that book friends who are good at making trading plans can provide some, which should be reasonable and not of the nature of robbery. Even if it is robbery, it should be reasonable.