On July 16, 1997, after the NBA officially announced the voting results of the regular meeting, most mainstream media's headlines were consistent - Beat-LA!

This year's entire boss routine meeting seems to have passed all terms against the Lakers.

Lakers fans are cursing the Bulls owner. Jordan signed a two-year contract with that exception and expired in 1998. After the contract renewal, his salary would occupy the salary cap. He proposed to modify the terms and disgust other teams using this terms.

Last summer, most teams did not care about the "Jordan exception" incident. Not many teams used, and most useless teams were ordinary playoff teams or even bad teams.

This rule will inevitably cause turbulence in the free market in the next few years.

However, in the media's opinion, the most affected are not the Lakers, but the Knicks and the Heat...including the Bulls themselves.

The Lakers will not be affected for the time being, and it will be a matter of trouble for the next year. It will not have that much impact on the Lakers now.

But the Bulls' operation was really surprising to many people. They couldn't understand why they were doing this, which completely cut off their possibility to ask Jordan to renew his contract outside the salary cap.

Originally, with Jordan's box office appeal, if the Bulls continue to propose that Jordan renew his contract outside the salary cap after the end of next season, other teams are likely to not object.

Who will be unable to get along with the money?

The team that brought the highest price increase in ticket prices to the visiting team last season was the Bulls, which was actually Jordan's ticket price growth and ticket sales growth to the visiting team.

Some experts have concluded that passing this clause will have a profound impact on the NBA.

All the "luxury tax clauses" that have been temporarily put on hold have played a huge role in promoting them.

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Zhang Hao saw the NBA's terms change...most of them were expected.

Even the changes to the "Jordan Special" were expected. He remembered that the "Jordan Special" did drag down several teams in the end.

But they are definitely not among them, otherwise they would not have completed three consecutive championships at the beginning of the new century.

Although it is also a trouble for the Lakers, it is still in operational space. For example, the contract signed by Rick Fox will have bird rights after the three-year contract expires, and other main players will have bird rights. They will have bird rights if they want to renew their contract in 1998.

As expected, the 1998 labor-management agreement will introduce a middle-class special case... Anyway, the problem can always be solved.

Moreover, he doesn't need to worry about it. After signing Rick Fox, he won't worry about the next season's problems. Just add functional players to the end.

He continued to devote himself to three trainings of cross-step change and basic defense skills, and basic shooting skills...

As he expected, the Lakers' recruitment work has not been greatly affected, but is still beneficial at present.

Due to the changes in the "Jordan exception", the signings of strong teams will be restricted next year and the possible strong teams. Next season may be the time to hold on to the most clear thighs in the next few seasons.

On July 18, the Lakers signed the son of celebrity Rick Barry for $550,000 a year and Joan Barry.

On July 20, the Lakers grabbed Joan Barry's younger brother, Brent Barry, in the competition with the Bulls, and signed a two-year contract of $6 million!

Brent Barry is also a rookie of 95. He signed a two-year rookie contract. The rookie played well in the year, with 44 starts, and the rookie averaged 10.1 points and 2.9 assists per game in the year. However, the Clippers' signing work was great last season. Brent Barry was put on the bench, and his playing time declined and his performance declined. After the rookie contract expired, he refused to renew his contract and entered the free market.

The second-year performance was not very good, but the rookies averaged 1.6 three-pointers per game per year, and their 41.6% three-point shooting percentage attracted the attention of many teams.

After the free market opened, the logo man was in contact with him, but the Bulls were also competing with them, as well as the Heat and Spurs, and the two teams behind him ignored it, but the Bulls had Brent Barry's idol Jordan.

As the Lakers were about to lose the important addition to introducing this substitute lineup, the logo man played a slutty operation...

The Bulls really didn't expect that the Lakers would use this reverse operation to take down their brother first to seduce their younger brother to join!

Jerry Klaus cursed Jerry West shameless!

But the Bulls didn't get anything, they also won a win in the competition with the Lakers.

On July 21, the Bulls signed free agent Robert Horry with a one-year contract of $2.5 million. The Lakers gave 3 million a year, but the opponent wanted to cooperate with Jordan, mainly because the Bulls could provide a starting position.

The competition for Horry failed, and the logo man was also very regretful, but there was Rick Fox and Zhang Hao, and there was no starting lineup for Horry.

After signing Horry, the Bulls officially signed Scott Burrell, who was frustrated last season with the Hornets. In the 95-96 season, Scott Burrell, averaging 13.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.7 blocks per game, and performed quite well, but in the last year of the rookie contract, he was put on the bench and lost his chance to perform.

Although not as good as Rick Fox, the addition of Horry and Scott Burrell can be regarded as the end of regular signings. Ron Harper, Rodman, Longley, Steve Cole, Kukocchi, Jordan, McGrady, Bill Winnington, Judy Buiciller, Jason Cafe, and the Bulls' 12-man roster were alive early.

Like in previous years, the lineup of the team coached by Zen masters generally does not change much.

Immediately afterwards, the Lakers signed substitute power forward Corey Blunt, who averaged 6.8 points and 4.4 rebounds per game with the Mavericks last season, and the Lakers signed expiring free agent center Sean Lux, who scored 500,000 US dollars in a year.

Cory Blunt is an ordinary coolie power forward, and Sean Lux is quite interesting.

In the 94-95 season, Sean Lux, averaging 11.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game, seems to have the potential to become a team's main inside player, but Garnett entered the NBA and the Timberwolves got Gugliotta again, without his position. He has been playing as a substitute for the past two years, averaging about 6 points, 5 rebounds per game.

The Spurs and Hornets are also competing for the substitute inside. The Lakers gave 50,000 more US dollars than the Spurs and 100,000 more US dollars than the Hornets, and successfully won.

Sean Lux focuses on center, and Cory Blunt is basically a pure coolie power forward. As Zhang Hao expected, after the core lineup is well created, the logo men often choose functional players, so that the core members can have more room to play and avoid ball competition or other problems.

Just like the Warriors in the future, except for Iguodala, who has a four-star starting lineup, all other players are functional players with low salaries and short contracts.

It is not expensive, and can maximize the flexibility of salary space... There are also defects, which are what substitutes can do, and require the help of stars, but this is already a very excellent operation.

However, when the future Warriors team left the logo, they didn't know how to continue to adjust their lineup like that.

After all, there are not many management personnel in NBA history who can play like this, and they can't even get one hand together.

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After these two signings were completed, Zhang Hao estimated that the lineup was almost complete.

The point guards currently include: Kenny Anderson, Fisher.

The shooting guards are currently: Doug Christie, Brian Shaw, and Joan Barry.

The small forwards currently include: Rick Fox, Brent Barry.

The inside lineup currently includes: O'Neal, Jason Williams, Cory Blunt, Ben Wallace, and Sean Lux.

With him, Mr. Zhang, there are currently 13 players.

In terms of inside, Ben Wallace still needs to be maintained, and there may be some significant progress in the summer, but if calculated based on the score, the full score is 100%. Ben Wallace is currently 30 points, even if the progress doubles, it will only be a 60-point pass line. Keep it.

The depth of the inside line is enough to support it by the coolie-type inside line.

At present, the point guard still needs to be strengthened.

The two most effective additions this year are Brent Barry and Rick Fox.

If Barkley and the Magic had not retired, Zhang Hao would have guessed that their current lineup depth would be better than last year, mainly because of a higher theoretical fit... that is, the team's best players have more room to play!

There is an excellent general manager, and Zhang Hao feels really good! There is no need to worry about anything.

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Time continues to pass, and Zhang Hao focuses on training.

From July 26th to 27th, I went to conduct two days of business activities. On the evening of the 27th, I returned to Hawaii again and continued my training on the 28th...

Finally, at 4 pm on the 29th, after another day of cross-step training, the last day of the last set of training was completed!

"Cross-step change direction and the top training improvement card:

Object of use: Zhang Hao.

Progress: 6 groups of 6 hours of standard training per group for 6 days per day.

Congratulations to the host, the special signing player Zhang Hao's cross-step change evaluation has been increased to: 90, and the ball control evaluation has been increased to 84."

“Ability evaluation: 87

Physical fitness: speed 90, strength 92 (explosion 90), bounce 94, flexibility 95, physical strength 93...

Shooting: 79 three-pointers (89 in the top arc area, 77 in the remaining positions), 92 mid-range shots, 95 layups...

Techniques: 84 ball control, 79 pass, 93 catch shot, 79 jump shot, 84 back hit jump shot, 84 cut, 59 jump step, 79 turn, 77 back singles skills, 90 ball control, 69 emergency stop jump shot..."

In a month, the evaluation of many technologies has improved!

Maybe it is because the main practice of cross-step change, which is related to flexibility and speed, the speed has returned to 90 and flexibility has also returned to 95, but it seems that this is the limit, and if you gain weight, it will still drop.

In terms of basic skills, the earliest improvement was three-pointers... Zhang Hao didn't expect this at the beginning, but there was a three-point training event behind the cross-step change. As he practiced, the three-pointers in the top arc area reached a level close to the top 89 from the first-class upstream of 88.

Following the cross-step change, he improved to control the ball, but at 84, he probably reached the limit. He couldn't do it like Antetokounmpo... but it was enough, just close to the first-class level than before. Now the first-class mid-season has already surprised him.

Cutting in, jumping, turning around, jumping shots, etc. are also related to cross-step change direction and outrage, so there is more or less improvement. The biggest improvement is the improvement of layups brought by cross-step breakthrough. There is no doubt that this move will be of great help to the basket offense.

After analyzing whether the adjustment direction of the play style was correct, Zhang Hao began to plan future training.

Next, there will definitely be back-attack and emergency stop jump shots!

An emergency stop jump shot takes time to grind, and this cannot be improved quickly.

After learning a jump shot from Jordan, this move has already reached a first-class level, but how to expand, he was still struggling with how to expand in the early and mid-season of last season, but there was a clear direction behind it - a step back with a turn around!

"Anfini Hardaway's back-turning and reversing jump shot first-class training card" is his simplest and most direct expansion direction now!

Next, Zhang Hao was going to take a few days to relax, and took April Clark and the little loli Lelin who came to Hawaii to play for two days. The Tsuburaya Special Photography Company has also come to Hawaii to build a shooting scene.

Combine work and rest, clear your head so that you can better devote yourself to the next training.

It’s summer. After every training, you have to start the simulation training in the learning mode at night, which doubles the life span, and it hurts a little... This also makes him more motivated and become stronger, saving a little more life next season so that he won’t be so painful every summer.

Even if you save more life, you will feel pain...

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In the current free market, the Lakers and Bulls are still the most popular among teams who want to compete for the championship, especially the Lakers, which had the first space of more than tens of millions of dollars.
To be continued...