One Guard

July is the most relaxing time for players, and it is also the peak period of free agency and transfer markets. Just when people were speculating how the depressed Celtics last season would strengthen, their wave of operations shocked the entire league.

The Celtics officially announced that they will give away Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Yiyang’s old friend "Jets" Terry, who will receive the three futures of 2014, 2016 and 2018 from the Nets. First-round picks and expiring contracts of Gerald Wallace, Evans, Senglia and Humphries.

This big deal involving eight players and three first-round picks marked the end of the era of giants representing the legend of the Celtics. The three first-round picks and a bunch of expired contracts also indicate that the Celtics have officially entered the rebuilding phase!

The Nets hope to have a quick championship, while the Celtics have started to rebuild in a purposeful and planned manner. The first step of their reconstruction plan is to clean up the veterans whose salary and ability are no longer matched, and the second step is to find a coach who can replace Doug Rivers as a brand new vane for the team.

When the Celtics announced the appointment of Brad Stevens as the 17th head coach in the history of the Celtics for $22 million in six years, people thought Angie was crazy. Such a giant as the Celtics was so handed over to a young man without any NBA coaching experience.

The Celtics fans were heartbroken, and they even burned the Celtics jerseys in protest at the gate of the North Shore Garden. When all the teams in the league were chasing big names, the Celtics actually had the idea of ​​rebuilding, which naturally made it difficult for the Celtics fans who are accustomed to winning.

Yiyang saw the news on TV. Although it was known that Stevens would sign with the Celtics for a long time, he still felt that when he saw the familiar figure appearing in the NBA’s media reception room. Somewhat incredible.

Four years have passed, and the three giants who were on the Bulldogs have now become members of the NBA. It's just a pity that the three are now in separate battles.

"In the future, you and Mr. Brad will probably see each other often." Wen Xue muttered from the side watching Stevens answering questions from reporters on TV.

"Even if we meet, we will meet as opponents. This alliance has become more and more crazy." Yiyang shook his head. He never thought that one day he and Stevens would become opponents. If you really met on the field as opponents, how would you feel in your heart?

Although it is less than two months before the start of the vacation, Yiyang is already looking forward to the next season. The addition of Rudy Gobert, the intake of Stevens, and the mysterious lineup prepared by Carlisle...Next season is really full of too much unknown and interesting. Of course, O'Brien The cup also attracts Yiyang all the time.

But before all this, Yiyang must also rush back to China to join the Chinese national team, and then fly to the Philippines together to participate in this year's Men's Basketball Asian Championships.

An NBA regular season MVP-level player participating in the Asian Championships is unprecedented in the Asian Championships, and it is very likely that there will be no future. Because of this, the attention received by the Asian Championships is extremely high.

Yiyang’s fans are all over the world, and they pay attention to the Asian Championships for only one reason, watching Yiyang play!

Just one player has brought incomparable attention and traffic to the entire Asian Championships, and everything that Yiyang has done is beyond the reach of Yao Ming.

The Asian Championship itself is not difficult for Yiyang. The Chinese team has passed all the way, and no opponent can put pressure on the Chinese team.

Yiyang not only has a strong scoring ability, but also arouses the enthusiasm of others in the team.

In this way, the Chinese team easily defeated their old rival Iran in the finals with a record of complete victory, and the Asian Championships were hoisted by everyone's expectations. Yiyang averaged 23 points and 13 assists per game, making him the most valuable player in the Asian Championships.

When Yiyang stood on the podium and raised his gold medal and the huge Asian Championship trophy, this guy only showed a faint smile on his face. The Asian Championship is just a warm-up for Yiyang to launch an impact on the road towards the O'Brien Cup.

Although the level of the Asian Championships is not high for Yiyang, it has played a role in keeping Yiyang in physical condition. After the Asian Championships, the time has come to August 11. In a blink of an eye, most of the holidays have passed.

Yiyang didn't slack off, and immediately contacted Brickley to start his thunderous summer training. Last year, Yiyang took Vignali to train with him, and brought Brookley a lot of dog food. This year, Yiyang followed him with Gobert, who has officially signed with the team, and made Brickley a "whale".

At first, Brickley wanted Gobert to increase his mid-range range. With Yiyang, if you can have a big man who can shoot, the power is self-evident. However, contrary to expectations, the French center's shooting training effect is very bad, Gobert's shots are simply horrible, even when practicing without defending, the sound of the iron is continuous.

After that, Brickley changed his training plan. He asked Gobert to temporarily put down his basketball, and then threw the lanky French "tower" to the strength training room.

Instead of letting this guy do unrealistic shooting training, it's better to make him a real defensive tower!

The hips are Gobert’s main training target area. Strengthening the hips reduces the pressure on his knees and ankles, and enhances his ability to fight hand-to-hand in the paint zone. Brickley never wanted him to look like Hercules, or even Dwight Howard. He doesn't want Gobert to sacrifice mobility and flexibility to increase strength. Most strength training consists of a series of mobile training using light weight and tension belts. For example, there is a set of 15-minute regular key training, the purpose is to imitate Gobert’s actions in the game: he will do defensive slides with a tension band tied to his knees, holding a light weight dumbbell to imitate a one-footed dunk Other jumping actions, etc. The goal is always to maintain a unique body shape suitable for basketball, not to be fit.

To put it bluntly, to find a perfect balance between flexibility and confrontation, this is what Brikley racked his brains to do for Gobert.

Back then, Brickley was able to train Yiyang for a lap. Now it is not difficult to transform a better-founded Gobert.

After changing the training plan, Gobert's progress has become leaps and bounds. This guy is getting stronger every day, but his flexibility is not affected. His body is very well-balanced, not that kind of muscular stick, but he is not so easy to fall as soon as he touched it. Seeing Gobert sweating in the power room all day and night, and practicing with Yiyang afterwards, Brickley felt a little weird. In order to become stronger, in order to shut up the guys who don't care about him, Gobert seems willing to do anything.

"The people who can come with you are **** monsters!" This is Brikley's evaluation of Yiyang and Gobert, the two of them never seem to know what tiredness is.

Perhaps this Frenchman, who was selected only at the 27th overall, could be like Yiyang at the time, and he was a blockbuster under the circumstances of not being favored by others.

These two guys have terrifying perseverance that most people don't have. Maybe another super duo will be born?

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Yiyang and Gobert took the time and spared no effort to strengthen themselves in order to hit a higher honor. Carlisle and Cuban are not idle either, but their battlefield is not in the training hall, but in the transfer market.

When Murphy chose to retire and Kaman joined the Lakers for $3.18 million a year, the Mavericks currently have only Gobert a pure center. But even so, Cuban did not contact Howard and Al Jefferson again.

Howard joined the Rockets after failing to see the sincerity of the Mavericks. Jefferson himself was very eager to come to Dallas, but in the end, the signing was dissuaded by Carlisle.

"Al Jefferson is an offensive No. 5 position. He is indeed very mature in the low post. But we already have Dirk. He is an excellent inside scoring point. What we need now is a defensive player. A center forward, like Tyson. Defensively, this is precisely the weakness of Jefferson, who moves slowly and is too short. So, I don’t think Al Jefferson is the one we are looking for!"

"Then where can I find a defensive center? Howard and Jefferson are the best two centers in the free agency market this year." This feeling of not being able to throw money with money made Cuban very stunned. Bend.

"No need to find, we have Rudy Gobert!"

"You want me to count on a rookie!?" Cuban looked at Carlisle in disbelief. He really couldn't regard Al Jefferson as a player at the same level as Gobert.

"Isn't it a rookie back then?" Carlisle smiled. Sometimes, rookie players can really plug and play.

"But we have so much salary space this summer, we can't use it all to sign those role players."

"Don't worry, Mark, do you have to worry about not spending the money? I have a candidate here, who is a star and is more suitable for the team than Al Jefferson."

"Who!?" Cuban asked impatiently.

Carlisle smiled mysteriously, this guy, Carlisle has been following him for a long time...

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Facing the early morning sun, Yiyang and Gobert completed the task of an unmovable morning run. After the two guys came back panting, Brickley had prepared a glass of milk, an egg and a piece of bread for each of them.

"Do you still teach me to pass the ball today?" Sitting at the dining table, Gobert and Yiyang chatted without a word. After getting along with Yiyang for so long, the two have changed from strangers to good friends. It is not common for a rookie and a head star to establish a friendship before the start of the season.

"Of course, as I said yesterday, you were still too anxious when passing the ball. In an NBA game, if you face double-teaming~www.novelmtl.com~, your passing will only cause mistakes." Yang Bian said as he gestured with his hands, he didn't expect to turn Gobert into a passing master, or even how strong he could cope. As long as Gobert doesn't move and makes mistakes, that's enough.

"When passing the ball, you must be calm, you have to think clearly who you are going to pass the ball to..." Yiyang stopped halfway through his speech. Because he found that Gobert was not listening at all, but stared at the phone intently.

"What's wrong, Rudy?" Yiyang knew that Gobert was not the kind of person who didn't know how to respect people. He looked at Gobert's phone screen curiously, but Gobert suddenly brought the phone to Yiyang's eyes.

"Look! We have new teammates!"

Yiyang stabilized Gobert's hand and focused his gaze on the luminous screen. There are countless news about NBA transfers these days, but this news made Yiyang's mouth slightly tilted.

"In 4 years, 48 ​​million, Andre Iguodala officially joined the Mavericks!"

That guy Carlisle, did a good job...