NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

This is not the first time that Combe and Riley's conflicts have been made public. The two faced each other a few years ago. At that time, the two sides fought in the ring, which triggered countless big players in the league to stand on their own platforms.

Who would have thought that after a few years, Pat Riley had completely lost the qualification to fight against Kumbu.

This time he stood up and accused Kumbu, but no one in the league shouted out to speak for him.

Konbu's side is amazing. There are currently [-] teams in the league, and the leaders of most of the teams have expressed their support for Konbu, either explicitly or implicitly.

There is no way, Kong Bu usually has too many good relationships, and many people in the alliance are more or less indebted to Kong Bu for favors.

For example, in order to keep his coaching position, the current Lukai coach Carroll Sr., Comb promised Lukai three All-Star players in three years.

For example, the Nuggets coach Mike Malone is the direct line coach brought out by Kumbu. He has the brand of Konbu all over his body.

In addition, Malone's old father, Brandon Malone, recently ran to the Cavaliers as the coach.

He enjoyed being an assistant coach for his son very much, but as a coach, he has the opportunity to be the head coach, and no one wants to miss it.

Of course, the Knicks' Lao Deng will stand by Comb's side without hesitation, but this time he may be self-conscious and did not tear Riley apart, but let his puppet Herb Williams be the microphone.

The Raptors have changed many coaches over the years. The current coach is Sam Mitchell, a man with gold glasses, who is also an absolute direct descendant of Combe.

The coach in the west is actually more closely related to Kumbu.

Comb has spent seven and a half years building a formidable network of contacts in the NBA.

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On the evening of the second day after Riley held a press conference, after he received a million-dollar fine from the league, he suddenly realized the gap between himself and Combe.

He was a bachelor and directly announced his resignation as the Heat coach, letting Stan Van Gundy take over his position.

Of course, Riley did not leave the Heat completely, he is still the general manager of the Heat, and he is still at the helm of the Heat.

Combe is too lazy to care about the purpose of Riley's operation. Stan Van Gundy was once an assistant coach under Combe.

However, he cannot be said to be a direct descendant of Combe, because both the Van Gundy brothers have served as assistant coaches under Riley.

After the deal was concluded, Big Ben flew to Charlotte overnight without any luggage.

Kong Bu didn't call anyone else, but went to the airport to pick up Da Ben by himself.

So many years have passed, and Konbu has met Daben many times, but this time the nature is different. From today on, Daben has once again become a player under Konbu.

After taking Daben back to his residence, Kongbu chatted with Daben about his future career plans.

Daben is actually not young anymore. He was born in 1974 and is almost 31 years old now.

Such an age is not too old for those regular top centers, and they are still at their absolute peak.

But for the very short big Ben, his prime is not long left.

In fact, if the fans think about it carefully, they can find that the peak period of short blue-collar players generally does not last too long.

In the final analysis, the NBA is still a game for adults. The reason why Mutombo can still stand in the NBA at an older age is because he has better physical hardware than Ben.

"Boss, it doesn't matter to me. After I get to the Bobcats, I can completely accept playing as a substitute."

"After so many years, I have made a lot of money, and the contract in my hand has just been signed not long ago."

"You don't need to worry too much about my feelings. I have no problem substituting Shaq."

Big Ben smiled and reassured Kongbu that he didn't need to worry about his appearance.

Kumbu shook his head, "No, old buddy, I exchanged Varejao for you, but I actually planned to let you play the fourth position."

Da Ben's face became dull, playing power forward?This is a bit outrageous.

Today's league has a super large number of top power forwards. The Knicks Twin Towers Big Zhi and Bus are actually power forwards, and then Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, Webber, Jermaine O'Neill, Randolph, Bosh, Jr. S, Bland and Rasheed - Wallace and so on.

The center position is indeed withered, but there is nothing wrong with saying that it is a prosperous power forward right now.

In Daben's view, if you want to play the power forward position, you need to have good offensive ability like the above-mentioned first-class power forwards.

Either have strong shooting ability like Dazhi, Garnett, Nowitzki and others, or have good breakthrough ability like Webber and others, or have strong low singles ability like Duncan and Bus.

And Daben is very clear that he doesn't have these abilities at all, so how can he play the power forward position.

"Boss, don't be kidding, how can I play the fourth position, I can't do it at all."

"Let me back up Shaq. I'm more confident in the center position."

Big Ben quickly shook his head and laughed.

Kumbu shrugged, "Ben, do you know the term second center?"

"Second center? I haven't heard of it. You mean to put two centers on the field?" Da Ben asked suspiciously.

"That's almost what it means. In fact, these four positions in today's league are not considered orthodox four positions at all. They are deformed products of the era of center forwards."

"What is the job of a traditional power forward? It is to help the center forward to grab rebounds and defend, share the defensive pressure of the center forward and reduce their physical consumption, so that they can devote all their energy to the offensive end."

"To put it bluntly, the second center forward can be regarded as the coolie helper of the center forward, who specializes in doing the dirty work for the center forward."

Combe said with a smile.

Big Ben was still full of doubts, this was the first time he had heard of such a statement.

However, he didn't have much resistance when he thought of being a coolie helper for Ao Pang. After all, when he was in Pistons, he did dirty work from beginning to end.

"It sounds really good, but if I play the [-]th position, players like Big Zhi and Nowitzki are not easy for me to guard against."

Daben shyly said that he was too short, and when he met those standard seven-foot shooting players, he couldn't do anything about them.

"Don't worry, don't we still have a Chris Bo?"

"My plan is to let you and Chris take turns to start according to the situation. If you start, Chris will be on the bench. When O'Pang is off the court to rest, you can play the center position and partner with Chris."

"Now I'm looking forward to what kind of scene it will be when you join forces with Shaq."

Comb's expectations will soon be realized, and their Bobcats will face the Toronto Raptors in their next game.

The Raptors' lineup has hardly changed from previous years, and their management is the starting lineup in the hands of death insurance.

Tony Parker, Carter, Kirilenko, Zach Randolph plus a cheap center Lauren Woods.

At home for the Bobcats, Comb dispatched a starting lineup of O'Pang, Ben, Hill, Iguodala and Hinrich.

Big Ben will face Randolph directly tonight.

After the game started on the court, Randolph's face turned green. He originally thought that Bosh was facing up tonight, but he had already planned to back-up Bosh tonight and show his face in front of Kumbu. .

In the end, who would have thought that the Bobcats sent him to face him with a muscle bump like Daben, and Randolph would not have the capital to back up in front of Daben.

After the whole game, he only relied on mid-range shots from the face frame and scored a pitiful 6 points.

Big Ben's defense against a standing power forward like him is much better than Bosh's.

The offensive big Ben is certainly not as useful as Bosh, but he is not completely useless.

Ao Pang's dominance at the basket is too strong, Daben's help can give Ao Pang a chance to jump and dunk.

And even if Daben grabs an offensive rebound, he will still pass it to O'Pang without taking a shot.

After the whole game, Ao Pang smiled crookedly.

After playing for so many years, this is the first time he has enjoyed such an emperor-like treatment. If he had a partner like Da Ben, he would have the confidence to beat Olajuwon's Rockets.

For so many years, O'Pang has not had a decent inside partner beside him. Apart from Bosh now, the best partner may be Robert Horry in the early days of the Lakers.

How can Horry give O'Pang a decent help on the defensive end and rebounding end.

Bosh's situation is similar, he and O'Pang are fighting each other.

After the game was over, Ao Pang looked at his technical statistics and wished he could hug his father and kiss him.

In 30 minutes of playing, Ao Pang easily scored 37 points and 11 rebounds, because he didn't need to consider Randolph's defense, so the physical consumption was almost negligible.

Tonight, Daben scored 4 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks, a very typical Daben-style data.

Even Bosh, who came off the bench, scored 22 points and 7 rebounds tonight.

At 110:90, the Raptors beat the Raptors by a full [-] points.

After the game, Carter, the nominal boss of the Raptors, looked a little unhappy.

Their Raptors have always been regarded as the superpowers in the East these years, but what is more embarrassing is that once they encounter some real hard stubble, the probability of losing is too great.

The reason why Carter is the nominal boss of the Raptors is because Randolph feels that he is the real boss of the Raptors.

The two do not fight each other, and it is not a matter of a day or two. After Randolph was traded to the Raptors, he secretly competed with Carter.

In the past few years, the relationship between the two has not improved, on the contrary, the contradiction has become deeper and deeper.

If the Raptors have a very good record, for example, if they can reach the finals in the playoffs, even if they don't win the championship, this will give Randolph and Carter a thought and let them give up their conflicts and join hands to fight for the championship.

However, the Raptors have no hope of winning the championship at all, and the conflict between the two cannot be suppressed.

Although there are five dark kings in the east, the strongest teams are the Bobcats, Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks. The Raptors are almost meaningless in front of these three teams.

The main reason is that the Raptors lack a decent center. In order to keep the existing starting lineup, the Raptors have no other salary space to sign a center.

After the game, Sam Mitchell, a man with gold spectacles, walked to Combe with a sad face.

"Kong, do you feel that the atmosphere in our Raptors team is weird?"

Comb nodded. How could he not feel this? Randolph and Carter almost pointed at each other's noses and scolded each other after the game.

"Don't ask me what to do, I don't know how to solve this situation."

Seeing that Mitchell wanted to continue speaking, Combe interrupted him quickly.

It's not that Comb doesn't want to help, but that he really has nothing to do in this situation. Even if he is currently coaching the Raptors, he probably doesn't have a good way to reconcile the conflict between Randolph and Carter.

These two are long-established stars with their own ideas and interests.

The current famous stars of the Bobcats are O'Pang and Hill. The main reason is that Hill's character is so good that he has been humbly giving way to O'Pang. Otherwise, conflicts will inevitably erupt between the two.

After finishing the Raptors, Combe led the generals to start the away game. The first game was the Indiana Pacers.

In Indiana, Comb had dinner with Larry Bird, Rick Carlisle and Reggie Miller.

During the meeting, Combe learned with regret that Reggie Miller had already made up his mind to retire directly after the end of this season.

He won a championship under Combe before, and he has no regrets in his career

If it weren't for the outbreak of the Palace of Auburn Hills incident, Miller might still be interested in playing for another season or two. Now that the Pacers are hurting, Miller is tired.

"Kong, why don't you trade Ron over? I feel that the only person in this alliance who can suppress this kid may be you."

Larry Bird said in a joking tone.

The Ron he was talking about was naturally Artest, who caused the Pacers a lot of trouble.

"Larry, don't make such jokes with me, I don't have the ability to suppress Artest."

"And, even if I had, do you think Michael would agree to the deal? Unless he's willing to have his ribs broken again."

Jordan had a bullfight with Artest in the trial before, because of talking trash, Artest lost control and broke Jordan's ribs.

Now Jordan says it is impossible to agree to trade Artest to the Bobcats.

Moreover, Artest was completely suspended this season. How could the Bobcats trade Artest if they want to ensure their consecutive championships.

However, Artest's strength is indeed strong enough. If it is not a character flaw, and there is no need to consider salary, even if Combe takes out Iguodala to trade Artest, it is not a loss.

Under normal circumstances, before Artest was suspended this season, he averaged nearly 25 points per game, and then shot [-]% from the field and over [-]% from the three-point range.

Such an offensive performance, and then has a DPOY-level defensive ability, definitely at the level of an emperor superstar.

It's a pity that his brain is not very easy to use, so not many teams dare to take risks on him.

If Artest had a normal mind, it would be easy to get a maximum salary with his combat power. (end of this chapter)