NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 28 Unlimited Switching
Of course, in the end, even though Presti called Anjali back and gave Anjali a detailed analysis of the various drawbacks, telling her not to make those deals, it didn't help at all, because when he called Anjali, his father was actually beside him!
And his father firmly supported the deal! Thinking of this, Presti shook his head helplessly. It is not without reason that the king has died for so many years. Indifferently, he dare not say this to Anjali's father.

After talking on the phone with Anjali, Presti didn't bother to pay attention to Twitter. He decided to write out all the information about the transaction:

Bobcats get Boris Diaw, Raja Bell, Sean Singletari from Suns, Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley, 2010 second-round pick (traded to Suns)
Acquired Vladimir Radmanovic from Lakers in exchange for Adam Morrison, Shannon Brown (traded to Lakers)
The Bulls acquired Jerome James and Tim Thomas from the Knicks and Larry Hughes (traded to the Knicks). "

Cleveland Cavaliers acquire rights to Darrell Jackson from Heat and trade 2009 second-round pick (traded to Heat)
Denver Nuggets acquire Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess and Cheek Sambu from Pistons in exchange for Allen Iverson (traded to Pistons)
Received Reinaldo Buckman, cash from Knicks, traded Tauri Green, Bobby Jones, 2010 second-round pick (traded to Knicks) acquired 2015 second-round pick from Clippers (top 55 pick), traded Cheek Sambu (to Clippers)

Warriors acquire Jamal Crawford from Knicks, Al Harrington (traded to Knicks)
Orlando Magic get Tyronn Lue from Bucks in exchange for Keith Bogans and cash (to Bucks)
Acquired Ralph Alston from Rockets, traded Brian Cook (traded to Rockets)

Received 2010 second-round pick from Timberwolves for Rodney Carney, Calvin Booth, 09 first-round pick, cash (traded to Timberwolves)
Portland Trail Blazers acquire Darrell Arthur signing rights from Hornets, and Darrell Arthur, Joey Dorsey signing rights cash (traded to Hornets)
Utah acquires Blevin Knight from Clippers, trades Jason Hart to Clippers
Washington Wizards receive cash compensation from Celtics in exchange for signing rights to Bill Walker (traded to Celtics)
Acquired Mike James from the Hornets, Javallis Christanton from the Grizzlies, and Antonio Daniels (traded to the Hornets).

"Finally finished writing." Presti let out a long sigh of relief. Just when he was about to turn off Twitter, he found that in just a few minutes after he finished writing, more than 3 comments under the news surged in an instant.

Presti smiled, and the effect has been achieved. When he has funds, he will start a sports reporting company immediately. By the way, let’s recruit Woshen. He remembers that Woshen shined in the 2011 draft, and he guessed almost every team.

Presti looked at his watch. It was time to check on the players' practice.

Presti walked into the arena and saw that the players were working hard, so he didn't bother them. Instead, he sat in a corner. Durant was contacting the offense with the ball, Westbrook was contacting the emergency stop jump shot, and Jordan was practicing defense at the basket...

In fact, Presti has been struggling with a question, whether he should immediately bring out the ideas of the small ball era, and let them practice, especially practice passing the ball more, like the warriors in the previous life.

But Presti also knows that it is impossible to achieve the Warriors. First of all, Westbrook does not have Curry's three-point ability, so he can't pull it away, and the 4th position also has no organizational ability. More importantly, the Thunder is not suitable for that kind of complicated tactics.

In the 2016 season in the previous life, the Thunder relied on unlimited switching defenses to push the Warriors to a desperate situation. Although they lost in the end, it also proved that the small ball era can still be restrained by unlimited switching defenses. Recklessly imitating the Warriors in the previous life can only be said to be self-defeating martial arts.

Thinking of this, Presti came up with a new way of thinking. He remembered a saying in his previous life that defense wins championships. He decided that in the first season, simple cooperation must be played, but more importantly, he wanted to make the team a top defensive team in the league.

Thinking of this, Presti immediately called several assistant coaches over.

"General manager, what's the matter?" Assistant Coach Griffin asked.

"In the first season of the Thunder, I need to focus on improving their defensive ability. Our Thunder also has its own unique defensive system," Presti said.

"Unique defensive system," the assistant coach muttered.

"Our defensive system is called infinite rotation!" Presti said, writing the words "infinite rotation" on the tactical board.

"Unlimited defenses, unlimited defenses," the assistant coaches fell into deep thought after hearing Presti's words.

Finally, an assistant coach couldn't help but said: "What is unlimited defense?".

Presti held the tactical board and said: "Infinite switching means changing every pick-and-roll. For example, Westbrook faces Dragic and Durant faces Mbah a Moute. When Westbrook and Durant pick-and-roll offense, Dragic does not need to squeeze through the pick-and-roll, but directly switches to Durant, and Mbah a Moute puts Westbrook."

After Presti finished speaking, the assistant coaches pondered the advantages and disadvantages of such a defense.

After a while, an assistant coach said: "What if the pick-and-roll between the 1st position and the 5th position, if we adopt unlimited rotations, will our 5th position defend the opposite 1st position? In this case, wouldn't it be easy for the small to play the big?"

"That's a good question, and there are some disadvantages at some point, but that was when we didn't have Jordan, what do you think of Jordan's foot speed?" Presti said with a smile.

"Excellent," the assistant coach replied immediately.

"If it weren't for Jordan and Ibaka, I wouldn't easily adopt the strategy of infinite switching. Remember that the focus of the next training is to practice infinitely well." Presti's tone was obviously aggravated.

"Understood, general manager," the assistant coaches agreed in unison.

After Presti gave his orders, he left the arena. Just now he heard the doomsday, and suddenly remembered the movie "2012" in his previous life. He remembered that the total box office of this movie in his previous life reached 7.34 million US dollars. He needed to write it out quickly and then sell it to the producer.

Back in the office, Presti wrote down the complete storyline of "2012" based on the memories of his previous life, including starring in this movie in his previous life.

Although this film was made by Columbia Pictures in the previous life, Presti is now going to give it to Warner, so he called the Warner Brothers who negotiated the contract with him last time.

(End of this chapter)