Chapter 232: Who's the Winner?

"Don't ask me about trades, it's the job of the team management, I'm only responsible for getting the team to win more games, that's my job. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Zhang Zhu was very helpless and unhappy with the questions that the media always asked him about the transaction in the past two days, and then said in a very dissatisfied tone: "Besides, don't you always sarcastically look at people with a bad eye? So, it's better for me not to have any opinions about the team's trade and draft. ”

"Yes, it's going to mess with me."

Jerry West said that he has a pig teammate, doesn't Zhang Yu tell others that the Lakers do have a big move?

The little guy might as well say something like "the team has good chemistry right now, I don't want the team to make a big move", which can still have a bit of a positive effect on his negotiations.

The Lakers now have two trade plans, one for the Suns and one for the Mavericks. The former is a three-way trade for Cassel, and the latter is a separate trade with the Mavericks in exchange for Kidd, and the two plans are almost negotiated, but West prefers to remember the trade and keep the price low, especially for the Mavericks, who is also thinking about the attention of robbery.

This is the case in the business field, if the Lakers have this kind of infighting now, other teams will also line up to rob, and they will be more ruthless than the other, in short, don't expect competitors to be merciful, so the Lakers will not be merciful when they rob.

Jerry West has always had two killer moves when he was operating.

The first trick is to bet on it with your own eyes, or rather gamble.

The best example is Zhang Fu, because when the deal was completed, Zhang Qian was not worth that much money in the eyes of most people, and even Lakers fans felt that even if Jones was exchanged alone, it would be a loss.

However, West dared to trade Jones + Divac at that time, this is gambling, although there is an element of luck to win, but it is more that his vision is accurate enough.

Otherwise, why didn't Lord Belle dare to bet?

He also saw Zhang Fu's potential, but his vision and courage were missing, and he was finally blinded by the benefits in front of him and fulfilled West.

The second trick is more hateful. If relying on optometry and courage can only make the opponent regret it too late and lose convincingly, then West likes to use the appeal of the Lakers to rob people, and always instigates players from other teams to do things behind his back, so as to snatch people at a super low price, which is really jealous.

Mutombo is a player that West attracted with his appeal, which is a little better, after all, he is willing to fight.

But Mason and Starks were really snatched from the New Yorkers by West's shady means, and there were a lot of things he promised the players in advance, and Mason didn't see a few things anyway. He has now become a pure blue-collar worker with a lower status than the Knicks, and there is no such thing as an inside organization core or a high-level organizer.

Mason is also the most resistant to Kidd coming to the Lakers, he knows that if Kidd comes to the Lakers, then he will have no ball at all.

Zhang Zhu and Kidd together don't have enough points for a ball, how can they let him take the ball and organize?

At that time, he really became a pure blue-collar worker, and at most he could play the role of catching and shooting on the offensive end, but if he wanted to organize the offense with the ball, it would be completely non-existent.

But whether he wanted it or not, no one cared at all.

Jerry West dared to ignore Zhang Mao's opinion, how could he consider Mason's life or death. In particular, after discovering Ben Wallace's potential on the defensive end, Mason will be sent away after two or three years, and when the contract is about to expire, the Lakers will definitely squeeze his last use value out.

This is the NBA, except for the core players of every team, the supporting characters have no human rights at all, including Mutombo. When their contract is about to expire, if the team feels that it is not worth renewing the contract, or if there is a new person to replace, even if they play well, they have to go this way, because the team prefers to develop young, energetic and cheap players.

Therefore, if you don't become a star in the NBA, you may become a trading chip and an abandoned child at any time, and many teams even core players cannot escape this fate.

On December 1, Phoenix's media took the lead in exposing the Lakers' trade with the Suns, and swore that the deal was about to be completed, and even the specific details of the transaction were revealed: the Lakers intend to send Van Exel + a certain head, and exchange Kassel + a head from the Suns for a certain head.

But soon, the media in Los Angeles broke the news that the Lakers had a similar trade with the Nuggets, and there were also details of the trade, and the Lakers intended to trade Van Exel for Mark Jackson.

This transaction rumor seems to be a bit exaggerated.

Can Fan Maniac trade for Mark Jackson alone?

It's not an April Fool's joke, is it?

However, this is really not a joke.

The Pacers made a nonsensical trade last season when they traded the current Mark Jackson, who is second only to Stacton in passing and playmaking, to the Nuggets, but even more nonsensical is that the Nuggets now intend to return it.

Obviously, the Nuggets themselves don't want to return, but this year's players are particularly arrogant, and these guys are going to threaten the team.

After the Pacers saw off Mark Jackson, they found out that without this big ass, the team's offense immediately turned into a mess.

Larry Bird didn't need to be bad for West, and quickly instigated Mark Jackson to rebel in private.

Mark Jackson himself likes to play with the Pacers, and he hasn't bought a house in Indianapolis yet, so he gets the advice of "Big Bird" and immediately starts working on things.

Of course, the Nuggets know that they have been cheated, and their situation is a bit like Boss Cao receiving Guan Yu's resignation letter, if people's hearts are not here, it is useless to force them to stay.

But if you really want to trade, you don't have to sell it cheaply, they can fool a wave of Lakers.

Even if it's half sold and half given, it's better than just returning people to walkers.

The compensation given by Larry Bird is not even called compensation, it is completely throwing the people on his team to the Nuggets, but in the summer they used a lot of money to exchange Mark Jackson, and the bullies are not so bullying!

But the problem is, Mark Jackson is good at everything, just bad defense, and that should be why the Pacers traded him in the summer.

The Lakers also feel that poor defense is a serious flaw, and Mark Jackson is not a good fit for the Lakers, and he is even less suitable than Kidd.

Mark Jackson has always been an underrated point guard, having only been an All-Star in his career and always surrounded by transfer speculation. But as a point guard, he did a great job, and although he didn't have flashy dribbling skills and penetration, he was able to get the ball to the right place when it was needed most, and he was coquettish when he passed the ball.

If the best job of "passing" in the 90s was done by Stockton, then after him was Mark Jackson. However, he doesn't have Stockton's bloody shooting ability, and his defense is not good, so his on-court influence is naturally far behind, but the third place on the NBA's all-time assist list is enough to prove that he is excellent.

The Suns immediately panicked when they heard the news, they originally planned to trade directly with the Lakers, and if it didn't work, they would bring in the Mavericks for a three-way deal, and the specific plan was that the Lakers would send Van Exel in exchange for Kassel + Jimmy King; The Mavericks sent Kidd, Tony Dumas, Loren Meyer and Jimmy King in exchange for AC Green and Van Exel; The Suns sent AC Green and Cassel to Kidd, Tony Dumas and Loren Meyer.

This plan has been considered by the Mavericks for a long time, and the Suns feel that the Dallas people will definitely not refuse, and if it is not easy to trade with the Lakers alone, then they can make a three-way trade.

But they didn't expect that the Dallas people were very cunning, and they also wanted to complete a separate deal with the Lakers in private, trading Jason Kidd for Van Exel + Fisher + 98 draft picks, so they didn't want AC Green's big contract.

The reason why the Dallas people would consider it was all about fooling the Suns and preventing the Phoenix and Los Angeles from completing the trade alone.

However, the Dallas people didn't expect that the Suns thought the same way, and the Lakers and a whole bunch of teams were negotiating trades, including the Suns.

Who knows, which of these deals are the Lakers are talking about is real and which is fake?

All in all, every team's routines are not shallow, behind every transaction, there are full of calculations and routines, who knows that when they are calculating others, will they be calculated first?

Jerry West felt that the Nuggets were calculating themselves, so he didn't believe in such a good thing, I'm afraid that they were using fake deals to slow down their pace?

Perhaps, the Nuggets also want to get a kick in Kidd, and if they want to sell Mark Jackson cheaply, wouldn't it be the same if they sold it to the Mavericks and Suns? Why should you be cheaper yourself?

"Looks like it's going to speed up."

As soon as Jerry West received a call from the general manager of the Nuggets, he was anxious to complete the deal as soon as possible, and he was worried that the Nuggets would make a bad move.

If he knows that the Nuggets don't want to be taken advantage of by the Pacers before they sell it, then it would be good to trade Van Exel for Mark Jackson, after all, the price paid is much smaller than Kidd.

From this point of view, Zhang Wei was right to choose to ignore the team's trade, this fact is too nerve-wracking, how can he be a player who has the energy to think about these things?

So, he's just asking the team to get the news when they're ready to make a trade and when they're about to complete it. Especially when the team is ready to trade, he needs to have voting rights. If he thinks someone shouldn't be traded, then the Lakers need to carefully consider his opinion.

Jerry West had previously asked Van Exel's opinion when he was trying to dispose of him.

Zhang Mao, of course, had no opinion, but he proposed two people - Kassel and Kidd, and this was his order.

Jerry West is now directly reversing this order, although Zhang Yu is a little dissatisfied with this, he is still a little concerned that Kidd will take away some of the ball when he comes, but he does not intend to disagree with West.

On the first day of December, news of the deal was pouring out in the media, and even West struggled to gather useful information.

Amid the dazzling rumors and discussions, the Lakers easily defeated the Denver Nuggets at home, who were also in the center of the news.

Zhang Yu also learned Mark Jackson's big ass in this game, and said that there are two butts in the current NBA that are almost invincible, one is of course Sir Ba, and the other is the Mark Jackson in front of him. Later, the NBA's five-second rule was tailored for these two and O'Neal.

But no matter how big the butt is, it's useless, and Van Exel is also very competitive.

In the last game, Iverson almost shot less than 20 percent from the field, and a large part of the credit was given to him here.

Today, Van Exel really limited Mark Jackson, who made the biggest guy in the No. 1 position, with only 8 points, 4 assists and 4 turnovers, but he had 30 points and 7 assists, and he shot 54% from the field.

This is the fourth time Van Exel's 30+ points this season, and his average points per game have also exceeded 20+.

Now many Lakers fans believe that the Lakers should not trade Van Exel, they won the Nuggets and won 4 in a row, and their record has risen to 16-2, which shows that Van Exel, who has come to the top, is very suitable for the Lakers system, and his contract is cost-effective, why do you have to trade him?

Zhang Qi and West will say in their hearts: Because I'm helping him brush the data/I asked the core to help him brush the data.

However, Zhang Wei will not always help Van Exel brush the data, and he will not always perform so well.

Today, Zhang Mao only got 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, of course he can't play like this, he needs someone who can help him brush up his stats, and someone who can help the team in the playoffs.

Van Exel can play well in the regular season and have occasional convulsions in the playoffs, but his ability to play hardball is too shaky, and he doesn't have a real trick, but Kidd has at least two of the best abilities in the entire league - playmaking and defense.

Two days later, the Lakers hosted the SuperSonics, who were third in the West. It was a classic hard-fought battle, with Van Exel once again in Payton's dominance, and although he still had an 18-point performance, Payton scored 36 points on his head, which was a full double the difference.

It may not be right to think so, that is, if you replace Kidd, Payton, who is not at the top in offense and organization, can still score so many points?

Last season, the Lakers lost to the SuperSonics, in large part because Payton was able to explode on the court and at the same time kept Van Exel from pumping.

Fortunately, this season, the Lakers strengthened the interior line, Mutombo and Mason used a not-so-glorious numerical advantage to kill Kemp on the inside, and Zhang Mao used the blocking and covering tactics of his own two interior lines to shoot wildly at medium and long distances, and finally threw 12 of 26 shots, plus 13 free throws, and used one person's firepower to destroy the SuperSonics' defense that had some gaps this year.

Zhang can feel this year that the supersonic defense is not as airtight as last season.

If last season's superSonics were unbreakable on the defensive end, then this year's "prison" is still very strong, but "unbreakable" is a little less meaningful.

Of course, it could also be the result of Zhang Mao's teammates being stronger and the Lakers' offense being stronger.

But the opponent has become stronger, and you are still standing still, which in itself is a kind of gap.

The SuperSonics can no longer restrain the Lakers this year, and they have no advantage against the Jazz, Clippers and Rockets, and it will be many times more difficult for them to break out of the West this season than last season.

On December 4, the Lakers played back-to-back games against the Jazz away, and unsurprisingly were bloodied by the Jazz by 28 points!

The Lakers suffered their third loss of the season on the road today and the second loss to the Jazz this season.

However, this year's Jazz have been surprisingly strong, and this is another back-to-back game on the road, and it was only surprising that the Lakers could win, and they themselves know that it will be difficult to get out of Salt Lake City.

Zhang Wei only scored 18 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in the whole game, which was the first time he did not score 20+ points this season, and his state today was also very bad, the whole team played sluggishly, and Harris replaced the main force in the fourth quarter, so that the game went into garbage time.

On Thursday, the news that Zhang Fu won the "Player of the Month" for November was put behind the headlines by the Los Angeles Times, because today's headlines were-

"Lakers, Mavericks complete the deal. Kidd, Van Exel. ”

The Suns are undoubtedly the most angry right now, and they know that they are completely being played by the Mavericks and the Lakers!

Needless to say, this is not a deal led by Zhang Zhu, so that three-way deal does not exist at all, at best it is just the Lakers' Plan B, or even Plan C.

The Lakers have always wanted to trade Kidd with Van Exel + Fisher, and West originally planned to take a first-round pick in '98 when necessary, but after Kidd's performance deteriorated in the new season, West certainly wouldn't add such a thing as a draft pick to the Mavericks, and it was already good that he didn't let the Mavericks give him a draft pick.

If it was last season, the Lakers wouldn't have traded those two plus draft picks for Kidd.

But this year, Van Exel has played 20+6 All-Star data, but Kidd only has 9+9 data, and the Lakers are not taking advantage. Although, everyone knows that the Lakers must have taken advantage, West rarely makes a loss-making deal. But judging from the performance of the two, Kidd is really not worth that much money.

The Dallas people can't help it, they are more inclined to trade for the top picks, but Van Exel's contract is extremely cost-effective, and he is not very old, so he can be used as a top three draft pick, and Fisher, who is the first round of the head, happens to be the first-round pick this year, and this deal allows the Mavericks to basically solve the rebuilding of the No. 1 position.

In this way, as long as the Mavericks mess up this season, and then exchange another 2J for the first-round pick in the 97 and 98 seasons, they can complete the rebuild in only two years, and the target they choose only needs to aim for the interior and the front line, no matter how you look at it, it is much better than sticking to three 3Js who will play on the court at any time.

Therefore, even if they know that the Lakers have taken advantage of it, they have no other way to go. And compared to the trading chips given by other teams, the Lakers are already the most cost-effective, and these people are fighting harder than the other.

In this comparison, the happiest one is definitely Van Exel, and the happiest one is, of course, Kidd.

Now, he can finally play with Zhang Qiu, Los Angeles is the second city in the United States, and the Lakers are the No. 1 team in the league, going to the Lakers to play is a hundred times better than staying in the Mavericks and fighting with the other two bastards! He's probably the biggest winner!