Chapter 387: The Zero-Mile Pot that Slipped Through the Net and the Peerless Pot?

Durant or Noah?

Not only Ye Si is thinking about this issue now, Presti beside him is also thinking about this issue.

The Sonics' current interior lineup is terrible.

At present, the power forward is barely able to help with defense.

Mainly the center position.

As for the SuperSonics center, Milicic and Nick Collison are the only two players who can be rotated.

Milicic is okay. Although he is not top-notch, he is definitely an all-around center that is above second-rate or even quasi-first-rate.

But Nick Collison is different. He is not a typical big center.

It can be said that many times, when the Sonics need a typical big center, only Milicic is available.

In this year's playoffs, during the SuperSonics and Spurs games, Milicic has been in crisis.

Faced with a crisis like Milicic, the Sonics had no one to replace.

In order to allow Milicic to stay on the court more, the Sonics sometimes even ask Milicic not to be so dedicated when defending.

In the series with the Spurs, Milicic almost became Duncan's ATM machine.

Quite embarrassed.

The reason why the SuperSonics center is so embarrassed is related to a large number of injuries and Leafs' big deal.

Danny Fordson, the Sonics' most violent inside man in the past few years, suffered a stress fracture. An inside man who could contribute 16+16 at his peak was laid up for the entire season.

After Danny Fortson ended his contract with the SuperSonics this season, he is only 31 years old and may even face retirement because no one cares about him.

Robert Swift, who was selected by the SuperSonics with the 12th overall pick in the first round in 2004, missed all games last season due to a torn cruciate ligament. Next season, this young center is known as the last hope of white centers. will remain absent.

Injuries like a torn cruciate ligament are a huge blow to ordinary NBA outside players.

For a big center like Swift, it is absolutely a devastating blow.

If you want to recover from such an injury,

It's impossible.

It can be said that after Swift has fulfilled his four-year rookie contract with the SuperSonics, he can directly announce his farewell to the NBA.

Reeve LaFrentz, one of the junk contracts the Sonics took to get Jayce.

LaFrentz is also the culprit in locking up the SuperSonics' salary space. He still has a two-year, 24 million contract with the SuperSonics.

Because of shoulder and other injuries, LaFrentz basically said goodbye to the NBA.

The Sonics' three seriously injured numbers are all centers.

Moreover, the total salary of these three seriously injured numbers exceeds 20 million.

When a player with a total salary of 20 million in a team's position has zero contribution, it is difficult for this team to have problems in this position.

More importantly, these three serious injuries not only affect the team's combat effectiveness at the center position, but also affect the team's recruitment.

Fortunately, Danny Fortson's contract has expired, which can free up 6.6 million salary space for the Sonics.

However, this kind of salary space cannot allow the Sonics to make a difference in the free market.

This kind of salary space is not enough to continuously contract Milicic, let alone continue to introduce any powerful center players in the free market after renewing Milicic's contract.

Fortunately, the SuperSonics have Milicic's bird rights and can extend Milicic's contract at the risk. As long as the SuperSonics are willing to pay the luxury tax, there is no problem in giving Milicic the maximum salary.

Now the Sonics are indeed discussing contract renewal with Milicic's team.

After renewing Milicic's contract, coupled with the salary increase brought by the players selected with the second pick, the Sonics' total salary next season will exceed the luxury tax trigger line by more than 10 million.

As long as the SuperSonics renew Milicic's contract, they can directly announce that the SuperSonics will still not do anything in the free market this year.

However, it is impossible for the Sonics not to renew Milicic's contract.

The Sonics now want to make up for the shortcomings of the center, and it seems that the best way to do it is through the draft.

Of course, Yeas is planning to use the team's No. 2 pick to select Durant.

This is a peerless hotpot. If you miss this village, there won’t be this shop.

However, if the No. 2 pick is given to Durant, what will happen to the team's center position?

European players like Marc Gasol and Splitter need to start before they come to the NBA from Europe.

This condition is quite disgusting.

NBA teams have always had a love-hate relationship with European players.

What I love is that the players playing in Europe are indeed better than those in other parts of the world.

What's annoying is that because they are strong, they have many demands, and some players also require NBA teams to pay high compensation.

Luis Scola was selected by the Spurs in 2002. Until this year, five years later, he was not ready to enter the NBA, and the Spurs were preparing to trade Scola's signing rights.

The reason why Scola did not come from Europe was for these two reasons, the high compensation and Luis Scola's position requirements.

If the Spurs want Scola, they can only ask Scola to play as a substitute. For a substitute, they need to pay such a high compensation price. For the Spurs, it is really hurt and not worth it.

Scola wants to go to the Spurs. In addition to the money the Spurs pay him, he also has to pay 2.5 million US dollars to buy out the contract and pay compensation. In order to go to the Spurs and play as a substitute for Duncan, he has to pay 2.5 million US dollars himself? Scola crazy?

Scola is not a special case. There are too many European players who will refuse the NBA for many years even if they are selected by an NBA team in the first round for these two reasons. Some players will even refuse for a lifetime.

If the requirements of Marc Gasol and Splitter cannot be met, even if the SuperSonics select them, they will not come to the NBA from Europe.

Neither of these two people came here to participate in the Sonics' workouts to know their attitudes.

The SuperSonics center needs to be improved immediately, and it is impossible to wait for Marc Gasol or Splitter for several years.

What's more, Milicic is about to renew his contract with the SuperSonics. We can't promise Marc Gasol and Split that if you come to the NBA, the starting lineup will be yours.

After tricking them into coming to the NBA, then immediately throw them on the bench?

How can this be.

Both Yeas and Presti preferred to give Durant the No. 2 pick.

But the team's center problem needs to be solved.

The team's 22nd and 52nd picks are unlikely to help the Sonics solve this problem.

Noah cannot be selected with the 22nd and 52nd picks, and there is no point in selecting Split or Marc Gasol.

This makes Sonics quite difficult to handle.

Originally, it was impossible for the free market to solve the center problem for the Sonics.

Now the draft has become impossible to solve the problem.

Then only the transaction remains.

Who can be traded?

Who to trade with?

With the chips the Sonics currently have on hand, except for those players who are impossible to trade, the trading value of other players is really limited.

It's almost impossible to get a decent backup center.

High-quality center resources are quite scarce now.

The Sonics' current center problem has reached a point where it has to be solved.

Now SuperSonics general manager Presti is thinking about the final solution.

It seems that such a solution is quite difficult to find.

It seems that the only way is to give up Durant and choose Noah.

Obviously, this is an almost impossible solution.

But at the same time, this is a method that has to be done.

Quite a headache.

Presti was racking his brains to find the best solution.

As for Ye Si, he chose his Thousand Mile Pot and Peerless Pot in the training camp.

Durant is the perfect pot he found before.

2007 is recognized by experts across the country as a great year for the draft.

Since it is a big year for the draft, naturally the rookies are full of talented and talented people.

Now Ye Si knows that among this year's rookies, there are already two great players in Oden and Durant.

Are there any others?

Not impossible.

Based on the media experts' optimistic view of this year's rookie, maybe he can find another unique pot and a thousand-mile pot?

Therefore, Ye Si is really looking forward to this trial.

After the SuperSonics training camp opened, Ye Si has been here to watch the training of these geniuses.

"Yes, after watching it for so many days, he finally came to test us in person!"

Ramon Sessions is excited.

Yes finally remembered them!

It's been a week since they arrived in Seattle.

Yes, apart from letting them train freely and undergo various boring physical tests, Yes did not let them do anything.

Not only do they not have any special requirements like kicking their butts.

Didn't even say a word to them.

Yes, this is a rhythm that is ready to treat them like air.

As talented people from all over the world, they feel bad now.

They shied away from trial training invitations from many teams and came here.

The original plan of most of them was to try out with the SuperSonics for a week or two, and then go to other teams for the rest of the time.

It's better now, Yes looks like he doesn't care about them at all, which makes the rookies at the training ground very anxious.

There are even some rookies who can no longer bear such anxiety and are preparing to end their trial training with the SuperSonics early.

Although the dream of becoming teammates with Yes is great, their biggest reality is to enter the NBA.

If in pursuit of a dream you end up not even being able to enter the NBA, then it’s really not worth the gain.

"I'm ready to go to other teams if Yes doesn't test us today!"

"I also have such a plan. I can't just die at the Supersonic Speed."

“I didn’t expect that on the last day, Yes was really going to inspect us personally!”

“I didn’t expect that one day I would also be able to pass childlike passes to Yes!”

In the Sonics training facility.

The rookies are excited now.

Take the pass from Yes!

This is the test question for Yes.

Childlike passing is now one of the hottest terms in the NBA.

Since Nash learned the childlike pass after Yes, who wouldn't want to try to see if he can catch the childlike pass from Yes and Nash.

Now this opportunity has actually come.

"Who is that person? So awesome!"

"Mario Bogan, a forward from the University of Oklahoma, is 2.01 meters tall, with a wingspan of 2.19 meters and a weight of 109 kilograms!"

"Awesome, this is a direct blow to all opponents!"

A static talent at the level of a peerless pot!

Yes, who kept passing the ball to Bogan, was also quite surprised. Brewer behind him was almost beaten by him!

Brewer is taller than him, not as strong as him in confrontation, and his wingspan is far inferior to him.

In this kind of one-on-one pot-grabbing training, Bogan can definitely defeat Brewer.

"Unfortunately, Yes's pass was too high and too wide, and Bogan failed to catch it."

The pot-grabbing battle with Brewer ended. Bogan defeated Brewer completely. Although he didn't grab the last pot, he was extremely happy.

Brewer is a top five rookie!

He actually defeated a rookie of this level!

However, Bogan, who was extremely excited at this time, completely failed to notice that Ye Si looked at him now without any expectation.

Static talent is an extremely good skill.

But the dynamic talents are terrible.

Taken together, it's impossible for him to catch those childlike passes that are too high and too high in an NBA playoff-level game.

Originally, Ye Si thought that he was a perfect scapegoat who slipped through the net, but now it seems that he is not even qualified to take over the blame.

Now the whole league is trying to stop him from passing the ball. He doesn't have that much good judgment now, so Bogan can take the blame for the unbiased pass.

Before testing these rookies, Ye Si felt that even if he couldn't find a great pot, it should be possible to find one or two thousand-mile pots.

But as the test continued, the expression on Ye Si's face became more and more solemn.

Thousand mile pot is not that common.

Maybe there are many players whose static talents have reached the level of Thousand Mile Pot or Unparalleled Good Pot.

There may be many players whose dynamic talents have reached the level of a thousand-mile pot or a peerless pot.

But if you combine these two talents, except for Durant, Ye Si has not found anyone who is a thousand-mile pot or a peerless potter.

However, there is one player who is suspected of being a great hotpot, and there is also a player who is suspected of being a thousand-mile hotpot.

"Who are those two people? They were approached by Yes alone?!"

"The thin man is Nick Young from the University of Southern California. He is 2.01 meters tall, with a wingspan of 2.12 meters and a vertical jump of 1 meter."

"Bounce 1 meter vertically on the spot?!"

"Can a 2.01 meter player have a vertical jump of 1 meter?!"

Ye Si looked at this extremely thin defender seriously. He was very thin.

Ye Si looked straight at Nick Young as if Kobe Bryant had launched his "I'm just stubborn" look.

This is a person who exudes the aura of divine pot all over his body!

As long as his weight and strength are improved, with his height, wingspan and jumping, coupled with his stubborn eyes, this is a divine pot with the potential to be a great pot!

Power confrontation!

Once you practice it, it becomes a magic pot.

If you can't practice it, you're useless.

Ye Si suppressed his accelerated heartbeat and looked at the other player who seemed to be Qianli Guo.

"who's that person?"

"Asian?"

"No, that person is Chinese, a compatriot of Yes!"

"A fellow member of Yes?"

"Sun Yue, 2.05 meters, point guard!"

"A 2.05 meter point guard?!"

This height and this position are so fascinating...