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Chapter 2 The thin inside line

As a famous aristocratic team in the NBA, the Lakers are a team that many players and coaches are flocking to. The first benefit is that their salary is high. Ke Yan's salary on the Rockets is $5,000 per week, and the same is true for the Suns. After coming to the Lakers, Mickey Kupchek directly gave him a contract with an annual salary of $500,000. Looking at the latest $9,615.38 imported from Card, Ke Yan bought Apple's stock as usual with 70% of it.

In his previous life, he was a coach who focused on basketball. He worked on several teams in Cuba and CBA. Assistant coaches, temporary coaches, and head coaches for a while. Except for being half a person in the basketball circle, he was no different from ordinary people. He had no knowledge of economics, did not know much about the stock market, and was not a computer master. His history of making a fortune in various bigwigs was limited to the jokes in street stall literature, such as Facebook, Ali, and Google either didn't go online, or

Not listed, let alone a profitable Bitcoin and Tesla, there is no sign yet. Ke Yan can be sure that Apple's stocks and domestic real estate are worth buying and making sure that they are stable and profitable. Considering that he came to the United States to pursue his dreams and stayed there for a long time in the future, Ke Yan's investment strategy is to tuck Apple's stocks in a brainless manner. No matter whether it is rising or falling, red or green, what the market reacts, it is correct to buy it when you get a salary. In ten or eight years, you will not have to worry about not having a billionaire and realizing financial freedom!

You have to work after getting the money. Looking back on history, it is not accidental that the Lakers' performance has fallen to the bottom this season. Big and small problems have run through the team's entire season.

First of all, Kobe, the team's star, has been in lawsuits all summer. Although Kobe's reputation has moved from the bottom to the bottom with Vanessa's "changing mind", his pre-match preparations for this season must have been greatly affected, which will definitely affect his condition after the start of the game.

Secondly, many people in the team are still accustomed to the good offensive environment brought by O'Neal's offensive threat. This season, the team will not have this inside beast, and their tactical styles will also change accordingly. Their shooting space will be greatly affected, and whether they can adapt to brand new tactics is also a question.

Finally, there is the running-in problem of the newly joined Odom, Butler, Grant and others. After all, the team's lineup has undergone this major change, and it is impossible without an adaptation period.

But the core problem of the team is still the inside line, or to be more confident, the team's biggest weakness is rebounding. In the past life, Ke Yan also studied the reason why the Lakers seemed to have a good lineup but did not enter the playoffs, and found a strange data. In this season, Kobe was absent from 19 games, the Lakers lost 6 and 13 losses, while in the 14 games where Odom was absent, the Lakers' record was only 2 and 12 losses. Intuitively speaking, it can even draw a conclusion that Odom is more important than Kobe.

Further analysis further, rebounding has become the key data. Odom, who averages 10.2 rebounds per game, is the Lakers' rebounding champion this season, and the starting center Chris Meim, for most of the season, averaged only 6.6 rebounding data per game. Does this data seem to be good enough? But what if there is no Odom? The other inside players of the team are Grant, Divac, and Brian Cook. They all seem to have some strengths, but they can actually provide extremely limited help to the team.

Brian Grant was once a good blue-collar power forward in the league, but he is already 34 years old. During the year in the Lakers, he basically lies on the hospital bed to take a young nurse. After the Alan Houston clause was released, the Lakers bought him out immediately. Divac has also regressed to almost no use. Even at his peak, he has poor athletic ability in the center position. Moreover, now that he has grown up this year, he has suffered several injuries and his athletic ability has further deteriorated. When a player's athletic ability is lower than the lowest level in the league, no matter how good his skills are, he will help the team. As for Brian Cook, his three-pointer may be able to help the team, and he cannot count on him in the interior defense and rebounding.

Therefore, it can almost be asserted that rebounding is the lifeline of this Lakers. If you do a good job in protecting rebounding, the Lakers' performance can teach this Lakers in history to steadily improve.

Ke Yan can only reach this point when he can propose a reinforcement plan to Tomjanovic. Others, such as Odom's habitual inattention in the game, Butler's position is awkward, etc., need to be pointed out slowly in training and corrected. At this stage, we still have to try our best to adjust what he can change.

The next day, Ke Yan attended the Lakers' coaching staff meeting to discuss the Lakers' lineup planning and tactical playing style of the new season.

Tomjanovic likes to give the team's number one star full of opportunities to perform. When the Rockets were on the Rockets, he basically didn't care much about Francis' reckless behavior. When he came to the Lakers, he faced Kobe, who was more paranoid and had a bigger card, and his tactical design revolved around Kobe.

In Tom Janovic's plan, the player who partnered with Kobe in the backcourt was Chaki Atkins, who played for the Celtics last season. He is a typical point guard height, shooting guard play, no organizational ability, fast speed, basket, and three-pointers. His defensive movement rate is very fast, but due to height, the effect is relatively average. He pays too much attention to the ball when he is on the top and often gives up on the marking.

Left-handed Magician Odom will serve as the team's starting small forward in the new season. He is very skilled, and playing well can become a point for the team's offensive end. However, with his talent, he has not yet entered the All-Star. The reason is that he has been doing inappropriate things most of his career. When the team needs him to pull out to organize the offense, he squeezes in the inside to concentrate on rebounds, and when the team is in a mess of offense, he rushes in, and when the team needs to defend...

The starting power forward in Tom Janovic's plan is Brian Grant, who is a model of diligent engineer-type players in the NBA. Score, rebounds and fouls can always surround him. Last season with the Heat, he averaged 88 Eight Sages data per game, and his defensive effect was also very good. Tom Janovic hopes that the team will achieve an offensive and defensive balance, which is a very important point.

Veteran Divac, who returns to the team, will serve as the starting center. The current Lakers are very similar to the Kings. The team has a lot of scoring points, and Divac, who is very good at it, seems to be able to help sort out the offensive role on the offensive end.

If these players can directly copy the performance of this season from last season, then the Lakers have a chance to advance to the Western Conference semi-finals, let alone the playoffs, but the NBA has never been like this, and even competitive sports has never been like this. New head coaches, new tactical systems, new teammates, and new seasons, everything is different.

"Rudy!" After the meeting, Ke Yan called Tomjanovic, "Is it convenient to chat?"
Chapter completed!
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