Chapter 360: Reason

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With the success of Spurs Ginobili, Tony Parker, Grizzlies Paul Gasol, Mavericks Nowitzki and other European players in the NBA, the league’s scouts, coaches, and managers are increasingly looking at Europe. This virgin land has not been fully developed. Although as early as the ten's, European players have begun to enter the nba and have achieved good results here, such as Kukoc, Petrovic, Schramf, and Sabonis, all have shown outstanding basketball talents in the nba , And became a member of the championship team.
But in addition to these amazing top players, some other outstanding European players have not been able to get too many opportunities in the NBA, especially the white European defenders. No one can really prove themselves in the NBA. Until the Spurs discovered Manu Ginobili, the Argentine demon knife showed an amazing light in the NBA. But Ginobili is an Argentine, and his style of play shows the passion of the American players. For those European-style defenders, it is difficult to find their place in the NBA.
In contrast, tall insiders are much more popular, especially those who are outstanding defensively and have a good pass. They have become the favorite objects of NBA scouts and team managers. Like Bagjani who was elected to the NBA No. 1 pick in 2006, he was also the first European player to become the No. 1 overall pick in the history of the NBA. And unlike Andrew Bogut the year before, he has never played ncaa, not in the United States. Grew up in the basketball environment.
Only from the situation of the first season, Bagjani’s performance on the court is still a certain distance from people’s expectations of the top pick, especially many people position him as the next Dirk Nowitzki, but overall Look at the distance between him and Nowitzki. Therefore, there are still many doubts about the choice of European players. Many teams like to use the second-round pick to select European players. First, the second-round show is worthless, and secondly, many European players cannot come immediately after being elected. They usually have a contract to play.
So, when the 2007 draft came to an end, Fox Leon counted the gains of the Phoenix Suns this year, a Turiaf, a Marc Gasol, a Dudley, and a Brent Barry. It was the Suns who exchanged Split from the Spurs, and by the way, sent the special trade exception from the Lakers to the Spurs.
At the same time, on the day when the draft was over, news came from Phoenix that Jaskovicius, who had previously terminated his contract with the Warriors, decided to stay in the NBA. He signed a two-year contract with the Suns, and the contract amount is still being discussed. . In this way, the Suns brought five players in one draft, and the combination of them would be a standard five-man lineup. The large pens of the paper media have long been hungry and thirsty, and they have expressed that Leon will perform a major operation on the Suns, draft transactions, selection and signing, just forming a new lineup.
However, in this operation, the most controversial thing is to win two European players at once. Except for a well-known brother, everything else is unknown; one has been proven in the NBA not suitable for this. More importantly, in order to complete these choices, the Suns lost their Brazilian Lightning, the best sixth man last season, which undoubtedly made Phoenix fans unacceptable.
So, the day after the draft, Leon and D'Antoni returned to Phoenix together. At Phoenix International Airport, some of the fans waiting for them held up signs in the airport lobby: "Massachusetts Green Ghost, please go back to the East Coast. ""We want Brazilian lightning!""Boston's icebergs will melt in the Nevada desert."
Leon looked at these slogans without anger, but said that these slogans were well written, very poetic, figurative and rich in images. Although Fox-Leon has achieved great success with the Boston Celtics, his coming to the Suns has indeed met with criticism and opposition from many Phoenix fans. Because in the eyes of the Suns fans, the Boston Celtics under Leon is a defensive team even more terrifying than the San Antonio Spurs. They don’t want the Suns, which is a whirlwind in the West, to change under Fox Leon’s rule. Become a dull defensive team.
Fortunately, D'Antoni announced a few days ago that he would stay in Phoenix and assist Fox Leon as an assistant coach. This gives many people a reassurance, after all, D'Antoni is definitely not staying for defense. However, in the draft, the Suns sent away Barbosa and made many fans dissatisfied. In particular, they only got Turiaf and a senior small forward from Boston University. Many fans think there must be something tricky. . And the target was Fox Leon, not Steve Cole.
Under the small hype of the local media in Phoenix, there was this small demonstration at the airport, which was regarded as a shovel for Fox Leon by Phoenix fans. Leon and D'Antoni did not delay much at the airport and drove to the team headquarters immediately. They had to report to the boss and general manager the results of this draft and their views on team building this season. Now is no longer the time to draw a pie and brag about it. After completing a wave of operations, it is necessary to have a practical operating philosophy and team building policy.
Into the conference room of the team headquarters, where the boss Savo, general manager Steve Kerr, team chairman Jerry Colangelo, chief operating officer Rick Wiltz and other top team leaders are all inside. Obviously everyone is waiting for Leon and his team to come back and take their lives, because this draft is basically handed over to Leon and the coaching team, and the Suns' own scout team has basically no effect. Leon can see that Noelle Gillespie, the team's chief scout sitting in a corner, has a sullen face. The scout report he handed over in this draft conference has basically not played any role.
Leon didn’t care about it, because he knew that Gillespie would get used to it one day, just like the player director and chief scout Leon Popper in the Celtics, and finally transferred to the communications department. Assistant Director, I am very happy to do the same.
Look at the boss Savo again. There is no expression. The enthusiasm and politeness that I had when I first became a coach is gone. Capitalists are capitalists. When recruiting you, I can’t wait to kneel and lick your feet. Once you start working for him , If he can't immediately bring benefits for him to make money, he will turn his face and deny people.
Finally Leon glanced at Steve Cole. This guy still had a honeyed smile on his face, showing two charming dimples, lined by his lovely blond hair, and he was a person who really loved him. Guy. Anyway, if there is a problem with this operation, Leon will be the last one. It seems that the thoughts made before have earned the head coach a share, but the idea of ​​losing the general manager is wrong. After all, it was the boss who recruited Cole, and Cole was the one who recruited Leon. Cole can be wrong, but the boss cannot.
It took Leon about five seconds to scan through the three people, and instantly deduced the thoughts revealed by their expressions in his head, and then took five seconds to find a place to sit down. He didn't have any documents in his hand, whether paper or electronic, those things were unnecessary for him. If necessary, he could now recite a Gettysburg speech to the people in the conference room.
Seeing that no one was speaking, Leon cleared his throat, without much nonsense, and started directly: "The draft and the trade have been settled for the time being, and the results must be known to everyone. Before the start of the new season, before the game really starts, I I won’t spend too much time talking about my own team building ideas, because when I say it, some of you will have countless questions. In order to explain these problems, I will have to make countless explanations, and then they will trigger. There are countless questions. In fact, there is only one best way to answer these questions, time and competition. There are only two explanations I have to do now, one about Marc Gasol, I want to say that he will not come this year NBA, because he still has a contract. But my observations of him have started since I was in Boston Celtics, when he was still in Lausanne College, he was a slow and stupid fat man, far less than His brother. After that, he did not stay in the United States, but went to Spain. The reason why I chose him is that he has two points that attracted me~EbookFREE.me~ First, he never called himself Gasol, because of Canada Sol represents his brother, and his jersey always has a mark printed on the back; secondly, this year my scouts watched his ball and sent me photos and videos. He is no longer a slow and stupid fat man. "
Leon speaks extremely fast, but he is clear and concise, and his magnetic voice and firm eyes are more persuasive. Having said this, Gillespie seems to have something to say, but the Suns' drafts have always been the past few years, and then think about the Celtics' drafts, and he has nothing to say.
Leon went on to say: "Regarding Barbosa, he is a very good player. He won the best sixth man last year. It seems a very wrong thing to trade him. But I want to say that Gbagbo Sa is a good scorer and assaulter. If he is a substitute on the bench, I will keep him, but he is the sixth man on the team. In my opinion, the sixth man of the Phoenix Suns There can be one, and that is Steve Nash’s alternative. Obviously Barbossa is not. Steve is 33 years old, and it is unfair to put everything on his shoulders. Of course, some of you will doubt Jia. Skovicius’ ability, that’s normal, but you can’t doubt my ability. My speech is over."
After speaking, Leon closed his mouth, the boss Savor listened for a while, clapped, and said: "Everything is up to you." The whip of the of basketball