People who watch the fun always don't think it's a big deal.
After the press conference, all major media outlets focused on Curry and Deng Fang and made detailed reports on the Warriors:
Is it the loss of morality or the distortion of human nature? The meritorious head coach was angered by a yellow-skinned rookie!
The new season hasn't even started yet, but the Warriors have already begun to completely mess up!
Do you believe it? The team’s goal for the new season is to win the championship!
The new head coach of the Warriors made wild claims that Curry will win both MVPs in the new season!
If you don’t win the championship, get out of class! Let’s wait and see if the Warriors head coach is boasting about Haikou in public. Is he really capable or bragging without a bottom line?
The future of the Warriors actually rests on a skinny rookie!
Building a team with a rookie as the core, and having to get a general feeling in the first year, the entire Warriors management team has lost their minds?!
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Regardless of media doubts or ridicule, in short, the Warriors have attracted a lot of attention.
In this era, traffic is king!
Everything is easy to say if you pay attention.
Warriors season tickets for next season are being bought quickly.
The first yellow-skinned head coach in league history!
The team has undergone a major overhaul, and the head coach said he wants to win the championship!
Will Curry win MVP?
After changing to a rookie head coach, tickets sold better, which made Cohan secretly happy.
Of course, once the season starts with poor results, it will probably be a different story.
However, Cohan is already considering selling the team, and he doesn't want to worry about the future.
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After selecting Curry, at Deng Fang's suggestion, general manager Tim signed Curry a four-year rookie contract immediately.
There are no contract options for either party.
To be honest, Tim was a little hesitant.
What if Curry doesn’t develop as expected?
However, Deng Fang's attitude was very firm. Regardless of those, sign it for four years!
Historically, Curry signed a child labor contract after his rookie season.
That's because of repeated injuries, Curry missed many games.
This also cast a shadow over his career.
But with Deng Fang here, Curry's injury problem disappears.
That’s okay!
Sign as long as you can!
Hurry up and use these four years, you will get the maximum salary later!
In the end, Curry signed a four-year contract with the team, and neither party had options.
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The next step is to open the trading market, and the most important thing is to renew the contracts of the traded players.
According to Deng Fang's suggestion, Tim found Prince, Laga Bell, Anthony Morrow and Azubuike respectively.
Prince has two years left on his contract, which is worth $9 million per year.
Lagabel has one more year left on his contract, worth more than 5 million per year.
Anthony Morrow has one year left on his contract, which is only 740,000.
Azubuike has two years left on his contract, worth more than 9 million per year.
When Tim proposed to renew the contract in advance, the four of them agreed without any hesitation.
In the end, Prince and Azubuike's new contract became a four-year contract with the same annual salary of 9 million per year.
Lagabel's contract became three years and 4 million per year.
After all, she is 33 years old, and Lagabel is very satisfied with it.
Anthony Morrow's contract became four years and 3 million per year.
From a basic salary to a four-year long-term contract, the salary has more than quadrupled. Anthony Morrow is also very satisfied.
DeAndre Jordan and Lopez both have rookie contracts, both for four years, and have nothing to gain.
Subsequently, Tim found Tolliver and Livingston and said that he wanted to sign them to long-term contracts.
Both of them were equally pleasantly surprised.
They are all bums that no one wants. They are content with playing ball. Now a team has offered a long-term contract. If you don't agree, why are you waiting?!
Tolliver's base salary is four years.
Livingston still knows his ability. His asking price is higher than Tolliver, but not much higher.
After all, after a serious injury, no one knows whether he can fully recover or whether he will be injured again.
In the end, Livingston signed for four years for 1.5 million per year.
Deng Fang was very satisfied.
At this point, the team's roster is basically decided.
Center: Lopez, DeAndre Jordan, Turiaf.
Power forward: Radmanovic, Tolliver, Prince.
Small forward: Laga Bell, Azubuike.
Shooting Guard: Belinelli, Anthony Morrow.
Point guards: Curry and Livingston.
Prince and Tolliver can also play three here. Bell and Azubuike are a bit short in three, but they can also top it.
The lineup includes veterans and young people, and they are well matched.
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After all these things were settled, Deng Fang began to call the players one by one.
The season is over, and the players have begun their offseason vacations.
However, most players are still very self-disciplined. Even when traveling, they often insist on exercising, find places to shoot, and maintain their feel.
After all, playing basketball depends on your body.
And the body cannot become stronger instantly whenever it wants to be used.
Football skills also need to be constantly polished.
Some stars who have high expectations for themselves or have ideas for next season will end their vacation early and start their own private training.
The purpose of Deng Fang's calls to everyone is to assign tasks.
The core of the mission is just one: three points!
Every player has to shoot three-pointers!
If possible, invest one or two thousand every day.
The playing time next season will depend on which three-pointer is more accurate among the players at each position!
Especially for Lopez, Deng Fang has been telling him for a long time that he must shoot more three-pointers and as many as possible.
Most teams assign different tasks to their players.
Those who are thin should gain weight, those who are not strong enough should strengthen strength training, those whose shooting is inaccurate should practice more shooting, and those who have problems with dribbling should increase their control exercises.
It's rare that like Deng Fang, all players have the same requirement: three points!
Even the center's requirement is three points!
All players are required to practice three-pointers, which is rare in the NBA.
The defenders are okay, the small forwards are also normal, and although there are few power forwards, they are reasonable.
But few coaches ask centers to practice three-point shooting specifically.
Lopez didn't understand this.
However, Lopez has a gentle personality and is a very obedient player.
Now that you have come to someone else’s one-third of an acre of land, just listen to them!
Lopez is very interesting!
Isn’t it just practicing three-pointers!
It's much more comfortable than being required to practice post-up play and defense, and it's also much more fun!
It is very tiring to make a living among the giants under the basket!
And it’s easy to get injured!
How easy it is to come out and shoot a three-pointer!
Lopez himself has talent in this area.
His shooting touch is very soft, he has many offensive methods, and his back and front frame are good.
It's just that he rarely shot three-pointers early in his career.
In 2009, how many centers went outside to shoot three-pointers?
Rasheed Wallace?
He plays more as a power forward, and his three-point shooting percentage is only average.
There is a threat from the outside, but it is not fatal.
It is for this reason that Lopez has never thought about pulling out to shoot three-pointers.
Therefore, his three-point ability has never been discovered and explored.
