Champion Rules

Chapter 3 003: A Little KG + A Lot of Moses Malone (Please Read!)
After Lynch completed a dunk over the tallest mountain on the team, Boshko suddenly bent down and started tying his shoelaces.

He untied and then tied his shoelaces, which had not been loosened, three times to avoid Durovitch's judgmental gaze.

The great Arnold Jacob Auerbach once said, "Anyone can mess up the draft."

This sentence means that everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

But he never said anyone would mistake Shaquille O'Neal for Kwame Brown!

In Boško's description, Lynch seemed only fit to play in the Serbian rural women's league.

But look at it now, the tallest person in the team can only stay under Lynch's crotch.

His athletic ability is even more amazing than expected.

His toughness was completely opposite to what was expected.

Yes, just one ball cannot prove that Lynch is an excellent player.

But it is enough to show that Lynch is definitely not the kind of player who should be given up.

On the court, everyone was stunned.

Even Teodosic, who rarely showed his emotions, opened his mouth wide.

Lynch was also amazed at the strength of his current body.

The slight feeling of nervousness completely disappeared, replaced by an intense desire.

At this moment, he couldn't wait to use this body to continue to ravage his opponent.

The system’s task just now was to stay on the court for five minutes?

Haha, Lynch felt that he could continue to ravage his opponent like this for 50 minutes! This is the capital of youth!

On the sidelines, Boshko finally tied what may be the most complicated shoelaces in the world, and inevitably made eye contact with Durovic.

Durovich's affable smile faded, and his tone turned serious. "Boshko, my old friend, tell me what you think? Do you want to voluntarily give up your nuclear weapons like the foolish Ukrainians did?"

Boshko said nothing, but took out a comb and combed his hair to hide his embarrassment.

Being unwilling to talk about it is, to some extent, an admission of fault.

As a youth team coach, the thing I fear most is not losing or having less hair, but not being able to judge people well.

How can a youth team coach who can't judge players accurately determine who is worth developing? How can he supply talents to the first team?

So for Boshko, any excuse now seems pale.

The following game was simply Lynch's public execution of Boshko.

The "softie" that Boshko refers to is simply the roughest player on the field during the game.

McClung's leaping ability gave Lynch a taste of success, and AC Green's steely frame gave him peace of mind. So, he wanted to test Reggie Evans's rebounding sense.

Lynch began to elbow, knee, shove and punch his teammates, repeatedly and roughly pushing his opponents aside to grab rebounds and rob everyone.

Lynch's excellent rebounding sense and top-notch jumping ability make him feel the joy of dominating the rebounds.

In addition, Lynch also demonstrated strong dominance on the defensive end.

After all, Lynch has been training with the FMP team since he was 12 years old, so he has a very strong ability to read the game, which allows him to always make the most correct movement choices on the defensive end.

The playing style of European teams, where everyone can pass and shoot, always gives fans a misunderstanding - European basketball must place great emphasis on basic skills training.

In fact, this is not the case. What European basketball really focuses on is training players' thinking in playing games, teaching players the ability to read the game, and letting players understand what basketball games are all about.

In the FMP echelon, individual fundamentals training only accounts for about a quarter of all training. The rest of the time is spent on tactical classes, coaching tactical drills, and playing scrimmages.

Therefore, for European players, making the right choices on the court is completely instinctive.

Lynch, who came from this youth training system, naturally has this instinct.

Lynch once had all the qualities to be an excellent defender, but he wasted his talent because of his fear of confrontation.

Now the braver Lynch fully demonstrates his dominance on the defensive end.

He has excellent speed and defensive awareness, a keen sense of blocking shots and a jumping ability that is enough to make the opponent's shots fly.

Durovich seemed to see a yellow-skinned version of Scott Pippen playing on the court. No, to be precise, he looked more like Kevin Garnett, with a defensive style that was more inside-oriented.

Lynch repeatedly stole the ball from his teammates, grabbed rebounds, and wreaked havoc on the basket, making everyone pale in comparison to him.

At 4 minutes and 37 seconds into the second half of the training game, Lynch's iron elbow swept Luka Modric, who was trying to approach the basket, like a medieval battering ram. Then he immediately raised his butt to block another person. At the moment the basketball hit the rim, he jumped into the air with an incredible height and grabbed the fourth offensive rebound in five minutes.

After grabbing the rebound, Lynch immediately jumped up and slammed the ball into the basket again.

The basket shook for who knows how many times, and looking at the astonished eyes of his teammates, Lynch felt that this was probably the most refreshing day of his life so far.

Neither Durovic nor Boshko said anything else, unwilling to take their eyes off the court even for a second.

Because this was the most complete "you and I are not on the same level" display they had seen in a while.

Yes, Teodosic is also very strong, but his strength does not bring such a strong visual shock.

You know he can shoot the ball well and pass the ball well, but his mediocre athletic ability and thin body still remind you that he is still a child.

Where is Lynch?
He was like a lion that broke into a flock of sheep and started killing!
In the following time, Lynch worked tirelessly to grab rebounds, set screens for Teodosic, abuse the basket and block every shot of the opponent.

Although it can be seen that Lynch's basic skills are not very good, and his dribbling and shooting are relatively poor, even so, Lynch's talent is still mouth-watering.

On the sidelines, Durovich tried to find a template for Lynch in his mind. Countless brilliant names flashed through his mind, but in the end, he couldn't find a template that fit Lynch.

If we really want to find a template for Lynch, it would probably be a Moses Malone who is better at defense.

Look at the content of Moses Malone's game, it is almost highly consistent with Lynch.

Excellent athletic ability, super tough, lacks sufficiently delicate offensive skills, and can use rebounds to influence the game.

Moses Malone rebounded in the NBA with the same ease Lynch did in his youth team. He was the best rebounder ever, bar none. When Philadelphia swept the Lakers for the 1983 championship, Malone outrebounded Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 70-30. He practically salted and grilled the skyhook.

Considering that Moses's actual height is only 206 cm and his hands are short and small, and the skyhook is a model monster that would be intimidating in any era, the rebounding comparison between the two is simply unbelievable.

In that round of the series, the 76ers even invented a "tactic": if Moses was in position, they would just shoot it at random, and it didn't matter whether it went in or not, because the Prophet (Malone's nickname) would put the ball in.

Look at what Lynch has done, he is a replica of Moses Malone.

The only difference is that Lynch's defense is better than Moses Malone's.

So his mold? A little KG and a lot of Moses Malone.

In the last minute of the training match, when Teodosic missed a three-pointer, Lynch immediately ran to the rebound, raised his elbow, and prepared to continue fighting for the rebound.

Tonight, Lynch finally experienced the happiness of Dennis Rodman.

It turns out that snatching the ball off someone's head again and again is really addictive.

But when Lynch made all the preparations, he found that there was not even a single person within one meter around him.

After grabbing the rebound, Lynch looked around the circle in confusion, only to see painful expressions on his teammates' faces.

Why doesn't anyone challenge him for rebounds anymore? Because personal pain is the best lesson in the world.

Everyone on the FMP youth team learned a lesson today: when Lynch is about to grab a rebound, you'd better stay away.

After Lynch grabbed the rebound, he glanced at center forward Luka, who had been dunked on by him at the start of the game, and asked, "Why didn't you grab it?"

Luka Modric said nothing, but just held up his jersey, revealing dense bruises.

That was the mark left on him by Lynch's elbow.

Lin Qi immediately looked around the court: "Who did it? We are all teammates, how could they be so cruel?"

Teodosic, standing by, scoffed coldly, "A challenge to hold back your laughter, Lynch? Then I lose."

"Shut up Theo!"

On the sidelines, watching Lynch dominate the rebounding and defense while still having time to flirt with Theo, Durovic patted Boshko on the shoulder.

“Boshko, you shameless bastard, I know what you are thinking.

You wanted to keep him and win the championship for you, and you were afraid I'd pick him up, so you planned to keep him hidden. Damn it, don't forget that it's your responsibility to provide talent to the first team.

If I hadn't taken the initiative to let that kid play, I would have been kept in the dark by you."

"Ah!?" Boshko was stunned.

I don't have that idea at all.

Don't speculate on ideas that you don't even have!
But you don't have to say it, you really shouldn't say it, this explanation seems better than admitting that you were wrong.

This might make him seem a little selfish, but at least he wasn't stupid.

So Boshko took advantage of the situation and said, "Yeah, right, right! Hey, I can't hide anything from you. You bastard, you used to be a former Yugoslav secret police officer before you became a basketball coach. You're such a good judge of character!"

After the game, Lynch walked off the court while wiping the sweat off his face with his jersey.

In 20 minutes, he scored an incredible 18 points, 16 rebounds, and 6 blocks, truly realizing what Tracy McGrady once said: "I actually loved baseball as a kid because basketball was so easy."

It was so simple. Basketball had never been so simple for Lynch.

He knew very well that the door to his dream was no longer tightly closed, and finally opened a crack to reveal a faint light.

As Lynch walked off the court, first-team coach Durovich stood up and shook his hand. "Well done, kid. I'm impressed by your courage and your style of play. You're tough. Aren't you afraid of getting hurt again?"

"To seek immortality will only bring death, but to die bravely will your spirit live on. That's what I've been telling myself, sir."

After answering, Lynch looked at Boshko and said, "Thank you for giving me this human time bomb a chance."

Boshko, who knew how to take things as they came, smiled and nodded: "What nonsense! You know I love you, all of you."

"Well, see you tomorrow then, Mediterranean Commander."

"You little bastard!" Boshko grabbed the tactical board and threw it like a frisbee. "You bastard! Say that again!"

Boshko's love disappears as quickly as it comes and goes, just like how quickly he completes his homework.

Back in the locker room, Teodosic gave Lynch a thumbs-up: "That was a cool comment."

Lynch smiled and shrugged: "I saw it this morning on a statue in the square downstairs from my house."

On the other side, Durovic, who had already returned to the first-team training hall, was thinking about Lynch's recent game and that sentence.

Of course he knew that those were not Lynch's original words, but were engraved under the statue of Gavrilo Princip.

Princip was just an ordinary man, but he did something that changed world history - on June 28, 1914, he fired seven shots with a Browning M1910 automatic pistol on the streets of Sarajevo, killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and his wife who were visiting Sarajevo.

In fact, there were seven assassins lurking on the road that day. Princip wasn't the strongest man, nor the best with a gun, but he was undoubtedly the only one with the courage to act on his target.

Can an unknown person change history?

Durovich adjusted his glasses. Perhaps this time, he would witness it with his own eyes.

Oh no, not just a witness, he would be a participant.

He decided to focus on Lynch and Theo, who were already on the first team's reserve list.
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When I come back, the whole world will be in trouble. But while I'm gone, let Vice Admiral Kobe Bryant take over. —Shaquille O'Neal on his decision to undergo right big toe surgery this summer and miss the first month of the season.

The only thing that makes me feel bad is that they allowed that 17-year-old golfer (Ty Tryon) to play on the PGA Tour. Some tennis players start playing professionally at 14, so why can't basketball players? The rules aren't fair, but that's life. I'll stay in high school for another year. Of course, I won't give up on suing the NBA. I hope they can change the draft rules. —LeBron James in an interview with The New York Times (true story)

Yao Ming, the No. 1 pick in the 2002 NBA draft, was the key that completely opened the door to the international market for David Stern. Perhaps the next Chinese player selected in the lottery will soon appear. —Sports Illustrated

He's won multiple MVPs in Italy and defeated the Dream Team in this summer's World Championships. So, you ask me if Manu Ginobili can adapt to the NBA? That's a foolish question. Look at Yao Ming, look at Manu. More and more international players are coming to this league. They might be in China, Spain, or Serbia right now, but they'll all end up here. We'll see, international players will become a significant part of this league. - San Antonio Express-News

(Thanks to the big boss with such a lovely smile for the reward and flattery!
Thanks to the big guys such as Xifang Dingguang Happy Buddha, Mengyu Jiangshan, Mr. K, Tiancangren, Ideal is Hometown, Wandering to Shanghai, etc. for the rewards, thank you very much! )

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