Chapter 830 [Three Swingers, Form a Dunk Team]
As soon as the free agency market opened in July, there were two controversial signings, featuring the Clippers and Warriors.
Warriors star point guard Byron Davis chose to give up his final year of salary of 17.8 million to become a restricted free agent, and then chose to join the Clippers for 5 years and 65 million.
What puzzles fans is that the Warriors did not match the contract, and let go of the former star for nothing, they can completely renew Davis's contract, sign first and then trade, or keep Davis on a 5-year contract, so that the team can gain something.
Warriors head coach Woodson said in a phone interview: "I was surprised, I think the amount of contract he's giving up is so huge, it's unlikely he's going to jump out of his contract. He must have changed his mind, or something else going on, but that's business. ”
Kobe Bryant, who participated in the Olympic training camp, lay down his gun, and as soon as he joined the Warriors, Davis and Murphy left the team one after another, and some experts believe that it is directly related to him, and he and Davis fought for the ball last season, and there are conflicts.
Davis' idea is to go to Brand, and the duo seems promising to form an inside-out duo, with the addition of an NCAA rookie named Michael Beasley.
However, Brand also jumped out of the final year of his contract, telling his boss to bring in reinforcements in free agency first and then negotiate a contract extension. After the Clippers acquired Davis, they offered Brand a contract of 5 years and 70 million, citing the fact that Bland's reimbursement was doubtful last season due to injury concerns.
"Captain" was furious, and the Clippers then increased the contract to 75 million and then 81 million, but Brand was resigned, and he accepted the Warriors' retaliatory five-year, 90 million contract.
The player the Warriors wanted the most was Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas, but the Wizards offered Arenas a six-year contract with a maximum salary of up to $111 million, and the Warriors' plan to poach Arenas basically went bankrupt. I have to say that the Warriors manager is very imaginative, Arenas and Kobe Bryant's picture is so beautiful, he will probably point a gun at Kobe's head in the locker room......
The Warriors turned to Brand to bolster the interior, and he could play power forward or play small ball with Al Harrington. The Warriors' No. 1 position has become very weak, and the remaining Barbossa is not a playmaker.
Davis vomited blood and vomited blood after seeing the news, and said in an interview that he broke off his friendship with Brand and gave a malicious curse: "Let's see, he will soon find out that joining the Warriors with a big contract is not as good as he imagined, and he is a person who takes the blame for losing." ”
The Clippers then traded All-Defensive Center Marcus Camby from the Nuggets to bolster the interior at the cost of a second-round pick and trade exception.
Many fans exclaimed that this was the Clippers star center for nothing, but the Nuggets management did not hesitate, they knew very well that this was a brush that seemed to be excellent defensively, and it could not be replaced by a strongman at all. Next season, the Nuggets think Camby's salary is too high, so they want to throw it out to free up salary space, and it's not worth paying the luxury tax for this kind of person.
The Suns have had a number of departures, and there are plenty of teams poaching them after they failed to defend their title last season.
Eddie Jones, Collis Williams, Shamond Williams retired directly.
The Cavaliers don't have Ben Wallace's huge pit contract, they have salary space, and they poached "Brazilian actor" Anderson Vallejo for 40 million in 5 years. This contract is similar to that of Vallejo's previous contract with the Cavaliers, who has average stats but has a lot of playoff experience and three championship rings.
Tim Thomas joined the Bobcats for 15 million in 3 years, and the contract is a bit premium, and he is strong in attack and weak in defense. The Bobcats lack a power forward and often have Gerard Wallace in the No. 4 position, a reinforcement that benefits the team.
Anthony Parker jumped out of his third year contract, the Raptors offered four years and 23 million poachers, he has an accurate three-point shot, can also break through and pass the ball, a little older, but the Raptors believe he can maintain his form for a few more years, and he wants to produce results next season.
This kind of contract Suns management certainly won't match, and having Grant Hill play no worse than Parker as a starter at the No. 3 position, just barely shoot threes.
The Hornets offered 32-year-old Raga Bell a four-year, $23 million in annual salary, to bolster the weakest No. 2 spot, after Rassell Butler was playing the starter, and they wanted experienced players.
In Guo Xu's previous life, the Hornets poached James Posey, a swingman of the Green Army, who is 203CM tall and prefers to play small forwards, and there are too many tall small forwards in the team, so they dug Bell instead.
The value of the player will increase after having the championship, Posey did not win the championship in the Heat, and in the Green Army, he only entered the Eastern Conference finals with the team and the data is average, and there is no outstanding performance in the finals of single defense Kobe, and it is impossible to sign a middle-class contract.
This is cheap for the Rockets, they took Posey for 4 million in two years to be a substitute for Prince, Posey's purpose is to hug his thighs to compete for the championship, he used to play for the Rockets for a season, and the two sides are more familiar.
THE SUNS' FIRST PICK DIRECTLY SELECTED A ROOKIE SHOOTING GUARD IN THE SUMMER LEAGUE, AN UNDRAFTED ROOKIE NAMED ANTHONY MORROW, WHO IS 196CM TALL AND WEIGHS 95 KG.
Moreau, who averaged 14.3 points and four rebounds per game in his fourth year of college, was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference, but he was a 23-year-old rookie who went unnoticed. He was indeed a second-round alternative for Brian Colangelo that Guo Xu had provided, and he would have been selected if the team missed Dragic on the grounds that he was good at shooting threes.
Bryan invited Morrow to represent the Suns in the Summer League, and after playing, he signed him to a two-year contract with a minimum salary, with a team option for the second year, giving him the treatment of several rookies after the second round.
In the summer league, Morrow's performance was very eye-catching, averaging 22.7 points per game and becoming the Utah MVP, shooting 44.6% from three-point range and shooting 2.8 goals per game.
The second pick was still a swingman, and the team needed to make up for three when they left, and they chose Gerard Green.
Green is much worse than Guo Xu's previous life, he has played a total of three seasons, has changed four teams, and has not been able to find the feeling of the game for a long time, averaging 5.1 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist per game in the best season.
Green's physical fitness is top-notch, with a bounce power that surpasses Vince Carter, and his head is over the frame when he dunks, with an extreme bounce of 117CM.
He was once known as the "King of Nine-Finger Dunk", and when he was a child, Green made a bet with his friends to touch the top edge of the door, and when Green touched the top edge, the ring on his hand was stuck by a nail in the door, and finally the part above the second knuckle of the ring finger was removed. In addition, Green was known as the top scorer in Texas and Maddie II when he was in college. He's also very fast, shooting from beyond the three-point line.
Green doesn't play well because of poor team awareness and inconsistent shooting, but the Suns don't need him to have a strong sense of play, just come up and rush when he plays a quick counterattack.
Guo Xu was very impressed with him, in 2018, the 32-year-old Green's dunk head could still be flat, and now the 22-year-old is a beast body, which is very suitable for the empty city.
The Suns' third pick was even more unusual, choosing a member of the Harlem basketball team named Jamario Moon, who is 27 years old, 203cm tall and weighs 93kg.
Moon has never participated in the NBA draft, has not played in the NCAA, was still struggling in the minor league half a year ago, earning up to 1,000 yuan a week, and Guo Xu signed him to the team after the summer league. This is also a physical fitness person, who can play fast break and dunk, and is the same type as Green.
As long as Roy is not injured, he must be the No. 2 starter, and the benches that the Suns are looking for are all good at running and jumping, they only need to play fast offense and defense, and they won't have a lot of ball possession, and it's right to find good physical fitness.
The Suns' fourth signing is a two-year salary extension to Polish Hammer Gortat, who is also a bouncing man.
It's clear that they're going to build a slam dunk team next season......