Build a Dream Dynasty

Chapter 156 The Bad News Comes

The away game gnawed down the hard bone of the Los Angeles Lakers, and the team's performance ranked third in the Eastern Conference. The last injured Leonard of the team is about to return after the Los Angeles road trip. For the Nets, everything is perfect.

However, during the team's second day of training in Los Angeles, a heart-wrenching scene occurred. Lopez was injured and fell to the ground in the confrontation. He went to the hospital for examination and found that the fifth metatarsal of his right foot was stressed A fracture requires surgery. The injury suffered by Lopez is similar to the fracture of the left little toe suffered by Yao Ming in 2006. The recovery time is between 4 months and 5 months, and he can basically be reimbursed for the official season!

a bolt from the blue! For the Nets, which have performed outstandingly this season, the impact of this news is shocking enough. The season has progressed so far, and the Nets are very promising to surprise everyone this season. And Lopez's role in the team is almost irreplaceable. Stevens dared to boldly rotate West in most back-to-back games. For Lopez, he would only give him more rest time at most, and he would not directly let him take turns.

"Stress fractures are not caused by a particular event, but a bone injury caused by overuse. When muscles become fatigued from overuse, they cannot absorb the vibrations generated by repeated collisions in time, and transmit the stress to the bones. Cause small bone fractures or fractures." After Lopez returned to New York, Bi Oscar diagnosed him immediately and explained to Jiang Mingliang.

Another way to put it is "overwork and illness", but this is also a bit strange. Lopez's average playing time this season is about 34 minutes per game, and he is not squeezed by the Rockets and the national team every day like Yao Ming. There is no reason to be sick!

"Based on the team's use of Brook, this shouldn't have happened." If it was a sudden injury caused by a collision during the game, then Jiang Mingliang still accepted it, but was he sick from overwork? How else can the Nets baby Lopez?

"It's a bit of hindsight that Lopez's change of play over the past two seasons was one of the reasons. Going from a post-up guy who was a post-up guy in a timely manner required a lot of work. The pick-and-roll, while taking on a lot of frame-protecting tasks, also needs to enhance flexibility to complete defense against smaller players. These transformations require a lot of training and are not friendly to Brook. In addition, personal physiques are also different. Anyway, Issac, I think the team has to accept this fact and come up with a way to deal with it.” Huang Zhengxuan, who is next to Bi Oscar, gave his professional advice. Compared with Bi Oscar’s medical skills, Huang Zhengxuan paid more attention to basketball. His view is more comprehensive.

What Huang Zhengxuan said made sense, but through his reminder, Jiang Mingliang also realized what he had been ignoring all the time. Lopez in his previous life did have a glassy physique at this stage. If it weren't for his body being too fragile, in fact Prokhorov's Nets might not have ended up in the same miserable state.

This also reminded Jiang Mingliang that he must grasp the scale of Lopez's contract renewal! The price is high, and George, Leonard and others will face the problem of luxury tax and the dilemma that the space is difficult to operate after renewing the contract. But if the additional money is low, it will be unfavorable to renew the contract, hehe, think about the label that the Celtics were labeled after Thomas Jr. left the Celtics.

Sighing, Jiang Mingliang left the hospital, called West, and began to discuss the issue of the firefighting center!

It is a big taboo for military strategists to lose generals before the battle. Lopez's role in the Nets team is needless to say. Facing the Clippers, the inside line composed of Baynes and West, who came off the bench, was almost blown away. Under Paul's needlework, Griffin completed 5 dunks in the whole game, and Jordan also sent two times. The city of lobs almost regarded the Nets' penalty area as a back garden. If it is left in other games, Baines will inevitably trip Griffin and Jordan, but now he dare not. After all, the team is short of people!

This game is also the worst game the Nets have lost since the start of the game. For the first time, the team gave up resistance just 2 minutes into the fourth quarter. The Clippers had a 119:100, 19-point advantage. Win the Nets. This is also the weakest on-the-spot command of Stevens this season. He didn't even resort to the killer's "killing Jordan" tactic, because the gap is too large and there is no need.

It is urgent to fill the vacancy at the center position. The specific situation will have to be discussed with West and Jiang Mingliang after returning to East Rutherford.

As a guest in Los Angeles, it is not unacceptable for the Nets to take away the result of one win and one loss, but Lopez's injury undoubtedly cast a shadow over the Nets this season.

Not many suitable candidates! This is the emotion that Jiang Mingliang and West expressed together! Jiang Mingliang regards players from the perspective of God, and West has created countless brilliance single-handedly. The combination of the two cannot find a suitable candidate from the NBDL player list, which shows how difficult it is.

Those who have strength, characteristics, and no opportunities will either go to Europe to play, or make money in the CBA, and stay in the NBDL to wait for opportunities. How can they have more strength than Wright?

A very reluctant player to try is the center of the Heat last season, veteran Dampier, who may be able to serve as a substitute for a few minutes on top, but he is definitely not a player who can enter the regular rotation. During the meeting of the four-member group, Jiang Mingliang also informed Stevens of the difficulty of panning for gold in the sand, and pointed out that if he wanted to fill Lopez's vacancy, he could only go from the trading market.

In the league, useful big men are treasures. Even if Jiang Mingliang was aiming at the unremarkable substitute players in his respective teams, he still had to pay a considerable amount of chips to negotiate a deal. And the bargaining chips that need to be paid, the decision rests with Stevens himself.

To put it bluntly, people on the fringes of the league like Liggins and Wright, and veteran players like Pavlovic who have had a hard time keeping up with the pace of the NBA, it is impossible to talk about it as a bargaining chip. You must figure it out Decent chips can be exchanged for decent players.

George, Leonard is impossible in the first place. Stevens wants to use these two people as bargaining chips, but Jiang Mingliang refuses! What are you kidding, this is the future of the team!

It is also impossible for West at the power forward position to be traded. After signing for a period of time, he will be traded as a bargaining chip. That is an operation that can only be played in 2K. For a team that does this kind of thing, who would dare to go to free agency in the future?

At the point guard position, the team has three available players, Bledsoe, Jeremy Lin, and Livingston. Livingston's injury risk is great, and there is basically no trading value. Bledsoe and Jeremy Lin choose one of the two. Stevens protects Bledsoe. The meaning is very clear, and Jeremy Lin can be used as a bargaining chip.

However, Jeremy Lin's transaction was mentally rejected by Jiang Mingliang, and he still valued Jeremy Lin very much.

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