NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 25
Presti walked up to the players and praised: "You all did a great job, keep up the good work."

Then he said to Durant: "Kevin, come with me, I have something to tell you." After hearing this, Durant thought inwardly that he was miserable. The general manager must be dissatisfied when he was kicked out at a critical moment just now.

Presti walked to the player's bench on the court and sat down, and gestured for Durant to sit down.

"What about the small forward position?" Presti asked with a smile.

Durant immediately showed a happy smile and said: "Very good, we should belong to this position"

This EQ, it’s no wonder that the Twitter account incident happened in the previous life, shouldn’t you thank me first and transfer you to that position?
But Presti didn't care, and asked, "What do you think about the ball you got just now?"

"Dribbling skills are a bit unskilled." Durant wanted to add that he was a little nervous at the critical moment, but he thought it might affect his tactical position at the critical moment, so he held back

Presti looked directly at Durant and asked, "Is it just a little unskilled?" Durant looked down. At this time, Durant is not a superstar, let alone a superstar, and he can't even be considered a star. Therefore, he doesn't have the courage to refute the general manager of a team.

Presti didn't wait for Durant to answer, and continued: "You continue to play shooting guard in the new season."

Durant immediately said after hearing the score: "General manager, shooting guard is not suitable for me, small forward...".

Presti pressed his hands and interrupted Durant's words, and said: "Do you want to become stronger, become a star, an all-star, a superstar or even a superstar?" Speaking of this, Presti said here, paused, looked directly at Durant again, his eyes were full of inexplicable magic, and slowly said: "Even the top three in the league."

Durant listened to Presti's seductive words and couldn't stop nodding his head. He could feel that Presti was not joking with him, he didn't continue talking, he was waiting for Presti's next words.

Presti was very satisfied with Durant's reaction, and thought to himself that I also have the potential to become a master of deception, but Durant does have this ability.

"Then listen to me and play shooting guard." Presti emphasized his tone. Durant thought Presti's next words were telling him how to become a superstar, but he didn't expect to continue playing shooting guard, shooting guard?That just made him more inefficient, and his expression changed from anticipation to disappointment in an instant.

Seeing the change in Durant's expression, Presti said again: "Which position do you say is the most practiced dribbling?"

"Point Guard"

"Then the one who practiced holding the ball the most?" Presti continued to ask.
"Let's shoot guard." Speaking of this, Durant seems to have understood.

"Then which position do you say is not easy to get the ball when dribbling?" But Presti's question did not stop.

"Yes……"

"Is it a guard?" Durant didn't say anything later, and Presti directly said the question Durant wanted to answer.

Presti stood up, patted Durant on the shoulder, and asked again: "When you can guarantee that you will not be picked up against the guards, how far will your breakthrough with the ball reach?

When facing a defender, you can ignore him and directly pull up, and when facing the inside line, you can make a sharp breakthrough with the ball, so what height will you reach?
Now your breakthrough with the ball will be taken out against a small forward, but against a guard like Kobe.”

After speaking, Presti walked towards the players, leaving Durant standing still and thinking.

Before Presti walked to the court, Durant said loudly: "Coach, I want to play shooting guard!"

puff!Presti couldn't help laughing. Fortunately, his back was facing Durant, so he didn't let him see it. It seems that he also has the potential to fool. In fact, Durant played small forward after Brooks came in his previous life, and his breakthrough skills with the ball also improved every year.

After laughing, Presti turned back to Durant and said, "You have made the best decision for you. Next season, improve your durable skills to the league's first-tier level."

"Okay," Durant replied happily.

"Well, the first step is to let Durant play shooting guard, the second step is to let Westbrook play off the ball off the bench, and the third step is to let Green play the backup 4th position. I don't believe that you can win the new season." After thinking about it in his mind, Presti immediately called Westbrook to his side.

"Russell, what position do you like to play?" Presti looked at Westbrook and asked.

"Point guard!" Westbrook looked puzzled, didn't I always play this position?
"So do you like scoring?" Presti asked again.

"I like it," Westbrook immediately answered Presti firmly.

"Scoring doesn't seem to be the job of a point guard. The most important thing for a point guard is to sort out the offense and put his teammates in a comfortable position," Presti said lightly.

When Westbrook heard the attack, he nodded thoughtfully. After seeing Westbrook's reaction, Presti immediately said while the iron was hot: "But I like you to score, but as a point guard, you must be able to sort out the offense, so the position I am going to let you play is called the combo position."

In this era, there is no such thing as a combo guard, but the literal meaning can also be understood, scoring and sorting out offense, doing the work of shooting guard and point guard.

After hearing this, Westbrook's eyes lit up, but when Presti said: "But you are not at the first-tier level of the league in these two positions, not even the second-tier." When he heard Presti, his eyes gradually dimmed.

Presti felt that it was almost done, and said: "But as long as you listen to me, it only takes one to two seasons, and you will have the first-line strength in the league in these two aspects, or even the top strength."

Westbrook was disappointed at first, but when he heard Press said that he could improve himself to the top level, he immediately looked at Presti expectantly.

Presti looked at Westbrook's eyes and was very satisfied. He said, "In the new season, you play as a backup shooting guard and mainly play off the ball. When you are off the ball, you have to keep moving. Don't be like the Summer League and training games. You just watch when the ball is not in your hand. In the next training camp, you will continue to play off the ball.

Next season, I will let you team up with Dragic, or with Davis, especially when you are on the court with Davis, learn from his organization, although I think you will surpass him in less than a year, but now you are far worse.”

Westbrook nodded ambitiously. When he heard that Presti said that he would surpass Davis within a year, he made up his mind to live up to Presti's expectations. It was the first time since he played basketball that he was so favored by someone, especially the general manager and coach of a team.

Of course Presti doesn't know what Westbrook thinks, but he also knows that Westbrook will not let him down.

Next, change to fooling Green.

Of course, there is no doubt that Green was also fooled. Before the open match was played, Presti had already arranged the starting lineup for the new season.

Thunder starting lineup: Baron Davis, Durant, Mbah a Moute, Raheem, Jordan Jr., Presti couldn't help laughing at the starting lineup he had just arranged in his hands. This is really foolproof.

(End of this chapter)