Chapter Ninety-Five: Poaching ESPN

After half a month of travel, the Knicks' offseason operation is also coming to an end, and the team's starting lineup has been finalized, with center Noah, power forward Porzingis, small forward Anthony, scoring guard Rose, and point guard Grant. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Rose is a point guard with speed and explosiveness, and his style of play is very prone to injury, which is the fundamental reason why he fell so quickly.

Ray Allen's career is very worthy of Rose's reference, Allen was extremely versatile in the Bucks and SuperSonics, and also participated in the dunk contest, but since the injury, he has changed his traditional style of play, and the offense with the ball is less, and more runs off the ball and outside threes, which is one of the reasons why he can still maintain a super high level of competition at the age of 40.

Therefore, Wang Zhuo decided to let Rose change to a shooting guard, Ray Allen is his shooting trainer, and in this era of quantile decay, Rose's footwork and offense will inevitably allow him to make a difference in scoring guard, and he can definitely compete with James Harden, the league's first percentile today.

A week later, after careful consideration, Ray Allen finally agreed to Wang Zhuo to join the Knicks to the media, and the two sides signed a two-year veteran base salary.

After Wang Zhuo's mediation and arguments, he finally solicited the opportunity to retire his jersey for Ray Allen, and Ray Allen was naturally grateful, and his career with nowhere to put finally came to fruition, and it was also known as the "basketball mecca" Madison Square Garden Arena.

After minor repairs, the starters and important substitutes were finalized, but Wang Zhuo was not satisfied, and the coaching staff has been lacking an assistant coach since Fisher's departure.

And the Knicks after the new season's big change, the tactics will inevitably be adjusted, according to the principle of making the best use of things, Wang Zhuo decided to completely release the value of Noah's best defensive player, but Wang Zhuo is a coach who focuses on offense, so he decided to hire an excellent defensive coach to tap the defensive potential of the Knicks.

"Defenders win the world" is an eternal truth in NBA history, even in today's era of small ball, the Cavaliers still rely on defense to defeat the Warriors and win the first championship in the history of the Cleveland team.

When it comes to defensive coaching, Wang Zhuo first thinks of Larry Brown, but the aging coach has already chosen to close the mountain, and Wang Zhuo does not think that the stubborn Larry Brown will deign to come to the Knicks as an assistant coach.

Secondly, Wang Zhuo thought of Tom Thibodeau and Jeff Van Gundy, Thibodeau was completely excluded, because he had settled in Minnesota as the president and head coach of the Timberwolves, so Wang Zhuo set his sights on TNT commentator Jeff Van Gundy.

First of all, Jeff Van Gundy's ability to build defense is undoubted, throughout Jeff Van Gundy's coaching career, the Knicks at the end of the last century, and the Rockets at the beginning of Yao Mai, the defense is among the top in the league.

Secondly, Jeff Van Gundy has a deep relationship with the Knicks, Jeff Van Gundy has been the assistant coach of the Knicks since 85, survived 10 years, and finally took the position of head coach.

Last but not least, Jeff Van Gundy loves his players very much, for example, in a game between the Knicks and the Heat in 98, Oakley and Mourning fought in the game, Van Gundy desperately hugged Mourning's legs, even if he was forcibly dragged a few meters away, he still did not let go, of course, with Wang Zhuo, similar things would not happen again.

In a word, Wang Zhuo admires Jeff Van Gundy very much, although he is very stubborn, but how to dig the corner of ESPN, make Jeff Van Gundy deign to return to the original starting point, and serve as the assistant coach of the Knicks again, Wang Zhuo is a little difficult.

Wang Zhuo asked for Jeff Van Gundy's contact information from Yao Ming, and tried to dial the number several times, but gave up, which was more difficult than convincing Ray Allen, in the face of Ray Allen, Wang Zhuo still had a very tempting killer weapon, and against the stubborn Jeff Van Gundy, Wang Zhuo had nowhere to start.

In the end, Wang Zhuo decided to play the friendship card and invite James Dolan, the ultimate boss of the Knicks, to come out, but Wang Zhuo was deeply skeptical of Dolan's ability to act in bitter love scenes, but he could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor in front of him, after all, Jeff Van Gundy was a person who valued love and righteousness.

"Dear Jeff, I'm James, do you remember that Mercedes I gave you?"

Acting in a bitter love drama, there must always be lines, Wang Zhuo thought about it, he didn't know what to write, suddenly, a flash of inspiration, Aunt Qiong Yao's romance drama is not a living script, Wang Zhuo made a slight modification, translated into English, and handed it to Dolan.

However, the moment the lines came out of Dolan's mouth, Wang Zhuo regretted it, such meaningful words were read out of the mouth of an uncle with a big belly, dead fish eyes, and a face full of scum, and the three views were about to be subverted, but Wang Zhuo couldn't bear to spit out the breakfast he had just eaten.

"Oh my God, James, of course I remember, I never wanted to drive that Mercedes, and she's parked in my garage right now!"

Jeff Van Gundy couldn't help but express his feelings on the other end of the phone, fortunately Dolan didn't turn on the speakerphone, otherwise, even if Wang Zhuo's skills were profound, he would have been shocked by the rolling thunder and internal injuries.

"Jeff, if you were given a choice, would you rather stay with me and solve my problems or return Mercedes, the witness of our friendship?"

Suddenly, Wang Zhuo suspected that Dolan was not acting at all, maybe it was just the revelation of his true feelings, obviously, their world Wang Zhuo couldn't understand.

"James, it's so hard to ...... such a choice" (well, the brain can't make it up)

ESPN would probably not have been wronged if it had known that Jeff Van Gundy had been poached in this way.

Wang Zhuo really wanted to send a song for their friendship: "I am willing to be for you, I am willing to be banished to the sky for you, as long as you sincerely respond to me with love, I am willing to do anything for you!" ”

Life is full of miracles and blood, no matter what means are used, and in the end, Jeff Van Gundy quit as an ESPN commentator and returned to the Knicks as Wang Zhuo's defensive coach, of course, as an assistant coach, the salary is exactly 5 times that of TNT commentators.

Before the trade deadline, the Knicks quickly signed free agent Brandon Jennings to strengthen the depth of the point guard.

ps: James Dolan did give Jeff Van Gundy a Mercedes Benz SUV, and Jeff Van Gundy did not drive it, as for the plot in the middle is purely a personal brain supplement, book friends just take it as a spoof to see it, don't think about it, don't doubt that breaking free, breaking free means that personal three views are normal.