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Chapter 181 Contract Year

After the game with the Suns, the team will go to Los Angeles to play against the Clippers after a day off.

After the second day's training, people from Zhang Chen's small group stayed behind as usual for extra training that everyone needed. Now there are a few more rookies, but during the extra training, apart from Arenas, sometimes they will find Except for individual duels, most of the players practice on their own, and the time for extra training varies from person to person.

Both Zhang Chen and Larry Hughes are practicing shooting, but they are not at the same basket.

After practicing for a while, Larry Hughes took the initiative to come over, hesitating as if to say something.

"What are you doing? You look constipated. What's the matter? Don't ask me to give you advice about picking up girls." Larry Hughes's character was a bit awkward, and Zhang Chen was also very casual. ridiculed.

Larry Hughes said with some embarrassment: "Zhang, this season is my contract year."

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Zhang Chen also became serious when he heard this. No professional player cares about this, and he feels that only in this aspect, he has not fulfilled his responsibility as the leader of the team.

"Zhang, you know that Antoine and I are in the last year of our contract. I have to make my offensive data more beautiful. I need more shots. He will definitely do the same. I I think it would be better to tell you."

Zhang Chen touched his chin habitually and fell into deep thought.

As an outside player, his offensive performance is indeed an important criterion for signing a contract. Jamison has been scoring steadily, and now his rebounding ability is also increasing. He is the second in the team. If the Warriors are not very stingy, they should Will give him a maximum salary, but Larry Hughes is more hanging.

Larry Hughes defends very well, but his strength and shooting are always his weaknesses. The key is that the Warriors will almost certainly not give the three stars in the team a maximum salary. His worries are not unreasonable. The statistics are good. At one point, the dollar difference reflected in the contract will be recorded in tens of millions.

He replied seriously: "Larry, I will definitely help you, but the team's victory must be the premise. If the team can continue to achieve good results this season, it will not be good for you to sign a big contract." Less points."

Larry Hughes waved his hand hastily, "Zhang, you misunderstood me, I'm sure I won't mess around, I'm just telling you, I will fight for a high score against a team like the Clippers tomorrow."

Zhang Chen felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Larry Hughes asked him to talk about it, and he was concerned about the team's performance. Otherwise, Zhang Chen couldn't say anything if he played like that in the game.

In this Warriors team, Zhang Chen, Jamison and Larry Hughes must all be very important. After returning home, Zhang Chen also called Jamison and asked him what he thought.

Jamison naturally hopes to get the best contract, but his position in the team is to score and rebound. As long as he does these things well, his contract will not be bad, so he will not deliberately change anything.

But Zhang Chen knew that if Larry Hughes' performance lowered Jamison's score, there would definitely be some unhappiness. He must avoid such problems.

If there is an internal conflict in the team, even if it is not serious, it may be affected at the critical moment of the game. Fortunately, he is the absolute core of the team, and there should be a way to find a way between this kind of thing and the team's victory. a balance.

Whatever the problem, it has to be solved game by game.

On the 4th, the Warriors are a guest in Los Angeles. The Clippers still have ideas this season. Although they still plan to save money for rookies to win the world, the continuous high-ranking drafts have allowed them to accumulate a group of talented young people. This summer, they The No. 20 pick of this session, Tyson Chandler, was exchanged for the Bulls' 10+[-] powerful insider Elton Brand.

Elton Brand is a fierce man with 20+10 in his rookie season, but this fierce man did not lead the Bulls to win any victories, which made the Bulls who are used to winning very unhappy, so this summer the Bulls In exchange for Chandler, the hope of reconstruction is placed on the second of the legendary four talented high school insiders in this session, that is, Chandler and their own No. [-] pick Eddie Curry.

Zhang Chen knew the result, but this deal gave the Clippers hope of hitting the playoffs.

It saves money and can hit the playoffs. The Clippers' operation is also very powerful.

After the exchange for Brand, the Clippers can be regarded as having a large number of generals. Not only do they have five starters who can score in double figures, Jeff McGinnis, Corey Maggette, Lamar Odo Tom, Elton Brand, Olowokandi, and two strong substitutes who can score in double figures, Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles.

Apart from the lack of player experience, there is nothing wrong with it. There is no way to do this. From the main force to the rotation, all players are paid rookie salaries. The experience can only be given up.

After Brand came over, the Clippers also became an inside-oriented team, but outside players also have offensive power. Facing such a team, it is very important to do a good job of defense.

The heaviest defensive task is naturally Jamison's side. Although he and Brand are similar in height, there is a big gap in tonnage and strength. It is almost difficult to defend the opponent, but it is still the same. It's not easy for him either.

This is the value of Jamison to the Warriors, at least they can explode each other.

As for the opponent's other insider, he is the rough guy type that Dampier is not afraid of.

The defensive tasks on the perimeter are similar. With Brand, Odom puts more focus on organization. Zhang Chen has a lot of ways to deal with such players. The biggest problem for the Warriors now is team defense. It's not good for Jamison to play the [-]th position. Fortunately, Dampier's defense ability is improving, and their last weakness may disappear this season.

At the beginning of the game, the Warriors showed their strong offensive power and took the lead of the game.

Then Larry Hughes took the initiative to ask Zhang Chen for the ball. He still had a chance in this game. Although Maggette was stronger than him, he was not as fast on his feet. He still had a certain advantage in the offense.

Since Larry Hughes had spoken before, Zhang Chen would not deliberately stop him.

However, Larry Hughes forcibly increased the weight of the offense, and the result was not as good as he imagined. The main reason was that the opponent's insiders Brand and Olowokandi both had a certain ability to assist in the inside defense. He rushed in very quickly. Easily disturbed, relatively easy to cause mistakes.

In order to reduce turnovers, Larry Hughes simply reduced breakthroughs and increased jumpers.

Even if he also practiced shooting, it is difficult for a player to change his offensive habits so quickly. The effect of his jump shot is not very good. On the contrary, the Clippers seized the opportunity and took advantage of the Warriors' offensive success rate. Not high, successfully surpassed the score.

It was only at this time that Zhang Chen realized that it was not easy for him to adjust his balance. The ball had to move continuously during the attack. Larry Hughes was often a transfer station for passing the ball before. Now that he directly attacks, the ball moves a little The problem, the result is that Jamison also increased his singles when he received the ball, and the Warriors suddenly fell into a state of uncoordinated offense.

After all, basketball is a sport for five people. It's okay if you attack and score. Otherwise, even if Zhang Chen touches the ball more, he still has no way to completely control the situation on the court.

Head coach Dave Cowens also discovered this problem, but every team has this situation. Players are desperate when they reach the contract year, and they can't prevent them from cutting off their money.

But the Warriors' tactics basically revolve around Zhang Chen and the three of them. If two of them have other ideas, the implementation will be greatly reduced.

At the end of the half, the Warriors fell behind by 15 points. This exposed that their inside defense was still not at the level of the defending champions, and that if the players had ideas, they would be greatly discounted if they did not cooperate well. .

"Victory is the future of everything." When the midfielder was resting in the locker room, Zhang Chen expressed his attitude very seriously. He doesn't mind letting the players in the contract year get good statistics, but if the price is to lose, he absolutely disagrees. .

At the beginning of the second half, Arenas had just dribbled the ball across the half, and he was about to pass.

Facing Odom on the defensive end, Zhang Chen quickly started to rush to the opponent's body, and then made a step-back jumper, making a steady hit.

He decided to strengthen his offense. Since it is difficult to adjust, he simply occupies most of the ball. If any player runs out of space, he will pass it out, otherwise he will attack by himself. First win the game and talk about it. - Hughes, let's have a talk.

"Antoine, Larry, you two pay attention to defense. If this kind of defense can win, this is not the NBA." He began to command his teammates loudly. At this time, he had to use his aura to suppress the scene.

"When the Warriors' offense was chaotic, Zhang Chen stood up. Odom's defense is actually not bad, but it depends on who he is defending."

"As long as the Warriors' offense plays well, there is hope to get the score back. In terms of defense, they are still very oppressive to the Clippers."

"The score slowly approached, and the Clippers began to try to attack after a timeout."

"Larry, pass the ball back, enhance running without the ball..." Pass it out, and then pass it back, Zhang Chen can directly shoot and score. Second and third masters like Jamison and Larry Hughes will not refuse to listen.

In the face of Zhang Chen's explosion, the Clippers have few options. They have been changing cores for the past few seasons. There are many talented players, but it is difficult for any player to stand up at the critical moment.

They are good at playing against the wind, but they can't play against the wind, which is their current state.

In the third quarter, Zhang Chen led the team to play hard, and the gap in the score was only 4 points.

(End of this chapter)