Chapter 11 Teach you how to play basketball?
The competition format of this Chicago rookie training camp is the same as in previous years. All rookies who come here to participate in the training camp will be divided into several groups, and the final champion will be decided in a single knockout match system. Therefore, all rookies here are divided into 8 groups this year, including five in seven groups and seven in one group, which together are 42 in total. These eight groups are led by eight first-class seed players.
It can be said that such a game arrangement and the game system are extremely cruel, especially for Hardaway, the number one seed, this game is obviously not good for him. All the players of his team are the worst among all rookies. Of course, when Lin Han was assigned to the group of Hardaway, this situation that was unfavorable to Hardaway was naturally extremely unfavorable to him.
"It seems that our opponents in the first game are very difficult to deal with."
Aaron Williams was in a very complicated mood at this time. As an inside player with good physical conditions, he has the advantage of entering the NBA compared to other players. Although the NBA has been dominated by outside players in the past ten years, whether it is the Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas after Larry Bird, until now Michael Jordan, these NBA king players, except for Larry Bird, who are half an inside player, are all outside players.
It can be said that the situation in the entire NBA league is that the outside is king, which is also the strategy of the new NBA president David Stern after taking office in 1984. That is, to use the beautiful playing styles of the league's outside superstars to promote the NBA, making the NBA more commercially valuable. To a certain extent, David Stern constantly changes the rules, suppresses the inside, and makes the outside players more and more caring. This indeed makes the NBA successful in commercial terms, but it also seriously suppresses the NBA's chances of dominating the inside line like Chamberlain. The NBA will not have the situation of the inside line in the 1960s and 1970s, and there will also be no tragic situation where the Los Angeles Lakers legend Baylor won eight runners-ups.
It is just obvious that with Stern's intervention, the NBA is increasingly developing towards the prosperous times of outside players, but it is also obvious that in the future, perhaps the role of inside players in the NBA will become increasingly marginalized, so high-quality inside players will actually be easier to find jobs than before.
Although Aaron Williams knows that he is not a high-quality insider. He has the physical talent he possesses, but he does not have the technical ability, which determines that he can only be a role player. So he knows that although the inside situation this year is that the inside will be very popular, it will only be high-quality insiders such as Weber or Bradley. As for what will happen to his role-playing ordinary insider, no one knows.
Therefore, when he saw the most important group confrontation in this training camp and was assigned to the Hardaway group, he was very happy at the beginning and was able to follow Hardaway. If he luckily entered the finals and won the championship, his draft situation would be very good.
However, what he didn't expect in the end was that in addition to himself, there was an ordinary inside player Antonio Jiewei who was in similar situation to him and the most "fearing" teammate Lin Han. Although as a temporary teammate, he shouldn't say bad things about Lin Han in his heart.
But one thing is that Aaron Williams still agrees very much, that is, which team will lead an outside Asian player who runs much slower than his big inside line. Basically, this team will have a four-on-five game in the future. In such a situation, no matter how Hardaway is against the will, unless the other players of this team are very strong.
However, no matter how you look at it, the inside combination of himself and Antonio Harvey is very ordinary. As for the team's last point guard, Van Eksel, this player Aron Williams agrees very much. The point guard's draft prediction ranking not long ago was almost the last rookie in the second round.
This does not mean that his strength is not strong enough. On the contrary, his personal strength is extremely strong. Many experts even highly recognize his personal ability. In this year's draft year, based on personal ability, this guy can rank among the top three point guards, otherwise he would not be assigned to the second level in the training camp. You should know that in addition to the ten players in the first level, the second level and other level players only have 8 players in each level. Therefore, Van Eksel is considered the top figure among this year's rookies. If his playing style can be more scientific and reasonable, there will be no problem even entering the first level.
However, the key point is that the mad point guard's playing style cannot become scientific. If his playing style really becomes scientific and reasonable, he would not have no top team after he entered the college, and he would not even be able to enter the first round after participating in the draft.
Now Aaron Williams is very suspicious whether this guy will fight Hardaway, the team's leading player, for the ball.
Thinking of the bad situation of his team, I saw the opposite side of Wenbeck, led by two players from the first-class team, and the team also has the elite North Carolina player George Lynch, the most powerful player among the second-class team. Although the remaining two players are not strong, whether they are inside player Eric Riley or organizational defender Adonis Jordan, just the three players of Wenbeck, Leider and George Lynch are enough to make their team suffer.
"The future is really dark, maybe ignorance is also a kind of happiness."
Looking at the Asian teammate beside him who was ready to beat his hands and blushed with excitement, Aaron Williams finally let out such a sigh in his heart. In his mind, Lin Han was ignorant, and ignorant of his own ignorance and his opponent.
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"What a shit group, fvck's fucking organizer, they can't treat Perry like this. This is **naked discrimination. Look at Chris Webber's teammates over there, and then look at Perry's teammates over here. It's not a dimensional one."
"A wave is a cancer, an Asian layman, two big door panels that are tall, I swear these two clumsy door panels will definitely be beaten by Wenbeck, my poor Perry."
"Yeah, our poor Perry, he was rejected by all those who envy him, and I will definitely scold the situation here in my newspaper tomorrow!"
"I agree with this report that all our journalists and newspapers should unite and must uphold justice for the injustice that Perry encounters"
Today's group confrontation is not closed. In this case, as the most important confrontation game to predict this year's rookie pick, it naturally attracts a lot of reporters around. Moreover, this year's rookies also have the most popular penny Hardaway in the United States. Although Hardaway is just a rookie who has not entered the NBA, if it is just a popularity of popularity, all players in the United States in the United States can compare with him in popularity, there are only a few people such as Jordan and another NCAA player who has not entered the NBA. Therefore, in terms of popularity, Hardaway is now at the superstar level.
Moreover, this player is not only very popular, but also has good image. He is not only a favorite of fans, but also a favorite of the media. Even if Jordan sees this situation, he will be envious, jealous and hateful, because Jordan has been criticized by the media recently for his gambling debts.
So, when these reporters saw that Hardaway encountered such a situation, almost all the people became excited.
Of course, all the reporters around the field were excited at this time, but Lin Han was extremely excited on the court. This was the first time he saw so many media reporters and guns facing him. It was almost impossible for such things to happen at Utah Valley Community College before. At this time, Lin Han also felt that it was extremely correct for Aly to ask him to spend 10,000 US dollars to come here.
But what Lin Han didn't know was that the reason why all the media reporters were around their venue was not because of the training camp itself, but just because of Hardaway. Except for the fullness of Hardaway's game, Webber's game was fine, and the other venues could almost be said to be deserted.
"Asian boy, what's the day? The game has begun!"
Just when Lin Han was thinking about the game shining brightly, then he was noticed by the whole United States and finally entered the NBA smoothly, Aron Williams, who had just failed to jump the ball, saw Lin Han giggling and shouting loudly.
But when Lin Han heard the scolding, Wen Baker had already completed this fast attack of five-on-four, and the team's shooting guard Ledel easily scored a layup, and Ledel was Lin Han's target of defense.
"Boy, you are the first player to be dazed while defending me."
After the layup was completed, Ledel, the second-team star player in the United States, did not forget to sarcastically say that he didn't like this layman, or that no one would like a player like Lin Han who, in their opinion, was an insult to the NBA and the draft.
An ordinary person who has only played for a year is thinking about entering the NBA? Do you think NBA players are all cabbage? Do you think that players who have been playing for more than ten years and have always targeted the NBA are all idiots?
However, in the face of Laidel's unfriendliness, Lin Han was also a little confused. He didn't think there was anything he had offended this star player.
However, what made Lin Han even more speechless was that when the game started, the star defender who faced him became the main attacking player of the Wenbeck team in this game. Whether it was a ball or no ball, they would come to Lin Han. With Lin Han's current defensive ability and physical fitness, it can almost be said that he was completely defeated by Ledel.
If it weren't for the start of this game, Hardaway's point guard Van Eksel's performance was also extremely strong, I'm afraid that Hardaway would have completely fallen at the beginning of the game. If Hardaway still kept passing the ball like now without attacking on his own.
"What a smart player"
Seeing Hardaway constantly passing the ball on the court to find opportunities for his teammates, Jerry West on the side also said with appreciation, and Jerry Sloan on the side kept nodding in agreement. They originally thought that after having a group of problematic teammates and garbage teammates, Hardaway would directly carry the team and fight against his opponents like Jordan, but in the end, Hardaway chose another path.
This also made Jerry West more convinced that this young player would not be Jordan's successor, but more like the Magician's successor. However, whether it is Jordan's successor or Magician's successor, the Lakers are destined to miss him.
"Coward, weren't you the most clamoring before the game? Do you dare to stand in front of me and one-on-one with me now?"
The game between Hardaway and Wenbaker was very special. As the core players of these two teams, Wenbaker and Hardaway are not the most prominent players on the court. Lidell of Wenbaker became the focus of the court because of his blow to Lin Han, and Van Eksel of Hardaway also beat his opponent because of his unreasonable outside shooting. Especially his unreasonable outside shooting almost made the opponent collapse.
In this case, these two people are naturally the focus of the field, but as the focus of the field, the attack on Hardaway still did not satisfy Van Eksel. The team's organizational defender set his sights on George Lynch, who had mocked him the most fierce.
"Hmph, I'm a forward player, you're the organizational guard, I'm defending that Chinese, not you, the shot guard."
Although George Lynch was very jealous of everything about Hardaway and very disliked Van Eksel, as a North Carolina graduate, he was not bad in terms of IQ. Although he didn't like Van Eksel, he was very clear about Van Eksel's ability and could not defend him. As for another outside Hardaway, he had never thought about it.
So in the end he handed over Hardaway to his teammate Lidell. According to his own words, in order to give Lidell the chance to challenge Hardaway, he set his sights on Lin Han, who seemed to be without any threat in his opinion.
"A hypocritical coward is such a coward, I'm a pussy"
Looking at George Lynch's shameless face, Van Eksel cursed, which made George Lynch's face look bad. Although he chose to escape, it does not mean that he has no self-esteem. In fact, his self-esteem is stronger than anyone else.
"Asian boy, are you a pig? Do you dare to take the ball and attack once?"
In the end, George Lynch, who was scolded by Van Eksel, was targeted by Lin Han who was defended by him, and was about to vent anger in front of Lin Han. In fact, if his offensive ability was as good as Leidel, he would have beaten Lin Han on the offensive end, but he had never had confidence in his attack, and in the end he could only stand aside and envy Leidel.
What made him even more speechless was that he was originally planning to show his defensive ability on Lin Han, but this Chinese just didn't attack, which made him very unhappy.
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Faced with George Lynch's ridicule, Lin Han had no choice. Since being beaten by Ledel on the defensive end, his teammates seemed to have agreed and completely ignored him. Just as the opponent said before the game, four-for-five, Lin Han swears that he definitely believed that his teammates were really ready to go four-for-five.
Therefore, even if he wanted to attack, he had no ball in his hand, so Lin Han, who was leaning against George Lynch and constantly requesting his teammate Hardaway outside, was extremely helpless. Obviously, Hardaway was still preparing to hand the ball to Van Eksel not far away this time, instead of giving it to him.
And just as Lin Han predicted, Hardaway did give the ball to Van Eksel, who was full of offense. But what Lin Han didn't expect was that after hesitating for a moment, Van Eksel actually pushed the ball to Lin Han's hand.
“Huh?”
Lin Han looked at the basketball in his hand and looked at Van Eksel strangely not far away. However, after paying attention to Lin Han's gaze, the teammate just snorted and turned his head over. However, Lin Han knew that this guy had been looking at him and George Lynch with his eyes.
Obviously, this guy wanted to teach him a lesson to this guy George Lynch.
"What a stingy guy"
Although I don’t know what arrogance means, I heard from Ali’s explanation that he said he didn’t want it, but his body was very honest and awkward.
"Boy, come and attack, see how I can teach you to block the shot"
"Haha, you will thank me, you will definitely thank me for teaching you to play basketball!"
"There is finally a ball on your hand!"
Faced with Van Eksel's expectations and George Lynch's madness, Lin Han soon focused all his attention on the basketball in his hand, and also recalled Kobe's actions when facing the defender behind him.
It was as if I had thought about it in advance, my feet slid on my side, jumped up gently, and my whole body twisted in the air, and Lin Han's whole body seemed to be stopped in the air, which was stagnant!
When Lin Han finally finished jumping with his back, after adjusting his body slightly, he gently threw the basketball in his hand out again.
At this point, the entire back turn and lean back jump shot was completed!
After Lin Han took action, George Lynch, who had just clamored to teach Lin Han how to play basketball, looked at Lin Han who was leaning back in the air, and the rookie, who was known for her defense, had already burst into horror.
With a blink of an eye, when the basketball that Lin Han threw out finally entered the net hollow.
At this time, whether it was George Lynch, Van Eksel, who had just given Lin Han's legend, and even other players on the court, they were all shocked.
"Beautiful, so pretty, this is one of the most beautiful turn-back jump shots I've ever seen"
Jerry West looked at the Asian boy on the strange court, and his eyes burst into extremely bright colors. In fact, Jerry Sloan's expression was not much different on one side. Lin Han reminded them of one person.
As the most focus of this game, Anfini Hardaway was actually shocked after watching Lin Han's shooting process. He had never thought that a layman would have such shooting skills, even if he didn't have them.
"Michael Jordan?"
Finally, Hardaway looked deeply at Lin Han who fell on the ground because of the large tilt. He held his hands tightly, muttering to himself.
Lin Han walked into the heart of this American pride for the first time.
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Chapter completed!