Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 308 Power forward, the opening game 【Subscription】

When Lu Yu returned to China, he not only did a trip to China, but also went to Tengxun to meet Ma Huateng.

He is now one of the shareholders of Tengxun, and Tengxun plans to go public next year. After the listing, the market value of his shares will increase exponentially. Therefore, in addition to the two major business territories of the catering media in the United States, Tengxun and Anta in China It is also a very important layout for Lu Yu.

After the meeting, Ma Huateng put forward his own idea, he wanted to start Tengxun Sports.

The most important section is the NBA, and he himself has no relationship with the NBA. He hopes that Lu Yu will help match the bridge and keep Lu Yubai busy. He will take a small part of Lu Yu's dividends as a share capital of Tengxun Sports. Lu Yu holds a 19% stake in Tengxun Sports.

Lu Yu has always wanted to occupy the domestic sports media market, because only by mastering the media can we have enough voice, but now most of the sports media rely on the official, otherwise Wang Zhizhi in Lu Yu's previous life would not have been scolded like this by the Chinese. Long.

Originally, he had already created a website similar to Hupu in China, Sibao, but the gathering of traffic was not a short-term thing. Now that Sibao’s website is still small, it is definitely not as easy as Tengxun, which already has a certain number of users.

But both have to be held in hand.

Because Sibao's users will be more targeted in the future, the forum there will become a gathering place for fans, and Tengxun Sports is more about facing fans who don't like irrigation forums.

After all the discussions were finalized, Ma Huateng saw Bellucci following Lu Yu.

When he was eating in Boston before, he met Bellucci, but he didn't expect to come with Lu Yu now. As a shrewd businessman, he naturally knew that it was not easy, but he didn't say much, just told Lu Yu. Before the company goes public, try not to have negative news. After all, Lu Yu is a shareholder of Tengxun.

Lu Yu naturally knew the powerful relationship among them.

He smiled and nodded slightly.

After two days, Lu Yu waited for Ding Shizhong to come over in Pengcheng, and then met Mr. Ren Zhengfei from Huawei through Ding Shizhong's introduction. When Ding Shizhong had no money to sign Lu Yu, it was Ding Shizhong who Ren Zhengfei lent money, and this facilitated Lu Yu. Cooperation with Anta.

Lu Yu and Ren Zhengfei chatted for a long time, and the two met late. Whether it is in the field of basketball or in the field of science and technology, both of them have the same patriotism.

When this generation is common, there will naturally be a lot more topics to talk about.

Lu Yu also knew what happened to Ren Zhengfei in his previous life, and he also learned about some changes in the communication industry, so he has his own predictions about the future market changes in the communication industry. These predictions made Ren Zhengfei sigh.

"If Mr. Lu was not an athlete, but a businessman, he would definitely be a business genius." Ren Zhengfei commented on Lu Yu.

Lu Yu smiled, he was just foresight.

Compared with the real business giants, he is much worse, especially Mr. Ren Zhengfei who fought against the sanctions of the old and the United States by himself.

At the end of September, Lu Yu went to watch the Asian Championships held in Harbin.

This time, the Chinese men's basketball team lacked Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle and Lu Yu for the first time. It only relied on a few young players, especially Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and Yi Jianlian, who returned from Lu Yu's training camp. It's been like no one else.

Lu Yu also met Xin Lancheng, the leader of the Basketball Association, in the auditorium.

Although Lu Yu in his previous life didn't like this guy, but after all, he had a tough relationship, and now that the men's basketball team has achieved remarkable results, his position will be more stable, so Lu Yu can only put aside his prejudices and chat with him about China The development of basketball.

Xin Lancheng could handle any basketball player, but he couldn't handle Lu Yu, and he even had to rely on Lu Yu to help him achieve better results.

Therefore, the conversation between Lu Yu and him was harmonious.

Xin Lancheng also decided to try the combination of sports and education that Lu Yu said, and solve the problem of talent cultivation from the grassroots level. As for the result, does it matter?
Anyway, in two years, he will be promoted to the General Administration of Sports.

Of course, it is good to have grades, and you can add an honor to your resume. It doesn't matter if you don't have grades, and it doesn't matter if you apply oil on the soles of your feet.

Lu Yu knows that the combination of sports and education is an important step in Chinese basketball.

Only in this way will more and more grassroots training camps be willing to make efforts to train players, and more and more parents will be willing to let their children take the basketball path.

Then came the reform of the CBA.

In the previous life, why did Chinese basketball become more and more watery? Everyone's attention was placed on the CBA league, and the CBA league was constantly restructured.

Later, Yao Ming became the chairman of the Basketball Association. He took the road of combining sports and education, but he reformed the CBA at the same time. If the soil is not improved, it is inevitable to improve the superstructure and cause confusion.

Of course, Yao Ming couldn't do anything at that time. He needed a fierce medicine for his stubborn diseases.

But Lu Yu still has enough time for the Chinese men's basketball team at this time, so Lu Yu hopes to start improving from the soil. As for whether the future CBA will not restrict foreign aid to promote competition as Scola said, or cook frogs in warm water like Yao Ming, All can be considered in the long run.

At the end of September, Lu Yu and Bellucci returned to the United States together, and then went their separate ways.

Bellucci was reluctant to leave. During this time, she felt more and more that Lu Yu was more reliable than other men, at least more reliable than his ex-husband. Although Lu Yu was a scumbag, he was upright and upright, and she was willing to blame Lu Yu.

It can only be said that Lu Yu's mouth was so good, Bellucci was coaxed into confusion.

Bellucci finally left, knowing that staying in Chicago would only cause trouble to Lu Yu.

After Lu Yu came back, he was not idle, and invited Hamilton, Richardson, Artest, Chandler, and Crawford and other Bulls teammates to dinner.

Several people sat together to discuss how to play next season.

General manager Krause tossed for a summer, and as a result, a trade did not happen, and was ridiculed by other teams in the league more than once.

At this time, NBA President David Stern was very upset, because this year's NBA has a trend of grouping, which will make fans pay attention to a few super teams, which is quite important for the development of the small ball market. unfavorable.

The NBA does not rely solely on big cities like Los Angeles and New York to make money. To expand its influence, teams in small cities must work hard to maintain it.

This year's F4 for the Lakers, the Big Three for the Timberwolves, and the five All-Stars for the Mavericks all made him angry.

Only the Bulls in the East comforted him, and Krause didn't know how he would feel if he knew that his inaction this summer had won Stern's praise.

Stern had an idea in his heart, Lu Yu led the Bulls alone against the giants in the west, forming a confrontation between the east and the west, which was also a kind of confrontation.

Only in this way, Lu Yu's image will be raised involuntarily.

Fans all like superheroes. The teams in the west are more like an evil force, and Lu Yu leads the original team and resists hard, which is definitely a good material.

The NBA is a business league. If you want to attract the attention of fans, a topic is a must. If there is no topic, there will be no money.

If the Western Conference continues to hold together, the finals will be meaningless.

Originally, the East and the West existed to set up opposing topics.

If the West has been this strong, the East will be meaningless.

Fortunately, there is Lu Yu.

The Bulls' new season is almost exactly the same as last year, so they didn't even hold the summer training camp, because there are no new players to join, and the team's play style and lineup have nothing to adjust.

If it weren't for the grouping behavior in the West, the Bulls' goal today might not be the defending championship, but to see if they can break the 77-win record.

Lu Yu had discussed with Cartwright whether he could play a power forward, but before Cartwright refused, Claus stood up and said he disagreed.

He thinks Lu Yu is fooling around. With a height of 205cm, he actually wants to play as a power forward. How powerful are the power forwards in the Western Conference? As a defender, can you handle it?

Garnett, Nowitzki, Duncan, which one is not known as the league's first power forward.

What's more, the Lakers and Karl Malone are always getting old, but they can't stand strong enough. Can Lu Yu withstand Malone's elbow?

Seeing that his opinion was rejected, Lu Yu wondered why Claus had such a big reaction, but Cartwright was stunned, because he was standing at a different angle than Claus. What I worry about is that Lu Yu's adjustment will affect the team's record and thus the team's income.

But Cartwright knew that in one summer, the league had changed.

The three teams in the Western Conference made the entire Eastern Conference mourning. Originally, the Bulls were pressing on their heads, and they already felt that they had no chance, but the Bulls were only a star strong in Lu Yu. They had nothing to say, and only one Lu Yu. , Maybe there is a chance, because there may be things like injuries, but if the West does this, even if the Eastern team crosses the mountain of the Bulls, it will still be busy for a season.

Don't talk about them, even if the Bulls encounter these teams, it is also a death!
Who doesn’t know, the Bulls’ inside line is just barely enough, and they won the championship easily last season, but they bullied the Spurs without Bowen, or the retired Robison, and the Spurs and the Lakers have not had much energy to fight, if they change As the Lakers, the Bulls' inside line may not necessarily be able to withstand it.

Not to mention the fact that the West is now in a group, the Timberwolves have made a Big Three, the Mavericks have five All-Stars, and the most annoying is the Lakers' F4. Isn't this the finale?

Even if it's not the finale, it doesn't matter to the East.

Lu Yu chatted with several other people in the team, and they all believed that the team's regular season record this season is not important. If you want to defend the championship in the finals, you must solve the problem of interior strength.

Miller and Boozer didn't feel that what Lu Yu said hurt their self-esteem. They did know that if Lu Yu hadn't kept helping at the small forward position, their defense would have been very tired.

As a head coach, Cartwright is naturally aware of this. He pulled Lu Yu aside: "You are still a small forward in the new season, but I will try to put you in the power forward position. Then we will play like this for a while. Time, as long as the effect is good, it will be too late for Jerry to refute."

For the championship, even if Cartwright offends Krause, he has to try.

The next day's training session, Cartwright tried to get Lu Yu to adapt to the power forward position. Facts have proved that Lu Yu can also play very well at the power forward position. His physical strength and strength are also sufficient. It's just that the confrontation will be slightly worse, and it is enough to face most of the league's interior lines, while Lu Yu's offense will make the players who defend him feel very difficult.

That's the power of a superstar.

In this way, Cartwright can arrange two sets of starting lineups, one is Lu Yu playing the small forward position, and like last season, Artest plays the bench.

Another set is to take Artest to the starting small forward position, Lu Yu to play the power forward, and Boozer to play the bench.

Cartwright tried several sets of tactics, whether it was triangle offense, pick-and-roll offense, or defensive counterattack, Lu Yu could do well in the power forward position.

There was no change in the original team, and even the players were a little confused.

Who knows now that not only has changed, but the core of the team has changed directly. The last time Lu Yu changed, they won 77 wins and the championship. This time they are vaguely looking forward to Lu Yu's performance in the regular season.

The Bulls had some reservations in the preseason. Lu Yu only played 20 minutes per game, and occasionally appeared at the power forward position. It looked like he was rotating to help the defense in the past. It was unbelievable that Lu Yu really played a power forward.

Sometimes Cartwright even lets Lu Yu play as a substitute. Of course, there is no limit to Lu Yu, but he found that Lu Yu found the game very quickly, and he didn't need to look for the state in the preseason, and other players obviously needed to use the preseason. to make up for the lack of a summer.

The Bulls have won all seven of their preseason games.

The last game was against the Dallas Mavericks, but the Mavericks obviously didn't want to show their strength. The five All-Stars only played Nowitzki and Nash, and Wang Zhizhi also played for nearly 10 minutes.

Lu Yu played for 4 minutes in the first quarter and then stopped playing. Then Artest came up to play with a substitute, and then at the end of the second quarter, Lu Yu came up to rest the other main players, and Lu Yu played power forward for a while.

Wang Zhizhi was surprised that the player he defended became Lu Yu.

What made him even more depressed was that he couldn't defend against Lu Yu. Originally, his defense was mediocre, relying on his offensive strength. Let him defend against Lu Yu, it would be better to kill him.

In the past in the training game of the Chinese men's basketball team, he was beaten up by Lu Yu I don't know how many times.

Lu Yu said that offense is the best defense. A formation like the Bulls caught the opponent off guard. Indeed, Cartwright seldom studies on the defensive side. The team's defense this season is better than the previous one. The season seems to be much better.

The reason was that Lu Yu was on the inside.

Even though he's not tall or physically strong, averaging 4 blocks per game in the preseason looks like he's joking.

In the first official strength rankings, the team with the most chance to win the championship is not the Bulls, but the Lakers, followed by the Bulls. Some experts predict that the two teams in this year's finals must be the Lakers and the Bulls.

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The first opponent is the Lakers!

　Only 4000 words today, sorry...

　　
　
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