You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 1096 Preventing troubles before they happen

Mo Mengchen continued his special training, and the Pistons had to accept a sad fact in the next few days.

Whether Mo Mengchen will retire or not is another matter. Some people choose to retire before him.

On September 2006, 9, Jerome Williams rejected the Pistons' two-year minimum salary and announced his retirement.

As a member of the 96 golden generation, Williams played for the Pistons throughout his ten-year career. He won eight consecutive championships with the team and made great contributions to the establishment of the Pistons dynasty.

The Pistons were too flashy to blink, and he was the only player with a bad-boy air that fit perfectly in the blue-collar city of the Motown.

His fierceness and rudeness, his toughness and brutality.

People call him Dor.Mo's most loyal minion, which is by no means belittling him. Over the past decade, he has won the love of fans with memorable box fights.

"I am very sorry to announce this matter. Big J will always be a part of the Pistons country. We will always miss your passion and blood. I wish you all the best in the future." The Pistons official also spoke later.

Soon, Joe Dumars announced: "We will retire Jerome's jersey on Christmas Eve."

Although Williams has never been the core of the team, he is not even counted as the main force. He has averaged 18 minutes per game in his career. Such a substitute has played in the Pistons for ten years and has witnessed the eight crowns of the Pistons Dynasty. , he deserves the treatment of a retired player.

After Dumars announced the incident, he took a sigh of relief for his precarious popularity. There were fewer fans scolding him, but there were still many.

"I've played against Dennis Rodman, I've played with Rick Mahon, I've seen a lot of tough guys, but Jerome, he's the toughest guy I've ever seen. "Mo Mengchen said in an interview, "His retirement is sad, and I will always miss the days and nights of fighting side by side with him."

It is an inevitable rule that young people will send away some veterans every year.

The influx of newcomers, the withdrawal of the elderly, and the ability to persist until the age of 40 are all benchmarks in the industry.

People like Jerome Williams who play rough and don't have much playing time but end their careers early due to injuries account for the majority.

Mo Mengchen sent away many people, but this is the first time he has a teammate who entered the league later than him but retired before him.

He may not have so many feelings for others, but Williams is different. They have experienced failures and victories together. He has witnessed the history of the Pistons Dynasty. He entered the league a year later than Mo Mengchen.

Moreover, the famous "Daddy" and "Mom", the two popular and far-reaching nicknames in the Pistons team, came from Williams' idea.

Even for such a small character, there are many stories about him.

Now that he announced his departure, Mo Mengchen was really moved.

In a sense, this incident deepened his idea of ​​retiring next year. He is already old, and young people are becoming more and more competitive. Moreover, he does not want to be the old tortoise who sent away all his peers. When Shang Ke fought, he turned and walked away with pride.

April 9

Every year, the preseason training camp starts today.

As in previous years, this year's preseason training camp is still held at the Nairo Sports Center.

"I heard that the recovery equipment has been upgraded this year?" Hill asked when he first arrived.

Mo Mengchen tied his shoelaces repeatedly: "It seems to be, and it cost me a lot of money."

money?Hill didn't expect Mo Mengchen to care about money?

99.9% of the people on earth care about money, but Mo Mengchen is definitely one of the very few people who don't care. His salary, advertising endorsement and other income, compared with his other income, can only be regarded as a little "pocket money".

"What's new?" Hill asked.

"Some projects in cooperation with Silicon Valley are new gadgets that have not yet been officially put into use. We signed a cooperation plan and let us use it first."

"In other words, we are guinea pigs in the laboratory?"

"You can't say that." Mo Mengchen said, "Mice usually don't leave the laboratory alive, but we can."

At this time, Lore ran over and said, "The coach asked us to gather."

"Assemble, Dad," Hill called.

"For old men like us, what's the big deal about being late?" After waiting for 11 years, Dr. Mo and his elders finally had the opportunity to sell their old age.

Mo Mengchen and Hill slowly came to the training ground to assemble.

Mo Mengchen saw this year's rookie.

Roy, Lowry and Millsap.

The three future All-Stars cast reverent glances at Mo Mengchen and Hill.

The addition of these three just replaced the retired Jerome Williams, Dale Davis and the traded Prince.

Although the league deliberately wants to weaken the Pistons, for Mo Mengchen, the weakening is only temporary. As long as he is given time and enough draft picks, he can replenish the lost talents one by one.

Now, the talent within the Pistons is expanding again.

Young people such as Anthony, Curry, Ginobili, and Gerrard will take over; Mo Mengchen and Hill still have energy; Magloire, Martin, Tony Allen, Martel Webster and others need to play Time, and now Roy, Lore and Millsap are added.

How to allocate playing time is a long-standing problem.

For now, Mo Mengchen doesn't need to worry about this matter.

There must be a process for the improvement of players. These people will not suddenly ask for better role positioning and more playing time. At the earliest, they will have to wait until the next year at the earliest. By then, he will have retired.

This is a question left to Anthony and Curry. As the boss, they should know how to do it.

Frouseth took a look at everyone and said: "Old rules, we have just assembled, there may be some problems with the state, let's have a match first, let me see if you can still play now."

In this match, Mo Mengchen and Hill were excluded.

Anthony led the first team, surrounded by Lowry, Martin, Gerrard and Magloire.

Curry led the first team, and his teammates were Roy, Ginobili, Webster, and Millsap.

Looking at the lineup, the black and white teams have two main players and three substitutes, but Curry's white team has two rookies.

The game started immediately, the black team jumped to the ball, Anthony gave the ball to Lowry, ran across the half court, stuck Webster in the low post, turned over and made a shot.

"Second-year, your defense is not good for your status as the No. [-] pick." Anthony fired directly at Webster.

Hill said "Wow" in surprise, "Although the annoying guy is not here, there is no shortage of imitators in this world."

Mo Mengchen sat and continued to observe.

Anthony's trash talking made the temperature of this match continue to rise. Curry took on the heavy responsibility and continuously penetrated Magloire's defense. Just relying on the left and right hooks made the black team lose their temper.

Then, Roy took the ball. Although he was a rookie, he did not lag behind. He immediately integrated into the atmosphere of confrontation full of gunpowder. When he dribbled the ball with his left hand, Mo Mengchen once suspected that he also had the skill of "left-handed assassin" , as the second position of 198 cm, his left and right hands are unbelievably balanced.

This should be the first time he played against his teammates. His confidence and calmness are not like rookies at all. This may be the advantage of older rookies. Their mentality tends to mature and they will not be like those 18 or 19 year olds. Can't find directions.

Roy, who has played college games for four years, is quite confident and calm.

If Anthony and Curry's spontaneous increase in the intensity of the confrontation surprised Frouse and Hill, then Roy's performance surprised everyone.

"I want to apologize to Tyshawn." Hill said excitedly, "Seeing Brandon's performance, I have already forgotten about our little prince."

People who like the new and dislike the old will not end well.

So Mo Mengchen said to Hill: "You should worry more about yourself."

Hill said heartlessly, "What do I have to worry about?"

"At first, I thought you could still play the sixth man or something. Looking at it now, unless the coach is extremely biased, you should play the seventh man." Mo Mengchen laughed.

This is the so-called "people who like the new and dislike the old will not end well".

Frauses also felt that Roy's immediate combat power might be better than Hill, who hadn't played a game for a year, but at this moment, in order to save his mother's face, he could only say; "Brandon is indeed very talented. And energy, but he's not healthy enough, and I won't give him a lot of playing time until the New Year."

"Oh?" Mo Mengchen asked, "Which is not healthy enough?"

"You're going to have to ask Logan that," Frouseth said. "He told me to control Brandon's training and playing time."

This is the advantage of comprehensive skills. Roy is a mature player. He knows that hidden dangers of injuries will reduce his competitiveness, so he used comprehensive skills to cover up his physical discomfort, but he couldn't escape the eyes of the team doctor.

Logan Ines is the successor of David Wise. This person was appointed by Mo Mengchen and Wise. They generally believe that he is an expert in sports medicine. He will provide protection for the Pistons. Mo Mengchen can Don't worry, Wise can also retire with peace of mind.

"Since he is injured, why not let him withdraw from this competition?" Mo Mengchen said, "Brandon is young, don't let him fall into the root cause of the disease, it is not advisable to train or play with injuries."

Frouses looked at him: "What do you mean?"

"Stop his training and ban him from competitions, until the hospital provides a full health report and he has passed Logan's test, otherwise he will not be allowed to play." Mo Mengchen said.

Mo Mengchen didn't know much about Roy's downfall. He only knew that Roy had a knee problem. As for what happened next, he didn't know whether he was a glass man or bad luck.

But according to his experience, there are no glass men, only glass team doctors.

Most of the serial injuries and devastating injuries are related to the persistence of the players, the irresponsibility of the team doctors and the short-sightedness of the team.

(End of this chapter)