Chapter 167: Plan ahead
Being a team manager in NBA sometimes tests not your vision, but your ability to withstand pressure, because when doing trades here, you really can't guarantee that you can get good players every time.
There are many transactions to sign bad contracts for a large price. Just look at the current situation in New York, you can imagine that Dolan's more than 100 million yuan was spent, and his team's performance has not improved at all.
Moreover, the Knicks are getting worse and worse now. New York this season has almost been doomed from the beginning. Anyway, Dolan's more than 100 million dollars have been completely wasted, and he didn't even hear the sound.
New York fans are too lazy to scold them. Anyway, Thomas signed more than one bad contract, and everyone is just watching the farce within their team.
Anyway, the boss will definitely not be scolded at this time. At most, someone will say behind his back that he is stupid and has a lot of money.
Well, Dolan usually has the name of a second-generation ancestor on his back and is pointed at by a group of people behind his back. This guy may have long been used to the various evaluations of himself by the outside world.
But in New York, Dolan is not afraid of large investment not bringing attention. Even if the news is negative, he doesn't care. As long as there is exposure, he will make a profit, as long as he is a businessman-oriented guy.
Being a boss is naturally not afraid of being said by others, but the team manager must be the first to be shot. Even a guy like the "Smiling Assassin" who is considered the number one figure in the NBA will inevitably be scolded by fans.
Because no matter how bad the players are, the fans will only boo the ball at most. Anyway, he is already booed, so what else can you do? When watching the game, just boo and vent.
Even if there are fans with hot tempers, they just shout at the players. If the other party has the same hot personality, the worst thing is that both sides will criticize each other, which is just to make the reporters get the bargain.
The team manager will definitely be scolded by fans. Most of the time, the fans will say angrily, "It's that idiot! He bought a waste with the ticket money we contributed!"
Most team managers could only say with a bitter face at this time, "This is your sister, it's all my business! This guy could still get a double-double last season, but who knew that his data would be halved if he changed places!"
Of course, this kind of chant can't be loud. Who told you to dominate this deal? If you don't scold you at this time, are there any other scapegoats? Anyway, the team manager is basically used by fans to grind their teeth.
When the team is good, you can't remember how much you have made. When the team is bad, uh, you are the first person to stand up and get scolded, and no matter how you scold you, you can't fight back.
After all, the manager is the team's management, and he must face the media and fans, and there must be the most criticisms.
It's okay if the fans scold them, but they are their own family after all, but the media usually fan the flames and stir up the rice seedlings at this time. They will take out all kinds of extremely bad contracts when they have nothing to do.
New York and Portland are the hardest hit areas for various bad transactions. Whenever a failed transaction appears, the glorious history of these two cities will always be taken out to compare and see who is worse.
So, when you are a team manager in the NBA, you need to have strong nerves. Once you choose a rookie with good talent or have a beautiful big deal, it means you are completely developed.
Although the NBA has the best manager selection every year, this kind of lucky person is just a year of glory. Most of the time, they are still the best candidates to take the blame for the team's poor results.
The team is bad, and he scolds the manager first, then scolds the coach, and finally scolds the players. This has basically become a fixed pattern. Anyway, the manager is always the first to be shot, and he is the most stable to attract hatred.
So, most team managers have a very sarcastic face. Internally, those players who want big contracts don’t like them, while externally, those fans and media don’t have any good looks to them.
Anji has to deal with this situation now. He chose Chen Feng and Rondo. He has been in the media for a few days. Many people say that the best manager of this season is destined to be won by him.
But at the same time, some people criticized the Celtics' salary structure now, which is also a mess left by Anji's poor management in the past few years. When they came to this statement, Anji was helpless.
That's right, there are a few transactions he made very bad, but most of the bad contracts were finalized by Pitino when he was a coach, and those players he chose! It really has nothing to do with Angie.
Angie is a typical representative of being shot while lying down. When he took over the team, Pitino had already caused Boston to be incredible. Even Auerbach was dissatisfied with the university coach.
Although the team had a pair of twins like Pierce and Walker at that time, the atmosphere of the entire team seemed boring and had no competitiveness.
Without a genius like Auerbach, Angie could only start to make up for the team's loopholes with fear, but it could only be considered diligent. No highlights in his trading and operations appeared.
After the end of last season, news came out that Pierce was leaving. I have to say that this is the biggest irony to the team manager's work. Fortunately, the situation has finally turned around this season.
Pierce is not leaving, and the team's competitiveness is gradually rising. Now in the East, the Celtics can also be considered to be hovering around the middle, and their hopes of entering the playoffs have also increased significantly.
Rivers even had the idea of competing for the top spot in the Atlantic region, especially Chen Feng and Rondo's recent performance is like taking stimulants, which also made Boston fans feel very excited.
After all, the team has been away from the honor of the playoffs for too long. Even if they entered the playoffs a few years ago, they were still a round of games. Finally, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals once, but they were beaten up and kicked out.
However, Rivers has also put the problem on the table for Angie, trade and supplement the lineup. If you want the Celtics to remain competitive in the East, you must make up for your current shortcomings.
The Celtics have good early results, but they are far from the time to relax their demands.
Rivers didn't bother with his old partner, but the needs he listed were enough for Angie to get the scalp. After all, there were only so many NBA players, and few people could attract Rivers.
"The shooter outside the three-point line, the scoring point in the inside line, uh, is this guy Doug going to kill me?"
"If there are pitchers and insiders who can make a move, how can there be any cheaper one? Wouldn't any team have to stay as a treasure and be able to easily release it for you at this time? Isn't that dreaming!"
"Why didn't this guy write about Kobe and Iverson and so on! Is this really him? How come hell?"
"I'll go! It turns out there is still on the back, coup! Kobe, Iverson, O'Neal, Duncan! This guy is really written! Your sister! Doug, do you bastard want to make the team bankrupt? Which one can't cost 20 million!?"
Angie scratched her head, but he really had some ideas in the team's current salary structure. This season, the Celtics' total salary is only 19th in the NBA, with 62.2 million.
Of course, they are definitely incomparable to prodigal children like New York, and they are at the mid-to-lower level.
But both Angie and Rivers were very dissatisfied with the guys who received high salaries among the players. Pierce was 15 million a year, which is beyond words. After all, he is the core of the team.
Whether it is the fans or the management, they are obvious to Pierce's condition. As long as this guy can get ahead, he will try his best to deal with any opponent and can definitely be regarded as a team leader.
But compared with Pierce, Szebiak, who had a salary of 11 million and Ratliff who had a salary of nearly 12 million, gave Angie a headache.
Szebic is a little better. At least this guy is quite good at shooting. At least you can't say he is a useless player, but it's a bit disproportionate to his salary.
Ratliff was a little unbearable. Since the first game, this guy has been timid to the end. He has no style as the inside blocking king at the time. The way he was afraid of his hands, Rivers hated that his teeth were itchy. Most of the time, he could only throw this high-paying and low-powered guy on the bench.
But that's more than 10 million! It's useless to throw it away, and Ogvokandy's annual salary of more than 1 million yuan was a headache for Anji, and he was also wondering how to deal with these two guys.
Cleaning up the non-performing assets within the team is one step, but it is not so easy to throw out a useless contract like Ratliff. Unless a team wants to vacate the salary space and prepare this guy to sign and buy out the contract directly, otherwise, no one is willing to spend this big price to buy a waste material back.
This season is not enough, and maybe you can consider taking action next season. Anyway, Rivers and Angie have made up their minds. Boston will definitely not stay such a useless Buddha.
Moreover, if Ogvokandi's contract expires, he will definitely be swept out. Compared with these useless guys, what makes Angie headache now is probably the one who signs for Rivers as a supplement.
The mid-range and long-distance scorer, a stable scoring point in the inside line, uh, this difficulty, Angie scratched her scalp while beginning to consider what kind of thing she could get for Rivers.
"There is still three million and a half million in salary space, but what kind of good players can I get with such a little money? God, unless those agents no longer speak loudly, I can only expect to have the good luck of the draft. Otherwise, I can't satisfy Doug's idea, and I still have two more? Go and dream!"
Just as Anji was roaring with the office, the sudden ringing of the phone made the guy calm down quickly. When his secretary watched Anji walk out of the office, the smile on his face was full of, uh, it was really a little...rippling.
A ghost knew what was wrong with this guy, but on the desk in Anji's office, there was a white paper full of people's names falling gently with the breeze.
No one knows who is written on it, but Angie's unusually rippling smile seems to indicate something. At least, that is definitely not bad news...
(Recommended a book, "Beast Basketball", written by a guy named Xuan Zhongtingyu. He has always been looking forward to overwhelming me in terms of grades, so, no matter how much you recommend, you are not allowed to add red tickets to him, wow, kaka. There are still some later)
Chapter completed!