NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

After the game, Jordan, the boss, attended the Bobcats' post-game press conference.

Logically speaking, the boss has no reason to participate in this kind of regular season press conference, unless it is the kind of press conference after winning the championship.

"At the beginning, I took David West and Kapono and went to Salt Lake City to trade the bus."

"I made it clear at the time that Kapono would be the next Larry Bird, and David West was at least an All-Star power forward."

"An all-star power forward plus a future Larry Bird, went to trade the bus, and guess what? Salt Lake City turned me down!"

"What I want to say is that the Jazz deserve to be the last in the record year after year. Their vision is really terrible."

After Jordan entered the venue, he took the microphone as his own and started talking endlessly.

He may have misremembered himself. Kapono was not included in his offer to the Jazz, but Korver.

"I'm not bragging, just pick one of the six rookies selected by Comb and I this year, and put it in the Jazz. That's all at the boss level."

"I want to ask Sloan, do you regret it now?"

"The new season has just started. Our young lads have already played this kind of performance. When they wait for the playoffs, their strength will definitely go further."

"I am full of confidence in winning the championship this season!"

Jordan's mouth never stopped.

The feeling that Jordan gives to Combo right now is completely different from the image of a calm boss in his previous life memory.

It may also be that Jordan was suffocated. Since he retired, he has not been able to find any sense of presence in the league.

Jordan was bragging on the stage, and Combe was playing drums beside him. With the current lineup of the Bobcats, the probability of winning the championship may be less than [-]%. If the Bobcats are fourth or fifth in the Eastern Conference during the regular season, they will meet the Pistons , may not make it through the first round of the playoffs.

If you want to play more decently in the playoffs, you can only continue to adjust the lineup.

Then the reporter asked Kongbu again, asking if he had any plan to win the championship this year, continuing his great career of seven consecutive championships.

Kong Bu could only smile mysteriously and didn't give any answer at all.

Bobcats sixth game of the new season, the third home, against old acquaintances New York Knicks.

Old Thomas arrived in Charlotte with a group of titans.

The current lineup of the Knicks has changed a lot compared to last season. The inside twin towers composed of Big Zhi and Bus seem to make most teams in the league feel numb.

The outside combination is the old Payton plus Duron Davis, and at the third position, the restricted free agent hacker Marion was signed with a maximum salary.

This is a lineup completely spent on money. Their total salary this season is as high as more than 9000 million US dollars, almost four times that of the Charlotte Bobcats!
Their starting five generals have a combined total salary of 7800 million, and no team can compete with it in the entire NBA history.

The reason why they spend so much money is that the Knicks just want to take advantage of the time when Combe is at the helm of the Bobcats and take the opportunity to steal a championship.

Otherwise, when Kumbu gets the Bobcats up, he won't know how long it will take until the Year of the Monkey if he wants to win the championship.

Kumbu gasped when he knew that Lao Deng had assembled such a lineup. It was really scary.

Especially their three frontcourts are ridiculously strong. In Comb's impression, it may be the trio of Bird, McHale and Parish who used to be Green Kai, which can compete with the Knicks trio.

It's hard to say whether the trio of Green Kai can beat the Knicks' frontcourt trio.

The backcourt is not weak either. The old Payton still has fuel in his fuel tank. As he gets older, his playing time has decreased a lot, but his defensive efficiency on the court is still amazing.

In addition, his current shots reduce the frequency of breakthroughs as much as possible, and instead start to shoot three-pointers. Many players' three-pointers become more and more demonic as they get older, and Payton is no exception.

Duron Davis is the most stupid of this luxurious starting lineup, but under normal circumstances, he has been the Cavaliers' big brother for a few months anyway, and let James carry his shoes for him.

I am afraid that apart from the Knicks, there is no team in this league that has thrown out such a lineup by throwing money abruptly.

Of course, the pioneers who took advantage of Paul Allen also have such financial resources, but unfortunately they don't have the vision of Lao Deng, and they often spend a lot of money without even making money.

In the warm-up session before the game, Lao Deng walked to Kong Bu with a smile.

"Son, look at the lineup I created, is it strong?"

Kong Bu pursed his lips and said sourly, "This lineup cost [-] million dollars, right?"

"Those who didn't know thought that the U.S. dollar had depreciated so much that it turned into toilet paper. How dare you spend it."

Lao Deng grinned loudly, and he could hear Chi Guoguo's envy and hatred from Kong Bu's tone.

"Money, isn't it just for spending?"

"Just tell me if this lineup is strong or not."

Kongbu didn't answer, this lineup is very strong, but he didn't want Lao Deng to succeed.

After the game started, Kumbu became more and more uncomfortable.

The inside line composed of Bosh and David West can often play a good advantage in the face of the five weak teams encountered at the beginning of the game.

But facing the Zhiba combination, they will be completely dominated by others.

Bosh is a short guy with a shorter shooting range. The key point is that he is not as fast as Big Zhi. It is difficult for him to guard against Big Zhi, but Big Zhi can limit his offense very well.

David West is a ground-breaking type insider, and his style is very similar to that of Bus. There is nothing wrong with saying that David West is a pinduoduo version of Duncan, and Bus is an alternate version of Duncan. You can figure out the result with your toes.

Even Hill, who blocked and killed the gods and Buddhas in the first five games, was restricted by Marion in this game.

Marion is such a ghost, only by being his opponent can you truly appreciate how difficult he is.

He doesn't have as strong organizational skills as Hill, but his rebounding is better than Hill's, and his defense is not worse than Hill's at all. Even when he defends the third position, his defensive effect is better than Hill's. On the offensive end, the Knicks also He doesn't need to put too much energy into the offensive end, he is a thief, sneaking two mid-range shots or three-pointers from time to time.

In Kumbu's view, Lao Deng's most successful operation this offseason was not to bring in the coach, but to get Marion, who was at his peak, into the team.

This guy Marion is really difficult to deal with, he is like mud, wherever the Knicks have holes, he can make up for them.

Hill made it difficult for Marion to be up and down, and even his passing was restricted.

In the backcourt, Kumbu has already bound Kapono with the newly obtained speed calibration device, and he will start with Barbosa tonight.

The offensive end of the two is not a big problem.

Barbosa has been running wildly, leading the old Payton to run all over the court, looking for opportunities to steal points from time to time, and his performance is not bad.

But he couldn't prevent Payton's offense.

Kapono's situation is similar. Relying on his huge increase in speed on the offensive end, he can often find a comfortable shooting position and score a lot, but he can't defend against the attack of Duron Davis.

The five positions on the field, except for Hill, seem to be less interesting than the opponent.

If it is put in previous seasons, even if the starting lineup has no advantage in facing the opponent head-on, Combe has absolute confidence to win because he has a much stronger bench lineup than the opponent.

In previous losing games, the pits dug by the starting lineup were too large, causing the benches to fail to fill the pits after they played, and that's the only way to lose.

But now it’s not what it used to be. How can Combe still have the luxurious bench lineup before? The only people on the bench that can be used are Haslem, Josh Howard and Korver.

The total salary of the Knicks' bench is close to 2000 million, and there are a lot of cost-effective players sitting on the bench.

Kumbu experienced the helplessness of other opponents facing him in the previous six seasons.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the Knicks won by 13 points. Although it was not a sling, they kept suppressing on the scene and never showed any disadvantages.

During the handshake session after the game, Lao Dengle grinned to the back of his head. He had already forgotten when he won against Kumbu last time.

Tonight, the Bobcats played against Kumbu. It seems that the Bobcats can't resist the Knicks at all.

If it comes to the playoffs, Lao Deng is sure to kill the Bobcats in five games.

Looking at the entire east, the only thing that makes Lao Deng afraid is the bobcat of Kumbu.

The Raptors last season, because of the Combu trade, they got Kirilenko, which had some restrictions on Big Zhi, and then the Raptors killed the Knicks in the playoffs.

The situation is different this season. Lao Deng doesn't put the Raptors in his eyes at all.

What Kirilenko, what the hell is that, he wants to fight Big Zhi?Gotta get past Marion first.

As for the Philadelphia 76ers, Lao Deng didn't care too much.

In Lao Deng's view, Yao Ming and Stoudemire's inside combination, Stoudemire is a short board that can be used.

When it comes to the playoffs of the bayonet, Stoudemire's shortcoming is a point that can be used.

In addition, Iverson has glove phobia, which is well known.

When Kumbu was there before, Kumbu could suppress Iverson and keep him from messing around, and he could put Iverson on the bench at any time to prevent him from playing.

Now that Kumbu is gone, who can suppress Iverson in the entire Philadelphia 76ers?Counting on Carlesimo to put Iverson on the bench?Iverson was able to bring someone to ransack his house overnight.

Billy King is even more unlikely. He has been pretending to be a grandson throughout his career, and it is impossible to expect him to offend Iverson.

So Lao Deng didn't take the Philadelphia 76ers to heart at all. It may not be so easy to win the 76ers, but Lao Deng firmly believes that the final winner must be their Knicks.

The only one that is full of variables is the Bobcats. Comb has created countless miracles over the years. In Lao Deng's mind, the only one who can stop the Knicks from reaching the finals is Comb.

The Bobcats were beaten tonight, and Lao Deng was completely at ease. He had a sense of heroism looking down on the world. The east is already invincible, and the west?The West is simply not within the scope of Lao Deng's consideration.

"Son, I feel so sorry for you."

"You may not have the chance to win seven consecutive championships. This year's championship has already engraved my name."

"I'm really sorry, haha."

Lao Deng said sorry, his face was full of complacency, as if he had really won the championship.

Kong Bu replied angrily: "Old guy, actually I have to thank you."

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't realize how weak the Bobcats are now."

"Well, in the next time, we may make some lineup adjustments, I hope you won't be too surprised then."

Comb's words were definitely not intentional to scare Lao Deng. Tonight's game is played like this, and there is no hope of winning the Knicks at all. It has made Comb realize that the team must make lineup adjustments.

Small adjustments are not enough, it must be the kind of super heavy adjustments in order for the Bobcats to have the ability to compete with the Knicks.

After returning to the locker room, Jordan also walked in dejectedly.

He just told reporters two days ago that he was full of confidence in winning the championship, but tonight's game poured cold water on him.

He no longer plans to attend tonight's press conference.

"Michael, throw your money away."

When Kumbu saw Jordan, he said this directly.

"Spending money? What kind of money are you throwing?"

Jordan said in a daze.

"Of course it's to spend money on reinforcements. You also saw tonight's game. If it really comes to the playoffs, we have half the chance of being swept by them, and the other half is 4:1!"

"Aren't you willing to spend money?" Kong Bu asked.

"Smash! Smash me hard!"

"The Knicks are a fart, don't they just rely on the lineup made by spending money?"

"We messed up too, as if whoever is a poor ghost, I also have money!"

"Kong, I support you unconditionally in this matter, you just go to strengthen it, I am willing to spend any amount of money!"

Jordan said viciously.

Kong Bu shook his head, "It's not your business to spend money alone. I also own half of the shares, and of course the two of us share equally."

"Sharing? Do you have that much money? This is not one hundred and eighty thousand dollars."

"Your salary this season is only a few hundred thousand dollars. You have to wait until the end of the season to get the team bonus. Do you have money?"

Jordan asked curiously.

Until now, he actually doesn't know exactly how much money Kung Bu has.

Don't mention Jordan, even Kumbu himself doesn't know it very well, he has invested too much industry unknowingly.

But one thing Kumbu knows very well, that is, his current total net worth will definitely not be less than one billion US dollars.

"Do I have any money? Michael, if I say that my assets are no less than yours, would you believe me or not?" Kong Bu smiled mysteriously.

Jordan was at a loss for words, should he believe it?It sounds a bit unbelievable, but Kumbu is just a coach without a commercial endorsement, and he has only worked for six years, earning a total of about 6000 million US dollars, and after paying taxes, there may be [-] million US dollars left.

Then when he built the team before, he paid 5000 million U.S. dollars, and Jordan had the final say, and Kumbu might only have 1000 million U.S. dollars in his hands.

But Jordan also knows that Combe is definitely not a big talker. Could it be that he really has billions of assets in his hands? (end of this chapter)