Chapter 27 The Unskilled Younger Brother
Jerry Sloan didn't ask for much in the first day of training for the Utah Jazz. Most of the current players of the Jazz are the original players last season. In addition to the former best defensive player in the league, one of the best blockers in NBA history, and Jazz's center Mark Eaton retired, the rest of the others are completely the original team.
Under such circumstances, the Jazz is not so urgent about the training camp before the season. After all, most core players are already very familiar with Jerry Sloan's set. The main task of this training camp before the start of the Jazz season is just to integrate new players into the team's system. Such a task is not very difficult no matter how you look at it.
Therefore, this year's season training camp is much easier than last year's season training camp.
Last year, the team reached the Western Conference Finals, so the media across the United States were looking forward to whether the Jazz should enter the Finals vs. the Bulls. The most promising Western Conference team that was put on such expectations by everyone was naturally under great pressure. After last season, this team was only sixth in the Western Conference in the regular season and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. In the end, everyone saw that the king and future of the Western Conference were not in Malone and Stockton, but in the fat man Barkley. In the end, the team in this small city would do whatever it should be. No one would care about them, even if this team had two superstars who entered the Dream Team.
If Lin Han hadn't had a big show this year, I'm afraid that many people wouldn't really pay attention to the Jazz this summer. There are no scandals or internal strife, their popularity is not that high, and the team is not so distinctive.
The integration of the team is actually very simple to say, but it is not that simple to do. In the Jazz, the stability of this team is indeed the best in the NBA. The team does not have any big head players. The team's main players do not seem so difficult to serve. The team's head coach Sloan has no bad record except being a little old-fashioned and strict. Such a team is a typical team that is easiest to allow players to integrate into, at least it looks like this.
But it seems like this. When Lin Han and the others came to the team's training hall, things were not like this. Veterans such as Stockton, Karl Malone and Jeff Malone, Tom Chambers have been together all the time, interacting with each other in the training ground, talking and laughing like the owner of the training hall, without any restraint, and there seems to be no fear or anxiety about head coach Sloan, and Jerry Sloan really doesn't care whether these veterans are really warming up at this time, they are really training.
In addition to the veterans of these teams, some middle-aged players of the team, such as Tyron Cobin and some players who have just introduced in the game, such as Felton Spencer, are working very hard. At least they seem to work hard. They seem to want to perform in front of Jerry Sloan to attract the attention of the team's head coach Sloan. Among these players, even the team's starting small forward David Bennot, who was injured last season, was practicing shooting very hard. Even the team's substitute inside line was seriously injured, and was known as Malone as Isaac Austin in college. This guy was also pretending to be on the side and wandering around in front of Jerry Sloan.
Whether it is the veterans and core teams who care about the team, or the Middle Zodiac who has a strong desire to perform, and the league found by the team as players, although these two groups of guys seem out of place, they have their own very clear goals. The abilities of veterans and core teams are fixed, as long as they maintain their condition, this reality does not require them to work hard, because hard work may be wrong for them, and if one is not good, they will lose if they are injured, they have already been fixed in Jerry Sloan's heart. They no longer need to prove what kind of characteristics they have. This is completely different from those of the Mesozoic and the new guys in the team.
However, in this Jazz team, the more incompatible teams with these two out of place are naturally Lin Han, Aron Williams and Brian Russell, three newcomers. Aron Williams and Brian Russell needless to say, they have no idea what they should do, Sloan and the coaching staff didn't say anything. Looking at the veterans of the team who were mainly chatting and the middle-aged generations of the team who were training hard, these young rookies were confused and didn't know what to do for a moment. Of course, these two guys didn't know what to do at this time, and Lin Han was not much better. They didn't know what to perform at this time and how to perform at this time.
Although Lin Han is very young, he has experience in social college due to his family. Although he can't do anything versatile, he also knows some rules.
Young people like him who are new to the team need to abide by some rules. For example, the team's veterans and players come to the team in sports cars worth 100,000 US dollars, so the car Lin Han can't drive more than this number.
If the team's veterans and core players perform very ordinary in the training field, Lin Han cannot be domineering as soon as he comes to the team, as if he wants to attract everyone's focus. If he really does this, then he will really become Jordan. Aren't you showing off during training? When you arrive on the court, your buddy will not pass the ball to you. See how you show off. Jordan can show off on the court. This is a person with real skills, but Lin Han is not Jordan. He is not sure if he is really capable now.
So for Lin Han, the training ground cannot perform, which makes these veterans and leaders tired of them. When the team is on the court, it can play whatever they want. No one will say that he is, of course, naturally, the team will win the game with good performance.
So, this is also something Aron Williams and Brian Russell is worried about. They are too active like those mid-zodiac players on the team. This will give people the feeling that they are here to grab the shift and power. I am afraid that they will be hostile to the Mesozoic generation and despised by the veterans in the future.
But the head coach of the team who does not show anything will definitely be dissatisfied. I chose you to contribute to the team. You will not show anything. How can I investigate you?
Therefore, this degree is really difficult to master. Fortunately, although Stockton and Malone have the idea and approach to give these rookies some warnings, it is not too difficult for Lin Han and these rookies. Seeing that Lin Han and the other three never knew what to do. After a while at a loss, the two teams' head players also came over with a smile and gave some guidance and help to these three. In fact, for Malone and Stockton, they did not really provide any guidance to these rookies, but just let these three young people and other players know that these three people will be covered by us in the future. No matter how impressive the training ground is in the future, it is the permission of us two big bosses. This is to loosen their burdens and give them room to play freely.
In fact, in the NBA, most teams are like this. Rookie players come to serve tea and water first. This is a warning, teach a lesson, and let the rookie know the rules. When the rookie knows the rules, the team leader will hug the rookie and say: Did you see, this is my good buddy, everyone will take care of it in the future.
However, Lin Han was very domineering and calm in the locker room before. He didn't care about the striking power set by Stockton and Malone for them. He didn't serve tea and water, and was not so active in saying hello to the boss. In this case, Lin Han's new "little brother" is not very good-looking. Therefore, although Malone and Stockton admired Lin Han's psychological quality, as the leader of a team, a rookie like Lin Han is an unrecovered person and still needs to be beaten.
So, after Lin Han was a little reluctant to go to Malone and Stockton to talk and laugh at the place where they were chatting and laughing, Malone and Stockton quickly hugged Lin Han and called him a friend, and officially put the three of them under their wings.
"In the past, many people said that the rookie players who came to the NBA were going to be like this. Now it seems that what these people said is really true. If you didn't go to pay a favor to Malone and Stockton, we might have been left alone for a while, and the coach wouldn't care about this kind of thing."
"This is something that belongs to the players, so how can the coach care about these things? Maybe on the first day of training today, the coach deliberately did not assign any tasks, just to let the players solve these things themselves. But thanks Lin Han, it is obvious that the two bosses of our team came for Lin Han."
Seeing Stockton and Malone leave with a laugh, Brian Russell also took Aaron Williams' words and said, in fact, he had wanted to stand out before Lin Han had made a move, but in the end he suppressed this idea. After all, in Malone and Stockton's opinion, the three young people were not the main ones of him. If he dared to interfere, there would be no good results in the future.
So, although Lin Han was beaten by Malone and Stockton, he went to worship the mountain and recognize the boss, which made Lin Han a little depressed for a while. In addition to making money, he was just a job as a Jordan. Unexpectedly, he did what he did at Utah Valley Community College in the end, which made him ask for someone to make sense.
Fortunately, because of this, Lin Han became the boss of the three rookies. Both Williams and Russell were around Lin Han, which also meant that Lin Han had officially integrated into the Jazz team, which was also a good thing.
But soon, when the Jazz's training camp came the next day, something that happened in Chicago almost made the Jazz's training camp crazy. It should not be said that, it should be said that this incident made the entire NBA and the entire United States crazy.
On October 6, 1993, on the day the Chicago Bulls training camp opened, Michael Jordan, the league's number one star, announced his withdrawal from the NBA!
Chapter completed!