unfinished glory

Chapter 12 Trial Tour

Chapter 12 Trial Tour
When the team gathered for training again, Redick announced that he would play for another year, but Li Chongxiao did not show up in the training hall, and the matter subsided silently.

After an in-depth discussion with the old coach K, Li Chongxiao began preparations for the NBA.

He told his family about his decision: Grandpa just confirmed it and decided to support it; his father said that he had already contacted the CBA team for him; Let it go.

The old coach K’s suggestion to Li Chongxiao is: Every team prefers offensive players, but as a role player, it is best to learn to defend first.

After learning about his family conditions, Coach K persuaded the school to allow him to live outside the school.

At the same time, he helped him find an entire training team, including basketball trainers, physical trainers, video tape analysts and nutritionists, etc., to teach him the basic skills to gain a foothold in the NBA.

If successful, this training will continue until the end of September.

In May, after watching the Yao Shark battle and witnessing a 0.4-second lore, the 2004 NBA picks finally came out: the No. [-] pick, No. [-] pick and No. [-] pick belonged to the Orlando Magic, Charlotte Bobcats and Chicago Bulls respectively.

At the same time, the major draft rankings have also popped up. Talented high school student Dwight Howard, and UConn's Okafor and Ben Gordon, who eliminated Duke this season and won the NCAA championship, are in the top three.

And his teammate Luol Deng predicts that the ranking will be between five and eight, which is in the lottery zone.

The 15 first-round picks other than the lottery picks were not among the ones that Li Chongxiao could rank.

Even another teammate of his own, Chris Duhon, is rarely ranked among the 29 picks in the first round because he is in his senior year and his potential is exhausted. selected.

And Li Chongxiao's main goal is the last fifteen positions in the second round:

16 Charlotte Bobcats;
17 Portland Trail Blazers;
18 Miami Heat;
19 Sacramento Kings;
20 Phoenix Suns;

21 Dallas Mavericks;
22 New Jersey Blue Net;
23 San Antonio Spurs;
24 Miami Heat;
25 Detroit Pistons;
26 Houston Rockets;
27 Los Angeles Lakers;
28 San Antonio Spurs;
29 Minnesota Timberwolves;
30 Indiana Pacers.

Among them, the old coach K helped to pick out a few:
The Bobcats are a rookie and have enough patience to develop newcomers.

Spurs coach Popovich prefers to train newcomers and is happy to rotate.

The Rockets have Yao Ming, at least the opportunity for trial training is not to worry about.

Miami Heat, they have two late second-round picks.

Then there are the Timberwolves and the Pacers, because these are the last two picks, low enough.

Not recommended teams are:
For the Pistons, Larry Brown has never liked to train new players.

Kings, this team is in turmoil, everyone can see the battle between Webber and Stojakovic.

Following this line of thought, Li Chongxiao actively prepared.He first participated in the 2004 NBA draft joint training camp with the help of the old K coach, and his body data was amazing.

Static data: height 1.98 meters, weight 90kg, arm span 2.14 meters, standing height 2.68 meters, hand length/width 22/26 cm.

Dynamic data: vertical jump 1.01 meters, three-quarter sprint 3.16 seconds, bench press 84kg twice.

But after training camp, the prospects are not optimistic, and the opinions given by scouts are as follows:
[-]. Excellent physical fitness, but insufficient strength and poor confrontation, and I am worried about whether I can adapt to the fierce competition;

[-]. Excellent open shooting ability, but average off-ball running ability, poor ability to make strong shots and counter shots; average basic skills such as passing and ball control;
[-]. Strong defensive enthusiasm, relatively mature defensive skills, good defensive effect on small defenders or thin players, but a little difficult to deal with strong players;
Fourth, the competition experience is slightly insufficient.

On the whole, this is a player who can bounce and shoot but has relatively average confrontation ability, skills, and experience.

There are many such people in the NCAA, high school and even street courts.

According to the final conclusion of the report, the upper limit template is Bruce Bowen of the Spurs, who does not have the strength to survive in the NBA. It is not recommended to use even a late draft pick to select him.

If the team has the space and patience, it is recommended to sign the contract and transfer it to the NBDL after losing the meeting, and observe for a period of time.

The old coach K held such a report, smiled and comforted Li Chongxiao: "There are indeed all these problems in the report, but it does not show that you are a player who has only received one year of formal training.

Your potential has not been tapped, and your strong learning ability has not been demonstrated.What's more, you are only 18 years old now, oh, not yet 18 years old. "

Then he handed over a stack of papers: "I have contacted several teams for training for you, and then you have to be busy.

Bobcats training camp is about to start, they have a second pick and a second round, I recommend you to the past.

The Spurs had a small workout, and I called Popovich ahead of time.

For the Rockets, Jeff Van Gundy has already agreed, you'd better find a way to contact Yao Ming again. "

After speaking, he patted Li Chongxiao on the shoulder and encouraged: "Come on, kid!"

Li Chongxiao took this cheat book and started his trial training journey.

In Charlotte, he didn't get many opportunities. Everyone's focus was on the few high-ranking players-Howard, Okafor and Ben Gordon. For small roles like the second-round pick , no one cares.

After Li Chongxiao met with Luol Deng here, he started his training tour of casting a wide net.

Then there are Los Angeles, Minnesota and Indiana. The picks are not high, and the teams are all playing in the playoffs. They didn't even let Li Chongxiao play the side, only let him play for 5 minutes, and it was done hastily.

In these training camps, he also met teammates Chris Duhon, Andy Borman and Nick Horvat, three seniors.

In a blink of an eye, I came to Houston, and there are a lot of people who come here to participate in training.

Trevor Ariza, Ricky Minard, Christian Drejer, Roman Sarto, Matt Frager, Marcus Dochter, and more.

This time Li Chongxiao received different treatment. Although Yao Ming returned to China to prepare for the Olympics, he greeted the staff in charge of training, not only recorded his physical data in detail, but also gave him the most performance time.

But after all, basketball is not a sport for one person. Every player who comes to the trial training is working hard to perform, hoping to get a spot to enter the NBA.

The special treatment of the staff aroused the resentment of most players.

Therefore, in the confrontation match, Li Chongxiao not only failed to return the passed ball, but even rarely received the ball.Most of the time he was running back and forth, and even the few times he caught the ball, the opponents scrambled to defend him as if they had taken a stimulant, and even double-teamed him once.

After a training session, Li Chongxiao was disheartened.

After the game, he went to the staff specifically to thank him, and hinted that he would mention today's matter to Yao Ming.Then with a wry smile, he packed his luggage and rushed to the next training camp - San Antonio.

After settling in, he called Yao Ming in the evening to express his thanks, talked about the situation of the training camp, and wished the national team a good ranking.Yao Ming comforted and encouraged him, and invited him to visit Houston when he was free.

San Antonio is the sad place for Duke University. Although Li Chongxiao scored an equalizer, they still lost to UConn and missed the final of the NCAA Tournament.

Li Chongxiao was not alone in this training. Chris Duhon, Andy Borman and Nick Horvath also came.

Du Hong participated in the Spurs' training camp, aiming at the 28th pick in the first round, and Li Chongxiao and the others were very happy to get the 28th pick in the second round.

This training camp has players such as Delonte West, Tony Allen, Kevin Martin, Benno Udry, David Harrison, Anderson Varejao, Jackson Froman, etc. There have been body sides in the official NBA training camp, but the Spurs still have to do it again for all players.

Li Chongxiao's performance in this training camp is no different from that in Houston. Only when he was on the same team as Du Hong did he receive a pass and hit two three-pointers.

At other times, they can only defend desperately, hoping to get a little attention.

Then like this, I was beaten very embarrassingly for 2 minutes. I found out later that the Spurs coach Popovich and the team star David Robinson were watching the game next to them. A group of players seemed to have been beaten. attack.

After the Spurs tried out several teammates, they parted ways and went to other training camps.

(End of this chapter)

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