NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 192 The completely different draft and Wang Chong’s goal

In terms of coaching ability, Thibodeau is actually not among the top coaches. At least he is still a notch behind the top coaches in history such as Phil Jackson of the Lakers and Popovich of the Spurs.

But at the moment, Thibodeau is already the best team that Wang Chong can find, and Wang Chong doesn't expect anything else. As long as Thibodeau can help the Bulls build their own defensive system, they will not be beaten like they were during this finals. The Spurs just need to fully understand the play and tactics.

Although it is his first time as a head coach, Thibodeau, who has been an assistant coach for more than ten years, is still qualified for this kind of job. This is enough, and the rest is left to the players' personal abilities.

Wang Chong is not worried that he will be used as useless as Rose. After all, his and Rose's playing styles are completely different. Rose's personal ability is not to mention, but his offense is mainly based on holding the ball and breaking through, and he is still very fast. It breaks through in disguise without slowing down, and while it is extremely lethal, it is also indeed quite dangerous.

As far as breakthroughs with the ball are concerned, Rose and Westbrook, as players with similar styles in the early days, actually play in different ways. Westbrook is stronger than Rose, and his pure straight-line explosive speed is also slightly better. This makes Westbrook When breaking through with the ball, you don't need to rely on accelerating changes of direction like Rose. It's more like James trying to break through everything. On the contrary, the probability of injury, especially serious injury, is lower this way.

Although Wang Chong has also made breakthroughs in disguise, his offense is more focused on shooting. Without seriously overexerting his physical strength, the possibility of injury is obviously lower.

And the current Bulls are not the Bulls of the future. Rose is the only starting point for offense. Wang Chong has Billups beside him, who can also attack with the ball, and he will also have to find ways to continue to strengthen the Bulls. The strength of the lineup means that there is no situation where you can only focus on him.

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Tom Thibodeau's high-pitched speech successfully impressed general manager John. Even if he was not impressed, he could only listen to Wang Chong and sign Thibodeau.

After officially signing the contract with Thibodeau, the Bulls immediately held a press conference to announce their new head coach Tom Thibodeau to the outside world.

At this time, everyone was still in a daze and couldn't figure out why the Bulls suddenly fired Scott. Was it just because they lost to the Spurs in the Finals?

The Spurs have won three championships in the past, and this is their fourth time. Isn't it natural that the Bulls, a new team that has not yet fully grown up, lose?

However, Thibodeau is also a relatively well-known assistant coach in the industry and has a good reputation. Although he has never served as a head coach before, his rich resume as an assistant coach makes him qualified for the position of head coach.

At the press conference, some reporters deliberately made things difficult for Thibodeau and asked extremely tricky questions.

"Coach Tom, as your first head coach, you became the head coach of a team that won 69 games in the Finals last season. With such a high starting point, what new changes do you think you can bring to this Bulls team? ?What kind of results will the Bulls achieve next season to be considered successful?"

Bad, too bad.

The Bulls' performance last season was almost at its peak. If they want to achieve better results, they can only win 70 games in the regular season and win the playoffs.

This is obviously difficult to deal with, but Thibodeau has been in the league for more than ten years and is considered rich in experience. He talked about it in a long way and downplayed the problem.

Although such an answer seems to the outside world to be a bit evasive and changing the topic, no matter what, the matter has become an established fact. The Bulls' preparation for the new season will start with a light-speed coaching change.

2007 6 Month 28 Day.

The Bulls general manager and head coach, including player Wang Chong, traveled to New York to attend the 2007 NBA Draft held at Madison Square Garden Arena.

The 07 draft is not a big draft year, but it is a draft with a very high sense of presence, because this year there is a super center who is said to be rare in fifty years-Greg Oden.

Oden's reputation before the draft was even greater than that of James in 03.

He is known as Duncan, a combination of Bill Russell and Olajuwon. His physical fitness, basketball skills and talent are rare in the history of the league. He will definitely succeed O'Neal in dominating the league's inside in the future.

Oden, with all his auras, completely overshadowed other players in the same year, including Kevin Durant, who is known as the second Wang Chong.

That's right, after Durant announced his participation in the draft, after the scouts' inspection, they unanimously gave him a very appropriate template, Wang Chong.

Like, so similar.

Height, wingspan, playing style, technical characteristics.

Except for a slight difference in three-point shooting, Durant and Wang Chong are almost carved from the same mold, which also gives Durant a lot of extra expectations from the outside world.

It seems certain that Wang Chong used Durant's growth template card. Strictly speaking, he should be like Durant, but there is no way. Who made Wang Chong enter the league four years earlier than Durant? ?

Now there is a regular season MVP, two scoring champions and a championship. Wang Chong is an absolute superstar in the league. It is not too much to say that Durant plays like him.

Durant's original draft model was Tracy McGrady, who is also a top star with outstanding strength. However, it is undeniable that there is still a gap between McGrady and Wang Chong in terms of ability. His highest honor is only two terms. Scoring champion.

No matter how amazing the fans later praised McGrady, how awesome he was when healthy, etc., they can't hide the fact that the maximum limit for McGrady to lead the team is only the second round of the playoffs, and it was still between the Rockets and the Rockets. When Dayao and Yao form a team.

When he led the team alone, he only played in the playoffs for two of the four years with the Magic, and was blocked from the playoffs for two years. You must know that they were in the Eastern Conference, which is not very competitive.

Therefore, McGrady's personal ability is very strong, but it is still almost meaningless to compare with top stars like Kobe and Durant who can rank at the forefront of history.

Wang Chong has only been in the league for four years, and he has already overtaken Tracy McGrady in terms of personal honor and ability.

Durant's template was changed from Tracy McGrady to Wang Chong, which had only advantages and no disadvantages. At least it gave him more attention.

It's just that Oden's reputation is so loud that Durant and other rookies in the 07 class were suppressed and couldn't hold their heads up.

Of course, everyone knows what happened next.

After Oden landed in the NBA as the No. 1 pick without any suspense, he never had time to prove and realize his talent. He suffered from repeated injuries and eventually became unknown and became the most well-known and regretful player in the league. NBA No. 1 pick.

<divclass="contentadv"> On the other hand, Durant has been on a meteoric rise since being selected with the second overall pick. In the third season of his career, he won the scoring title with an average of 30.1 points per game. He has also won the scoring title four times since then, becoming The top super scorer in league history.

Of course, in this draft, Wang Chong's Bulls team, let alone the No. 1 pick Oden and the No. 2 pick Durant, are not qualified to inspect the players in the first round, because their first-round picks have long been regarded as trades. The chips were given away.

But even if the Bulls' first-round pick is still there, it doesn't make much difference. With the Bulls' 69-win record this season, the first-round pick is at best the th and th picks. There is not much difference in draft picks.

The reason why Wang Chong went to the draft in person with the team management was to pick up the slack.

Just like Ellis was picked up in the second round in 05, Paul Millsap was picked up in the second round in 06, in the 07 draft, there are also misses among the second round rookies.

Marc Gasol was selected with the 2007th overall pick in the second round of .

Marc Gasol, who plays center, is the younger brother of All-Star player Pau Gasol, commonly known as Gasol Jr.

Gasol, who was supposed to be selected by the Lakers with the 18th overall pick in the second round, was not favored by the league at first because he was a little overweight at the time and failed to meet the requirements of the Lakers management within a limited time. To reduce weight, the Lakers did not sign Gasol immediately after selecting him. Instead, they retained his signing rights, and as an addition in the middle of the season, he was traded to Pau Gasol. Sent to Memphis Grizzlies.

In the 08-09 season, Gasol officially signed with the Grizzlies and landed in the NBA. In his rookie season, he averaged 11.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, and quickly grew into the Grizzlies' main center in just a few years. Unexpected.

The original trade between the Grizzlies and the Lakers for Gasol was called a robbery-style transaction by Spurs coach Popovich at the time. The chips the Lakers paid and the result of getting Gasol were completely unequal transactions. , and the unexpected rise of Gasol made this deal more balanced.

Marc Gasol is different from Tyson Chandler, who is completely blue-collar. He has exquisite inside offensive skills, and also knows how to organize and support with the ball. At his peak, he averaged more than 4 assists per game. On the offensive end, Can take on many responsibilities.

On this basis, Gasol, like Chandler, is also a player who has won the Defensive Player of the Year DPOY. In terms of the ability to protect the basket, Gasol is not inferior to Chandler at all. The only difference is that he is not inferior to Chandler. It's just that he is a little slower than Chandler in terms of pace and mobility, so his ability to assist in defense is slightly worse.

But you must know that Gasol is only a second-round pick. Even with a three-year rookie contract that only considers second-round picks, he is an absolutely affordable and useful player. Compared to Tyson, who has an annual salary of tens of millions today. Dele simply doesn't smell too good.

And if Gasol is acquired, then Wang Chong can take the second step of his summer offseason signing plan.

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The 2007 draft had quite a few changes in details from the original 07 draft in Wang Chong’s memory.

The first is the ownership of the No. 21 pick. The Trail Blazers failed to be as possessed by European emperors as they originally had in history, and got the No. pick with the sixth-worst record in the league. The team that won the No. pick had wins in the regular season, ranking last in the league. Memphis Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies, who won the No. 1 pick, were almost crazy with joy and hurriedly selected Oden as the No. 1 pick.

Seeing the Grizzlies management smiling from ear to ear, Wang Chong couldn't help but observe a moment of silence for Oden.

Although everyone said that it was the Trail Blazers' veterinarian who ruined Oden, this kind of thing cannot be slapped. Oden was ruined by the Trail Blazers' veterinarian. Then why did Aldridge, who is also an insider, play in the Trail Blazers for so many years? Everything is fine and nothing happened? And became an All-Star?

Wang Chong feels that even if Oden goes to the Grizzlies, it is unlikely that he will remain intact and successfully realize his talents. His glass-like physical fitness is destined to be unable to withstand the high-intensity confrontation of the NBA.

The butterfly effect has completely changed the 07 draft. The second pick in the first round was not the Seattle SuperSonics, but the Boston Celtics, who had the second-worst record in the league with only 23 wins.

When the results of the previous lottery ceremony were announced, Wang Chong was stunned.

What is this ghost?

Now, on the draft stage, the Green Army chose Kevin Durant, whose template is Wang Chong, without any hesitation.

Although the Celtics already have an All-Star forward in Paul Pierce, it doesn't matter. Pierce himself is a peak swingman and can play as a small forward or shooting guard. There is no positional problem.

But in this way, the changes will undoubtedly be even greater.

The Celtics, who were supposed to select Jeff Green with the fifth overall pick in the first round and use it as a bargaining chip to acquire Ray Allen from the SuperSonics, have now selected Durant. Will they form the Big Three in the summer? ?

Wang Chong didn't know, but he felt that although Durant was suppressed by Oden in the draft, he was obviously a step above other rookies, and even the Celtics would not easily regard him as one. If the trading chips are given away, there is a high probability that they will stay and cultivate themselves.

If they want to cultivate rookie players, the Green Army will not be too aggressive in choosing to send out a large number of chips to Garnett and Ray Allen to form the Big Three in pursuit of the championship.

This is good news for Wang Chong. Not only will he lose a strong rival in the Eastern Conference next season, but it will also make Wang Chong's subsequent reinforcement plan more smoothly implemented.

That's right, Wang Chong's biggest reinforcement target this summer is the Timberwolves' star player, Kevin Garnett!

Joining the pursuit of Garnett is killing two birds with one stone for the Bulls.

The addition of Garnett will not only bring the Bulls' overall strength to a higher level, but also directly split up the Celtics, leaving the Bulls with no rivals in the Eastern Conference.

If you just want to compete for Garnett, it's still tricky in terms of chips.

In order to trade for Garnett, the Celtics had to trade 7 for 1 with a huge arm to get the Wolf King from the Timberwolves.

Wang Chong was unwilling to tear down half the team to replace Garnett.

Now it seems that even God is helping him! After the Celtics selected Durant, there is a high probability that their strategic goals will change. It is not certain whether they will make a desperate 7-for-1 pursuit of Garnett. This is a rare opportunity for Wang Chong and the Bulls. !