After winning the championship, Lu Yu returned to Spokane.
Lu Chaoyang has bought a big house in Spokane, and the two-story building of Lu Ji Restaurant has become history.
Lu Yu would occasionally pass by there and recall every bit of training there.
He has almost learned the breathing technique now.
[Host: Lu Yu]
[Water breathing method: 90%]
[Thunder Breathing Technique: 90%]
[Flame Breathing Method: 90%]
[Wind breathing method: 60%]
[Rock breathing method: 27%]
At present, it seems that 90% is the limit of the breathing method, at least until the wind breathing method and the rock breathing method do not reach 90%. After winning the championship, Lu Yu's mentality also changed slightly.
In the past, he was eager to prove himself.
After winning the championship, he felt that maybe he didn't need to prove that he was a cheat. If he cheated and still couldn't win the championship, maybe he should feel ashamed.
In the past few days, he and Jessica would occasionally walk around Gonzaga's campus. The setting sun on the horizon reflected them, and the figures running on the basketball court not far away were the green years they would never get back.
Jessica knew some of Lu Yu's secrets, but she chose to turn a blind eye.
Because she couldn't let go of Lu Yu.
Lu Yu also knew that Jessica knew those things, but he could only pretend not to know. Maybe spending more time with her in his free time during the offseason would be the best way to make up for her.
But Lu Yu knew that Jessica was a proud and arrogant girl, and if this problem was not solved, it would explode one day sooner or later.
After walking for a long time, Lu Yu felt that girls are sometimes troublesome. They can go for two hours without taking a break, which is too much for Lu Yu, a basketball player.
"That's the stadium where we first met."
At some point, the two people walked to the Manhattan Park Arena.
The sky was already filled with stars. Lu Yu hadn't eaten dinner and was even a little sleepy. He just yawned quietly when Jessica wasn't paying attention. He rubbed his eyes with his hands. The combination of yawning and rubbing his eyes brought a trace of mist to the corners of his eyes.
, before I had time to wipe it off, I heard Jessica’s words.
"Here you a tissue." Jessica took out a tissue from her bag, with a complicated expression on her face: "You feel it too, right?"
"Of course, these are great memories for us."
Lu Yu did not take the tissue, but hugged Jessica in his arms: "Without you, I wouldn't be here today, so no matter who I am, no matter what I do, I can't live without you."
Jessica thought Lu Yu was feeling something and was blinded. Little did she know that Lu Yu was sleepy and yawning.
What's even more shameless is that Lu Yu actually went with the flow and even said with outstanding acting skills: "Jessica, I hope you can forgive me..."
Without saying much, Jessica's eyes were filled with tears.
The seemingly fierce Jessica finally turned into a docile little sheep in front of Lu Yu.
"You know I'm very stubborn. I never want to admit defeat, but every time I face you, I have to give in."
"I cried many times, but I never wanted to cry in front of you."
"Well, as long as you remember that I'm waiting for you in Spokane, it will all be worth it."
In this way, Lu Yu felt Jessica in his arms being stubborn from the beginning to her helplessness at the end. He also felt that his shoulders were wet from Jessica's crying.
"sorry Sorry……"
Lu Yu could only keep apologizing. He knew that Jessica's crisis had been resolved. As long as he didn't go too far in front of Jessica with other women in the future, there would basically be no big problem.
As long as you continue on the path of a scumbag, you will never look back.
Lu Yu understands this truth better than anyone else.
…
During this time, Lu Yu decided to spend some time with Jessica.
He even refused Krause's invitation to participate in this year's draft, leaving the incompetent Krause to gnash his teeth and roar after hanging up the phone to vent his dissatisfaction.
Last year, Lu Yu was very obedient and accompanied him to New York. This year, Lu Yu unexpectedly stopped showing off.
Who are you looking down on!
On June 27, Lu Yu watched the live broadcast of the 2003 NBA Draft.
Not surprisingly, LeBron James was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers. After James confirmed his participation in the 2003 draft, he was already scheduled to be the No. 1 pick that year, even though Anthony led Syracuse University to win the NCAA championship and technically required
More mature than James, but no one would doubt that someone would not choose James.
James's popularity is even greater than that of Lu Yu the year before.
People say that he will be the next Lu Yu.
When Cleveland won the No. 1 pick with a 25% probability, the next perfect script seemed to have been written. The proud son from Akron, a local town in Ohio, landed in the NBA to save the Cleveland Cavaliers from the bottom and win the NBA championship.
Champion's story.
Everyone knows that LeBron James's name will be the first to be read out at Madison Square Garden in New York. The draft is just a formality for James and the Cavaliers, a ceremony that declares to the league that "the future is here."
That’s all.
James was wearing a large, pure white suit. At only 18 years old, he was the undisputed protagonist of Little Green Room.
This suit was custom-made by him from a designer. He thought it would be the most handsome outfit in the draft, but in fact it didn't look very suitable.
When he heard David Stern pronounce his name, even though he knew this moment was coming for a long time, James still acted very excited like anyone who has won a $2 million jackpot.
Because it means change!
It means that you no longer have to live in a house with a monthly rent of 17 US dollars, it means that you will officially enter the adult NBA world, and it means that your family will undergo earth-shaking changes.
It means that the name LeBron James is officially written into NBA history!
If Lu Yu was just a fan, he might be excited about James entering the NBA, but he is now the top superstar in the league, and James is just a rookie, so he has no interest at all.
Snoopy once proposed to sign LeBron James. Lu Yu neither refused nor agreed. He just asked Snoopy to try it. The result was not as Lu Yu expected and Snoopy failed.
James will not live in Lu Yu's shadow.
His goal in entering the NBA is to defeat Lu Yu!
He wanted to become Lu Yu's old enemy, but what he didn't know was that in the eyes of NBA commissioner David Stern, the current James was not qualified enough.
The Detroit Pistons draft Darko Milicic.
This is thanks to the draft pick sent by the Grizzlies, but the Pistons don't seem to have grasped it. If they selected Carmelo Anthony, they wouldn't be ridiculed for so long.
When the Nuggets saw this situation, they were so happy that they selected Melo without hesitation.
Carmelo Anthony's face was not good-looking. He originally thought that he was the only choice besides LeBron James. He lost to James. He could only blame it on the fact that he was not a child of Akron. This was his only choice.
reasons that can be found.
But when he lost to Milicic, he was speechless.
How can he still argue with this?
The Raptors, with the fourth pick, were in a dilemma. They originally wanted to choose a big man, but they didn't know how to choose between Bosh and Yi Jianlian.
The styles of the two players are so close.
Personal abilities are also very similar.
In this case, it is obviously more appropriate to choose Yi Jianlian, who has a larger Chinese market behind him. However, the Raptors are different from other teams. In his position, he not only considers the Chinese market, but also considers the Canadian market behind him.
As for the analysis of the international situation, I won’t go into details here. Anyway, Canada has always been the younger brother of the United States. In Lu Yu’s previous life, Ms. Meng was also detained by Canada.
So after much deliberation, the Raptors finally chose Bosh.
Next, the Heat selected Wade.
The Clippers drafted Kaman.
These are no different from Lu Yu's previous life. The difference is that in Lu Yu's previous life, the Bulls got the seventh overall pick, but now the Bulls do not have a first-round pick, and the seventh overall pick fell to a player who originally did not have a top ten pick.
SuperSonics pick.
The SuperSonics general manager chose Yi Jianlian without hesitation.
This pick was obtained in the trade between Payton and Ray Allen last year, which also contributed to the SuperSonics becoming the only team with three picks in the first 14 picks in this year's draft.
They used their other two picks to select forward Nick Collison from the University of Kansas and guard Luke Ridnour from the University of Oregon.
This is no different from Lu Yu's previous life.
It's just that the SuperSonics' team building ideas are definitely different from Lu Yu's previous life. Collison will become Yi Jianlian's competitor, and the two rookie awards will compete for the team's starting position.
Generally speaking, the SuperSonics is a team in the league that is very suitable for Yi Jianlian.
If he plays well, there's no telling that Yi Jianlian will become Durant's big brother in the future.
After watching the first round, Lu Yu saw many players that he had never noticed in his previous life. They turned out to be players from the 2003 draft. No wonder many fans call the 2003 draft the Platinum Generation.
For example, David West was drafted by the Hornets this year. This mustache has comprehensive skills and is almost a weakened version of Chris Webber.
There is also Boris Diaw. I didn’t know but I thought Brother Diao was very old. I didn’t expect that he was a player from the 2003 class. Brother Diao from France is very sentimental and likes to drink coffee. Maybe it is for this reason that he becomes more and more popular.
Getting fatter.
Diaw was selected by the Hawks with the 21st overall pick in the first round.
The Grizzlies selected the fat black man Perkins with the 27th pick in the first round, and the Spurs selected the Brazilian Lightning Barbosa with the 28th pick in the first round, the man who gave Nash a green head.
The Mavericks selected Josh Howard with the 29th overall pick in the first round.
Howard has excellent physical fitness. His wingspan and speed allow him to face no disadvantages even against top swingmen. And when misplaced defense occurs, he can also use his physical advantages to interfere with the opponent's inside line.
Another tough guy.
Lu Yu watched with great interest. In his previous life, many of these players had retired, but now they were all young and their images were very different. The most important thing was that for Lu Yu, who could already roughly guess their future development experiences.
, this draft is indeed incredible.
You must know that a player like Josh Howard can fall to the 29th pick in the first round. This is only in 2003. In other years, it is not impossible to be in the top ten.
It's a pity that this year's Bulls have no draft picks, so Lu Yu can no longer dig for gold.
There were also several players in the second round that made Lu Yu feel itchy.
For example, Korver was selected by the Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the second round.
But soon, news came during the draft that he had been traded. The Nets traded him to the 76ers in exchange for only part of the cash.
I wonder if this time, the Nets will use the money to pay the registration fee for the summer league team, and then use the remaining money to buy a printer.
Lu Yu was like this in his previous life, and people also jokingly called Korver's deal "a printer deal."
Also selected in the second round were Mo Williams and Lu Yu’s college rival Matt Bonner.
In fact, Lu Yu is very jealous of Matt Bonner.
This is a player who plays with his brains and is very suitable for the current Bulls. Moreover, the two of them also have some friendship, so it will be easy to get along with him. However, it is a pity that he was still selected by the Raptors.
Who let the Bulls have no draft picks?
Klaus, who was buckling and buckling, was just going to New York for a formality. He set his sights on the trading market and looked down on this year's rookies at all.
Little did Klaus know that there would be many, many future stars in this year's draft.
By the way, Xue Yuyang from the Flying Dragons was also selected by the Mavericks with the 28th pick in the second round, probably in an attempt to recruit another Wang Zhizhi.
Lu Yu doesn’t know whether Xue Yuyang has the strength to enter the NBA. However, after the efforts of several of their Chinese players in the NBA, there are now Chinese players selected. Playing in the summer league should be no problem, and there will be no obstruction in the country. At least it will not be like in the previous life.
That way, there is no chance of a fight.
As for whether it is a mule or a horse, you will have to pull it out and run around to find out.
Lu Yu made an appointment for a dinner with Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, and the two rookies selected this year, Yi Jianlian and Xue Yuyang.
Xue Yuyang seemed very excited. It was the first time for him to see so many players in the news.
You must know that he is not even a national player now, but he has played well in the Feilong team. As for how he was selected, Lu Yu doesn't know.
But being selected is worth celebrating, and this meal is also to celebrate their success in the draft.
While eating, Battle complained that Lu Yu had made him unemployed. His contract with the Spurs ended in the summer and was not renewed. However, he has reached an agreement with the Raptors and will sign a contract in the near future.
This is one of the reasons why the Raptors did not select Yi Jianlian in the draft.
It’s not that they don’t want the Chinese market, they just want to do it in a quiet way.
Lu Yu chatted with Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Battelle, mostly about some recent transactions in the NBA market. Yi Jianlian could occasionally interject a few words. After all, he had been playing in the United States, but Xue Yuyang couldn't understand it at all.
Recently, there have been several transactions in the trading market, making it a trend for superstars to team up.
In Lu Yu’s previous life in the NBA, it has become the norm for superstars to team up. It is increasingly difficult to rely on a single star to win the championship. James’ brother basketball, Durant’s peak rival, George and Leonard met with the Clippers, Durant and
Irving meets the Nets, Davis joins the Lakers, the list goes on.
This was rare in the NBA more than ten years ago. It was already unusual for one or two players to appear in a year. Most of the stars were trained by their own teams.
However, in the 2003-2004 season, there was a wave of team-ups in the NBA. Three teams improved their combat effectiveness through team-ups.
In the 2003 Western Conference semifinals, the Lakers lost 2-4 to the Spurs, ending their three-game winning streak.
Neither Malone, 40, nor Payton, 35, has won a championship. Their desire for a championship made them choose to join the Lakers.
Although Malone is older, he still has quasi-All-Star level strength.
Payton is almost equivalent to Chris Paul later, both of them are equally good on offense and defense.
Lu Yu felt that these two old guys had no vision at all. In the previous life, the Spurs won the championship that year. They had to win the championship and go to the Spurs. They had to save face and suffer, thinking that the Lakers could also win the championship.
Even now, it is not appropriate for them to go to the Lakers. It is appropriate for them to go to the Bulls if they want to win the championship!
Unfortunately, in the eyes of Malone and Payton, although the Bulls won the championship this year and defeated the Spurs, they lost to the Lakers last year. The Lakers are still dominant. With their joining, they will definitely be able to defeat the Bulls.
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To be honest, they are much smarter than Durant.
Of course, at this time, the sensation caused by Malone and Payton joining the Lakers was no less than that of Lu Yu and Durant joining the Warriors in his previous life. People were shouting for the NBA finale.
The F4 lineup is unprecedentedly strong, but objectively speaking, this is not a superstar team-up. Malone and Payton are both at the end of their careers.
O'Neal's strong appeal made them both willing to take a pay cut to join the team.
Malone is in the last year of his contract and has a player option. If he stays with the Jazz, he will receive a salary of US$20 million this year. If he joins the Lakers, he will only have a veteran's base salary of US$1.5 million.
But out of his desire for a championship, the 40-year-old Malone decided to fight again and gave up his high salary to join the Lakers.
Even people who are not short of money can find this decision difficult.
Lu Yu suspected that he was attracted to Kobe's wife Vanessa.
Payton signed a mid-level contract worth $6 million when he joined the Lakers.
The other team in the group was the Mavericks, who lost to the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. Wang Zhizhi could only smile awkwardly.
The Western Conference Finals fell to the Spurs.
This ending was unacceptable to Cuban, so he began to look for big fish in the transfer market.
The Mavericks already have a troika of Nowitzki, Finley and Nash.
There is also a bench gangster like Wang Zhizhi on the bench.
This year is the second year of Wang Zhizhi's contract, and Cuban did not hesitate to execute the team option, which means that he has determined that he will not renew Wang Zhizhi's contract in advance.
He will look at the offers offered by other teams for Wang Zhizhi in next year's free market before making a decision.
Talking back to the Mavericks' package deal, Cuban first targeted Antoine Jamis. Jamison averaged 22.2 points and 7 rebounds per game in the 2002-03 season.
Then he took a fancy to Antoine Vanwalker, one of the Celtics' twin stars. Walker is only 27 years old this year. In his playing years, he averaged 20.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.
The Mavericks suddenly formed a lineup of five All-Star players.
The five players averaged a combined 104 points per game in the previous season.
It looks a bit scary, but you must know that Wang Zhizhi on their bench also played consecutive amazing performances in the Western Conference Finals and is considered a quasi-All-Star.
But Lu Yu knew that this team was not good. As the saying goes, basketball belongs to five people. There is only one basketball in a game. All five people need to attack the ball. How can the team play?
Another team that is a team is the Timberwolves!
The Timberwolves have been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for seven consecutive years. They were fined five years of first-round draft picks. Coupled with the team's improper operation, Garnett has never had suitable helpers around him.
The Timberwolves' lineup has basically just entered the playoffs. It will be difficult to go further. Szczerbiak, Hudson, and Nesterovich inside, this lineup has no flaws at all.
This summer, the Timberwolves decided to recruit. They first set their sights on Sprewell, one of the two guns of the New York Knicks, and then exchanged the "alien" Sam Cassell from the Bucks.
The head monster takes shape.
There is no doubt about Garnett's strength, but he is not the kind of player who can independently lead a team to win championships. He has a comprehensive style of play, can post up, shoot from the outside, and has strong support ability.
But he can't stand up to today's big centers in post-ups, and he can't compare with Duncan. His outside shooting range is limited to the three-point line, and he doesn't have the range and touch like Nowitzki.
All in all, Garnett is very comprehensive, but not a dominant scorer.
But Garnett is a perfect teammate. He can play his role no matter what lineup he is in. He has a comprehensive style of play, strong off-ball ability, fast movement, and is good at counter-running. Even if Lu Yu was older in his previous life,
Now, when it comes to the Celtics, his pick-and-roll with Rondo is also one of the Celtics' main offensive methods.
He is the best among big men in terms of passing. He is good at picking off rebounds and making long passes. He is also good at high-post handoffs and direct passes into the paint.
On the defensive end, Garnett is much better than offensively. As an insider, he can continuously attack on the line. The last person to do this was Bill Russell.
But Garnett also has shortcomings, and it comes back to the same problem. He can't defend the big center inside.
Nowadays, in order to fight against O'Neal, many teams in the Western Conference have stocked up on powerful centers in the paint, but Garnett cannot handle it.
A player like Garnett is not suitable for single-core play. If you give him good teammates, he can make do.
"Let's stick together, let's all stick together."
Lu Yu looked at the setting sun outside the window, and the corners of his mouth curved: "You in the west are drinking hard, anyway, as long as the east doesn't stick together, I won't have anything to do with it."
Suddenly, he thought of LeBron James, who was just selected this year, and suddenly had a premonition that one day in the future, he would be as heartbroken as the Western Conference team is now.
Or, before James plays "brother basketball", go to the Western Conference?
