I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 308 Concerted Cooperation (Fifth)

In the poor work of last season, Min Congda often felt isolated and helpless.

Among the Los Angeles Clippers' hundreds of employees, the team's players and coaching staff, none of them could make him feel at ease.

If you don't feel comfortable cooperating with him, it's fine, come out from time to time for a backstab, and let his previous efforts be in vain.

Fortunately, Min Congda was optimistic by nature, he carried everything by himself, and faced the bleak situation with an optimistic spirit.

After a blissful November, Min Congda suppressed the team with a big move as the team was about to recover.

Not only that, he also gained an important assistant for his bad work, the crouching dragon on his bad road, Steve Kerr!

After Cole joined the Clippers, Min Congda observed carefully for a period of time, and found that this person was simply his own substitute.

During the training, they did not draw tactics, did not design new training routines, and talked about "sharing", "participating more", and "spirit of sharing" all day long.

The more these words Min Congda heard, the more familiar they became. Isn’t this the big scammer who will engage in Internet sharing economic circles to defraud investment in the future?
At that time, they will deceive many investors and ordinary people enough, and in the end, they will leave a lot of chicken feathers when they run away with money.

However, Min Congda needed such a talent. He valued Cole more and more, and regarded him as his right-hand man.

Cole is not only Min Congda's substitute in offensive tactical design, but also because he has experience as a team manager.

Therefore, Min Congda can also share the pressure and give opinions and suggestions on matters such as team transactions and signings.

In mid-January, the Phoenix Suns, eager to improve their lineup, wanted to complete a deal with the Rockets, using a protected first-round pick and point guard Dragic in exchange for the Rockets' Most Improved Player Aaron Brooks.

However, after Steve Kerr learned about this deal, he immediately suggested that Min Congda use Bledsoe to exchange chips for the Suns.

Cole believes that Dragic is a point guard more suitable for the passing and cutting system, and he can get a first-round pick.

Although Bledsoe is talented, his role in the Clippers' passing system is a bit out of place.

Not tall enough, average field of vision, strong assault ability, poor projection, more suitable for the growth of the rebuilding Suns.

Min Congda asked Cole if he wanted to help his old club, the Suns, and Cole replied straightforwardly, "Yes."

The NBA is a network of personal relationships. There is a competitive relationship between teams and teams, and they will also cooperate with each other.

Some teams will often make deals with each other and pluck each other's wool. Sometimes you pluck mine, and sometimes I pluck yours.

For example, why did Angie get Kevin Garnett from the Timberwolves in 07?
It's not because the Timberwolves' chairman of operations, McHale, is a famous player in the Celtics and is willing to accept the Celtics' chips.

Assuming that the Timberwolves' management leader is a famous Lakers star, then Garnett must have been sent to the Los Angeles Lakers to partner with Kobe.

The NBA in recent years must have been another scene.

Facing Cole's straightforwardness, Min Congda admired it very much, and he likes this kind of sophistication.

In his opinion, engaging in worldly sophistication in the business field is the only way to show off.

Today, he traded the potential Bledsoe for the sake of the world, and tomorrow he will take away Gasol for the sake of the world.

After accepting a garbage contract for the sake of the world, isn't the Clippers' path to failure getting more and more correct?
Min Congda has long disliked Bledsoe, a potential stock.

After Curry was injured and underwent surgery, if Bledsoe hadn't played well in some games, the Clippers would have lost five more games at least.

Bledsoe was originally what the Clippers scouting team wanted in the draft, but was taken away by the Thunder to blackmail the Clippers for a deal.

Min Congda had no interest in Bledsoe, and completed the deal mainly to send Gordon away.

I didn't expect this little guy to play very neatly. The little guard is very talented and very hardworking. It's like playing chicken blood all day long.

It didn't have the lazy energy of Harden and Paul George at all, which made Min Congda very upset.

You play hard every day, practice hard and play basketball, do you want to improve the results of the Clippers?
This kind of player who struggles all day and rolls in does not conform to the Clippers' sustainable development philosophy.

In order to get rid of the traditional model of other teams performing poorly first and then struggling, Min Congda proposed a new team building idea of ​​performing poorly first and not struggling.

Of course, only he knew this idea, and Min Congda was very satisfied to see that Cole could accurately grasp his own ideas.

He immediately agreed to the transaction application and asked Olshey to do it.

Olshey immediately discussed with the general manager of the Suns and cut off the deal between the Suns and the Rockets.

Moreover, through some bargaining, Olshey changed the Suns' first-round lottery protection pick to the first-round top ten pick protection pick.

Because the bargaining chip given by the Rockets is Brooks. Although Brooks was the most improved player last season, he has begun to regress this season visible to the naked eye.

He averaged 19.6 points per game last season, but this season he can only score 11 points with the Rockets. It is not a problem to get the fastest regression after winning the Most Improved Player Award.

Moreover, Brooks is small and thin, and obviously has no potential to tap, so the chip given by the Suns is a first-round lottery protection.

With the strength and situation of the Suns this season, they will definitely not be able to enter the playoffs, so this first round is basically not given.

But Bledsoe is different, a solid potential stock, proved to be very impactful in the Clippers, and the defense is also good.

Coupled with the old acquaintance Cole as a matchmaker, one Dragic is definitely not enough, so the first round was changed to the top ten pick protection.

After getting Dragic, the Clippers added one more European player, and there were only two former South Korean players.

The Clippers' lack of athletic ability in the backcourt has been further weakened, and this transaction has naturally received a lot of criticism.

The "Los Angeles Times" pointed out, "Smart has a tendency to be too obsessed with the so-called team basketball. He is reusing those 'team' players a lot, but NBA and FIBA ​​basketball are different. The most important things here are superstars, talent, physical fitness, and the team. Basketball was never the way to go."

Clearly, stubborn images of the old days still linger in the minds of many.

Min Congda was of course very satisfied when he saw such a report, and he greatly appreciated Cole.

He finally felt that he had found the right helper, the two really had a good understanding and cooperated perfectly!
The only person who was dissatisfied was Mike Dunleavy, not that he thought the deal was done badly.

But the day after the transaction was completed, he received a call from Rockets general manager Daryl Morey!
As soon as the call was connected, Morey said, "I'm Morey from the Rockets..."

Dunleavy was furious and yelled into the phone: "I'm the head coach of the Clippers! Not the general manager! I have no right to make suggestions on the transaction! Don't fuck me!"

After finishing speaking, Dunleavy hung up Morey's phone, and was so angry that he couldn't do this job.

Morey was even more confused. Old Deng, I am looking for you to ask if you are interested in coming to the Rockets as the head coach when your contract expires next season. Why are you so angry at me?
Morey, who was scolded inexplicably, had to turn his attention to other head coaches. The Clippers team is really weird, so it's better not to deal with their people.

You guys robbed my deal, and the head coach scolded me instead, who should I turn to to reason?
(End of this chapter)