Choosing 5 first-round picks in a year creates history. What are the medicines sold in the Nets?

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Kong Dexin

On June 26, the Nets, which "sit at home" at the Barclays Center, became the team with the strongest presence in the first round draft night. They fulfilled all the five first round picks in their hands as players, setting a historical record. What is even more unimaginable is that 4 of the five players selected by the Nets are defenders, and 3 of them are European point guards.

Before the draft began, many people expected that the Nets would send at least 1 or 2 first-round picks away, and it was impossible to keep all 5 signs by themselves, but they really did. Their draft picks and candidates are like this.

8th pick: Yegor Deming (Russian high defender)

19th pick: Nolan Traore (French impact guard)

22nd pick: Drake Powell (Defensive guard)

26th pick: Ben Salav (Israeli high defender)

27th pick: Danny Wolf (Technical inside)

“我为球队今晚选中的球员感到兴奋。”篮网总经理肖恩·马克斯说，“我们得到了一些能按照正确方式打球的球员，他们能正确地转移球，而且他们都有尚待开发的潜力。”

外界对篮网的做法并不买账，特别是对他们选择了三名欧洲控球后卫这件事，德明、特劳雷和萨拉夫有一个统一的问题：远投不行。 How should the Nets allocate the ball? Why choose three people with such high similarity? Can they really train them to choose so many newcomers? When we try to think about these questions, we may get the following answers.

1. It is not ideal to choose 5 first rounds in one go. There has never been a precedent in history. The last team to choose 4 rookies in the first round was the Rockets in 2021. As a result, two of them quickly bid farewell to the league. As the Rockets sent Green away, only Shen Jing was left in the team. Moreover, the Rockets' overall pick at that time was higher than the Nets this year. The simple common sense is that you cannot cultivate so many young people at the same time.

2. Have the Nets considered upward or traded draft picks one after another? I believe they have tried it, but maybe the situation is not optimistic, and they are more optimistic than most people about choosing 5 first-round picks. In order to increase the 5 ranks, the Grizzlies gave one first round + two rounds. In order to get the No. 13 pick, the Pelicans sent off their unprotected first round next year like crazy. Perhaps the negotiation of upward trade is more difficult.

3. The big reason why the Nets' No. 8 pick cannot be traded upward may be that Philadelphia and the Jazz spoke loudly at the Lions, Philadelphia Edgecom was in hand, so it would be okay not to change. The Jazz had a sense of madness, "You really don't change the price? OK, then I'll choose Bailey by myself", which made Bailey confused. As for the later, starting from the 11th pick this year, a lot of players have not been able to get better in the middle of the first round, and the Nets don’t want to bleed a lot in order to improve.

4. The basic principle of the Nets' first round draft pick is to choose talent, focus on scoring lottery tickets, only choosing the best, not the right one, because the Nets have no direction at all, and everyone in the team is not a non-selling product. First gather the talent, and then talk about how to play. Four of the five people selected were 19 years old, and the remaining one was 21-year-old Danny Wolf, a member of the fallen little house, and 27 were the ones who bought the bottom. Compared to older players who have relatively fixed roles, the Nets choose the raw stone.

5. Three international defenders without baskets were selected, which is an intuitive manifestation of raising a Gu. I would unconsciously imagine this picture, and the Nets wrote a few big words on their blackboard: Let's scrape the ball holder genius! If they can raise Jaret Allen and Clarkston at the end of the first round, there is naturally reason to think that choosing Malu Archie at the 8th is a bit of a waste. So at that position, the list of Nets' geniuses with geniuses may be: Deming, Traore, Yakujonis, and Salav.

6. How to adapt to three defenders? This is more of a problem with head coach Jody Fernandez. He told general manager Max that this is OK, that's fine. There are many traces of Jody this draft. When Max talked about Deming, he said something, playing in a smart, hard and the right way. This is also a main theme of these choices in the first round of the Nets this year. Their talent they understand may be more inclined toward football quotient, team attributes, and coordination abilities, rather than simple and rough sports or shooting abilities - all three European defenders can read the game. Wolf went to Yale two years ago and was a 2.11-meter "guard" and Powell, who has the most powerful body, is also a type that is less refined.

7.Max said that these players have undeveloped potential, so let's see if Jody's coaching staff can develop it.

8. The Nets have become an international team, with Chinese boss, New Zealand general manager, Spanish head coach, 5 first-round picks and 4 international students, and they are embarking on an alternative path.