Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 305 Draft conference, team basketball [Second update, please subscribe]

After winning the championship, Lu Yu returned to Spokane.

Lu Chaoyang has already bought a big house in Spokane, and the two-story building of Lu Ji Restaurant has become a thing of the past.

Lu Yu occasionally passed by there, recalling the bits and pieces of training in this annex.

His breathing method has now been learned almost.

[Host: Lu Yu]

[Water Breathing: 90%]

【Breath of Thunder: 90%】

[Breath of Fire: 90%]

[Breath of the Wind: 60%]

[Breath of the Rock: 27%]

At present, it seems that 90% is the limit of breathing method, at least before the breathing method of wind and breathing method of rock do not reach 90%. After winning the championship, Lu Yu's mentality has also changed a little.

Before, he was eager to prove himself.

After winning the championship, he felt that maybe he didn't need to prove it.

In the past few days, he and Jessica occasionally strolled on Gonzaga's campus. The sunset reflected them in the sky, and the figure running on the basketball court not far away was the green years they could never go back to.

Jessica knew some secrets of Lu Yu, but she chose to turn a blind eye.

Because she couldn't let go of Lu Yu.

Lu Yu also knew that Jessica knew about those things, but he could only pretend he didn't know. Perhaps in his spare time during the offseason, spending more time with her would be the best way to make up for her.

But Lu Yu knew that Jessica was an arrogant girl. If this problem is not solved, it will break out one day.

After walking for a long time, Lu Yu felt that girls were troublesome sometimes. He could take a walk for two hours without resting his feet. Lu Yu, a basketball player, couldn't bear it.

"There, is the stadium where we first met."

At some point, the two walked to the Manhattan Park Arena.

The sky was already full of stars. Lu Yu hadn't eaten dinner, and was even a little sleepy. Just now, when Jessica was not paying attention, he yawned quietly. , Before I could wipe it off, I heard Jessica's words.

"Here's a tissue." Jessica took out the tissue from her bag, with a complicated expression on her face: "You feel something too, don't you?"

"Of course, it's our fond memories."

Lu Yu didn't take the tissue, but held Jessica in his arms: "I wouldn't be today without you, so no matter who I am, no matter what I do, I can't live without you."

Jessica thought that Lu Yu was feeling something, so she lost her eyes. How could she know that Lu Yu was sleepy and yawning.

What's more shameless is that Lu Yu went with the flow and even said, "Jessica, I hope you can forgive me..."

Without further ado, Jessica had tears in her eyes.

The seemingly fierce Jessica finally turned into a docile little sheep in front of Lu Yu.

"You know I'm stubborn, I never want to admit defeat, but every time I face you, I have to back down."

"I cried many times, but I never wanted to cry in front of you."

"Well, as long as you remember, I was waiting for you in Spokane, and it was all worth it."

In this way, Lu Yu felt the stubbornness of Jessica in his arms from the beginning to the helplessness at the end, and also felt that Jessica was wet with tears on his shoulders.

"sorry Sorry……"

Lu Yu can only keep apologizing. He knows that Jessica's crisis has been lifted. As long as he doesn't go too far with other women in front of Jessica in the future, there is basically no problem.

As long as you continue on the path of the scumbag, you will never be able to turn back.

Lu Yu understood this truth better than anyone else.

……

During this time, Lu Yu decided to accompany Jessica.

Even rejected Krause's invitation to participate in this year's draft, so that the incompetent Krause could only grit his teeth and roar after hanging up the phone to vent his dissatisfaction.

Last year's Lu Yu was very obedient and accompanied him to New York, but this year's Lu Yu is actually not coming.

Who does this look down on!

On June 6, Lu Yu watched the live broadcast of the 27 NBA draft.

Unsurprisingly, LeBron James was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers and was booked for the No. 2003 pick that year after James was confirmed for the [-] draft, even though Anthony led Syracuse to an NCAA title and was technically required to do so. More mature than James, but no one doubts that someone will not choose James.

James' limelight is more prosperous than Lu Yu the year before.

People say that he will be the next Lu Yu.

When Cleveland won the No. 25 pick with a [-]% probability, the perfect script seemed to have already been written, as if the script had already been written. The hero from the local town of Akron, Ohio, landed in the NBA to save the Cleveland Cavaliers from the bottom and won the NBA championship. A champion's story.

Everyone knows that LeBron James' name will be pronounced first at Madison Square Garden in New York. The draft is just a passing game for James and the Cavaliers, a ceremony to announce to the league that "the future is here." That's it.

James is wearing a large pure white suit, only 18 years old, he is the protagonist of the little green house.

This suit was made by him with a designer. He thought it would be the most handsome outfit in the draft, but in fact it didn't look very fit.

When he heard David Stern pronounce his name, although he knew this moment was coming, James still acted very excited like everyone who won the 200 million jackpot.

Because it means change!

It means no longer living in a house with a monthly rent of 17 dollars, it means that it will officially enter the NBA world of adults, and it means that the family has undergone tremendous changes.

It means that the name LeBron James is officially written into NBA history!

If Lu Yu was just a fan, he might be excited for James to enter the NBA, but he is now the top superstar in the league, and James is just a rookie, he has absolutely no interest.

Snoopy once proposed to sign LeBron James, but Lu Yu did not refuse or agree. He just asked Snoopy to try it. The result was not what Lu Yu expected, and Snoopy failed.

James, he will not live in the shadow of Lu Yu.

His goal in entering the NBA is to defeat Lu Yu!

He wants to be Lu Yu's old enemy, but what he doesn't know is that in the eyes of NBA commissioner David Stern, the current James is not qualified.

The Detroit Pistons drafted Darko Milicic.

This is thanks to the draft pick sent by the Grizzlies, but the Pistons don't seem to grasp it, and they won't be ridiculed for so long if they pick Carmelo Anthony.

When the Nuggets saw this situation, their hearts were overjoyed, and they chose Little Melon without hesitation.

Carmelo Anthony's face is not good-looking. He originally thought that he was the best choice besides LeBron James. Losing to James, he can only attribute the reason to the fact that he is not Akron's child, this is his only Reasons can be found.

But losing to Milicic left him speechless.

How could this make him quibble?

The Raptors with the fourth pick were tangled. They wanted to choose a big man, but they didn't know how to choose between Bosh and Yi Jianlian.

The styles of the two players are so close.

Personal abilities are also the same.

In this case, it is obviously more suitable to choose Yi Jianlian, who has a larger Chinese market behind him, but the Raptors are different from other teams. His position is not only considering the Chinese market, but also the Canadian market behind him.

As for the analysis of the international situation, I won't go into details here, anyway, Canada has always been the younger brother of the United States, and Lu Yu's previous life, Ms. Meng, was also detained by Canada.

So the Raptors after much deliberation, finally chose Bosh.

Next, the Heat selected Wade.

The Clippers drafted Kaman.

These are no different from Lu Yu's previous life. The difference is that in Lu Yu's previous life, the Bulls got the seventh pick, but now the Bulls don't have a first-round pick, and the seventh pick has fallen to the top ten. The Sonics with the draft pick.

The general manager of Supersonic chose Yi Jianlian without hesitation.

The pick was acquired in the Payton-Ray Allen trade last year, making the Sonics the only team in this year's draft with three top-[-] picks.

They selected Kansas forward Nick Collison and Oregon guard Luke Ridnour with two other draft picks.

This is no different from Lu Yu's previous life.

It's just that the Supersonics' team building idea is definitely different from Lu Yu's previous life. Collison will become Yi Jianlian's competitor. The two rookie awards will compete for the team's starting team by competing for jobs.

Overall, the SuperSonics are a very suitable team for Yi Jianlian in the league.

If you play well, maybe Yi Jianlian will become Durant's big brother in the future.

After watching the first round, Lu Yu saw a lot of players who he hadn't noticed in his previous life. They were all players from the 03 draft. No wonder many fans called the 03 first class the platinum generation.

Like David West, who was drafted by the Hornets this year, this mustache has all the skills and is almost a weakened version of Chris Webber.

There is also Boris Diaw, I don’t know, I thought he was very old. I didn’t expect him to be a player in the 03 class. The guy from France is very sentimental and likes to drink coffee. Perhaps it is for this reason that he will become more getting fatter.

Diaw was selected by the Hawks with the 21st overall pick in the first round.

The Grizzlies selected Perkins with the 27th pick in the first round, and the Spurs selected the Brazilian Lightning Barbosa with the 28th pick in the first round, the man who made Nash's head green.

The Mavericks selected Josh Howard with the 29th overall pick in the first round.

Howard's physical fitness is excellent, and his wingspan and speed allow him to not suffer even against top swingers.And when the dislocation defense occurs, he can also use his physical advantage to interfere with the opponent's interior.

Another fighter.

Lu Yu watched with great interest. In his previous life, many of these players retired, but now they are all young and very different in appearance. The most important thing is that for a Lu Yu who can probably guess their future development experience , This year's draft is indeed incredible.

To know that a player like Josh Howard can fall to the 29th pick in the first round, this is also in 03, and in other years, the top ten is not impossible.

It's a pity that this year's Bulls have no draft picks, and Lu Yu can no longer pan for gold in the sand.

In the second round, several players watched Lu Yu's heart itching.

For example, Korver was selected by the Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the second round.

But soon, news of him being traded came in the draft, and the Nets traded him to the 76ers for only a portion of the cash.

I wonder if this time, the Nets will use the money to pay the summer league team registration fee, and then use the remaining money to buy a printer.

This was the case in Lu Yu's previous life, and Korver's deal was jokingly referred to as "a printer deal".

Also selected in the second round were Mo Williams and Lu Yu's college opponent, Matt Bonner.

In fact, Lu Yu is very jealous of Matt Bonner.

This is a player who plays with his brain, who is very suitable for the current Bulls team, and the two also have some friendship, and it will be easy to get along, but it is a pity that he was selected by the Raptors.

Who left the Bulls without a draft pick?

Klaus, who was stubbornly, just went to New York to go through the motions. He set his sights on the trading market and did not look down on this year's rookies at all.

How does Krause know that there will be many, many future stars in this year's draft.

By the way, Xue Yuyang from the Flying Dragons was also selected by the Mavericks with the 28th pick in the second round. It is estimated that he wanted to buy another Wang Zhizhi.

Lu Yu doesn't know whether Xue Yuyang has the strength to enter the NBA, but after the efforts of several Chinese players in the NBA, there are now Chinese players who have been selected. That way, there is no fight.

As for whether it is a mule or a horse, you have to pull it out to find out.

Lu Yu had an appointment with Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Bartell, and two rookies selected this year, Yi Jianlian and Xue Yuyang.

Xue Yuyang looked very excited. It was the first time he had seen so many players in the news.

You must know that he is not even a national player now, but he played well in the Feilong team. As for how he was selected, Lu Yu did not know.

But being drafted is something to celebrate, and the meal is to celebrate their draft success.

During the meal, Battelle complained that Lu Yu had made him unemployed. His contract with the Spurs ended in the summer and he did not get a renewal, but he had reached an agreement with the Raptors and would sign in the near future.

This is also one of the reasons why the Raptors did not select Yi Jianlian in the draft.

It's not that they don't want the Chinese market, they just want to do it in a quiet way.

Lu Yu chatted with Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Battelle, mostly about some recent deals in the NBA market. Yi Jianlian occasionally interjected. After all, he has been playing in the United States, but Xue Yuyang couldn't understand it at all.

There have been several transactions in the trading market recently, making the superstar group a trend.

In Lu Yu's previous NBA life, superstars grouped together has become the norm, and it has become increasingly difficult to rely on a single star to win the championship.James' brother basketball, Durant's peak shooting, George and Leonard meeting the Clippers, Durant and Irving meeting the Nets, Davis shooting the Lakers, the list goes on.

This was rare in the NBA more than ten years ago. It is very rare to have one or two a year. Most of the stars are cultivated in their own teams.

However, in the 2003-2004 season, there was a wave of grouping in the NBA, and three teams improved their combat effectiveness through grouping.

In the 2003 Western Conference semifinals, the Lakers lost to the Spurs 2-4, ending their three-peat.

The 40-year-old Malone and 35-year-old Payton have not won a championship, and their desire for a championship led them to join the Lakers.

Although Malone is old, he still has the strength of a quasi-All-Star level.

Payton is almost equivalent to the later Chris Paul, and the two are equally good on offense and defense.

Lu Yu felt that these two old guys had no vision at all. In the past life, the championship was the Spurs that year. They had to take the championship to the Spurs.

Even now, it's not appropriate for them to go to the Lakers. It's just right for them to go to the Bulls for the championship!
Unfortunately, in the eyes of Malone and Payton, although the Bulls won the championship this year and defeated the Spurs, the Bulls lost to the Lakers last year. The Lakers are still dominant. With their joining, they will definitely be able to defeat the Bulls. !
Honestly, they're way smarter than Durant.

Of course, the sensation caused by Malone and Payton joining the Lakers at this time is no less than Lu Yu's previous life, Durant joining the Warriors, and people are chanting the NBA finale.

The F4 lineup is unprecedentedly strong, but objectively speaking, this is not a group of superstars. Both Malone and Payton are at the end of their careers.

O'Neal's strong appeal made them willing to take a pay cut to vote.

Malone is in the last year of the contract and has a player option. If he stays with the Jazz, he will receive a salary of $2000 million this year, and he only has a veteran base salary of 150 million to join the Lakers.

But out of his desire for a championship, the 40-year-old Malone decided to fight again, giving up his high salary and resolutely joined the Lakers.

Even someone who is not short of money makes such a decision difficult.

Lu Yu suspected that he was interested in Kobe's wife Vanessa.

Payton joined the Lakers on a $600 million mid-level contract.

The other team that held together was the Mavericks who lost to the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. Wang Zhizhi could only smile awkwardly.

The Western Conference finals fell at the feet of the Spurs.

Such an outcome was unacceptable for Cuban, so he began to look for big fish in the transfer market.

The Mavericks already have a troika of Nowitzki, Finley and Nash.

There is also a bench bandit like Wang Zhizhi on the bench.

Wang Zhizhi is in the second year of the contract this year, and Cuban has implemented the team option without hesitation, which means that he has determined that he will not renew Wang Zhizhi in advance.

He will look at the offers of other teams for Wang Zhizhi in the free market next year before making a decision.

Speaking of the Mavericks' group deal, Cuban first aimed at Antoine Jamis, who averaged 02 points and 03 rebounds per game in the 22.2-7 season.

Then I took a fancy to Anto Wanwalker, one of the Celtics twin stars. This year, Walker is only 27 years old. When he was playing, he averaged 20.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Good data.

The Mavericks formed a roster of five All-Stars in one fell swoop.

The five combined for a combined 5 points per game the previous season.

It looks a bit scary. You must know that Wang Zhizhi, who was on their bench, also played consecutive amazing performances in the Western Conference Finals. He is a quasi-All-Star.

But Lu Yu knows that this team can't do it, and that's the same sentence. Basketball is for five players. There is only one basketball in a game. All five players need the offensive ball. How can the team play?
Another team is the Timberwolves!

The Timberwolves stopped in the first round of the playoffs for seven consecutive years. They were fined for five years of their first-round picks. In addition to the improper operation of the team, Garnett has been without suitable helpers.

The Timberwolves' lineup can basically just enter the playoffs, and it is difficult to go further. Szczerbiak, Hudson, and insider Nesterovic, this lineup has nothing to say.

This summer, the Timberwolves decided to sign, they first set their sights on Sprewell, one of the New York Knicks' double guns, and then traded for "alien" Sam Cassell from the Bucks, the three of the Timberwolves. The head monster takes shape.

Garnett's strength is unquestionable, but he is not the kind of player who can lead the team independently to win the championship.

But he can't stand up against the current big center in a post-up, and he can't compare with Duncan. The outside shooting range ends within the three-point line, and he doesn't have the range and feel of Dirk Nowitzki.

All in all Garnett is well rounded, but not a dominant scorer.

But Garnett is a perfect teammate. He can play his role in any lineup. He has a comprehensive style of play, strong off-the-ball ability, fast walking and good counter-running. Even in Lu Yu's previous life, he was old Big, to the Celtics, his pick-and-roll with Rondo is also one of the Celtics' main offensive methods.

In terms of passing, he is the top of the big men. He is good at picking up rebounds and long passes. He is also good at high-post handovers and through balls.

On the defensive end, Garnett does a lot better than offense. As an insider, he can continuously attack the line. The last such person was Bill Russell.

But Garnett also has shortcomings. It's still the same problem when he comes back. He can't defend against the big center inside.

Now, in order to fight against O'Neal, many teams in the West have hoarded tonnage centers in the interior, but Garnett can't stand it.

A player like Garnett is not suitable for a single core, and he can barely make do with good teammates.

"Let's hold a group, let's all hold a group."

Lu Yu looked at the setting sun outside the window, and the corners of his mouth showed a radian: "You guys in the west are eating hard, anyway, as long as the east doesn't hold a group, I have nothing to do."

Suddenly, he thought of LeBron James, who had just been selected this year, and he had a hunch that one day in the future, he would be as heartbroken as the current Western team.

Or, go to the West before James plays "brother basketball"?

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