Time passed day by day, and the finals began on June 2.

When a player, who is currently considered to be the strongest at the moment, leads the team to the Finals, only to be asked about another player before the Finals, and that player has nothing to do with the Finals......

This kind of thing, James encountered.

But it can't be helped! James could only answer with a smile: "I always hope that players and teams can have the right to choose freely, and I also appreciate the generous behavior of the Grizzlies, giving the lord enough freedom." ”

At 8 p.m., the game began.

Pat Riley, who was standing behind Spoelstra, the head coach of the Heat, knew that it was a hole for the opponent to play offense, but he still had to jump in, otherwise he would have no chance.

After the Grizzlies uncovered this matter and went all out on offense in the next three games, not many fans may have judged the plan of Mavericks head coach Carlisle, but the best head coaches in the league have basically figured it out.

However, Pat Riley had to jump into the pit because the Grizzlies wanted to go on offense, and it was really the best way to deal with the Mavericks.

The Mavericks in Nowitzki's explosive state are too strong, and they are the guys who can't integrate into the tactical system as a core player no matter what, starting from Game 5 of the first round as role players and team puzzle pieces to help Kidd and the core trio of Jason Terry and Yao Ming play a good regular offense, and once he reaches the scorching stage, he stands up and hits continuously.

The Mavericks played the feeling of an invincible OK combination, and the opponent knew they were going to play like that, but they couldn't think of a way to deal with it.

When a team is too strong, it will definitely not be able to think of a way to deal with it, and there is only one way, which is to attack with the Mavericks to see which side shoots more accurately.

But the Mavericks have relied on mid-range shots all the way to the Finals, from Carlisle made up his mind to use Nowitzki as a role player, Novitzki completely converted into a team puzzle piece, played a 10-1 record, the Heat team is also very strong, but in the case of the opponent sticking to the basket, James only shot 8 of 19 in the first game, only two free throws, 1 of 2 free throws, although he got 17 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists, but he failed to cause damage on the inside, and almost all of his scores were scored by teammates.

And all the playoff teams this season have to compete with the Mavericks in shooting, and no one can compare!

Relying on Nowitzki's 29 points, Barria's 11 points, Yao Ming's 20 points, Jason Terry's 24 points, and DeSean Stevenson's 18 points, the Mavericks scored 5 double-doubles, and the first game of the finals was decided.

The Heat team scored 7 double-doubles, but couldn't stand up to the highest scorer Mike Miller only 19 points, Wade and James both had 15+, Bosh was beaten by Yao Ming at center, and Novitzki was shot by Nowitzki when he played power forward, and the data of 8 points and 6 boards was simply spicy, and Bosh seemed to return to the miserable time when he was beaten by the 37-year-old O'Neal in 2009.

In fact, during the Raptors period, Bosh was able to play back and forth with Nowitzki, but now he has an inside line where Yao Ming and Chandler take turns guarding, and he can only go to the outside line to float and shoot.

The Mavericks won their first win in the Finals with a crushing momentum, which made many people feel that the Mavericks are really going to stand up this year, which caused a lot of heated discussions.

However, at their peak, there are people who continue to steal the limelight......

Just to continue, on the afternoon of May 31, the Grizzlies' No. 3 player began to meet with the owners of the 21 teams.

Of course, this will make fans curious and want to know the content of the meeting, and the media will naturally toss what the fans want to see, spy on intelligence everywhere, and constantly publish news, whether it is real or fake, it can always cause heated discussions.

A grand finals, or the finals where Nowitzki broke out so badly that the first game of the playoffs almost got rid of the name of the soft egg, the heat did not overshadow a player's "free market game", the Mavericks players were depressed, and the Mavericks fans were even more depressed.

The Heat don't know how to describe their feelings, they lost the first game of the Finals, and there weren't too many people mocking them, they were ridiculed for every game they lost in this year's playoffs, and when it came to the Finals, they weren't ridiculed much, except for those who touted the Mavericks, everyone else was busy watching the Grizzlies, and even their Heat fans went to watch.

Such a situation has reduced the psychological pressure on the players of the Heat team.

On the other hand, the Heat are playing away from home, and losing the first game actually has little impact on the whole.

You will always lose, and you will win the finals without losing a game...... In the past 20 years, the Rockets in '95, the Lakers in '02, and the Spurs in '07 have completed a sweep to win the championship; In the past 20 years, only the Lakers in 91 and the Rockets in 95 have not even won Jordan.

The loss in the first game did not affect the confidence of the Heat players playing on the road.

The most amazing thing about the Mavericks is that they won very crushingly, but it always gives people the feeling that Nowitzki broke out to win, Nowitzki scored 13 points in the final quarter of this game, and led the Mavericks to defeat the Heat in the final quarter, and the Heat team that attacked wildly under the instruction of Pat Riley in the first three quarters did not fall behind.

This will always give the opponent a little hope, in case Nowitzki is not allowed to do so?

……

Sun Ce's side, since the afternoon of May 31, has been listening to the management of the sea blowing sent by various teams, and the most confident is the owner of the Lakers, saying that when Kobe Bryant retires, he will be the core, and he will help him find the best center in the league to partner with him when the time comes......

The most incredible blow was the Nets, who directly invited Sun Ce to join them in moving to New York, forming a two-guard with DeLong, and then attracting Howard.

The Nets are one of the few teams to directly offer a contract, and they are also one of the teams to push for the cancellation of the Arenas clause in the second-round rookie contract extension clause, wanting to use the space offer to force Sun Ce.

The most Buddhist is the Spurs general manager Buford, and every year the Spurs will be interested in everyone, at the beginning of the century, interested in Malone, interested in O'Neal, interested in Kidd, interested in Yao Ming, interested in Antonio McDyes, interested in Marion, interested in Stoudemire...... also thought about Kobe, the reason why San Antonio intends to have a bad reputation is mainly because the Rockets next door to them are too popular, and relatively speaking, almost all of those stars directly reject the Spurs, and the Rockets are still a little eyebrow-raising.

Over time, the Spurs have maintained an intentional style for all their stars, but they can basically only pick them up when they are old, such as Richard Jefferson and Iverson and the future Pau Gasol.

However, the Spurs haven't given up on this style, and they can make it up if they can, just in case, hell.

No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, Sun Ce and the top 19 teams will all meet.

Testing the waters of the free market, that is, an idea, just like most people's thoughts, after it is really realized, I find it boring, and it feels clearer than the sage time thinking after the crazy output.

The vast majority of the teams are holding the mentality of "giving it a go", maybe they haven't thought about how to build a team after getting him Sun someone, it is true that from the current point of view, Sun Ce needs a suitable system, but those team management came in a hurry, how can there be any clear plan.

So Sun Ce asked them what their plans for the next few years would be if the Grizzlies had to match the contract this year, in addition to the Spurs, Lakers, Heat, Nets, and Celtics having a clear plan, even the 50+ winning teams like the Trail Blazers and Nuggets all have the mentality of taking one step at a time, and most teams don't even have their own plans.

This made Sun Ce understand that not every team management in the NBA is so powerful, most of them are very ordinary club operators, and they are not even excellent.

And the Grizzlies are probably really in the best time since the establishment of the team, even in the original time and space in Sun Ce's memory, the Grizzlies have done well enough and done everything well, but I didn't expect Guy, who averaged 20+ per game in the second grade, to be so Buddhist, talent can't be developed for a long time, and without the person who raised the team's ceiling, playing to the Western Conference has become the limit, wasting the Grizzlies' best few years of various operations to put together a super rotation lineup.

The well-planned team, Sun Ce is not interested for the time being, and the whimsical team that draws a big pie, Sun Ce's scalp is numb when he thinks about it.

Sun Ce's sense of expectation that he wanted to test the free market was completely wiped out, but it also let him know which teams had really good management, which teams had to hide even if they really changed teams in the future, and even which general managers and executive presidents had to avoid these people.

……

In a flash, the time came to June 4th, which was a day for the fans who watched Sun Ce meet with the management of each team.

Meeting day for two teams that got special treatment!

Sun Ce put the Rockets and Grizzlies alone for today, giving the two teams half a day.

In the media's speculation, Sun Ce must have some idea of giving these two teams special treatment, and fans also believe in the media's statement, and they also think so.

And on the morning of May 31, after the Rockets got the news, their management was overjoyed, and went everywhere to promote "Chinese Players' Home", "Yao Ming's Parent Team", "Yao Ming's Successor Sun Ce" and other things to guide public opinion, trying to influence Sun Ce's judgment from "off the court".

The first to be affected are the media and fans.

Originally, Team Rocket had special treatment, and the public opinion guided by Team Rocket was really like that.

Sun Ce, after getting ready to go, came to the concert hall where he met with the bosses of each team at 9 o'clock in the morning.

He looked at the plan that the Rockets handed to Bill Duffy on the morning of the 31st, and out of the 21 teams that met, only 4 teams made direct offers, the Spurs, the Nets, the Magic, and the rest were the Rockets.

The Spurs and Nets have salary space, and the Spurs have always had it, and they control it very well, so they can go to the stars whose contracts expire every summer.

The Nets failed to compete for James last summer, but they didn't sign indiscriminately to block the space, and Deron was still traded for Harris, which didn't occupy much of the space that was originally vacated.

The Magic are ready to cut Arenas with a new amnesty clause that is sure to pass, and then trade to make room.

On the Rockets' side, the plan for Sun Ce is similar to that of the Magic, and they are ready to trade Al Jefferson and amnesty Billups to form the core of his and Anthony's lineup.

It's obviously a similar plan, but the Rockets give Sun Ce the feeling that after they get him, they are ready to hold him and Anthony, two popular players, and then get together a bunch of role players in the corners and corners to continue to make a lot of money.

Otherwise, Sun Ce couldn't figure out the reason why the Rockets pardoned Billups, Sun Ce liked to have a teammate like Billups who would give up the ball when he should be and have strong command ability.

And since it was necessary to trade Al Jefferson to make room, why pardon Billups? Three-way trading is not enough.

Therefore, when Sun Ce went out this morning, he was ready to carry his PS3 with his luggage......

……

By two o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Ce welcomed Coach Hollins, Chris Wallace, Tim Hardaway, David Fitzdale, Dave Jogle, John Bickerstaff ...... 's general manager + the entire coaching staff, as well as Yi Jianlian and Randolph, Jordan Jr., Battier, Morrow five teammates.

After welcoming a bunch of people from the team into the house, Sun Ce didn't wait for the other party to speak, and said directly: "Lerina, you take the uncles to visit our indoor arena, see what the uncles want to drink, and let the aunt prepare, David, Dave, John, Tim...... You're going to shop first......

Zach, the game console is in that room, I haven't played a level for three hours in the morning, you help me get through it, it's too difficult to play, Brother Allen, DeAndre, Sean, Anthony, that's the billiard room, you go play first, I have something to talk to the coach and the manager. ”

Sun Ce came up and arranged everyone clearly, and directly separated everyone, leaving only Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins in charge, which caught the group of people who came a little off guard.

For the past five days, they have been discussing how to talk to Sun Ce, although Coach Hollins and Chris Wallace are confident that Sun Ce will stay, and there is a way out, they have the right to match, if the terms change is successful, their right to match will not be solved.

But there are still concerns, in case Sun Ce is really moved by which team...... This is the reason why Chris Wallace wants to trade the boss, obviously not to take risks, and he is stunned to put himself in possible danger.

But this morning, they suddenly received a message from Bill Duffy, and they changed places to meet and went to Sun Ce's house.

It's not important, the important thing is that Sun Ce broke up the others as soon as he came up.

In particular, the most important teammates Yi Jianlian, Randolph, Jordan Jr., and Battier were all supported, and it was not easy to play the relationship card, which caught the ready coaching staff and teammates off guard.

Coach Hollins felt a little bad, but Chris Wallace, who heard Sun Ce's words, was in the eye! Nodding to the companions who came together, he followed Sun Ce to the reception room.

After entering the reception room, Coach Hollins and Chris Wallace saw Bill Duffy who got up to greet him, went up to shake hands, and looked at the reception room.

The reception room is simply furnished, with a bar, a coffee table, two sofas, a projection device, a potted plant in the window, and nothing superfluous.

"Black tea or coffee?" Sun Ce asked as he walked to the bar.

"Black tea."

"I want black tea too."

"Okay."

Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins sat opposite Bill Duffy and instead of talking about the contract, they chatted about family things.

A few minutes later, Sun Ce brought up a pot of black tea and two teacups.

After sitting down, Chris Wallace asked directly, "Noah, do you have any suggestions for this year's draft?" ”

"Uh...... Shouldn't you guys talk about renewing the contract? Sun Ce asked rhetorically.

Chris Wallace laughed: "You've been asking Beal to collect draft intentions from other teams these days, I think you must have a target you want to pick, but you're worried that other teams will pick first; And in the details of your meeting with other teams, you asked the teams with high picks about their draft intentions; In addition, the news from many teams is that they are not eager to sign you this year......

Actually, these are still secondary, and you may also want to see their draft plan, because you didn't directly ask us for a joint tryout report, but asked Bill to gather information, we can't be sure.

But what you said when you broke up Zack just now, I know, you didn't think about leaving, I don't know why you took Team Rocket out alone, but you played games for three hours in the morning......

I think you called us to your house, because you're tired of the free market game, so let's talk about the next draft, you've long since decided that our most unreliable boss in history will definitely give you the biggest contract you can give. ”

Hearing this, Coach Hollins remembered what Sun Ce said to Randolph, it turned out that this was what he meant, and Sun Ce just rested for a morning this morning, played games all morning, and talked to them in the afternoon?

Coach Hollins was curious, why did he put the Rockets today? But Chris Wallace said he didn't want to ask why, and he couldn't either, otherwise he would be too stupid.

Bill Duffy quipped: "Noah, I said, Chris is very shrewd, he must be able to see if you deliberately show flaws." ”

"Don't say, Bill, I'm really a little depressed." Sun Ce made a joke and continued: "Actually, the game is not over yet, but that doesn't matter, I will make my decision public tomorrow and surprise you when the time comes...... Not to mention that, I've been reading scouting reports these days, and there's a college student I've been following for a long time, and he's running this year. ”

Now that he has gone straight to the point, Coach Hollins also put aside his doubts, didn't go to the bottom of how Sun Ce still wanted to play, and asked, "Who?" ”

"Klay Thompson, University of Washington, his defense and catch-and-shoot is a great fit for our team, and he has a good personality, and I loved watching him play when I was in college." Sun Ce responded.

Again...... It's watching him play again......

Chris Wallace didn't know how to complain, chose to ignore it, and glanced at Coach Hollins, who was responsible for the specific aspects of the draft.

Coach Hollins didn't fall behind in the draft, the draft vision is the vision, the basic work is very serious, and replied: "This is the son of my former teammate, his father's name is Michael, and he was the No. 1 pick selected by the team when I was playing, and his strength is not bad, of course, it is not as good as me, his son I have understood, and now he is a junior in college, and he is a tall pitcher with combat power, but his athleticism is not as strong as Michael's, and he has no skills, and he is predicted to be selected by the 76ers with the 19th pick." ”

Not again! Sun Ce and Chris Wallace heard Coach Hollins brag about his playing days again.

But they don't have room to refute, he does have the capital to step on a lot of champion shows, champions + defense + all-stars, that's how he has cards.

"He's actually very good, he's very good at shooting and defending, and his athleticism isn't as ordinary, and when I watch his games, he has a good lateral movement, a good defensive anticipation, and he's strong enough, but he looks a little bit bulky, and because he's predominantly shooting, that's why he did so badly in the combined tryout, and teams with lottery picks want to bet on a talent like Kobe Bryant, but we need a player like that." Sun Ce analyzed.

This wave of analysis, Coach Hollins feels justified, Sun Ce originally had the title of "the strongest system player", and he also showed a very strong team thinking in the game, which Coach Hollins did not doubt.

The first target, Thompson, was finalized, Coach Hollins did not object, originally according to Tim Hardaway's words, this No. 7 pick was used to choose a bag brother for Sun Ce, how happy Sun Ce came, and the son of an old teammate can take care of it by the way.

Coach Hollins went on to ask, "Are there any other goals?" This year's draft is difficult to predict, too many freshmen and sophomores drop out, and if he is really drafted early, we need to be prepared. ”

"Yes! Kawhi Leonard of the University of San Diego, he has great defensive potential, just poor technique......"

Before Sun Ce finished speaking, Coach Hollins began to complain: "You have to use the No. 7 pick to select a defensive talent, we don't need a second Tony, we also have a tall defensive talent, I have read his trial report, I think Paul is more talented than him, especially shooting, Paul has the same perfect talent as Rudy, and he works harder defensively." ”

"We don't need a second Tony", Sun Ce heard this, knowing that it was okay to choose Leonard, even if he said it, now this sophomore who looks like he has nothing but defense and even shooting weird movements looks like he can't match the 7th pick.

But it's nothing, Sun Ce just appreciates Leonard's efforts, he wasn't very happy to give the ball to a rookie singles with no skills like a troika, Leonard's early singles were really spicy, but Popovich was stunned, and gave Leonard a certain chance to play singles since the beginning of his rookie season, and he was stunned to train him into a scorer with an average of 20+ strength per game in the fifth year of Leonard's career, and he is still a ball-holding type.

Sun Ce actually didn't have that patience, he just simply appreciated Leonard's perseverance to practice all-round skills from the beginning of entering the NBA, but this is actually not important, there is a better option Thompson is not, but Coach Hollins has to ask him if he has any other options, and he said the second choice.

"Are there any other alternatives?" Coach Hollins continued.

Sun Ce felt that the team really didn't have anything particularly bad, but it looked good in all positions, and as Coach Hollins said, Paul George had the talent to be a perfect 3-and-D player, even better than Thompson.

It's just that the team wants him to give advice, so he offers it.

However, thinking of hard work and inspiration, Sun Ce thought of an existence that was not so strong but had similar characteristics and was harder and more inspirational......

"There's another one, Jimmy Butler, who works hard."

"......" Hearing this name, Coach Hollins wanted to hit someone, and tried hard to suppress his anger, and he didn't renew the contract, and he would fight again after the contract was renewed......

Is this a suggestion?

No. 7 sign!

It is recommended to choose a guy who predicts the second round of champions!

"Just Thompson! There's no need for an alternative, I think he's a good fit, and no team should pick him in the top six. ”

Seeing Coach Hollins' disgusted expression and wanting to hit someone, Sun Ce was very innocent, obviously you asked for the alternative!