With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

Chapter 197 I want to be a ball bully

"Wang Chao, is it not appropriate for me to sign this contract?"

After completing the signing of the new contract, Dayao was still a little apprehensive.

4 million in 9000 years, an average of 2250 million US dollars per year, which is equivalent to 1 million Chinese currency!Even for Dayao, who is already the boss, this is quite a fortune.

Of course, Dayao's uneasiness is not because he earns too much money. His annual commercial endorsements can almost reach this figure.

The key is the Rockets' problem. As analyzed by the outside world, the two maximum-salary contracts of Wang Chao and Dayao directly give the Rockets a lot of salary space, and there is no room for signings.

When the Rockets management discussed the contract extension with Dayao, they played the emotional card, hoping that Yao would consider the team's situation and choose to renew the contract with a salary cut appropriately, so as to help the team tide over the difficulties and compete for the championship.

At that time, Dayao actually agreed. With a simple and humble personality, he was willing to sacrifice some of his personal interests for the benefit of the team.

However, his idea was strongly opposed by the Yao team and Bill Duffy. As Dayao's agents, their purpose of existence was to maximize the benefits for Dayao.

Dayao has been in the Rockets for many years and has made great contributions. It is foreseeable that this contract will be the last big contract in Dayao's career, so it is natural to strive for the maximum amount.

The Rockets management, who can't do work on Dayao's side, can only find Wang Chao, hoping that Wang Chao can lobby from them and persuade Dayao to choose to cut his salary.

However, on Wang Chao's side, they also hit a snag.

"Salary cut? Why do you want to cut salary?" Wang Chao's attitude was very clear. "You can try to ask Dayao to ask the price in the free market. I believe that many teams are willing to offer him a maximum salary. Whether it is personal strength or the huge Huaguo market interests behind him, Dayao is completely worth it. Renewing the contract with a maximum salary, I will not persuade others to cut their salary just for the ridiculous excuse of the team's victory."

Salary cut?What are you kidding?
Wang Chao will not now, nor will he agree to the so-called salary cut in the future.

To put it bluntly, the NBA is a commercial league. Everyone is here to make money. The championship and team honors are all fake. When the players are old and no longer competitive, more than 90.00% of the teams will show no mercy. Sweep the players out, or even leave the team as a bargaining chip deal.

The relationship between players and owners like Nowitzki and Cuban is very rare in the league, and even Cuban is only good for Nowitzki alone. He is also good for Nash, Terry, etc. for the Mavericks. The players who have played are not so good.

Leaving this aside, what's wrong with Wang Chao and Dayao, as Hua people, squandering the money of American capitalists in the United States?Even after earning the money and going back to China to donate more to Hope Primary School, it is more realistic than talking about loyalty and team honor with these capitalist vampires.

What's more, taking a step back, Dayao cut his salary to free up a few million salary space. What kind of qualitative change can it have on the overall strength of the team?

As a time traveler, Wang Chao has brought his foresight ability to the extreme. In Wang Chao's opinion, the current Rockets lineup is quite good. After a little break-in, let Leonard, Butler and other rookies exercise in NBA games After a bit of tempering, and the bonus effect of Wang Chao's sparring potion, the Rockets will become the strongest team in the league in at most one season, bar none!
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After Dayao renewed his contract with the Rockets, the Rockets' roster has reached the level of 14 people.

5 defenders: Aaron Brooks, Courtney Lee, two natives of the team, and Jimmy Butler, Isaiah Thomas, two newly drafted rookies, plus Korver who was traded for Scola you.

Among them, Aaron Brooks is worth mentioning. Originally, Brooks should be used as a bargaining chip. After the 09-10 season, he was traded to the Suns in exchange for Dragic.

However, due to the butterfly effect brought by Wang Chao, Dragic was intercepted to the Magic, and the Rockets did not have Kyle Lowry in the lineup, so Brooks did not face being replaced by Lowry after the injury and was replaced by the Rockets Abandoned situation.

After the contract expired this summer, because of the lockout, Brooks did not immediately reach a contract renewal agreement with the Rockets. The former chose to go to the CBA to collect money as in the original history.

After the lockout ended, the Rockets, which were seriously short of point guard positions, chose to recall Brooks and offered a 2-year contract of 600 million yuan with an average annual salary of 300 million yuan.

For a point guard who has had a serious injury risk in the past two years, this contract is not bad.

Of course, Brooks is no longer strong enough to serve as the main point guard, but with an annual salary of 300 million, it is not a particularly bad thing for this guy to exist as a spot-up shooter. Brooks, who will return to the NBA in the future, can maintain his three-point shooting percentage at 38. % to about 40%, but it is still barely passable, although the defensive end is completely at the level of a black hole, not much better than Thomas Jr.

Five forwards: Wang Chao, Kawhi Leonard, Chandler Parsons, Les Budinger, Patrick Patterson.

There is nothing to say about the striker position. Budinger and Patterson are two aborigines whose salaries add up to less than 300 million. They can be regarded as high-quality and cheap bench substitutes, while Leonard and Parsons are future prospects at the small forward position. Main rotation players.

There are four players at the center position, Dayao, George Hill, Omer Asik, Hashem Thabeet.

At the center position, Wang Chao is not very satisfied with Thabeet.

As the No. 513 pick in the league's well-known history, Thabeet does not have any combat effectiveness, and his future career will not improve. However, such a garbage player has an annual salary of 500 million US dollars. Second only to Wang Chao and Dayao, 13 higher than Korver's [-] million.

Thabeet's contract has two years left, and it will not expire until the summer of 13. Wang Chao certainly cannot bear to have such an expensive and worthless player in the team, but after asking around in the free market, this guy has always been No one cares, even if a team is willing to take over, it requires at least one second-round pick before they are willing to take over.

Therefore, Wang Chao can only keep this guy in the team. After all, even if the amnesty regulations are used to lay off Thabeet, the team still has to pay this guy. For the current total salary has exceeded the salary cap, but the luxury tax As far as the Rockets are still far behind, whether or not to cut Thabeet is only related to the team's 15-man roster.

The Rockets currently have 14 players on their roster, so it's okay to keep Thabeet. After all, this guy is 2 meters tall, and he is quite intimidating when he looks at Yao on the left and right on weekdays.
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On December 12, the Rockets officially took photos for the new season.

All [-] players of the team were present, and during the filming process, Wang Chao and Dayao stood in the C position without any suspense, and Wang Chao occupied even more space than Dayao.

This can't be helped. Although Dayao is the benchmark figure of the Rockets, the newly joined Wang Chao is the real hope for the team's rise. The achievements and status of the two in the league at this time cannot be compared.

As Wang Chao's senior, a representative figure of Huaguo basketball, and a big brother-like existence, Wang Chao must be very respectful to Dayao. He said before that the reason why he joined the Rockets was to help Dayao win the championship. Dream fulfillment is one of the important reasons.

But outside of Dayao, if Wang Chao wants to establish prestige in the team, or in other words, establish to everyone that he is a ball bully, he must listen to his prestige.

This is still very important, especially in the next new season. Although the team has players with outstanding potential such as Leonard and Butler, they still need a period of time to grow and experience honing. The shortened season, for the sake of Dayao's health, he can't expect the opponent to give him too much help in the game.

Therefore, before the start of this season, Wang Chao has roughly decided the team's tactical play system... To put it simply and directly, for the Rockets in the new season, Wang Chao is going to imitate the Rockets' style of play in the Harden era, with extreme possession of the ball The concentration is in his own hands, completely taking over the offensive system of the entire team.

In the craziest season of Harden's time with the Rockets, the usage rate of the ball reached an exaggerated 40.5%. Looking at the single season in history, it is second only to Westbrook's 16% when he averaged a triple-double in the 17-41.7 season.

Almost all the ball power was concentrated on Harden alone. As a result, Harden averaged 36.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game.

That season, the Rockets finally ranked fourth in the Western Conference with a record of 53 wins and 29 losses. Compared with the previous season's 65 wins, the Rockets' performance was much worse than that of the previous season. Disagreements and other factors led to consecutive defeats, and they were once ranked at the bottom of the Western Conference. It was Harden's superb performances that dragged the Rockets out of the quagmire abruptly.

那个赛季哈登砍下2次60+得分，9次50+得分以及28次40+得分，疯狂的得分表演让整个联盟都为之震撼。

And Wang Chao intends to imitate the future Harden and use his personal scoring ability to drive the entire team forward.

This is not impossible. From the perspective of scoring ability, the current Wang Chao is definitely stronger than Harden in the 18-19 season.

During his four years with the Magic, Wang Chao could easily average 30+ points per game, but the Magic had a lot of scoring points. Turkoglu was there in the early days, and Jamal Crawford was there in the next two years. Germany and other players with the ball.

After all, the team is not owned by Wang Chao alone. Even if he is capable, he must give other players opportunities to play and perform. This is a very simple reason, just like Kobe and James last season. The ability to score 30+ or ​​even higher, but in fact, both of them averaged only about 25 points per game. They both put more energy on assisting teammates to score and improving the team's overall offensive ability.

But in the next season, Wang Chao will not have any worries in the Rockets. Judging by the combat effectiveness of the team's current young lineup, it will be easier to concentrate all the ball on him alone. win.

"Just right, this is a rare opportunity. You can take this opportunity to brush up those breakthrough conditions with 100 ability points as much as possible."
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On December 12th, Christmas Day, the NBA officially started. On the first game day, the league arranged five games, namely Heat vs. Celtics, Clippers vs. Warriors, Bulls vs. Lakers, Magic vs. Mavericks and Thunder vs. New York Knicks.

The Rockets' first game will be played on the second day, December 12.

The league's staff who arranged the schedule were indeed geniuses. The Rockets' first game was to fly to Orlando for an away game against the Magic.

Rockets vs. Magic, Wang Chao's return to his old club is indeed full of gimmicks.

On the 26th, the Rockets arrived in Orlando by plane.

"Boss, let me carry your bag for you."

Before getting off the plane, Leonard rushed over to carry Wang Chao's bag.

On the other side, Butler and the others also familiarly helped Dayao carry the bag on his back.

It has long been an unwritten rule for the rookies who have just joined the league to carry bags and water for the veterans, and even Dayao, who was the number one pick at the time, was no exception.

But the difference is that they are willing to carry bags for Wang Chao and Dayao.

After all, there are very few rookies like them. Before they officially joined the team, they had already established a relationship with the boss of the team and trained together for several months.

At that time, Leonard and the others had already identified Wang Chao as the eldest brother, as well as the eldest brother Dayao who Wang Chao would call Brother.

But even so, a few days ago, when the team officially reported, they finally saw Wang Chao's domineering on the court.

At the first meeting, after the head coach McHale and the newly promoted team captain Dayao finished their speeches respectively, it was Wang Chao's turn to speak.

But Wang Chao's speech was short and direct, but everyone couldn't help holding their breath and widening their eyes.

"Hi everyone, we are going to fight side by side in the new season. Some of you may not know me very well, but it doesn't matter. Just remember to give me the ball in the game. I will lead you to win and win. champion."

mad!Crazy!
But no one would question the authenticity of Wang Chao's words.

The championship, MVP, FMVP and scoring champion honors are the confidence for Wang Chao to say this.

In the short training days after the team assembled, the Rockets players also gradually realized Wang Chao's detached position in the team.

The team's training arrangements and matters were first drawn up by the assistant coaches, and then submitted to the head coach McHale for review. However, after the approval, they were finally given to Wang Chao. Chao questioned the content of the training, and the training plan would be modified according to Wang Chao's requirements.

This TM is even better than the head coach!
Since then, all the players have reached a consensus that it is okay to mess with anyone in the team, but Wang Chao must not be messed with!
After the team checked into the hotel where they were staying, head coach McHale called Wang Chao and Dayao to his room to discuss the starting list for tonight's game.

"Wang, what do you think of the arrangement of the starting roster?"

McHale handed the starting list to Wang Chao very naturally, and the corner of Dayao's mouth twitched slightly while watching.

McHale's coaching style opened his eyes to a veteran who has been in the league for nine years.

It was the first time he saw a team head coach so weak when facing players.

Whether Dayao's first NBA head coach Rudy Tomjanovich, second coach Jeff Van Gundy or later Adelman, they all have their own ideas, and no one is as good as McHale. weak.

In less than half a month of contact, Dayao has already begun to seriously doubt whether a character like McHale can really control the locker room?
Wang Chao took a look at the starting list.

This starting list should be drawn up by McHale and the coaching team.

The starting point guard is Brooks who has just been recruited from the CBA. He has performed very well in the past few months in the CBA and has maintained a relatively good state. It is only natural that he will start the game.

The shooting guard is Courtney Lee.

Last season, Courtney Lee played 81 games with the Rockets and averaged 21 minutes per game. He scored 8.3 points and made 40.8% of his three-pointers.

At the shooting guard position of the Rockets, there are Kyle Korver and Jimmy Butler.

The former's performance in the Bulls last season was similar to Courtney Lee's, but he did not have the defensive ability of the opponent's side-shifting perimeter. This is why McHale decided to let Courtney Lee start after consideration.

As for Butler... the first-year rookie is too young for McHale.

Starting small forward Kawhi Leonard, the difference in draft position is indeed a gap in strength. Leonard's static talent advantage makes him significantly higher than Butler in terms of defensive evaluation.

Moreover, at this stage, Leonard is also more accurate than Butler in three-pointers. After Wang Chao's hard training in the summer, he is fully capable of starting.

The power forward is naturally Wang Chao. Although McHale is also skeptical about Wang Chao's ability to be a power forward, this is Wang Chao's initiative before, and he has no way to change it.

There is no suspense about the center. As long as Yao stays healthy, the Rockets' starting center cannot be someone else, especially in this game against the Magic. Yao's favorite thing to do in the league is to eat, sleep and play World of Warcraft.

"Okay, the starting list is as good as this."

Wang Chao nodded and said, "Although the Magic are the defending champions, they are actually very easy to deal with. They rely too much on three-pointers. As long as our outside players can block the outside shooting space, then Dayao will hold Howard inside and force them Take an inefficient mid-range jumper and win the game easily."

McHale: "..."

Will things really be as simple and easy as Wang Chao said?At least he and the assistant coaches don't think so.

Every time they see the current lineup of the Rockets, they see no hope at all. Except for Wang Chao and Dayao, the Rockets are all role players or rookies who are not very strong. Two people, can such a rocket team have combat effectiveness?

Regardless of the lack of Wang Chao in the Magic, Jamal Crawford was snatched by the Clippers who had just acquired Chris Paul through a multi-player trade with a three-year 3 million contract, but they introduced Kevin. Martin and Sharad Lewis, even if their strength has declined, are still one of the favorite teams to win the championship in the new season.

Just a few days ago, ESPN announced the team strength rankings for the new season. The defending champion Magic ranked fifth, second only to the Heat, Bulls, Spurs and Lakers, and slightly stronger than the Celtics.

The Rockets, who got Wang Chao, only ranked ninth in the strength list, ahead of them were the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Clippers.

This is reality.

(End of this chapter)