Chapter 797

Backup center!

For the Houston Rockets' lineup, Yao Ming is already the main center. With his 2.26-meter height, growing weight (currently 132 kg), soft touch and "dream steps" passed from olajuwan, Yao Ming has gradually entered the ranks of NBA first-class centers. Of course, compared with super centers like O'Neal, the gap is still huge, but in today's declining League, Yao Ming is already a rare center talent.

However, due to Yao Ming's high height, high center of gravity and great bearing capacity for feet, according to the evaluation of sports injury hospital invested by Lin Feng (full-time service for athletes, currently only free for Houston Rockets players), it is better for Yao Ming to play 32-35 minutes in a game. As for olajuwan, although he is old, he has no problem playing 10-12 minutes in a game.

However, there is a problem. Once Yao Ming or olajuwan is injured, the Houston Rockets will not have a backup center at all. After all, olajuwan is old and sick, so it is necessary to add a backup center. However, the center is a scarce resource. A better center will get a middle-class salary. As a second backup center, it's too wasteful and extravagant to get the middle-class salary. What's more, the Houston Rockets have already touched the luxury tax line after signing Robert holly. Anyone who signs another contract will have to pay "double" wages. Signing a second backup center and offering "ten million annual salary" is obviously ridiculous.

Dawson and Murray are helpless. At present, the NBA really does not have a good backup center candidate, for this candidate to have a certain strength, do not require it to score, but must be able to provide strong defense, and the annual salary requirements should not be too high, and willing to act as a backup. These conditions stack up, it is very difficult to find. Morey once proposed Wang Zhizhi and bater, two centers from China like Lin Feng. But these two people, although the salary is extremely low, but obviously cannot satisfy the Houston rocket's second substitution request.

Wang Zhizhi drifts away from the basket and loves to shoot three points. Defense is his absolute weakness. As for bater, although he is very strong, he turns too slowly, and the whole person is relatively slow, so he can't adapt to the attack defense conversion speed of Houston Rockets. Unless there is really no candidate, Wang Zhizhi and bater are candidates that need not be considered. Although everyone is Chinese, Lin Feng can't help without strength. After all, it's the champion team, not the welfare home.

Between thinking, Lin Feng suddenly thought of a person.

"Dawson, this man can meet our requirements." Lin Feng's tone was full of excitement.

"Who?" Dawson and Morey are staring at Lin Feng.

"Alonzo Monin!" Lin Feng spits out a shocking name.

Alonzo Monin—— Dawson and Morey let out a whisper.

Alonzo mooning, the last generation of NBA Super Center in the United States, has strong physique, strong and domineering style under the basket, perseverance in rebounding, and iron will. He has become a daunting defender on the court. In the first season, he scored an average of 21 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.47 blocks per game, and then kept the same data every year, which was terrifying. Of course, these data are from 2000 years ago. Everything has changed since he was diagnosed with kidney disease after winning the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Although moning recovered through kidney transplant surgery, but the subsequent data is a sharp decline, but also from the team's absolute ace reduced to a substitute.

However, such a replacement is very much needed by the Houston Rockets. Moreover, the arrival of moning can improve the strength of Houston Rockets in defense and their persistence in victory. Now there are too many young people in the Houston Rockets. They need Jordan and moning to help them. They need to tell these young players what is honor, what is professional ethics and what is persistence. And the arrival of moning, can also give Yao Ming a good lesson, let him know that the center needs to be tough, need blood, need fierce. On this point, no one is more qualified to teach Yao Ming, who has a soft ball style.

The only suspense is whether Monin's kidney disease can support him on the field—— That's what Dawson and Murray have been worried about. Since kidney disease, moning's data has become 20 + 10 per game, which has seriously dropped to 10 + 8, and he can only play about 20 minutes or less in a game. And this disease, at any time, may endanger career.

For Dawson and Morey, Lin Feng is not worried. Because Lin Feng knows that moning didn't retire until the 07-08 season. Before that, although the data is mediocre, the iron defense he provides is the most desired and needed by his team. What's more, he doesn't have a high demand for salary and is willing to serve as a substitute. What he is eager for is the championship. On this point, today's Houston Rockets can't be more suitable for Monin.

As Lin Feng expected, things went smoothly. After receiving the invitation from the Houston Rockets, moning just thought about it a little, and then readily agreed to join the Houston Rockets. Signed with Houston Rockets for $16 million over four years.

When the Houston Rockets announced the signing of Monin for $16 million in four years, the whole league was astonished. One after another, they said that Houston Rockets were crazy and spent a lot of money to buy a sick ghost. Although these words hurt a little, they are. It's not easy for people with kidney disease to live a normal life. What's more, they have to participate in the world's most competitive ball games with the most severe body collision. It's a joke about life.

For the voice of the outside world, Lin Feng stood up and said a word - I believe he will stand up, because he is Alonzo moning!

Lin Feng's speech naturally caused a sneer from the outside world, thinking that Lin Feng was deceiving himself. But it completely subdued moning's heart. Since suffering from renal failure, moning has returned to the NBA despite his hard work. Lin Feng is the only one who believes in him and trusts him so far, and Lin Feng dares to stand up for himself in the doubts of the outside world. He is aiming at this human relationship, and moning has identified Lin Feng and Houston Rockets.

"Boss, don't worry, I won't let you down. I'll let those guys see if I'm going to be knocked down by injury!" Moning's eyes twinkled with unyielding fighting spirit.

Jordan nodded in the distance. A man with such sharp eyes will never be knocked down by injury!

"Monin, come on, let's fight side by side, the goal - the championship!" Jordan came over and held out his right hand to Monin.

"Goal - champion!" Moning slapped Jordan's hand heavily.

After solving moning, Dawson and Morey also aimed at the point guard candidates. This should have been the top priority of the team, but unfortunately, with the current requirements of the Houston Rockets, the point guard is not easy to find. It is not only required to play to provide a certain degree of defense, but also to be willing to substitute, at the same time, it also requires a low salary (2-3 million US dollars per year), which is not easy to find, either trade, or look for veteran. But there are not many suitable veterans. Either the level is not good, or the salary is too high to sign. If the deal, with the Houston Rockets now lineup point of view, the deal who hurt.

However, if we don't sign a qualified substitute, it will definitely have a fatal impact on the journey of the Houston Rockets in the new season. Once Billups falls ill, there will be no one available for the Houston Rockets. Of course, Hughes and wade can be guest point guards, but they are not suitable point guards. Houston Rockets must sign or trade a proper substitute point guard.

"Forget it, deal!" Lin Feng thought about it. At present, the team has no salary to sign a suitable substitute point guard. In NBA, center is a scarce resource, and point guard is also a scarce resource. It's hard to sign a replacement point guard who wants to win the championship for $2 million to $3 million.

"Deal!" Dawson murmured that at present, the Houston Rockets only have this possibility. But who is the deal? In detail, the only positions that Houston Rockets can trade are small forward and shooting guard. Small forward, Prince is a very suitable candidate, with James and Josh Howard, Prince is not so important. As for the shooting guard, only Hughes can trade, but Hughes shows all-round, it's really hard to give up. But also because of this, if you trade Hughes, you can exchange good chips. For example, the future first round draft right and a good point guard. As for the vacancy in the shooting guard after Hughes left, Jordan can still play for 2-3 years now, and Wade is the first substitute. If Jordan reserves strength due to injury or for the playoffs, Josh Howard can also play as the shooting guard, which can be dealt with.

After a brief discussion, Dawson and Morey began to act separately. Negotiate a deal with the teams for prince or Hughes. After several days of frequent contact, the Houston Rockets finally traded Hughes from the Chicago Bulls for the No. 7 rookie Kirk Hinrich chosen by the Chicago Bulls this year and a first round draft right next year.

For this transaction, the alliance once again felt deeply puzzled. It was worth the risk of signing 16 million moning four years ago. After all, moning is a super center who has proved himself. But now it's a bit strange to use a rookie with 15 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, and 1.3 steals to replace him with a rookie and a first round draft. And Hughes is only 24 years old this year, only two years older than Kirk Hinrich. But Hughes is black and Kirk Hinrich is white. Therefore, the age of these two years can be completely ignored.

In terms of physical fitness, style and experience, Hughes is better than Kirk Hinrich in all aspects, and Hughes is rated as "Pippen II" by the outside world. It's really puzzling for such a person to exchange a rookie. However, no matter how puzzled, the Houston Rockets have been exchanged, and as the boss of the Houston Rockets, Lin Feng is very satisfied with it, quite satisfied.

Although Kirk Hinrich is a rookie at present, he will be the first-class point guard in the league in the future, more than enough to serve as a substitute for Billups. Of course, what makes Lin Feng more satisfied is that he won the first round draft of Chicago Bulls next year. This year is the draft year, but the quality of next year's rookies is not bad.

"Superman" Howard, okafu, Ben Gordon, Harris, Iguodala, Kevin Martin, J.R. Smith and others are also shining stars, although not as high as the overall quality of the draft in 2003, but it is also a draft year. It's really worthwhile to get a first round draft right!

After this deal, the Houston Rockets will be able to compete with the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs in terms of starting and substituting.

Center: Yao Ming (starting), replacement of moning and olajuwang.

Power forward: Rodman (starting), substitute Boozer, Robert holly.

Small forward: LeBron James (starting), substitute Josh Howard, Prince.

Point guard: Michael Jordan (starting), substitute Wade, Josh Howard (guest).

Point guard: Billups (starting), substitute Kirk Hinrich, Wade (guest).

Looking at the list of 13 people, in the eyes of head coach Tom janovic, can only be described as perfect. This lineup has three generations of old, middle-aged and young players. After Jordan and others retire, Yao Ming, James and others have fully grown up. At that time, the Houston Rockets will be more powerful than they are now!

The next decade belongs to Houston Rockets—— Tom janovic believes that.

When the other teams in the league are still thinking about how to strengthen and how to save salary, several super teams in the league have completed all the plans. The "F4" of Los Angeles, the "champion lineup" of San Antonio Spurs, the "long range artillery corps" of Dallas Mavericks, and the "future Dynasty" of Houston Rockets are all hyping the prospects of these four teams in the new season, and comparing them with other teams in the league. However, in any aspect, the whole league, No team can compare with these four teams.

Of course, the most optimistic is naturally the "F4" of the Los Angeles Lakers, followed by the "champion lineup" of the San Antonio Spurs, and the "future Dynasty" of the Houston Rockets is in the third place. As for the crazy "long range artillery corps" of the Dallas Mavericks, because it is too extreme, too extreme, and its head coach is too crazy, such a team plays well, Invincible in the world, if not, no matter how weak the team, it dares to lose!

In 2003-04 season, NBA will be the world of these four teams—— This is the consensus of all. But what makes all the fans crazy and all the Western teams jump is that these four teams are all Western teams, especially San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks.

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