CHAPTER 1278: CHAPTER 517: ANOTHER "STRONGEST YOUTH ARMY" AGAIN?

When the five-way trade happened, the hottest topic focused on O’Neal, after all, it’s O’Neal, but in subsequent reports, the topic with the highest heat was the Chicago Bulls.

On September 15th, in Chicago after watching operas and listening to concerts all summer, the roaring Heavenly Venerate Rasheed Wallace officially signed with the Chicago Bulls, a 1+1 full mid-level exception.

The Little Giant, Heavenly Venerate, Big White Bear, plus Tim Thomas, Tyrus Thomas, and Taj Gibson, the Bulls’ interior lineup is full of anticipation.

Some media reported that if the Bobcats hadn’t suddenly intervened, the Bulls would have formed an interior lineup of Little Giant, Big Shark, Heavenly Venerate, and Tyrus Thomas, plus Taj Gibson who showed decent immediate combat power in the summer league, paired with an outside lineup of 3 defensive specialists, the Bulls team from the 07-08 season could be recreated!

The Chicago Tribune revealed that when O’Neal expressed unwillingness to be Yao Ming’s backup, and after the Bobcats intervened, O’Neal actively wanted to join the Bobcats, the Bulls once considered withdrawing from the trade, letting O’Neal rot in Kerr’s hands.

But after calming down, the Bulls management felt that Kerr, after all, was a former player who had a good relationship with them, and they should help regardless, because when they made a strong defensive push in 07, they were mentally prepared to pay off the debt for acquiring Yao Ming over the next two seasons, championship or not in 07-08 season.

By making this trade, they can make Kerr owe a favor, and also replace Big Ben with Brad Miller saving nearly $3 million in payroll, counting luxury tax, that’s over $5 million, and no matter how it goes, Brad Miller should have more left in the tank than Big Ben, can’t be impulsive in business, earning not as much as directly trading for the Big Shark, but it’s still earning.

The money saved by the Bulls, future savings by Clippers, all paid by Allen’s boss...

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Time flashed to September 23rd, ’Iron King Training Camp’ concluded.

Even though because of the question ’Kobe, how should you pass the ball to O’Neal?’, Kobe has ignored Zhang Yang for more than a dozen days.

But the old Ironsmith is after all very attentive to manners, on the noon of the 24th, when he hosted the ’Iron King Feast’, he still called Zhang San and little brat, no matter the jealousy, he can’t abandon basic manners.

In the afternoon, Zhang Yang and Emma Roberts went to the airport, after seeing little brat off on a flight to New York, he boarded a plane back to Charlotte.

After takeoff, looking at the white clouds outside the window, he truly came out from the ’training camp’ state, his body was fine, the training moderation was good, the trainer professional, therapy, nutrition, Kobe’s arrangements were also good, but mental fatigue was unavoidable.

In the past two months, besides continuously resting for a few days from August 23rd to 28th, other times it was training 6 days and resting 1, almost without interruption, to refine skills, focus was highly concentrated, if not for the rivalry with Kobe in the second camp, even as diligent as he is, he couldn’t withstand it, it’s much more tedious than playing games, in past years he would occasionally take a few days for fishing.

But the gains were substantial!

Before both training camps began, the improvements in skills and techniques during the playoffs were hard-earned by himself, training was not sufficiently professional, detail control was poor, with Grove and Ingles’ help, truly turned what he learned into part of his own skills, next steps are training and real combat.

In the second camp, the skills learned from 35 and 40 were reorganized with Grove and Kobe’s help, the 35 section, was personally sorted and showcased by 31, Zhang San himself also went from the beginning and practiced again, gained much... Kidd evaluating his one-on-one training with Kobe and Ariza, commented his technical movements became more ’natural’.

Also learned Kobe’s post-up, regarding this technique itself, he feels is not very suitable for him, maybe even not as suitable as what Jordan taught.

Sometimes Jordan, Big Bird, that kind of intuitive stream teaching, still has their benefits, those two wouldn’t ’insist’ you must learn to a certain standard, instead, they have fewer rules and wouldn’t nitpick your details, their teaching has one goal, to let you learn how to play... of course, this intuitive stream teaching is far less generalizable than Kobe’s teaching.

What Big Bird taught, Zhang Yang learned, as for what Jordan taught, he learned a ’memory’.

For Kobe’s, even if it’s not suitable, that kind of teaching of meticulously detailing, Zhang San learned it hard, although it might not be used in real combat, but it can better integrate some usable technical details into his post-up.

Finally, both training camps concluded!

After returning home in Charlotte, he lay at home for two nights, played games, watched Dragon Ball, relaxed as he pleased, on the 26th and 27th he returned to his parents’ home, played baseball with little Goku for two days, relaxed for a few days, finally revived his spirits.

On the morning of the 28th at 6:06, as the alarm went off, Zhang Yang stubbornly got out of bed, rinsed, drank water, did 20 minutes on the elliptical, punched the sandbag for 10 minutes, thoroughly woke up.

The season is about to begin, he has to enter the state of in-season mode, from the first day of the team’s gathering day he must be ready, can’t just ’roughly do’, he doesn’t have a good uncle.

This year’s gathering day is a few days later than usual, limited to the 8 ’old’ players remaining on the team.

The team’s system has already been established, subsequent improvements, adjustments after roster changes, don’t lack those few days, last season these old players played up to 102 games, they can rest as much as possible.