full court guidance

Chapter 207 07 Draft
After a brief celebration, the league quickly awarded the most important award in the finals.

Late won the first FMVP in his life by averaging 26.7 points, 3.3 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game!

When he took over the FMVP trophy from Russell, the Warriors players cheered collectively again.

The only fly in the ointment is that they won the championship in Cleveland! (At this time, the finals are still in the 232 format)

The team chartered a special plane and flew directly back to Oakland that night.

When the plane landed, countless excited fans blocked the Warriors players at the airport, and nearly 1/3 of them were Chinese.

The late single-core led the Warriors to the championship, which made the local Chinese heave a long sigh.

The next day, the Oakland local government announced a day off to celebrate the Warriors winning the NBA championship again after 32 years.

And it was revealed that the local government of Oakland intends to award Late with the Medal of Honor, in recognition of Late's efforts to improve the image of Oakland.

Because the finals played a total of six games, and Oakland celebrated wildly for three days and three nights. When everything calmed down, the most watched event in the NBA every year-the draft was only a few days away.

The management of the Warriors has already started to get busy. While the team was still playing in the finals, they had already issued trial training invitations to many players who were going to participate in the draft this year.

Because the Warriors have sufficient salary space, and with late additions, even a small city like Oakland does not have to worry about lack of attention, which has led to many rookies interested in joining the Warriors.

The Warriors have a high draft pick this year. They cleaned Foye, who was behind the scenes, during the turmoil in the locker room. The Sonics wanted to take advantage of the fire, thinking that the Warriors were a rebuilding team. Certainly can't achieve any good results, and exchanged his first-round pick this year for Gafoye, the Warriors' first-round pick this year.

At the time, this was regarded as a profitable deal, and many media even believed that the Warriors had even reached the point of no matter the cost in order to support their late arrival.

As a result, the Warriors won the championship with a rebuilding new army, but the Sonics, who took advantage of the fire, got into big trouble.

Their three musket conflicts broke out, there was almost no cooperation between the players, and the impact of injuries caused the Sonics to quickly change from a strong team in the playoffs last season to a team at the bottom of the league this season.

Sonics management doesn't want to be someone else's wedding dress, desperate to get good grades.

It's a pity that a good woman can't cook without rice. Their locker room chaos lasted for a long time. In the end, the Supersonics won the second place in this year's list with the second-to-last score in the Western Conference.

As a result, public opinion suddenly reversed, and some people even ridiculed the Sonics for being whimsical. They lost their wife and lost their troops. Not only did they help the Warriors clean up Foye, an unstable element, they even offered a high-ranking draft pick.

The Warriors continue to make high-level drafts while winning the championship. After getting potential rookies, their strength will be further improved.

But the Warriors are actually not monolithic, it's just that they didn't break out because of the lateness.

After winning the championship, the team's important inside substitutes Biedrins and Murphy both clearly expressed to the team their willingness to change a team.

Murphy still wants to stay with the Warriors, but his agent believes that after Milicic has played well, it is almost impossible for him to compete with this handsome Serbian guy. After all, Milicic is a late loyal dog. It's something the whole world knows.

After much consideration, Murphy submitted a trade application to the team.

This led to a sudden emergency for the Warriors inside, and they needed to find at least one or two inside substitutes.

The first consideration of the Warriors management is to select a reliable insider among the rookies participating in the draft this year. Among them, Greg Oden is the primary target of the Warriors. Although the Blazers are the owners of the No. Has the Blazers management got their brains kicked by a donkey?

If you get lucky and can pick up Oden, the Warriors can consider letting Milicic play power forward.

In March of this year, Oden was selected to the Associated Press All-American lineup along with Kevin Durant, Aaron Afflalo, Alan Dotak and Asilau IV.

This makes the whole world firmly believe that Oden has the top talent in history.It is said that Oden has O'Neal's strength, Chamberlain's physical fitness, excellent basket skills and shooting ability, and is a super weirdo.

However, considering Oden's identity as the black father, there will definitely be a lot of media brazenly touting him, and his real strength and potential will be discounted, and the specifics are still a question mark.

But the good news is that Oden is very willing to play for the Golden State Warriors. He has stated in public more than once that he likes to be late very much, and his three-pointers fascinate him.

In addition, Oden has a serious injury risk, but it was concealed by the media.Fortunately, now that there is a late-developed CDPPE, I believe Oden's injury will not become a big problem.

In addition, the second inspection target of the Warriors is Yi Jianlian.

After a year of NCAA training, Yi Jianlian's strength has been widely recognized, but he still can't compete with Oden, and even some black players are rated higher than Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian still has some problems playing. He doesn't like confrontation very much, and he likes to float or even fade away jumpers.This is a habit he developed when he was young. The domestic coaches, especially the Southern School, pay more attention to basic skills than physical confrontation, which made Yi Jianlian develop the disadvantage of not liking confrontation.

Fortunately, after playing in the NCAA for a year and having undergone very targeted training, Yi Jianlian has obviously improved a lot.

And he didn't take a chair as an opponent during training as in the original history.

He also intends to join the Warriors. After all, he is brought by the "big brother" who is late, which will allow him to gain a firm foothold in the league more smoothly.

If the Warriors want to get him, with the No. [-] pick in their hands, there will be absolutely no obstacles. The only thing they need to consider is whether Yi Jianlian's identity as a Chinese will cause the league to interfere.

After all, if Yi Jianlian can play at a star level, it will be very beneficial for the league to continue to develop the Chinese market, but if he and Late are on the same team, it will greatly affect this plan.

There are many smart people in the management of the Warriors, and it is impossible not to think of this, so from an emotional point of view, they also understand that the possibility of choosing Yi Jianlian is not high.

The results of the Warriors' trial training were not optimistic, and they did not find the inside players they hoped for.

On June 6, amidst the customary boos of the fans, league commissioner David Stern announced the official start of the 28 NBA draft.

The Trail Blazers who won the No. [-] pick did not hesitate, and they immediately announced their choice-Greg Oden.

The insider super rookie nicknamed "The Great" was embraced by the Blazers.

Oden, who was selected, looked a little complicated, as if he was not willing to play for the Blazers.

The fact is true. Oden really doesn’t want to go to the Blazers at all. This team seems to be cursed. In the past 20 years, many super center seedlings have been destroyed. Some fans even ridiculed the Blazers. It's a veterinarian.

Oden is very aware of his potential injuries. If he plays for the Trail Blazers, he is really afraid that he will die too.

After missing out on Oden, the Warriors' management fell into a brief debate. The team's management wanted to strengthen the inside line, and they could choose Yi Jianlian or Al Horford.

Even if Yi Jianlian cannot be chosen, Al Horford is still a good candidate.

He has skills and shooting ability, which fits very well with the Warriors' style of play.

But team coach Don Nelson insisted on choosing Kevin Durant.

He was selected to the best team of the Associated Press together with Oden this year as a freshman, proving his talent potential.

Moreover, he is tall and has very strong shooting ability. Old Nelson likes him very much.

The reason why the Warriors' management objected was that Durant was thin and weak, and his confrontation ability was too poor, so he might not be able to adapt to this league.

Old Nelson immediately refuted that he believed that the lack of confrontation ability can be practiced, but the talent for shooting is innate, and he used the late arrival as an example to make the management have no way to deal with him for a while.

In the end, the two sides were at a stalemate and decided to ask Late for his opinion. After all, under the intentional connivance of the old Nelson, Late now has a great say among the team's coaches, and he himself is the most dependent cash cow for the team, so he cannot be ignored. Opinion.

Late did not come to the scene in person, he watched the talent show at home.

Despite being clear about Durant's future accomplishments, the late arrival generated some hesitation.

After all, although Durant's achievements are not low and his strength is also very strong, he has been tempered for several seasons before he can play. What the Warriors need now is immediate combat power, and they urgently need to strengthen the inside line. Not the type of player willing to go inside and do the dirty work.

Even if Durant is selected now, being late does not guarantee that he can play at his original level.

After all, the Supersonics gave away three muskets at the beginning, and it took three seasons for Durant to level up, and then he became a super small forward who was second only to James.

If you choose Durant and don't give him the ball to practice, wouldn't that delay his talent?

In fact, in the late view, choosing Al Horford is the most suitable for the Warriors.

Not only can he become the immediate force of the Warriors, reinforcing the team's most lacking inside line, but this guy is very low-key and honest, never messing around outside the court, late likes this kind of honest player.

But Late has a suitable insider candidate in his mind, and that is the biggest treasure in this year's second-round pick, Spanish center Marc Gasol. If he has to choose Durant, it's not impossible.

So the question is, should I choose Durant or not?

(End of this chapter)