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Chapter 13 Dumas’s Attention
"Head, the draft report for the joint trial has come out."

At about ten o'clock in the morning on the second day of the joint trial training, many scouting directors and general managers of NBA teams received text messages from their scouts one after another.

For the future of the team, in order to find suitable rookie candidates in the next draft.

The general managers of most NBA teams unanimously went online and opened Nbadraft, the official website of the NBA Draft.

Although all NBA teams have their own scouting system, there is still a considerable gap between scouts and scouts.

In this day and age, the vast majority of NBA teams have not yet enjoyed the dividends of NBA globalization.

Therefore, the wages and abilities of team staff are usually relatively low.

The position of scout has a lot of connections, and the level of most team scouts is actually not as good as the experts on the draft network.

What's more, the draft.com has first-hand information on joint trial training, and can compare players of the same type horizontally through big data to draw more objective conclusions.

Compared with NBA scouts who focus on one or two rookies, the draft report of the Draft Network is more comprehensive and more convincing.

Of course, from the perspective of the general manager of an NBA team, the rookie report on the draft network is only of reference value.

What can really influence their final decision is the team trial after the joint trial.

At that time, call all the favorite rookies to the team for trial training, and compare them to know who is stronger and who is weaker.

However, it is different from those teams that have finished their regular season and playoff schedules and are preparing for the 03-04 season earlier.

Now the general manager of the team who still has to prepare for the Eastern and Western Conference finals can only focus most of his attention on the conference finals first.

The team's rookie trial training can only wait for the playoff journey to be completely over before it has time to start.

Of course, as the general manager of the team, you need to grasp the general direction at all times. The future is as important as the present!

Now that the draft report for the joint trial has been released, it is reasonable to take the time to take a look at it and look for the team's future possibilities.

The general manager of the Detroit Pistons-Joe Dumars, after receiving the text message from his subordinates, he quickly logged on to the draft network to find suitable guards and inside candidates for the Pistons.

Not long ago, the Pistons just reached the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, during the first and second rounds of the playoffs, the Pistons also exposed many problems.

The first is the height of the inside line. Daben's athletic ability and defense ability are very good, but he is too short.

Encountering a tall insider who is good at low-post singles, it is too difficult for Daben to defend, and he tries his best, but the effect is not very good.

Precisely for this reason, the Pistons' top priority during the offseason is to find a big center with sufficient size and defense, or to pair the team with a second center who is good at single defense.

Only in this way can Ben's defensive and frame-protecting abilities be fully utilized to ensure the strength of the Pistons' defense in the penalty area.

Secondly, the outside defense also needs to be strengthened.

The original backcourt combination of Billups and Hamilton was not too bad defensively, but Michael Curry on the wing needs to be improved on both offense and defense.

Fortunately, Prince, the rookie selected last year, performed very well in the playoffs.

When playing the sixth man, it took up a lot of Michael Curry's time, and both offense and defense can provide a lot of help to the team.

According to this development, after improvements during the offseason, Prince will basically be qualified to serve as the Pistons' starting small forward position next season.

In this way, the problem of perimeter defense will only be on Billups and Hamilton.

Originally, Billups and Hamilton's defense was in the middle of the league.

The problem is that in the previous Eastern Conference semifinals, Billups injured his left ankle, which greatly affected his lateral movement ability and defensive ability.

Pistons backup point guard Chucky Atkins is too short and his defense is obviously not as good as Billups.

During Billups' injury, Atkins played the starting point guard, which directly made the Pistons' perimeter defense full of loopholes and ineffective.

It also takes into account Billups' injury risks and the lack of defense in the Pistons' back line.

Dumars is going to use the Pistons' first-round pick to sign a guard who has both defense and immediate combat power.

Considering that the Pistons traded draft picks with the Grizzlies before, and the Grizzlies are one of the worst teams this season.

This means that in the next draft, the Pistons are likely to have two first-round picks, one in the top ten of the first round and one at the end of the first round.

In Dumars' plan, if the Grizzlies' first-round pick can be used, it would be best to sign Hinrich.

However, considering that in the draft, anything can happen.

In order to avoid being intercepted by other teams, being caught off guard, and no one can choose.Dumas must come up with a few more alternatives.

"Hey, Syracuse University's Asian guards rank so high?"

Dumars is looking for a defender, so he looks at perimeter players first.

Then I quickly turned around and saw that the player who ranked seventh among the outside players in this joint trial with a total of 92 points was none other than Duane, who had previously shined in the NCAA finals.

Because on the day of the NCAA finals, the NBA will suspend the game for one day to avoid the edge.

Therefore, Dumas, who watched the NCAA finals, still has a certain impression of Duan.

Of course, Dumars, as the general manager of the Pistons, also knows the moisture of the draft network.

This is mainly rookies with lottery quotes, and basically will not complete all the items of the joint tryout.

As a result, their various data are not entered into the database, that is, all abilities and total scores are temporarily recorded as 0 points.

The remaining rookies participating in all projects will be compared horizontally through data.

There are a total of twelve abilities, namely athletic ability, body size, defense, strength confrontation, speed, leadership, shooting, immediate combat ability, ball control (rebounding), potential, passing (support), and influence.

Compare outside players with outside players, and compare inside players with inside players.

The full score is 10 points and the minimum score is 6 points.

To put it simply, if there are 30 outside players in the same class of rookies who have participated in all physical tests, then there will only be 10 outside players who can score 6 points for a certain ability.

Some people can only get a full score of 10 points, and some people can barely reach 10 points.

In short, even if you rate the forever No. 21 rookie, his potential is still 6 points.

Having said that, it is also because the lottery show has basically not finished testing all items, so under the existing scoring mechanism, most of the rookies' ability values ​​are more or less high.

A total score of 92 points like Duane has returned to normal levels, almost in the range of 85 to 88 points.

The draft market is basically at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.

Considering that this year is a big year for the draft and the quality of the rookies is higher, the corresponding overall rookie rating will be lower than in previous years.

For example, 14 is the year of the draft, because there are too many talents, and everyone's scores are not high.

No. 99 pick Wiggins scored 100 points, No. 100 Parker scored 92 points, Tanhua Embiid scored 11 points, Gordon, the fourth pick, only had 85 points, and Jokic, the [-]th pick in the second round, even had only [-] points.

In contrast to other young draft picks, Oden scored 106 points, Durant scored 104 points, Rose scored 104 points, Griffin scored 105 points, and Wall scored 103 points.

It can only be said that the rating thing is only suitable for comparison with the same class.

Excluding 13 lottery picks, Duane ranks seventh among all perimeter players in the combine's workouts.Then among the rookies in the entire class, at least they can also be ranked in the top 7.

Considering that the Pistons' own first-round pick just happened to be able to win Duane, Dumars, who had already had a little impression of Duane, was naturally patient and continued to check Duane's specific draft report.

After a while, a call came from the Pistons general manager's office...

(End of this chapter)