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The only signing the Bulls made in the free agent market was the two-year, $20 million deal for free agent Lowe Deng, bringing the former rookie back to Chicago for the Bulls.
Lohr. Deng's career trajectory changed because of Wang Chong, but in the 2013-14 season, he still joined the Cavaliers to play as he had in the original historical process.
Lore's performance last season with the Cavaliers can only be considered mediocre, averaging 15 points, 5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game, making him the third-leading scorer on the team.
The Bulls are well aware of Lore. Deng is not enough to replace Wang Chong's position on the Bulls, but at least his scoring and defensive abilities won't make too many mistakes on the Bulls' frontline after Wang Chong's departure.
Later on, the Bulls extended Gasol Jr.'s contract, solidifying the team's starting lineup for the new season.
The other four positions in the starting lineup were essentially unchanged: Curry at point guard, Danny at shooting guard, Jimmy Butler at small forward, Gasol Jr. at center, and the newly signed Lohr. Deng would play the power forward role.
Lohr, who is 2.06 meters tall, may be a bit too thin for the power forward position, but the Bulls only need to maintain the small-ball lineup Wang Chong had established before his departure.
Although under this lineup, the Bulls haven't reached the dominance of the past seven years and six championships, their strength is definitely not inferior to teams like the Heat and the Celtics in the East. After all, the 2014-15 season marked the peak of Curry's career.
However, no matter who the opponent is, Wang Chong will not fear anyone. The Cavaliers' championship team has been assembled, and it only takes a period of interaction to truly enter the ranks of championship-caliber teams.
A bit more to mention.
The biggest fish of 2014 is second-round pick Nikolai Jokic, who has never been involved for several reasons.
First, Wang Chong only played one year with the Cavaliers, just to complete the mission, and Kecun isn't his cup of tea at all. If he wants to stay with a team for a long time, he would only consider big cities rather than small ones like Cleveland.
This isn't just for his daily life, but also for his daughter, who was born recently.
Wang Chong joined the Cavaliers and didn't plan on bringing Jessica and their daughter with him, since Jessica also had her own career as an actress. Therefore, Jessica and their daughter returned to Los Angeles to live.
A year later, Wang Chong would leave the Cavaliers to find a new home. While no specific details are being considered now, Wang Chong's biggest hope is definitely to join a team located closer to Los Angeles, with the two local teams in Los Angeles being the best options.
Of course, that's something for later, and Wang Chong isn't in a hurry to consider the specific details of operations or anything.
Because he only played one year with the Cavaliers, there was no need to deliberately pair Jokic with him and let it develop naturally.
The second point is that Jokic isn't an instant force. After entering the league, he still needs time to learn and grow before gradually evolving into the "human bacon essence" in the future.
Wang Chong had to win a championship in his first year with the Cavaliers, so he was thinking about bringing in players who could show good strength right away for the next season, rather than potential prospects. Jokic wasn't suitable from that perspective.
Therefore, Jokic was still selected in the middle of the second round as originally, and he was still chosen by the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets at this stage didn't pay much attention to Jokic, and it's no surprise that Jokic refused to sign due to his excess weight, which forced him to play in the European League for another year in the 2014-15 season. He wouldn't officially sign with the NBA until the 2015-16 season after successfully losing weight.
Wang Chong's plan is to find a way to pry Jokic from the Nuggets via a trade after determining which team to join next season. This deal wouldn't be too hard to make, as the Nuggets' management didn't show much interest in Jokic before. To them, Jokic was just an ordinary second-round pick with little value, and Jokic could definitely be traded for a first-round pick.
Due to the considerations mentioned above, Wang Chong abandoned the idea of intercepting Jokic this year.
As the days passed, Ben was still hoping the Cavaliers would make a big move and trade one or two potential All-Star caliber players for an immediate All-Star player, disappointing the fans in Cleveland who had fully reinvigorated the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers made no moves.
The Cavaliers currently have a decent roster, but it's a good level.
The team has two All-Star players, Wang Chong and Irving, but that's about it.
Paul. Definitely, Gasol deserved the title of "giant" when he was younger, but now, at 34, he's a bit hesitant.
Andrew. Though Wiggins is the first overall pick of the NBA, he's also a first-year rookie with limited power in the new season.
It can't be said that the Cavaliers' lineup is weak, after all, with Wang Chong, the Cavaliers should be one of the biggest favorites to win the championship.
But compared to the Heat's Big Three, the Celtics' three All-Stars, and Wang Chong's old team, the Chicago Bulls, the Cavaliers are somewhat lacking.
Clearly, with so many high-quality assets, why not send one or two potential rookies in exchange for an excellent All-Star to go all in for the championship?
The league places great importance on talent development and potential, but it also values the present. After all, unfulfilled talent is worthless, unless it's someone like James, Duncan, O'Neal, and others who can definitely become superstars as soon as they enter the league. Other rookies can't be traded as assets.
But the Cavaliers didn't do this. Is Wang Chong planning to compete for the championship in the 2014-15 season relying solely on this lineup? That seems a bit risky.
"Is Wang Chong floating? Does this team also want to win the championship?"
All kinds of media outlets have begun to collectively belittle the Cavaliers' championship prospects with Wang Chong, and traditional art forms have disappeared.
When the Bulls didn't dominate the hegemonic level, the media always liked to underestimate Wang Chong and the Bulls.
However, they can't be blamed for this; Wang Chong's teams often made incomprehensible moves.
As if they didn't know that Paul Gasol would be named to the second team with efficient performances at 34 years old, and that Whiteside, who barely remembers his own name, could average a double-double with 2.6 blocks per game in under 24 minutes played.
In their opinion, the Cavaliers, which lack lineup strength, are actually pretty good in terms of real combat power and are definitely the biggest favorites to win the championship.
Of course, Wang Chong didn't need to explain himself to the others. After all, slapping faces with facts has always been Wang Chong's favorite behavior.
Moreover, compared to the Bulls, this year is the toughest for Wang Chong to compete for the championship, relatively speaking. In early August, Wang Chong accompanied Jessica and their daughter back to Los Angeles. After staying in the Los Angeles mansion for nearly two months, he reluctantly said goodbye to his wife and child and left for Cleveland.
Compared to the metropolises of Chicago and Los Angeles, the colloquial name of Cleveland is quite fitting, and the difference can be seen even from the buildings on either side of the street.
But now, various posters hanging in the streets and alleys of the city are all slogans welcoming Wang Chong.
When Wang Chong passed by a building in his car, he was immediately attracted by a giant poster on the back of the building.
It was a poster from Wang Chong's consecutive photo session, with a standard and picturesque pose, quite artistic.
But Wang Chong was impressed by the fact that it was once a huge poster of James' classic magnesium powder dusting pose, which had become an iconic place in Cleveland.
After James decided to take his talents to Miami in 2010, angry Cavaliers fans saw James as a traitor and burned his jersey to vent their anger, replacing the huge poster.
And after James returned to Cleveland in 2014 and led the team to win the championship, the Cavaliers hung the giant poster back up.
It's just that Wang Chong didn't expect the Cavaliers to put up a huge poster to welcome him. He wondered how James would feel when he saw this scene...
While Wang Chong sighed in his heart, he also deeply realized the admiration and yearning superstars have for small teams like Cleveland.
The NBA league is also a place with a great gap between the rich and the poor, and there's no shortage of superstars for big teams like the Los Angeles Lakers. After all, four of the ten greatest players in history are from the Lakers, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and the Black Mamba, Bryant.
Of course, due to Wang Chong, although he currently has five championships in hand, due to having only one FMVP, Kobe's position among the top ten shooting guards in history is a bit unstable. After all, not to mention anything else, Garnett, who won four consecutive championships with Wang Chong, is chasing him.
However, Garnett, who won four championships and one MVP, is still slightly inferior to Kobe in terms of honors, and his historical status is still behind Kobe's.
But for a team like the Cavaliers, James is the only player who can be ranked in history, and even the Cavaliers producing a superstar like James is pure luck. Some smaller teams like the Cavaliers could be even worse off.
Although Wang Chong was quite moved, he couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't break the status quo, and he wasn't good enough to be willing to run to help the poor, although he was deeply moved by the enthusiasm of the Cavaliers fans. He would still leave once the Cavaliers finished next season.
So, in the short span of one year, what Wang Chong could do is bring the O'Brien Trophy to a city that hadn't had a championship in 50 years, and that's all.
At the end of September, the Cavaliers players gathered for a media day to take makeup photos.
On media day, Wang Chong appeared in the Cavaliers' number 24 jersey and attended the press conference after the shoot.
Wang Chong attended the press conference with the Cavaliers' general manager, Griffin, the new head coach of the team, David Griffin, Blatter, and the team's former core player, Kerry Irving.
Originally, Mike Brown was swept out after the regular season due to the Cavaliers' poor record, and then the Cavaliers paid a lot of money to recruit David Brown, who had made a name for himself in Europe. Blatter's ambition was clear.
Wang Chong didn't have any preconceived ideas about Mike Brown's ability as a coach, but he felt his talent hadn't been fully showcased.
In particular, during his tenure with the Lakers, he became the fastest head coach in NBA history, and the famous scene of being stared at by Kobe Bryant became a testament to Mike Brown's coaching ability.
That Lakers team was simply not something Brown could control, and indeed, Mike Brown is more suitable as an assistant coach. As an assistant coach, he won four championships with the team, including with the Spurs in 2002-03 and later with the Warriors in 16-17, 17-18, and 21-22.
Wang Chong felt that if Mike Brown partnered with him, it wouldn't be so bad, and he could learn from Mike Popovich. Brown has a very good set of defensive tactics and skills, but as a head coach, he lacks authority and assertiveness, and his adaptability on the court is lacking. These are exactly the problems the Bulls' head coach, Thibodeau, faces.
Wang Chong can fix these issues with the Bulls, and he certainly could with the Cavaliers.
But the Cavaliers fired Mike Brown for David Blatter, which isn't impossible.
Although Blatter is famous in the European League, he is a traditional American coach, very familiar with the style of play and tactics of American basketball. In particular, he studied at Princeton University, where he played under Carlil, making him very good at Princeton's offensive game.
Today's league is becoming increasingly small-ball oriented, and the era is very suitable for Princeton's tactics. The core of Princeton's system involves a lot of off-ball movement, air cuts, and fast breaks, combined with precise ball passing to create beautiful attacks.
The current Cavaliers roster is well-suited to play Princeton-style basketball, so the head coach change to David Blatter also makes perfect sense.
As for the original story, David Blatter coached the Cavaliers for a year and a half before being fired and replaced by assistant coach Ty Brown, who reaped the rewards. However, Blatter was essentially powerless.
In the first year, the Cavaliers suffered injuries and lost in the Finals, and in the second year, they faced the Warriors who exploded with Curry, and one can only say Blatter was simply unlucky.
And the most unfortunate part is that he coached LeBron James.
As a player with his own system, James only adapts to one type of tactic: he must hold the ball to maximize his power.
In this case, changing coaches tactically didn't make much sense.
David Blatter's biggest flaw during his tenure with the Cavaliers was that he didn't flatter James. Lu flattered James happily, so he replaced Blatter as head coach, even though he had no excellent tactical command. Once, he let James take over the tactical board alone, then nodded and shouted 666. When the team was in trouble, he simply said, "LeBron will figure it out," and then left James to play for 48 minutes without interference.
There's a saying that even if it's a loss, it's James' loss, and it's not necessarily something that other players can handle. The most intuitive example is future coach Tyronn Lue, who after coaching the Clippers, was left dumbfounded looking at Leonard and George, who lay silent without a word. They could only look on in confusion.
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