Guoshu basketball

Chapter 342 Clay joins, the lineup finally completes

The 2010-2011 season finally ended with the Warriors successfully defending their title. As a fan, you only need to wait for the next season to start. By the way, you can pay attention to this year's NBA draft, or those teams have traded again.But as a player and a team, this summer is destined to be a day full of turmoil and undercurrents.

Because in August 2011, exactly when the last NBA labor agreement expired, the team and the players union needed to re-sign the labor agreement.Naturally, there is a lot of rhetoric. The members of the players union are players themselves, and the current president happens to be "Old Fish" Fisher. They naturally want to fight for more benefits for the players and themselves.And team owners, as operators, naturally hope to save players' salaries and operating costs.

This is a conflict of interests between the two parties. It is very difficult to find a suitable balance point. Therefore, many media reporters predict that this year's NBA will face another shrinking season. As for when it will start, it has not yet been determined.

For this reason, many players whose contracts expired did not renew their contracts with the team this summer, including Li Du.After Li Du was traded to the Warriors that year, he signed a three-year 3 million contract with the Warriors, which also expired after the end of the 5800-2010 season.

Naturally, it is impossible for the Warriors to give up Li Du. They originally wanted to renew the contract in advance, but Pelinka, Li Du's agent, firmly refused to agree to renew the contract in advance because he knew that a new round of labor negotiations would be held after the end of this season.Pelinka believes that after the new labor agreement is reached, with Li Du's current popularity and strength, he can win a much larger contract for Li Du.

Before the labor negotiations started, the NBA still continued to draft every year. Li Du had absolute trust in Pelinka, so he hardly asked about economic matters, and he also knew that the Warriors could not give up on him, no matter how much he paid. The price will also keep him.So Li Du and Nelson put all their energy into the draft. They must get Klay Thompson, if this Klay is really as good as Curry said.

On this day, Old Nelson excitedly called Li Du, saying that he had made an appointment with Klay Thompson, and that he would come to the training hall to meet Old Nelson and Li Du this afternoon, and at the same time conduct player tests.Before that, Li Du and Nelson Sr. watched the video of Klay Thompson playing in college, and Li Du was very satisfied with him.

Curry is right, Klay Thompson's long-range shooting ability is not weaker than him, but the two have completely different styles.Curry's three-pointer is very similar to Li Du's, unreasonable, looking for opportunities with the dribble, once the shooting space is staggered, it is the beginning of a crazy three-pointer.

And Klay Thompson is a very standard catch and shoot, and his shooting movements are extremely standard, every ball is like a textbook.

If Curry maximizes his shooting, then Klay Thompson maximizes his standard shooting. Between them, it is really hard to say who is better.

However, Li Du has a preference for Klay Thompson. In this kid, Li Du saw himself when he first entered the league.On the offensive end, they all run and catch the ball, while on the defensive end, they are defensive leaders.That's right, Klay Thompson has better physical strength and height than Curry, and has always been the main offensive point for defending the opponent on the defensive end.

Back then, after Li Du was recommended by Kobe Bryant to enter the league, he also started on defense with the Lakers. Such players have always been welcomed by all team leaders.

When Li Du came to the training hall, Klay Thompson and old Nelson had chatted for a long time. After the two sides introduced each other, Li Du sat down, and then old Nelson said to Li Du: "Li, Klay is a very good kid, and He would love to join us too."

Li Du nodded, and took a closer look at Clay. Although his face was still immature, his hairstyle and facial features reminded Li Du of the Buddha statues in the temple, and he couldn't help asking: "Clay, do you have any Aryan blood?"

Li Du's question stunned Clay and shook his head, "Mr. Li, there is no Aryan blood in my family."

"It's also..." Li Du laughed at himself, and then asked formally: "Clay, I heard from the coach that you are willing to join the Warriors. I believe you know that the Warriors are a team that uses three-pointers as a deterrent weapon." Team, I want to really see your three-point shooting ability, okay?"

"Okay!" Speaking of shooting, Clay was full of confidence.He knew that Li Du in front of him was probably the strongest shooter in the history of basketball, and it was a kind of luck to be able to show his shooting ability in front of him.

Klay seldom speaks when chatting and looks a little introverted, but when he stands on the court, he immediately becomes calm and mature.After taking a deep breath to relax his body, Clay eliminated 25 shots and scored 15 of the five three-point points Li Du set up, which made Li Du's eyes shine.

However, Li Du's test on him was not over. Next, Li Du wanted the ball. Clay tried his best to throw himself away while running, and then caught and shot the ball. Of course, Li Du would interfere with him when he shot.Li Du has seen many so-called pure shooters in recent years. During training, he may shoot more accurately than Li Du, but once disturbed, the shooting rate will plummet!

Since it is a test, of course Li Du will not defend with all his strength when defending Clay, and when Clay is shooting, he will not really block the shot, but just make some interference.The result made Li Du very happy, and he took 10 shots from the running position. Even though Li Du interfered, Clay still hit 5 three-pointers, which is equivalent to a hit rate of nearly [-]% in actual combat!

At this point in the test, it was enough. Li Du happily patted Clay on the shoulder, "Stephen told me that your shooting ability is not weaker than his. At first I couldn't believe it, but now I believe it!"

After finishing speaking, Li Du stretched out his right hand to Clay, "Klay Thompson, on behalf of the Warriors, I formally invite you to join, and I hope to fight side by side with you!"

"Thank you!" Clay said very little. He also stretched out his right hand and solemnly shook hands with Li Du.

Next is the work of the old Nelson and the Warriors management. In order to ensure that they get Clay, they will negotiate and sign a series of agreements with Clay and his agent.

Li Du and Clay don't care about these things, they just need to be responsible for playing the game well.When the old Nelson's affairs were all settled, Li Du happily said to Clay: "It's finally your turn, Clay! With your joining, we will be invincible!"

(End of this chapter)