The Rest, Only Noise

The first thousand two hundred and twenty-eight chapters, please understand the technique of falsely reporting your height

As Louie and the Lakers patiently waited for preseason training camp to arrive, the Portland Trail Blazers announced that their contract extension with Alonzo Mourning had failed.

Mourning left the team in Philadelphia because he was jealous of the penny 100 million contract, so he wanted the 76ers to give him a super max salary of 120 million over seven years.

The 76ers naturally refused, and the relationship between the two sides deteriorated immediately. Mourning was put on the shelf, and the Blazers paid a big price to buy the bottom.

In Pat Riley's view, the seven-year, 120 million renewal of Mourning is indeed a premium, but it is not unbearable.

But that's without the league's luxury tax rules.

The situation has changed after the New York prodigal man made a 300 million luxury tax for the Knicks.

In fact, at the end of last season, Pat Riley handed in his resignation upwards.

He doesn't think he can bring much change to the Blazers anymore.

Paul Allen privately agreed to his resignation request, but he hopes he can hold on until the team selects a new head and head coach. After all, although Riley has not achieved anything in the Blazers over the years, he has One of the closest coaches to being successful in the '90s.

Even if you want to change coaches, you have to change a famous master.

As a result, after the GM summit was over, the league launched the "luxury tax" policy with great fanfare. Allen, who has always been sensitive to this, put Riley's resignation aside after carefully comparing the luxury tax increase and the salary cap space. It is only required that he must control the team's total salary within 50 million.

It's not that Alan is reluctant to spend money, he just wants to see if the money is worth it.

If he can secure the championship, even if the salary exceeds 50 million, it is not impossible to grit his teeth for a year, but he does not see any hope.

If Mourning is given 7 years and 120 million, Portland's salary in the new season will reach 66 million US dollars. Although it is not as bad as New York's 77 million, the luxury tax it can bring is also a frightening giant. Beast - that's $185 million.

If the salary space is controlled within 50 million.

Assuming the Blazers' total salary for the new season is $49.99 million, they only need to pay $59.97 million in luxury tax.

Coupled with the team's salary, the operating cost of a season is about 100 million US dollars.

This is still a deal that is impossible to pay back anyway, but it is within the affordable category.

Suffice to say, the super team is being destroyed.

A monster of a luxury tax will frighten bosses who think they're rich.

And a disheartened Riley, under the circumstances, oddly stayed in Portland.

Paul Allen seems to have forgotten his resignation application.

Riley also did not apply a second time.

Worse than being denied is not being cared about. Riley no longer feels the rich owner's desire for championships, and if his goal is not to win titles but to keep his team competitive, then whoever is in the coaching position is the same. The Blazers with Jordan and Olajuwon won't be that bad.

Riley's heart is full of unwillingness, he feels that he should not have such an ending.

Maybe this is the reason why he did not apply for resignation for the second time. Anyway, he only has the last year of his contract left.

Louie, who caused the changes in the offseason, now looks back on the luxury tax policy and finds that the fines are too heavy.

The current luxury tax penalty is copied from the future NBA, but the income of the league at that time was not the same as today.

However, without strong medicine, the super team cannot be contained.

The reason for the outrageous luxury tax of the Knicks is mainly because Little Dolan is insane, does not understand the new regulations, and does not bother to understand them, and the salary cap system is not perfect.

Although most of the things have been stipulated, the most critical point is not stipulated, that is, the limit on the maximum salary.

Ewing is still the first person in the league's annual salary. His contract is 90 million for four years, with an average of $22.5 million a year, which directly accounts for 2/3 of the salary cap. In today's luxury tax era, Ewing's contract is terrible.

According to normal development, the next step in the league's plan should be to limit the maximum salary, but the next collective bargaining agreement is in 1999.

It is unpredictable what kind of big contracts the league will produce in the next three years.

Mourning, who came to free agency, found that most teams had no room to sign him.

The only team that offered him a big contract was the Cleveland Cavaliers.

They gave Mourning a franchise-record seven-year, $80 million contract.

This is far from the $120 million over seven years that Mourning had asked for, but he has no choice.

Mourning accepted the contract.

In fact, that's exactly what the league wants to see.

A young player as good as Mourning was supposed to be the cornerstone of other up-and-coming teams, not the No. 3 player in Portland.

The Knicks' sky-high luxury tax has awakened many people.

The Blazers stopped the loss in time. For the Heat, after a series of contract renewals, their total salary was also as high as 60 million. The terrible luxury tax figure made Arison jump and call Shafir urgently, asking him to reduce the total salary to 50 million. the following.

Now that all the teams have ended their operations, how can they be pressed?

Shafir was dumbfounded.

In order to get rid of the sky-high luxury tax, the Knicks will do all kinds of outrageous things in the future, which is another story.

One-handedly created the era of super teams, and the other hand, the initiator of the era of super-teams, Louis, counted the salary space of the next Lakers.

Overall, their salaries are healthy.

There are only four big contracts in the team, namely Wilson's 4-year 55 million, Ellis 3-year 12 million, Barkley's 4-year 32 million and Barros' 5-year 30 million. The rest is either a rookie contract or a veteran's base salary. .

The Lakers' total salary is less than 42 million, and of course they have to pay taxes, but compared to those super teams, the small life is very good.

In early September, before training camp began, Louie called up the coaching staff.

New member of the coaching staff, Alex Stevens, has a formal role.

He will be the Lakers' wing development coach and defensive coordinator.

Defensive coordinator is a professional title only in football. The defensive coordinator in football is mainly responsible for managing the roster of defensive players, supervising assistant coaches, formulating defensive game plans and instructing players on defense during the game. And Louie doesn't need Stevens to take such a big responsibility. His responsibilities are mainly two-pointed, developing the rookie's defensive ability and recording the team's defensive stats during the game.

This defensive stat is very personal.

Louie asked Stevens to judge the defensive performance of his players by his own standards.

Louie demands that the work must be detailed down to the defensive stats for each player per game.

Starting the new season, the Lakers will have the number of "good defenses" and "bad defenses" that everyone contributed per game.

Although Louie doesn't plan to implement the Knicks' defensive philosophy in the Lakers, it doesn't mean they don't defend, it's just a lower priority. For rookies, defense is important, and having a solid defensive foundation early in their careers will be of great benefit to their future development.

The weight of this errand is too much for the rest of the coaching staff to bear.

If Stevens accepts, he'll be the busiest man on the coaching staff. Not only does he have to record the players' defenses during the game, but he also has to review the records after the game and compare them, while also taking into account the development of the wing players.

Unexpectedly, Stevens agreed.

After Stevens took over the job, Louie publicly announced that Kobe and Liu Yuqing would be assigned to him.

He needs Stevens to get a grip on these two defenses.

"Wrap it on me," Stevens said.

Subsequently, Louis looked forward to the new season to everyone, and he believed that the Lakers will have a lot to do in the coming year.

The luxury tax has seriously shaken the dominance of superteams, leaving many internal fissures that didn't exist, and this is where the Lakers have an opportunity.

"Sounds like we have a chance to win?" Nelson asked jokingly.

Bird joked: "Who said no, the most important thing this guy lacks is self-confidence."

"Of course, what if you don't have self-confidence?" Louis finally said, "As for the preparations for the new season, I have asked Coach Zhao to prepare the documents. You can go to him to get a copy later. The work in the new season will be very difficult. I need your full support.”

After the meeting, Louie left Rick Carlisle and Mike Budenholzer alone to talk about the optimal design of the tactical details of "Beautiful Basketball". Louie was very pleased, and asked them to compile a report and bring it out to focus on the discussion at the next meeting.

...

It's been a long time since Louie's preparations for the new season have been taken so seriously.

Usually, he would leave these things to the people under him to do, but with the Lakers, a lot of times you have to do it yourself.

As a "savior" who has yet to achieve anything here, Louis really needs to lead by example.

Moreover, the impact of the luxury tax on the league is far beyond imagination, allowing Louis to have greater ambitions for the new season.

Then, the time came to September 10, the day when the preseason training camp for the new season opened.

After research by the coaching staff and management, everyone agreed that the Palm Springs Resort was the most suitable location for training.

As a result, the Lakers, like in previous years, still chose to hold training camps at the resort.

The coaching staff was in place a day early.

Early the next morning, players began to enter the resort.

The first player to settle in was Ben Wallace, who thought it would show his attitude and let the coaching staff appreciate him.

In order to show his self-motivation, the naive Wallace actually took the initiative to ask Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the technical focus of the sky hook.

Kareem, who was at ease with the old god, didn't even look at him: "It's useless for you to practice this."

"Karim, the skyhook is the most beautiful offensive move ever. No one has used him since you retired. Don't you want to find a successor?" Wallace looked at him eagerly.

Kareem finally looked him in the eye.

He estimated Daben's height, and then glanced at his small hands like pig's trotters~www.novelmt.com~ This kind of person actually wants to be the heir of Tiangou?

Kareem sneered sarcastically, "Stop dreaming, you'll never be able to!"

"Why?"

"You just can't!"

At this time, the kind and righteous coach Lu appeared: "Karim, why are you so fierce to the rookie?"

Kareem snorted, "Because he's so stupid!"

"How stupid he is, tell me."

Abdul-Jabbar said bitterly: "With his height and the little hand that may not even hold an egg, he told me to learn the sky hook and be my heir? It's ridiculous!"

Big Ben said in disbelief, "What's wrong with my height? No matter how bad it is, I'm still six feet nine inches tall!"

This time even Louis couldn't take it anymore.

Six foot nine? Is this man thinking wrong? Where did you get six feet nine!

"Ben, I suggest that you first understand the technique of lying about your height, and then tell me that you are six-foot-nine!"

Big Ben left depressed.

Kareem said, "Six-foot-nine? I think six-foot-seven is enough for him!"

"Yeah, the current rookie is really getting more and more chaotic. He lied about his height and didn't know how to leave an explosive head. If he wants to leave an explosive head, I can barely count him as six feet eight.

"What's the use of that? Hair length is not effective height!"

Louie smiled and said, "At least I can convince myself that at least the height of his body is indeed achieved."

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