NBA: I just want to play soy sauce, you let me win the championship

Chapter 226 Take a good look and study hard!
Kevin Cato is 211 centimeters tall and weighs 116 kilograms. He moves not slowly and is very explosive. He is a qualified meat shield center.

After coming to the Rockets from Boston, Cato has been playing as a blue-collar player.

Thanks to Francis' breakthrough ability, Cato can get a lot of pie every game, and he himself is also striving for success. In the past two seasons, his success rate at the basket has been higher than 70%.

This is not a question of whether you can spit out cakes. It is about being able to eat almost every cake. If you have conditions, you can eat them. If there are no conditions, you can create conditions to eat cakes.

Cato has no basket from the outside and has a career mid-range shooting percentage of about 30%. But with his excellent defense and super-excellent pie-eating ability, this flaw is irrelevant.

Again, the Kings have no shortage of outside firepower.

What the Kings lack is an inside line that can pose a threat to O'Neal and Duncan.

You can't threaten O'Neal and Duncan with shooting, but you can threaten them with pie, and that's okay.

Moreover, Cato's contract is relatively suitable. This year it is 670 million. Although it is about 200 million higher than Clark, it is not without room for maneuver.

In other words, it is easier to operate.

The Rockets are also currently lacking a space-based power forward to match Yao Ming.

But this space-based power forward cannot be a colander, and he cannot be a player like Maurice Taylor who only attacks but does not defend.

Then Clark is very fragrant.

Clark has a basket on the outside, so he won't be disadvantaged in defending an average power forward. His quick feet can also make the Rockets' interior less cumbersome.

perfect choice!

I just don’t know if the Rockets management can see this.

Before the game, Lu Yuanzhi hugged Dayao and then started chatting under the gaze of a bunch of cameras.

"What's going on? Can you lose with a stick? You guys, Dayao, are too incompetent!"

"Fuck, 5 on 8, it's more exaggerated than what you encountered last season. It started in the first quarter."

"So shameless?"

"What is a face? Bangzi doesn't understand."

"Have you seen the news about last year's World Cup? With the whole world paying attention, they dare to do that, let alone the little Asian Games!"

Lu Yuanzhi was dumbfounded. He thought that 8-on-5 would be the limit for events organized by commercial organizations. He didn't expect that there were not many such things in international events.

"Forget it, let's not mention it. By the way, what's going on with Dazhi now?"

Not wanting to be recorded by the camera, Lu Yuanzhi called Dayao to come over and whispered in his ear.

"On the right, say it on the right! I can't hear it with my left ear!"

what?
"The doctor prescribed the wrong medicine when I was a child. I haven't been able to hear in my left ear since I was a child. Please tell me in my right ear!"

Lu Yuanzhi had no choice but to lean on Dayao's right ear and ask the question again.

"It's more complicated. I can only say that fortunately you persuaded him to go back in time. Maybe he can come back to play in a while."

Lu Yuanzhi nodded, that's fine, he couldn't care about anything else.

"Brother Lu, why don't you join the national team?"

"No one is looking for me!" Lu Yuanzhi said confidently, "Besides, I'm not interested in small events either. At least it's the Olympics!"

Dayao's eyes moved, he nodded and wrote it down.

Returning to the Kings bench, Bobby Jackson gestured, "Your compatriot is so tall! When you stand next to him, you look like a dwarf."

Lu Yuanzhi spread his hands. He was 20 centimeters taller. Could he not be a dwarf?

"Rick, don't you want to observe Cato? Give me more tactics to attack the basket, and I'll help you beat Yao down!"

The teammates who were laughing and joking in the players' bench instantly fell silent when they heard Lu Yuanzhi's words.

Good guy, you just greeted me so warmly, now you want to knock your compatriots off the field?It’s too sinister!

"You really have a way, the whole team will support you!" Adelman thought for a while and felt that Lu Yuanzhi's suggestion was good.

They have a big advantage against the Rockets, and their main task today is to inspect Cato.

"Max, don't brag. Yao is not easy to deal with. Look at his size!"

"Yeah, I've seen his game videos. He's so flexible. I can't imagine he's 226 centimeters tall."

"I feel pretty good. I scored 20 points against the Lakers and 30 points against the Mavericks."

"Don't worry, Yao didn't get beaten down. You should be fooled by him first!"

"Yeah, I saw O'Neal was blocked three times by him!"

"It's so cruel, I think O'Neal was dumbfounded by it!"

"Max, are you going to be fooled by Yao Mao too?"

The Kings players burst into laughter. Everyone was very supportive of Lu Yuanzhi's idea of ​​knocking his compatriot off the field, but they obviously had no confidence in Lu Yuanzhi.

O'Neal had surgery in the offseason and returned to the court at the beginning of the season. This is completely different from Lu Yuanzhi's timeline, so the first "Yao Shark Showdown" was several months earlier than Lu Yuanzhi's timeline.

Everyone's worries about Lu Yuanzhi all come from three blocks for O'Neal.

What kind of vicious person can give O'Neal three big hats?

How many years has it been since there has been such a tough guy in the league? You, Lu Yuanzhi, are determined to take down such a tough guy?
Row!
you go!

We give you unlimited fire rights!

Lu Yuanzhi didn't have a bad taste and wanted to tease Dayao, but he knew that as Dayao gets better and better, he will be studied carefully by each team and find out how to deal with it.

This is the so-called "newbie wall".

Originally, as a rookie, you were almost a little transparent. Your opponents didn't know who you were at all, so you could use your strengths as you pleased and perform brilliantly.

But once you've done well and become famous, your next opponents will study you, find out your weaknesses, and then target you on the field, and your performance will naturally decline.

Some rookies adjust quickly when faced with opposition, decipher other teams' tactics, and smash through the novice wall.

There are also rookies who are at a loss and don't know what to do at all, so it will take them a long time, or even their entire career, to crack this kind of attack.

Lu Yuanzhi saw that Dayao was going smoothly recently and wanted to give him a slap in the face.

Don't think that just because you are 226 centimeters tall, you can make it in the NBA.

This pool of water is deep!
Go back and train hard!
Others were afraid of Dayao's height of 226 centimeters and avoided beating Dayao, but Lu Yuanzhi was not timid at all. What he had to do today was to sound the alarm to his good brother so that he could better deal with the upcoming attacks.

The Rockets' starting lineup is Dayao, Eddie Griffin, Kenny Thomas, Juaquin Hawkins and Steve Francis.

Are you unfamiliar with this lineup?

Except for Dayao and Big Fu, why don't the other three seem to have appeared in the Rockets lineup?
normal!

Griffin and Thomas left the team after this season. If you look at Yao fans a little later, they have never seen these two at all.

As for Hawkins, he is even better. He is a undrafted player. Throughout his NBA career, he played for the Rockets this season and was quickly eliminated by the NBA.

This year, Hawkins' salary with the Rockets is 59.

I completely don’t understand how the Rockets management is building a team. Francis is still getting a rookie contract this year, which only costs 438 million. Big Yao’s rookie contract is 386 million in the first year, and old cat Mobley is only 490 million.

With nearly 3000-4000 million in salary space, it's ridiculous that they can't take advantage of the rookie benefits of Dayao and Francis to form a strong team.

Haven't you seen the Bucks 20 years later, with no salary space and no draft picks, and finally made room for Lillard?

Rockets management, watch and learn!
　There are only 3 chapters today. I have some trivial matters in the afternoon and evening and I can’t type.

　　
　
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