Chapter 6: The New Clipper
The performance of the Clippers in the summer league can only be regarded as average, only Bowen has played as a substitute in the NBA, and the other players are NBA rookies, but the performances of Jackson and Ginobili are still very eye-catching, and Coach Fitch has to sigh at Tiger's vision after paying attention to their performance. Rodman finally couldn't stand www.biquge.info boring days of training and slipped away a few days ago, and Coach Tiger and Fitch could only be speechless about it.
Fortunately, the summer league is coming to an end, and Wang Zhizhi and they will return to Los Angeles soon. Andy has been busy lately, Tiger and Jessica have a conversation, Andy needs to make a detailed plan, in Tiger's vision, the Clippers will spend 5 years to build a modern basketball community, due to the location of Los Angeles, the upfront investment is huge. After the community was built, a part of the team's annual profits had to be returned to Jessica's capital investment.
The healthy growth of a team requires the ability to operate autonomously and build the funds of the basketball community, which Tiger asked Andy to borrow from Jessica in the name of the team. The team didn't play a regular game, and it owed a huge debt of nearly 1 billion, which is a pressure and a motivation for Tiger. Basketball always speaks by results! The team's trade was basically completed, and many players of the former Clippers were purged, leaving only Skinner and Wright, and the team was seriously short of insiders, and in the end only two big men remained.
The team's medical room has begun to operate, the summer league players, back to the team on the first to conduct a number of professional tests, after the experts and Coach Fitch discussed, for each player to develop a training and diet plan, Tiger saw Wang Zhizhi plan to gain weight, a little worried, he remembered that Da Yao's injury was largely caused by weight gain, for which he specifically found Coach Fitch.
"Coach Fitch, will Wang's weight gain affect his feel and athletic life?"
"Wang's height is 2.14 meters, his weight is only 122 kilograms, he weighs less than you, which is difficult for an interior player to survive in the NBA, I discussed with Dr. Wells, just to give him a proper weight, not to make him a big fat man, it will not affect his physical condition, scientific diet, effective training, it takes a long process, in this process he can maintain his feel through training." Coach Fitch understands Tiger's concerns, and a meritorious coach like him is very protective of young players.
"Do the other players need to gain the right weight?" After listening to Coach Fitch's explanation, Tiger remembered the emaciated Ginobili.
"Several other players have no plans to gain weight, although Ginobili looks thin, but it is very consistent with his technical characteristics, weight gain will not help him, but will harm him, Jackson's physical talent is great, I arranged for him to spend the rest of the time, mainly with you for confrontation training, increase his experience, although he will be worse than Rodman, but it is very helpful for the tacit training of the two of you."
The rookie players had no vacation in the summer, and after summer league, they stayed in the Clippers' training hall and began to start a new training session according to Coach Fitch's training plan, and Jackson became Tiger's new sparring partner. Jackson's last year of high school was affected by the reversal by Tiger in the second half of the previous year's finals, and he played very badly, which made him not receive an invitation from a university when he graduated from high school, and his results in the college entrance examination were very poor, which made him lose the opportunity to enter college, and he had no choice but to participate in the draft, and was finally abandoned by the Suns.
Deep down, Jackson has a grudge against Tiger, and when Tiger personally approached him and invited him to join the Clippers, he had mixed feelings and refused according to his temper. Washington, looking at him with sincere eyes, said, "Stephen, come on! I need you, let's fight together! Let's create an era that belongs to us! At that moment, he felt that he was being bewitched, and he involuntarily nodded in agreement. When I thought about it later, I regretted it a little, it was too cheap Tiger.
Now training with Tiger every day, Jackson found that Tiger had improved a lot, and he felt that the gap between himself and Tiger had reached an insurmountable point. After this realization appeared, Jackson trained harder and defeated him! It's an obsession he had in high school, and he can't give up the pace of catching up no matter what. Jackson's pride.
Los Angeles is located in the Mediterranean climate zone, the climate is mild, and Los Angeles in the fall ushered in the rainy season. The players of the Clippers ushered in the day of the team's assembly, the Clippers assembled earlier this year, the team has changed a lot this year, and the team needs more run-in time. O'Neill Jr. came to the training gym at 8 o'clock, originally going to do some warm-up training in advance, but when he changed his clothes and walked into the training ground, he realized that he was late.
"Hey! Jermaine, welcome to the Clippers. Tiger was helping Jackson stretch when he was facing the entrance when he saw O'Neal Jr. walk in, and as the current boss of the Clippers, he showed his kindness to O'Neal Jr.
Little O'Neill walked up to Tiger and said hello briefly. "Hey! Jermaine, you're still the same, haven't changed at all, and now he's our boss, you need to smile buddy. Jackson sat on the floor and teased O'Neal Jr., who he had known since high school, and they had competed in the High School Star Game together.
"Humph! He said that if he is the boss, he is the boss? It's not high school anymore, and he wants to be the boss and has to ask me. Little O'Neill's chin lifted haughtily.
"Jermaine, go and teach Tiger a one-on-one lesson with him, haha! Come on, folks! I'm optimistic about you! Jackson shouted in fear that the world would not be chaotic.
Tiger was speechless for a while, these two he knew each other in high school, although he didn't have much contact, but he still knew their personalities, Jackson was a bastard, a bit of a charlatan, very righteous for the people he recognized, and completely ignored the people he didn't like. And O'Neal Jr. is a proud peacock, who has shown proud talent since he was a child, grew up in praise, and although he was a substitute for the Trail Blazers for 3 years, coach Dunleavy Sr. has always had high hopes for him.
Now that he has been traded to the Clippers, Xiao Ao has a different sense of superiority from the Trail Blazers, who made the Clippers' record too poor, many of the team are newcomers this year, and the only one who can compare with him is Tiger. Washington, although Tiger's past achievements are dazzling, but this is the NBA, everything depends on strength, and if you want to be the boss of the team, Tiger must show enough strength.