basketball player

Chapter 24 024: I'll just say two things

Early in the morning, Henson set off for the Conseco Arena in Carter's car.After the two-month vacation, the pre-season training camp for the new NBA season has arrived, and everyone has to start preparing for the new season, including the scout Henson.

Carter kept looking at Henson in the rearview mirror as he got into the car today.Henson had already noticed that Carter's eyes were wandering, so he couldn't help touching his face.

"Is there something on my face, Carter."

"Something on your face? No, of course not. I just didn't expect, Henson, that a guy like you would lay hands on a young girl." Carter said, showing a lewd smile on his face.

"What young girl, please clarify." Henson rolled Carter's eyes. After getting along for so long, the two have become very familiar with each other, and they often make some harmless jokes.

"That's when you brought that hot young girl home, boy, old cow eats young grass."

Speaking of that incident, Henson regretted it afterwards.It's not that he regrets what he did to An Jiali, but why he didn't do anything.

After returning home that day, An Jiali was already unconscious.Henson helped her wash her face, took off her shoes and threw her on the bed. After staring at the young girl's heaving chest and long legs and swallowing, Henson took a pillow to sleep on the sofa for the night.

Henson was not very popular with women when he was in China, and he didn't even touch girls' hands.Now that he suddenly encountered such a situation that he had dreamed of before, Hansen was discouraged instead.

When she woke up the next day, An Jiali asked Henson curiously why she slept on the sofa.In fact, last night An Jiali thought that Henson left the room to buy "sports protective equipment", but she didn't expect that Henson didn't come into the room until she fell asleep.

Henson really wanted to slap himself at that time, he was not even as good as a girl!
After that day, Henson took Anjiali to play in Indianapolis for two more days, and the girl went back satisfied.After leaving An Jiali, Henson lived a life of studying basketball books day and night.In the blink of an eye, the new season will start again.

"That girl that day? I didn't do anything! Don't slander me, Carter."

"The devil will believe you, well, let's not talk about this, Henson, your performance in the summer league was amazing. I heard that Bird seems to be ready to change the coaching staff." Chatting, as a diehard Pacers, Carter talked about basketball again.

"Change the equipment of the coaching staff? What does this have to do with my excellent performance." Henson disagreed, and Bird's dissatisfaction with the coaching staff is not a day or two.

"Rumors say that Bird will not attack O'Brien first, but will lay off Dennis Posey, and then put you in the coaching staff! This is how to slowly spread his power in the coaching staff!" Carter's tone was mysterious, as if he was secretly telling something serious.

Henson stared at Carter with wide eyes, why didn't he know such a big thing?

Seeing Henson's unbelievable expression, Carter quickly explained, "Don't believe me, many reporters broke the news. I believe these things will not be groundless."

Henson studied day and night, and he really didn't pay much attention to the gossip news about the basketball circle.Moreover, after winning the summer league championship, the reward Henson chose was the scouting accuracy medal level 1, which has the effect of increasing the scouting ability by 10%, and has not encountered a reward that can increase Bird's trust.Therefore, Henson never thought that he could really enter the coaching staff.

But it's pointless to speculate about these things now, because Henson will hold off Conseco Arena in 10 minutes' drive.At that time, the truth of the matter will definitely surface.

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When the Pacers' preseason training camp begins, it means that the new season will be approaching.No matter how out of shape those multi-millionaires have been in the summer, they must now prepare for the new season under intense training.

Not only the players, but Henson, a scout, also immediately felt the tremendous work pressure brought by the approach of the new season.Because compared with the leisure vacation, the work before the start of the new season is undoubtedly much more busy.

When entering the team's training camp, Henson was very pleased to find that Holiday, Matthews and Danny Green were all in the team.Although both Matthews and Green may be released after the preseason, as long as they are still in the team, it means that they are safe for the time being.

Seeing Henson in the training hall, the three rookies felt a lot more at ease.Henson is like the father of these three children. With him standing on the sidelines, the performance of the three young people will be much calmer.

Henson's work in the training camp is similar to that of a scout, mainly responsible for statistics and analysis.From the first whistle in training camp, Henson would record every move of these guys, get to know them in depth, and give Bird and O'Brien a full scouting report.

Daniel Granger's performance gave Henson a lot of surprises. This guy worked hard in a low-key manner. Although he was already the leader of the team, he still played actively.In terms of enthusiasm, he is almost at the same level as rookies such as Holiday.

Another guy who caught Henson's eye was Roy Hibbert.This tall "black tower" who didn't get many opportunities to perform last season, the quality displayed on the defensive and offensive ends in the training camp is astonishingly high.After Henson has upgraded his scouting ability, he can roughly see the range of a player's final rating, which helps Henson more accurately predict whether a player is good or bad.

But Hibbert's forecast rating is very strange, the range is actually C-A!Henson didn't know why the data analysis module gave Hibbert such a big disparity in the evaluation. Could it be that this guy will encounter potential injuries in the future?

Daniel Granger also had a huge gap in evaluation, C+—A, and the gap between the lower limit and the upper limit was also huge.Henson still doesn't know what caused all this. All he can do is suggest that O'Brien urge them to train.It would be a pity for Hibbert and Granger if it was because of laziness that they disappeared from everyone.

Of course, the ratings that Henson saw were not necessarily accurate.After all, his scouting medal is only level 1.If Hibbert and Granger's ability evaluations are still so weird after upgrading the medal in the future, Henson will have to think about the reason.

In addition to observing the players, Henson would glance at that greasy old man Dennis Posey from time to time when he was free.Judging from his unrequited love and lack of enthusiasm for work, Carter's gossip may be quite true.This guy may have lost Bird's trust.

After all, Vogel's ability is there, and O'Brien has always had some reputation in the basketball circle, so these two guys are basically safe for now.But Dennis Posey?Whether he is doing well or not, everyone in the global team can see.The career of this offensive coach may be coming to an end.

After the first day of preseason training camp, Henson had already figured out what was going on with the Pacers this season.After a day's work, Holiday planned to take the initiative to ask Henson to have a meal to express his inner gratitude.Because the summer league championship and MVP are the results of Henson's release of his offense.In Holiday's view, half of these honors are due to Henson.

But before Holiday had time to approach Henson, Bird, who suddenly appeared on the training ground, was "preemptive" and called Henson into his office.

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"Henson, how was your vacation?" Bird took out a cigar behind his desk and sniffed it, then motioned for Henson to sit down.

"It's not bad, but it's not as interesting as work." It's not the first time Henson has entered Bird's office, but every time, he will be attracted by the photo of Bird and Auerbach.

"I don't want to talk nonsense. I called you here for two things. I hope you are ready. The first thing is that you did a good job in the summer league, and now the preseason is about to start. O'Brien has been feeling unwell recently, so Vogel will continue to direct the preseason as the head coach. You will continue to be a temporary assistant coach. Anyway, the scout job is free now, and it would be nice to have more opportunities to exercise."

Bird spoke very fast, but Henson didn't ask any more questions after listening, just nodded affirmatively.

Bird liked that about him.This guy didn't have so much nonsense, and Henson would do what he asked, and he did a good job.

"Second thing, I will give you up to two months of preparation time. If possible, I will sign a new contract with you, allowing you to change from a scout to an official assistant coach of the team. That's right, an official assistant coach, not a temporary assistant coach."

After Bird finished the second thing, Henson showed a look of surprise on his face, but he quickly regained his composure.Bird smiled smugly, thinking that Henson would not be surprised by everything.It seems that this calm and steady guy is not pervasive.

Henson still didn't ask any more questions, but nodded more vigorously.Poor Percy, it seems that the time we can get along is not long.

(End of this chapter)