Chapter 614: Useless Struggle?

The Heat's decision to win the No. 1 pick has been somewhat muted under the cloud of the upcoming battle between the Sonics and Rockets.

But for the Seattle SuperSonics themselves, the 2008 NBA draft lottery is still very important.

because……

"Regarding the 2008 NBA draft, our SuperSonics should not be absent. There are many outstanding young players among this year's rookies. They can maintain very good competitiveness for our team in the future. There are many players in this year's draft lottery. Of course, everyone knows that this must be an accident caused by David Stern, but these accidents give us opportunities."

After the NBA draft lottery ended, in the team's internal meeting, the team's general manager Presti made it very clear.

He is very optimistic about the 2008 NBA rookie.

He wants to get some young players from these rookies that the Sonics can use.

In fact, some of Presti's goals are no longer a secret to everyone here.

Of course, Presti must be keeping it a secret.

But for everyone here, it is not necessary.

In this year's 2008 NBA draft, the Seattle SuperSonics only have one first-round pick, No. 28. According to Presti, this time he is preparing to trade for a 20th pick or even a lottery-level pick.

Lottery picks are very valuable in the NBA, especially in a big draft year like 2008.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to trade, but there have been some surprises this year. David Stern is crazy about attacking the bad teams in the Eastern Conference in this year's draft.

In addition to the Heat getting the top pick, this year's second pick went to the Mavericks, the team with the best record in the lottery, and the third pick went to the Clippers. Even fourth place was not an Eastern Conference team, but the Golden State Warriors. .

The Eastern Conference teams with the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth worst records in the league only received the guaranteed fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth picks.

The whole world knows this year that the three best rookies are Rose, Beasley and Mayo, followed by the Big Three of Westbrook, Kevin Love and Afflalo.

Rose and Beasley Mayo can make the All-Stars with their eyes closed.

Future MVP level player.

Westbrook, Kevin Love and Afflalo are potential rookies with All-Star potential.

But apart from these six, the gambling nature of the others is quite huge.

Therefore, the most precious of this year's draft picks are the top three. They are all of similar value. It depends on who you need from Rose, Mayo or Beasley.

For the Bulls, Rose is of course the best choice. For Rose, the Bulls can go bankrupt.

In addition to the top three who are almost the same, the three heroes behind are also good and can become the cornerstone of the team.

Therefore, the first six picks in this year's draft are the best and cannot be traded to North Korea, but the others are average and can be traded.

Presti is eyeing these lottery picks that can be traded.

If it were a small draft year in previous years, it would not be easy to select players with the ability to win championships among these tradable lottery picks.

But in a big draft year like this, it's different.

Apart from those six, it is indeed difficult for the remaining players to become the core of a team. It is indeed a bit useless for those rebuilding teams, but the potential of these people can become a championship team or a strong team in the future. A very good role player.

For the Seattle SuperSonics, the Seattle SuperSonics don't need a core to build a team.

Presti has a very clear idea about his work in this year's draft, and Yeas and Nelson did not oppose his plans.

With the draft lottery completed, Presti as general manager begins perhaps his busiest job of the year.

As for Ye Si, he is also currently engaged in a very important and busy work.

Name: Yes

Age: 20

Height: 1.95 meters

Weight: 92kg

Position: Point guard (100%), shooting guard (100%), small forward (100%), power forward (80%), center (75%)

Team: Seattle SuperSonics

Physical condition: none

Talent: I can see the touch, I’m just stubborn

Skills: None

Technical attributes; ball control: 80 (80), passing: 40 (40), overall rating: C (a professional third-rate player with first-class ball control)

Shooting attributes; dunk: 35 (35), layup: 70 (90), close shot: 55 (55), mid-range shot: 90 (90), long shot: 90 (90), three-point shot: 90 (90) , Free throws: 60 (60), overall rating: B (a second-rate professional with top shooting skills)

Defensive attributes; steals: 80 (90), blocks: 80 (80), defensive rebounds: 45 (45), offensive rebounds: 40 (40), overall rating: C (a professional third-rate player with first-class defensive aggression)

Physical attributes; strength: 80/80 (80), explosive power: 80/80 (80), speed: 80/80 (80), lateral movement: 60 (60), agility: 80 (80), jumping: 80 (80) ), Balance: 80 (80), Endurance: 95 (95), Overall rating: A (top-notch profession with top endurance)

Overall player rating: B (a professional second-rate player with first-rate athletic ability, excellent shooting, and comprehensive skills)

In the cafeteria of the Supersonics training facility, Ye Si had piles of food in front of him, including potatoes, beef, mutton, various flavored yogurts, various dairy and soy products, and so on.

Ye Si was holding a lamb leg in one hand and a can of flavored yogurt in the other hand, but Ye Si's eyes were always lowered as if looking at something.

Yes, of course, is looking at his superstar system now.

After almost half a month of hard work, he successfully made the 'weightless' state that he had carried on his body for who knows how many years disappear.

To be precise, after the seventh game against the Nuggets, his weightless state disappeared.

The way the Suns defend him, speed is no longer of that much use to him.

So he has been gaining weight since the game against the Nuggets.

I took in a lot of food and calories every day and did a lot of exercise every day. I successfully gained almost 7 kilograms in half a month.

It's quite a hard job.

For humans, whether it is losing weight or gaining weight, it is not that simple.

Losing weight is not easy because it is not easy to lose weight.

Gaining weight is not a simple matter of simply accumulating fat which is not very good.

Fortunately, Yesi has a superstar system. The superstar system has various status prompts. If you eat too much, the system will prompt that you can no longer eat. If you exercise too much, the system will also prompt that you can no longer exercise.

Therefore, Ye Si's weight gain plan is many times easier than others.

However, even with the help of the superstar system, Ye Si failed to achieve what he wanted after half a month of frantic efforts.

Ye Si's recent crazy weight gain is of course not just to maintain his weightless state.

Weightlessness: Explosive power attribute increases by 10%, speed attribute increases by 10%, strength attribute decreases by 10%

This is a very useful state for Ye Si in the early stage.

At a time when young players didn't pay much attention to strength confrontation and were all playing with athletic ability and talent, this state made a huge contribution to Ye's sweep of the NCAA and grabbing the No. 1 pick.

But this state is a bit useless when it comes to the game against the Rockets.

As far as the Rockets' chain defense system with Yao Ming, Gerald Wallace, Tracy McGrady, Artest, Roy, and Ariza as the core, speed is of no use at all in front of this system.

No matter how many opportunities Ye Si uses his speed to run, there will always be defenders around him. No matter which defensive player Ye Si breaks through, the next defensive player is right in front of him.

In the series between the Rockets and the Thunder, Paul is willing to stand still and play singles with Roy? Is Paul willing to stand still and play singles with McGrady? Is Paul willing to stand in singles with Artest? Is Paul willing to stand still and play singles with Ariza?

The Rockets' chain defense system gives the opponent the best opportunity to attack, which is singles!

Facing a defense like the Rockets, Randolph's style of play is the simplest, roughest and most effective.

Of course, Yeas didn't see Randolph killing everyone in front of the Rockets when he decided to gain weight, but he saw Chris Paul's embarrassment.

He doesn't want to be the next Paul or the next Kobe. He needs to break away from the wolf-pack tactics that Rockets head coach Adelman said was specially prepared for him.

So, he needs weight!

Not only does he need to eliminate the weightless state, he also needs to regain the overweight state!

After Ye Si got the system, he was weightless for the longest time carrying it on his body. But before Ye Si was three years old, when he was still chubby, he was always overweight when he was carrying it.

Overweight: Strength attribute increased by 20%, explosive attribute decreased by 10%, speed attribute decreased by 10%

If weightlessness is an overall positive state, it only reduces the strength by 10%, but increases the double speed by 10%. Overall, the total amount increases by 10%.

Being overweight is a state of neither adding nor subtracting.

The 20% increase in strength and the 10% decrease in both speeds can be said to be equivalent exchanges.

However, for Ye Si, he can accept losing 10% of speed and acceleration after getting 20% ​​of the strength bonus, because he also has John Volka, who can maintain a minimum of 80 when speed is needed. of dual speed.

With a double speed of 80, coupled with his game experience, this speed will not make him a weakness on the defensive end.

On the contrary, if he really gets a 20% strength bonus, his final strength will be increased to 96!

The strength of 96, coupled with his weight at that time, and his mid-range, long-range and three-point shooting are now above 90, the damage he caused to the Rockets will definitely not be inferior to Randolph!

Of course, the defensive players on the Rockets' wings are much stronger than those at the fourth position.

However, generally speaking, as long as he completes the work of gaining weight, the probability of him and his team defeating the Rockets will definitely be more than 1% or 2%.

2% is the probability given by ESPN. Out of 100 experts, 98 think the Rockets can win, and 2 definitely think the SuperSonics can win.

If the Sonics hadn't just swept the Suns, there wouldn't even be this 2%.

The wolf-pack tactic the Rockets used in the playoffs is simply a nightmare for all perimeter offensive players in the league.

Kobe Bryant has fallen, who can withstand Artest, Tracy McGrady, Roy and Ariza on both ends of the attack?

Yes may have performed better than Kobe under such a hard hammer, but where did the SuperSonics find Zach Randolph of the Lakers?

Zach Randolph's strength and one-on-one skills are not something anyone in the Sonics can possess except Yes.

The Seattle SuperSonics swept the Suns, and the Seattle SuperSonics restrained the Suns, but the Rockets restrained all such giant outside teams.

Regarding these opinions of experts across the United States, Yes has never said anything outside.

He actually has nothing to say. Although these experts like to sensationalize most of the time, most of their remarks, whether they are silly or not, have some theoretical basis in their opinion.

In fact, as far as this time is concerned, their theoretical basis is correct.

That's why he's gaining weight like crazy here now.

Yesi's current weight gain is healthy and does not damage the body's functions and increase fat.

But if the critical moment comes and his overweight status hasn't come out yet, Ye Si doesn't mind adding some fat to his body.

After all, although gaining weight is not that simple, gaining fat is still very simple.

Watching Ye Si slowly destroying the pile of food in front of his seat bit by bit, the other Sonics players around him were really stunned.

Durant, who has gained the most weight this year and has gained so much weight that he feels like vomiting, looks panicked.

This is really cruel!

Yes, he is really cruel! ,

"Kevin, don't be in a daze, Mr. Nelson wants you to go to his office."

Just when Durant was surprised, Sessions interrupted his shock.

Looking for Mr. Nelson?

Durant looked away from Ye Si.

Some frowned.

Ye Si's current weight gain is Ye Si's own decision, and it is also a decision approved by Nelson.

If he does not get the approval of the team's head coach, as the boss who bears all the important responsibilities of the team, Yes's body no longer belongs to him.

Yes' body belongs to everyone.

Old Nelson approved of Yes's weight gain, and naturally also agreed with Yes's idea of ​​using him as Randolph.

"Kevin, are you okay?"

"fine."

Durant frowned and shook his head, then stood up to find Nelson.

Tomorrow was the game against the Rockets, but Nelson suddenly came to see him alone.

Nelson agreed with the Randolphization of Yes, is he planning to let me become Kobe?

But now I can’t do it?

With doubts, Durant left the cafeteria.

The other Sonics players were still watching Ye Si's "big eater" performance.

As for Houston, thousands of miles away.

It's boiling now.

On the streets of Houston, countless Oriental faces have appeared.

Because of Ye Si and Yao Ming.

For the NBA, this year's playoffs between the Rockets and SuperSonics are the most watched playoffs in NBA history.

none of them!

"From the news, it seems that Yes has been gaining weight recently? He has gained at least five kilograms in half a month. This is no easier than Ya at the beginning."

"This is just a pointless struggle, hahahaha..."

Artest looked at his bulging muscles and laughed loudly.

With Artest's laughter, the Houston training hall was filled with cheerful air.