After arriving in Miami, the Lakers held two training sessions in the afternoon.
After a night¡¯s rest, on the morning of March 19, the Lakers came to the American Airlines Center again.
This time, Jenny Buss, the team¡¯s vice president of commercial operations, also came to the away game with the team.
Before the start of the morning pre-match meeting, Jenny Buss also came to the visiting team meeting room.
"We have 51 wins and 15 losses. Whether it is our management, coaching staff, or fans, they are all satisfied with this record. There are still 16 games left, and we do not require a certain record. Of course We cannot slack off because of this. I have discussed it with the boss. If we can win 60 games, this year the team will give the same bonus as the bonus given by the league"
After talking for a long time, Jenny Buss just hoped that the team could win 60 games and started to use money to motivate the players.
But it does have an effect, money, who doesn¡¯t like it?
And the goal of 60 wins has been announced, so naturally there are players who want to achieve it.
Who doesn¡¯t want to have a better record?
?? 60 wins may only be achieved by one or two teams in a season, and in some seasons there may not even be a single 60-win team.
The logo man who also played with the team listened to Jenny Buss¡¯ words and wanted to spit out ten thousand words - isn¡¯t the boss your dad? In terms of operations, your dad listens to you so much. Isn¡¯t this just a matter of your words?
But it¡¯s really attractive.
After the start of the Magic Birds Championship, NBA revenue increased sharply. In the 1970s and 1980s, many players signed extremely long contracts, such as Magic, who signed a contract of 1 minute, 25 years and 25 million U.S. dollars. Later, in 1984, He applied to the league to re-sign, and it became 10 years and 25 million US dollars, and he signed it until the 1993-1994 season.
But not every player can be treated like Magic. After entering the NBA, he will receive a salary of 25 million U.S. dollars a year for 25 years. At that time, the basic salary contract was usually 30,000 to 50,000 U.S. dollars a year, hundreds of thousands. The salary of more than 200,000 US dollars is the salary of the main players, but the signing is too long.
Therefore, the league set up a bonus pool in the 1982-83 season. A sum of money was allocated based on the total revenue of the previous season and distributed to the teams that reached the playoffs, the teams that advanced in the playoffs, and the final total. Championship teams and more.
The total bonus pool in the first year was US$1.7 million. The 1982-83 championship Philadelphia 76ers received a total of US$470,000 in bonuses that season. The 76ers had 29 players + coaching staff + key staff members that season. As for the bonus, no one had more than $10,000, which was not bad in those days.
By last season, the total bonus pool had reached US$6.1 million, and the Bulls finally received US$1.68 million in bonuses.
The bonus pool that has been booked for this season is US$6.44 million. The bonuses for the first place in the Eastern and Western regular seasons are the same. If the Lakers can finally enter the playoffs as the first place in the Western Conference, they will get 100% of the bonus pool. Five-fifths of the bonus is hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you look at it, each person will get almost 10,000 dollars, and then advance to the second and third rounds If they can really win the championship, then the Lakers will have a total of Can get 1.78 million U.S. dollars, double that, each person can get more than 100,000 U.S. dollars
Their goal is definitely the championship. At this stage, they are striving for a better ranking in the regular season and additional bonuses The key is that the difficulty is really not very high!
16 games, just win 9 of them.
And the goal of the Lakers players is not just 60 winsif they can win more, of course they have to win more!
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At 5:40 in the evening, after the warm-up, Zhang Hao entered the court with his teammates.
After entering the venue, watching the two great centers, the No. 1 pick and the No. 2 pick in 1992, exchanging greetings, and watching Magic and Barkley chatting and laughing with the opposing stars, Zhang Hao took a look at the evaluation of the opponent's players The defense is really good, better than the Knicks. The team had to be good
This time when he came to Miami, Mourning didn¡¯t invite him to dinner, but he also called him.
The reason why I didn¡¯t invite you to dinner is that the Heat just played a game the day before yesterday. I had a rest in the morning yesterday and was preparing for the game in the afternoon.
After the All-Star weekend, every team's time is very tight, Zhang Hao can understand, and their Lakers team was also very busy yesterday. O'Neal had just come back and was about to play against a top team like the Heat. Kenny Anderson was also injured. A lot of pressure.
The key is that we lost to the Heat once before. If we lose again this time, we will be swept in the regular season!
Zhang Hao doesn¡¯t think the Heat have a chance to reach the finals, but others don¡¯t think so.
And Zhang Hao doesn¡¯t want to be swept. Even in the regular season, if he wants to win, the pressure is not small.
However, Lu Xun once said - without pressure, there is no motivation.
There was a lot of pressure, but when it came time to compete, Zhang Hao regarded this pressure asThe 37-year-old veteran Ben Meili and Wilkins also have an advantage in the confrontation with Sasha Danilovich, the white shooting guard.
This time it was James Robinson guarding the top arc, and Zhang Hao retreated to the basket.
Can¡¯t guard against it! He originally wanted to give it a try to see if he could complete the task of "183 Enemies" at the beginning by preventing Tim Hardaway from changing direction and breaking through. The Silver Fox also wanted to try, but at the beginning Zhang Hao felt It's difficult to defend, so it's better to leave it to the faster James Robinson.
Unlike Zhang Hao¡¯s defensive strategy, James Robinson has no defensive ability, he is just fast. When Tim Hardaway reached a position one meter away from the three-point line, James Robinson followed up.
Tim Hardaway is very good at long-range three-pointers. The year he won the three-pointer title, the 1994-95 season, the NBA three-point line has not been shortened. This year, he averaged 2.5 three-pointers per game, perfect attendance, and no one made any shots. How many super long three-pointers have been achieved in the eyes of others.
This gives Tim Hardaway an extremely wide space to break through. Zhang Hao just defended him on the three-point line.
James Robinson's defensive action was very rough, regardless of the foul issue, but the referee did not call it. Tim Hardaway easily crossed the step and broke into the inside. James Robinson followed closely, and Tim Hardaway burst into three seconds. When the left side of the zone stepped on the three-second zone line, O'Neal was in place to defend!
Tim Hardaway was already prepared to distribute the ball. PJ Brown took a few steps forward, received the ball at the baseline one step outside the left side of the three-second zone, and shot a jumper from close range
"Snapped¡¡"
Tim Hardaway, who was passing the ball, and PJ Brown, who was catching and shooting, thought the ball was a sure shot, but the ball was blown out of the sideline by Zhang Hao!
Zhang Hao raised his elbow to resist Mourning's blocking position, turned around and passed Mourning, quickly bounced up, pounced directly from the left side of the reasonable collision area, and slapped away PJ Brown's short-range jumper!
Seeing O'Neal turning his head and opening his mouth wide, and seeing Zhang Hao's calm expression after blocking the shot, the Heat players were very surprised!
They have repeatedly studied the Lakers' defense during their six-game winning streak after the All-Star Weekend, and specially sent out a better offensive lineup tonight just to deal with XO's strong mid-range and near-basket defense.
The Heat are ready to deal with O'Neal's super mobility and his strong sense of defense that has not been shown in the Magic before. The Heat are also ready to deal with Zhang Hao's sense of blocking shots under the basket.
But I didn¡¯t expect that Zhang Hao¡¯s close-range defense would actually improve!
Not to mention the Heat players, O'Neal felt that the ball was going to be lost. He challenged PJ Brown in the mid-range, but PJ Brown was very conscious and Tim Hardaway's passing with the ball was also great. Mourning should be stuck with Zhang Hao under the basket.
But Zhang Hao actually completed a beautiful block!
This ball is a great morale booster!
The Heat still have the ball, but there are 8 seconds left in the attack time. James Robinson is 27 years old and at the peak of his athletic ability and technology. His speed of 93 is quite good. This time he prevented Tim Hardaway from receiving the serve.
pj-Brown served the ball to Mashburn.
Mashburn received the ball and started playing singles. Facing Doug Christie's defense, although he successfully broke into the baseline shooting area, this was the position Mashburn reached under the guidance of Doug Christie.
It was indeed a bit hasty in the singles before the teammates were completely in position. Mashburn's throw was slapped on the backboard by O'Neal!
Nail board hat!
The main reason to be able to prevent the Heat's attack was Zhang Hao's unexpected big block before.
It¡¯s time for the Lakers offense.
It is obvious that the defenses of the two teams are very different. The reason why "iron-blooded" has become a term for NBA defense is not to say that good defense can be called "iron-blooded" and "strong confrontation" can be called "iron-blooded".
When the Lakers defended just now, they stepped up their confrontation, but when the Heat defended, the confrontation escalated to the point of a fight!
O'Neal wanted to get a deeper position inside, but Mourning raised his arms and refused. The two were entangled. Zhang Hao just received the ball outside the three-point line. The referee's whistle came and there was a foul on both sides!
Before the game, the two were still brothers, but now they looked like they were about to fight, butting heads against each other.
Players from both teams also gathered around.
Zhang Hao threw the ball to the referee and walked up quickly.
The referee was blocking other people who were surrounding him, but Zhang Hao hit him on the head with a ball. He turned around to see which bastard did it, and saw Zhang Hao quickly walking towards the two people who were having the conflict. He immediately blew the whistle and gestured to Zhang Hao. He pointed at Zhang Hao with a t gestureand then regretted it
Zhang Hao stepped forward, raised his arms, and pushed the two of them away.
Hearing the referee blow the whistle again, he turned around to see which unlucky guy was whistled. If someone was whistled at this time, it must be a technical offender.
Then, he saw the referee pointing at someone Zhang!
I like to play basketball too much. What should I do if I am too powerful? What should I do to update the fastest. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com); Hearing the referee blow the whistle again, I turned around to see which unlucky guy was whistled. If someone was whistled at this time, it must be a technical foul.
Then, he saw the referee pointing at someone Zhang!
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