Chapter 671 [Alliance Lying Spear Person]
After the plan was decided, the alliance began to stumble on people.
The best way to make the game exciting is not to weaken the strong players, but to create other strong teams that can compete with them. That's a lot of good for the league, and there are definitely teams that pay a lot of luxury tax in order to recruit them.
The Kings' Mike Bibby became a "lay-gunner" after the summer Cavaliers wanted to swap Larry Hughes and Bibby.
The Cavaliers have serious weaknesses at the No. 1 position, which was the main reason they were swept last season. Snow was almost useless on the offensive end, Hughes was poorly organized, his shooting was terrible, and rookie Gibson was even harder to take on the role.
Now, the league wants to broker the deal, and Bibby is suddenly an absolute colander on the defensive end.
Bibby is of average physical fitness, with a height of 188cm and a weight of 88kg, and he moves slowly laterally, relying on attitude and closeness at the defensive end. Now he is often whistled for fouls when he is close to him, and there is no whistle on the offensive end.
It's okay for the defender to break through directly, and after blocking and dismantling, how can he stop it without any movement in his hand?
Originally, short people would have ignored small actions to defend the inside line, but now it doesn't. The league always arranges referees who hate kings to blow their games.
Bibby's nickname is "White Devil", which means offensive terror, and now he has become the "White Devil" in "Detective Plane Nose 2", and the defensive end has become funny.
No fans questioned that the Kings were no longer the flashy team they were back then, with a serious decline in attendance and a lack of popularity among Bibi.
He has good stats and offensive efficiency, but he has never been selected as an All-Star. He doesn't play fancy, mainly relying on catch-and-shoot jumpers, and scoring with stop-and-go jumpers after blocking.
The Marouf brothers, the king's bosses, were devastated. Why are we always the ones who get hurt?
In November 2005, the Kings used a large screen to show a Piston-critical video before the game began. Fined $30,000 by the NBA, the brothers publicly apologized in the Detroit media.
This year. Their casino business also ran into trouble and lost a lot of money.
Not to mention bringing in big names in the free market in the summer, even second-class goods like Bunch Wells want to knock a hammer on the Kings. Although the management did not make a fool of giving Wells a high salary, it is also an indisputable fact that the team does not have a big star in charge.
The same dilemma was faced by the Trailblazers.
This season, the Trail Blazers have two high-pick rookies, Brandon Roy and Tyrus Thomas, but they haven't been able to grow. Because they couldn't get the whistle at all, Zach Randolph fouled as soon as he defended.
Randolph's offense is very strong, like a strengthened version of David Lee, who is not tall and very strong. There are low-post footsteps, back-to-back singles, and God's accurate mid-range shots.
On the defensive end, Randolph relied on the tonnage to defend the low position and did not suffer, but he changed the defense and dismantled poorly, and his attitude was a little lax, not hopelessly rotten.
All in all, Randolph's foundation is very solid, and the face frame can be called a "big killer". The nimble footwork combined with the terrifying impact makes him almost inextricable against opponents who lack height and weight. Only Nowitzki, David West, can be compared to the mid-range shot.
Such a strongman was stunned by the media to be promoted as a super tumor, the worst 20+10 player.
No matter how bad it is, it's also the boss of the pioneers. In the 2003 playoffs, he played Novitzki in 7 games, and two of them beat Nowitzki. If it weren't for him. None of the Trail Blazers will send Rasheed Wallace.
There was also news that even Tyrus Thomas did not play well after the start of the game. The lack of appearances is to blame on Randolph. Thomas is a rough guy who can't shoot, except for his physical fitness. Otherwise inferior to Randolph, how stupid would the Trail Blazers coach have to be for Thomas to play the starting power forward, and Randolph to come off the bench?
But some fans just believed it and began to think that Randolph was terrible.
What's more, he directly linked the worst 20+10 player to the worst power forward, saying that he was a data brush.
Rasheed Wallace has never reached 20+ at his peak, and there are only five players in the league who can score 20+10 this season......
The league wants to force a few marginal teams to trade, rebuild, and trade players with strength and fame in the team to rich big city teams to be the second and third leaders, so as to compete among strong teams.
However, because Thomas's performance was so bad that everything was unreliable except for dunks and low posts, the Trail Blazers had no idea of sending Randolph away for the time being.
The Kings couldn't stand it, and the management was under tremendous pressure.
Bibby's stats dropped significantly from last season, and his organization and defense were also poor, and after discussion, the boss decided to send him away.
Another reason for this is that William Wesley met with the Marouf brothers and wanted to broker a trade between the Kings and Cavaliers, of course, in exchange for Larry Hughes.
Who is William Wesley? Not a league official or a player agent, but with super connections and excellent eloquence.
ESPN named Wesley one of the "most powerful people in American sports."
He can evade all media tracking and manipulate what is happening and about to happen in the NBA in a silent and invisible place. Some people call him the invisible boss, you can call him the mystery man, but NBA players will call him "the mighty Wes", and LeBron James will call him "Uncle Wes".
He accompanied Iverson and James to the Athens Olympics; James and his idol JAYZ became friends, and it was he who took the line; James changed the agent that he recommended; At the 2006 World Championships, the U.S. men's basketball player was not allowed to bring his wife and girlfriend, but he was able to travel to Asia with the team.
Kings general manager Jove Petrie called a meeting of the uniformed team to discuss the possibility of a trade.
Petri has been the Kings' general manager since 1994, winning 11 more regular-season games than the previous season in his first season at the helm of Sacramento before returning to the playoffs the following year. Beginning with a shrinking season in 1998-99, the Kings assembled by Petrie qualified for the playoffs for seven consecutive seasons.
But now, he began to feel helpless about this king, and just tried to save money for the boss. If they renew Stojakovic's contract with a high salary, it is estimated that the owner will be crying by now.
Looking at the stats, Bibby and Hughes are similar this season. Looking at the length of the contract, Bibi expires in 2009, and Hughes will not be until 2010, which is about the same.
Last season's stats comparison, Biby had the advantage, but the previous season, Hughes played the peak of his career and was named to the All-Defensive Team. Hughes' defensive ability is certainly better than Bibby's, there's no doubt about it, and the two have their own strengths.
"Hughes had a serious injury last season, missed a lot of games, and he didn't shoot well. However, other teams probably won't have better leverage than that, how do you feel? ”
The new head coach of the Kings, Eric ****, has his opinion. "If the Kings want to make the playoffs this season, I suggest Hughes. He defends well, can play off the ball and doesn't keep the ball in his own hands. Bibby sees himself as the core, and when he's there, Martin can't be the No. 1 point of attack, and the two of them can't defend on the perimeter together. ”
Because of the defensive problem, Bibby is settled.
PS (To be continued.) )