First in scoring

Chapter 517 515. A big fish has arrived!
Kobe is a man of action.

The next morning when Zhang Yang arrived at the training ground, he saw Kobe already practicing the most basic skills of post-up play with the help of his trainer and sparring partners.

Seeing him coming, Kobe immediately stopped training, asked him to warm up quickly, and personally helped him with stretching. After the warm-up, he immediately started teaching him back-to-the-basket tactics.

Yesterday the other two iron kings had heard that Zhang San wanted to learn skills from the old blacksmith, so they came early today and watched from the side.

Ariza: "Jason, how long do you think Jack can last?"

Seeing Tiezha's gloating look, Ji Bugong's mouth twitched. What kind of spirit is this!
You can't stand the pressure of the old blacksmith's teaching, and you complain after learning the skills for two days. Do you think others are the same as you? Although the old blacksmith's teaching intensity is indeed a little bit higher, and the teaching requirements are also a little bit higher...

Kidd is not as preachy as he was when he was young. He said, "I heard from Tim (Grove) that Jack likes to study technology very much. He and Kobe should have a lot in common in this regard."

Ariza shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, this is not a question of whether we have common topics. Kobe is a devil. No one can survive training with him."

Kidd: "..."

Back then, when he first saw Ariza at the Nets' draft tryout, he thought there was another Tracy McGrady entering the NBA. Ariza, who had just finished his freshman season and was not yet 19 years old, had height, mobility, jumping ability, strength, and shooting talent...

But this genius, whose physical indicators were exceptional and whose brain was smarter than most players, actually fell to the second round. He was very surprised when he watched the live broadcast of the draft.

He was even more surprised when Ariza failed to gain a foothold in the NBA. It was not until the season before last when the Lakers traded Ariza for a veteran and they became teammates that he understood why Ariza was drafted so low and why he changed four teams in three years.

Ariza finds slightly difficult techniques troublesome, complains when training is too intense, and chooses to play shabby when he is weak and needs hard work... I heard that he didn't make much progress in that one year in college. His techniques were the same after he graduated from high school and after his freshman year. Richard Jefferson was not that difficult to deal with. It's a waste of the physical fitness that God gave him.

During the first three and a half years of his wandering career, Ariza made almost no progress in his skills and basic skills except for his better physical development. This did not change until he became teammates with Kobe. But even under Kobe's dominance, Ariza only focused on the simplest shooting and defense.

Fortunately, Ariza is really talented. After being trained by Kobe for a year, he had already secured a starting position by the middle of last season. After getting a three-year, $3 million contract extension before the start of the playoffs last season, he saw the benefits of hard work and now has a much stronger subjective awareness of practicing shooting and defensive basics.

Some time ago, the management wanted to trade Ariza for Artest. Kidd was not very supportive. After a year and a half of partnership, the Big Three, two centers, and Ariza have developed a good understanding. Ariza is also making continuous progress. Moreover, Ariza, who has played for five years, just turned 5 on June 6. He is bound to get better and better. As for Artest, who will be 30 soon, who knows when he will suddenly collapse. Being suspended for a year at the age of 24 or 30 is a broken foundation. They will be in the championship period for at least the next three years. This trade is not worth it...

Seeing Ariza continuing to watch Kobe teaching Zhang Yang techniques for fun, Kidd was too lazy to pay attention to him and went to practice shooting. At his age, if he wanted to maintain his form, he had to ensure uninterrupted training. The intensity didn't have to be high, but he had to keep practicing.

Kidd was somewhat envious of Kobe's ability to teach Zhang Yang skills, but unfortunately he was not good at scoring. Earlier, he wanted to give Zhang Yang some pointers so that Zhang Yang's playing style would have more of his influence, but after one match in the finals, he temporarily gave up the idea.

It's not that he is afraid of teaching Zhang Yang to be better. In that case, wouldn't it be better for him to stop Kobe from teaching Zhang Yang the post-up game? As for Kobe wanting to learn Zhang Yang's skills, he can just ask Grove for help. On the contrary, Grove can't teach Zhang Yang Kobe's post-up game, because that was something Kobe learned from Olajuwon and Skyhook, and it's even different from Jordan's post-up game.

The main thing is that for Zhang Yang at the moment, even if he learns it, he won’t be able to use it.

The Bobcats have Felton and Millsap, so Zhang Yang does not need to take on too many tasks in organizing offense. In terms of supporting, Zhang Yang is not like Ji Bu Gong and Wolf King, but is similar to the support in tactics like Luke Walton and Rick Fox. Zhang Yang's own playing style is to give absolute priority to shooting.

Kidd is not in a hurry about this, Zhang Yang just turned 21...

As the saying goes, the moon will always be full. It seems that the Bobcats now have a nearly perfect core lineup, with the three young players as the foundation, the two supporting points in Big White Bear and Mi God, one old and one young, and a bunch of contracts for rookies with good defensive talents... But one day the Bobcats will not be able to afford so many talents.

As the salaries of the three young players continue to rise, Millsap will most likely also be able to get a contract worth around 4 million. With just these four people, the salary cap will be filled by then.

The salary situation of the Mavericks is not as severe as that of the Bobcats. The Mavericks have more contracts in the range of 500 million to 900 million. Only Nowitzki, Dampier and Billups have contracts worth tens of millions, and Dampier is about to end his contract.

The salary situation of their Lakers is better. Except for the Big Three, everyone else has the highest middle-class salary. Moreover, now they rarely give veterans long-term middle-class salaries. They all go to young players like Ariza and Kwame Brown. Only this summer, in order to strengthen the center position of Kwame Brown after he lost weight, they gave McDyess two years of full salary guarantee. When Gasol's contract expires, his newly renewed contract with a starting salary of 800 million and 3 million for three years will just expire, and Garnett's new contract of 2700 million for three years that he has just started will also expire. As for Kobe, he will most likely still have a maximum salary by then, but his and Garnett's salaries will definitely be reduced. Even if Gasol gets 3 million or even more by then, the total salary of their four core players will actually be reduced.

The Bobcats' three young players + Millsap are all between 20 and 30 years old, with a high degree of age overlap. Their salaries will get higher and higher. By 12 or 13, the combined salaries of the four core players may have to pay luxury tax.

Not every team is called the Spurs. Gay's early contract extension this summer was surprising. The new contract will take effect in the 10-11 season. The starting salary is 1009 million, and the next three years will be 3 million, 1109 million, and 1220 million respectively, with a total of 1342 million in four years. When the rumor of Gay's early contract extension first came out, public opinion generally believed that even if Gay could not get the starting salary of 4 million, the maximum salary of 4680 million salary cap, he would have to get between 6000 million and 1500 million, and should be able to get a 1200-year 1300 million or 4-year 6000 million contract.

One day, Zhang Yang will face the same situation that other veteran superstars have encountered - he has to do everything by himself, just like he had to organize the offense and serve as the team's top scorer for several years.

He would have probably retired by then, leaving him with plenty of time to leave his mark on the most talented basketball player of all time!
...

Zhang Yang was not used to Kobe's teaching. The teaching methods for the 35 subjects he remembered were simple and rough. He just asked him to memorize everything and then was left alone.

The 31 subjects in front of him were taught in a very detailed manner, starting from the most basic position movements, and taught step by step. Even if Zhang San knew it, Kobe would make him review it again, and he would refine the movements bit by bit, and even let Tim Grove assist him to adjust to the most suitable "standard movements" for him. Zhang Yang was very curious about what Kobe had experienced in the next few years to change his teaching style so much?
As soon as his curiosity emerged, he put it aside and focused on studying. With the teaching combination of Kobe and Grove, he couldn't waste such a good opportunity.

However, this also aroused his competitive spirit...

On this day, Zhang Yang studied with Kobe for an hour and a half in the morning, trained for an hour and a half under Kobe's supervision, and conducted his personal shooting training in the afternoon.

When he returned to Kobe's villa at night, Zhang Yang even postponed the mahjong game with the little bitch, Vanessa, and Kobe, and spent several hours preparing...

The next morning, it was Zhang Yang's turn to teach Kobe, and he taught him even more carefully than Kobe taught him!

When Kobe was teaching, he emphasized the standardization of movements and details. Based on this, Zhang Yang also wrote a "teaching plan", explaining why each technical change is made and what to do under what circumstances.

Kobe Bryant exclaimed, "WTF?" and immediately decided to work overtime that night...

It's December.

Tieji and Tiezha maintain a regimen of training three days and resting one day. They will occasionally miss half a day, but the training time is basically maintained at about three hours on training days. They have to stay in the training hall for five or six hours a day to have such a long training time. This is the off-season, and they can definitely be called diligent.

But every time the two left the training hall, they felt a sense of guilt, and this guilt came from the other two iron kings!

Zhang Yang works out six days a week and rests one day, from nine to five, and spends nine hours in the training hall every day! Kobe always wants to be the first to do anything, arriving half an hour earlier than Zhang Yang and leaving half an hour later, and staying there for 9 hours a day! Meals are delivered by the little bitch and Vanessa in turn! The two of them train for an average of more than five hours a day...

Kidd is okay. He has played for so many years and has seen all kinds of people. He has seen a lot of hard-working people. It's just that these two guys stand out.

Ariza was in a bad mood... Ariza: How come it's different from what I imagined? There are people who can persist in the teaching of the old blacksmith. Not only that, Zhang San also gave the old blacksmith a wave of strength in return!
These two people actually competed to see who taught better and more detailed!
Originally, because of the loss in the finals, Ariza disliked Zhang Yang. He didn't talk to Zhang Yang on Kobe's 31st birthday. He didn't talk much to Zhang Yang during the training together in the first few days, but after this period of time, he really gave in.

People are indeed different.

The happiest person is Tim Grove, whose workload has been greatly reduced...

Zhang Yang enjoyed learning and teaching. He found that teaching others, especially when one wanted to teach well, had many benefits. He reviewed the techniques from the very beginning and the most basic level, and had someone practice for him, a player who had mastered the basic skills of those techniques, and he benefited a lot.

...

In a blink of an eye, it is mid-September, the "Iron King Training Camp" has entered the second half, and the offseason is coming to an end.

Throughout the first half of the month, apart from rumors about trades for superstars like James, Bosh, and Stoudemire who could opt out of their contracts and become free agents after next season, Zhang Yang did not see any trades, and the trading market was even quieter than in July.

You may not even see one free agent signing a day, and most of them are minimum salary or two-year exceptions. The largest contract is Glen Davis' renewal of a 1+1 team option contract with the Celtics for $1 million per year.

In April, because Drew Gooden injured his ankle, the Celtics had already secured the fourth place in the Eastern Conference, so Gooden was directly sidelined to recover from the injury. Big Baby Davis started for a month and exploded right after he came on, first scoring 4 points, then 24 points in three consecutive games, then after a slump in two games with 3 points and 19 points, he exploded in two consecutive games, scoring 5 points and 8 points, and 22 points and 21 points in the last two games, averaging 12 points and 14 rebounds per game in a single month.

The performance of that month made Big Baby's confidence soar. After being eliminated from the playoffs, he rejected the two-year, $2 million contract offered by the Celtics and asked for an annual salary of more than $600 million. The Celtics chose to implement the qualification clause and retain the parent team's priority renewal right. Big Baby entered the free market and received many tryout invitations from teams, but after learning of his asking price, the teams withdrew one after another. It is true that he averaged 500+16 per game in a single month, but he played 7 games throughout the season and only averaged 76 points and 7 rebounds per game, which means that before April, he probably only averaged 4+4 per game. The market price is 5 million a year, but this is because he just ended his sophomore season and is only 3 years old, so he has room for growth.

After wandering around in the free market for more than two months, Big Baby ran back to the Celtics in shame and signed a contract extension.

This made Dabaobei a laughing stock in the media, but Zhang Yang felt that Dabaobei was quite courageous, had a way out, and was in a position to strive for more money, so he must give it a try.

Gooden has long made it clear that he does not want to stay in Boston to play. The Celtics' only capable inside players are Josh Smith, Al Jefferson, and Glen Davis, and the rest are the likes of Scalabrine.

As long as the offer from other teams to Big Baby is not too outrageous, the Celtics will most likely choose to match it. If they offer a bigger contract, Big Baby can still escape from Boston. At worst, he can go back and get a one-year qualifying contract... What's the big deal about losing face? Only those who work hard can win.

Zhang Yang thought that this summer should be like this. The biggest events of this offseason should be the Mavericks signing Artest and Caron Butler, the Cavaliers getting Jamison for nothing, and Turkoglu playing tricks on the Microsoft tycoon... But at night, Boss Joe made a phone call that stunned him...

Big deal!
The Bobcats sent Mike Miller to the Trail Blazers and Brad Miller to the Bulls, and in exchange for the Big Shaq in a five-team deal!

(End of this chapter)