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Chapter 263 [The future is dim, big waves wash the sand]

The Suns cannot conquer the world with just a few young people. The management actively signs in the free market and wants to find two more outstanding helpers for Guo Xu. Unfortunately, the capable freelancers are unwilling to join, and there are no well-known veterans to "hugg" the thighs in the future.

Even Magic substitute forward Timon Williams, who is not fast enough to hit the ball, look down on the Suns. When the two teams gave the same offer, they chose to join the 76ers.

The Cavaliers' substitute power forward Brian Skinner, who had 3.4 points and 4.3 rebounds last season, made the same choice. The Suns' manager asked him why? He said he felt that the Sixers were more promising than the Suns.

It is indeed the case with the card lineup. The 76ers Trident Iverson, Van Horn, and Coleman have proved that they have the ability to score 20+ points, and the two No. 1 picks and one second place. The defender Snow has excellent defense and stable organization, and McGee leads the substitute and has a balanced offense and defense.

What does the Suns have? Two rookies in 2002, one rookie in 2001, even the eldest and second were rookies in 2000 and 1999, and the rest were the marginal players and veterans from last season.

Judging from the lineup configuration, no one thinks they can make the playoffs next season, so naturally no one is willing to come.

Manager Brian Colangelo was anxious and one big shot. As the new season approached, he wanted to go out with two watermelon knives and put the knife on the free agent's neck to force them to sign the contract.

There are only two years left for Brian, and his father Jerry has already discussed with him. If he can help the Suns rise in these two seasons and make it to the playoffs, it will prove that he is versatile and let him take over as his boss in the future.

If the Suns continue to be at the bottom of the record and there is no improvement, Jerry will sell his shares to the team's small shareholder and partner Robert Savel, who will be competing for the position of general manager of the US national team in two seasons.

Guo Xu was invited by Jerry, and has laid a solid foundation for his son. If he can't even poach a few supporting players, what qualifications are he qualified to be a boss if the manager can't do it well?

Brian cheered up and continued to contact the player's agent. He had to make up a 15-man lineup.

Veteran defender Bursher Davis looked down on the Suns and joined the Pistons with a minimum salary.

Bucks substitute forward Darwin Hamm looked down on the Suns and joined the Hawks with a minimum salary.

Even the Hawks can successfully compete with the Suns because they look very strong in lineup, with four major attackers Terry, Hardaway, Glenn Robinson and Raheem. The Hawks previously sent the blue-collar insider Theo Ratree to exchange for the Bucks' star forward "Big Dog".

When he saw the Hawks' current lineup, Brian wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet. If he had gone to the Bucks to trade before, he might have exchanged the "big dog" Robinson with Hardaway, but now he only exchanged for Kukoc.

Robinson and Ray Allen became the new enemies of the NBA. After parting ways, they began to speak ill of each other, and had been aggravated for a long time.

Although Robinson, Ray Allen and Cassel are known for their "Three Musketeers", in fact, no one of the three is convinced by each other. The Bucks have no real core and are always disorganized. This is an important reason why they cannot achieve results.

The fuse was Ray Allen, who had open conflicts with coach George Carl and team boss Robinson.

Carl has always been disgusted with Ray Allen's style of playing and wants to make him tougher, Ray Allen is still unwilling to change. Carl once publicly mocked Ray Allen as a "Barbie doll". He cares more about whether he is beautiful than winning, and Ray Allen said that Carl is too arbitrary.

Robinson was originally the boss of the team, and Ray Allen's growth led to the boss' dispute. The two did not give in to each other, did not pass each other on the court, and had no cooperation. In 2001, the Bucks, which were still in the Eastern Conference Finals team, became a lottery team in 2002. Ray Allen said Robinson was lazy and independent, and Robinson counterattacked that Ray Allen was the only one.

Although Ray Allen looks like a gentleman, he actually has a very good relationship with his teammates. He is not in line with Liu Shao. He even openly fought with Robinson and Tim Thomas during training.

Brian can guess now that the Bucks will definitely trade Ray Allen in the near future, but unfortunately the Suns can no longer take out their chips.

As the "big-name" players in the free market sign one by one, the media increasingly feels that the Suns' future is dim. Experts believe that their inside line is too poor, and apart from the new players who lack experience, they are veterans who cannot defend, and they cannot play in the new season.

Even if Guo Xu has great ability, he is only on the offensive end. If he can't defend himself, how many games can the Suns win in a season?

Brian also believes that if this continues, Guo Xu will definitely be alone, but he cannot find good players to join in every position.

In this era, power forward Tim Thomas, who can shoot three-pointers, can sign a 66 million contract for 6 years. Swift, the second-tier player in the Grizzlies, is regarded as a treasure, and ordinary chips cannot be exchanged. It is a dream that the Suns want to sign an excellent libero insider.

What's worse is that Guo Xu currently has no qualified point guard substitute, which is too unreasonable and seems to be incompetent.

After thinking about it, Brian came up with a good way to satisfy Guo Xu, and also poached those poor free agents in the market and asked Guo Xu to decide who to poach.

The target designated by Guo Xu himself, if he can't play well in the new season, he will not be able to express his dissatisfaction. What kind of results the team can achieve depends on the strength of the core. In this way, Guo Xu will not blame the manager for inaction, and it also seems that Brian respects the opinions of the team's core.

Brian is a person who likes to do small things. He has done a lot of things like this in Guo Xu's previous life and lost his job because of it.

When Brian was the president of the 76ers in 2018, he was revealed by the American media that he had multiple Twitter trumpets in his hands, and he used these trumpets to criticize NBA players and his peers, including his own people of the 76ers, such as he criticized former 76ers general manager Sam Sinki, and disclosed some medical information about players Okafor, Embiid, and Fultz that should not have been disclosed.

After this incident was exposed, the entire NBA was shocked. The 76ers launched an independent investigation and found that these accounts were indeed used by Brian for a long time. Then Brian's reputation was seriously affected and he was forced to resign from the 76ers.

On September 15, Guo Xu was blowing the air conditioner in the apartment and surfing the Internet, he received a call from Brian.

"Hey, Jason, are you busy now?"

"Hello, Brian, I'm not busy, I'm at home, what's the matter?"

Brian said straight to the point: "There are three players in the team that have not been confirmed yet, so I want to discuss with you to see if you have any free agents you want to cooperate with. If so, I can contact their agents and let them participate in the team's training camp to play preseason. If it is appropriate, sign the contract. Do you have time to study this?"

"Would you like to listen to my advice? That's great, is there a free agent roster?"

"Yes, I can send it to your email. If you decide to call me again, just choose three people." Brian smiled. When he saw Guo Xu so happy, he knew that his goal had been achieved.

"I will definitely choose someone as soon as possible..." Guo Xu said his email address.

Brian wanted to use this method to make Guo Xu happy, but he didn't know that what Guo Xu wanted to do the most was to participate in the team's signing plan. However, he was just a newcomer and was embarrassed to take the initiative to propose it.
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