Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 8: Domestic Praise

“This is Lee? ”

“This is Lee? ”

“WTF！ ”

“Can this be Lee? ”

At Madison Square Garden, “Smiling Assassin” Thomas looked at the video of the game that had just been transmitted from Las Vegas and slapped the table hard.

He took out Li Wan’s scouting report and called the scout who wrote it: “Dude, this is called not having the ability to hold the ball? Is this called not being able to shoot? This is called a lack of offensive means? ”

Three questions in a row, the scout on the other end of the phone was busy from last night to 3 p.m., when Thomas called, he was sleeping, directly asked him confused, and it took a long time to hold out a sentence: “What?” ”

“Damn it, look at the summer league you just played, and look at your scouting report, and you know what I’m talking about! ”

After speaking, he hung up the phone fiercely, because of too much force, the hung up phone bounced up again,

“fxxk！ ”

Thomas had made many decisions that turned out to be wrong, but never was he as upset as he is now, because he changed his mind in the last ten minutes and chose the more secure Chandler.

If in the end Li Wan comes out and is much more successful than Chandler …

Hiss~

Don’t dare to think!

Thomas didn’t look any further, just glanced at the post-match data sent with him, and he closed his eyes in a little despair.

No, can the gap be so big?

Who are the two of them, 21 years old, an older rookie with excellent combat power!

After thinking about it, Thomas took out his mobile phone, gave Chandler a call, tried to be as flat as possible, and asked softly: “Dude, what’s going on today?” It’s not you, I know very well, your strength can definitely fight better! ”

“I, I, I…” Chandler thought for a long time, “I need to adapt to two games, yes, get used to it, and although I don’t use this as an excuse, I seem to have eaten the wrong thing today, and I have been feeling unwell since before the game, so my condition is a bit poor…”

“Like this? ”

Thomas’s signature smile resurfaced.

“That’s okay, hey man, I’m sure you can definitely play better, it’s just a summer league game, don’t worry about it, adjust well, play the rest of the summer league.” ”

“Okay, coach, I’ll adjust as soon as possible. ”

“Okay, then it won’t disturb your rest! ”

Thomas reached out and gently hung the microphone back, his expression not as annoyed as he had just been.

Chandler’s game was just uncomfortable, which gave him hope and imagination.

And……

“This is the summer league, or is it only the first game, who knows, is his form the norm, or is it like that killer? ”

Thomas tried to think on the bright side.

Phil Handy thinks the same way, but he is not pessimistic about Li Wan, but out of caution, as a qualified Lakers chief assistant coach, he can’t call Phil Jackson because of a game, telling him that Li Wan’s shortcomings have been improved by himself in many ways.

With great interest, he picked up Li Wan’s scouting report and read it carefully page by page.

He had read this report at least a hundred times and could memorize it.

But now, he’s focused on reading the report for the first time.

He wondered why Li Wan had changed so much in just one month, making this scouting report about him so much less accurate.

“I only started playing basketball in my third year of high school…”

“Is that the reason? ”

Because the time he has been with basketball is too short, he needs to improve a lot, and with two talented teammates, Auden and Conley, in college, he is destined to have little opportunity to show on the offensive end.

That’s why you haven’t developed the ability to hold the ball?

“It seems to make sense! ”

Phil Handy’s gaze gradually brightened.

If this is the case, then Li Wan’s potential is much greater than that of the average 19-year-old rookie!

It’s understandable that progress is so fast!

Li Wan didn’t know that Phil Handy had begun to “dimate”, otherwise he would definitely look at him with a look of approval: “You look at people so accurately, I am a genius, I can improve so fast, it is completely on my own!” ”

He was quite satisfied with his first game of summer league.

Except for errors in physical calculations. ——Originally, he thought that his 50-point fitness should be enough to play the summer league.

But after playing, he found that the rhythm and intensity of the summer league were much stronger than he thought. This is exactly the real-life version of The Hunger Games by Gary Ross.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that the person who is in place with him tonight is Chandler, and Li Wan himself has continued to attack for a long time. It was the first time he enjoyed the “right to open unlimited fire”, and it was inevitable that he was a little addicted to it.

Early the next morning, Li Wan got up and went to the arena, took his mobile phone to swipe the news on the way, and searched for half a day but did not find a report about the summer league.

For the media, the coverage value of the summer league is not as good as the “Novitsky went to sea and hung a fish”.

Including high-traffic Los Angeles media.

All their thoughts are now on Kobe’s negotiations with Lakers management, and they have no time to think about anything else.

Also, if Kobe does move to the Bulls, what’s the use of how good your rookie is playing in the summer league?

Li Wan played the next two summer league games in the absence of attention, and his performance is getting better and better.

He scored 20 points in the second summer league game and 21 points in the third summer league game, scoring 20+ points in two consecutive games. Although in these two games, his foul count and turnovers remained high, with 6 fouls, 5 turnovers, and 5 fouls and 5 turnovers.

Phil Handy didn’t care about either of his problems.

The pace of the summer league is so fast, due to the non-stop table, coupled with little tactical cooperation, in terms of offensive and defensive conversion, even the NBA regular season is not comparable.

Mistakes are quite normal.

Especially Li Wan is only a 19-year-old rookie.

There has been a lot of domestic coverage of his performance in the summer league:

“Take another 21 points, Huaxia young player shows adaptability!” 》

“This newcomer is a little fierce, Li Wan averaged 20 points per game, galloping in the summer league!” 》

“Huaxia men’s basketball outside hope is actually him? Li Wan’s performance in the summer league exceeded imagination! 》

……

All kinds of praise are about to blow him into the sky.

Originally, domestic fans and domestic media had no concept of the summer league, thinking that it was a group of places that lost the draft competition, and the intensity must be very low, and it was definitely not comparable to the CBA.

Well, there are still fans in the domestic media during this period, because Yao Ming became the top center in the NBA, and Yi Jianlian was selected with the 6th pick in the first round, which really swelled to a certain extent.

Only now, they don’t think so.

In order to prepare for next year’s Olympic Games, everyone except Yao Ming, including Yi Jianlian, who was just selected with the 6th pick in the first round, participated in this summer league.

I thought that even without Yao Ming, the national team would play this level of league easily, but after three games of summer league, the Chinese men’s basketball team did not win a single game.

Yi Jianlian showed his immature side in the confrontation of the high-strength team.

Wang Zhizhi averaged about 17 points per game, which is already a thigh-level performance in the team.

No one expected that without Yao Ming, the strength of this Huaxia men’s basketball team would be difficult to even play in the summer league…

At this time, Li Wan averaged 20 points per game in the summer league, playing a super firepower higher than Wang Zhizhi, how can he not impress the domestic media and fans!

In the domestic discussion, the Lakers also ushered in their fourth game in the summer league, and their opponent is no one else, it is the Huaxia men’s basketball team!

Get up early for the second change, brothers ask for collection and ask for recommendation tickets and monthly passes!!!

(End of chapter)