Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Oklahoma.

There will be a Thunder game tonight, and players will come to the arena one after another in the afternoon to prepare for the evening game.

Some players will enter the court early and practice shooting on the court for a while to find their touch.

Swish!

With a soft sound, the basketball penetrated the net.

A figure stood one step inside the three-point line. He looked a little thin, but in fact it was because he was too tall, almost 2.1 meters tall.

He raised his right hand high, his wrist drooped, and kept shooting, looking like a slender sickle.

The expression on his face seemed dull, but his eyes were bright.

"Kevin."

At this time, a voice suddenly came.

Kevin Durant put down his raised hand, turned to look at the visitor, and said with a smile: "Russell, why are you here?"

It was teammate Russell Westbrook who came.

One Kevin Durant and one Russell Westbrook. The "Thunder Stars" composed of the two have performed very well this season. Under the leadership of the two, the Thunder's current record is even more First in the Western Conference and second in the league, second only to the Miami Heat.

This season, their goal is still to hit the championship.

Westbrook came to the court and opened his hands to the trainer off the court. The trainer passed the ball over and he raised his hand and made a three-pointer.

Swish!

The ball goes in.

"Hehe, I feel pretty good today." He smiled and asked the trainer for the ball again.

After shooting more than a dozen three-pointers in a row, all of them hit. The smile on Westbrook's face became brighter and brighter, and he said to Durant: "Kevin, did you see that?"

Durant's mouth twitched and he thought to himself, what's the use of shooting accurately at this time? It would be great if you could be this accurate during the game.

If your three-pointers could be so accurate during games, I could call you big brother.

Sure enough, Westbrook hit the iron decisively on the next ball.

But he didn't pay too much attention to it. Three-pointers have never been what he's good at, and there's no comparison with Durant. His three-point shooting percentage this season is just over 30%, while Durant has shot 100%. The score is over 40, a full ten percentage points difference.

Moreover, Durant averages more three-pointers per game than Westbrook, and the three-point gap between the two is obvious.

Since he missed the shot, Westbrook stopped trying. He patted the ball on the floor and said to Durant: "You promised me that you will go with me to the Pac-12 League finals." look."

"Oh." Durant responded, then reacted, "What, you mean UCLa won?"

"Haha, what else do you think I was doing in the locker room just now?" Westbrook smiled happily: "I just watched the live broadcast of the game. UCLa won and reached the PAC-12 League finals. I said it a long time ago ,right."

In fact, Westbrook was also worried about UCLa, but fortunately, the whole process was almost without incident, and he successfully defeated the University of Southern California and advanced to the finals.

Thinking of the game, Westbrook became excited: "You would never guess that UCLa was leading the whole game. They played very well, especially Zhuang, who scored 24 points, plus 4 rebounds, 8 times Assist.”

Hearing this, Durant stopped shooting and raised his eyebrows: "If I remember correctly, the Chinese player named Zhuang scored 28 points in the quarter-finals, right? He scored 24 points again this time. , this kid is very powerful."

"It's pretty awesome." Westbrook nodded, his face still uncontrollably happy, "It's the same as I was back then, haha..."

Durant curled his lips: "Russell, I never noticed that you like to brag so much. I remember you only averaged more than a dozen points per game when you were at UCL."

Uh......

Westbrook was speechless.

When he first played in the NCAA, his statistics were not that outstanding. He averaged only a dozen points per game in his sophomore season, which was not as good as Zhuang Yu, let alone someone like Durant who averaged 25+11 points per game in his freshman season. The monster of data compares.

The key is that even if he enters the NBA, he is still not as good as Durant.

It’s so irritating!

"Humph." Westbrook snorted unhappily, turned around and walked away. After taking a few steps, he stopped again and said, "Kevin, don't forget it."

"Don't worry." Durant smiled.

......

Houston.

Harvey came to the office of the scouting director Kanisavas again. The two sat opposite each other. Harvey couldn't wait to say: "Director, let me tell you some good news. UCLa won again. They defeated the University of Southern California and succeeded. Advance to the pac-league finals. Moreover, Zhuang scored 20+ again, scoring 24 points, plus 4 rebounds and 8 assists."

Kanisavas just said oh, he picked up the coffee cup and said while drinking coffee: "Then this little guy is quite powerful."

"Yeah, he's really good."

Harvey wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Kanisavas: "Okay, I have handed this matter over to you. Just keep paying attention to him. Now let's talk about the other players I asked you to pay attention to. You know, we should still focus on this year’s draft first.”

Harvey could only change the topic: "Yes, according to my observation, this year..."

In fact, the Rockets do not have a very good draft pick this year, because after the introduction of James Harden and Jeremy Lin this year, their record has improved greatly compared to last season, and it is no problem to make the playoffs.

Moreover, last summer the team made a major overhaul of the lineup through various transactions and also lost some draft picks.

So they only have one draft pick this year, and it's in the second round.

In fact, Kanisavas doesn't particularly value this second-round pick, because it is too difficult to pick up in the second round.

It's all about luck.

The reason why he mentioned this was because he wanted to change the topic, because he had already defined Zhuang Yu. If he used a second-round draft pick, he could still try it for the Chinese market, but that was all. That’s all.

what?

Averaged 20+ per game, averaged 20+ per game in two consecutive games?

Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know that many players who average 20+ per game in the NCAA can't even enter the NBA in the end, and there are many players who directly lose the draft.

For example, Jeremy Lin, in his best season in college, averaged 17.8 points per game, no less than Zhuang Yu, but he ended up being undrafted.

Ten minutes later, Harvey left the scouting director's office.

When he came outside, he thought for a moment, then took out his phone and dialed a number: "Hi, hello, please book a flight ticket for me..."

He decided to go to the scene to watch the Pac-12 League finals.

Although Kanisavas doesn't pay much attention to Zhuang Yu, Harvey still values ​​Zhuang Yu very much.

Moreover, in addition to him, several other scouts also paid attention to Zhuang Yu.

For example, Trail Blazers scout Sadro, Mavericks scout Adam, Clippers scout Mitchell...