Chapter 24: Sloan and Jazz
Although Lin Han is not short of money for the time being, just because he does not have any winning points and championship points in hand, Lin Han still cannot use the basketball legend system to improve his abilities. As for using the training hall and letting the NBA legendary stars teach him how to play? With Lin Han's current wealth, he can't afford it.
In this case, if Lin Han wants to improve his strength, he can only do regular professional training as Ally said, such as going to the strength room to practice strength, going to the gym to practice physical fitness, going to the Jazz or the University of Utah to hire professional coaches to guide him to practice some basic basketball skills, and teaching him some defensive positioning and basketball tactics.
It can be said that although these conventional basketball trainings can indeed improve Lin Han's strength in a short period of time, it is obvious that the improvement range and effect are limited. It is not just that one person can enter the NBA by just training hard and training for more than ten years. In fact, 99% of people can't touch the NBA side even if they train hard for a lifetime, and they can't even touch the NCAA side.
A player with a basketball potential of 60 cannot become a player with a 61 ability through hard work. Although Lin Han is unwilling to believe it, this is a fact. For basketball, people are born unequal, and most of the time it is like this. As for those ruthless people who break this rule, these people are even farther away from Lin Han.
Fortunately, Lin Han’s current basketball foundation is too weak. After a summer of basic training, he should actually make breakthroughs in ability, and even the ability increase is very fast in the early stage. For example, Lin Han’s defensive attributes are all the default minimum values. As long as he is willing to work hard, these defensive attributes with default minimum values of 1 can be increased by at least several times.
Therefore, after redeeming the points of the basketball legend system, Lin Han went directly to the Utah Jazz for a long time and asked the Jazz professional trainers to train his basic basketball skills.
Although he also trained with the Jazz for about a month during the draft, because of the crowds and the various people, even though the Jazz was very nice to him, the difference was obvious, and he had formulated a training plan for him. However, the basis of these training plans was that Lin Han was a very good player and basically did not teach Lin Han how to slid during one-on-one defense, what the key points of slid were. These basic things can only be taught by high schools or even enlightenment coaches in the United States, and now Lin Han needs these most.
Therefore, when Lin Han suggested to the team that he needed to improve some basketball enlightenment skills, the Jazz were shocked and stunned. Although they also knew that Lin Han had only played basketball for a year, they really didn't expect Lin Han's foundation to be so poor. In the past, Lin Han did not defend well when he was training in the team, and he didn't listen to his tactics, and he wouldn't run even if he ran. Jerry Sloan thought that Lin Han was not aware of these, but that his opponent was too weak and he was unwilling to defend and run. Now it seems that the Jazz really misunderstood Lin Han, and this kid really didn't know these things.
If they really test Lin Han comprehensively and know that Lin Han is not only an ordinary person in physical fitness, but also an ordinary person in basketball, then they will never use the first round pick to choose Lin Han. Although Jerry Sloan has always compared Lin Han with Stockton, although Stockton has a bad physical talent, his basic basketball skills are extremely solid. Lin Han is far inferior to this point, which is the gap between heaven and earth.
However, even though Sloan and the Jazz were cheated by Lin Han, who was hiding their weakness, there was no possibility of kicking Lin Han away.
Because the contract they signed with Lin Han is a three-year guarantee contract, even if Lin Han is kicked away, they will still need to pay Lin Han a full salary in the future, which is what Lin Han and Aili want to see the most.
Before this, Lin Han could have many choices to enter the NBA or join many NBA teams. However, if there is no team that is willing to be cheated like Sloan and the Jazz, even if Lin Han entered the NBA, he would not be able to escape the fate of being cut. Even if he really kept hiding his shortcomings, in the regular season, as soon as he came on the court, he would be exposed and still escape the fate of being abandoned.
Now, Lin Han doesn't need to consider whether he will be abandoned by the Jazz. After all, Lin Han's annual salary is 1.1 million, and now the entire NBA salary cap is only 14 million. According to Aili, Lin Han's current salary is equivalent to more than 5 million in 20 years later, that is, in 2013.
According to Ally, in 2013, the average annual salary of the No. 1 pick was only 6 million yuan. It can be said that the treatment of Lin Han, the No. 18 pick, is equivalent to the treatment of the No. 1 pick twenty years later. For example, O'Neal, who now has an average annual salary of 4.5 million yuan, is equivalent to the top salary with an annual salary of more than 20 million yuan in twenty years.
I have to say that because the commercialization time of NBA is still short and the labor-management agreement is not perfect, NBA's rookies are definitely the most special existence in NBA's history.
Although they are all called rookies, their treatment is no worse than those who have played in the NBA for many years. Players who have played in the NBA for many years can sign big contracts, rookies can also sign big contracts, old players can sign ten-year long contracts, and rookies can sign ten-year long contracts as long as they are willing. They are no different from old players.
To a certain extent, they should not be rookies, but special free agents. The team chooses them not to have them, but to have the priority of signing with them. This is extremely beneficial to the NBA rookies. Unlike later, after the rookies are selected, unless the team gives up, you will never enter the NBA if you don’t report. Moreover, the rookies’ contract is also linked to the draft pick, and there is no room for rookies to bargain. This is unfair to most rookies, which is equivalent to the previous few years of work that cuts the team’s salary and does a good job.
Of course, the future development of NBA will gradually limit the status and authority of rookie players. This has nothing to do with Lin Han. At least he doesn’t need to worry about these things now. What he needs to do now is to train well and strive to improve his basic basketball skills in the past few months. Don’t even have to bump into the ball and be afraid of whether he is walking.
Fortunately, although the Jazz, especially Jerry Sloan, was a little disappointed with Lin Han, he did not really deal with him coldly, and still gave Lin Han a good treatment. The team's first assistant coach Feier and Johnson can be said to be a unique training for Lin Han every day.
In fact, Jerry Sloan had thought about dealing with Lin Han in a cold manner, but a special player like Lin Han really couldn't deal with it in a cold manner. This was not Lin Han's high annual salary issue, but this guy was indeed extremely strange.
In several team matches held by the Jazz, although this guy cannot dribble or defend, as long as he stands on the court and has enough ball rights to his hands, he can always turn the ball rights in his hands into scoring, whether it is 15 of 25 shots, 7 of 25 shots, or even 20 of 30 shots, 10 of 30 shots, etc. As long as he has the ball in his hands, he can score. This is not a simple ability. In the NBA, many players will not even let him score, because it is too difficult. If those people are really forced to take more than 20 or more 30 shots, those guys will perform really miserable. Therefore, although such traits are a bit cancerous, they are also very rare and special. If used well, they will be a very powerful weapon. Lin Han has such special traits.
Because this guy's jump shot is really special, you should know that the players who came to the Jazz to try out after the draft are not some rookies, but in addition to some rookies, there are many free agents who have played in the NBA for many years. Their strength is all at the NBA level. When facing players of this level, Lin Han can still contribute more than 25 points per game in the training game. Although the shooting percentage has dropped to about 45%, for a rookie, such a shooting percentage is enough. Although such a confrontation game is definitely not as strong as the regular season, in order to find a job in the NBA again, Lin Han's opponents will not show mercy. Therefore, although the intensity of the Jazz's team training game is not as strong as the NBA regular season, it is still OK compared to the NBA preseason.
It can be said that as long as you don’t give Lin Han luck, as long as you don’t expect Lin Han to defend, and don’t try to let Lin Han understand the coach’s tactical style. In addition, Lin Han is definitely a big killer who attacks one-on-one on the court. It’s hard to say whether he can smash the NBA’s regular season after having such a killer. After all, a player in the NBA cannot be without defense or the ability to execute tactics.
So Lin Han has been training hard recently, but Jerry Sloan and the Jazz are very confused. Should a six or seven-year-old kid who can hit every shot with an AK47 be allowed to go to the battlefield?
Chapter completed!