Chapter 203: Upgrading the Training System
After Zhang returned to Los Angeles, she turned off one of her mobile phones, not planning to contact these superficial friends more, and the people on this mobile phone had nothing to contact. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He has three mobile phones, and Xiaolin's sister usually helps him carry one, which are basically the senior management of the team and the Dragonborn company, the senior management of his own company, and some well-connected reporters and endorsed businesses...... To summarize briefly, this phone is responsible for connecting with good friends, business partners, and important fans, so it's okay to pretend to be forced to let a personal assistant handle it.
There is also a mobile phone, which is full of superficial friends and unimportant contacts, such as some teammates, players from other teams, reporters who can't remember names, small businesses, etc., because it is not very important, this mobile phone will not be turned on again in the off-season.
The last one, of course, is the sacred phone he uses to contact the girls, of course he can't let outsiders know about this kind of thing, so he always carries it with him.
After the Lakers are eliminated, he will be considered the end of the season.
The team had something to explain, the general manager and the head coach were on the plane, and he said goodbye to his teammates and went home to deal with his own affairs.
Usually in the offseason, NBA players basically play their own games except for meeting up with real and close friends.
So after getting off the plane, everyone can go and enjoy their vacation.
However, Zhang has little interest in vacationing. Although he also wants to visit resorts around the world, who calls his harem too big, even if he can turn the paparazzi into interstellar players, he can't go out with one of the young ladies, so the favorability of the other young ladies will have to suffer Waterloo.
What is "lack of skills", this should be the best portrayal of him, even if it comes to the offseason, he can only spare part of his time to carry out some business activities, and then he will obediently return to Los Angeles to train while working diligently like young ladies to pay public food.
"Fortunately, I have cards to rejuvenate my energy, and I have saved so many competitive points in one season, and this moment finally came in handy!"
Zhang has accumulated 110,000 points during the playoffs, and one main quest and two side quests and the game itself have contributed a lot of points to him, which is enough for him to upgrade the "training system" to level 3.
After the "virtual training system" is upgraded to level 3, he will be able to purchase active or retired players with 85-89 ability points for training, and he can also turn on the 5v5 simulation game function, which will greatly improve his training efficiency in the virtual space.
"It's a pity that these missions are not completed until after the playoffs are over, and the rewards will not be distributed until after the playoffs, otherwise I would have been able to simulate a game against the SuperSonics before the Western Conference Finals, and maybe struggle a little more."
Zhang Wei was still a pity in the face of defeat, just after upgrading the training system to level 3, he entered the virtual space on the bed of Miss Feihong, and caught up with the simulated supersonic speed.
But the fly in the ointment is that Payton's ability value exceeds 89, so he can only be replaced by Kidd, and the result is that the SuperSonics are beaten by the Lakers led by him 101:94.
"It seems that Kidd's fire is still not enough, although his defense can be okay and the organization is better, but the offensive ability is too far behind, and the experience is also insufficient, and the supersonic speed with only one engine becomes easy to be limited."
Zhang Wei finally defeated the supersonic this time, just exchanging Kidd for a Peyton, and the strength of the supersonic dropped by about 20%. Especially in the stalemate, Zhang can clearly feel that the pressure on his side is much less, and Van Exell is not as weak as facing Payton, whose defense and attack are very lethal in key rounds, and Kidd at this stage is much worse in all aspects.
"The four-level training system can use players with 90-94 statistic values, and can simulate almost all teams except the Bulls and Magic, but the number of competitive points required has also increased exponentially, and it is not worth upgrading now."
Zhang Zhu tasted the benefits of the level 3 training system, and wanted to go directly to level 4. But the upgrade cost in the system is increased exponentially, just like this virtual training system, only 10,000 competition points are needed at the first level, 20,000 at the second level, 40,000 when promoted to the third level, and 80,000 competition points at the fourth level, which is beyond his bearing.
This season, there are quite a few players in the NBA who have an ability value of more than 89, and they can't count them on two hands. But there are only a handful of players over 94, Jordan with 99, followed by David Robinson and O'Neal and Olajuwon's 95, and their teams need a five-level system to simulate.
"O'Neal played so in the Eastern Conference Finals, and his weakness in free throws was blown out by the Bulls, and now I'm afraid he doesn't have 95 ability."
Zhang Wei couldn't help but complain about O'Neill again, and soon he had a more fun idea.
At this moment, Miss Feihong, who was asleep, didn't know that Zhang Mao, who was lying next to her, actually played a 2K simulation game in her dream.
Soon, Zhang played another game, and this time the Lakers' lineup became: Van Exel(84), Cebaros (84), Dashuaibi (90), Barkley (89), Mutombo (86).
"Awesome, my own ability value is not in the calculation range, Barkley's current ability value has slipped to 89, Mutombo as a defensive interior lineman, 86's ability value is already very high, this lineup is just in the simulation range of the level 3 system, I want to see how powerful it is."
Zhang Mao had a great time this night, anyway, he will not have injuries and physical problems in the virtual system, and after each game, the exhausted stamina will automatically recover, so theoretically he can simulate three playoff intensity games in one night.
This time the opponent was still replacing Payton's supersonic with Kidd, and the result was different from just a narrow victory, Barkley and Kemp launched an exchange of blows on the offensive end, which the Lakers had never done before. And don't look at the same ability value of the two, Camp still has a lot of advantages in athleticism, but Barkley's big ass is not easy to mess with, he beats Camp in the technical link, and he is enough to suppress in terms of ball quotient, and Jazz Ba can still occupy a certain advantage in key rounds.
Of course, Mutombo's old and spicy defense and defensive range that is not inferior to Camp also seriously affected the offense of the "Rain Man", and this time the supersonic interior line was completely blown up by the Lakers!
To be honest, Kemp didn't go head-to-head with Barkley at all in this game, he has always been in 1v2, and the defensive awareness of "African Mountain" is much more than Kemp, and he can always help Sir Ba and his outside teammates fill in the holes in time.
Kemp played very hard in this game, completely lacking the ease of playing against the Lakers in reality, and Zhang could feel that he was struggling all over the court.
"Is that what it's like to have a reliable teammate?"
Zhang found that he was much more relaxed this time, and in some key rounds, he could have given the ball to Barkley, who was in place, and then went outside to wait for the ball to be divided, turning on the onlooker mode, and his teammates would not let him down.
"However, this is a lineup with a minimum ability value of 83, and if you want to get Barkley and Mutombo, Van Exel and Sebaros will have to go at least one, and the Lakers will probably have to send both of them away in exchange for these two."
Zhang Wei knew that this lineup was unlikely to become a reality, and Fan Maniac and Sebaros had very little pressure in this lineup, and they could easily play above 85.
If the Suns want to trade Barkley, they will ask the Lakers for at least one of them, otherwise they would rather trade with the Rockets, Spurs, Magic and other teams, anyway, there are a lot of sought-after teams like Barkley that want it.
Zhang Fu started training in a cheating style here, and the outside world is concentrating on reporting on the upcoming finals, and there is no extra energy to pay attention to the eliminated teams for the time being.
These eliminated teams are also starting to get busy, and from the moment they are eliminated, they will have to prepare for next season.
Although the Lakers wanted to try to win O'Neal, they also knew that there was little hope and could only meet Zhang's request, and began to sneak into Mutombo and the Suns.
The Magic also made moves, and back in the middle of the game against the Bulls, it was reported that O'Neal asked the team's top brass to replace current head coach Brian Hill with Chuck Daley.
The reason for the Sharks is simple, he feels that he is not taken seriously under Hill, that the team has tailored for him with a tactic that is far inferior to Hardaway, especially since this damn coach always lets himself guard and always allows himself to block and pick and roll for outside players, and these requirements affect his energy on the offensive end, which is why Brian Hill has to get out.
O'Neal's new agent, who was also interviewed in the middle of Game 4, said Daley was "one of the best coaches in history." When the commentator asked him to comment on Hill, he said that Hill's command was so-so in the "first half".
Of course, no one knows whether the agent's disparagement of Hill was his own intention or O'Neal's behesitation.
Four games after the Eastern Conference Finals, the Magic were swept by the Bulls.
Hardaway stayed on the floor to congratulate the Bulls' players, and O'Neal rushed straight to the locker room and slammed a chair against the wall.
However, even if O'Neal doesn't like Hill at all, Magic boss Davis doesn't care at all. Because Hardaway was a strong supporter of Hill, Coach Hill was soon offered a two-year, $3 million contract extension three days after the Magic were eliminated.
This is a scene that many teams are happy to see, and the Magic's move is a bit of a slap in O'Neal's face, making it clear that they still want to build a team with Hardaway as the core. As for O'Neal, his place on this team is certainly important, but just like the superSonics Payton and Kemp, the real team boss can only be Payton.
These teams are secretly happy, they know that O'Neal is a master who is not willing to be left behind, and he will not be willing to accept such a role, so this is the opportunity for other teams to poach.
Still, despite this, O'Neal has put on a posture of prioritizing magic. Although, he always complained that Hardaway and Anderson didn't give him the ball, but the $2.9 million mansion and the garage that can accommodate eight cars are not so easy to give up. What's more, he had just picked up his mother, sister, brother and friends to Orlando. As long as the Magic boss can beat the offers of other teams, O'Neal is likely to stay. Even though the Magic initially made a private offer of only $55 million for four years, O'Neal did not disclose to the media that their negotiations had already begun.
Zhang Zhu's side started the spectator mode of the finals, and waved around 28 diligent public rations, and then held the young lady in the virtual space for special training at night, which was really fulfilling!
Strictly speaking, it's not really an offseason yet.
The Bulls, for their part, are still battling the SuperSonics, and most of the players are choosing summer vacation destinations and watching the Finals.
The same was true for Zhang, but he accepted the team's invitation to watch the game with head coach Harris, the Magic, who didn't know if he would retire again, and Jerry West and Jenny Buss, who watched the game while talking to him or asking for his opinion.
These five people are the core of the Lakers' management and operations department, and West and Jenny will casually discuss some issues with him during the game, and Zhang will also appropriately express their opinions and opinions, and this tacit and tacit communication can make the team less likely to make mistakes when operating trades.
The Lakers management can understand Zhang Fu's wishes through communication, and in turn, he can also know the movements of the Lakers, and there will be no misunderstandings that affect the feelings of the two parties.
The Lakers have two first-round picks this year, a second-rounder, one of which is the Clippers' pick, although they have the right to protect the top eight, but the Clippers made the playoffs last season, and this pick is certainly not the top 13. The other first-round pick is the Lakers' own pick, and according to NBA draft rules, their two picks are easy to figure out.
The NBA's draft rules are as follows: At the end of each season's regular season, the NBA conducts a lottery draw in which 13 teams that failed to make the playoffs participate. The specific rules are that the 13 balls are labeled with the numbers 1~13 and put into the rolling vessel, and the 1-13 draft order is drawn according to a certain chance.
Last season, due to the addition of Toronto and Vancouver, the league increased the number of teams in the lottery from 11 to 13, so the combination and probability of selecting the top team were slightly adjusted, and now the team with the worst record has a 25% chance of selecting the top team, the second worst team has a 20% chance of selecting the top team, and the sixth team has a 6% chance of being the worst team. From the seventh pick, the chance of being selected is 0%, which means that only the six teams with the worst records are eligible to be selected each year.
Ordinary fans don't need to know the rules so thoroughly, as long as they know that the six worst teams last season have a chance to pick the top pick, and the remaining No. 7 to No. 13 picks are drawn by teams with the same ranking, and the worse the record, the better the chance to draw the top draft picks.
This means that the teams that could theoretically be selected are the six teams with the worst records last season; The team that has a chance to draw the 7th-8th pick is the team with the worst record of 7th-13th last season; As for the rest of the rankings, you don't need to draw, just rank down according to the records of each team.
The Clippers finished 13th from the bottom this season, and the Lakers received the 17th pick from the Clippers, the 27th pick of their own, and the 51st pick in the second round.
Generally speaking, the 17th pick can still pick some potential rookies, so the value is not bad, and it is not a dream to pick a rookie like Finley if you are lucky. The 27th and 51st picks have little potential, and while the NBA produces one or two low-pick players and even low-pick stars every year, the percentage is so low that it doesn't need to be considered.
Now the Lakers should focus on free agents, and they have a lot of players on their team who have contracts in place - the expiring contracts of Campbell, Bisson, George Lynch, Malrick and others will make a lot of room for the Lakers to operate in the summer.
Some of these Lakers won't renew their contracts, and some of them need to stay, but they will have to trade the stars they want before they sign a new contract with them, otherwise there will be very little room for manoeuvre.
The Magic only signed a one-year short-term contract with the Lakers last year, and now that his contract has expired, whether he retires or not depends on whether the Lakers need him or not.
He has nothing to say in front of these guys, and if the Lakers get Barkley and Mutombo, and don't need people at the No. 4 spot in the new season, then he will retire. But if the Lakers are understaffed, he can sign another one-year veteran contract. However, it is necessary to push the signing period as late as possible so that it is easier for the Lakers to operate, as well as other supplementary contracts.
This year, after the Lakers have disposed of all the expiring contracts, the space occupied is about 16 million, which is already the limit of what can be operated, and these players are all in the contract period, and the Lakers have no way to deal with it. The NBA's salary cap for next season is $24.3 million. In other words, they can have up to 8 million space to compete for free agents, which is a means for the NBA to restrict the big teams from poaching people everywhere, so that the teams without money also have their own living space, so as to avoid the situation that one or more big clubs win the championship.
In short, in the NBA, there are also various restrictions on spending money, such as not being able to sign free agents with special exceptions if they exceed the salary cap, and not signing free agents who are paid more than the salary cap.
The Lakers now have 8 million in space, so they can only sign a free agent with a salary of 8 million at most.
Many students should be very interested, what is the concept of $8 million in this era?
Let's put it this way, three years ago, $8 million was enough to sign any superstar, or two All-Stars, and with Payton and Kemp combined, they didn't add up to $8 million.
But that's not a lot in '96, when wages skyrocketed, and it's a big year for free agents, with 165 people across the league waiting to sign. David Fox, who has a large number of players, has been raising prices again, according to the rumors he released: Jordan's contract extension is at least 25 million to 30 million per year; Mourning 15 million per year, Mutombo 14 million, Howard 13 million, Nick Anderson 7 million......
I have to say that these asking prices are very unscrupulous, but some teams are just willing to pay, so the wages of O'Neal and others are also rising.
O'Neill said privately that if Mutombo can get 14 million and Mo Ning can get 15 million, then he can get at least 20 million, right?
Of course, the Lakers' offer for Mutombo will not be so brain-dead, you can't give as much as you want, right?
Besides, their space is there, and they can't get more than $8 million, so they can get so much, and West is not willing to give all 8 million to Uncle Mu.
Uncle Mu himself is very satisfied with the number of 8 million, and now he just wants to go to a team that can win without attacking by himself, and to a strong team that can win the championship - the Lakers are his best choice, plus the additional commercial commission after becoming Zhang Zhu's teammate, unless a team is willing to pay 10 million to poach him, otherwise as long as the Lakers come out of 8 million, no one can compete with them at this price, and no team will really pay tens of millions of annual salaries for a defensive interior line.
To be honest, Mutombo's worth of 13 million is a bit funny, and now is not the NBA in 10 years, when the NBA's salary cap has risen to 40 or 50 million, and teams are naturally able to pay 10 million salaries for the core of the team.
But even in 2007, there were very few teams that were actually willing to pay tens of millions of dollars for a defensive interior lineman.
Now everyone's salary cap is only a little more than 24 million, and if Mutombo takes 8 million, it will be equivalent to occupying one-third of the team's space.
As for Charles Barkley, the Lakers will definitely have to sign and trade before they can be traded.
Jerry West has some tricks on trading Barkley, because Barkley doesn't want to push the Suns too hard, so the Lakers won't be able to drive down the price.
It's not yet time for the door to open in July, and NBA teams can't reasonably negotiate, but West still got some words out of the Suns' general manager. When the other party talked about Barkley, he immediately praised Van Exel, Cebaros and Campbell, then the meaning here is obvious, the Suns have to exchange 1 for 3 before they are willing to send Barkley.
Jerry West naturally thinks that this asking price is too much, but doing business is like this, one party first makes a price, one party bargains, and finally depends on who has deep negotiation skills and who has more bargaining chips.
Zhang was too lazy to comment on this, he knew that the Lakers would not agree to such a trade, at least Van Exel's super-value contract would not be traded so easily.
He knows that the Lakers are now only willing to trade Barkley with Cebaros + Campbell, so that the Lakers can keep Van Exel, correct Finley, and trade Barkley to strengthen the No. 4 position, and by the way, reduce the pressure on salary space.
But if Van Exel is traded, they are missing a good point guard. Even Zhang Ju now feels that Fan Maniac can't be traded so easily, although he is still a little away from the All-Star, he is definitely an excellent point guard, he is not very old, and the salary is small, as long as he does not meet Superstar point guards such as Payton, he will not drag the team back. In fact, Van Exel is a good fit for the Lakers and Zhang Mao, and there is still some room for improvement in the future. Once traded, I'm afraid the Lakers will never be able to find a main point guard with such a high sex price.
During the six Finals, the five bigwigs of the Lakers exchanged their opinions very tacitly and also determined the recruitment policy for next season.
There are a lot of meanings for these five to watch the game together, first of all, they have to determine the opponent next season by the team that eventually wins the championship.
These two Finals teams are very stable in terms of lineups, so if the SuperSonics win the championship, the Lakers' reinforcements must be mainly aimed at the SuperSonics, and their biggest opponent next season is the Sonics; Now that the Bulls have won the championship, they are going to focus on the Bulls. Even if the SuperSonics belong to the same West as themselves, it can be seen from this Finals that the competition between these two teams is like the previous Lakers and SuperSonics, at least half a grade behind each other, and the advantage of the Bulls is very obvious.
If the SuperSonics can't win against the Bulls this year, and the three role players on their team are a year older, it's hard to say whether they will be able to maintain that form next year.
The Bulls are different, they are older core players in the team, as long as the 33-year-old Jordan can continue to maintain his form, the strength of the Bulls will not decline, but after bringing in a group of veterans who want to hug their thighs in the summer, the Bulls should be stronger.
Zhang Wei also determined the focus of his special training in the summer by watching the finals. In fact, he started training in half a month after the finals. During the day, he does some physical training in the newly built indoor arena at home. In the evening, a playoff-intensity simulation game will be played. Then bring out Bo Outlo, who has a single defense ability of A+, but a comprehensive ability of only 72, to conduct one-on-one heads-up. This Bo Outeloh is very interesting, he has no other skills other than physical fitness and desperate defense, but these two specialties are best used as sparring partners, and Zhang Zhu and him can hone their offense alone. After heads-up, he recruited Miss Hepburn to pick up the ball for him and strengthen his mid-range shooting and ball control skills.
That's his training plan right now, and if you count the training time in the virtual system, he will train at least 12 hours a day in the offseason, which is crazier than Jordan, and it would be impossible for a normal person to withstand this kind of training intensity!
Think about it, Zhang Qian can play a playoff first-round game, or even a second-round official game every day, and then go head-to-head with a top-level defensive opponent for two hours, and there is no risk of injury the whole process, and there is no excessive wear and tear after high-intensity training, how much will Zhang improve him?
If Jordan gets this kind of system, even if he wins 10 consecutive championships, I believe it is not impossible to do it.
Why the intensity of the first and second rounds of the playoffs?
Because the three-level training system can only simulate players with 89 ability points, which is the attribute range of all-star players, the three-level training system cannot simulate players at the quasi-supergiant level, let alone supergiants. Therefore, Zhang can only play against teams such as the Trail Blazers, Clippers, and Suns who do not have players above 90 ability, but it can play playoff intensity games against these teams in turn, and the training effect can be amazing.
In this era, there is no joint defense, so no quasi-supergiant or supergiant team can make it to the first round at most, and civilian teams like the 04 Pistons are unlikely to make a difference in this era due to their lack of individual ability.
"If you can play a playoff game every day, will Jordan go crazy with jealousy when he finds out?"
Zhang Qi thinks that this should be what Jordan wants the most, right?