NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 2

"This is the team's list of players for the new season. Take a look at it." Standing in the center of the court, the chief assistant "Bernie Bickerstaff" took out a stack of papers, on which were written the name, height, weight, and various physical measurements of each player in detail.

Further down, there are game data and game suggestions for other teams last season.

Even the predicted starting list for the new season and the playing time are arranged. It can be seen that this is a very careful data survey, but the current team's lineup Liu Rui has his own arrangements in mind.

For the long-term potential and temporary peak of these players, no one knows better than Liu Rui.

Due to time constraints, Liu Rui arrived much later. The NBA preseason is about to start. The team selected 19 players through military expansion, leaving only a list of 15+1 players.

This "+1" player refers to a player with a "two-way contract".

And each team can have up to two two-way contracts each year, which means that the team can have up to 17 players in the new season.

You can simply understand this 15+1 as 15 regular workers + 1 temporary worker, but the treatment of temporary workers is more than a star and a half worse than that of regular workers, which is not an order of magnitude at all.

A "two-way contract" can be signed for up to 2 years, and the contract salary will not be included in the team's salary. After the contract expires, the player will become a restricted free agent.

In the summer league in Liu Rui's previous life, Ding Yanyuhang played for the Dallas Mavericks and got a two-way contract from the Mavericks.

This also means that although the Mavericks recognize Ding Yanyuhang's strength, they don't think he can play.

He can't even reach the level of a fringe player, so he can only occupy this "pit" first, and then observe and observe.

Player List:

Insiders: Emeka Okafor, Brezek, Melvin Eli, Jamal Sampson, Jarhidi White.

Forwards: Gerald Wallace, Kapono, Steve Smith, Jashdi Hunt, Bernard Robinson, Thron Smith.

Guards: Eddie House, Brevin Knight, Jason Hart, Karim Rush (not the Rush of the Warriors in later generations, it can't be compared), Temarsley.

Picking it up and taking a look, this lineup is really bad. If you put together a team of foreign players from the CBA in the previous life, you should be able to survive two tricks...

But this is only the current strength on paper. Liu Rui remembers that in his last life, there were six players in the team's roster who scored in double figures, namely Okafor, Blazek, Wallace, House, Knight and Karim Rush.

Among them, Okafor was able to average 15.1 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in his rookie season, and beat Howard to win the best rookie of the same year.

Center Brezek is also the type of player Liu Rui liked in his previous life. He is 216 tall and weighs 116 kilograms. He can guard the penalty area and has strong mobility.

Brezek is a Slovenian who came from the European League. Like other European players, he has very solid basic skills.

And he likes to use his brain to play, his shooting range can extend to the three-point line, and two points long is one of his main scoring methods.

Liu Rui is so glad that the team's center is not the type of "Joel Anthony", the main center of the Heat in his previous life, otherwise Liu Rui is really afraid that he will go crazy with anger.

Rodman has 0 points and a dozen rebounds because he doesn't want to score. He regards rebounding as an art. Joel Anthony has 0 points, seven or eight rebounds, and he really can't score.

In the previous life, Liu Rui saw a lot of centers who did not have independent offensive means, such as Jordan, Capela, etc...

But this kind of center has good physical fitness, and they mostly score by eating cakes and second offenses, and they are even better at guarding the penalty area.

On the other hand, Joel Anthony's IQ is obviously not enough to eat cakes. Wade threw the ball into the sky, and this guy actually grabs a rebound in that position, um... a perfect one-time non-stick...

The second attack to grab a rebound is even more outrageous. If you don't stand one meter away from him, you will always look down on yourself.

Later, the coach arranged to grab the offensive rebound and transfer the ball out as soon as possible, but this guy's passing IQ is even more stable.

The passing line is so obvious that he looks at you and asks, do you want the ball?Can I pass it on to you?Can you catch it?

It really refreshed the lower limit of basketball IQ.

In the past playoffs, the Heat head coach "Spoelstra" faced the Pacers with black Yao Ming Hibbert. He would rather start with the veteran bird who is about to retire than use this strong man in his prime.

Although the inside line was brutally abused by the Pacers and once dragged the game to the tiebreaker, it was better than being pissed off on the sidelines...

But every player who can make it to the NBA should not be ridiculed unless you really can't help it. .

The real headache for Liu Rui is the back line.

The team guard Eddie House is 185 tall and weighs 79 kg. The most important thing is that the point guard averaged only 1.1 assists per game in his career? !

Therefore, in most cases in his career, he will be used as a combo guard, but his defense is poor, which can be said to be a double-edged sword.

After being selected 00th in the second round of the 37 draft, he changed 7 teams in the first 7 years of his career. He was really a prodigal son.

In this era that has not been blurred by "Curry" throwing a three-pointer, the point guard can't organize, and it's no different from the center who can't rebound. It's really a nightmarish performance.

The weakness of the body makes the confrontation very difficult, and I am afraid of changing defenses after the pick-and-roll.

Fortunately, the gambling-style steals with quick eyes and quick hands can bring a lot of pressure to the opponent, making the number of steals in his career reach 1.2 times.

So far, it holds the University of Arizona's steal record in school history.

What really allowed him to gain a firm foothold in the NBA and survive for 10 years is his one-handed three-pointer.

Eddie House hit 45 percent of his three-pointers in his career.

But in this era when Korver can shoot too many three-pointers in a game, and coach Sloan scolds him so much that he dare not shoot, it is reasonable not to be reused.

It's a pity that he was born in the wrong age. If he was in the previous life, he would definitely be a good candidate for the one-star four-shot strategy.

Or under the Mosaic team's magic ball tactics (a few blind throws), I believe there will definitely be a place.

As for the team's Blevin Knight, Liu Rui really loves and hates it.

In my previous life, because I was an ordinary person, I preferred to pay attention to small players in the NBA. Maybe this is why Iverson was so popular back then, and he was always closer to reality.

The "professional" point guard born in 1975 is only 178 tall and weighs 75 kilograms.

It can be said that he is a genius engine. If he is 10 centimeters taller, he may be a contender for MVP.

However, if it is always if, the short and thin figure not only limits his offensive and defensive ability, but also brings him a whole body of injuries.

He has changed 9 teams in his career, and the league's famous prodigal son is really on par with House in terms of wandering.

In his previous life, his super high basketball IQ quickly made him the team brain of this new team.

In this season, he has averaged 10.6 points, 9.1 assists, and 2.1 steals at the peak of his career.

That season ranked second in the assists list, second only to Nash, and was also one of the biggest contributors to double-killing the Lakers in his previous life.

For Knight, passing is always the first choice, and he can always make the best decision to handle the ball on the court.

Absolute brains on the field, impeccable in offensive organization.

But the desire to attack in his career is too low, causing hesitation in shots, and his long-range shooting ability is poor, and his career shooting percentage has been hovering around 4%.

And in the scouting report of Rondo in the previous life, it was written that if you can't practice shooting with one hand, then you are at best a rebounding Knight...

This kind of player is deeply liked by the coach, and his excellent handling of the ball can make the coach feel at ease on the sidelines.

However, in the highly confrontational and highly three-dimensional NBA league, any small man will become a loophole in the defensive system.

The same is true for the super elastic potato Webber, the new slam dunk champion Nate Robinson, and the MVP-level Thomas Jr.

Although the ball can be stolen from the opponent's hands a few times in each game, in more rounds, the big men can only do various homework on the top of the head.

It really makes people love and hate...

　Ask for a recommendation ticket! !The tickets in the hands of the big guys, give me~
　　


(End of this chapter)