Moses Malone's words shocked Tang Qian. After all, this kind of thing was so sudden and he was not mentally prepared at all.
However, after briefly reviewing the career of the man nicknamed "Prophet" in front of him, Tang Qian was "thrilled".
This is not a question of 5 million. This kind of opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Because Moses Malone, like Rodman, basically never opened a private training camp after retiring. He was also quickly "forgotten" because he didn't like to deal with the media when he was young. At that time, even
Legendary stars also earn very little money. Just like Moses Malone, in his peak period, that is, the era of MVP+FMVP, he only made about 2 to 3 million U.S. dollars. In the eyes of later generations, this is simply extremely pitiful.
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After 19 years of career, Moses Malone's salary did not exceed 20 million! This is really "shabby"! But if you look at the era of his juniors "Black and White", the salary was also not high. Bird until 1991
He only had a salary of 1.5 million a year, and the highest was 7.07 million in the 1991-92 season. And after this season, he retired due to injury.
The "Magician" was in a similar situation, even a little bit worse. He signed a "marathon contract" at that time, which was 25 million for 25 years. How much does it cost per year? You can do the math. Although in that era, it was absolutely
It's a super huge contract, but the plan can't keep up with the changes. The NBA's salary explosion era is coming, and this kind of salary is gradually beginning to be worth mentioning.
When "Big Bird" joined the NBA, he had a rookie contract of US$600,000, which was a sky-high price. Because at that time, the only people who could get this contract number were Dr. J, "Skywalker" David Thompson, and Bill.
Walton, etc. These names have long been known in the league and are superstar players. So compared to this, Moses Malone's salary is not that small.
But the bad thing is that Moses Malone has no business acumen, and he also has the "bad habit" of a black man, which is to spend money on his friends. In addition, after retiring, he rarely manages his own "waste heat", so he basically spends his time in
Resting on one's laurels. After doing this, in line with the changes of the times with soaring prices, his financial resources were gradually stretched.
This is actually a very normal thing. Before the 1990s, even NBA superstars had an annual salary of one million dollars. Ordinary players even earned tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Before that, for example, Wilt.
Chamberlain's first "100,000-year-salary contract" was surpassed by his old rival Bill Russell with "100,000 and one yuan" just a few days before he was able to secure it. But it shows how little the salary was in that era. But "
"Daishuai Zhang" created the first NBA "million contract", which was offered to him by the Lakers, and... damn after tax! 1.25 million US dollars in 5 years! Because Russell has retired, so naturally
No one can compete with him.
But the real million-dollar annual salary, please note that it is not a million-dollar contract, but an annual salary. The creator of this record is none other than the man standing in front of Tang Qian. Moses Malone, the time was in the 1978-1979 season. Of course,
With the addition of incentive payments and various gold medals, it exceeded one million. And he was also the first person in NBA history to reach 2 million or even close to 3 million U.S. dollars. This was the 1982-1983 season, that year plus all
In bonuses, Moses Malone received a total of US$2.965 million, which shocked the entire North American sports world.
So it is ridiculous to say that he is poor! He should be one of the most lucrative men in the NBA back then!
But unfortunately, as "Gorilla" Ewing said, the more we earn, the more we spend, so...
Moses Malone's current situation is neither embarrassing nor awkward, neither up nor down.
He asked for five million. The first was to show off, the second was to increase his worth, and the third was to restrain the young Oriental center in front of him. But what he didn't expect was that after some thought, the other party
He actually replied: "Five million? Well, it's not impossible. But, Mr. Prophet, you have to show me a few hands first. Isn't this too much?"
"You, are you really willing to give me 5 million? Well, it's US dollars???" Moses Malone is not particularly short of money now, but after years of sitting on nothing, his pocket has long been dry. This money, in 2013 and 2014,
It's not a small amount.
If you look at the annual per capita income survey in the United States in 2014, you will find that the per capita income in the United States this year was only 43,017 U.S. dollars. Well, if converted into soft sister coins, it is about 250,000 soft sister coins. 5 million US dollars per dollar
year, it has exceeded the per capita income of the United States by more than 100 times in 2014!
That's why Moses Malone was stunned. He was not sure if the other party was joking on him.
"You can consider it." Tang Qian said in a serious tone: "But I have to see what you can teach me, sir. I think this is in line with the spirit of fairness and justice."
"Of course, of course!" Moses Malone's favorability for Tang Qian suddenly soared: "Then when will you be free?"
"I have it today." Tang Qian originally planned to watch the rest of the Rookie Challenge, but since he had this opportunity, he naturally didn't plan to miss it. So the two hit it off and quickly drove out of the arena.
, went to a private arena.
The United States is a big sports country with a developed sports economy, so it is not difficult to find a place like this.
The two paid the money and walked in.
"Okay, Mr. Prophet, what are you going to teach me? Rebounding?" Tang Qian got straight to the point from the beginning, and he had thought about this question on the way. The purpose was to give Moses a try. Malone was
Is he really prepared to teach him, or is he capable of teaching him? Because of his rebounding, he will not be worse than the latter at his peak now. Even if his offensive rebounding is slightly worse, it is definitely not far away. If his
The rebounding crystal tile can be increased to nine, so Moses Malone may not be his opponent. Chamberlain's offensive rebounding peak period, according to the description of NBA data ancestor Harvey Pollack, should be almost 10 per game.
About two. It looks amazing!
However, considering that he has averaged 27+ rebounds per game many times in the regular season, including 10 offensive rebounds, it is not surprising.
After all, there are still 17 backcourt rebounds guaranteed.
So Tang Qian is not saying that he is not interested in this, but he thinks it is not worth "5 million US dollars."
He doesn't care that much about this beautiful sword, but...it doesn't mean that he is "a fool with too much money".
It depends on how Moses Malone responds.
Moses Malone seemed to notice something. He also curled up his lips and smiled: "Do you think I want to teach you rebounding?"
"I have watched many of your games, and I think there is nothing I can teach you about this alone. Dennis has a good vision, and you are a real rebounding genius."
Why is he so discerning? If I hadn't stalked and deceived him, he wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to me, okay?
"So..." Moses Malone changed the topic: "What I want to teach you is scoring."
Score? Score!!!
This sentence successfully attracted Tang Qian's attention, because now he really had "no way to make a breakthrough" in this area.
After Kobe leaves next year, he is bound to make greater contributions on the offensive end, which requires improvements in offense.
Otherwise, just for defense, this help is still a little too limited.
If Kobe is here, that's no problem. Points are guaranteed, but what if Kobe is gone? There is such a big scoring gap all of a sudden, and if he doesn't fill some of it, how can that be done?
Defense is the guarantee of winning, but scoring is the basis of winning.
If you can't score, what's the point?
And during this period, Tang Qian opened the Silver Score Card + Silver Monthly Card, and for the first time he tasted the feeling of having no solution for scoring. It was impossible for him not to think about it. But now, in addition to his rapid improvement on the off-ball end,
, the ability to independently attack has not increased much, which is where Tang Qian currently feels very entangled.
No matter how strong the off-ball offensive ability is, it still needs to rely on a strong point guard, which is far less free than the freedom of independent offensive ability.
According to the historical trajectory of the original time and space, Nash will retire at the end of this season and will not be able to fulfill the entire contract time. Therefore, he does not have much hope and support. If he wants to achieve results and become a superstar as soon as possible, this is
It was a hurdle he had to pass.
Otherwise, he would not have as many outstanding Hall of Fame teammates as Bill Russell around him, and he might not be able to enter the super giant field in his lifetime.
Therefore, Moses Malone's words can be regarded as a "timely rain" and a "timely help" to Tang Qian.
However...Historically, Moses Malone's offensive skills have been unanimously rated as rough, and he doesn't have any "offensive skills" for which he is famous. So...what can you teach yourself?
"Is it really a score? Mr. Prophet?" Tang Qian asked with some uncertainty.
"Of course, I've said it before, you don't need me to teach you rebounding. Teaching you will have limited effect. It's not worth 5 million."
"Then may I ask, which aspect of my offense should I improve? Is it offense without the ball or independent offense?" Tang Qian asked, because this is the most important point. He has reached the top level in offense without the ball, but it can be restricted.
There are really too many. For example, now, he can hardly exert his full strength and can only be greatly reduced. But if he attacks independently...
"Of course it's about independent offense." Moses Malone said: "Do you think I'm the kind of person who attacks without the ball?"
After hearing this, Tang Qian became completely interested and began to say quickly: "Then what offensive technique is it? Is it a hook? A back shot? Or a low post? Or steps under the basket?"
"None of them." Moses Malone shook his head.
"No? This..." Tang Qian was also stunned. He didn't understand what the latter was going to say.
"It's a hard attack at the basket."
"Hard attack at the basket? What, what is this?" Tang Qian was a little confused, because he seemed to have never heard of this technical move.
However, he did not think that the other party was "playing", because when he said these words, the latter's eyes clearly showed pride.
It's as if he is the overlord in this field.
Unless he was an Oscar winner, Tang Qian really didn't believe that ordinary people could "act" this feeling.
"Well, Mr. Prophet, can you explain it more carefully? It's too general. I think it's a little difficult for me to understand." After Tang Qian finished talking about Moses, Malone didn't shy away and explained directly: "The so-called hard attack at the basket is
Literally, it means physical combat under the basket, including forced shots under the basket, forced confrontation to score, forced second attacks under the basket, etc."
Forced shot under the basket? Forced confrontation under the basket to score? Forced second attack under the basket??? This... said so many words, isn't it just 6 words, forced attack under the basket? But this, what is there to learn from this???
Who wouldn't do this?
Moreover, this kind of attack has no skills or techniques at all?
After hearing this, Tang Qian was obviously a little disappointed. All this fell into the eyes of Moses Malone, and said: "What's wrong? Do you think this is too simple? So you are not interested?" The other party saw that Lakers No. 29 was a little bit
He said awkwardly: "No, Mr. Prophet, it's just..."
"Just what?"
"It's just that even if you master this thing, it won't improve your ability to attack independently, right?" Tang Qian said with a wry smile: "Nothing else, I just think this thing is too..."
"Then how many points do you think you can average now?" Moses Malone interrupted and asked.
"If it's without the ball and paired with a master point guard, I'm confident that I can average about 15+~18+ per game, and 20+ is not unthinkable. But if we only count independent offense, I guess even 5+ will be difficult now." Tang
Qian said truthfully, because he currently averages about 8 points per game, but among the 8 points per game, he also accounts for a certain proportion of points without the ball, so it does not mean that he now has the independent offensive ability to score 8+ points.
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The two cannot be confused, they are not the same thing.
"Then why do you think Howard averaged 20+ or even 22+ per game in his peak period? Does he have any particularly good offensive skills?" Moses Malone asked again. Tang Qian thought for a while, frowned and said: "I guess
It’s probably because his physical fitness is particularly good.”
"Exceptionally good physical fitness? Don't be kidding, will your physical fitness be worse than his?" Moses Malone said: "And who told you that to be good at attacking the basket, you must have top-notch physical fitness?"
With that said, our "Mr. Prophet" said a particularly domineering word:
"If I had his physical fitness back then, I would have averaged at least 35+ points per game. He only averaged 22+ points per game. Why should he be complacent? He didn't even average 25+ per game, and he wasn't even a first-class scorer. What a waste of talent!
Average 22+? What does averaging 22+ per game count?”
Averaging 35+ points per game? Come on, is this bragging too big? This is something even "Sky Hook" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has never done.
"Don't believe it?" Moses Malone snorted and said: "I was only 208cm, less than 250 pounds, and with naturally small hands, didn't I average 31+ points per game? If you gave me that kind of
With my jumping and body, I would say it’s not difficult at all for me to average 35+ per game.”
Yes, yes, I even forgot, this guy has proven himself, he is an inside monster who has entered the super scorer stage.
However, how did Moses Malone, who was widely regarded as "technically rough" by outside reviews, achieve this?
Just because of his intermittent mid-range? This is obviously not the main reason.
Could it be... is it really what he calls a "hard attack at the basket"?
"That kid Howard has not fully utilized his offensive potential at all. He may think that averaging 22+ per game is the limit of his playing style." Moses Malone smiled slightly sarcastically and said: "It's really funny. Give it to yourself."
You have set a limit and you still think this is the limit? It’s really the loneliness of modern insiders!”
"But compared to Howard, you, hot, you are even worse. You actually told me that you can't average 5+ points per game. It's really a waste of your superhuman physical talents." Moses Malone said: "Let me tell you.
, offensive skills are very useful, but lack of offensive skills at the basket does not mean that you cannot become a super scorer."
"As long as you combine your body and your determination to use it to the extreme."
"And you are completely failing at this point, you can't even score 10 out of 100!"
"Your use of your body on the offensive end is really bad! It's so bad that it makes me want to cry!"
Moses Malone said unceremoniously.
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