The Knicks' transfer reinforcements have come to an end, and the result is disappointing.
There is no qualified starting center, and there is still a lack of ball-handling points other than Lin Yu (the addition of Ricky Davis only quenches the thirst a little).
But Lin Yu could understand the result before him. There was no other way, the Knicks had too few assets.
Unless they are willing to give away high-quality young players like Wilson Chandler and Kyle Lowry, it will be difficult for them to get their favorite players from other teams.
Just like, if the Knicks are really interested in acquiring the Pistons' Rasheed Wallace this summer, a Wilson Chandler would be more than enough.
But the problem is that it is impossible for the Knicks to make such a deal, because the current value of Wilson Chandler is much higher than that of Rasheed Wallace who is entering the end of his career.
The young players can't move, and what's left is a group of old, weak, sick and disabled. Even Eddy Curry feels the contract is unreasonable if he puts it like this.
There are also very few draft picks, and because of Lin Yu's existence, their value is not high.
Therefore, their operating space is very small.
They were able to sign James Posey with a mid-level exception, and high-quality substitutes like Ricky Davis, Donyel Marshall and Anthony Johnson through connections.
The overall operation has been excellent, and relying on the Bird Rights to renew Kwame Brown's contract, using the first round to deal with Eddie Curry, and also getting an expiring contract, it also left a foreshadowing in the middle of the season.
Lin Yu is still satisfied with this summer. At least, there are reinforcements and there are ways to improve in the future. The future is still bright.
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After finishing his work in the United States, Lin Yu set out to return to China.
It was already mid-July, and the men's basketball training camp had already started at the end of May. Lin Yu first relied on the playoffs to get permission to extend his stay with the team for a month.
Then due to injuries, he was allowed to postpone his return to the team until the end of July.
But now, the license has not expired, but Lin Yu is returning to the team early.
He first took a plane from New York to Los Angeles and watched a summer league game being held there.
In the summer league, the Knicks formed a team led by the rookies of the season, namely Mario Chalmers and DeAndre Jordan, supplemented by a group of rookies, and played in the Southern California Summer League.
Before the game Lin Yu watched, they had already played two games. Mario Chalmers showed his general style, three-point defense, organization and ball control, and was omnipotent. He played a qualified starting point guard in the summer league.
Performance.
DeAndre Jordan was even more explosive, scoring 15 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks in two consecutive games.
Although it is a summer league, you need to know that it is not only rookies who participate in the summer league, but also a group of sophomores, juniors who have not yet made a name for themselves in the NBA, as well as some fringe players who have played for many years.
Overall, the strength and intensity of confrontation are higher than the NBDL, and it is not surprising that second- and third-year players, as well as those fringe veterans, can produce All-Star-level data under such intensity of competition, but rookies will be
Much appreciated.
In particular, through comparison, Chalmers' performance is almost as good as Derrick Rose's, and DeAndre Jordan's performance is also better than that of a group of first-round big men...
That's enough to keep the Knicks' rookies in the headlines.
Bill Simmons is the columnist who pays the most attention to the two Knicks rookies. This time, he did not publish a column. He just commented on his social networking site: "The Knicks' two draft picks should be successful. Mario
- Chalmers’ immediate ability is obvious, and the young DeAndre Jordan also played a phenomenal summer league performance. I can only say that the managers and scouts in the first round were all wrong!”
In the third game of the Summer League, Lin Yu's appearance inspired the Knicks' rookies and undrafted rookies. In a heavyweight showdown, they defeated the Heat with Michael Beasley.
Lin Yu shouted from the sidelines: "Well done, Mario, well done, DeAndre!"
Next season, if nothing unexpected happens, after the mid-term trade, both Chalmers and DeAndre Jordan will become key members of the Knicks' rotation.
Maybe it's because of his outstanding performance in Summer League, or maybe it's because the unpleasantness of the draft has passed, and Jordan is in a good mood.
After the game, he took the initiative to find Lin Yu and say hello.
After some exchanges, Lin Yu left Los Angeles overnight.
As for the next stop, he soon arrived at the Magic City.
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The reason why it is the Magic City and not the capital is because the men's basketball team is having a closed training camp in Beilun, Ningbo.
When he returned to China this time, Lin Yu only brought his cousin Lin Shenzhen with him.
On the one hand, he knows that the current head coach of the men's basketball team, Yunus, hates players using his own training team. In the last men's basketball training camp, Lin Yu planned to bring David Alexander along to let the boys of the men's basketball team feel
Let’s take a look at the strength of America’s top trainers.
However, Yunas directly rejected Lin Yu’s application.
On the other hand, Amanda Gray was not very familiar with the affairs after returning to China. On the contrary, the country was dominated by Lin Shen Shen, and Lin Yu was in charge of all the work in the country.
Lin Yu, who arrived in the magical capital, did not go directly to Beilun. He first stayed in the magical capital for a day.
"The World of Basketball" is a basketball forum. Relying on its advanced media resources, this forum has defeated some Tieba, some news, and some waves, and has become the first choice for most basketball fans to watch basketball.
But no one knew that the "Basketball World", which was always one step ahead in reporting on the NBA, was actually a small workshop with only seven staff members.
"There are only seven of us. I take charge of the overall situation, and Lao Zhang is responsible for translating and distributing news. We are a team, with a total of three people. The other three people are the technical team, responsible for maintaining the website."
In an office building in Shanghai, Lin Yu was struggling to move his body in a small office.
Standing in front of him to introduce the general situation was Gu Haisen, the editor-in-chief of "Basketball World".
The old Zhang mentioned by Gu Haisen is named Zhang Jinzhong, and he is the deputy editor-in-chief and leader of the news team of "Basketball World". Both of them are reporters, but in Lin Yu's previous life, neither seemed to be well-known, maybe not even famous.
Participate in coverage of sports events.
Just because of his love for basketball, in this time and space, he was hired by Lin Yu and became the leader of the grassroots team of "Basketball World".
Lin Yu didn't spend much money to build this forum. It can be seen from the staff team. There are no well-known journalists or technical experts, just a group of ordinary people.
And their success depends naturally on ESPN's news source.
However, Lin Yu's ambitions did not stop there. He told Gu Haisen: "Starting from next year, you have to expand your team and recruit a group of reporters who love basketball and are fluent in English to be stationed in some key cities in the United States, or directly from the United States.
When it comes to recruiting, we need to get some exclusive news instead of relying on ESPN for everything."
Exclusive news is considered the weakness of "Basketball World". In this aspect, Central Five, Xunxun, and Lang are better than them.
"In addition, I need to recruit a group of technical experts and rebuild the website. I need a new website that can not only post and chat about football, but also watch videos and live broadcasts."
The road has to be walked step by step. Lin Yu is ready to gradually make the basketball world comparable to Xunxun and Xunlang in terms of software and hardware, and then rely on ESPN's news sources to further widen the gap with Xunxun.
In the end, he relied on the exclusive network broadcast rights purchased at a high price to completely expand his status.