[外電] 公牛該有自己的NBDL球隊
看板ChicagoBulls作者AhUtopian (It's my Life)時間10年前 (2013/08/06 12:31)推噓3(3推 0噓 3→)留言6則, 4人參與討論串1/3 (看更多)
The Chicago Bulls Need Their Own NBA D-League Team
(也蠻特別的一個「長期補強球隊實力」的方案)
http://pippenainteasy.com/2013/08/04/chicago-bulls-nba-d-league-team/
In the past few years, the NBA Development League — or D-League, for short
— has become more and more mainstream. With the 2011 CBA allowing players
to be assigned to D-League teams as often as the team feels necessary, the
league is beginning to take on the feeling of a baseball-style farm system.
There are 17 D-League franchises now, after the Philadelphia 76ers
announced that they would start their own, the Delaware 87ers, or the
Sevens. 14 of those are either owned directly by an NBA team or have what's
called a “hybrid” single-affiliate relationship, which is to say that the
NBA team is in control of the basketball operations of the D-League team.
Only three D-League franchises remain, then, to serve as the affiliate for
a total of 16 NBA teams. Those teams without a single-affiliate —
specifically the Chicago Bulls, for the purposes of this piece — are now
at a significant disadvantage compared to the 14 teams with one.
Why? Well, remember, the “D” in D-League stands for “development.” One
of the major challenges facing NBA teams has always been attempting to
develop their young players while also remaining competitive. Take the
2003-04 Detroit Pistons and Darko Milicic. The Pistons were really good —
they would win the title that year — and Darko was the 2nd overall pick. But
it turned out he wasn’t really ready to contribute right away, so he
barely got any playing time. His potential was never realized and he
bounced around the league for a few years.
Imagine the same scenario playing out in a system where the Pistons have
their own D-League team. Darko could be sent down to a team using the same
playbook and language that the actual Pistons use, where he could learn at
his own pace and perhaps eventually become the player everyone thought
he’d be.
This, specifically, is why I think the Bulls need to hurry up and get on
board with the D-League. Tom Thibodeau is somewhat famous at this point for
his unwillingness to play younger players. Jimmy Butler barely played in
his first season and neither did Marquis Teague. Malcolm Thomas played
significant minutes exactly once in his month or so with the team last year.
It’s generally assumed that Thibs doesn’t like playing younger guys
because they haven’t learned his defensive system yet. So imagine that the
Bulls have their own D-League team, running the same defensive system as the
big club. You could send an Erik Murphy — or a Tony Snell, for that matter
— to the D-League for chunks of the season where they can get playing time
and continue learning the system.
The way the CBA is structured would even allow you to do both. The Oklahoma
City Thunder shuttled their young players like Jeremy Lamb back and forth
between the NBA and the D-League at an incredible pace. They might play one
night for the Tulsa 66ers and be back with the Thunder the next day for
their game. So you could have Snell and Murphy available if there’s a
chance for them to play in garbage time, but also allow them to keep
playing actual minutes elsewhere.
So. Having decided that the Bulls should field a D-League team, what would
that team look like? Where would they play? Assume, for the purposes of this
exercise, that the Bulls’ current affiliate, the Iowa Energy, has been
repurposed by one of the other four teams that use it.
Well, as a general rule, you want your affiliate to be fairly close by.
Every single team with a single-affiliate except for one has their team
stationed within a state or two of the big club. St. Louis might make some
sense from the Bulls’ perspective. It only takes an hour to fly from
Chicago to St. Louis or vice versa. Springfield, Champaign-Urbana,
Rockford and Peoria are all reasonably well-populated and relatively nearby.
But why mess around with something so far away when you could place a team
even closer? Say, somewhere that’s only about an hour’s drive from the
United Center?
Anyway, think about how different last season might have looked with a
D-League team attached to the Bulls. As long as Kirk Hinrich was healthy,
Marquis Teague barely played. Send him down to the D-League and let him get
reps, then call him back up when Hinrich inevitably got hurt. Malcolm Thomas
also would have benefitted from time with the Roses/Horizons, and maybe he
doesn’t have to go play in Israel for a few months because the Bulls
decide to sign him after his breakout performance at Las Vegas Summer League
in 2012. And maybe he doesn’t get cut to save money after another standout
summer league performance if you can send him to the D-League.
On a more macro level, a fully integrated D-League, where every team has
their own single affiliate, would make the trade deadline more interesting.
The problem with trades in the NBA has always been that teams have to give
up something tangible, like a draft pick or an actual player on their roster
to get anything worth mentioning. (Unless you’re the Atlanta Hawks and you’
re negotiating with the Bulls, in which case you can get Kyle Korver for
absolutely nothing. Sigh.) But with a D-League system, smaller transactions
— for instance, maybe a team sees their backup center get hurt and decides
it needs another big as insurance — could consist of little more than a
couple of D-Leaugers and some cash.
Of course, the system would need to get some kinks worked out first. In
baseball, you can trade a player making 20 million for a single prospect if
you really want to, since MLB is uncapped. The NBA obviously doesn’t work
like that. Maybe you allow teams to acquire players even if they’re above
the cap by having the other team pay all, or at least some, of the
player’s remaining salary? That’s probably a question for the next CBA.
But regardless, having another 10-15 players available in case of injury
would be useful.
So, I will direct this to Jerry Reinsdorf: Please get in on the D-League.
Please.
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