However, Richard actually doesn't really want the top pick, he has already won the top pick twice, and he just got the top pick last season, if he gets the top pick again this season, it will be a bit too much.

Mainly because whether it is the champion or not, it doesn't matter to Richard at all.

This year's champion is Bagnani, an Italian Roman, and if Richard had to choose, he would rather have Bogut than Bagnani......

Purely looking at Bagnani's data, it's not bad, he also scored 21 points at his peak, but in addition to the good scoring data, Richard can't find any big advantages in him at all.

Rebounding strength, weak makes people's scalp tingle, a seven-foot center, although it is an outside-biased style of play, but the average is less than five rebounds per game, how can it be said.

The European center is good at organizational skills, and Bagnani can be regarded as having them, but they are quite chicken ribs, quite ordinary organizational skills, and they are similar to those who don't have them.

On the defensive end, he is unwilling to confront and has poor awareness of assisting defense, and the only thing that can be taken out to mention is that the blocking ability is okay, of course, it is just improvised, compared to blocking masters like Big Ben and Clark, he can't catch up with him when he takes off his pants.

Even if it is the offensive end that he is best at, in fact, it is just like that, the offensive efficiency is not high, and the shooting rate is completely incomparable with that of a normal center, which is similar to the shooting rate of a backcourt player, with a career total shooting rate of 43.9% and a three-point shooting rate of 35%.

In Richard's eyes, this Bagnani is really not as good as Bogut, let alone compared to Aldridge, who signed the list.

The scout is Adam Morrison, who is also a newcomer handpicked by Jordan.

Jordan's poor selection vision is not only reflected in Kwame Brown, but also in Morrison.

However, Jordan's choice of Morrison with the scout lottery was actually not a too unacceptable choice at the time.

In addition to suffering from diabetes, Morrison was quite popular before entering the NBA.

During the NCAA, he was known as the strongest offensive player since Melon Anthony, and he was popular with fans because he dressed old-school and often wore vintage over-the-knee stockings.

In terms of popularity, Morrison's popularity at that time was much higher than Aldridge's.

The only thing that limited his development was that he had diabetes.

Naturally, Richard would not choose Morrison, even if he had a way to avoid the effects of diabetes......

After all, Richard had a better choice.

……

On April 17, the playoffs officially began, and the Buccaneers faced the New Jersey Nets, who were third in the East.

Before the start of the game, Nets head coach Lawrence Frank was naturally under a lot of pressure, if the opponent is a normal sixth team in the East, he Frank is not worried at all, he is very confident that he can easily lead the team to the Eastern Conference semifinals.

But now the key is that this team that is sixth in the East is not normal, you must know that before the All-Star break, the Pirates had a better record than the Nets.

From the outside, the Buccaneers' decline is due to the fact that they sold Gortat and Ariza, two main players on the bench.

But Frank knew very well that the departure of these two people did not have a particularly huge impact on the overall strength of the pirate team, at least not so huge as to make the pirate team's ranking fall so badly.

If the Nets were beaten by the Pirates, Frank would not dare to think about the consequences, and the only consequence would definitely be that he would be fired to appease the anger of the fans.

……

In the home arena of the Nets, Richard is in the visiting locker room, mobilizing with his players before the game.

It's all been confirmed that they've got the 16th pick, and it's definitely impossible for the Buccaneers to continue to hide in the future.

Anyway, you have to pass the first round of the playoffs......

As for whether they can continue to rush forward, it will depend on luck, because the Pirates will meet the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

……

Although he has a good relationship with Frank, Richard is certainly not going to let go in the playoffs.

The players need to learn some playoff experience to prepare for next year's championship, so no matter what stage he gets to this year, Richard is not ready to give up.

……

After the players of both sides entered, at the referee's whistle, the starters began to appear.

The starting lineup of the Pirates is still the same old one, consisting of five young men.

The Nets' starting lineup looks a lot more lavish than the Pirates.

Starting center Nevid Kostic, starting power forward Amir Johnson, the remaining three are the Nets' trident combination.

Carter, Kidd, and Richard Jefferson.

There are also super-veterans like Clifford Robinson on the bench......

Seeing that Robinson was still fighting in the league, Richard was actually a little incredulous.

When he first entered the league, Robinson was a veteran, but now almost eleven years have passed, and this guy has not even retired......

Richard clearly remembers that Robinson was born in 66, and now it is 06, and this guy is currently forty years old.

A veteran of the living fossil level......

……

Milicic and Kostic had a jump ball, and naturally it was Milicic who was physically fit to win.

Chris Paul pushed forward with the ball, and looking at his baby face, full of solemnity, you can know how much pressure he is now.

You know, he's playing against Kidd, a monumental figure in the traditional group of point guards.

It's just Paul's rookie season, and it's going to be a series against a super point guard like Kidd, so you can imagine how much pressure he has on him.

However, with his steady personality and superb passing ability, Paul still passed the ball to Milicic very well.

Richard's strategy tonight is to have no strategy, follow the players' ideas, and follow the feelings on the field.

There is no way around it, the Nets' lineup does not have any big shortcomings, and it is difficult to find a special target.

However, Paul felt that the Nets' interior might be weaker, so he passed the ball to Milicic as soon as possible to see if Milicic could open up the situation on the inside.

Milicic received the ball and threw it straight into the middle of the shot, and with luck, the ball spun around the basket a few times before turning into the basket.

Next up was the Nets' offensive round, where Paul tried to create a physical confrontation with Kidd as much as possible, looking for steals in the chaos.

But he underestimated Kidd's physical strength, and Kidd was actually one of the strongest point guards.

The steal didn't get a steal, Paul stole the chicken and couldn't lose the rice, was squeezed out of the way by Kidd, and was directly out of position.

Then Kidd quickly made a block for Jefferson, and Jefferson took the ball and went down to pick the basket.

……

Looking at the first offensive and defensive rounds, the two sides fought back and forth, and there was not much to see at the moment.

Richard sat on the sidelines for a long time, looking like he was in control, but he actually had no bottom in his heart.

played nearly half a quarter of the game on the field, and with the gradual improvement of confrontation, the two sides gradually played some fire.

Especially in this matchup between Kidd and Paul, the two have already begun to play each other.

Paul is nicknamed the dirty cannon, and he has a lot of small movements in his hands, and an old oilman like Kidd must be able to use a few hands when he is exposed to this kind of thing.

As a result, the more angry the two became, and they began to blatantly scold each other on the field.

Richard didn't hear what these two people were scolding, anyway, looking at the expressions of these two people, they must have scolded very fiercely.

……

The Buccaneers played a good advantage on the inside, and Milicic was hot on offense, scoring 7 points in the first half of the game.

But even so, the pirates did not lead in the score, the opponent's trident combination, the offensive is also quite fierce, if it were not for Iguodala desperately blocking Carter, I am afraid that the pirates are already in a backward situation now.

Richard thought about it and took Vallejo off and replaced it with Mourning.

Mourning won't be able to play for too long, but his efficiency per unit of time is at least higher than Vallejo's at the moment.

With the remaining half quarter, try to give Mourning an advantage to Milicic, otherwise Richard feels like the game is hanging in the balance.

Although the Nets don't have any decent bench players on the bench, but they are slightly better than the Pirates, and Richard must want to play as much as possible in the starting time.

To Richard's delight, after Mourning came on the court, the efficiency was quite good, especially on the defensive end, as soon as he came on the court, he rewarded Amir Johnson with a big hat and turned his hat man on his back.

Richard couldn't help but think of the situation when the Heat won the championship, Wade was definitely the number one contributor to the championship, O'Neal was the second contributor, and Mourning could almost be called the third contributor.

Maybe in the Pirates playoffs this year, Mourning can also play well.

The combination of Mourning and Milicic directly put the Nets' interior in an explosive state.

Milicic's exquisite passing ability directly made the old Mourning under the basket turn into a dunk maniac, and three dunks came to Kostic's head in the half quarter.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, if Mourning could keep this state all the time, then it would not be impossible for their Buccaneers to take out the Nets.