Chapter 943: The Great General Doesn't Lead Troops

Chamberlain was impressed with Tabit, having practiced together at Olajuwon's training camp last summer.

At that time, the Grizzlies were still full of expectations for Tabit, and even sent him to Olajuwon, wanting to follow Big Dream to practice defense, and later cooperate with Gasol Jr. to defend Chamberlain.

Unfortunately, although Tabit has Mutombo's physical qualities, he does not have Mutombo's ball intelligence and talent, or rather, he is still young and has not yet tapped his potential.

Obviously, the Grizzlies can't wait, and that's normal, they have Gasol Jr., a treasure trove that has been excavated, and on the offensive end, Randolph, a returning prodigal, they are already a bit crowded inside.

Mainly, the strength shown by Tabit is too much for the Grizzlies to have confidence in him, and last season, the team gave him a chance, but it turned out that it was a waste of time for a blind man to light a lamp, and to spend resources on him was a waste.

But Chamberlain still admires this guy, because unlike many guys in the NBA, Tabit has the motivation to move forward, and it seems to outsiders that this motivation is money, and Chamberlain knows that this is love, love for his family.

The guy who simply wants to make money earns money and enjoys it for himself first, but Tabit mails everything to his home except for the money he leaves to ensure his basic life.

This kind of player with forward momentum, his future achievements are not much worse, his family is full of expectations for him, in order to meet his family's expectations, he will continue to work hard and continue to improve.

The Warriors are now desperate to find a replacement for Chamberlain, and every team knows that they can't beat Chamberlain from the front, and as long as Chamberlain doesn't get off the court, the Warriors won't lose, so they will deal with the Warriors and Chamberlain from the side, such as provoking him and making him eat technical fouls.

Chamberlain's strength comes from love, he is a bit like the Hulk, the more volatile the love, the stronger the ability.

In this way, love becomes a double-edged sword.

If Chamberlain is always calm, then he is a Howard at best, but if his emotions fluctuate too much, he is easy to be attacked and sent off or even suspended.

So, after Neelsen Sr. discussed with Chamberlain, and after believing that Tabit had cultivation value, he immediately sent a trade request to the Grizzlies.

The Warriors don't have enough people on their roster, so it's impossible to send anyone away, and they have a $5 million trade exception in their hands, and then use that trade exception + $1.6 million in cash and a 2011 Warriors first-round pick to trade Tabit.

This trade is still on the way, the game is about to start, and the Warriors' opponent is the Wizards, the Wizards who have been entangled with them a lot some time ago.

Originally, the Warriors wanted to trade Arenas, but the Wizards were a good deal, and the deal was abandoned.

Of the 16 NBA lotto teams last season, the Washington Wizards should have had one of the highest levels of attention.

Not only because they chose the champion, but also because they traded successfully in the summer.

Sometimes the revival of a team is linked to luck. If the Spurs hadn't gotten the No. 1 pick to get Tim Duncan, they would have been able to build a great career without knowing, but the Celtics, who also favored the "Stone Buddha" Duncan at that time, regretted that their rise was only delayed by luck, and such a thing happened to the Wizards again.

The odds of the Wizards getting the No. 1 pick are just 10. 3%, ranking 5th among 14 lotto teams.

But on May 19th, Ireni Pauline, who represented the Wizards in the lottery, the widow of the late Wizards owner Abel Bolling, actually received a gift she called a godsend, the champion lottery!

In fact, from that moment on, one person was connected to the capital team, and that was John Wall - the best player in the class of 2010, a superstar who was considered capable of changing the current situation in the NBA.

If the lotto draw is full of luck, then how to build a team around the winner is a different matter.

From the perspective of now, it only took the Wizards a short summer to complete this evolutionary process, and they have made much faster and more determined progress in building a roster around the top picks than other teams.

This is all thanks to one person, new owner Ted Lyonses, who may be the most successful "signing" for the Wizards this summer.

Lyons also has a successful NFL team, and when he took over the Wizards, he said he was ready to put the team at the forefront of NBA league reform.

After he took over the NFL team in the capital in 1999, the team lost a lot of money due to a huge contract. After the 2004-05 NFL strike, Lyons took the opportunity to rebuild the team, using the "hard salary cap" and draft to rebuild the team.

Regardless of how the so-called "hard salary cap" is promoted, at least borrowing from the NFL is very interesting.

Teams that began to use digital analysis after the example of the NFL and MLB, from the Lakers in the '80s to the Rockets today, have all experienced the benefits.

Especially for a team like the Wizards who has fallen into the abyss and is ready to rebuild, it is a great omen to be able to coincide with the champion Wall and the owner of Leonses, who has firm confidence in rebuilding.

If the point guard on the basketball court is the equivalent of the most important number four guard in football, then Wall would be Lyonse's Danny Manning, who will equip the talented with all the weapons he needs.

From Javier McGee and Andre Blecher, who were already on the team, to the new additions Trevor Booker, Kevin Seraphim, and Hilton Armstrong, this new interior configuration is young enough and a good fit for Wall, and it can even be said that it is almost the same type as Wall's interior configuration when he was at the University of Kentucky, and it is more fleshed out.

Blache is a more flexible DeMarcus Cousins, who can form a good pick-and-roll partnership with Wall, and while it remains to be seen whether he can replicate the Suns or Jazz's super-ball-handling and super-interior pick-and-roll combination, Brightcher's offensive power last season is enough for Wizards fans to imagine the pairing.

Looking at the Wizards' backcourt, although it is unknown whether Gilbert Arenas and Wall are compatible, at least the path of using the backcourt to quickly improve the team's results is not alone.

In addition to the two guns, the introduction of Kirk Hinrich is also particularly important, this veteran who can play as a backup for Wall and also has experience with a point guard like Derrick Rose with a similar style to Wall, has a significant effect on the stability of the Wizards.

Especially on the defensive end, Hinrich will be an important big lock, presumably drawing on the Nets' failures last season, and the Wizards will be hoping to use the role of veterans and stars to maintain a high level on both the offensive and defensive ends.

Overall, the Wizards had a flawless summer run and they gave up the opportunity to sign big names, which is a preparation for their lack of salary space and lack of attractiveness, and success is a matter of time before a team with self-knowledge and firm confidence.

ESPN also rates the Capital Army's recruitment, and in Charter-Ford's latest trade rating, the Wizards were given an A score, second only to the Miami Heat, the protagonist of this summer, in the Eastern Conference.

If you only look at the bottom two of the Eastern Conference last season, the Wizards who are in ruins do deserve a positive evaluation, but this is also because their improvement baseline has been stretched too low.

At this time last year, Gilbert Arenas was still on the roster, Caron Butler and Antoine Jamison were still All-Stars, and the Wizards were widely favored to have the ability to sit on the bench.

Unexpectedly, the team had a lot of bad news after the start of the game, first the owner Pauline died, and then the "general" got into trouble again, and was directly beheaded by David Stern, missing the rest of the 2009-10 season.

Perhaps seeing that the playoffs were hopeless, the Wizards put on the brakes urgently and sent out the two stars except Arenas, which can be regarded as a significant adjustment to the direction of team building.

The second half of the season was a fruitful one, with Andre Bleche playing a luxurious number of points, at least in terms of individual ability, and the final win can only be attributed to the gift of God's blessing.

The prospects of the Wizards are generally favored by the outside world, and they are known as one of the best youth teams in the league, but the commander of this youth army is not a general.

It can be said that 2007 was the year of a change of dynasty in the NBA.

Chamberlain entered the NBA, Oden entered the NBA, and Durant also entered the NBA, these three are now leading the league in a weak championship year, and they are doing better than the 84, 96, and 03 golden generations.

And that year, it was also a very important year for the Wizards, because it was from that year that the great generals who were in the limelight began to suffer from injuries.

At that time, the Wizards were full of ambition, believing that the three musketeers composed of Jamison + Butler + Arenas had the ability to lead the team to the championship.

As a result, Arenas was suddenly reimbursed before the battle, so the consequences were very strict, and the Wizards, a strong team in the East, died immediately.

Later, Arenas' injuries kept going back and forth, and the Wizards were like bungee jumping, and their results began to develop in waves.

Arenas paid, the Wizards' record immediately improved, Arenas was injured, and the team began to be abused again.

Eventually, the wheel of time rolled unwaveringly, and Arenas finally gave the Wizards a clear answer last season, waking up the Wizards who were obsessed with the dream of 'a healthy Three Musketeers can win the championship'.

For the Wizards, this isn't an absolute bad thing.

Because the Wizards have been out of touch with the NBA for too long, various teams are recruiting, only they are blindly waiting for Arenas to return, with the state of this team, even if Arenas returns, the big deal is to make the playoffs, and if you want to go further, it will be too difficult.

If the three Musketeers are healthy and able to maintain a few decent appearances, the Wizards' final scenario should be: they barely make it to early March, find that the light of the playoffs is fading, and sit back and wait for the season to end.

If this is the case, Bletcher will not get that opportunity to work, and Wall's joining will be impossible. In the NBA, there are no playoffs to play, and the ranking with a low draft pick is called the "dead zone", and if the Wizards fall there, it is really hopeless.

Thanks to Arenas, it was his early suspension that declared the Wizards hopeless of making the playoffs, and the management was able to reflect on and even completely repudiate the past team-building policy.

However, the team was blessed with the soul and picked up a super champion like Wall, who is known as a talent that is rare in 20 years. Professional sports need scripts, and the Wizards have experienced too much haze in the past, even if "champions with weak teams" is a normal plot setting, Wall is still given a lot of "savior" roles.

This is a good thing for the Wizards, but it is too sad for Arenas, Wall came to the capital with the huge expectations of the fans, not to give a hand to the general, but Arenas was arranged by the team to saddle Wall before and after.

This can simply infuriate Arenas, after all, he is a super scorer who once went hand in hand with Kobe, and now let him play a junior hand, isn't that insulting?

Arenas was bent on regaining control of the team, but looking back, he sadly found that times had changed.

The owner of the team has changed, the general manager of the team has changed, and the core of the team has changed.

The boss who once appreciated him and was willing to give him a big contract died, the general manager who saw him as a cash cow was laid off, and the iron buddies such as Jamison and Butler were traded.

On top of that, Arenas' body was ruined by injuries, and he was no longer the general who could dominate.

So, what else can he use to compete with Wall, the pride of the sky, for the status of the team?

Previously, Arenas wanted to leave because he found that he no longer had any place in the team.