First in scoring

Chapter 516. Zhang San: Kobe, do you want to learn? I will teach you!

A few days passed in a flash, and August arrived. Felton also came to Hidden Hills, and Englander, who had finished his work in the summer league, also came and joined the training.

As soon as they met, Felton complained about Alan Anderson going to Europe to seek his fortune. Not everyone was as open-minded as Zhang Yang, so he was very dissatisfied with this. After listening to Zhang Yang's opinion, he calmed down. However, he had never experienced hard times and did not have much empathy, so he could not fully understand Alan Anderson's choice.

Just like in the original time and space, Jordan offered him a 09-year, 4 million US dollar contract in the summer of 3750. Considering his average performance of 14 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists at the time, it was a lucrative contract. However, in order to change teams, he refused to renew the contract and signed a 1-year, 550 million US dollar contract. Even though everyone told him that he could not get such a contract in other teams, he still wanted to change teams. This choice was completely incomprehensible to those black players who came from the bottom.

In the final analysis, the two men are not from the same world. They just happened to be on the same team and spent four unforgettable years together without any conflict of interest, and developed a brotherhood similar to that of a brother. If they did not play on the same team, even if they were neighbors, the two would not get along well.

However, Xiaofei has developed the ability to self-regulate over the years, and he chose to use training to divert his attention.

That night, Harden was kidnapped by Felton, moved out of Zhang Yang's house, and lived in a hotel with Felton. Yinshan is a wealthy area with many high-end clubs...

A few days passed and it was August 8. On that day, two highly talked-about transactions took place and Zhang Yang's attention was also attracted.

The Mavericks used Josh Howard as a bargaining chip to trade for Caron Butler and DeShawn Stevenson from the Wizards.

Billups, Caron Butler, Artest, Nowitzki, and sixth man Terry... Zhang Yang was amazed by this lineup.

Another deal was also made by the Wizards, using Jamison as a bargaining chip to exchange for Big Z's expiring contract and the 2010 first-round pick from the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers used a first-round pick to trade for Jamison, and they didn't have to pay Big Z's last year of his big contract... Zhang Yang remembered that Stern seemed to want to change the rules to prevent this kind of behavior from happening again.

At the same time as the deal was completed, some media reported that Arenas was being sold by the Wizards, but no one was interested.

The once famous Three Musketeers became a thing of the past overnight.

Two days later, on August 8, the Raptors suddenly announced that they had signed Turkoglu for five years and $8 million.

Zhang Yang was very surprised by this signing. He had already been surprised when he saw the news that Turkoglu was about to sign a five-year, $5 million contract with the Trail Blazers. He didn't remember Turkoglu playing for the Trail Blazers. He didn't expect there to be a reversal!
Later, some media broke the news that the Trail Blazers had been pursuing Turkoglu vigorously since the free market opened. Turkoglu had been in Portland for almost a month. The Trail Blazers had treated him well and the contract was almost negotiated, but Turkoglu had not agreed to sign the contract and was waiting for a higher offer. In the end, the Trail Blazers could not match the offer from the Raptors, so Turkoglu headed north without looking back.

Zhang Yang checked the salary situation of the Trail Blazers and found that the Trail Blazers are a potential beneficiary of the 'rookie bonus'. Roy, Aldridge and Oden are still on rookie contracts. Most of the junk contracts from the 'prison team' era and the contracts that had to pay salaries after buyouts ended after the end of last season. The total salary has dropped to more than 5100 million, freeing up 861 million in salary space.

Based on this starting salary calculation, the most the Trail Blazers can offer Turkoglu is a five-year, $5 million contract, while the Raptors' starting salary for Turkoglu is $5096 million. The gap of less than $930 may not seem large, but it is impossible.

The signing of Juwan Howard should have been just a verbal agreement for the Trail Blazers, and they will get an exception after the salary cap is filled... It seems that there is no need to split the middle class now.

Zhang Yang feels that the most tragic thing about the Trail Blazers is that they only had eyes for Turkoglu, and after being tricked, the other three small forwards they had conditions to compete for in the free market and the trading market, Artest, Marion, and Caron Butler, have all found their next home.

This is quite fun. There are conditions for enjoying the rookie bonus, but the duck in the mouth can fly away.

However, Zhang Yang has never heard that the Magic intend to renew Turkoglu's contract. After the Magic offered a 4-year, $3200 million contract extension during the All-Star Weekend and it was rejected, there has been no news about it. Is this an extreme reflection on the 90s' policy of keeping foreign players and abandoning domestic players? Can't they all stay?

He remembered that Howard renewed his contract with the Magic last summer and signed a 361+3 contract like 1. There might be more fun to come. Without Turkoglu, the Magic's system was half ruined.

Within two days, the Magic management answered Zhang Yang's doubts and traded for Carter from the Nets using players such as Alston, Tony Battie, Courtney Lee and expiring contracts.

He remembered that Carter seemed to have partnered with Howard.

The news about the trade stated that Carter averaged 20.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game last season, and his salary next season will be 1630 million, and 1730 million the season after that.

If another team performed such an operation, Zhang Yang would be confused and feel that it made no sense. He would not be able to guess what the purpose was and would not see the rationality. The Knicks wanted McGrady, so at least they had a 2010 plan to clear up salary space... But the team that performed such an operation was the Magic, and he was not surprised at all.

...

The Wizards' demolition ignited the free market that had been dormant for more than a month.

Many teams have been slow to act because they want to take advantage of the Wizards. Caron Butler and Jamison, who average 20+ points per game and can play without the ball, are both popular.

Some media revealed that the Raptors made an offer to Turkoglu at this time because their original target was Jamison.

The Wizards have already decided on the next two teams, and teams with salary space have begun to make moves.

Marvin Williams received a three-year, $3 million offer from his former team, the Hawks, and the Cavaliers, who had the right to renew his contract with his parent team, chose to match it.

Bibby took a pay cut to renew his contract, and with some of his mid-level contracts expiring, the Hawks freed up salary space. After failing to dig back Marvin Williams, they signed Jamal Crawford from the Warriors for 2 years and $1900 million.

The Pistons offered Villanueva, who averaged 5 points and 3500 rebounds per game last season, a five-year, $15 million contract, but the Nets did not match.

The Hawks used a one-year minimum salary to poach former No. 1 pick Joe Smith from the Bulls. The Bobcats were rejected in the competition and Joe Smith bluntly stated that he was unwilling to join the team that had just defeated him.

热火队用1年1000万签下上赛季在尼克斯队打替补场均10.2分的大Q，据传多兰打电话问热火队卖游艇的老板“你疯了吗”，尼克斯队给的续约报价是2年900万。

The Lakers won the competition with the Spurs and signed veteran center Antonio McDyess with a two-year, full mid-level exception.

The Spurs turned around and signed Theo Ratliff, also a veteran shot-blocking champion from the 95 class, with a minimum salary.

The Suns defeated the Hornets, Jazz, and Bulls in the competition and signed free agent center Channing Frye with a five-year, $5 million full mid-level salary.

Gooden refused to renew his contract with the Celtics. The Mavericks split the middle class and signed Gooden for 1 million a year. The Mavericks' total salary reached 300 million, surpassing the Cavaliers' total salary of more than 9872 million and topping the salary list.

Matt Barnes failed to renew his contract with the Warriors. After disappearing from the public eye for a while, he suddenly joined the Magic with a one-year minimum salary...

Zhang Yang trains every day and goes fishing on his days off. He feels that the feeling of fishing after winning the championship is very different from that of fishing after being eliminated. In his spare time, he will also pay attention to the free market and eat some melons.

There was no movement in July. Artest to the Mavericks was considered a popular transfer. Zhang Yang thought that this summer was over and it might be the summer of middle-level players like Jack and Pietrus. He didn't expect that so many famous players would change teams later.

Occasionally he would get news about his own team, like rejecting Marbury, being rejected by Joe Smith, and having already agreed on a minimum salary with 01 veteran Earl Watson, and had offered him a big offer, but the Pacers came in and snatched him away with a one-year offer of $1 million... He didn't care too much about it. The team already had 300 players on the roster, and the 14th was a substitute. As long as he didn't encounter a situation like the Mavericks last season, it didn't really make much difference whether he had the player or not.

What made him more curious was the Lakers. After failing to win the championship, they only made two attempts this summer. After their plan to recruit Artest was destroyed by a mad scientist who wanted to "harm others even if it was not beneficial to himself", there was no news about them for a long time. In the end, they only made two attempts to snatch McDyess.

On the Bobcats side, before signing Marion, there were many strong players who wanted to join, such as Rasheed Wallace, Jamario Moon, Anthony Parker, Malik Allen, etc., but their shooting guard and power forward positions were very full, and the positions with potential risks were point guard and small forward. With a clear goal, they rejected all of them.

There should be no fewer people who want to curry favor with the Lakers than there are on their side, but the news about the Lakers' tryouts and signing rumors is not as much as the news about Kwame Brown and Gasol's "weight loss showdown."

In July, Kwame Brown lost 7 pounds and Gasol lost 11 pounds. Kwame Brown lost 13 US dollars to Gasol, and the money was donated to a local stray animal protection organization, which also made headlines.

Confused, Zhang Yang looked up the situation of the Lakers in the early years of the century, and then looked up the situation of the Bulls in the 90s, and found the answer.

The OK dynasty and the Bulls dynasty have one thing in common - as long as there are enough players, it's enough.

The lineup characteristics of the three dynasties are very similar. Except for superstars and supporting cores, players in other positions are mostly specialty players.

There are some differences between them and functional players. Functional players focus on a certain aspect and have NBA rotation level strength.

As for those three dynasty teams and the current Lakers, some players may not be able to continue in the NBA if they change teams, but they look pretty good in the triangle offense system.

For players like Vujacic and Shannon Brown, if they were transferred to other strong teams, no one would know how to use them. Their shortcomings are too great, and they can only go to bad teams to improve their stats. They will fade out of the NBA after two or three years. But during the Lakers' championship period, they were the main rotation players.

Zhang San: Maybe this is why the Zen Master can easily build a championship-contending team with superstars?
Time flies and it is now the end of August. As the salary space of each team is gradually used up, the heat of the free market has gradually cooled down and the grass has begun to grow again.

As for Zhang Yang, after the "Compton Curl King Training Camp" ended, he joined the "California Iron King Training Camp". The trainer was still Tim Grove, but the players who trained with him changed from Ronaldo, Erha and Xiaofei to Kobe, Ariza and Kidd.

On the 23rd, he went to attend Kobe's 31st birthday party. It was a deserted party. Apart from Kobe and his wife and their two kids, there were only a few people including the Garnett couple, Kidd, Ariza and his girlfriend, Ronaldinho, Erha, Xiaofei, Zhang San and Xiao Bitch, and then the Filipino maid and the chef.

At the party, Kobe invited Zhang Yang to train with him. Zhang Yang was a little surprised, but he still agreed. He certainly didn't want to miss the opportunity to learn techniques in person. The trainer was still Grove, and assisting Grove in training was Hamblen of the Lakers, who was also the top trainer Zhang Yang wanted to learn from.

Why did Zhang Yang call the training camp of the four of them the 'California Iron King Training Camp'?
Kobe Bryant is a strong contender for the all-time record for worst scorer.

He, Zhang San, doesn't want to admit it, but he has averaged 10+ iron production per game for two consecutive seasons and has been regarded as a strong contender for the next iron king of history.

Although Ariza was not traded to be the boss, he still earned the name "Iron Ariza" after this year's finals. He made 5 of 50 shots in 18 games of the finals, which was so iron that it was intoxicating.

Kidd, the hidden iron king.

Few people noticed that Kidd is the second most missed shot point guard since the 21st century. If Iverson is regarded as a shooting guard, Kidd dominates the list of missed shots for point guards. In the seven seasons before joining the Lakers, he averaged 7+ missed shots per game. In his peak missed season of 8-02, he averaged 03 missed shots per game.

Kidd's total misses have now exceeded 8800. Based on his average of 08 misses per game in the 09-4.4 season, if his average of 8 shots per game does not continue to decrease, he is expected to join the " Miss Club" before retiring.

On August 8, after the "Iron King Training Camp" began, Zhang Yang knew why Kobe asked him to train together.

He was thinking about stealing the skills in front of him, but this guy had the same idea as him! He didn't even bother to act, but just watched him train from the side!

During the four weeks of special training from the end of July to the end of August, Zhang Yang did not practice anything new. He just put into practice the adjusted techniques of 7 Ke, the details of 8 Na's pick-and-roll offense, and some small tricks he learned from Pierce, Bibby, Joe Johnson, 4 Ke and others in the playoffs, as well as the offensive details he adjusted independently in the face of a number of strong defensive teams in the playoffs... and so on. He asked Grove and Engelland to help him perfect them.

With so many things to do, it was obvious that four weeks was not enough, but Grove could only be scheduled for four weeks at most during an offseason, and he had other clients. Many clients could only be scheduled for one or two weeks in a summer, but he could be scheduled for four weeks, and the first two times were purely for the sake of Boss Joe's face.

Therefore, in the "Three Volume King" training camp, Zhang Yang mainly asked the two trainers to help him improve the new techniques and skills he had learned in the playoffs and those he practiced based on his feelings.

Zhang Yang felt that it was worthy of the legendary trainer Grove and the top NBA shooting coach Engelland. In more than 20 days, they helped him to come up with a relatively complete training method, allowing him to develop and improve these new things in a more organized manner during independent training.

Little did they know that the two trainers’ hair was falling out in clumps every day those days… Hey, why do I say “again”?

When Grove arrived at the 'Iron King Training Camp' and saw Zhang Yang there again, he almost wanted to skip work!
In this training camp, Zhang Yang asked Grove to help him perfect what he learned from Section 35 and Section 40. The first thing he practiced was the techniques from Section 35... and then he was spotted by the old blacksmith?

In this situation, Zhang San really has no way to deal with the old blacksmith!
Even if he practices alone in a single room, after he finishes practicing, Kobe will ask Grove what he practiced, and Grove will definitely teach him.

There is no so-called "intellectual property" in basketball technology. Trainers help different people develop and improve technology, and they are also accumulating work experience so that they can better serve the next customer. Having more technical guidance experience is a trainer's selling point.

However, Zhang Yang felt that he was being "pushed and pulled" like this. Although Section 35 taught him a lot, it had nothing to do with the old blacksmith here.

During a break in training, he thought about it carefully and finally got it!

After the first day of training, Zhang Yang found Kobe who was receiving physical therapy after training.

Kobe guessed that Zhang San was here to call him to task, and he had already thought of how to answer - I paid for the trainer, I rented the training hall, you live in my villa, and you can leave if you don't want to train.

He felt like he was just too smart.

But what Zhang Yang said was - "If you stare at me like this and practice secretly, it will be troublesome, right?"

Kobe frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Zhang Yang: "How about this, if you want to learn any technique from me, just tell me and I'll teach you! But I want to learn your back-to-the-basket attack, so it's an equal exchange."

It was very surprising... Kobe was stunned for a moment, and wanted to respond, "It's not that difficult actually. I don't know why, I seem to be able to practice it after watching it once." But it is naturally better to be able to learn more conveniently and quickly.

He responded without hesitation: "Deal!"

(End of this chapter)