"You're the general manager, not the head coach, so you can't bring in reinforcements the way you did with the Grizzlies, the players you want, not necessarily what Rudy wants, and for the manager, he knows better what kind of players he needs and what kind of players he doesn't need."

"Since you've asked Rudy's opinion, you should respect his opinion."

Darryl Morey woke up Qiao Hai at once, and Qiao Hai suddenly woke up.

yes, that's right!

He's not the head coach of the Rockets, and the players he wants, he feels he can use good players, and Rudy Tomjanovic can't necessarily use them.

For Tang Shuai, he definitely prefers the old players he has used for more than two seasons, after all, they are players he is familiar with.

Gilbert Arenas is a player he is not familiar with, and Tang Shuai may not even know Arenas' style of play.

Tang Shuai is an elegant person, he doesn't like stabbing players, and he is not good at resolving conflicts.

Back then, the Rockets triumvirate Charles Barkley and Scott Pippen had a conflict, and Tang Shuai was unable to solve it.

For Qiao Hai, none of this is a problem.

He can give Arenas a suitable positioning, let him play MVP-level performance, even if there are more thorns in the team, Qiao Hai can perfectly solve these intra-team contradictions, because even if it can't be solved, Qiao Hai has the courage to let the troublesome players get out.

But the problem is that he's not a manager, he's just a general manager.

It is true that Qiao Hai can ignore Tang Shuai and forcibly promote this deal, he has this right, and Tang Shuai can't stop him, but the question is, what does Qiao Hai want? It's an improvement in the team's record.

In a sense, he and Tang Shuai are a community, and creating a lineup that can allow Tang Shuai to give full play to his abilities is what Qiao Hai should do.

So, after thinking about it for a while, Qiao Hai finally decided to give up the deal.

……

Arenas was given up by Joe, and Stephen Jackson was also a thorn in the pan, and it was best to rule it out as well.

Johi once again turned his gaze to Derrick Anderson, Jason Richardson and James Posey, and he flipped through the Grizzlies and Nuggets rosters.

A deal was quickly locked.

"Eddie Griffin, Gardan Rangiga second-round picks for James Posey and Chris Anderson......"

The Nuggets agreed to a trade proposed by the Rockets because it would give them a promising power forward, Eddie Griffin, and a second-round pick.

In fact, it is only a James Posey, a wing defender whose shooting is not stable, and Chris Anderson and Dan Langki are both additions and insignificant.

However, for Johi, this deal can directly solve two problems, James Posey is not a thorn, he is the defensive plus three-point swingman that Rudy Tomjanovic wants.

Chris Anderson is a bit of a prick, but he is just a water cooler player, and Tang Shuai can still manage such a player.

The birdman can run and jump, so it is naturally the inner line that Tang Shuai wants to run and jump.

……

After the Arenas trade failed, Qiao Hai was not in much interest to push for any big trades, and after signing small forward Terence Morris and point guard Ralph Alston from the free market, he decided that this season's reinforcements would be over!

The preliminary roster of the Rockets is released:

Point guards: Steve Francis, Murch Norris, Ralph Alston

Shooting guards: James Posey, Jamal Crawford

Small forwards: Ron Artest, Terrence Morris

Power forwards: Kenny Thomas, Carlos Boozer, Darius Sangueira

Center: Yao Ming, Kevin Cato, Jason Collier, Chris Anderson

There are 14 players in total, and there is one vacancy in the space that will be decided from the players who will participate in the Summer League.

Then, Qiao Hai arranged the preseason affairs and found four opponents, the Mavericks and Spurs in the same district, and the New Orleans Hornets and Indiana Pacers not far from the Eastern Conference.

Four opponents, 8 games.

In this way, for Qiao Hai, he has arranged all the things that belong to his general manager.

After doing everything, Qiao Hai directly set himself a one-and-a-half-month vacation, and then booked a plane ticket and flew to the Celestial Empire on the other side of the ocean.

On this trip back to China, Qiao Hai mainly had four things.

One is the god of mystery.

After buying Aoshen, Qiao Hai basically didn't deal with Aoshen's affairs, and all operations were handed over to Zheng Ming, the current general manager of Aoshen.

This time when he returned to China, Qiao Hai definitely wanted to go back to Aoshen to take a specific look.

The second is fire sports.

The operation of Huoping Sports has been on the right track, and at the request of Qiao Hai, the website has always followed the principle of seeking truth from facts and not picking on saliva, so it has improved its own forced style.

Coupled with the fact that there are sources of Hoop Sports in the United States, all the news reports are much faster than the major sports websites in China.

Therefore, at this time, Huopu is already the largest sports website in China, and it can even be said to be the most authoritative sports media in China.

Qiao Hai returned to China this time, so he naturally wanted to go and see it.

The third is a Toronto Western restaurant.

The Toronto Western Restaurant operated by Qiao's father has developed rapidly in the past two years, in addition to the initial store in Jinling, it has also opened branches in Magic City and Hangzhou.

When Qiao Hai returns to China this time, he will definitely go home to see Qiao's father and mother, and by the way, he will put forward some suggestions for the follow-up development of the Toronto Western restaurant at home.

The fourth thing is seawater investment.

It must be said that at Qiao Hai's suggestion, Seawater Investment shifted their focus to the Celestial Empire, and David Falck also withdrew his shares, and he directly took all the dividends of Seawater Investment in the past two years, as well as 5% of Google's shares, which can be regarded as a withdrawal.

Now, Seawater Investment has only two shareholders.

One is Qiao Hai, who occupies 75% of the shares, and the other is Qiao Zhishui, who occupies 25% of the shares.

In addition to still holding 15% of Google's shares, holding 70,000 shares of Amazon, and a small team continuing to fight on the NASDAQ in the United States, Seawater Investment has completely withdrawn from the United States.

Qiao Hai hasn't known much about the domestic business.

However, he gave Qiao Zhishui a lot of advice, including investing in Internet companies such as Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and Sina.

After all, seawater investment is Qiao Hai's most profitable industry, and if he wants to be his own boss in the future, he will definitely have to rely on seawater investment.

Aoshen is in the capital, the fire is in the magic capital, the Toronto Western restaurant is in Jinling, and the seawater investment is in the deep city.

Qiao Hai has to run four places, and he is still very busy.

To do this, he had to draw up an itinerary.

The first stop back home is the capital......