Chapter 381 Tony Allen

Li Ba took a look. The veteran player Howard Eisley, who was traded last season, had been waived, and the original inside veteran, Jordan's younger brother Scott Williams, was also gone.

"Hey, look, the Olympic champion is here, the Olympic MVP is here, why are there no cheers? Is there any envy? By the way, Stephen, Sean, how many places did you get?"

The one who said this was none other than Li Ba himself, shouting at Marbury and Marion with a proud face.

"Oh hoo..."

The coaching staff, staff, and players all laughed and began to applaud and cheer in unison.

"Ignore him!"

Only two people remained silent, Marbury said to Marion angrily.

"Hey, hammer, hello." Peyton took the initiative to say hello.

"Oh, Gary, hello. Your joining will add a shield to our back line. Stephen is like a funnel..."

Li Ba shook hands and smiled.

"Damn, is my defense that bad?" Marbury laughed and scolded angrily.

"Hey, boss."

At this time Tyson Chandler came over, smiled and extended his hand to Li Ba.

"Hey, Tyson, can you do this?" Li Ba made a boxing motion.

Tyson Chandler, No. 2 in 2001, is 216 cm tall, weighs 110 kg now, and has a wingspan of 221 cm. He is nicknamed the boxing champion.

Serious injury last season, only played 35 games, 8 of which started, averaged 4.5 shots in 22 minutes per game, scored 6.1 points, 7.7 rebounds, 0.7 assists, 0.5 steals, 1.2 blocks, 1.1 turnovers and 2.5 fouls.

"Sorry, boss, I haven't practiced."

Smiling and shaking his head, Chandler said, "But boss, I gained 4 kilograms, and now I'm 110 kilograms."

"Really? That's good. I plan to gain weight to 120 kilograms, but I haven't decided yet." Li Ba said.

"Hammer, are you going to gain weight?" Frank asked right away just as he came in.

"Hey, Frank, aren't you going to congratulate me?" Li Ba said.

"Okay, Hammer, congratulations, Olympic champion and MVP winner." Frank laughed.

"Thank you!" Li Ba laughed.

"Did I just ask?" Frank asked.

"I'm thinking about it, but I haven't decided. If I gain weight, I don't want my speed to drop. I want strength, explosiveness, and speed to be equally important, so I hope the team will do a detailed study for me." Li Ba said.

"OK, I'll explain it right away." Frank smiled.

At this moment, he seemed to think of something, patted his head, pointed to a middle-aged man next to him and said, "Look at me, Hammer, this is Ron, coach Ron Adams, he is in charge of our defense."

"Hi, Ron, nice to meet you." Li Ba shook hands.

"Me too, Hammer." Adams laughed.

Adams is in his fifties and looks very calm, giving people a sense of trust.

"Frank, Ron, do you think I can play the fourth position this season? I think my speed is faster now, including the speed of returning to defense." Li Ba asked.

"Speed ​​up again? That would be great."

Frank was very happy, and said:

"But Hammer, on the offensive end, among our low-post players, you are the only one who can attract double-teams. This season, we will strengthen your ability to attract double-teams in the paint on the offensive end, and make the tactics clearer. Therefore, in the offensive On the defensive end, you have to be at the five. Of course, on the defensive end, you can switch and try the four, if you can."

Ron Adams said: "Iron Hammer, as Frank said, we need to carefully evaluate your current ability before making a final decision on the defensive end. This requires a period of regular season testing. Of course, this also needs to be on the defensive end. We have someone at the five who can replace you. Tyson hasn't proven he has that quality yet, and neither can anyone else."

Li Ba looked at Chandler not far away, who was paying attention to this side, and said, "Let's play a fight first, and use the regular season to test his strength."

After talking with the coach, Li Ba walked up to his teammates, looked around and asked doubtfully, "Don't we have any rookies?"

He turned around and asked Frank: "Frank, don't we still have a first-round pick from the Knicks? We also have our own?"

"Iron Hammer, our own first-round pick was traded last season. The remaining 27th pick of the Knicks, plus our own second-round pick at the end of the second round, changed to a 25th pick and selected a guard. Tony Allen, by the way, what about others?" Frank said.

"Frank, he hasn't arrived yet." A staff member said.

"Defender?"

Li Ba twitched his lips, they were all grabbing insiders, why didn't they choose an insider? With Battier and Gary Payton as substitutes on the outside, it's already pretty good, right?

"Hammer, we also want to choose a big man, but your performance last season gave us no chance. All the big men have become popular. Of course, we also have the opportunity to choose the stupid Korean big man, but our last What is needed is the fourth position, and he is obviously not suitable for us. Moreover, his speed is too slow, ten times slower than your original." Frank said.

At this moment, a young man ran into the room, and said nervously after entering, "Sorry, I'm late, I'm Tony Allen, I..."

Li Ba looked at the time, it was five minutes late, and said: "It doesn't matter if you are late, Tony, our rule here is to run ten laps every minute late, do you have to abide by the rules here?"

"Of course, Boss Hammer, I'll run right away."

Tony Allen said quickly, looking at Li Ba with eyes full of respect.

Li Ba suddenly laughed and said, "Tony, just kidding, there is no training today, it's just a media open day."

"Okay, boss."

Tony Allen scratched his head and smiled restrainedly.

"Tony, what are you good at? Organization? Scoring? Defense, or balance?" Li Ba asked.

"Boss, I'm your fan, and I also specialize in defense..."

Speaking of this, Tony Allen obviously let go a lot and started talking right away.

"Oh, that's good, we lack defensive players on the back line. You should get a good chance in the bench lineup, and you can play one offense and one defense with Barbosa. Come on, rookie, you are better than me The ranking is much higher." Li Ba said.

"hehe!"

Hearing the word pick, Tony Allen couldn't help laughing.

In the first half of this year, his draft prediction ranking was originally at the end of the first round, but with the strong performance of the Hammer boss, the draft price of big men soared, while small players like him plummeted, and he himself fell to the second. In the second round, but he was selected at the 25th position in the end, and it was the Suns team he wanted to come to the most. Thinking about it, he couldn't help being happy.

"Stephen, let's talk about it first. In the new season, you will compete for the scoring title. You have that potential. Then I will compete for the assists title. What do you think of me?" Li Ba said to Marbury.

"Are you serious?" Marbury said in surprise.

The attention of others also came.