Chapter 278 [Mid-term transactions, wretched managers]
On the 14th, the Suns played back-to-back at home against the Magic.
Magic star McGrady is currently the league's scoring champion, averaging 30.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game. His popularity soars and is expected to be elected as an All-Star for the first time in his career.
However, the overall strength of the Magic is very poor. Summer Magic introduced the "Rain Man" Sean Kemp, and the "Glass Man" Grant Hill in the team. They have completely broken the league in terms of bad contracts and are no longer solved.
After the game started, the two "template camp" rookies of the Suns faced the current fat camp, and staged a good show of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, killing Camp on the beach.
Kemp is now similar to Haslem's size, and his movement speed is slower than Haslem, and he cannot defend against pick-and-roll. After Magic point guard Armstrong was blocked, Guo Xu could get a chance to get a phone call immediately, just move sideways and move two steps to get a quick stop and jump shot.
Kamp switches to Guo Xu, and the Magic will die even worse. Guo Xu takes two steps to find a free throw to the middle and makes a dunk. After the inner cover from the side, power forward Pat Garriti switches to defense. The inner and inner cutting force attacks the basket basically ends with a dunk.
McGrady couldn't cooperate with his teammates. His style of playing was to fight one-on-one, attracting double-teams to assist his teammates. Faced with the interference of Marion's long-arm, McGrady's shooting percentage was not high, and no matter how many individual scores were, it was futile. He took advantage of his high shots.
Hill played in this game. After two consecutive seasons of reimbursement, his physical fitness declined sharply. He could no longer change direction and breakthroughs as he did back then. He could not take advantage of the second-year Joe Johnson.
A funny behind-the-scenes footage appeared on the court. When D'Antoni called the timeout, Magic substitute point guard Jacque Vaughan ran to the Suns to eavesdrop. Guo Xu didn't drive him away when he saw it, and held Vaughan's shoulder and listened together.
Eavesdropping on the Sun tactics is useless. D'Antoni's tactics translated into vernacular, "Everyone rushed up, you're blind."
The people who can run together are very powerful, and the regular season is especially good. After three quarters, the Suns led by 25 points and the game entered garbage time early.
Guo Xu did not play in the final quarter, and scored a double-double with 31 points and 11 assists in a total of 30 minutes, with extremely high efficiency. Five players in the Suns scored in double digits, Stadameier scored 20 points and 7 rebounds, Nene scored 17 points and 6 rebounds, Marion 16 points and 14 rebounds and 3 assists, and Joe Johnson scored 13 points and 5 assists.
After this game, the Suns players received two days of rest and went away to play against the underdog Hawks on the 17th.
The media predicted that the Suns would continue to win consecutive games. The Hawks were nothing special. They ranked outside the playoffs with 10 wins and 13 losses. The Suns played crazy offensively and scored 110 in two consecutive games.
On the afternoon of the 15th, manager Brian Colangelo called Guo Xu and D'Antoni to the office.
"Two, I want to discuss the transaction with you. It is not easy to send Chakalidis away. There are only two teams who are willing to ask him. I want to ask which person you want."
D'Antoni asked: "What are the two teams? Tell me about the situation."
"One is the Mavericks, they are willing to send small forward Walter Williams," Brian said.
The Mavericks are eager to trade a center. They started off well and now their record has declined. Center Lafrenz's data this season has dropped to 9 points and 5 rebounds, and he will be out of the game with a knee injury last week for 6-8 weeks.
In 2002, after Lafrenz became a free agent, the Nuggets gave him a 7-year, $70 million contract. However, the Nuggets did not make a sucker for too long. In the middle of the season, they gave Lafrenz to the Mavericks through a trade. In 27 games he played for the Mavericks, he only had 10.8 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks.
Guo Xu shook his head. "We can't exchange the peak of the meat shield center for a veteran who is about to retire. He has no use at all. Where is the other team?"
"The Grizzlies are willing to send out swingman Gordon Kirisek, who is also a substitute. Unfortunately, only these two companies want to trade." Brian sighed.
D'Antoni smiled and said, "Then let's change to Kirisek. At least he has rich experience in European games and can still shoot three-pointers. Jason, what do you think?"
"Just him, you can play if you can shoot three points." Guo Xu agreed. He is quite satisfied with this swinger, and Bichakalidis is suitable for the Suns.
Yugoslav Kirisek is 198cm tall and weighs 95kg. In 1999, 11 people were selected by the Mavericks and traded to the Spurs. Then he kept playing in Europe. The Spurs were impatient and traded to the Grizzlies for a second round pick in 2004. This summer, he joined the Grizzlies.
Unlike Guo Xu's previous life, the Grizzlies' lineup has changed a lot, mainly based on inside offense, and outside players are not responsible for holding the ball and have no right to play. Kirisek's position is very embarrassing.
In the summer, the Grizzlies used Swift, the second-place player with super athletic ability, to exchange for the Magic's swingman Mike Miller. With the swingman Weisri Person, Mike Dunleavy and other swingmans, Kirisek had almost no chance to play, and averaged only 9 minutes per game, scoring 4 points, 1.4 rebounds and 0.5 assists.
Not appearing does not mean that he has no strength. In Guo Xu's previous life, Kirisek performed well as soon as he entered the league and was selected into the second team of the All-Rookie Team. His starting speed is average, but he is good at jump shots at the emergency stop, outstanding three-pointers, and competent as a substitute.
The Grizzlies introduced Chakalidis to enrich the team's defensive tactics. Both Gasol and Randolph are suitable for playing forward rather than center. No matter who plays a guest center, they cannot protect the penalty area well. Find a center with a shield. When you encounter a team that is good at attacking the basket, you can send it to the court to the top.
In the eyes of the Grizzlies management, Chakalidis is still very good. After all, he is cheap and can play the role of the Jazz's high-paid center "Big White Bear" with an annual salary of 1 million yuan.
After talking about the transaction, Brian laughed and said, "There is another thing I want to discuss with you. I have come up with a way to let us know some of the other party's on-site response tactics."
"What?" D'Antoni and Guo Xu both spoke in unison, feeling that this matter sounded incredible.
Seeing the Magic Player running to the Sun and eavesdropping on the tactics, Manager Brian suddenly got inspiration.
It is too easy to find that players eavesdrop on tactics. If fans on the sidelines eavesdrop on tactics, can the opponent see it?
Brian told his thoughts that when the Suns were playing at home, they would arrange a staff member who knew the ball to watch the ball behind the away team's seat. When the opponent asked to suspend the adjustment of tactics and substitutions, try to eavesdrop and edit the mobile phone text message to D'Antoni.
The audience seat is right behind the visiting team's players' seat, and it is easy to place an undercover behind the head coach. The home team generally does not sell season tickets at this position because all teams are worried that fans will provoke the visiting team's players. As long as the trouble starts, the home team will definitely be fined.
Brian is really good at doing small movements behind his back, which is his favorite thing to do. As a reborn person, Guo Xu was stunned after hearing his thoughts.
Chapter completed!