After the Olympics, Lin Yu stayed in China for two more weeks, probably finishing the acquisition and privatization of the Red River team, and finally helped with some signings and recruitment work.
Just like David Blatt, he originally did not consider joining the CBA, a league that is not very famous or strong in the international basketball world, but Lin Yu came forward to recruit and even offered to help find an NBA job after three years of coaching.
Only then did I convince David Blatter.
He also opened a basketball training camp in Spring City, which attracted many young players who were playing in sports schools but had not entered the provincial youth team, or who had entered the provincial youth team but whose provincial team did not have young players from the CBA team.
Among them, the ones that Lin Yu was most familiar with were all signed by him.
For example, Ding Yanyuhang was born in Karamay, Xijiang. His father was a professional basketball player in the military region. When he was a child, he was educated by the women's basketball coach of Xijiang University. In 2006, he followed his father to the capital and entered Wang Fei Basketball School.
This year, he began to seek opportunities to enter the CBA. He was recommended by the school to the Bayi team, but the Bayi team refused.
Later, when he heard that Lin Yu had acquired Honghe, he came to Chuncheng himself.
After seeing the name Ding Yanyuhang and hearing that this guy was the best at Wang Fei's basketball school, Lin Yu signed him directly without any hesitation.
For another example, Wang Zhelin, who was studying and training at the sports school and had been contacted by the Hu Jian Province Youth Team, ran over after hearing that Lin Yu had opened a basketball training camp in Chuncheng.
Then Lin Yu signed it without any effort.
There is no other way. Compared with Hu Jiansheng's youth team, Honghe has already decided to use an All-American coaching team. Its professionalism and ability to train young players are already the best in China.
Unless it's a waste of money, Red River should be the strongest in the country in terms of its attraction to young players.
Similar is Zhou Qi. At this time, Zhou Qi was still a member of Fuxin Basketball School and was about to enter the third team of Liao Province. However, a training camp opened in Honghe and he came to try it out. He was immediately approved by Lin Yu.
Signed.
In addition to these young people, this training camp also attracted a veteran among the young people-Li Gen.
Li Gen has already gone to school at Ning University. This time he came to Spring City to participate in the training camp to try his luck. Who would have thought that when Lin Yu saw this name, he immediately decided to sign Li Gen.
For Lin Yu, in this training camp, he directly recruited four young people, Ding Yan Yuhang, Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi, as well as Li Gen, and the harvest has been very great.
After Lin Yu returned to the United States, Honghe's recruitment was still in progress.
The negotiation with Aoshen was quickly successful. After Honghe confirmed that he would stay in the CBA, Aoshen's return to the CBA was blocked.
After Sun Yue successfully ran for the NBA, other players in the Aoshen team were already filled with resentment and wanted to leave the Aoshen team, which had no hope or future.
The boss of Aoshen no longer stopped, Honghe spent some money and easily won Zhang Songtao, Huang Haibei, Huo Nan, Jin Xin, Li Wei and Wu Guanxi.
Among them, only Zhang Songtao, Huang Haibei and Huo Nan are worth some money, and the others are just additions.
In addition, Honghe also hired Lin Zhijie from the crooked SBL, and the foreign aid has also been finalized. The junior foreign aid is Stephon Marbury. The big foreign aid is Rodney White from Guangsha last year. Honghe can also introduce an Asian foreign aid, but that is not the case.
Without wasting this quota, he directly signed Saeed Abbas, the leader of Jordanian basketball.
The signing of Yawai can be regarded as the beginning of the Yawai era in CBA. The 2008/09 season was the first season that CBA adopted Yawai. Abbas was also the first Yawai in CBA.
Lin Yu, who is far away in the United States, is also paying attention to Honghe's signings. Overall, he is satisfied.
At least next season, under the leadership of David Blatt, with Marbury in the lineup, plus Rodney White and Abbas, as well as Lin Zhijie, Li Gen and Zhang Songtao, such a lineup will be ranked at the top.
It shouldn't be a big problem.
But if you want to directly compete for the championship, I'm afraid you have to wait for Ding Yanyuhang, Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi from the youth team.
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In the United States, Lin Yu returned to New York, put his Olympic silver medal in the honor exhibition hall at his home in New York, and then began to understand the general situation of next season.
The Knicks have nothing to say. The 15-man roster has been determined early. It depends on what adjustments can be made in the middle of the season.
In the East, Lin Yu has two biggest opponents on his mind. One is the Celtics who fired Danny Ainge and Doc Rivers.
The biggest change for the Celtics should be to strengthen Tom Thibodeau, and the team's former hero Michael Carr returns as the team's general manager.
In terms of the team's lineup, James Posey, Sam Cassell and P.J. Brown, veterans who joined with the hope of winning a championship ring, left and were replaced by Bill Walker and J.R. Giddens.
Several young rookies.
Overall, the Celtics' main lineup has not changed much, but Posey's departure has still weakened them a bit, and their strength has dropped a bit compared to last season.
The other biggest opponent is the Cavaliers. They rejected the Knicks' request for Ben Wallace, but then they made big moves.
They first sent away Jamal Crawford, who was not suitable for James, and acquired Al Harrington, a shooter at the fourth position, from the Warriors.
Then they used David Lee and Damien Wilkins to get a defensive perimeter Anthony Parker from the Raptors.
Finally, he generously extended the contract of Ben Gordon.
The remaining main lineup becomes, starting: point guard Mo Buqian, shooting guard Anthony Parker, small forward James, power forward Al Harrington, and center Ben Wallace.
Substitutes: Point guards Delonte West and Daniel Gibson, shooting guard Ben Gordon, forward swingman Jared Dudley, power forward rookie J.J. Hixon, centers Big Z and Anderson Varejao.
This lineup is obviously more targeted, with overflowing long-range shots, and more one-on-one defense experts like Anthony Parker on the outside. In addition to the center, most of the remaining players on the inside are also shooters.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Mike Brown has also dismissed get out of class, and his successor is former Bucks coach Terry Stotts.
It is said that the reason why the Cavaliers chose Stotts was that James heard about it from somewhere. After Lin Yu moved to the Knicks, he recommended Terry Stotts.
Of course, he also knew that Lin Yu not only recommended Stotts, but also Rick Carlisle and Mike Budenholzer, but he finally chose Stotts because he was less famous than Carlisle.
, better handled.
As for Mike Budenholzer, James did consider it, but unfortunately, Budenholzer rejected the Cavaliers' invitation.
In addition to these two teams, Lin Yu also paid attention to the Magic.
The Magic were very successful last season. In the new season, they naturally adhered to the route of last season and did not make many signings. It seemed that they wanted to wait for the growth of the young players in the team.
Among them, it is worth noting that this year's No. 22 rookie Courtney Lee and the second-year Polish hammer Maxin Gortat.
Overall, the Eastern Conference in the new season will be a battle between the top four.