Chapter 398: Persistent Kirilenko
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Zhuang Fei didn't give a clear answer to the question of the Nash trade in his post-game press conference with the Hawks, but the deal did exist, and Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics were involved.
Of course, the Celtics are not involved now because Zhuang Fei wants to get Nash, this season the Timberwolves are indeed lacking a playmaker who can distribute the ball, but with the slow transformation of Maddy now, the cooperation between James Posey and Maddy is becoming more and more tacit, in fact, the Celtics' current team organization has slowly begun to become clear, and it is also slowly beginning to become smooth, of course, for the time being, the Celtics' offense is naturally not as good as the Timberwolves when Zhuang Fei was there.
But even so, the Celtics have moved away from the need for good playmaking guards, and now the team has begun to metamorphose like a triangle offensive strategy, but at this time the Celtics are not playing a triangle offensive strategy.
The reason why the Boston Celtics joined the big deal this time was not to get Nash, but to be a 'transit point' for the deal, which Zhuang Fei also joined yesterday after receiving a request from his former assistant McDean Anthony.
The recent Nash trade was going on between the Wizards, Timberwolves, Spurs and Jazz, but when everyone negotiated all the chips in the trade, it was found that one of the most important links in the middle went wrong. This made the Boston Celtics have to join in, and this matter has become Zhuang Fei's biggest headache now.
The reason for this was that D'Antoni, the former assistant coach of the Wizards' former Timberwolves, wanted to bring in Nash. And as the team's meritorious figures, the team's owner, Glenn Taylor, and the team's head coach, Van Gundy, both feel a little indebted to Nash. So these two people are relatively humane, even if they send Nash away. Nash was also given the right to choose the team, so Nash ended up with D'Antoni, but the problem came, the Wizards hoped to get Nash, but the Wizards couldn't afford the chips that the Timberwolves wanted, and the chips that the Timberwolves and Van Gundy wanted were in the Spurs.
Van Gundy wants the Spurs' veteran point guard Jr. Johnson. After Parker came this season, Johnson was thrown to the bench by Vicky, and although Vicky didn't want the general, Van Gundy did. The point guard was able to contribute an average of 8 points and 5 assists per game last season, and he could perform well both on the bench and off the bench, and there was no problem with experience, if he could get the little general Johnson then it would release the pressure on Ginobili, and the little general Johnson was trained by Vicky for so many years and his overall defensive awareness is also very good, it can be said that this is a perfect candidate in Van Gundy's heart.
It's just that Van Gundy wants a little general, but Vicky doesn't plan to throw away this Spurs hero in vain, although the Spurs now have a Parker, but now the Spurs as a whole are still extremely short of people, and the team does not have too good young players. Vicky is now thinking about finding excellent young players, especially some excellent international players, and the hottest international player in recent times is the Kirilenko in Europe, so the coach hopes that the Timberwolves and the Wizards can get him Kirilenko.
In fact, there is no problem with the deal with Kirilenko, this Russia and Sloan are completely out of love, Sloan has personally gone to Russia every summer for the past two years, and Kirilenko personally received him when he went the first time, but the second time he went, the young Russian ignored him completely and threw him aside. So Sloan is now also dead to this Russian rookie, and he also hopes to be able to exchange Kirilenko's 'fee card' for a high-pick draft pick, so when the Timberwolves and Wizards sent a trade offer to Sloan, the Jazz iron coach agreed without thinking about it. …,
Originally, the matter was over at this time, and the four-way deal of the four teams was completed, but in the end, what made these people speechless was that Kirilienko didn't dump Sloan, and even the NBA championship coach Vicky didn't give him face, even if Vicky had promised him the absolute position of the team, but this Russian kid was not moved, which directly dragged the deal down.
Although the core content of this deal is Nash, but in addition to Nash, Kirilenko is also the core content of the deal, which is also an indispensable point, but after getting the decision of this Russian kid, under the persuasion of others, Vicky also saw it, he was ready to give up Kirilenko but fell in love with the Boston Celtics' super substitute Eric Williams, this player is an all-round swingman who can attack and defend, In the eyes of outsiders, this swingman is no worse than Celtics player Stephen Jackson in terms of ability, and it is only because Stephen Jackson is Zhuang Fei's confidant that he lost his main position, otherwise with his strength, after Anthony Walker left, he would definitely be able to be promoted to the lineup.
Although this is Vicky's second best thing, but these people know that Vicky is sitting on the ground, from the current point of view, Eric Williams is much more capable than Kirilenko, the Spurs head coach is now ready to rob D'Antoni and Zhuang Fei, he knows that Zhuang Fei can't look at D'Antoni at this time, if Zhuang Fei is really willing to send Eric Williams to help D'Antoni then he will earn, even if Zhuang Fei does not help, he will not suffer. Therefore, as long as he holds the card of the little general Johnson tightly in his hand, he is not afraid of not getting good chips. At this time, the Spurs coach fully showed his cunning.
For Zhuang Fei, he naturally doesn't want to trade Eric Williams, although Eric Williams can only appear on the bench this season because of Jackson and Maddy, but Zhuang Fei admires this player very much, this is a character, a player who has no shortcomings in all aspects of his skills, and is also a player who can appear anywhere at any time as long as the team needs him, it can be said that Zhuang Fei likes this kind of player who is absolutely obedient and capable. Last season, this player suffered a major injury, so Zhuang Fei has been controlling his playing time in the first half of this season, but it is only in this short playing time that this player is no less effective than Arenas for the second team of the Boston Celtics. And what makes Zhuang Fei even more gratifying is that the swingman had an ability value of 79 when he was just recovering from injury at the beginning of the season, but now his ability value has reached 82.
How could Zhuang Fei, such an almost perfect role player, want to replace him? The coach with a dynastic system naturally knows that Kirilenko's potential and future are broader than Eric Williams, but now the Celtics don't want the future, and the Celtics also have enough future players, even if Kirilenko has a broad future, but he can only do the work of role players when he comes to the Celtics, since it is the same role, then Zhuang Fei is eighty percent sure that the Russian kid is not as good as Eric Williams, who is at the peak and experienced.
This is the reason why Zhuang Fei has been hesitant now, in the face of such a transaction offer that is close to 'robbery', Zhuang Fei did not want to agree from the bottom of his heart, but when he heard the hoarse shout of D'Anthony on the phone, Zhuang Fei didn't know how to refuse. …,
Zhuang Fei also knows that D'Antoni's shouting and pity on the phone is not pretending, he has not found his core for the run-and-bomb system, in D'Antoni's heart, there are currently three point guards who meet his requirements, one is Kidd of the Nets, and the other is the white chocolate of the Mavericks, but these two are obviously unrealistic, so he can only desperately pursue Nash, who is currently depressed in the Timberwolves, and this goal is both the best and the most realistic.
And now the Wizards' performance has not improved in the case of the return of the great god, so the former assistant coach of the Timberwolves and Zhuang Fei's assistant are also under a lot of pressure. It's not a good idea to climb into the position of general manager and head coach of the team, and considering that there are only a few head coaches in the NBA who can take on these two responsibilities at the same time, it is clear that D'Antoni is far behind these minorities in any way.
Zhuang Fei knew that Nash was D'Antoni's life-saver, and he himself was also D'Antoni's life-saver. In this situation, there were not many opportunities left for Zhuang Fei to choose.
On the second day of the game with the Eagles, Zhuang Fei came to the team's chairman's office early in the morning, and as soon as Zhuang Fei sat down, the phone rang, and Zhuang Fei heard the phone ring in a hurry, and he knew who was calling without answering.
In recent days, his former assistant has basically taken the time to plead with him.
After Zhuang Fei took the phone and answered D'Antoni's words, Zhuang Fei's current assistant Stephen Green also came in.
Zhuang Fei hung up the phone, glanced at Green deeply, and then sighed, just when Green was a little confused, Zhuang Fei gave him a new task.
His mentor wanted him to go to Russia.
When he got this task, Green was directly stunned, but Zhuang Fei could clearly see the strong memories and longing in the eyes of this assistant. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )