Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 102 102. Is this a basketball team or a gangster? ! (3K words for subscription)

The time has come to July, when the league trading market officially opened, the NBA Summer League is also coming.

The summer league is naturally not attractive to fans, and it is not a big deal in the eyes of the team management.

In addition to training the rookies who have just been selected by the team in the summer league, some teams use this opportunity to pick up some leftovers to strengthen the lineup.

To be honest, the current open trading market is the highlight of July.

Every summer, the league will break out several shocking deals. In recent days, the league has been rumored that the Nets intend to use the 2006 first-round pick + an unspecified transaction exception in exchange for Blazers player Abdurrahim.

In this way, a quasi-Big Four lineup will be formed to re-attack the championship in the new season.

But any deal can only be regarded as a rumor before it is actually reached, and spreading rumors is what the sports media likes to do most.

Defrauding attention and gaining traffic is the most concerned issue of various media. Instead, it is the defending champion and various basketball "experts" who really care about the league structure!
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On July 7, just as the league had already had frequent small-scale transactions and personnel changes, the Timberwolves, the defending champions, suddenly broke out a piece of news.

As the defending champion, the Timberwolves are naturally the main goal of all teams to attack collectively next season, so a series of actions of the Timberwolves in the offseason will attract the attention of all teams.

Even the weak teams that have no hope of hitting the playoffs are no exception. After all, before the season really starts, no team is willing to admit that they are weak!
According to Minnesota's official website, the team has officially signed a contract with Bill Lambiel. In the new season, Lambiel will join the Timberwolves as an assistant coach to assist head coach Luke to launch an impact on the championship.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a lot of turmoil in the league.

Originally, the signing of an assistant coach by the team could only be regarded as the most trivial matter in the league. Even signing a drinking fountain player was much more important than this kind of thing.

Even the defending champions in previous years are no exception. As long as the head coach does not change coaches, few people in the league will pay attention to assistant coaches.

However, the name Bill Lambir is really famous in the NBA. As the worst group of players in the 90s, Lambir is simply a negative teaching material on the court.

Even some of Lambiel's foul methods are helpless even President David Stern. To paraphrase Rick Mahon's words, Lambiel is just using the rules reasonably, but his actions are slightly bigger than normal people so "billion" "point!

Many teams are worried that Lambiel will be the assistant coach of the Timberwolves in the new season. It's not that Lambiel's coaching ability is so good, but this guy is exactly the same as Luke!
Originally, the Timberwolves were the most troublesome team in the league last season, and they were also the team with the most fights in the league. They were dubbed the "criminal law enforcement team" by many fans.

Everyone knows Luke's iron fist. Even though Luke has just entered the league, the deeds passed down in the NBA are too cautious.

One Luke is enough to cause headaches for other teams, for fear that the Timberwolves will use violent means to solve the problem during the game. Like the Pistons last season, they fell off the altar in a daze and became a second-rate team.

As a result, the Timberwolves suddenly announced this summer that Lambiel would be in the team's coaching bench next season and serve as an assistant coach next to Luke. This seemed like a nightmare to others.

No one knows what the Timberwolves hired Lambiel for, whether it was to train the gang of wolf cubs in their foul methods, or to be black to the end on the road of black and white.

In short, this news turned the league upside down like a depth bomb, and made many teams feel fear in their hearts.

Even the Spurs head coach Popovich appealed to the league as soon as possible, asking the league to strengthen the call for fouls on defensive actions in the new season, and try to prevent the occurrence of conflicts on the field.

Popovich's actions made many people secretly watch the Spurs jokes. Everyone is well aware of the personal grievances between Popovich and Luke, and the fighting between the Timberwolves and the Spurs.

If Lambiel joins the Timberwolves which team is the most panicked, this team must be the Spurs, followed by the Pistons.

Anyone who knows Luke well can see that Luke is just ruthless on the field, but Lambiel is really dirty!
When these two raccoons get mixed together, no one can predict how the league will be scourged next season!
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Time flies, and the time comes to December 7 in a blink of an eye.

During this period of time, there have been many large and small transactions in the league, the signing and transfer of rookie players, and the renewal of internal stars.

In addition, the ongoing summer league has also caused various scouts to go to observe to see if they can find some missed basketball seedlings in the summer league.

Then he was abducted with an extremely cheap non-guaranteed contract, and he gambled with almost no cost.

This situation happens every year in the summer league. The team uses a non-guaranteed contract to give the undrafted pick a chance, and the undrafted pick accepts a beggar contract and tries to seize the opportunity.

Regardless of whether he can stay in the team in the end, it is considered voluntary.

When it comes to the summer league, we have to talk about the two rookies selected by the Timberwolves this year. The summer league is led by the assistant coaches of each team. Generally, the head coach will not lower himself to observe the rookies on such occasions.

The acting coach of the Timberwolves leading the team to participate in the summer league this year is Bill Laimbeer who just joined the team. As for why it is not the older Raymond, because Raymond is a dog. Speaking of being lazy, even Luke II is not his opponent!
When Luke called to inform Raymond to lead the team to the summer league, Raymond shook his head with a hundred reluctance, and said bluntly that his 47-year-old premenopausal wife needed to be accompanied on maternity leave.

Luke bowed his head and calculated: "The time is wrong. If you calculate this way, the pregnancy may not be yours."

In the end, Raymond almost scolded Luke on the phone to get out, if it wasn't for Raymond who didn't dare!
So when assistant coach Raymond is not interested in coaching the summer league, the task naturally falls to Bill Laimbeer.

But when Luke told Lambiel that he would let him lead the team to the summer league, Lambiel was so excited that he almost kowtowed to Luke for a target!
It is really rare to get such an opportunity to enter the NBA as an assistant coach in the first year. After all, those who can lead the team to play in the summer league are the elite assistant coaches of each team, and they are also the confidantes of the head coaches of each team.

Lambiel never expected that this surprise would fall on his head, and his mind and views on Luke have been refreshed all the time.

Lambiel still remembers what Luke said to him that day, "Bill, this time I won you the opportunity to coach the summer league. In order to let you take this position, that guy Raymond has been fighting with me for a long time."

"Originally, based on his status in the team, this position belongs to him, but I tried my best to win this position to you in the end. Don't let me down."

After hearing these words at the time, Lambiel did not need to express his gratitude to Luke at all. From the intensity of the hug that Lambiel almost strangled Luke, it can be seen that Lambiel was really excited.

Lambiel's main task in this year's summer league is naturally to observe the competitive state of the two rookies, Monta Ellis and Gortat.

Compared with the unfamiliar Polish Hammer, Monta Ellis' performance in the first two games was very impressive.

In addition, Lambiel let Monta Ellis control more of the ball intentionally or unintentionally, which helped Ellis play a good explosive performance.

In the two games, Ellis averaged 28.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.5 steals per game.

Even if the shooting percentage is only 44.2%, the personal efficiency needs to be improved, but for a rookie player, Monta Ellis' performance has left a very deep impression on various scouts.

In particular, the confidence and dazzling offensive skills displayed by Monta Ellis on the offensive end are simply too dazzling in the summer league where there are many undrafted picks, and it seems like a little bit of red in the army. .

As for the thorny attribute, Monta Ellis not only didn't cause any trouble in these two games, but behaved like a fool. He got along very well with his teammates and obeyed the coach's arrangements.

There is no other reason, just because the acting coach's name is Lambiel!

How could Monta Ellis dare to call himself a bastard in front of Lambir, at most he was a grandson...

What's even more frightening is that such a vicious stadium demon is just an assistant beside the head coach Luke.

And when he heard the word Luke from Lambiel's mouth, it seemed that Lambiel respected Luke's tone? !

This made Monta Ellis, who had only met the head coach Luke once after joining the team, fearful. Monta Ellis knew how terrifying Lambiel was.

Many high schools in the United States directly use Lambiel and others as negative teaching materials when educating players, and even the mighty Rodman was Lambiel's younger brother back then.

In addition, during the summer league, head coach Luke seldom came to watch the game. Instead, Madman and Trenton Hassel came over for a stroll and said hello to assistant coach Lambir. Help Luke watch the progress.

Whenever Ellis saw these three guys sitting together, from their conversation and eyes, Ellis didn't feel that he was in the team at all. Instead, he felt a kind of fear of being imprisoned, for fear that he would say something wrong in the next second. With just one sentence, the mouths of the three people in front of me were torn apart!

"Even surrounded by monsters like Bill, what kind of beast is Coach Lu!"

"So is this the basketball team or the mafia?" Monta Ellis swallowed quietly, thinking silently in his heart.

　Ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a recommendation ticket, thank you, third child!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)