Chapter 15 Transform into a Doctor(1/2)
Detroit's Motor City is famous all over the world, and it all comes from a man named Henry Ford.
He defined the car, and as one of the top 100 candidates that influenced the human process, it has been permanently recorded in history. Now, when people mention him, most of the time, they think of his company - Ford Motor Company.
In order to commemorate him, the Pistons' training hall is called Henry Ford Training Center.
At the draft eight days later, the Pistons had four draft picks.
Two first-round picks and two second-round picks.
Unfortunately, the 28 wins they had in the just-concluded season did not bring them a lottery, because they traded the draft pick many years ago.
This team has been in decline for a long time. They need to rise and see hope for rise.
Hope was brought by Grant Hill.
This top Duke student who ruled the university basketball world, with his elegance and talent, entered this barbaric city dominated by blue-collar workers.
"Why are there fewer people? There should be ten people participating in the trial today, and I only saw nine people!"
Head coach Don Cheney, who led the Pistons to a good record of 28 wins last season, asked with an ugly face.
"Coach, have something unexpected happened if you drink a sip of water?"
Hill is also here. His offseason plan has just been put on the agenda and has not yet been implemented. If there is a chance, he even wants to play for the US team in the US Championships to maintain his form.
"An accident? No one call? Accident? Hum!"
Cheney has a irritable personality and is always the same. In terms of temperament, he meets the needs of the city of Detroit.
However, his coaching experience is really bad.
He has coached in the NBA for nine seasons, and his peak coaching period was in Houston. Olajuwon is his favorite disciple. He can bring the Rockets into the playoffs every year - nonsense, even if he puts a monkey on the coach's seat, Olajuwon can bring it to the playoffs!
Cheney's 91-92 season was the only time that he did not enter the playoffs in the 1990s. The ridiculous thing is that Don Cheney just won the best head coach the year before, and was finally fired halfway through the season (26 wins and 26 losses), replaced by Rudy Tomjanovic, who ended with 16 wins and 14 losses.
Then, he came to the piston.
The Pistons, which is in a mess, urgently need a coach who has experience in coaching a strong team or has lived with superstars to clean up the mess.
At that time, it happened to be the last season of Isaiah Thomas's career. After the greatest player in the Pistons' history retired, they began to play badly.
Cheney led the Pistons to win the 1994-year-old Tanhua lottery with his superb skills and chose Grant Hill as he wished.
Just when everyone thought he would use his experience in coaching Olajuwon to train Hill, he led the team to score 28 wins.
The fans saw it clearly and the management also saw it clearly. The news of Cheney's resignation had already blown all over the league. He also knew that he had been in the coach position for a long time, but he still wanted to do something.
This is what Auerbach taught him to do in his position.
In his players' age, he was a member of that great Celtic dynasty.
He is also the only player in history to have been teammates with Russell, Havercheck and Bird.
He didn't learn any good qualities from these great players, but as a member of the Iron Blood Celtics, his coaching style is tough and iron fist.
"Who is late?"
Cheney asked in a cold voice.
Coach assistant Ash Brooke said: "Mo...Monchen of the University of Washington."
"who?"
Hill was about to leave when he heard the name and stopped.
Cheney asked, “Is there anything special about this person?”
Hill smiled and said, "I fought with him when I was in college."
Brooke waited for the two of them to finish speaking and said, "But he has a terrible injury history."
"Maybe he's scared." Cheney snorted, "It's normal. As long as he has heard of my training, he won't want to come here to try out, he won't want to come here."
"Maybe." Brooke said.
Hill didn't think so. He heard about Mo Mengchen's injury. At that time, he felt that this person's career was over and there was no room for maneuver.
Who can stand the 3 ACL tear?
Later, he heard that the other party had become a good doctor.
He had almost forgotten this name. In fact, in the depths of his mind, this name always had a mark, and he could not forget that game.
Mo Mengchen won a triple-double for them and carried the University of Washington until the end.
You know, he had experienced two ACL tear at that time, what if he had never been injured?
At this time, Pistons general manager Doug Collins came out of the office: "Have the trial started?"
"Not yet." Brooke said.
"Is there one person missing?"
"yes."
"His name is Mo...Mengchen...right?" Collins said the name with difficulty.
Cheney glared at him: "Doug, how do you know?"
"You guys come with me."
Collins took them to the office, the TV was on, and the latest news from Detroit was played.
"Mo, the nurse at the Bohemian Center said that your treatment method was something she had never seen before."
"They were over-reputable. The situation was urgent at the time. I couldn't handle it in the usual way, which caused them a lot of trouble."
"It's him!"
Hill smiled.
Collins lowered the sound of the TV: "The player who should have been to Henry Ford's trial suddenly became a doctor who was rejuvenated. If we win him, we will not only choose a player, but we will not even be able to use a team doctor in the future."
He was obviously joking.
"Doug, if you say that, our Sir Wise will be nervous." Hill joked.
Unexpectedly, the team doctor was really nervous: "You are right, he can really replace me."
"...David, we're just kidding..."
"I'm not kidding. Do you know what his departure means to the medical community?"
David Wise said under the gaze of everyone, "We lost Michael Jordan."
"This is his videotape of the Nets' match."
Collins put it on DVD: "Let's take a look together."
Hearing this, everyone looked for a stool and sat down.
Less than thirty seconds after the video tape was released, they saw Mo Mengchen commanding the others to complete a beautiful tactic.
"Yes, he has great prestige among this group of people."
Even though Cheney had a bad first impression of Momonchen, he was starting to change now.
"The interesting thing is that they don't know each other, and they don't have a pure relationship. They're all trying to hear their name being read by David Stern at the draft eight days later, and they won't work together."
"It is because of this that it is even more rare for him to let this group play together in this situation."
Compared to everyone's praise, Wise was still a little doubtful: "Why can his knees still fight to such a level? It shouldn't be."
"David, this is his physical examination report. I have confirmed it. There will be no mistakes. Take a look."
Collins handed Momonchen's medical examination report to Wise.
Wise skipped the front part and went straight to the lower part.
"healthy?"
“All A-level health?”
"This is impossible!"
"He has experienced 3 ACL tearings!"
"He was unburdened on the court, and he didn't look like he had suffered multiple major injuries," Collins said.
"There is something wrong with this inspection report, it's impossible!"
Wise said firmly: "Even a slight bone crack will make a certain part less healthy, not to mention that he has suffered three destructive tearings?"
"David, this inspection report was conducted by him through the instructions of the Nets team to conduct an examination in a hospital that has a cooperative relationship with the Nets team."
"That is, the Nets also want to know whether he is healthy and he has no chance to fake it."
"If I guess correctly, the Nets will give him a promise, and they will definitely do it!"
Wise still shook his head in disbelief.
Collins thought more: "Do you think he can still catch up with today's trial?"
"He has become a celebrity in Detroit now, how could he catch up with the trial? I bet that as soon as the interview ends, dozens of reporters are waiting for him, a prospective NBA player with excellent medical skills. Isn't that big enough?"
To be continued...