The Fifth Point Guard

After Nene, two more teams drafted two inside players.

The Los Angeles Clippers selected Chris Wilcox, who played for the University of Maryland. This 2.08-meter-tall power forward can play two positions inside. He has a strong body and is a representative of tough players. Among them, Wilcox won the first NCAA championship in school history on behalf of the Maryland Terrapins!

There is no problem with choosing the main insider of a championship team.

As for the Phoenix Suns, their approach is bolder.

They selected power forward Amare Stoudemire from Creek High School in Cyprus.

Barkley, who was the commentator at the time, started his mocking moment again.

"High school students? My God, I finally know why the Suns are always unable to play. Neither me nor Jason Kidd is the culprit of this team. We are just the blame, the real stupid It’s the management of the Suns, and a high school student with a rough style of play is chosen for this position? I really don’t know what the entire Suns think!”

Everyone knows that there are some gaps and contradictions between Barkley and the Suns, but Barkley's statement is not unreasonable.

However, Shen Tong knew that the Suns had selected a very capable All-Star player.

The beastly power forward who was once called "Yao Ming's lifelong enemy".

Regarding Stoudemire, in fact, he participated in the draft in high school, and there are some short stories.

His father, Hazel, was a sports-loving, very tall man who once coached the junior football team. He passed on his sports genes to Amare.

He has a brother Harzel Jr., who is 8 years older than himself, and was a double-star in basketball and football in high school.

He also has a half-brother, Marwan, remarried after his parents divorced.

In high school, he changed 6 schools because of his mother's frequent theft into the police station and other problems.

Eventually, he came to Cyprus Creek High School, averaging 29 points, 15 rebounds and 6 blocks per game.

Amare, who is 2.08 meters tall, stood out from the crowd in the competition, as if an adult stood among a group of children.

For his family and himself, he decided to participate in the draft after graduating from high school.

In the draft, he was not dismissed by the scouts because of his rough technique, because his vertical jump of up to 105 centimeters is enviable.

Although some people think that he has a bad background and may have problems in character and spirit, others hold opposing opinions, thinking that the hard life has honed Amare's quality and created his extremely strong character.

The Suns are the team most optimistic about Amare.

After passing the personality and mental tests, the Suns believe that Amare can adapt well to the NBA.

Although there were internal objections, Jerry Colangelo, the general manager of the Suns at the time, resisted all opinions and finally made a decision to select Amare.

He said that when he met Amare, it reminded him of how he felt when he saw Kobe Bryant, also a high school student.

This also made Amare Stoudemire the only high school student selected in that draft.

The Miami Heat selected Caron Butler, a sophomore at the University of Connecticut, with the tenth pick.

They reached the NCAA's Elite Eight this year.

Butler averaged 20.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season, and he is a player with relatively mature skills.

In the next draft.

The Washington Wizards selected Jared Jeffries, who is 2.11 meters tall but can play both power forward and small forward positions.

His height and wingspan are good, and he played quite well in the pick-and-roll tactics in college. However, what he is best at is defense. He is known as an all-around defender.

In the 14th pick, the Indiana Pacers selected a 1.88-meter-tall combo guard Fred Jones.

Jones' physicality impressed Pacers scouts.

They hope that Reggie Miller can become Jones' mentor. Once Jones' body has Miller's skills, he will definitely be a BUG-level player.

The Detroit Pistons were very pragmatic and selected Tyshawn Prince from the University of Kentucky with the 23rd overall pick.

This player played solidly in college for four years, helping the University of Kentucky to successfully enter the NCAA national championship every year.

As I said before, in Kentucky, only Iverson enjoyed the privileges given by the coach. Other players who want to play in the NCAA must play for four years in college.

During his four years in college, Prince was named the team's MVP three times.

The Pistons decided to bring Prince to the Pistons after comprehensively examining Prince's school performance and training camp performance.

The choice of the San Antonio Spurs was no surprise. They used the last pick in the first round to select another center player from China, Battelle.

So far, China has four players landed in the NBA.

Battelle also did not go to the scene, he also watched the draft through live broadcast in front of the TV.

After being selected by the Spurs, like Yao Ming, he put on the Spurs cap prepared in advance, but unlike Yao Ming, he has not yet got the Spurs jersey with the number printed on it.

Sure enough, the treatment at the end of the first round and the No. 1 pick are different.

Followed by the Los Angeles Lakers selected is a little-known small forward, playing for Fresno State's Chris - Jeffries.

The New Jersey Nets, which won the No. 1 spot in the East, have the No. 28 pick in the first round. They selected a Serbian player, Nenad Kostic, who plays the center position.

This young center with a little baldness and an indescribable Mediterranean hairstyle has played quite well in the European League.

The Nets chose Krstic to further supplement the team's inside strength.

Unfortunately, because of the contract and some other reasons, Krstic made it clear that he will not leave Europe for New Jersey this year and next, and it will be 2004 at the earliest.

There is no doubt that this draft pick has become the laughing stock of the league after Krstic broke his contract.

Barkley's big mouth said without any scruples: "The biggest problem for the Nets is that the management cannot match Jason Kidd and Shentong. If they can't make any achievements in the transfer market, I will On behalf of the moon despise them!"

This year's draft conference is recognized as a small draft year.

In the first round of the draft, the good seedlings have been harvested one by one by each team with their scythes, and the rest are defective products, which can only be washed away by waves.

However, in the second round of each year, a few golds will emerge.

The Milwaukee Bucks drafted a 2.11-meter center, Dan Gadzuric.

The Cleveland Cavaliers used the second-round pick in their hands to select a player with obvious flaws, Carlos Boozer.

In fact, Boozer, who played for Duke University, performed well in the NCAA period, even better than several other teammates who ranked high in the draft.

However, his shortcomings are too obvious.

As a power forward, his official height is only 2.06 meters, but in fact his height is only 2.03 meters.

There is no problem with this height playing in the college league, but in the NBA where there are so many people, this is a flaw.

Height dropped Boozer to the second round, where he was happily picked up by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Since there are really no good seedlings among the remaining local players, many teams have used draft picks to gamble on non-local players.

The Atlanta Hawks selected Australian player David Anderson, a center for the Italian league.

Like Krstic, Anderson has made it clear that he will definitely not join this year. As for next year, we will talk about it at that time.

The Washington Wizards are betting on Pau Gasol's teammate, Juan Carlos Navarro at point guard.

The player who can play combo guard is nicknamed "Bomb".

After breaking through with one hand, the small projectile is perfect, which can be called a unique skill.

Similarly, he did not give any commitment to joining, and even, after learning that he was selected by the Wizards, he publicly stated that he had no interest in joining the NBA.

It seems that Gangzhu Qiao's gambling level is indeed not very good.

The Spurs are still discerning and educated, and they put their chips on the Argentine Luis Scola.

In 2000, Scola was already the best player in the Argentine League. In 2001, Scola signed up for the draft, but decided to withdraw at the last moment. In 2002, he led his team to win the League champion.

Popovich bet on Scola after his personal and team achievements had reached their peak, and he had revealed his intention to play in the NBA.

Surprisingly, however, Scola was selected and did not choose to sign with the Spurs.

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