Popovich, who really should have changed his name to "Bobo Go", looks like he's playing a big game again.
This summer, the Spurs have made a sudden move, quickly breaking down a middle and lower team into a weak team, and it seems that they are very likely to grab the title next summer. Who will be next year's winner? It is likely to be France's giant center , Gobert who can shoot , Vampan Yama.
In the past two days, there has been news that the Spurs' self-destruction process is far from over, and they are likely to help the Lakers get Irving as a third party to eat Into Wei Shao.
Yes, all indications are that Popovich is preparing to repeat the course of the 1996-97 season, when the Spurs suddenly changed from a strong team with 59 wins to a bad team with only 20 wins due to the sudden injury of David Robinson, thus winning the 1997 title and picking Duncan, laying the foundation for the later "five-crown dynasty".
Next season, the Spurs' performance will certainly not be better, and like the Pacers, the two teams have begun a full rebuild. This is already a walker's n-lane reincarnation, but for the Spurs, it is the first time since 1997.
The Spurs lost Leonard in 2018 and actually played just nine games in 2017-18, and the Spurs have since retired from the title race. But surprisingly, Bobo did not let the Spurs turn into a large-scale rebuild, but squeezed into the first round for two consecutive seasons, and for the next three seasons, the Spurs were unable to compete in the playoffs, but the regular season record was always stable at 32 to 34 wins, and it was not top-notch in the lotto area.
Bobo seems to have been struggling to maintain the face of the Spurs, in exchange for DeRozan, looking for veterans such as Gasol, Aldridge, Guy, and Mills, but outsiders can see that these are all expedient measures, and there is no possibility of competing for the title. In the draft, maybe the talented youngsters can't turn the Spurs, and Bobo picks the rustic ones, from Dejuntai Murray to Derek White, from Lonnie Walker to Vasell, and then Tolton Johnson and Primo.
Bobo is slow to swing, what are you waiting for? Maybe waiting for the next Duncan.
As a small market team, the ball market cannot withstand the toss and needs to maintain a certain degree of heat. The Spurs didn't give everyone hope, but they didn't export despair, and Bobo brought those young people and looked happy.
Until this summer, the Spurs suddenly shot, gave Murray, who had just become an All-Star, to the Eagles, got back 3 first-round picks, and then let Lonnie Walker go to the Lakers, plus little White has been given to the Green Army, and several young talents have been released. In this way, the backbone of the team became the young people with new faces: Primo, Kelton Johnson, Sohan, Branham, Blake Wesley, plus zach Collins, Vassell and others who had previously hoarded it. With these people, the Spurs are clearly rushing to sign.
Those professional managers have a book in their hands, documenting the good seedlings in the United States and around the world, how old they are this year, how old they are next year, and a few years away from the draft. French lad Victor Venbanyama has been famous for several years, 18 years old, and finally has to wait until the year he enters the NBA draft.
Wen Ban grew up in Nanterre, a small town in the northwest suburbs of Paris, his father practiced long jump, his mother played basketball, athletic talent is beyond words, he also has an older sister, who won the Women's Basketball Championship at the World Youth Championship with the French U17 national youth team. The atmosphere of football in France is good, Wenban has been practicing goalkeepers since he was a child, and he also practices judo, while his mother taught him to play basketball when he was four or five years old. Because of his extremely slender and tall, Wenban has been targeted by scouts from all over the world since he was a child, and he went to Spain at the age of 14 to play, and he has become famous in high school.
The 18-year-old Wenban has become a giant with a height of 218, with an arm span of 236, and due to the good training of basic skills from childhood, Wenban has excellent shooting skills, can transport and shoot, and has the means to retreat to shoot with one hand. These two days, Parker was interviewed, and he also talked about the Wenban in his eyes.
Watching The Performance of Vinban Yama reminds you of another person – this year's chartist Homegren. Indeed, the two men are similar in stature and style, and if Homegren can be the leader, it makes sense for Wen Ban to be the leader.
At this time last year, Wenban represented France at the U19 World Youth Championships in Latvia, when he was only 17 years old. 8 goals against Lithuania, Vinban scored 20 points and blocked 8 times; In the semi-final against Serbia, Wenban fell into foul trouble very early, and only scored 1 point in the whole game, but the final encountered the United States, Wenban confronted Homegren, immediately showed all his skills, took 22 points in the whole game, blocked 8 times, and finally was sent out by 5 criminals, and France lost 2 points.
The American team's Homegren only scored 10 points, and in the end, Wenban fouled too much and sat on the bench, And Homegren took over the game and finally won the MVP. But he praised Wen Ban, who was two years younger than himself, and said: "I am a person who usually does not like to praise people, but this boy must praise a few words." I thought I was tall enough, I thought my arms were long enough, but he took those physical conditions to another level. His movement is fantastic, he can shoot, his technique is good, and one day he will be very popular. ”
WenBan looks like Gobert, but his offensive skills are not comparable to those of this predecessor. Gobert is not good at dribbling and shooting, only suitable for eating cake near the basket to attack, once not to give him a pass, he has to rely on secondary offense to score, so Gobert's foothold capital is completely defensive.
Wenban is also good at guarding the basket like Gobert, but he runs like a No. 3 striker with good balance and coordination. Compared to Homegren, his explosive power is even more outstanding. Although he looked as thin as Homegren, he was not as weak as the leader.
For such a genius, many managers in the NBA are silently calculating his appearance time to see if they can catch up. Those strong teams that are in the championship window are not worried, and teams like the Timberwolves and Kings that have completed the first step of reconstruction are not rushing, and only the latest team that has begun to rebuild has a greater chance. It seems that Popovich is waiting for this day.
In this way, we can appreciate Bobo's intentions in recent years, which is a genius once in 10 years, and it is not too much to wait for him in a few years. At the same time, we can also understand why Bobo has not retired. He never announced the names of his successors or his retirement plans in advance, and people couldn't understand the point of him guarding a team with more than 30 wins a year.
This year is the same, with Bobo still being the Spurs head coach next season.
As with winning a championship, there's a lot of fun in planning a big event carefully, and when Bobo is directing his longtime friend Barford to make all sorts of deals, we can smell that this year is not the same as in previous years.
This year's Spurs update is complete, and the large-scale collection of first-round picks also means that the Spurs will retreat to the bottom like the Thunder and the Rockets. After some washing, the Spurs now have 16 people on the list and are still burdened with the 13 million dead debts of buying out Gallinari, but the total wages still add up to only 76.75 million, which is far from the minimum wage of 110 million.
Therefore, the Spurs will inevitably have follow-up actions, such as going to be a transit station for others to trade.
The Spurs have enough room to eat Westbrook's salary of more than 47 million, can let him play, can also be like the Rockets treat Wall, let him be on the sidelines, of course, it is best to buy out Westbrook, let him both take money and play the ball. The Spurs have completed the Nets and satisfied the Lakers, and their development trajectory does not conflict with these two teams.
Yes, Bobo only thinks of Vinban Yama.
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