Chapter 59: Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared
"Jiang, our first game of the new season is scheduled for February 6, and our opponent is the Raptors." After Stewart got the schedule for the new season, he immediately notified Jiang Dongbing to prepare early.
As Canada's only two NBA teams, the Raptors and the Grizzlies are naturally competing in secret, and everyone wants to be the better one.
However, these two teams count down year by year, so they only had the idea of comparing the length at the beginning of the season. After half of the season, looking at the eye-catching record, who still has the heart to compete for the better?
The Grizzlies' lineup has changed a lot this season. Jiang Dongbing had previously reported to Stewart the starting lineup he prepared. Compared with the Grizzlies' starting lineup last season, there was only one Rahim who had not changed, and the other four started have changed.
According to the initial starting lineup planned by Jiang Dongbing, the Grizzlies' starting center in the new season is Brad Miller, the starting power forward is Raheem, the small forward and point guard are Jackson and Christie respectively. As for the point guard candidates, Jiang Dongbing is preparing to choose one of Billups and Mobley.
Mobri certainly can't play the point guard, but Christie can play. This is a player who really spans the first, second and third positions.
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"Coach, are you looking for us?"
"Hello coach."
Billups and Mobri walked into Jiang Dongbing's office one by one and said hello to Jiang Dongbing.
"Sit down, come to you, mainly to talk about the team's starting lineup at No. 1. At present, I tend to let one of you plays the starting lineup at No. 1." Jiang Dongbing leaned on the chair and spoke casually.
The expressions of the two immediately became colorful, Bilups' face turned pale, while Mobri was full of surprise.
In Billups's opinion, even if he changed two teams in his rookie season, he started 70 games in his eighty games. Now Jiang Dongbing is actually talking to him about starting. Could it be that he won't let himself start?!
As far as he knows, there was no decent point guard in the Grizzlies. Now that Jiang Dongbing has traded himself, would he put himself on the bench?
As for Mobley, he was full of surprise. He never dreamed that his mere second-round pick would have the opportunity to start without proving himself at all.
Although this opportunity seems to have to compete with Billups around you at the moment, this is also a good thing. If you put it in other teams, you will not give the second round pick a chance to compete. If you are lucky, you will be stuffed into the team's bench. If you are not lucky, you will not know which place you will be transferred to.
"Coach, do I really have a chance to start?" Mobley was already excited in his heart and couldn't wait to ask.
"That's right, there is indeed this opportunity, but it depends on your performance." Jiang Dongbing nodded and said.
"How do you perform? Coach, just say it, I can definitely do it." Mobri became more and more excited.
Billups, who was standing by, said directly, "Coach, does not require organizational ability at the No. 1 position? As far as I know, Cartino's organizational ability is close to zero. Is he really qualified to play as the starting No. 1 position?"
This directly poured cold water on the excited Mobri. He suddenly remembered that Jiang Dongbing said he wanted the starting number one position, where was he? He played the number two position!
"Changxi, I think that what happened to you in Boston and just played twenty games with the Raptors and were sold, that's the reason."
"Sometimes, you should probably close your mouth when you are not allowed to speak."
"Who said that the number one position must have organizational skills? Has anyone said that? Even if someone said that, there is no such stereotype in my team."
"The organization point in my team may be a traditional number one position like you, a number five position, or a number two or three position."
"Remember, if you want to question me next time, please prepare to sit on the bench forever."
Jiang Dongbing directly gave Billups a warning. Billups still seemed to have not recognized the reality and still lived in the world of his 1997-year-old Tanhua Show.
The sooner Billups is now in a correct position, the sooner they can integrate into this alliance.
Bilups' face turned red by Jiang Dongbing's confrontation. When he thought of his experience in the past year, his eyes turned red with aggrieved. After all, Bilups is just a young boy in his early twenties.
"I don't like to talk nonsense, there is still one week before the start of the new season."
"In the next week, I will assign you a task. Whoever performs well will be the starting No. 1 position of our team, which is that simple." Jiang Dongbing continued to say slowly.
These words made the two young men in front of them very restless. They knew too much about the importance of starting. Even Billups knew very well that if they lost their starting position for two consecutive years with the Grizzlies, they would likely become unattended after their rookie contract ended.
Mobley knew better whether he could become a model of counterattack for the second round pick depends on the next week.
"What mission?" the two asked at the same time.
"In the next week, Billups, you completed 10,000 pass training, and Mobley, you completed 10,000 three-point training."
"Look for the training and training grounds by yourself."
"In a week, I will select a player among you to become our starting guard." Jiang Dongbing said a training goal that made the two confused. In addition, Jiang Dongbing also informed them in detail about the training method.
Mobley is easy to say, even if you just shoot three-pointers, Billups must find a sparring team. During the training, Billups must pass the ball and make a sparring team to be considered a complete pass training.
After hearing what Jiang Dongbing said, both of them were completely stunned.
Ten thousand passes and ten thousand three-pointers? It is difficult to complete such a training goal within a week, but it is definitely not small.
Some players can complete 5,000 shooting training a day, which is only one day. Only one person knows how long he will maintain this training intensity.
Now Jiang Dongbing has arranged ten thousand times a week, and for young people like them, it is generally acceptable to grit their teeth.
What the two of them wondered about was not the intensity of training. In their opinion, since they all had to do with their starting position, let alone 10,000 a week, even 20,000, they had to do it even if they fought to the death.
What they are really confused about now is how many times Jiang Dongbing knows how many training he has done? After all, Jiang Dongbing said that he would find the training ground and the sparring training themselves. Then he would practice hundreds of times and report to Jiang Dongbing ten thousand times. Can he tell the truth?
Of course, Jiang Dongbing can tell the truth and the false, mainly because now he has bound Billups and Mobley. How many times did they train in this week? Jiang Dongbing can accurately reach single digits!
A week later, Jiang Dongbing will decide who will be the starting position of the team based on the training times of these two people.
Chapter completed!