Chapter 400: The Problem After the Season
Chen Jiyuan if he can get the scoring champion this season. Then, Chen Jiyuan will also become another superstar who can be re-elected as the scoring champion.
However, the reality is not so simple, Chen Jiyuan in the next game with the Rockets, although he scored 37 points, but the team still lost the game, in the last minute of the game, the Knicks were still ahead by 5 points, but at the last and most critical moment, Starkey's two free throws all missed the opponent's chance, Tracy McGrady shot a three-pointer in the last 3 seconds to help the team drag the game into overtime, and the result was in overtime, The morale of the Knicks was not as high as that of the Rockets, and they lost the game.
Originally, in this game, Yao Ming was no longer on the Rockets' side, and it should be a game that the Knicks could win, but they didn't expect to lose the game. This can be regarded as a careless Jingzhou. Moreover, Chen Jiyuan was under the bag of Louis Sgera and Sean Battier, and Chen Jiyuan passed a lot of balls, but Starkey completely lost himself in this game, and the number of 4 of 15 shots was simply miserable.
After losing the game, the whole team was scolded by Xibodeo, and everyone, including Chen Jiyuan, was scolded, and Xibodeau asked all of them to practice. It's not built yì. is a requirement. It's scary for Thibodeau to start a fire. After losing the match that Thibodeau thought he had to win, Thibodeau showed his devilish side.
Thibodeau's time to the Knicks has gradually increased, and he has gradually begun to show his true nature to the Knicks' players. Thibodeau was an extremely strict and serious workaholic.
In Thibodeau's opinion, the loss to the Rockets was definitely undeserved, and the Knicks' defense was too loose. Obviously there is no pillar on the inside, and the Rockets' players actually account for 62.4% of all points scored on the inside. Chen Jiyuan's interior defensive role was completely ineffective. Chen Jiyuan didn't have a single block, so Chen Jiyuan was asked by Xibodu to practice for three hours.
It can be said that from this day on, a new Thibodeau was presented to the players. A new devil manager has been born.
Of course, or in fact, Thibodeau is a more strict manager. However, it is not a head coach who does not know the rules of the NBA, if he is really a person who cannot be flexible, how can he be the current head coach, or rather, even an assistant coach can't do it.
Now is a good example, for example. On the second day after the game against the Rockets, the entire Knicks were working hard. Prepare for the game against the Eagles.
During the training process, after the warm-up activities, Thibodeau organized a 5v5 match. During the game, Thibodeau's roar continued throughout the arena. From the beginning of the game to the end of the game, Thibodeau has been talking about who is doing something wrong, who is running fast or whatever, anyway, this mouth is not idle.
After the 5v5 match, Thibodeau called the players on both sides together for a lecture, Thibodeau was still a clear reward and punishment, although in the process of the game, he kept scolding this and that, but after the game, Thibodeau still praised Sessions and Toni Allen. Mainly because these two people implemented their tactics steadfastly and did their best to defend. Never leaving his position for the sake of stealing the limelight, Sessions is basically the embodiment of the manager's intentions. It can be said that Sessions may not be the best player, but he is the player who best embodies the manager's intentions.
After the 5v5 game, the Knicks conducted systematic training. Including shooting drills and the like.
Chen Jiyuan mainly carried out his own shooting training, Chen Jiyuan felt that although he was not a shooting player like Nowitzki, Chen Jiyuan felt that the proportion of his shooting in the offense was still quite high. Moreover, Chen Jiyuan recently felt that his shooting still needed to be strengthened. Therefore, after Chen Jiyuan carried out systematic shooting training, he practiced shooting by himself.
When Thibodeau asked all the players to gather for the next training, Chen Jiyuan did not go. Instead, he continued his training. One shot after another. The trainer next to him helps pick up the ball and pass it.
No one came forward to disturb Chen Jiyuan's training, which can be regarded as a privilege of the boss, even the head coach Thibodeau did not care about Chen Jiyuan, but continued to train the rest. Thibodeau is not a completely ignorant person, but as a stern person, even though Thibodeau is a workaholic, he still understands many things. For the core players of the team, the star of the team, they still need some privileges, Chen Jiyuan never let the newcomer give him a backpack or anything, and he never bullies the newcomer. However, it doesn't mean that Chen Jiyuan doesn't want his privileges, it's just that Chen Jiyuan doesn't want to be special in that kind of thing. When Chen Jiyuan is training, he often doesn't train with everyone, but Chen Jiyuan does practice alone longer than everyone in the team. Therefore, Chen Jiyuan does not even participate in the activities where most of the team goes to nightclubs. However, the benefits that come from this are also obvious. Chen Jiyuan's strength is growing rapidly. Everyone can only see Chen Jiyuan's rapid growth in strength and his glamorous appearance in the outside world, but they don't see how much Chen Jiyuan has paid for this, Chen Jiyuan is training every day, and the shooting training and hook training have never stopped for a day. This is also the fundamental reason why Chen Jiyuan can have an accurate shot. This is also the reason why Chen Jiyuan can not score much, but he can blow up all the interior players. Under anyone's defense, Chen Jiyuan has an inexplicable way to score, which is the reason why Chen Jiyuan was able to get the scoring champion so quickly. No matter what the situation, no matter what happens, Chen Jiyuan will not let the training stop. Chen Jiyuan knows very well that if there is only one day of breaking, then such things will often happen in the future. People are like this, some things must not begin, everything is difficult at the beginning of the sentence is still very widely applied. If you make a start, if you don't want to train next time, then you will think to yourself, anyway, it was already like this last time, and it doesn't matter if you have one more time. Then, slowly, slowly, it became less and less of a workout. It is precisely because he foresaw the occurrence of such a situation that Chen Jiyuan resolutely refused to let this first happen.
Chen Jiyuan himself was doing shooting training on the side, while the rest of the people went to dribble training. Only Chen Jiyuan himself has the privilege to continue shooting training here, which is not only understood by the head coach, but also by the players. No one would have a cerebral convulsion to disturb Chen Jiyuan at this time.
Just like in the past, in the mid-90s, when the Rockets were training internally, head coach Tomjanovic ordered everyone to stop free practice and gather in the past, and Olajuwon, as the team's number one star, had privileges, so he was still there to practice free throws alone. But there is a rookie who is not interesting, and he picked up the ball of Dameng Olajuwon, but he just didn't give it to him.
"Give me the ball back." Olajuwang said.
"But the coach told us to go over and assemble." The rookie replied.
"Give me the ball back." Olajuwang is a slap in the face.
It's a bloody lesson. When many rookies first entered the league, they always did something ridiculous, although Olajuwon played his teammates a little too much, but rookies just entered the league, and they still obediently took care of their own situation. Improving your own strength first is the king, what are you doing with other people's affairs, the head coach didn't speak, you don't care about this reality, it's just a typical example of nothing to smoke.
And in the current league, there are basically no players like zài, and rookies know what they should do and what they shouldn't do.
Chen Jiyuan himself was here for shooting training. The players on the other side went to dribble drills.
Chen Jiyuan was thinking about it while shooting. In this year's draft, there are no good picks for the Knicks this year. If you want to sign the first few picks, you can only trade. However, who in the team has the value to trade and it will not have much impact on the strength of the team.
If you want to say who this year's rookie Chen Jiyuan fancies, then Curry is one of them, Stephen Curry not only has a perverted accurate three-point shot, but also a good ball handler, and the organizational ability is also good, but the problem is that Curry's physical essence is questionable, whether he can achieve long-term success in the NBA. This is a question mark. Curry's body is a little skinny, but this also provides Curry with enough acting chips to score four points. When Curry shoots from the outside, as soon as you touch it, I fall. As soon as I arrived, it was three plus one. And then there's a morale-boosting four-point success, it's as simple as that.
Curry is one of the players in Chen Jiyuan's picture, but according to the memory of his previous life, Chen Jiyuan knows that Stephen Curry will be drafted by the Warriors with the seventh pick, so if you want to get Curry, you must draft him before the Warriors, which means that you need the first seven picks in the draft. But these draft picks are all compared to before, and they are not so simple chips that can be exchanged. What a headache.
And the Knicks' record this season can basically maintain the top four. So, that means the Knicks will get the 15-pick. There are basically no too useful rookies in this pick, or there is no rookie that Chen Jiyuan likes, so if it is a draft pick in this vicinity, then it is better to add some chips and change to a pre-test pick. But who is the right chip within the team? This is a strict question that needs to be considered.
However, although the top few players need a headache, the other player in Chen Jiyuan's photo does not need a headache. That player is Marcus Thorton, who will only be drafted in the second round. Truth be told, Marcus Thorton's metrics aren't good, and the draft prospects aren't good.
In front of NBA scouts, Thornton has at least four fatal flaws: height, athleticism, age and passing. The height of 1.93 meters is too short for a shooting guard, especially in the case of mediocre physique, and the 22-year-old rookie who is running for the draft is a bit "old", which means that the growth space will be curbed. The lack of No. 1 skills will magnify Thornton's lack of height, making it impossible for him to transform into a point guard after entering the professional league.
Compared to the other short guards, Thorton is inferior to Ellis in speed and explosiveness, and is much inferior to Wade in passing vision and physical qualities, and Ben Gordon is relatively close to Thorton's growth template. Like Thornton, Gordon's rookie season was an unprecedented, sit-up from the bench and winning the Sixth Man of the Year award. Gordon is even shorter, only 1.91 meters, and like Thorton, he is a natural shooter with no dead spots around the clock, and can also get rid of the shooting space by dribbling, and throughout Gordon's 6 years in the industry, he is not qualified to play as a playmaker, but only a pure shooter.
Pure scorer, this is Thorton's best positioning at the moment, for a second-round rookie, a skill is enough to ensure that he has a foothold in the league, but in today's pure shooter is becoming less and less valued, in order to make a name for himself in the league, defense, ball control and passing, Thorton still needs to improve a lot. As a result, Thorton fell to the second round, with a physical injury and poor development prospects, so he was not liked by others. However, as a second-round pick, Chen Jiyuan wanted to select Soton not as a cornerstone of the team, but as a scorer in the second-round lineup, Chen Jiyuan believes that in this position, Soton will be able to better show his scoring ability.
But these are just Chen Jiyuan's wishful thinking. The current head coach of the Knicks, Thibodeau, may not think so, because Marcus Thorton's hard defense is difficult for Thibodeau to accept, and Thibodeau is also difficult to convince, which is a difficult problem to deal with.
Although it was originally Chen Jiyuan's intention to find Xibode, but now Chen Jiyuan felt a little melancholy. Because although I knew that Thibodeau was a stubborn person, but after contact, I found out how stubborn Thibodeau was, and Thibodeau also had his own team building plan, at this point, Chen Jiyuan and Thibodeau often had contradictions, although these contradictions were not yet over the season, but they faintly had a little momentum, mainly Thibodeau's dislike of offensive players, and Thibodeau's excessive pursuit of defensive players, in Thibodeau's team building plan, The attack only needs to be handed over to Chen Jiyuan. The rest of the players don't need to be the kind of attacking skewers, otherwise the team's defense will be flawed, and that's not what Thibodeau wants to see. Thibodeau's team building plan is the same as that of the Bulls back then, and the ball attack is just handed over to Rose. The rest are sharp knives on the defensive. Roel Deng, Noah, Boozer, these three basically make up the Bulls' defensive formation. However, the weakness of this lineup is that it is too dependent on Rose. After Rose's injury, the Bulls became a team that struggled offensively. Even if the Bulls enter the playoffs with a good record, they won't go far. Although it is true that defense wins championships, I have never seen that team's offense be the lowest in the league to win a championship.
And now, Thibodeau is going to replicate the Bulls model of the year in the Knicks, with Chen Jiyuan focusing on offense and the rest on defense. However, because Chen Jiyuan is a center on the inside, Chen Jiyuan's defense is also very important. And now it seems that Thibodeau feels that Chen Jiyuan's defense has done enough, so Thibodeau feels that the team building plan he wants can be implemented. That's why I talked to Latin about this.
The problem is that Chen Jiyuan does not agree with this way of building a team. The pros and cons are too obvious. Chen Jiyuan hopes to build a team with a balanced offense and defense. In this way, a dynasty can be established. Chen's dream is not just to win the championship.
Chen Jiyuan and Thibodeau's team building philosophy is different, which is directly reflected in the selection and trading of free agents, which will cause all kinds of friction, which is not good for the harmony of a team. However, Chen believes that he can solve the problem in a peaceful way. After all, Chen Jiyuan wants to retire from the Knicks, and if there is too much conflict with the head coach, the director will have to go to the point where one person will have to go, although more stars will force the head coach away. However, no matter who leaves, the reputation of the player is not very good, and Chen Jiyuan will be greatly questioned because of this. If you have a reputation for not getting along well, it will also have a little impact on recruiting stars.
However, these are things that need to be said after the end of the season. If Thibodeau were to choose this year's elective, Chen Jiyuan would probably be able to guess who Thibodeau would choose, and if he could change to the top picks, Thibodeau's favorite person would definitely be Terrick Evans. Because Tyrick Evans is extremely physical, he can defend from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position, and he is simply the best choice for Thibodeau's team. And Tyrick Evans as a swingman up front. You can score, you can grab rebounds, you can assist. It's definitely Thibodeau's favorite type.
Chen Jiyuan wants to choose Curry, and Thibodeau will definitely stop it. Because Curry is so skinny, the defense is definitely leaky. However, if Thibodeau wants to choose Tyrick Evans, Chen Jiyuan will definitely stop it.
The future of the Knicks depends on whether Chen Jiyuan can win after the season is over, or Thibodeau is more persistent.