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After confirming that he wanted to join the Lakers, Yang Rui began to study the NBA summer unrestricted free agent list to find a "big fish" suitable for the Lakers.

Old Buss is willing to pay luxury tax in order to win. Of course, Yang Rui has no reason to be polite. He has long wanted to try coaching a luxury tax team. It is very cool to choose people without worrying about money!

After looking at the free market and the Lakers' current salary, he found that it would be beneficial for "Shark" O'Neal to leave directly. The Lakers can easily complete reconstruction and have very abundant salary space.

In Yang Rui's previous life, in the summer of 2004, the Lakers traded O'Neal, who was past his prime, for young Caron Butler, Lamar Odom, veteran Brian Grant and a future first-round pick. It seemed that A win-win situation, the Heat actually screwed the Lakers.

Grant's condition has seriously declined. His contract only expired in 2007, with a remaining amount of more than 42 million and an average annual salary of 14 million.

Grant played for the Lakers for one and a half seasons before retiring due to injury. In the 2004-05 season, Grant had 3.8 points and 3.7 rebounds, and in the 2005-06 season, he had 2.9 points and 2.7 rebounds. In other words, he holds a bigger All-Star contract than Odom and is doing the work of a marginal player.

What's even more painful is that in 2005, in order to enhance the team's internal strength, Kupchak traded Caron Butler, a potential star, from the Wizards for Kwame Brown. It's appropriate to trade for a center, but what's the point of signing Brown with a high salary?

Therefore, the only valuable player the Lakers traded from the Heat in the long run is Odom, and now he has joined the Lakers freely. This is called "If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade."

After roughly setting the signing target, Yang Rui went to commentate on two Mavericks games.

Because of his previous trolling performance, many people felt that Nowitzki would be unlucky this time and would be completely blackmailed.

As a result, Yang Rui not only ignored Nowitzki, but also praised him, saying that he is one of the best scorers in the league and his defense is also at an average level. However, the Mavericks lack a good center, so they have played in the past two years. not good.

The Mavericks are also very competitive, winning both games, including a 105-91 victory over the Spurs.

Nowitzki shouldn't be blamed for Nelson, so Yang Rui made some suggestions for the Mavericks' recruitment.

"I think if the Mavericks traded with the Warriors last summer and introduced center Eric Dampier instead of Antoine Jamison, they would have been able to guarantee defense in the penalty area and become much more competitive. Although Dampier The offense is poor, but he is an excellent defensive blue-collar, meat-shield center, which is what the Mavericks lack."

Yang Rui praised Dampier against his will. This blue-collar center is 211cm tall and weighs 120kg. His talent is bragging, and his biggest specialty is cheating the Mavericks.

In Yang Rui's previous life, the 2003-2004 season was Dampier's contract year. Therefore, he took more shots and was extremely active in grabbing offensive rebounds. He finally scored 12.3 points, 12 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 1.9 blocks.

Later, Dampier said the famous quote that hit the heart - "I am the second center in the Western Conference!"

In this life, Dampier may not say that he is the second center in the Western Conference, because that is too low-key. O'Neal went to the Heat a year early. Now there are no centers in the Western Conference. They are all blue-collar players, and Dampier has the best statistics among the blue-collar players.

Yang Rui is not worried that this guy will not be successful in the future. It seems that he has made a mistake. When someone asks about it in the future, he will play word games. "What? I never said Dampier could become a star, but he was more suitable for the Mavericks than Jamison at that time."

The reason why Yang Rui cheated the Mavericks so much is because he no longer considers coaching other teams. In addition to the Spurs and Suns in the West, the Mavericks are also important competitors to the Lakers. If it weren't for the manager's low IQ and failed recruitment, the Mavericks would be the most difficult team to deal with in the Western Conference.

Yang Rui feels that the Mavericks were ruined by Dampier. When Dampier was there, the center position had no offensive power and locked up salary space. Dampier finally left the Mavericks in the 10-11 season, and the Mavericks won the championship that season.

And the team Dampier joined happened to be the Heat. Can he be a mortal with a career like his? It’s obviously a bad thing!

Cuban has been willing to spend money to build a team with Nowitzki as the core. His teammates have changed one after another, and the total salary has never been lower. Yang Rui's success in recent years has led to the trend of small ball tactics in advance. Big men who can coordinate and shoot are generally more valuable. Yang Rui is afraid that the Mavericks manager will realize that even if Yao Ming is not traded and Okur is signed with a lot of money in the summer, the Mavericks will be very difficult to deal with.

Okur is physically strong, defends the penalty area fiercely, has an offensive range beyond the three-point line, is good at pull-up jump shots, has good key ball ability, and has a balanced offense and defense. He and Nowitzki, the two big men, pulled out and killed their opponents in minutes.

For the future, Yang Rui hopes that the Mavericks management can focus on Dampier. Of course, it would be very difficult for the Mavericks to trade for Okur from the Pistons. This season, Okur has performed at a high level under Van Gundy, and together with Milicic, he has become a highly potential inside combination in the league.

Yang Rui also commented on a Pistons game, and then felt that Larry Brown deserved to be criticized.

Okur averaged 35 minutes per game, 15.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists. He was almost selected as an All-Star this year. Milicic averaged 30 minutes per game, 13.5 points, 7 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.7 blocks, but his shooting percentage was slightly lower, 45.6%.

Van Gundy asked Bob Sura, who was traded from the Warriors, to organize, Okurah waited for opportunities outside the three-point line, and Stackhouse could attack with the ball.

Houston and Milicic play off-ball coverage tactics from the side. The former can catch and shoot when running, and can also attract misplaced defenses to pass the ball to Milicic.

Houston's style of play has changed and he has always been very healthy. He is a well-known off-ball player in the league. No team dares to relax their defense on him. After switching defenses inside, Milicic will get mismatched offensive opportunities when receiving the ball, whether he relies on his height advantage to shoot jumpers or impact. There are advantages at the basket.

Milicic's talent is undoubted. He frightened all the scouts when he was playing sideways, so he was ranked ahead of Bosh, Kaman and other insiders. He was lucky enough to avoid the old Brown. Under the guidance of Van Gundy, the coach was catch-and-shoot and low-post turn-shooting, Ewing's style.

Yang Rui commented on Van Gundy and said: "His tactics are very reasonable. I can't find any faults. If I were to coach the Pistons, I would almost play like this. The biggest highlight of the Pistons is not the twin towers inside, but Sula's second spring. "

Sura had been marginalized in the Warriors, and he was resurrected when he joined the Pistons.

In Yang Rui's previous life, it was Van Gundy who saved Sula when he was with the Rockets. Now he averages 10.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1 steal per game, shooting 42.3% from the field and 35.4% from the three-point range, which is very comprehensive.

Fate, wonderful beyond words.

The Pistons defeated the Hornets 101 to 89. Smith asked Yang Rui: "What height do you think Milicic can reach in the future? He is currently ranked third on the rookie list."

Yang Rui replied: "I don't know where his upper limit is, but what is certain is that he can play in the NBA for a long time, at least he will not change careers to participate in free fighting competitions."

Smith was stunned for a moment: "Hahaha, how could any player switch to free fighting?"

"If I were Yao Ming, I might switch to free fighting, imagine that my opponent in every game is Larry Brown, beat him to his heart's content, and then be beaten until his nose is bruised and his face is swollen in every game."

The two laughed for a while, and Barkley held his belly and said, "This is the funniest NBA joke I've ever heard."

Tragically, in Yang Rui's previous life, this was not a joke at all, but Milicic's ending. Now, his life is completely different.