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Chapter 32 Summer League ([-])
Jiang Yan made three of three free throws. As for free throws, Jiang Yan practiced the most and naturally had the best shooting percentage.

So far, Jiang Yan has made a total of 16 free throws, all hits! (including universities)
When the Hornets kicked off again, it was completely different. The point guard became another person, and Jiang Yan didn't know him anyway.

The opponent was very steady, and didn't even think about passing Jiang Yan. Instead, he passed the half court steadily, and then stood there, waiting for Davis to get a good position before passing the ball to Davis.

The Kings player who defended Davis was an undrafted pick. The reason why he was undrafted, and Davis is the No. [-] pick, his strength must be very different.

Fangzheng's final result was that Davis relied on the king's power forward and made a fake move at will, shaking him away, and then Davis easily solved it with a layup!
Jiang Yan is expressionless. This is normal. The disparity in strength will not shrink with the passage of time. On the contrary, the gap between the highly talented Davis and the undrafted power forward is getting wider and wider!

Unless this undrafted pick has golden fingers!

3: 2.

In the opening game, the two teams fought back and forth. Jiang Yan of the Kings fouled Davis with a three-pointer, and Davis scored easily here!
Jiang Yan dribbled the ball across half court and stood outside the three-point line.

Seeing this, Vigelis standing on the sidelines couldn't help shouting loudly: "Run! Run!"

The other four players started running after hearing Vigelis' words.

With this movement, the Hornets' defense had a loophole. Jiang Yan suddenly slammed the ball under the eyes of the opponent's point guard, and the ball went directly from outside the three-point line to the Kings' player who cut into the paint. in front of you.

The player reached out his hand casually, took it, and made a small throw directly in front of Davis!

"brush!"

5: 2.

Davis is a little annoyed, because players like the opponent can score in front of him, which is undoubtedly an insult to his defensive ability!
The next game directly turned into a duel between Jiang Yan and Davis.

What Jiang Yan relies on is his unpretentious but weird and unpredictable passing, while Davis relies on his singles inside, relying on his flexible footwork and inside skills!
The Kings and Hornets formed a bright moment, and the scores also rose alternately under the competition between the two!

However, such a situation is exactly what the media want to see. Since ancient times, what scene in sports makes people excited, not a complete victory, nor a complete defeat!
It's full of competition!
It's like the Warriors of later generations formed the Big Five. Although the salary exceeds the salary, I don't know how much, but relatively, the Warriors' approach makes basketball lose its competitiveness!
In the long run, this is undoubtedly all harm and no benefit!
Having said that, the Kings and Hornets have played for 8 minutes in the first quarter!

Since this is not a regular season, there are no official timeouts in the middle of the game.

What's more, the offense of the two teams played very smoothly, and both played the effect that the coaches of both sides wanted to play.

After these 8 minutes of observation, Vigelis is sure that Jiang Yan is definitely capable of being selected as the No. [-] pick, and she will definitely not be a parallel importer in the future!
According to Patrik's instructions, if Jiang Yan has proved her strength as the No. [-] pick on the field, then there is no need for Jiang Yan to play too much.

After all, Patrik was very worried that Jiang Yan had been training for too long a while ago, which would cause her body to be exhausted and thus get injured on the field!
For this issue, Patrik also specifically discussed with Duffy, thinking that Jiang Yan's training intensity needs to be reduced!
At the same time, in order to ensure Jiang Yan's health, Patrik has already contacted a training team to serve Jiang Yan exclusively!
However, this money still needs to be paid by Jiang Yan!
"Di!"

Just as Jiang Yan received the serve from her own center forward, the referee's voice suddenly came from the sidelines.

Jiang Yan and the players looked suspiciously and found that it was a pause gesture!
Jiang Yan threw the ball in her hand to the referee next to her, and then she went off!

"Yan, you played very well!" Vigelis said after patting Jiang Yan on the shoulder.

"Yeah!" Jiang Yan nodded, then walked to the bench seat, sat down on it, and drank the drink handed over by the team's accompanying staff!

"Next, Yan, you take a break, Meng Li, you play instead of Yan, remember, according to..."

Although Jiang Yan was puzzled as to why he wasn't allowed to play, it was the coach's right to arrange personnel to play, so she didn't say much!
After the timeout expired, Viglies came to Jiang Yan with the tactical board, and said with a smile: "Yan, you don't have to play from now on!"

"?" Jiang Yan was full of question marks.

"Yan, we are very aware of your strength. You don't need this kind of game anymore, and you have been training very hard some time ago, you need to rest, and in the next summer league, I will only let you play. More than 10 minutes!" Viglies explained patiently.

If this was replaced by other rookies of the Kings at this time, he would not explain it!

"Hmm!" Jiang Yan nodded after thinking for a moment.

Indeed, the summer league is originally a competition between rookies. Since the team thinks that they don't need to play anymore, then they will obey!
For the next time, Jiang Yan sat on the bench and watched the game seriously.

Since Jiang Yan left the field, the Kings have no power to recruit for the Hornets' offensive frenzy.

Originally, the score when Jiang Yan was off was 21:20, with the Kings in front and the Hornets behind.

Just in the last 4 minutes of the first quarter, the point difference between the two teams widened to 24:37.

In other words, in these 4 minutes, Davis directly played an 18:3 offensive frenzy.

The Davis fans in the stands were literally thrilled to death.

As for Jiang Yan's fans, they called Jiang Yan to play during the first quarter break!

Although the fans enthusiastically asked Jiang Yan to play, Vigelis still did not let Jiang Yan continue to play, so that Jiang Yan still sat on the bench and watched the Kings players on the field being abused!
"Di!"

At the end of the game, Hornets: Kings is 125:87.

There is a direct difference of 38 points, which is also the top point difference in the summer league.

Jiang Yan played 8 minutes and scored 2 points and 8 assists.

As for Anthony Davis, he scored 36 points and 18 rebounds in this game, two rebounds short of a large double-double!

This simply shocked the media on the sidelines.

As reporters who have been engaged in the sports industry for many years, they certainly know that the Kings were evenly matched with the Hornets in the opening 8 minutes.

But the media don't care so much, they only care about the explosion of the news.

Regardless of whether the news they write will be bought by readers!
The next day, the overwhelming news about Jiang Yan and Anthony Davis spread!
"The No. [-] pick lost to the No. [-] pick!"

"The No. 36 pick is well deserved, scoring 18 points and [-] rebounds!"

"No. 2 pick? Parallel imports? 8 points and [-] assists!"

.........

These news simply bombarded the ears of the people of the United States, but there were also those who spoke for Jiang Yan.

That is Sina Media and the Sacramento Times.

They reported that the Kings and Hornets were evenly matched at the beginning of the game, and they believed that Jiang Yan's No. [-] pick was worthwhile and definitely not a parallel import!

…………

Inside the hotel room booked by the Las Vegas team.

"Hey, Duffy!" Jiang Yan was watching Jason Kidd's video when Duffy called.

"Yan, are the reports in the media true?" Duffy asked.

"What report?" Jiang Yan was puzzled.

After the match, Jiang Yan didn't attend any press conference and went back to the hotel directly.

I was a little bored when I was free, so I took out my iPad to see how Jason Kidd played.

"It's about the comparison between you and Davis..."

Through Duffy's narration, Jiang Yan knew the means of the American media.

This is to praise Davis and slander him Jiang Yan!

"Oh, that's it! Duffy, it's okay. They say let them say it. It's useless for the media to praise it. After all, it depends on the performance on the court!"

"Is that because your interim coach didn't let you play on purpose? If so, I can put pressure on Patric!" Duffy asked solemnly.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the NbA. Some coaches will suppress rookies, the most famous being Darko Milicic, the second pick in 2003.

At that time, Milicic was known as a player with the same talent as James, but under Larry Brown, he only played 3 minutes per game.

For a rookie, such playing time is undoubtedly killing the talent of the player.

Moreover, the coach has the right to arrange when the players play.

Duffy also thought about this issue when he signed the contract, so he asked Patric to give Jiang Yan at least 25 minutes of playing time in each game, so that Jiang Yan would have enough time to grow!
"That's not the case. The coach said that I had been training very intensively some time ago and was afraid that I might get injured on the court, so he asked me to spend less time!"

"That's it!"

.........

After Jiang Yan and Duffy chatted for more than ten minutes, it was Duffy who was talking and Jiang Yan was listening.

After hanging up the phone, just as Jiang Yan was about to put down the phone, someone called again!
Look, it's Williams!
"Hello, William!"

"Hey, Yan! Do you know where I am now?" Williams' slightly lewd voice came from over there.

"It's still guesswork?" Jiang Yan said helplessly, rolling her eyes on the phone.

"Then you guess!"

"Las Vegas!"

"How did you know?"

"There's a Nuggets game tomorrow!"

"........."

"Yan, do you want to go out and play for a while!" After a pause for a few seconds, Williams' voice came from the phone again!

"No!" Jiang Yan looked at the iPad on her lap and said hesitantly.

.........

In the end, Jiang Yan still came out. She couldn't stand Williams' coquettish and cute tone on the phone. It was too cheap, and it was so lethal!

(End of this chapter)