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Chapter 243 I Am Richer Than The Boss

It took only half an hour for WOJ to release the news, and Twitter and other social platforms sparked a lot of discussions. Some fans believed that the hard salary cap is to balance the income and expenditure of various teams in the league, and to prevent some teams from spending too much money and signing too many inefficient or ineffective contracts. contract.

There are also fans who believe that the main reason is that the restricted ball super players get together and parachute to a certain team to avoid the emergence of Heat 2.0.

But no matter what the fans think, there is always a common basis, that is, the employer wants to get more money.

The news of the suspension of the league after the end of the season has already spread, and the core reason is to change the income distribution ratio.

Regarding all kinds of discussions, Su Yang thinks it is quite amusing. If the current fans know that there will be many star players in the future, in order to form a team with other stars, they will directly force palaces to trade within the contract period, it is probably shocking, and I don’t know how to describe it.

Anyway, in the off-season of 2010, the establishment of the Heat's Big Three completely awakened the desire of the players to make their own decisions.

After chatting about the news, the game continued as usual. Durant scored 43 points and led the team to victory. The Thunder 4-0 the Hornets throughout the season.

The result of the game was 104 to 93. It didn't look like they won too much, but the Thunder led by 12 rebounds and 7 blocks. The most weird thing is that they took 15 fewer shots and 7 more turnovers than the Hornets, all thanks to 10 threes Sub-explosive hammer Hornets.

As for the Hornets' loss, the main reason was that Paul had as many as 14 assists, but he only made 9 of 5 shots and scored too few points.

After the game, ESPN data expert John Hollinger tweeted: "The Thunder is a team that continues to prove how much room for improvement in statistics, from the 08-09 season when they reversed the Cavaliers with 34 points in the half, to today's crazy mistakes win..."

Su Yang saw Hollinger’s Twitter, and thought that it’s really low EQ saying statistics are rubbish, high EQ saying that statistics still have a lot of room for improvement, everything needs big data, but there are too many factors that affect the winning or losing of a game. Much, basically useless.

Even if it is generally accepted that 'controlling the rebounds controls the game', in the future there will be a crazy loss of 31 rebounds and a 7% shooting percentage behind, but the result is that the rebounding and shooting percentages are behind which team wins the game. win!
After beating the Hornets, the Thunder embarked on a two-way journey.

Flying to Phoenix in the first stop, the team scored in double figures and defeated the Suns. Green, who came off the bench, scored a game-high 28 points.

In the second stop, they flew to Salt Lake City. The six players of the team scored in double figures and beat the Jazz. Westbrook beat Deron by 33 points with 14 points.

With 9 consecutive victories, the whole team flew back to Oklahoma, and faced the Grizzlies for the third time this season. They never thought that they would always be behind after the opening. Until the last [-] seconds of the game, Green and Durant made consecutive mid-range shots. Forcibly reverse the lore to win.

The [-]-game winning streak for the second time in the season gave the Thunder full confidence in defending the title, from the boss to the fans to the media.

The whole team rested for four days according to the schedule. After training at noon on the 22th, the general manager Presti and the commercial director Ted found Su Yang, saying that they hoped to strive for a wave of [-]+ consecutive victories, so as to facilitate the price increase and sell tickets later. The team spends a lot.

If the 22+ winning streak is successfully achieved, the board of directors hopes to further hit 72 wins, after all, that is a big selling point.

Su Yang frequently agreed to express his understanding, because the small ball market is like that, and it is difficult to make a lot of money after winning many championships, such as the Spurs.

The main reason is that there are few advertising sponsorships and low endorsement fees. Due to the relatively small liquidity of the team, it is difficult to increase the average ticket price. It is like a super big city like New York. The team makes the most money.

It's okay if you don't make a lot of money. The worst thing is the team that invests a lot in order to win the championship, but pays a lot of extravagance.

So for a team like the Rockets, the owner insists on not paying the luxury tax, and relies on bragging to attract fans to buy tickets every season.

The key is that with the arrival of the hard salary cap, the luxury tax collection ratio will also increase. Compared with the previous fixed-range model of how much to pay, the exponential growth penalty model will be adopted in the future, unless you are willing to lose money and earn money.

The three chatted in detail for a while, Su Yang neither agreed nor refused, only said that adjustments would be made according to the situation, and the health of the players was the priority.

After all, there was a team with 73 wins in the regular season. As a result, the team boss was too tired. He was injured twice in the playoffs and returned to play early. To the chance of being promoted to President Hill.

After the four-day rest period is over, the Thunder embarked on a two-game away schedule, flying to Sacramento to challenge the Kings in the first stop.

Perhaps because they were convinced that they had no hope of reaching the playoffs, and they would not make any trades, the goal of the season became the No. [-] pick, but the Kings fought fiercely, and the reason for their fierceness was that their head coach Paul Westphal let the players play freely .

Cousins ​​​​benefited the most. He no longer blocked his teammates and grabbed rebounds many times by virtue of his size advantage. He also gave full play to the advantage of long passes when he grabbed rebounds in the backcourt, helping the Kings to increase their counterattack speed and greatly improving the Kings defense. Scoring efficiency.

Evans is no longer limited to shooting guards, but can play as he wants, returning to the state of his rookie season.

The Thunder rested for four days, failed to keep up with the rhythm at the beginning, and were constantly under pressure. After fighting hard until the end of the fourth quarter, they finally overtook by one point.

The head coach of the Kings hurriedly paused and made a crackling arrangement, which made both Evans and Cousins ​​stunned.

In that way, the Kings made four consecutive attacks, and the Thunder finally won 105-99.

In the whole game, Durant and several other main players all played for more than 40 minutes, and they were tired enough to be visible to the naked eye.

The whole team flew to Oakland overnight to challenge the Warriors back to back.

After the game started, Su Yang intentionally reduced Durant's playing time, and fell behind by 6 points in the first quarter.

I was thinking of relying on the bench lineup to get back, but I thought that the frenzied Warriors used an 8-man rotation. After the second quarter, Curry and Ellis did not rest, and they felt so good that they exploded. The lead expanded by 22 points.

Su Yang thought for a long time, insisted on the regular rotation, and did not redistribute the main force until 7 minutes left in the second quarter.

Relying on the advantages of hard power, the Thunder gradually narrowed the point difference, but the Warriors arrogantly insisted on eight-man rotation, and they were still unable to narrow it down to less than 15 points. That situation remained until the end of the fourth quarter, and Curry made consecutive ultra-long three-pointers to offset the Thunder. Onslaught.

In the end, the Thunder lost to the Warriors 104 to 108, the winning streak came to an end, and the probability of tying with 72 wins was also greatly reduced.

The team returned to Oklahoma overnight. As soon as Su Yang got off the plane, he saw a heated discussion on Twitter. ESPN reporter Mark Stein reported: The Thunder is a little dissatisfied with Su Yang letting the game lose to the Warriors, because it can definitely hit a 22+ winning streak , In order to prevent players from being injured, the strategy was too conservative, but the distance between Sacramento and Oakland was not far, and the players were not so tired.

Seeing the words 22+ consecutive victories, Su Yang felt a bit pained, knowing that capitalists like to maximize profits, and it is normal to complain.

But no one from the Thunder management responded to the report, which made him feel a little weird, but he didn't take it to heart.

After two days of rest, the Thunder played against the Kings at home, and finally won 126-96. Eight players from the team scored in double figures.

After the game, the NBA schedule entered the All-Star Weekend, and the Thunder had a nominal six-day holiday, free to arrange.

Both Durant and Westbrook were selected, and Harden was also going to participate in the second-year rookie challenge, and the three flew to Los Angeles together.

Su Yang flew directly to San Francisco, planning to take advantage of the six-day vacation to recruit some game producers to develop mobile games such as "Candy Crush Saga". After all, the era of mobile games is coming, and any hit can earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

Just as he was heading to Silicon Valley, ESPN published a special article, pointing out that Su Yang will be richer than most of the league's bosses in the future, and may even reach the level of Paul Allen, far surpassing the consortium headed by Thunder boss Clayton .

(End of this chapter)