Deng Fang gave Yao Ming a very clear task, which was to lose weight and practice three-pointers!
These two points are difficult for many players, but they are not a problem for Yao Ming.
First of all, Yao Ming is very self-disciplined, trains hard, and does what he says.
This is difficult for most players!
The life of a player is very boring, the training intensity is very intense and the food intake is huge.
But for professional players, not everything can be eaten.
Especially players who need to lose weight!
The amount of training must be sufficient, and the food you eat to gain muscle and lose weight must be limited. This kind of life is very difficult.
Fortunately, Yao Ming is very self-disciplined.
The coach told Yao Ming to gain weight, and Yao Ming obeyed and gained weight.
The coach asked Yao Ming to go to the low post and not shoot from the outside. Yao Ming went to the low post and gave up the mid-range shot that he was good at.
For players like Yao Ming, losing weight is not too difficult.
As for practicing three-pointers, it's even less of a problem.
The biggest difference between Yao Ming and other centers is his accurate shooting!
Even if he is not compared with rough guys like O'Neal and Howard, even if he is compared with skilled players like Lopez and Gasol, Yao Ming's shooting is still very good!
For such a player, practicing three-pointers is not a problem at all!
Of course, Deng Fang's requirement for Yao Ming was that he should not only be able to shoot, but also be accurate, and his speed should not be slow.
If your speed is slow, your opponent will be able to provide some interference. Even if Yao Ming is very high and your opponent cannot block shots, it will still affect your hit rate.
Yao Ming was not surprised by Deng Fang's request.
Almost everyone knows the Warriors' style, and Lopez's style of play is also the target of many centers to imitate.
It's just that Yao Ming rested for a long time due to injury, and the Rockets' head coach is Adelman, so Yao Ming can't try Lopez's style of play.
Now that he is joining the Warriors, with Deng Fang's instructions, Yao Ming is of course willing to change his style of play!
Deng Fang gave Yao Ming plenty of time, several months!
Now that the league is suspended, free agents cannot be signed, and players cannot go to the team for training. This is the perfect time for Yao Ming to lose weight and practice three-point shooting!
After dealing with Yao Ming's matter, Deng Fang can finally rest for some time.
By acquiring Klay in the draft and trading Ariza and Lopez before the lockout, what the Warriors had to do in the offseason was basically completed.
In fact, Lopez didn't need to be traded, but Deng Fang didn't know whether Yao Ming would agree to come back, so just to be on the safe side, Deng Fang made the deal first.
Anyway, a rookie contract only costs a second-round pick!
If you don’t need it, just exchange it during mid-term trading!
In short, you won’t lose money!
Before the vacation, Deng Fang also called Clay and Ariza and assigned them tasks.
It's very simple, just practice three-point shooting!
Clay's three-pointer was accurate, but he also needed Deng Fang's instructions.
"Klay? You will have a lot of playing time next season! You will also enter the starting lineup in the second half of the season! Your task is to practice three-pointers well and defend well!"
"Ariza? You have to practice three-point shooting well. If you can shoot three-pointers well, you can enter the starting lineup!"
For Klay, it goes without saying that shooting three-pointers is his bread and butter? But he may not dare to imagine himself entering the starting lineup!
I am a rookie!
The Warriors are the defending champions!
Are they playing well? How can you be in the starting lineup as soon as you come in?
Even when it comes to playing time, there is no guarantee of how much it will be!
So Klay was not happy about being drafted by the Warriors at first.
Players play to make money, and making money requires good-looking data!
How can you have good data without playing time?
In a mature team like the Warriors? It's hard for a rookie like Klay to get enough playing time.
In this case, is it necessary to train hard?
Deng Fang's phone call with Clay was to reassure him of these concerns.
I really like you!
If you are given enough playing time, you will be given the starting lineup!
As long as you practice well it will be fine!
As for Ariza? As long as Deng Fang briefly talks about it, that will be enough.
Ariza is a veteran? He has won a championship with the Lakers and he knows his role.
Defense, throw three-pointers!
For a player like Ariza, defense is engraved in his bones? There is no need for the head coach to say more.
Three points is not necessarily the case.
Ariza's three-point shooting in the early stages of his career was not very good? Even in the later stages of his career, his three-point shooting rate was not too high.
All I can say is that it’s okay!
A little higher than the league average, dare to take action at critical moments? Don't lose the chain.
This is still not enough.
The Warriors have a lot of useful 3D players. If Ariza is not accurate in three-pointers, he will not have much playing time.
Deng Fang is still very optimistic about Ariza.
So Deng Fang specifically ordered Ariza to practice three-pointers.
Your three-pointers are directly related to your playing time!
If you throw accurately, hit more; if you throw incorrectly, hit less!
If you spend more time playing, you will get good data; if you spend less time playing, you will not have good data.
Good data means a lot of money!
To put it bluntly, if you hit three points accurately, you will get a big contract!
It's that simple!
Ariza is a veteran and a sensible person, Deng Fang only needs to remind him!
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The NBA's lockout lasts from July to November.
During this period, all player signings and transactions were suspended, and many people did not know what the future would hold.
Only Deng Fang knew what was going on.
The season will definitely start, it’s just a matter of sooner or later!
Both owners and players need to start the season to make money!
By mid-November, the players still refused to sign the agreement and even planned to protect their rights through legal means.
The league has also decided to fight to the end, and the NBA seems to be suspended indefinitely.
To put it bluntly, this is psychological warfare, to see who is afraid first!
In fact, neither side can afford the cost of suspension.
The so-called four major leagues in the United States have all been suspended, but their fates are very different: the NFL, the leader of the four major leagues, had a player strike in 1987. After the stars of many teams stopped playing, the bosses could only call in amateur players.
Players come to top up the numbers.
As a result, the Washington Redskins, which had never been to the Super Bowl, actually won the championship trophy for the team with a team of janitors, train workers, bag carriers, British Amateur League football players and other motley crew.
When the stars saw that they had no money to argue with the boss, they all came back to play.
In 1994, MLB's lockout ended with a similar result, except that players from MLB's minor leagues took over.
The third major league, the NBA, suspended half of the season in 1999. The popularity earned by the league during the Jordan era disappeared overnight. Stern saw that there was no hope of challenging the two big brothers NFL and MLB in the United States, so he started
his international routes.
The NHL was suspended for one year in the 2004-05 season, and since then the league has basically been eliminated from the four major leagues.
This is the reality of the NBA. Among the four major leagues in the United States, they are the youngest. From this perspective, their talent training system is also the weakest.
Both the NFL and MLB can rely on their second-string players to barely hold up the banner, but the NBA cannot.
Although the league has consciously established the NBDL in recent years and increased the minor league mechanism, it lacks influence on fans.
Without a foundation, you can't afford a shutdown.
Likewise, players cannot afford the consequences of a lockout.
The interests of the players are not unified, and the middle and low-level players cannot afford to stop!
Bosses can stick to the bottom line for the common interests.
For the owners of big teams, the losses in tickets and other losses caused by the lockout are not worth mentioning. The owners of small teams may feel distressed, but when they think of the benefits that the new labor agreement can bring, they can hold their breath for the moment.
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The biggest trump card of the employer is: they are united!
But the players union is not monolithic.
Not only the NBA, but other leagues as well.
During the NFL lockout in 1987, the Washington Redskins relied on a group of amateurs to win the championship. At that time, regular players from several teams did not comply with the union's opinions and instead compromised to play for the team.
That season the NFL was a "big pot": professional, amateur, everything.
Think about it, with such disagreements, how can the players fight with the boss?
Labor unity has always been the biggest problem!
Superstars are not afraid of downtime because they earn more and have enough savings in their accounts!
Even if you don't play basketball, you can still make a good living from advertising fees.
But if the season is really suspended, can those ordinary players survive?
The new collective bargaining agreement will allow a player who originally earned US$1.5 million a year to only earn US$1.2 million. This is of course a loss, and no one wants it. But if there is a shutdown and there is no income at all, then the whole family will go to drink the northwest wind.
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The key is that players of this class account for at least 50% of the league's players. Even if people speak softly, the voice of the masses is still powerful.
There is Kobe who can earn 30 million US dollars a year, there are also players who earn a "middle-class annual salary" of 5 million US dollars, and there are also a large number of "low-income players" whose annual salary is only a few hundred thousand US dollars.
If he misses one month of games, Kobe will lose $5 million in pre-tax salary.
Compared with big-name stars who have long-term contracts, many low- and middle-income players will be even more unable to sit still.
Therefore, the interests of labor are inconsistent.
Of course, today, the players have more experience in struggle and understand the importance of unity. If they say they don't want to fight, they will stop fighting together. This can still be done.
Considering that the NBA is indeed losing money and that the players union is unstable, the winner of the new collective bargaining agreement negotiations will undoubtedly be the employer.
In fact, for everyone, the suspense is just how much of the new conditions proposed by the employer can be realized.
Achieving a hard salary cap and reducing total wages are undoubtedly the two most critical elements.
The salary cap puts two major pressures on bosses: First, according to the 2005 labor agreement, within a contract, a player's salary can increase by 10.5% every year, and the incremental part will not be included in the salary cap in the future.
restrictions. In this regard, it is really beneficial to the players. Because it is impossible for the team's income to increase by 10.5% every year!
In addition, the previous collective bargaining agreement was too complicated, with a wide variety of clauses, many of which were exceptions.
One exception may not have much impact on the team's salary structure, but when 7 or 8 exceptions are added up, the total salary originally intended to be controlled at US$50 million inexplicably becomes US$60 million.
Once the hard salary cap is achieved, the total salary in the hands of the boss will only be 50 million US dollars, and the players will have no choice but to accept this salary honestly.
As for the total salary, it will definitely be reduced, it just depends on the extent of the reduction.
During one negotiation, 50 players attended the meeting wearing T-shirts with the word "Persistence" printed on them. They seemed to be very powerful, but the bosses were very calm.
Cutting player wages is the easiest way for them to achieve profitability. Rather than spending energy cultivating the market and attracting fans, they would rather spend several more months at the negotiating table.
"Big Mouth" Barkley predicted: "The bosses will win."
The players really can't afford it. If the new labor contract is not signed for a long time, the impact on the players' income will be huge.
After several days of cold war, the two sides finally calmed down, and on November 23, the two sides finally decided to sit down and negotiate again.
On the 25th, the two sides negotiated for a full 15 hours, and finally reached a consensus this time:
1. The players agreed to reduce the proportion of salary expenses to 51.2% in the new season, and make adjustments based on league revenue in the next few years, with the adjustment range being between 49% and 51%;
2. The agreement also includes some rule changes, such as rookie contract terms;
3. Player maximum salary ratio remains unchanged.
This agreement also lasts until the end of 2017.
On November 26, 2011, after 15 hours of negotiations, labor and management finally announced an agreement, ending the 149-day long shutdown.
If all goes well, the new season will officially kick off on December 25th, US time, and the free market and training camp will start at the same time on December 9th.
During this period, with no sign of an end to the lockout, many players chose to play overseas.
According to ESPN statistics, there are currently 70 people playing overseas.
Among them, most players had an opt-out option in their contracts when they originally signed contracts with overseas teams.
Now that the lockout is over, they can immediately terminate their contracts with the team and return to the United States to prepare for the new season.
Due to Deng Fang's presence, the Warriors have no players to go overseas to play, and they have been training hard during the lockout.
Deng Fang's prestige is still there, and his appeal is very strong.
Deng Fang told all the players that the lockout will not last long, so we can just treat it as a big holiday!
This is good for us to win three consecutive championships!
We must not relax and keep training!
Due to Deng Fang's previous performance, the Warriors players all believed in Deng Fang.
The lockout is over and Yao Ming also announced his comeback.
Warriors general manager Tim quickly contacted Yao Ming and signed a contract. Yao Ming announced that he would join the Warriors!
The alliance was shocked!
Didn’t Yao Ming retire?
Why did you come back again?
This is not bad!
Deng Fang started so quickly, and the Warriors introduced another strong supporter!
The first person to express dissatisfaction was James. He said on multiple occasions that the Warriors were cheating! The league should ban this signing!
The Warriors are the only one, which does no good to the league!
The Warriors should be prohibited from making any trades, and the Warriors' draft picks for next year and the year after should even be cancelled!
The emperor is so powerful, he is allowed to form a Big Three lineup, and no one else is allowed to sign free agents!
