roccoschili Chapter 1071 1070. The old fish octopus returns to Angel City!
Chapter 1071 1070. The old fish octopus returns to Angel City!
Chapter 1071 1070. The old fish returns to Angel City!
The first day of the new year in 2006 is not destined to be a peaceful day.
Not only China, but the United States is also looking forward to watching the Lakers recover and kill the Eagles.
Except for Liu Mang and Hawks fans, no one else wants to see the Hawks win three consecutive championships. There are many reasons, but the expectations are all the same.
But before the game started, an unexpected news ignited the New Year's frenzy ahead of time.
In the early hours of the morning after the New Year's bell rang in the United States, a deal that was not considered a big deal, but it detonated the upcoming New Year's first battle happened!
The Lakers and the Warriors reached a deal. The Lakers sent Smash Parker, Stanislav Medvedenko, Brian Cook and 300 million cash compensation to the Warriors' Derek Fisher!
Before six o'clock in the morning, Liu Mang was woken up by the little Lolita finding the hotel, and after hearing the news, he squirted "Damn" at the little Lolita.
Since it was a holiday, Little Lolita's biological clock made her wake up naturally at five o'clock. When she woke up, she realized that she was not at home and couldn't fall asleep. So she turned on the computer to watch the news, and was the first to know about the trade between the Lakers and the Warriors. Then she brought her bodyguard Christine Wagner to find Liu Mang.
Fortunately, Liu Mang's family is considered a celebrity. Liu Mang's mother's breakfast restaurant is now an "Internet celebrity restaurant". Many people know her, and the front desk gave her the key card, so they found Liu Mang directly.
Liu Mang picked up little Lolita, went to the small living room of the suite, opened the notebook that little Lolita gave him, connected to the Internet and opened the official NBA website.
Just below the hotline news of the New Year's battle between the Eagles and the Lakers, the headline of the second edition is the situation of the Warriors and the Lakers' trade, and next to it are the follow-up posts from the columnists overnight and so on.
Really deal!
Liu Mang looked at the details of the transaction and various surrounding gossip, and learned the reason why this transaction happened suddenly.
From the beginning of Zen Master's return, the Lakers have privately contacted the Warriors to seek a deal.
The Lakers have a characteristic. The exposed transactions are basically fake, and their transactions often come unexpectedly.
It has been rumored that the Lakers are interested in Jason Kidd, and they are planning to use Odom as a bargaining chip, as well as Mike Bibby and Peja of the Kings, but Fisher was the one who got the deal in the end.
Fisher put forward a trade application a long time ago on the grounds that he was taking care of his daughter who was recuperating in Los Angeles due to illness. However, this season, Fisher averaged 13.5 points and 4 assists per game as the sixth man, which is very important to the Warriors.
Moreover, the Warriors were not satisfied with the bargaining chips the Lakers gave at the beginning. Although their management was very sympathetic to what happened to Fisher. Fisher's daughter suffered from eye cancer. The Warriors executives were also discussing whether to terminate the existing contract with Fisher. Medvedenko can't even play with a 4 million contract, which is still a loss-making business for the Warriors.
Of course, Fisher will not give up the salary of the biggest contract in his career, even if it is to treat his daughter’s illness. He is probably in the middle class once in his career. Without this money, let alone to accompany his daughter, the money for medical treatment is very tight. 210% eight, nearly half, plus the commission from the Players Association, Fisher has almost no spare money, and neither side is willing to give up this money.
Finally, after the Lakers increased their bargaining chips and added Brian Cook, a space-oriented power forward who averaged 0.7 three-pointers per game in his career and made 40.00% of his three-pointers, to the bargaining chips, and compensated Medvedenko with more than 70.00% of his salary in cash, the Warriors agreed to the deal.
Smush Parker for Fisher!
Liu Mang feels that the Lakers are making a lot of money!
The Lakers point guard has been blown up countless times. In the 10 games the Lakers lost, at least three of them were because the point guard was blown up by the opponent's role player. This year's No. 29 pick Felton scored a career-high [-] points against the Lakers.
Although Fisher is old and gets beaten up every day, his shooting ability at critical moments and his mentality of not sticking to the ball and not fighting or grabbing are very suitable for helping Kobe dribble.
Zen Master is using Odom to advance with the ball, because the point guard is too sticky to the ball, and Kobe just shoots more.
Watching the alliance pass the trade application like lightning, Liu Mang felt the deep malice from David Stern!
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At 08:30 in the morning, Liu Mang brought Little Lolita to the training field of the visiting team at the Toyota Center Training Hall.
The main function of the Toyota Center is to serve as a training hall for the Lakers, but it is also a medium-sized indoor arena with more than 8000 seats. It is the home field of the Los Angeles Defenders, a team affiliated with the Lakers' Development League. Except for a smaller playing field, it is no different from a regular arena.
So to play against the Lakers, the Eagles don't need the Clippers to rent a private training facility for them like they did against the Clippers, which is much more convenient.
Liu Mang came to the Toyota Center, changed his clothes, and was ready to let little loli and bodyguards pick up the ball. He began to practice shooting.
The Lakers trade is already a fact. As long as the medical report is submitted to the league this morning, they can play games at night. The league has given the green light to this deal.
But as soon as Liu Mang changed into his training clothes, he saw the coaching staff entering the training ground with dark circles under their eyes, greeting Little Lori.
"Ace, you came so early, come, let's study the Lakers' tactical changes together, Dinah, you and Christine play by yourself first, here is my card, let Christine take you to buy anything you want." Coach Kruger saw Liu Mang coming out, and sent little Lori away. Today's game was more troublesome than originally expected.
Mainly because of emergencies!
The sudden personnel change of the Lakers disrupted the tactical plan prepared by the Eagles coaching staff.
Unlike the high-quality sleep that Eagles players sleep like dead pigs, when the coaching season is in progress, the nerves are tense, and you must be ready to answer calls from the boss and scouts at any time, especially entering the new year, especially after the mid-season trading period.
In the early morning, Coach Kruger received a call from his boss, Price. He summoned the coaching staff to his suite overnight, held a coaching staff meeting, stayed up all night, and went to find Liu Mang early in the morning, but Liu Mang had already left with Little Lolita.
Liu Mang was going to look for Maddie, but Maddie, a night owl, didn't know what time he went to bed. The phone in the room was turned off, the phone was turned off, and he didn't wake up when he knocked on the door. After Liu Mang calmed down at the beginning, he just ignored it.
Fisher will return to the Lakers one day. Sooner or later, anyway, he has to face Kobe with Fisher. Liu Mang is not in a hurry. He came to the Toyota Center for training on his own. Since the arena rented by the Clippers is not the kind of stingy behavior that only provides training on the day of the game, the Eagles staff took the team’s jerseys, training uniforms, etc. to the Toyota Center yesterday. The training at the Staples Center yesterday was just for the media to watch.
Little Lolita got the card, immediately forgot about Liu Mang, and dragged Christine Wackner to Los Angeles.
Liu Mang followed the coaching staff to the conference room.
"Ace, what impact do you think Fisher will have when joining the Lakers?" Coach Kruger asked directly.
"Fisher is a very calm killer. With him, he dares to shoot shots that others dare not shoot, and he will not destroy the tactical discipline of the Lakers like Parker. Uncle KFC also prefers point guards like Fisher. Kobe and Fisher have partnered for seven years. Their tacit understanding is very good..." Liu Mang told what he knew about Fisher's return to the Lakers. Fisher is much better, and Fisher's scoring ability at critical moments is better than expected."
Liu Mang thought of the first time he played against Fisher. Fisher scored consecutively at critical moments. Fisher's characteristic of getting older and better was vividly displayed in Fisher. In Liu Mang's memory, in the third game of the 2010 Finals, when the Lakers lost home court advantage, Fisher scored eight points in a row in the last two minutes of the third game to help the Lakers reverse the Celtics. Fisher was 36 at that time.
This season, Fisher is 31 years old, he can't run fast, and his jump is not as good as Iverson's before dunking, but he averaged a career high of 13.5 points per game, and he often scored more than 10 points by opponents unexpectedly.
"Ace, you think the same as we do. Fisher doesn't stick to the ball, and has a 40.00% shooting rate on open three-pointers, which will make the Lakers' space better." Coach Kruger agrees with Liu Mang's statement.
"Yes, we will encounter a lot of challenges on the defensive end. We can't let any of the three outsiders of the Lakers play. The opponent still has BIG-YAO inside..." Mike Woodson thought of the three starters of the Lakers outside in 2001. Fisher and Fox both shot 40.00% three-pointers.
Liu Mang heard the sudden changes of the coaching staff one after another for the Lakers, and now he feels a bit overwhelmed!
The return of Fisher has completely activated the Lakers' triangle offense!
(End of this chapter)