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Chapter 922 - 388. Why does our team seem like a makeshift troupe?

Chapter 922: 388. Why does our team seem like a makeshift troupe?

Zhang San: I’m going to be teammates with Danzi!

Images flashed through Zhang Yang’s mind of him charging forward, using follow-up threes as a threat to assist Little Jordan with an alley-oop pass.

Griffin and the like should stand aside for now; he needs to serve Little Dan first!

Of course, he knows that Little Jordan’s awareness of receiving the ball is much poorer than Griffin’s, and there’s some difference in athletic ability too. Feeding Little Jordan, feeding him one doozy of a pass after another, would at most earn him slightly more than an average of 10 points per game; but with Griffin, casual tosses could easily result in 20 points.

Just that, when you pick a promising rookie, there’s always a bit of exaggerated fantasy.

However, the name of the player traded announced by the co-host on stage, displayed on the LED screen, wasn’t the name of the person from the image in his mind!

"Charlotte Bobcats traded away Nazr Mohammed to acquire Serge Ibaka from the 24th pick of the first round by the SuperSonics Team."

Did the Little Dan flying to his lips... disappear?

Zhang Yang greeted Da Luo and Er Ha and left the little green room.

They agreed to celebrate at the hotel later, and the three players who couldn’t drink publicly could only sneak a drink in the room.

He went to the draft office area and found the Bobcats’ temporary office, which was basically a lounge.

Bickerstaff laughed: "See, I told you we’d pick Ibaka and Jack would come right over."

Zhang Yang: "Sorry to bother you guys, I don’t mean anything by it. I don’t have any opinions on who you pick; I’m just curious to find out."

Jordan was very pleased with Zhang Yang’s attitude — business-like and organized during serious discussions, suddenly getting a bit annoyed because Zhang Yang showed no courtesy when dealing with him.

After venting some frustrations, Jordan said: "We were actually initially planning to take your advice, and if DeAndre Jordan fell out of the first round, we’d trade for the pick to select him. But during the trade, we ran into a bit of trouble; my relations with Kevin McHale aren’t great, and he wasn’t willing to make a deal with us. Luckily, I was considering my relationship with him and didn’t tell him in advance who to help us pick, so he thought we were going for a forward and snatched Walter Sharp away."

Later we approached the SuperSonics Team, they agreed to help us with the pick, but after picking, at the time of the trade, their General Manager Sam Presley backtracked, deciding to keep DeAndre Jordan and not willing to trade with us."

Zhang Yang: "Presley... Buford’s student, huh? His drafting foresight is very good; I didn’t expect that he would also pay attention to DeAndre Jordan."

Jordan: "You know that annoying guy?"

Zhang Yang shook his head: "Don’t know him, but heard about him. He previously served as Buford’s assistant with the Spurs. Parker and Scola were noticed by him first; he loves traveling around the world, discovering overseas players, while Buford is responsible for in-depth investigations. Both were key contributors to the Spurs’ 7-year, 3-championship success, a golden duo."

"Your private interests are truly surprising, running off to focus on these things..." After some complaining, Jordan said: "That annoying guy actually didn’t have his eye on DeAndre Jordan; he directly told me it was because he trusted Bernie’s judgment and wanted to take DeAndre Jordan."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yang looked at Bickerstaff.

Bikstaff: Unforeseen blame!

Having learned the reason for not getting Little Jordan, Zhang Yang curiously asked, "So, did we actively lower the expected return and use Nazr to trade for a 24th pick instead?"

Jordan: "No, it was their suggestion. Presley expressed that he only wanted to keep one of Ibaka or DeAndre Jordan, saying he wanted to keep DeAndre Jordan and asked if we are interested in Ibaka."

Zhang Yang: "I got it. He wanted to take advantage of us and didn’t want to bear the shame of breaking trade promises. If we refused to trade Ibaka, he could still say it was us who backed out of the deal. Michael, this time we got played. It’s too bad; had we traded for the draft pick earlier, Nazr could have gotten us a late first-round pick + a second-round pick or two early second-round picks, allowing us to pick Ibaka or DeAndre Jordan and gain an extra future draft pick."

Carlisle also regretted: "Yes, actually Randy has been watching Ibaka since February and informed us early, but he’s playing overseas, not among the top of expected draft boards, making it difficult to determine his exact draft order. Had it been mid-first round, we’d virtually have no chance. Trading for the draft pick would be pointless, so we didn’t trade for the pick earlier and ended up taking this loss."

But Jack, Ibaka is indeed remarkable; here’s his information, take a look. His talent is not inferior to DeAndre Jordan’s. Although we lost out on the trade, from the team-building perspective, it’s a very good deal."

Zhang Yang surely knows all this, but the original idea could have brought back more resources. This time we’re definitely taken advantage of by the SuperSonics Team.

He glanced at Ibaka’s information... Hmm, no measurement of critical data.

Serge Ibaka, born in September 1989, currently 18 years and 10 months old, registered at a height of 208 cm, weight 99 kg, Power Forward.

Currently playing for Menresa in the Spanish League, just concluded a season with 26 games in the Spanish League, 14 in the Spanish King’s Cup, 6 in the European Champions League, 9 in the European Challenge Cup... Totaling 62 games, averaging 21 minutes per game, and scoring 6.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.9 steals, and 1.5 blocks...