NBA: Full Jordan

“Jeff, what about the little one? I want to invite him to my house for dinner. ”

Early in the morning, Patrick Ewing, the core of the Knicks team who lives near Flushing in Queens, called head coach Van Gundy’s office and pulled back the latter’s bad job of trading for the team.

“I heard that I was training in retreat and kept in the training gym, but we don’t know very well.” Van Gundy pushed the list of deals aside and focused on the phone.

“Wow, our little one is so hardworking.” Ewing praised it from the bottom of his heart.

“Yes, he came back from summer league and started training. Well… He’s probably the hardest working rookie I’ve ever seen. Van Gundy couldn’t help but smile when he thought of Yang Ming, who scored 101 points in a single game in the summer league.

Yang Ming’s talent and offensive ability, Van Gundy has nothing to say at all, but he has to pick a fault, that is, his defense.

In the four games of the summer league, although Yang Ming scored high points in consecutive halves, his opponent also scored a lot of points from him. Four games, four opponents down, averaging 20 points per game.

If it weren’t for his shocking high score performance, covering up the past, maybe he wouldn’t have faced one-sided praise.

Van Gundy, mentored by Pat Riley, is a person who likes to study defense, and his knowledge of offensive tactics is very lacking. He prefers tough defensive blue-collar workers to offensive players.

For example, Larry John, their mom who is about to offer a deal to the Charlotte Hornets.

Last season, Auntie averaged 20.5 points, 8.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, and although the numbers were not as good as the best second season, Van Gundy still liked it defensively.

The only headache is that Aunt is not tall, only 198cm, which is as tall as his favorite rookie Yang Ming.

However, he is tough on defense, good at hand-to-hand combat inside, and is also a good rebound-grabbing player, averaging 3.1 frontcourt rebounds per game last season.

Such a tough, attacking striker, Van Gundy naturally wants to trade.

Especially when you miss Jordan and miss the best period of free agency, Auntie is the best addition to the Knicks.

As for Yang Ming’s weak chicken defense at this time, he believes that as long as he is adjusted, he will also be a convincing defensive ability in the future.

“That’s a shame, I still want to meet this funny little guy in person right away.”

As a team leader, it is necessary to have a good relationship with the new person in the first place.

After knowing that the team had signed the Wonder Kid who could score 101 points in a single game in the Summer League, he wanted to meet it in person.

“Maybe I can pull him out of the gym.”

Van Gundy is very supportive of Ewing’s approach, and if Yang Ming wants to quickly establish himself in the Knicks, befriending Ewing is the best choice.

Since joining the Knicks as a top pick in the ’85 season, Ewing has been a mainstay of the team and a defensive gate on the inside. When Jordan built his dynasty, he was always the most favorable challenger to the Bulls.

However, the overall strength of the team is not good, and it has not been able to get a bargain on the Bulls.

“Forget it, Jeff, wait until he comes out of retreat, I don’t want to disturb his interest.”

Ewing refused, and after a few words with Van Gundy, he hung up.

How can it be disturbing?

Van Gundy smiled silently.

The pillar of their team, not far from the border between Brooklyn and Queens, faces the Long Island Strait, known as the Gold Coast. Drive onto the highway and it takes less than half an hour to get to Manhattan, and it takes less than forty-five minutes to reach Madison Square Garden Arena.

It’s not far from Manhattan, it’s a tourist destination, and he believes Yang Ming will love it.

At noon the next day, the Knicks broke out that the management swapped two-meter-and-one forward Anthony Mason Jr. with Larry John on a first-and-go basis.

Mason was a rookie selected by the Blazers with the No. 3 pick in the summer of ’88, and was the core of the Knicks’ outside defense that reached the Finals in ’93/94, averaging 14.6 points, 9.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists on 42.2 percent shooting last season.

After handing over this chip, the aunt who was exchanged for it had a better shooting percentage, 46.7%, but had a certain three-point projection ability.

The defensive ability of the two is actually similar, but compared with Mason, Auntie’s technical characteristics are more delicate and better at attacking.

Beginning with the Pat Riley era, after several seasons of failure, management had to consider breaking up the original Finals lineup. And this transaction is a pain that must be experienced, especially in the case of signing super rookie Yang Ming, it is necessary to break up the original formation structure and re-run-in.

Anyway, they are all new people, simply long pain is not as good as short pain, add more.

As for Detroit Pistons’ rising star Alan Houston, the Knicks chose to abandon the pursuit in order to cultivate Yang Ming and avoid a conflict between the positions of the two.

Houston is a free agent this summer, starting with the Pistons first-round pick No. 11 in ’93, and has improved significantly in three seasons and has become a star to be reckoned with.

He averaged 19.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game last season, and averaged 2.3 three-pointers per game, shooting 45%+42%, which is quite good.

If there is no Yang Ming appearing, then choosing him instead of Jordan is a good object.

Unfortunately, just because of Yang Ming, he missed the Knicks, which is quite hurtful for the defectors who shouted last season that the non-Knicks would not marry and break with management.

Just as the Knicks completed the deal between Mason and Aunt, a figure appeared at the door of the Knicks training gym. This man wanted to enter the training hall but could not get it, and got into an argument with the security guard guarding the door.

“Get out of here, even if you are this year’s top show, we can’t just let you in.” The security guard scolded the visiting Iverson.

“Hey, bro, I just want to go in and talk to your player Yang for a while?” Iverson was very unhappy, but the two security guards were five big and three thick, burly, he felt a little unbeatable, he could only shout unpleasantly.

The security guard hesitated a little, and he said: “But Yang has already said, except for us people from Nix, no one can enter casually, and I can’t do it.” ”

Iverson was speechless, he didn’t expect that after driving for several hours to find Yang Ming, he was actually played a big name.

He has always been the only one who plays big names, which turn is someone else’s turn?

But today he met a ghost.

“Well, you go in and inform him, I’ll come to him.” Although Iverson was unhappy, he chose to retreat.

The security guard looked Iverson up and down, looking at this rookie who was dressed up avant-garde and still had a big gold chain around his neck, and he didn’t understand why he came to Yang Ming before the new season started.

Could it be that these two are brothers?

He struggled for a moment, but finally asked Iverson to wait for a while, and turned around and walked into the training gym.

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