warrior godfather

Chapter 305 Miami's Basketball Acceleration Training Camp
Florida, Key Biscayne, Miami.

The "Capital of Latin America" ​​in mid-July is the hottest time of the year. The hot wind in the wet season comes endlessly from the sea, and even the air is full of humidity. Many people walking on the street Hispanics all lounged in baggy T-shirts and shorts, enjoying free sunbathing.

In one arena, the power of the air conditioner is turned on to the maximum, which isolates the inside of the arena from the heat of the outside world.

Brand Payne walked into the arena, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his cheeks, and murmured comfortably:
"Ah... air conditioner, I love you to death! Stephen, I am already missing the summer in North Carolina, why did Ronan arrange the training camp in a place like Miami? I will be very happy to come here for half a month. Happy, but we're here for three months!"

Beside him, Silas was also wiping sweat, but he was black, and he was not so afraid of heat compared to Brand Payne, but there were some beads of sweat on his forehead.

He shrugged and said:
"Ronan said he wanted the players to train and take vacations, so they arranged it in Miami... Be content, Brand, we have two days a week to go to the beach, this is Miami's Gold Coast, not other places It's better than—at least a lot better than the beaches in the Bay Area."

"Are you serious? According to the progress rate of Jimmy and the others, those two days of rest are just working days for us to study the training video and rearrange the training plan. I didn't rest at all last week!" Payne complained .

"Well, they can't continue to improve at such a rapid rate all the time. After a while, after they digest what they got in the playoffs, they will enter a stage of steady improvement. At that time, we will have a lot of time. " Silas comforted.

Payne also stopped complaining, mainly because the irritability caused by the heat in his heart gradually disappeared under the blowing of the air-conditioning.

"Stephen, I'm going to the office to get today's training schedule, and I'll see you in the locker room later." He said something, and then left the training ground.

Silas smiled and nodded:
"Okay, boss."

Payne, who had walked a few steps, heard the words, turned around, waved his hands, and said:

"Don't call me that, Ronan is your boss, well, he is also my boss now."

Silas smiled, shook his head, and walked to his office.

He came to the office, opened the door and entered, only to find that there was already a person inside.

"Bruce, you came early today." Silas came to his desk and sat down, greeting with a smile.

Bruce Fraser was flipping through a stack of A4 papers, and replied without raising his head:
"It can't be early, yesterday was Monday, and it was the physical test day. I have to get their physical data early to determine the intensity of this week's training... Well, they are all good. It seems that everyone is resting well. No one Go out and fool around, and when I go back, I will coordinate with the nutritionist and arrange a special diet for a few people who need to gain weight."

He looked at the information and nodded slightly with a satisfied expression.

Because of the small number of rooms in the basketball arena, Silas and Frazier could only share an office.

Silas said in a natural tone:
"They are not stupid. They know that now is the best time to increase their goals. Ronan has arranged such good conditions for them. Of course, they will train hard."

Bruce put aside the physical measurement data in his hand, picked up another training plan, ticked on it, stood up and said:
"You're right, it makes my job very easy. To be honest, I never thought I'd be a trainer again...Is Brand here?"

"Here, he's in the office." Silas nodded.

"I'll go to him to discuss today's training plan." Fraser said, walked out of the office, and slammed the door.

"Heh, fortunately I don't have to be so busy for the time being..." Silas looked at Bruce's hurried back, raised his eyebrows, and said to himself a little gratefully.

It has been half a month since the league was shut down on July 7, and the basketball acceleration training camp also rented a fully functional basketball hall in Miami, and conducted silent training for half a month.

But Payne is no longer a "personal trainer" this time. The clients he serves this time are different from those he has received in the past. They are Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Danny Green, Yi Jianlian, Kawhi Leonard, Hassan Whiteside, Chandler Parsons, Isaiah Thomas, Jeremy Lin, all from the Warriors.

Moreover, Payne has two new "colleagues", Silas and Bruce. In fact, the name of the basketball acceleration training camp is also open to discussion. Payne's right to speak is not as high as that of Silas and Bruce. It should be changed to "Warriors Temporary Training Camp".

The reason is simple, this training camp was established under the instruction and funding of Zhang Yu.

The lockout has had a huge impact on all parties. For the league, the cancellation of the summer league and the ban on the use of players' portrait rights is only a trivial matter. The huge economic loss caused by the lockout itself is the most serious impact.

For the team, the transfer transaction is stopped, the trial training, meeting and signing of free agents are also postponed indefinitely, all the teams' summer signing plans are shattered, and the preseason and training camp will also be postponed or even cancelled. It's still early in September, but judging from the current situation, this is already a certainty.

Moreover, the team's trainers, team doctors and other staff cannot contact the players, and they cannot supervise the players' physical and training status during the offseason as usual, which means that the players are likely to indulge themselves, like in 98. "Rain Man" Sean Kemp's sharp decline in state due to alcoholism is likely to be staged again.

Of course, the lockout is not good for the players.

Before the lockout is over, the team's public facilities such as the arena are closed to the players. If the players want to maintain their fitness in the summer, they must find the basketball hall and gym by themselves.

The suspension of free agent training, meetings and signings has made it impossible for many free agents to find new clubs. The cancellation of the summer league has deprived many undrafted and fringe players of the opportunity to show themselves. Play overseas.

Most importantly, in the lockout in 98, the Final Arbitration Association made a judgment on October 10, ruling that even if the player contract is guaranteed, the teams do not have to pay the players' wages during the lockout. If this lockout follows this rule, the wages of the players will also be damaged, depending on the length of the lockout.

This has no impact on superstars, and it has little impact on players with middle-level contracts, but for those marginal rotation and bottom players, this will be an unbearable loss. They are likely to face financial crisis. Players who have contracts but are not good at managing money will also be very embarrassed.

Under the wind and waves of the lockout, the Warriors are of course not immune, and all of them have been affected by these effects, but for the Warriors, the benefits of the lockout really outweigh the disadvantages.

Economic losses are nothing to Zhang Yu. The Warriors rose rapidly last season and reached the Western Conference Finals. The only income is Venus Capital, which cooperates with Mark Baum, because it is still in the expansion investment stage, and there is only input for the time being, but no output.

Under Zhang Yu's suggestion, Venus Capital focused its investment on emerging directions of China's Internet industry, such as food delivery platforms, travel platforms, and video platforms. Great earnings.

In addition to the loss of income, the Warriors rookies have a lot of time to train in this summer of suspension, make up for their shortcomings, and improve their strength. This is the unique advantage of the Warriors.

Only the Warriors have as many as 10 rookies who have only played for less than three seasons. They are far from reaching their peak. Every month of practice, they can increase their ball a lot. The longer the lockout time, the Warriors will be stronger next season. will be stronger.

Of course, this idea is based on the premise that every rookie trains hard, but the team cannot monitor the players' physical and training status during the lockout. The Warriors still need to overcome this problem if they want to really make good use of this summer. .

So Zhang Yu stood up.

As the only owner and head coach in the league, he has an advantage that other team head coaches or owners do not have, that is, absolute control over the team.

Zhang Yu has absolute prestige in the Warriors, and his relationship with Curry, Butler, and Yi Jianlian allows players to have absolute trust in him, and Silas and Bruce are also very convinced of him.

Zhang Yu first "negotiated to terminate" the assistant coach's contract with Silas and Bruce, and then the two came to Charlotte, joined Brand Payne's basketball acceleration training camp, and signed a six-month contract. Personal trainer contract.

Prior to this, Zhang Yu had reached an agreement with Payne to inject 300 million US dollars into the basketball acceleration training camp, on the condition that Payne opened a basketball training camp in Miami.

Later, Zhang Yu got in touch with Curry, Butler, and Yi Jianlian, and told them all about his plan, hoping that they would come forward to invite teammates to follow Payne in Miami for special training in the summer.

Although the league stipulates that the team can no longer supervise the players' physical and training status, as long as the three do not disclose it, the league has nothing to do with Zhang Yu.

Of course, the three of Curry would not betray Zhang Yu. They readily agreed to Zhang Yu's suggestion, contacted their teammates, and came to Miami on July 7 for a long-term special training.

They didn't tell their teammates directly that this was Zhang Yu's intention, they just hinted at it vaguely, but when the Warriors' rookies saw Silas and Bruce, they instantly understood everything.

But they were all very happy to follow Zhang Yu's arrangement, and no one would tell the matter.

Before coming to Miami, the rookies of the Warriors have rested for more than a month, and they have had enough rest. As rookies, their future is uncertain, and they don’t have the capital to take a leisurely vacation like famous stars. They have to train hard in the summer to improve their skills. .

Now Zhang Yu provides them with a free training camp, guided by the team's assistant coaches and top personal trainers. It is still in a resort like Miami, where they can play freely in their spare time, surrounded by teammates who will work together in the future, To be able to run in in advance is what they wish for.

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Silas waited in the office for a while, looked at his watch, and found that it was already 8:15, and then got up and walked out of the office.

When he came to the training ground, several people on the court were warming up with the help of the trainer. After seeing Silas, they greeted him one after another, and Silas responded one by one with a smile.

Not long after, all 11 rookies of the Warriors arrived.

Payne and Bruce also arrived on time, and with them came a huge team of trainers.

"Everyone came on time, let's start training!" Silas said no nonsense, smiled and praised, and started training directly.

He is the real leader of the training camp. The training plan that Bruce and Payne have worked so hard to arrange can only be implemented with his approval.

In this regard, Silas has fully learned from Zhang Yu's approach and entrusted the two with these specific tasks. He will not interfere at will, and will focus on tactical training. The personal technical training plan formulated by Bruce and Payne Only agree.

Soon, the Warriors dispersed to different venues for different training sessions.

The training schedule of the training camp is from 08:30 am to 11:30 am, and from 05 pm to 30:[-] pm. It mainly trains personal skills, and the time is relatively long. There are [-] trainers on hand to assist, and at night there are seven From [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], it is mainly tactical training, five days a week, and two days off on weekends.

After the individual training in the afternoon, the players will play a 20-minute training game, which is not only to add interest to the boring training, but also to test the effect of the training.

During the period from 05:30 to 20:[-], Silas, Bruce and Payne will watch the [-]-minute training video together, looking for problems and the progress of the players, and providing reference for the tactical training in the evening.

Under the compact, systematic and scientific training, in the first 10 days of the training camp, the rookies of the Warriors trained very hard and made rapid progress.

The whole morning passed quickly. After the players finished their respective training programs, they returned to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes. There were special cleaning staff to clean the clothes for them, and they would eat in the arena. After the arranged lunch, I went back to a nearby three-star hotel to rest, where Zhang Yu booked a whole floor of rooms for the training camp for three months.

In the locker room, after taking a shower, Curry put the sweat-soaked sleeveless quick-drying training vest in the plastic bucket next to the seat, put on a loose casual T-shirt, and spoke to his body in a mysterious tone. Next Green said:
"Hey Drummond, do you know who I saw this morning?"

"Who?" Green was wearing shorts, and asked without raising his head.

After getting along for more than a year, he has gotten used to Curry's funny personality.

Curry lowered his voice and said:
"Dwyane Wade!"

　This is to make up for yesterday...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)