Edward Ireland has recruited twelve players for the New York Knicks.

In a big city like New York, it's still easy to recruit professional basketball players. New York has also had a lot of professional basketball teams in its history, and they used to play in the ABL league or the NBL league, but eventually disbanded for various reasons. For example, in 1941, a team called the New York Jewelry Team was disbanded because the sponsor behind the team, the New York Jewelry Company, stopped sponsoring.

At that time, basketball players could not be regarded as real professional basketball players, most of them would have a second career, and some even played basketball part-time. For the vast majority of players, the salary they earn from playing basketball is not enough to support their families, so when they are not playing, they have to find other jobs to make ends meet.

There were also star-level basketball players in that era who would receive high salaries. In the 40s, the top basketball players could already get a monthly salary of $1,500, and at that time, a weekly salary of $25 was considered a high-paid white-collar worker, and a monthly salary of $1,500 was more than ten times the income of a white-collar worker.

Of course, the $1,500 monthly salary is not just $18,000 a year, because the team will not pay the players in the months when there are no games. At that time, the basketball league generally lasted four months, which meant that the players had no money to take for the remaining eight months.

It is also for this reason that players will have a second career, and even some players will play for different teams at the same time, such as some college players, who will play on the varsity team and also go back to play in the professional team.

Chen Qiang's New York Knicks also have a college student on his team, his name is Bob Fisgerald, a student at Fordham University in New York, and Edward Ireland recruited Bob Fisgerald into the team, mainly because Bob Fisgerald has a height of 6 feet 5 inches.

At 6 feet 5 inches, which is equivalent to 1.96 meters, it is a little shorter than Kobe, but this is already the tallest height on the New York Knicks.

The shortest player on the New York Knicks is only 5 feet 7 inches, which is equivalent to 1.74 meters.

Originally, Edward Ireland was optimistic about several players with a height of less than 1.7 meters, but they were all vetoed by Chen Qiang, Chen Qiang did not look down on short people, but the sport of basketball is really not friendly to short people. If you change it to football, there are many superstars who are less than 1.7 meters, and in football, even if you are less than 1.7 meters long, as long as your body is strong enough and explosive, you can also play running back, but basketball, which is too short to play.

Chen Qiang's New York Knicks team, if you look at the team name, it is the New York Knicks, and if you look at the height, you think this is the Xiangbei basketball team!

The reason why there are no tall players is not because Americans at that time were not tall, but because basketball in primitive times believed that the big man who was more than two meters tall was too bulky and not flexible enough to participate in basketball.

In fact, the white men of that era were indeed very bulky. At that time, if a player had a height of 2.05 meters, he would have been as flexible as Boban Marjanovic today. If you grow to 2.08 meters tall, you will definitely be bulkier than Boban. In the future NBA, it is absolutely not a problem for many 2.08 meters players to change guards.

The historical New York Knicks once introduced a Bob Kragish player in the 1946 season, he was 6 feet 10 inches, that is, 2.08 meters, and weighed 235 pounds, that is, 107 kilograms, such a height and weight ratio in the future NBA can definitely move flexibly, but the result is that he became a hole for the New York Knicks on both offensive and defensive ends, and as a result, he only played one season and said goodbye to professional basketball.

In the early days, basketball was dominated by small players, and big players didn't really rise until George McCann appeared, and before George McCann, 1.8 to 1.85 meters, was the best height for basketball players. If Thomas Jr. had lived in the late forties, he might have sighed, the NBA is so friendly, everyone is rushing to get me!

Chen Qiang is not very satisfied with such a New York Knicks team, and the players recruited by Edward Ireland have not met Chen Qiang's psychological expectations.

However, Chen Qiang also knows that Edward Ireland has done his best, and the outbreak of World War II has also made many outstanding basketball players run to join the U.S. Army, which has greatly reduced the overall level of basketball players. Otherwise, Edward Ireland wouldn't have had to recruit people at the university.

Fortunately, in this era, going to college does not delay playing in professional leagues. In the future NBA, college students are not allowed to join. If you go to college, just play your NCAA honestly, when you graduate from college, or take a leave of absence, when to play in the NBA again, NBA and college, you can only choose one or the other.

During World War II, many basketball players went to join the U.S. military, which greatly reduced the level of the domestic basketball professional league, but this did not have a big impact on the domestic basketball professional league in the United States, anyway, in 1942, whether it was ABL or NBL, it was a half-dead state. On the contrary, college basketball and high school basketball are very popular.

For the military, basketball is a very good team sport, do not need too complicated facilities, do not need too big places, in the US aircraft carrier or other large warships, there will be a basketball court, from time to time will also hold basketball games. Basketball players from all over the United States got acquainted with each other and exchanged skills in the U.S. military, which made basketball a great development in the U.S. military and cultivated a large number of basketball enthusiasts. The U.S. military has even developed a special wheelchair basketball game for those who have been injured in the war. In the future Korean battlefield, basketball is also the most important event for the sports meeting held by the volunteers for American prisoners of war.

After the end of World War II, those soldiers who liked basketball retired and returned home, which also made basketball culture gradually begin to prevail throughout the United States, hence the birth of the NBA league. However, it is also because more and more people have begun to like basketball, which has promoted the development of basketball, making those ugly ways of playing only for victory gradually prevail, and there is a strange score of 19 to 18, which greatly reduces the ornamentation of basketball. Fortunately, the NBA revised the rules in time to bring basketball back to life.

To get back to the point, Chen Qiang was very dissatisfied with his players, and he also went to try out the players himself, and it turned out that none of these players were pitchers.

The mid-range jumper is an unconventional scoring method in this era, and even a forbidden means in many teams.

If you don't have the three-second zone and the 24-second offense, the mid-range jumper is really not very useful, at least in terms of shooting percentage, the mid-range jumper is not as good as the shot close to the basket. But now that the new league is about to adopt new rules, the mid-range jumper has become important.

The mid-range jumper is not allowed to be close to the basket, and can be attacked directly outside the three-second zone, so there is no need to worry about attacking the three-second problem at all. At the same time, the mid-range jumper can also save a lot of time to organize the offense, even if it is close to 24 seconds, you can also bet on a whistle ball.

The mid-range jumper is an offensive style that was born entirely out of a change in the rules of basketball.

However, Chen Qiang's team does not have a pitcher, which means that the team simply cannot implement the tactics of mid-range jumpers.

Not only did Chen Qiang's team have no pitchers, but there were also no pitchers in other teams, and it was also very difficult to find pitchers in those years.

"There's no way, I can only come by myself!" Chen Qiang sighed helplessly, he was also forced to be helpless, and finally decided to do it himself and become the pitcher himself.

"Fortunately, the players in this era are not very tall and not that strong, and compared to other basketball players, my body is quite good. If it were in the NBA in the future, I wouldn't dare to play if I had three guts! Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

The future NBA player, that is a top strong, with Chen Qiang's small body, if he fights against other NBA players, there is no difference between looking for death. When encountering LeBron James, it is like a tank to push forward, and it can knock Chen Qiang directly into the audience.

And the basketball players of the forties, of course, were not so physical, there were no black players at that time, they were all white, and they were all the kind of thinner whites. You can't even find a two-meter-tall one on the pitch, so you don't have to worry about a tank player knocking someone into the air.

Just imagine, a player like George McCann, who is 2.08 meters tall and weighs 109 kilograms, is also highly myopic, and has to wear big glasses when he plays, but he can wreak havoc under the basket and become the first generation of legendary centers in the NBA, which is equivalent to O'Neal of that era.

George McCann's height and weight are the same as that white forward Ryan Anderson, who was later said to be a softie, not good at defense, no confrontation, no movement, etc., but if he was placed in 1950, he would have been like O'Neal.

Chen Qiang also watched the basketball games of this era, and he estimated that with his physical fitness, he was still strong compared with the American basketball players at that time. After all, Chen Qiang is a track and field athlete, and the physical fitness of track and field athletes is better than that of athletes in other sports. So Chen Qiang is not worried about physical confrontation at all.

In fact, in basketball in this era, there is no physical confrontation at all.

If you go to the Internet now, you should be able to search for some video clips of NBA games in the fifties, and it can be seen from the video clips that basketball in the fifties had very little physical contact, and from a modern point of view, basketball at that time was really too gentlemanly, and the defensive players seemed to be avoiding the offensive players in circles, and the same offensive players were also avoiding the defensive players in circles.

In the 40s, basketball often happened to a guard player with the ball forward, the first defender went up to make a steal, then the ball carrier dodged it, and then the second defender pounced on it for a steal, and so on, there was no one-on-one defense at all, just a simple ball in someone's hand, everyone pounced on it.

This kind of play in which everyone comes up to grab the ball in whoever holds the ball, which will naturally cause a large number of empty shooting opportunities. But because no one can jump shots, even if a player has an open space in the middle and long range, the ball carrier will not pass the ball to him, and the ball carrier will not pass the ball until there is an open opportunity under the basket.

For pitchers, such a basketball system, full of opportunities to shoot mid-range in open positions, is simply heaven!

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Without participating in the game, Chen Qiang has not used the training space for a long time, and now in order to train shooting, Chen Qiang has once again activated the training space.

This time, Chen Qiang came to the basketball training hall in the training space and started practicing from the most basic dribbling.

Chen Qiang was also a basketball enthusiast when he was young, although he had never been a professional basketball player, but he received formal and systematic basketball training in the sports school, but the training time was not long, so Chen Qiang's basketball level is the level of playing wild ball on the basketball court in the community.

Now Chen Qiang is mainly practicing his mid-range jumper.

Start practicing from the most basic catch-and-shoot fixed-point jumper, and slowly practice the jump shot after dribbling, emergency stop jump shot, etc., as for those difficult jump shooting techniques, they were directly ignored by Chen Qiang. After all, this is only 1942, and it is enough to be able to catch and shoot, dribble and shoot, and make a jump shot.

Chen Qiang knows that if you want to shoot accurately, you must either have talent, or you have to rely on diligent practice.

A god shooter like Curry is definitely born with a shooting talent, and then coupled with hard training the day after tomorrow, he can shoot so accurately. If you don't have talent, if you simply rely on acquired practice, even if you practice your hands, you won't be able to reach Curry's level.

Chen Qiang definitely doesn't have Curry's talent, and he doesn't expect to reach Curry's level, in 1942, he didn't even have a three-point line, Chen Qiang only needs to honestly practice mid-range shooting outside the three-second zone, and it is enough to play the game.

This kind of mid-range shooting outside the three-second zone is similar to free throws, and you can still shoot accurately with practice.

There is a tenfold speed bonus in the training space, which makes Chen Qiang's shooting level improve rapidly, and in the month before the establishment of the new team, Chen Qiang has practiced a good mid-range shooting, although it is not a hundred shots, but the shooting rate is still very good. Especially the empty shooting after receiving the ball is a scoring method that Chen Qiang is good at.

A month later, the New York Knicks were officially established, with a total of 14 players including Chen Qiang.

In addition to being a player, Chen Qiang also took on the responsibility of coaching.

Chen Qiang also knows a little about basketball training, although it is not as good as a special basketball coach, it is more than enough to guide a high school proofreader. In 1942, the basketball tactical system in Chen Qiang's mind was more than 70 years ahead, and the team training of this era was even more handy.

Chen Qiang's tactics for the new team are also very simple, the main offensive is two moves, one is to break through quickly, and the other is to break through the ball.

The fast-breaking tactical system was the famous trick of "Cardinal" Auerbach, but Auerbach did not come up with this tactic until 1947. Chen Qiang felt that since this set of tactics was useful in 1947, it should also be useful in 1942, so he directly used it.

As for the break-through, this is the most common and practical tactic in basketball, and it will not be outdated even in the future. This simple, effective and practical tactic, Chen Qiang will naturally not miss it.

As for other complex tactics, although Chen Qiang also understands them, but if you think about it carefully, forget it! Basketball players in this era are afraid that they can't execute that kind of complex basketball tactics at all.

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