Chapter 123: McMillan is distressed
If Brent Barry plays point guard, what position does Lu Fei play?
Lu Fei didn't think that the supersonic team had spent so much money to choose himself, and he would let himself start from the bench, after all, his strength was here, and after this period of exercise, his muscle strength had risen to a higher level, and he believed that even if he was paired with the power guards in the NBA, although he couldn't do a particularly good defense, he wouldn't suffer a big loss.
"I've heard that the SuperSonics are looking for a trade in the hope of acquiring Antonio Daniels for the Trail Blazers." Joe Smith said with a sigh.
Antonio Daniels?
Lu Fei thought for a long time before he remembered that this player named Daniels was the brother of Birdman Anderson.
But the two of them don't have the same surname.
None of that matters, what matters is that Antonio Daniels is a two-way defender.
What does it mean that supersonic has added a dual-energy guard at this time?
Joe Smith has already started to help him analyze: "You didn't play in this year's summer league, so there must be people in the team who are not worried about your strength, the intention of causing a two-way guard at this time is obvious, that is, to prevent you from playing in the case of not being overstretched, although you are the darling of Seattle, but for the team owner, your role in making money is far greater than your help to the team, but the team wants to go further, it must win more games, I think McMillan should have a lot of headaches with the team's lineup at this point. ”
He paused and continued: "I think there's definitely a good chance that you'll start because neither Brent Barry nor Antonio Daniels are really playmakers, but you won't be able to draw a final conclusion until you've played well enough in pre-season." ”
Lu Fei nodded, even if Joe Smith didn't say it, he clearly knew how fierce the competition for the main position in the NBA team was, but he didn't expect him to face this problem.
The preseason starts at the beginning of October, and basically after he finishes the Asian Championships, he has to rush to Seattle to prepare for the preseason.
Not only did he not have time to rest, he didn't practice much with the team, and he didn't even really sit down with McMillan to talk about the team's tactics until now.
Thinking of this, he felt his head hurt again.
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McMillan has more headaches than Lu Fei, he has had a headache with the team's run-in problems since last season, and he hasn't figured out how to arrange it when the mid-season deal comes, and there is not even a decent player among the starters, and in the end he relied on Ray Allen to play for half a season.
But now he is starting to have a headache again, this time it's not that he has a headache and no main players, but that there are too many people who can play the main force, and he doesn't know how to arrange it!
The Barry brothers on the back line, plus Ray Allen, Lu Fei, and the upcoming Daniels, there are five players in the backcourt alone.
The players up front are a little better, with two rookies in Korver and Christian Dior, plus Lewis and Rademanovic, just a full rotation.
The center is much more miserable, except that Oku can be used as a starter, Reggie Evans can grab rebounds, and his independent offensive ability is basically zero, and the team has piled up Vitaly Portapenco, Calvin Booth and Leon Smith Three parallel centers.
What's the use of the fuck asking for so many centers, the most important thing is that there are not many of the five centers that can be used!
What's more, there are also Ansu Tsese and Rich Fram in the roster, players who McMillan doesn't know where to put them.
A few will definitely be cut.
According to his plan, Lu Fei is definitely the best choice for the starting point guard, but so far Lu Fei has not practiced with the team, and he has not even played in the summer league, he doesn't know if Brent Barry will have an opinion in his heart with this arrangement.
Several sets of team lineups popped up in his mind.
First, the main lineup:
Center: Oku
Power forward: Lewis
Small forward: Dio
Shooting guard: Ray Allen
Organizational defender: Lu Fei
This lineup is the ideal lineup in his mind, and he has hesitated to put Radmanovic at the small forward position, Radmanovic has been a strong contender for the NBA's most improved player of the year in the past two seasons, but has been playing as a sixth man for the past two years, mainly because of his overlap with Rashad Lewis's role.
If you put out this lineup, whether it is the deterrent power of the opponent on the defensive end, or the distribution of the offensive formation on the offensive end, you can do the best, among which the shooters are Lewis, Ray Allen, Lu Fei, and Oku can complete it well whether it is outside the cut after the cover or down, and he also has a certain accuracy on the outside, and Dior's passing in the summer league impresses him, and he can put out the lineup of Brent Barry + Korver + Radmanovic + Reggie Evans in the bench lineup.
But the same question is, will Brent Barry and Radmanovic be willing to play on the bench?
The second option:
Center: Oku
Power forward: Lewis
Small forward: Radmanovic
Shooting guard: Ray Allen
Organizational defender: Lu Fei
During this time, the team practiced together the most with this lineup, and when Lu Fei was not there, he used Brent Barry to top up, so that he could replace Brent Barry when Lu Fei came back.
The problem with this lineup is that there are too many shooters and too poor defense.
A set of five starters, defending one by one scum, is a lineup of 10,000 stabs.
One of the advantages of this lineup is that these five people are all veterans of the team except for Oku, and there is no problem of ball contention, which is good for alleviating tensions within the players.
And McMillan has seen the game of Lu Fei's run-and-gun tactics, if it can really be paired with five shooters, coupled with Lu Fei's organizational ability, it will definitely become a unique team in the league.
The third option: Lu Fei plays as a substitute, continuing last season's game lineup, and the rookie rotates as a substitute.
Let Lu Fei play as a substitute?
He was shocked when the thought popped into his mind, because the team had chosen him to play as the main playmaker.
But Lu Fei didn't have time to train with the team, what about the run-in problem of the team's season?
Those pre-season games, is it too late?
He even regretted agreeing to Lu Fei's leave application, he didn't know which tendon the general manager Rick Sander didn't tie up, how could he let him agree to Lu Fei's leave application?
Rick Sander is more concerned about the team's market issues, and Lu Fei's return to China to play is good for the development of the SuperSonics in the Chinese market.
McMillan was unusually irritable, pacing around the room non-stop, and he was faced with the choice he had to make now, whether to play a few games around the old team step by step, or risk losing, using Lu Fei, or even directly using the lineup of the first option.
He kept watching the footage of Lu Fei's previous games in the NCAA, playing it over and over again, including Lu Fei's role in the various tactics of the Husky Dogs.
As the head coach of the team, he must get to know Lu Fei as soon as possible, and Lu Fei is the key to solving the problems of the whole team.
On the same night, Lu Fei and McMillan had a headache at the same time.
On September 30, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Qatar 86:48, Lu Fei only played for ten minutes before resting, and the team won the game with Yao Ming's excellent performance.
Yao Ming smiled in the face of the media interview: "Lu Fei also took great pains to give me the opportunity to play. ”
In fact, everyone in the team knew that Jiang Xingquan wanted Lu Fei to rest more.
Because they will face South Korea, who just won against Lebanon on the evening of the next day, that is, October 1, National Day.
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