NBA: James wants to team up with me

The only signing the Bulls ultimately made in the free market was free agent Luol Deng for $2 million over two years, allowing the player who played for the Bulls as a rookie to return to Chicago.

Luol Deng's career trajectory changed because of Wang Chong, but in the 13-14 season, he still joined the Cavaliers to play as he had in the original historical process.

Luol Deng's performance in the Cavaliers last season could only be considered satisfactory, averaging 15 points, 5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, making him the team's third leading scorer.

The Bulls know very well that Luol Deng is not enough to replace Wang Chong's position in the Bulls, but at least his scoring and defensive abilities will not cause too many flaws in the Bulls' front line due to Wang Chong's departure.

Subsequently, the Bulls completed a contract extension with Gasol, and the team's main lineup for the new season was also determined.

The other four positions in the starting lineup are basically unchanged. Point guard Curry, shooting guard Danny Green, small forward Jimmy Butler, center Gasol, and the power forward position are occupied by the newly signed Luol. Deng was in charge.

Luol Deng, who is 2 meters tall, may be a little thin at the power forward position, but as long as the Bulls use the small ball lineup left before Wang Chong left, it will be more than enough.

Although the Bulls under this lineup have not reached the hegemonic status of 7 championships in the past 6 years, their strength is definitely not inferior to teams such as the Heat and Celtics in the Eastern Conference. After all, it is already the 14-15 season. This time period has already Curry has officially entered his peak period. Wang Chong's departure from the team has given him a bigger stage for development, and it is very likely that he will soar directly into the sky.

But no matter who the opponent is, Wang Chong will not be afraid of anyone. The Cavaliers' championship lineup has been assembled, and it only takes a period of running-in to truly enter the ranks of the championship team.

I have to mention it a little bit here.

The biggest fish in 2014, that is, second-round pick Nikola Jokic and Wang Chong have not intervened for many reasons.

First, Wang Chong only played in the Cavaliers for one year, just to complete the task. Kacun is not his cup of tea at all. If he wants to stay in a team for a long time, he will only consider big cities instead of small cities like Cleveland. City.

This is not only for his own daily life considerations, but also for his daughter who was born not long ago.

Wang Chong joined the Cavaliers and did not intend to bring Jessica and his daughter with him. After all, Jessica also had her own acting career, so Jessica and her daughter returned to live in Los Angeles.

A year later, Wang Chong will leave the Cavaliers and look for his next home. Although he has no clue at the moment, what Wang Chong hopes most is definitely a city team that is relatively close to Los Angeles. Of course, the two local teams in Los Angeles are better.

Of course, that’s all for later, and there’s no rush to consider the specific operational details.

Because he only played for the Cavaliers for one year, there is no need to deliberately recruit Jokic and let him develop naturally.

The second point is that Jokic is not ready to fight. After entering the league, he will need to go through a period of learning and growth before he can gradually evolve into the essence of human pork belly in the future.

Wang Chong must win the championship in his first year with the Cavaliers, so the players he considers to introduce are all immediate players who can show good strength next season, rather than potential stocks. From this point of view, Jokic is also not suitable. .

Therefore, Jokic was still selected in the middle of the second round as he was originally. It was still the Denver Nuggets who selected him, and the Nuggets at this stage did not attach much importance to Jokic. Not surprisingly, he would be selected again. As originally happened, Jokic refused to sign because he was overweight, forcing him to play in the European League for another year in the 14-15 season. It was not until he successfully lost weight in the 15-16 season that he officially signed and landed in the NBA.

Wang Chong’s plan is to decide which team he wants to join next season, and then find a way to steal Jokic from the Nuggets through a trade. This transaction is not difficult at all to realize, after all, Wang Chong has never had any before. Showing a little bit of interest in Jokic, from the perspective of the Nuggets management, Jokic is just an ordinary second-round pick, and does not have much value. He can definitely get it with a first-round pick. Replace Jokic.

Due to the above considerations, Wang Chong gave up the idea of ​​cutting off Jokic this year.

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Time passed by, and I was expecting the Cavaliers to make a big move and send out one or two No. 1 picks in exchange for an All-Star player. Cleveland fans who had completely reborn the Cavaliers were disappointed because the Cavaliers The team never made any move.

The current Cavaliers lineup looks pretty good, but it's only good.

The team has two All-Star players, Wang Chong and Irving, but that's about it.

Pau Gasol definitely deserved the title of giant when he was young, but now that he is 34 years old, it is a bit reluctant.

Although Andrew Wiggins is the No. 1 pick in the NBA, he is also a first-year rookie and his combat power in the new season is limited.

The Cavaliers' lineup cannot be said to be weak. After all, with Wang Chong here, the Cavaliers must be one of the favorites to compete for the championship.

But compared to the Heat's Big Three, the Celtics' three All-Stars, and Wang Chong's old club, the Chicago Bulls, they are indeed a little shabby.

Obviously the Cavaliers have so many high-quality chips, why not send out one or two potential rookies in exchange for an excellent all-star who can fight for the championship?

The league attaches great importance to developing talent and potential, but it also attaches great importance to the present. After all, unfulfilled talent has no value. Unless it is James, Duncan, O'Neal and other rookies who are sure to become superstars when they first enter the league, other rookies will be. There is nothing that cannot be used as a bargaining chip.

But the Cavaliers didn't do this. Does Wang Chong plan to compete for the championship in the 14-15 season just with this lineup? This is a bit difficult.

"Is Wang Chong getting carried away? Does this lineup want to win the championship?"

Various media outlets have also collectively begun to look down on Wang Chong and the Cavaliers' championship prospects.

When the Bulls did not yet have a dominant position, the media always liked to belittle Wang Chong and the Bulls.

But we can't blame them. The team's trade signings under Wang Chong's control are usually incomprehensible.

Just like they don't know that Pau Gasol can be selected for the All-NBA Second Team next season with his efficient performance at the age of 34, nor do they know that Whiteside, whose name they don't even remember, can play less than 24 minutes. He averaged a double-double per game, with 2.6 blocks.

In their opinion, the Cavaliers, whose lineup is not strong enough, are actually quite good in actual combat power, and they are definitely the most popular team to win the championship.

Of course, there was no need for Wang Chong to explain to the other party. After all, using facts to slap others in the face has always been Wang Chong's favorite behavior.

Besides, compared to the Bulls, this year is indeed the most difficult year for Wang Chong to compete for the championship, relatively speaking.

In early August, Wang Chong accompanied Jessica and her daughter back to Los Angeles, and stayed in a mansion in Los Angeles for nearly two months before reluctantly bidding farewell to his wife and children and leaving for Cleveland.

Compared with the metropolises of Chicago and Los Angeles, Cleveland's commonly known as Gram Village is really apt. Even from the urban buildings on both sides of the street, you can see the stark difference.

But now the various signboards hanging in the streets and alleys of this city are all slogans welcoming Wang Chong.

When Wang Chong drove past a building, he was immediately attracted by the super giant poster on the back of the building.

It was a poster of Wang Chong shooting from behind, with a standard and picturesque posture, quite artistic.

But Wang Chong was deeply impressed by this place, which was once home to James’s classic giant poster with magnesium powder, and it once became the iconic location of the Cleveland Cards.

After James decided to take his talents to Miami in 2010, angry Cavaliers fans regarded James as a traitor and burned his jersey to vent their anger. This huge poster was also replaced.

After James returned to Cleveland in 14 and led the team to win the championship, the Cavaliers put up the giant poster again.

But Wang Chong didn't expect that the Cavaliers would rush to make a huge poster to welcome him. He didn't know what James would think when he saw this...

While Wang Chong sighed in his heart, he also deeply realized the desire and admiration of small teams like Cleveland for superstars.

The NBA is also a place with a huge gap between rich and poor. Rich teams like the Los Angeles Lakers have never lacked superstars. Even four of the top ten players in history are from the Lakers, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. Johnson, Shark O'Neal and Black Mamba Kobe.

Of course, because of Wang Chong, although he currently has five championships in hand, because he only has one FMVP, Kobe's position as a top ten goalkeeper in history is a little unstable. After all, if nothing else, he and Wang Chong won four championships together. Garnett, who has won consecutive championships, is hot on his heels.

However, Garnett, who has four championships and one MVP, is still slightly inferior to Kobe in terms of honors, and his historical status is still behind Kobe.

But for a team like the Cavaliers, the only player who can be ranked in the history is James. Even the Cavaliers can produce a superstar like James because of bad luck. Some small teams are in a similar situation to the Cavaliers. It could be worse.

Although he was quite touched, Wang Chong had nothing to do about it. He could not break the status quo, and he was not so great that he was willing to come to help the poor. Although he was very moved by the enthusiasm of the Cavaliers fans, after the Cavaliers played He will still leave here after three seasons.

So in a short year, all Wang Chong can do is bring an O'Brien Cup to this city that has not had a championship in fifty years, and that's it.

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At the end of September, the Cavaliers players gathered together to attend the media day to take makeup photos.

On the media day, Wang Chong appeared wearing the Cavaliers' No. 24 jersey and attended the press conference after the shooting.

Also attending the press conference with Wang Chong were Cavaliers general manager David Griffin, the team's new head coach David Blatt and previous team core Kyrie Irving.

Originally, Mike Brown was kicked out after the regular season because of the Cavaliers' poor record. Then the Cavaliers hired David Blatt, who was famous in Europe, at a high price, and their ambitions were clear.

Wang Chong doesn't have any deep prejudices against Mike Brown's coaching ability, but he just feels that his talent has not been well demonstrated.

Especially when he was coaching the Lakers, he became the fastest coach to be dismissed in NBA history, and the famous scene of being stared at by Kobe Bryant became the best evidence to question Mike Brown's coaching ability.

那支湖人队根本不是他能左右得了的，而且其实迈克.布朗更适合担任助理教练，作为助理教练他曾先后四次随队夺冠，包括了02-03赛季的马刺以及后来勇士队16-17，17-18以及21-22赛季的总冠军。

Wang Chong feels that if Mike Brown partners with him, he shouldn't be that bad. Mike Brown, who studied under Popovich, is very good at defensive tactics and abilities, but he lacks dignity and assertiveness as a head coach and lacks the ability to adapt to the situation. These are actually the problems that Bulls head coach Thibodeau has.

Wang Chong can solve these problems in the Bulls, and of course he can in the Cavaliers.

However, it is not impossible for the Cavaliers to waive Mike Brown and replace him with David Blatt.

Although Blatter is well-known in European leagues, he is a traditional American coach. Blatter is very familiar with the tactics of American basketball, especially since he studied at Princeton University and played under the legendary coach Pete Carrier. So very good at Princeton offensive tactics.

Today's league is becoming more and more small-ball, which is very suitable for Princeton's tactics. The main core of Princeton's tactics is a large number of off-ball movements, air cuts and reverse runs combined with precise ball conduction to create a gorgeous offense.

The Cavaliers' current lineup is very suitable for playing Princeton's tactics, so it is completely okay to change the head coach to David Blatt.

As for the original history, David Blatt resigned after coaching the Cavaliers for a year and a half, and was picked by assistant coach Ty Lenlue. It was actually helpless.

In the first year, the Cavaliers suffered from injuries and lost in the finals. In the second year, they encountered the Warriors who were in explosive form. It can only be said that Blatt was unlucky.

The most unlucky thing is that he is still coached by LeBron James.

As a player with his own system, James is only suitable for one tactic, which is to shoot from one star to four. As an absolute core player with the ball, he must have the ball in his hands in order to maximize his strength.

But in this case, which coach is changed actually doesn't mean much at the tactical level.

David Blatt's biggest shortcoming when he coached the Cavaliers was that he couldn't lick James. Assistant coach Tyronn Lue was happy to lick James, so he replaced Blatt as the head coach, even though he had superb tactical command when coaching. None. At one point, James was asked to grab the tactical board and only know tactics, and then nodded in agreement and shouted 666. When the team was in trouble, he would only say "LeBron, think of a solution", and then put James on the court with peace of mind for 48 minutes. Fuck hard.

To be honest, it's fortunate that it's James who has a unique body in history. If it were other players, they might not be able to withstand being treated like animals. The most intuitive example is that when Tyronn Lue coaches the Clippers in the future, he can only look on in confusion as he sees Leonard and George dying after a disagreement.