Chapter 289: The big ball dominates the Nets, and the new season will get a 66-win first
In Brooklyn, New York, Jokic, who rushed here to report for duty, got his wish and caught up with Wang Chao's personal training camp almost every year.
Anyone who has been in the Rockets has never heard of Wang Chao's offseason private training camp, and as long as the Rockets players who have participated in this training camp, their strength has improved to a great extent without exception, at least starting with tens of millions of contracts.
Last year, Jokic also participated in Wang Chao's personal training camp for various reasons, including the European League and his own weight loss, although he also participated in Wang Chao's personal training camp, he didn't practice for long, and he didn't feel like he had learned anything.
This season, Jokic has always been in trouble with gains and losses, after all, the handful of playing time has made him have to wonder if he is the only rookie who has been blinded by Wang Chao.
He never expected that Wang Chao would not forget to take him away after leaving the Rockets. Johnson, and Brooke. When Lopez was out of contract, the Nets had the right hand to sign either Leonard or Butler.
But Wang Chao didn't do that, but only took him away, which is enough to show that in Wang Chao's heart, he has a more important position, even if it is only because the annual salary is relatively low and suitable for cheap labor, it is better than being the third backup center for Whiteside and Gobert in the Rockets.
After arriving at the Nets report, Jokic couldn't wait to rush to the arena rented by Wang Chao.
It is not so much the arena rented by Wang Chao, but the stadium that the owner of the Nets opened to Wang Chao for free, almost only symbolically charged some fees, and the entire arena was said by Wang Chao before the start of the new season.
Wang Chao also took this opportunity to gather some of the Nets players here for training.
With his fame and the appeal of Wang Chao's personal training camp, almost all the players in the Nets who have contracts with the team have arrived, including the original team boss Delon. Williams.
In front of Wang Chao, Delong didn't dare to pose like a big brother, Wang Chao was drafted earlier than him, became famous earlier, and more importantly, all the personal honors and team honors crushed Delong.
In front of Wang Chao, Delong's only advantage is that he was a first-round pick in the NBA at the time of the draft, and he was in the lottery area, while Wang Chao was just a second-round pick, nothing more.
After Wang Chao officially announced that he would join the Brooklyn Nets, Delon publicly said that Wang Chao was the boss of the team, and he now just wanted to fully assist Wang Chao and win the first championship of his career as soon as possible.
De Xiaopang has really not had a good time in recent years, betrayed his mentor Sloan and came to the Nets, DeLong only knew what it means to be in a hot and cold world, injuries led to a decrease in explosiveness, and the decline in competitive status made DeLong soon lose a large number of fans, and even the home fans of the Brooklyn Nets booed him on the court in last year's game.
Therefore, Delong very much hopes to take advantage of Wang Chao's wave of east wind to rejuvenate the second spring of his career, so that those guys who watch the excitement can take a good look.
Therefore, Delong gave up his vacation plan and took the initiative to participate in Wang Chao's training camp.
As a result, Wang Chao took stock and found that the number of participants in his training camp this time was unprecedentedly large, and almost all the players of the Nets came, such as Booker, Harrell and Powell, and several rookies even did not want to play in the summer league and wanted to train with Wang Chao all the time. Kim can't be rectified.
Is Wang Chao's personal training camp really that magical?
The answer is yes.
Winning the championship this season, as always, gave Wang Chao a large number of points rewards, so that he could redeem a lot of training potions for daily training.
At present, Wang Chao is already a standard numerical monster, and there are no obvious shortcomings in all values, and it is very difficult to improve a little bit through training, so in order to maximize the cost performance, it is also a good choice to use more sparring potions in combination with other training potions to exercise the strength of teammates.
Some people may think that this way of spending resources on teammates and making the other party stronger is tantamount to raising tigers, this alliance definitely does not lack the existence of guys who want to fly by themselves when their wings are stiff, and it is really disgusting to train a white-eyed wolf to come out.
But the system seems to have drawn a special boundary in order to prevent this from happening, and only people who have a relationship with Wang Chao above 60 can enjoy the bonus relationship of the sparring potion.
Anyone who has reached this level of relationship, even if he is not Wang Chao's good friend, is also his loyal admirer.
Just like in this training camp, there are actually less than half of the players who can really enjoy Wang Chao's sparring potion.
Wang Chao brought Jokic from the Rockets is counted as one, and the three rookie players selected in the draft can also be counted.
There are almost no rookies who have recently joined the league who do not worship Wang Chao, after all, Wang Chao has just won the seventh championship in his career, surpassing Jordan.
When Jordan played, they were young and didn't see how the god of basketball played, but they could see how Wang Chao played in the past decade, and how he grew step by step from an unknown second-round pick to the first person in NBA history.
Being able to play with Wang Chao in a team, and being told that they were chosen by Wang Chao himself, because he was optimistic about their development potential, this was tantamount to playing chicken blood for the three rookies, and the worship of Wang Chao was simply incomprehensible.
Wang Chao didn't even have to work hard, and the relationship between the three of them and him easily reached more than 60.
As for the original players of the Nets, there are not many who have a relationship with Wang Chao above 60.
Brooke, who has just signed a three-year, $60 million contract extension with the team. López fell short of the mark.
This doesn't mean that Lopez doesn't like or hate Wang Chao, it's just that as an All-Star player in his playing years, he is also not like DeLong, who is already a veteran. Johnson is so hungry for a championship, so Lopez's opinion of Wang Chao is just "Ah, the team has such a great player, maybe there is a real chance to win the championship next".
This is the normal reaction that ordinary players should have, and as the understanding between Lopes and Wang Chao deepens, the relationship can still be further improved.
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After the daily training session, the vast majority of the players are already lying on the floor exhausted, not even wanting to move.
Wang Chao's training volume is quite large, because in order to give full play to the effect of the physical energy potion as much as possible, he has long been accustomed to such a training amount, but not everyone can stand it.
Jordan founded the "Breakfast Club", known in the league for his terrifying devilish drills, and it was decades of hard work that made the basketball god a brilliant career resume.
Wang Chao's training volume is better than Jordan's, and what makes people even more speechless is that he can still do other things after training.
After training, Wang Chao went to the locker room to take a shower, changed into civilian clothes, came to the stadium to look at the players who were still slumped to the ground, smiled and said: "Rookies, you take a slow rest, I have a date, let's go first!" ”
As he spoke, under the gaze of a group of people looking at animals, he walked out of the stadium briskly.
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The main reason why Wang Chao chose the Nets is because the Nets are located in Brooklyn, New York, and it takes less than 10 kilometers from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
This is very convenient, Wang Chao goes home every day to live with Miranda and Xiao Keer.
When she was in Houston, Miranda only stayed for a short time, and most of the time she settled in New York with little Kerr.
It is natural to have the opportunity to spend more time with your cute little angels and archangels.
Candace. Swanepel occasionally comes here to live for a few days, originally because of Wang Chao, Candace and Miranda did not have a very good relationship, but I didn't expect Candace to like Little Kerr very much, and even became Little Kerr's godmother, of course, in the United States, it should be regarded as a godmother.
The presence of little Kerr eased the relationship between Candace and Miranda a lot, and at the same time made Candace more aware that she really couldn't have a child so early.
Giving birth to a child is not only a continuation of love, but also a responsibility, and it is not a responsible act to blindly give birth to a child before you have enough time and energy to take care of it yourself.
Seeing that Candace can figure it out, Wang Chao is also very happy, it's really cool that the backyard is not on fire, he can even turn over the cards like the ancient emperors, one, three, five and Miranda turn the clouds, two, four, six and Candace in the rain, as for the weekend, it is not impossible to come together depending on the mood.
Anyway, Wang Chao is not afraid of his waist, his body itself is strong enough, and he has the same effect as the physical strength potion bug, which can be called a golden gun...... This topic cannot be talked about any further, otherwise it should be harmonized.
All in all, the offseason months have been very comfortable, and during this period, the league's various trade reinforcements are still in full swing.
It is worth mentioning that Jimmy, who decided to leave the rocket and start anew. Butler finally found his next home.
He chose the San Antonio Spurs.
The Spurs have been one of the league's powerhouses for more than a decade, including this season when they still surpassed 50 wins and made the playoffs.
It's just that the inside twin towers combination of Duncan + Howard is still insufficient, at least slightly weaker than in the case of Leonard.
However, as Duncan ages, he has signed a new contract with the Spurs with a salary of only $5 million a year, which gives the Spurs enough salary space to sign an All-Star-caliber player.
In the original plane, the Spurs' choice was to poach All-Star power forward LaMarcus from the Portland Trail Blazers. Aldridge, in place of Duncan.
But now that the Spurs have Howard, even if Howard is no longer the league's No. 1 center who won three consecutive DPOY a few years ago, but with the help of Popovich's system, Howard is not as bad as he was in the Rockets at the same time, and he really has a bit of Duncan's shadow when he plays well.
After all, Duncan has never been a super scorer in his career, and he uses his offensive and defensive skills more on the court, especially defense to help the team.
With Howard on the inside, the Spurs naturally no longer interested in Aldridge, and instead pursued Butler, and relied on the incorruptible tongue of the old lady's lobby formed by Popovich to make Butler feel heartbroken and happily joined.
Of course, as a restricted free agent, although Butler insists on leaving, the Rockets will not let him go easily, and they will be willing to do anything from the Spurs.
As a result, Butler ended up signing and trading a four-year, $74 million contract extension, and then traded with the Spurs in exchange for two first-round picks from the Spurs.
Being able to extort two first-round picks is already quite good for the Rockets, and this is also the biggest condition that the Spurs can afford.
In this way, the Spurs' lineup is elderly GDP + Howard + Butler, and the strength on paper should not be underestimated.
Popovich could have built the main trident with Butler, Howard and Parker, and had Duncan and Ginobili play as supporters.
In addition, the Spurs also have Danny. Green, Mills, David. Powerful role players such as West and Dio have become one of the favorites to win the championship, and the odds to win the championship are currently second only to the Cavaliers in the East and the Warriors in the West.
When it comes to the Cavaliers and Warriors, both teams have also been busy this summer.
The Cavaliers have a number of players whose contracts are expiring, including Tristan, who is out of rookie contract. Thompson, Iman. Shambaugh and others, as well as LeBron who chose to jump out of the contract. James.
James, who jumped out of the contract, re-signed a 1+1 contract with the team, this time for 2 years and 47 million, with an average annual salary of $23.5 million.
And the Eight Sages and Iman. Shambaugh, like the original history, under the acquiescence of James, launched a lengthy contract renewal problem with the team.
Not surprisingly, Iman. Shambaugh will be offered a four-year contract worth $40 million, with an average annual salary of more than $10 million. Thompson is even more exaggerated, because his agent is the same person as James, that is, Richie. Paul, the latter can blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and forced the Cavaliers to re-sign Thompson for five years and $82 million.
You must know that this season, Thompson averaged only 8.5 points and 8 rebounds per game, and he actually got a contract close to the maximum salary, and even Rich Paul's initial offer was a maximum salary of 90 million for 5 years.
It is because of this exaggerated super big contract that Tristan. Thompson has since earned the title of the Eight Wise Kings.
As long as you hug my Zhan Huang's thighs, there will be meat to eat, this is true, basically the players who have a better relationship with James are on the same team as him, and they can get good treatment. Jones, the second sword-bearer J.R. Smith, plus the Eight Sages and Shambaugh, are incomparably stark examples.
From the perspective of fans, James's behavior may not be good, it is completely pit the team owner, forcing the other party to spend money that should not be wasted, and at the same time, it also completely blocks the way for the Cavaliers to sign reinforcements in the future.
But if you change the angle, from the perspective of James's friend, or from the perspective of a part-time worker, if you can have such a thigh next to you, it won't be too fragrant.
James, as a player, is a rare presence in the NBA that can be scavenged from capital.
Every step he made was planned before he went, and he definitely wouldn't let himself fall into passivity, decision 1, decision 2, and then decision 3 to join the Lakers, looking back, every step James took was incomparably right.
No matter how many people criticize James for his three decisions, thinking that he is unworthy, it is an undeniable fact that through his own decisions and actions, James has indeed become the second place in the NBA's history ranked by the world's mainstream media.
Unlike Jordan, who can wait for a top helper like Pippen, and unlike Kobe, who has O'Neal's partner when he first entered the league and was born in Rome, James has walked out of a broad road in his own way, no matter how loud the controversy and questioning are, he stands on the president mountain.
Now if you imagine that James did not leave the Cavaliers at the beginning, like Kobe Bryant and Duncan, what kind of honor would he have in the end?
There is a high probability that the four regular season MVPs can be won, but the championship ...... There will be no more than 2 at most.
It's not surprising to come to this conclusion when you just count the Finals teams in the West after the decision and consider the number and quality of stars that the Cavaliers' small ball city can attract.
If it is 2 crowns, 2 FMVPs and 4 MVPs, James may have a hard time ranking in the top 10 in history.
The best example to refer to is the Milwaukee Bucks of Brother Alphabet.
When Brother Alphabet led the Bucks to win the championship, countless people mocked James.
Take a good look, the Bucks are also a small ball market, won't people win the championship? It's like you, if you don't get the championship, you will roll up and run away, and when Brother Alphabet wins the second or third championship, his historical status will directly catch up with James.
But the result is that the Bucks have failed in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons after winning the championship, and it turns out that the road to the championship of the small ball city team is so bumpy and bumpy.
After Brother Alphabet has experienced surpassing James, understanding James, and not being as good as James (being hacked eight), I don't know if he will become James.
But in this time and space, this theory may not be very easy to use, because there is a strange man, not only does he escape from the small ball city team, but he also rushes into it, clamoring to win a championship for a team that has not won a championship in team history.
That's right, this wonder is Wang Chao!
The topic is far away, back to the issue of recruitment.
The Cavaliers' salary space will most likely be filled by the Eight Wise Kings and the sword guard Shambaugh, and wait until next year Paul. Gasol's contract expires to free up a little salary space to strengthen the team.
But the Cavaliers don't care, the Rockets have collapsed, and now the Cavaliers have almost no opponents in front of them, and the only slightly threatening thing is the Warriors in the West.
As for Wang Chao's Nets...... Even if he killed James, he didn't believe that Wang Chao could lead such a rag team to beat him again!
The main job for the Warriors and Cavaliers this summer is the same, which is to keep the current roster as much as possible.
The Warriors currently have a number of players on the team who are out of contract, including Klay Klay. Thompson, Drummond. Green.
The former has reached an early contract extension agreement with the Warriors, with a 4-year contract extension of 70 million maximum salary, and the new contract will automatically take effect when it enters the 15-16 season, with a starting salary of $15.5 million.
And Drummond. Green also needs a contract extension with a high salary due to his eye-catching performance after starting this season.
In order to be able to free up enough salary space, the Warriors chose to bring All-Star power forward David Brown. Lee was traded away and subsequently offered Green a five-year, $85 million contract extension.
David. Lee used to be the absolute workhorse of the Warriors, and at his peak he also averaged 20+10 data per game. Before Kerr coached the Warriors, he had always been the team's main starting power forward, and his average per game was still stable at around 18+9.
But with the 14-15 season, which is the season when Kerr coached the Warriors, he pushed Green to the starting position and changed David to the Warriors. After Lee played off the bench, his stats plummeted, and he only had 7.9 points and 5 rebounds this season, and it was natural that he was swept away by the team's trade.
As a result, the Warriors have also managed to retain the main roster from last season and are the second favorite to win the championship after the Cavaliers.
The Warriors must rejoice that when they renewed Curry's contract, they only used a four-year, $44 million contract, which can be called a cheap child labor contract, and because of this, they have the capital to keep multiple players with tens of millions of annual salaries at the same time.
Curry, Thompson, Green, Cousins plus Barnes and Iguodala, as long as Curry ushers in an explosive period of individual competitive form as in the original historical process, the Warriors still have a 73-9 record in the 15-16 season, breaking the 72-win record held by the Bulls and Rockets.
Wang Chao found that like last season, the two biggest opponents on the road to the championship are still Cleveland. The Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, the slight difference is that the Brooklyn Nets of the new season are in the East, and they will face the Cavaliers first in the playoffs, and they will play the Warriors in the Finals after passing the Cavaliers.
In the first season of the team's establishment, there is one thing to say, and Wang Chao himself is not completely sure.
Two fists are hard to beat four hands, no matter how strong Wang Chao is, he still can't do 1v5 on the field.
The Nets' current roster looks very strong, but the age of the players is a very serious problem, especially Devin, who is regarded by Wang Chao as the team's second scoring point. Booker, now just a first-year rookie, is too tender.
Wang Chao gave Booker the same treatment as Leonard and Butler in the private training camp, with one heads-up every day.
As a result, Booker performed more unbearable than Leonard and Butler in his rookie years, and his defensive ability was poor, even if he was poor, Booker's main scoring method when he first entered the league was completely the off-ball style he learned in college, and he didn't attack with the ball at all, so it was difficult to even score 1 point in most cases when he was heads-up.
Devin Booker really evolved into a top scorer in the league, a big core who could attack with the ball, until after the 17-18 season.
Of course, with Wang Chao's current "special" care and the blessing of the sparring potion, Booker's growth rate will be much faster than the original, and in fact, by Wang Chao's side, practicing ball-holding offense is not as good as polishing the off-ball offense that he is already good at, after all, looking at the entire league, there is no second player who is stronger than Wang Chao's ball-holding ability.
It's not just Booker who has problems, but Jokic, the main player on the inside, also needs to grow, because after spending a season with Wang Chao, Jokic is definitely stronger now than when he first entered the league in the 15-16 season, but definitely not as strong as the next two consecutive regular season MVP periods.
Before the two top stars have fully grown up, the most reliable helper by Wang Chao's side is only the Nets' All-Star center Brooke. López is alone, and then Delon and Joe at the end of their careers. Johnson.
If it was the first two years, Wang Chao would still be sure to compete for the championship with this lineup, but in the last two years, it has been a bit uneasy, because the league has entered the era of super strong teams.
The Cavaliers have James, Irving, Embiid, Gasol.
The Warriors have Curry, Thompson, Cousins, Green.
Until Booker and Jokic grow up a little, it will be very difficult for the Nets to compete with these two carriers.
Although Wang Chao is very confident, but not to the extent of conceit, Jordan does not have Pippen and makes the first round every year, even if Wang Chao is stronger than Jordan now, but the opponents he faces are stronger than Jordan's opponents back then.
At the beginning of September, Wang Chao officially signed a contract with the Nets and attended the official press conference of the Nets.
In the press conference, Wang Chao promised to bring a championship to the Nets within three years.
At that time, a reporter stood up and asked questions.
"Mr. Wang Chao, you said that you will definitely bring a championship to the Nets in three years, does this sentence mean that you are not confident to lead the team to win the championship next summer?"
Wang Chao looked at the reporter who asked the question and asked: "Then do you think the Nets have a chance to win the championship next year?" Or can you talk about your thoughts on the current roster of the Nets? ”
"I think the Nets have a strong roster right now." The reporter continued: "The team not only introduced the strongest player in the league, Mr. Wang Chao, but also retained the original main lineup of the Nets by buying out and re-signing, Delon and Joe both completed their returns, this team broke into the playoffs last season, not a weak team, and on this basis, you have the strength to win the championship." ”
Wang Chao's eyebrows raised slightly.
And sitting next to him was Nets general manager Billy Brown. Jin leaned over and whispered, "This is a reporter from a local media in New York." ”
Wang Chao's heart suddenly changed when he heard this.
New York journalist.
Although the Nets are also a team in New York, they know everything, just like the Los Angeles Clippers, New York is the territory of the Knicks, and it has only been more than three years since the Nets moved to Brooklyn.
All the media in New York are almost all on the side of the Knicks, and the Knicks have not been in good shape lately, Anthony played 40 games and was reimbursed for the season due to injury, and the team has a poor record, with only 16 wins last season, the bottom of the league.
The league's bottom is just that, the champion sign was also stolen by the second-to-last Lakers, and the Knicks, who failed to get Towns, can only choose a Porzingis, and the new season's record may not be able to improve.
In this case, the hillbilly in the same city stepped on the shit and got the first person in history, Wang Chao, and directly became a strong team in the league.
The strong sense of contrast is enough to make people jealous to the point of hideous face.
This is also the reason why the reporter will kill Wang Chao and the Nets in a weird way.
But anyone who knows the NBA knows that the Nets' lineup last season was not strong at all, and it was completely because of the low competitiveness of the East, the Nets' record last season was not even 40 wins, and the winning rate of less than 50% could only be ranked outside the top ten in the West, and it was only because of the weak competitiveness of the East that they were eligible to enter the playoffs.
And even the two teams with the highest odds to win the championship before the start of the new season, the Cavaliers and Warriors dare not speak lightly, and it is extremely unreasonable to ask Wang Chao and the Nets to make such a commitment.
Of course, Wang Chao would not fall for such a naïve fool, but since the other party is disgusting to him, it is not his character not to be disgusted to go back.
"I'll admit that with the Nets' strength at this stage, it's really difficult to win the championship, but that's okay, we just need to play better than our competitors in the same city."
Wang Chao had a faint smile on his face, and his tone was not slow, but it made the faces of most of the local media reporters in New York present darken.
"What was the Knicks' record last season? Oh, I think it's like 16-66, right? That's an exaggeration, tsk......"
Wang Chao's yin and yang weird tone was very cheap, and it made people itch their teeth when they heard it.
"I can make a promise in advance now, and help the Nets achieve a 66-16 record in the new season, which is just right, how good it is."
The reporters at the scene who heard Wang Chao's words almost had their noses crooked.
Exactly symmetrical? Who are you buried?
Obviously, Wang Chao really disgusted them.
But Wang Chao sat next to the general manager Billy. The expression on Kim's face froze.
Wang Chao really dares to say, 66 wins and 16 losses? Is it as simple as eating and drinking?
Looking at the history of the NBA, teams with a record of 66 wins or more can be counted on two hands, and these teams are all the top teams in the league without exception, just like the Rockets during the three-game championship period and the Magic of the three-game championship.
Although these teams also have excellent records under the leadership of Wang Chao, the Magic also have Howard, and the Rockets also have a number of strong teammates such as Da Yao, Garnett, and Leonard.
Wang Chao in the Nets who counts on Brooke. Did López assist him to 66 wins?
Although López is a star player, even if Billy. Jin also knows that his strength is limited, and he has only been selected once as an All-Star substitute in his 7-year career so far, and has never been selected to the best team, so he can be regarded as the weakest star partner around Wang Chao.
But......
Looking at a group of New York reporters in the audience who were gritted their teeth by Wang Chao, Billy. Kim's heart felt a burst of comfort.
As the general manager of the Nets, they have been ridiculed by the local media in New York since the team relocated to Brooklyn, mocking them as hillbillies.
The reason why the Nets spent a lot of money to build a championship-winning squad in the first two seasons is that the owner is stupid and has a lot of money, and on the other hand, they also want to make some achievements for this group of guys who look down on them to take a good look.
It's a pity that it backfired, and the result of paying a high luxury tax for two consecutive years has made the Nets ridiculed even more.
"The NBA doesn't win championships if you have money, study hard, hillbilly!"
These New Yorkers, who are still complacent with the championship of the Knicks more than 40 years ago, are finally feeling unhappy.
After the press conference, the local media in New York couldn't wait to criticize Wang Chao and the Nets.
"The arrogant Chinese people, the whole world is ready to welcome the moment when Wang Chao encounters Waterloo."
"Wang Chao doesn't seem to have figured it out, his success in the Suns, Magic and Rockets is not his own credit, he has achieved too much to make him completely floating, and even said at the press conference that he wants to achieve a 66-win record in the new season, which seems ignorant and ridiculous!"
Wang Chao didn't dare to promise to lead the team to win the championship in the first year, but he was sure that the team could win 66 wins in the first season, what kind of psychology is it? I dare to assert, not in three years, even in five years and ten years...... Until Wang Chao retires, he will not be able to win a championship with the Nets! ”
The consequences of offending the New York media are quite serious, and anxious media reporters don't care if you are a billionaire or not, you should be sprayed to death.
However, Wang Chao was naturally not affected by their voices.
The Nets' work is well underway.
In mid-September, the Nets began to call for players to return to the team, and since the vast majority of Nets players were attending Wang's private training camp, it was very convenient to report.
The Nets' coaching staff is also in place and has begun to prepare for training and preparing for the new season.
The head coach of the Nets is named Lionel. Hollins, who used to be the head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies, single-handedly trained the Grizzlies' interior black and white duo from the beginning of the 08-09 season to the 12-13 season, and was swept 4-0 by the Thunder 4-0 by the Thunder.
The above achievements are the original historical process, and the time and space where Wang Chao is located did not happen.
Although the Grizzlies did not have a highlight performance in the 12-13 season due to the butterfly effect, the record was not much worse, still 50+ wins, and the Grizzlies' black and white duo is still the most tenacious and difficult bone in the league.
In 2013, after the regular season, Hollins resigned as head coach of the Grizzlies and became head coach of the Nets a year later, in the 14-15 season.
Last season's Nets' record was very average, and Hollins also carried a lot of black pots, if according to the original historical process, Hollins will be fired by the Nets in the middle of the new season, and can only join the NBA team as an assistant coach in the future, and will win the NBA championship in the 19-20 season with the Los Angeles Lakers as an assistant coach in the future.
Overall, this is a manager with a bit of a thing, but not much, and don't expect him to have the same level of coaching and the ability to turn stones into gold as Popovich, Kerr, Budenholzer, Stevens.
However, Wang Chao, who has his own system, does not need a good head coach, like McHale of the Rockets, as long as the other party has the basic functions of a head coach and is good enough to lick it, the game is handed over to Wang Chao, and the daily training and analysis are handed over to the coaching staff, and everyone performs their duties without interfering with each other.
With Wang Chao's status in the rivers and lakes, such a request and arrangement, no half of the Nets team dares to say a word.
The biggest ball bully of the Rockets, who still has the attributes of a ball bully when he comes to the Nets, has seen the clues from the first day of reporting on the team.
The team management and coaching staff all revolved around Wang Chao, as if Wang Chao was the owner of the team.
Although Wang Chao, who is worth more than 3 billion, is already richer than many team owners in the league, it certainly does not include Prokhorov, the owner of the Nets, who is the richest man in the goose country with assets of tens of billions.
Strictly speaking, Prokhorov is about equal to 4 Wang Chao.
Of course, this is not the point, the point is from the attitude of the Nets management and coaching staff towards Wang Chao, those Nets players who are still relatively new to Wang Chao know that anyone can be messed with in the team, but Wang Chao must not be provoked.
Soon, the whole team of the Nets saw how far Wang Chao's dictatorship had reached.
After only one day of full coverage, the team determined the main lineup for the new season, to be precise, Wang Chao unilaterally handed over a main list to head coach Hollins.
In this way, before even the formal training began, the Nets' starting and bench lists were determined first.
The starting five tigers, Wang Chao, Devon. Booker, Bojan. Bogdanovic, Brooke. López, Nikolai. Jokic.
Main rotation substitute Delon. Williams, Joe. Johnson, minor rotation substitute Montrez. Harrell, Norman. Powell.
The rest of the players were all bench substitutes.
This list makes Delon and Joe. Johnson was a little dissatisfied, after all, both of them were still starters for the Nets before, with a contract of 20 million, and they actually want to let them all play as substitutes in the new season?
But in the face of Wang Chao, even if the two were dissatisfied in their hearts, they didn't dare to say it.
In the final analysis, after the two reached a buyout agreement with the team, they were willing to join the Nets with a low salary, which was to run for Wang Chao, they wanted to hug Wang Chao's thigh, win an NBA championship, and at the same time take this opportunity to play the second spring of their careers and re-sign a pension contract.
From this point of view, they have no qualifications to make trouble at all, and according to the positioning given by Wang Chao, although the two are substitutes, they also have more than 25 minutes of rotation time, which belongs to the sixth person, so it is not completely unacceptable.
According to the list provided by Wang Chao, the Nets began training before the new season.
The Nets in the new season are completely different from the Rockets' lineup, not playing small-ball tactics, mainly around the 2.11-meter-11 Jokic and 2.13-meter-tall Lopez's interior twin tower combination.
Of course, the absolute main control core of the team must still be Wang Chao, but when the Nets' inner twin towers grow up and can play strong enough dominance, this lineup will evolve into an internal and external dual-core drive, plus Devin. Booker's growth will definitely beat the strongest teams in the league at this stage, the Cavaliers and Warriors, and this is also the biggest basic set that Wang Chao is confident that he can lead the Nets to win the championship in three years!
(End of chapter)