Chapter 205: The Tragic Timberwolf
Wang Xiao actually doesn't know very well, if he gathers all these players with potential to play together, and lacks the opportunity to play and grow, can these players rise like another time and space?
After all, there are only 5 positions on the court, and Curry and others will occupy the vast majority of playing time, leaving little time for other players to perform.
But even so, Wang Xiao has no reason to give up these players, after all, as a traverser, he has a prescient understanding that those players have strength and potential is his advantage, and it is an advantage that will gradually disappear over time, and he naturally has to firmly grasp this advantage in his hands.
To put it mildly, if you keep these potential players under your hands, even if they can't grow up completely, at least they won't develop in other teams and become your own henchmen.
Moreover, Wang Xiao has more than just foresight, he also has a system in his body, under the bonus of the training system, these players may not necessarily sink, and even under the stimulation of the system's training bonus, they may grow faster.
At present, the question that Wang Xiao needs to consider is how to get these players.
The Wizards currently have a total of three draft picks, which are the first-round and second-round picks of their own team, and the 11-year first-round pick they received when they traded Arenas.
The Timberwolves have been pitted very miserably by Wang Xiao's transaction in the past two years.
When he first arrived at the Timberwolves, Arenas was determined to play well as a way to give the Wizards a strong response to trade him.
However, after returning from injury, Arenas' state was up and down, although he still averaged about 18 points and 5 assists per game in the end, but the efficiency was not high, and the average shooting rate per game was only 39.6%.
In the end, the Timberwolves won 37 games throughout the 09-10 season.
37 wins is already the Timberwolves' best finish in the following seasons since Garnett's departure, but it's clearly not enough to get the Timberwolves back into the playoffs.
This season, Arenas' efficiency has further decreased, and his average points per game have plummeted to about 12 points.
At the same time, Arenas also had many conflicts with the team's young players, and although it did not rise to the level of the future gun-toting incident, the atmosphere in the entire locker room was also made smoky.
As a result, the Timberwolves' record in the new season has dropped from 37 wins last season to 26 wins, ranking sixth from the bottom of the league.
It is reported that the Timberwolves have recently begun to seek a trade to try to get rid of Arenas' poison contract.
Arenas's contract was signed with the Wizards in 08, a six-year contract worth $110 million with a maximum salary, and this contract expires in 2013.
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When the playoffs reached the division finals, the draw ceremony for the NBA draft had been held, and the Timberwolves' draft pick was drawn to the fifth pick, which is a decent pick, after all, the Timberwolves' record is the sixth from the bottom in the league, and the possibility of getting the top three picks is still too low.
The Wizards' own draft picks must be the 30th pick in the first round and the 30th pick in the second round because of their record.
Reasonable, a bit of a pit.
Although Butler and Thomas Jr. were the last players to be selected in the first round and the second round respectively, this does not mean that Wang Xiao happens to have these two picks to win these two.
In fact, the Bulls who chose Butler in another time and space got the 29th pick in the first round because of their inferior record to the Wizards, which happened to be one pick higher than the Wizards.
So if you want to win Butler, Wang Xiao still needs a higher order to be safe.
The Timberwolves could safely take one of Thompson and Leonard with the fifth pick in the first round, and their own first-round pick to get Parsons is not much of a problem, but the remaining three have not yet been found.
Thomas Jr. is okay to say, even if he is really selected in advance, it doesn't matter, because the flaws are too big, Wang Xiao did not regard it as an important piece of the team's puzzle.
But there are two more people, but they need to be picked in the first round to win, and they need a relatively high number of places.
It took Wang Xiao two years to successfully become a notorious person in the alliance.
The success of Durant, Curry, Harden and George has made people realize that Wang Xiao's vision is really accurate, which also makes any team trying to trade draft picks hesitate when they meet Wang Xiao, God knows if this guy will take the first round he got from him, and then run to the draft to pick Curry or something?
As the saying goes, harming others is not good for themselves, even if they don't have the ability to discern the young, they are not willing to let Wang Xiao gather all the potential rookies to the Wizards.
There is still a week to go before the start of the draft, and during this time period, all major teams are trying out their players to participate in the draft, and the Wizards are no exception.
However, this time, Wang Xiao became more cautious, and the Wizards invited many players to tryout, including the top pick Kyrie. Irving, as well as several quality interior players, Derek. Williams, Enes. Kante and Tristan. Thompson, Biyombo and other players.
But Thompson, Leonard and others that he really likes were not among the invitees.
And the team that has been paying attention to Wang Xiao's movements is not very surprised to see this situation.
Carey. Irving is the favorite to pick the Wizards' No. 5 pick, and the Wizards already have the youngest MVP in fashion, Stephen. Curry, there's no reason to pick another point guard.
However, it is normal for the Wizards to invite a large number of high-quality interior players to try out.
The Wizards have always had problems on the inside, and although Jordan Jr., McGee and Whiteside, the three big centers, take turns guarding the basket, all they can offer is blue-collar interior work, positioning, rebounding, and defense.
The team's offensive firepower on the inside is very poor, as can be seen in the series of playoff games.
Especially in the Finals against the Mavericks, when the players don't feel good, the best way is to attack the interior, and the Mavericks have Tyson. Chandler and Haywood's interior defense wasn't very effective at attacking the basket on the perimeter, but it would have been a different story if the Wizards had a center who was proficient in interior offense.
In addition, Jordan Jr.'s contract will officially expire in October 2011, and with Jordan Jr.'s performance of averaging two double-doubles per game and 2.4 blocks this season, there are definitely many teams that will be very interested, and they will inevitably give a big contract.