Towards the end of training camp, almost everyone knew that Chris Paul and Stanford's Little Tiger were a pair of close friends, and they were always inseparable, except for basic training and games, they were almost tired of fighting bulls or studying breakthroughs and passing methods together, and they always seemed to have so much to talk about.

"They're like a couple in love. Danny Granger told Sports Illustrated: "Twenty-four hours a day, they spend at least more than twelve hours on each other. To be honest, I'm a little jealous, and before that, I was Tiger's best friend. ”

"But so what? I'm not a point guard, so I can't talk to him about how a quick three shots on the left side and three quick shots on the right side affect the breakout. The topics they talked about were so advanced that I felt like I couldn't keep up with my math skills. Danny Granger said jealously and helplessly.

The fact that the two best point guards in training camp came together naturally attracted a lot of attention, which made Raymond Felton, who forced his way into the four NCAA point guards, a little starlight, and he felt that those two men had drawn all the reporters away. He has applied to the Counterattackers more than once, however... Zhou Zheng always doesn't play much, he goes up and passes a few assists every game and comes down, it looks like clocking in to work, and he seems to be very coping.

And even if he coped with it, the scouts in those training camps would still give him a high rating.

A natural point guard.

Sports Illustrated has always been a supporter of Zhou Zheng, and their editor-in-chief personally wrote the article for the draft camp, and Zhou Zheng was ranked No. 1 among point guards in the '05 class.

Chris Paul also expressed his praise for Tiger in this article: "He's a player who knows what he wants to do and knows where he can take the game. A lot of people say that he has a fancy style of play and likes to create a sense of anticipation with some risky passes, but that's not the case..."

"You have to know that he is a top student at Stanford, he is different from us players, you can easily feel his intelligence in his words. He told me that his passes are all calculated, and that he is able to control the speed of his passes and the angles at which he can avoid tackles. He seems to have a computer in his head. ”

"Maybe you'll think I'm exaggerating, and that's what I thought at first, and I thought he was exaggerating. However, when I saw him easily knock the basketball through two obstacles and directly into the barrel in a high-speed process, I was completely convinced, and I tried it, but the success rate was not high. This requires sophisticated computing power from outside of basketball. ”

At the end of the interview, Chris Paul didn't forget to smile and say: "But he's not my opponent right now, I can easily beat him in a heads-up game of five or ten balls." ”

Chris Paul is telling the truth, he did defeat Tiger in bullfights more than once. However, Sports Illustrated still listed Zhou Zheng as the No. 1 playmaking defender, while Chris Paul was listed as the No. 1 pair of defenders.

This may seem like a deliberate attempt to praise Zhou, but Chris Paul agrees with the ranking.

Raymond Felton's team remained hostile to the rankings, with his agent slamming Sports Illustrated for making the most unprofessional review ever, even publicly in the media.

The comments of Raymond's team were echoed by a number of draft experts under ESPN's umbrella, led by Chatford, who published a number of contrasting articles in their columns, and they firmly believed that the stronger, more impactful Raymond Felton would be better suited to the NBA.

In this regard, Zhou Zheng never responded. He also doesn't have a brokerage team that operates externally, and his agent is still in China. He left all the affairs to Rowan Garcia, the nutritionist of the Adi team who followed him, Rowan has a double bachelor of sports and psychology from the University of London, and although he speaks with a strong London accent, he is very gentlemanly and organized in handling affairs.

So, Zhou Zheng hired him. However, he did not sign a labor contract, but gave him 6,000 US dollars in cash every month, which is already equivalent to an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, because there is no need to pay taxes...... Those who study finance are always good at doing the most with the least amount of money.

"Today we will have a fitness test. Rowan Garcia, as Zhou Zheng's spokesperson, announced to the reporters interviewed: "I know that many people are very concerned about Tiger's physical measurement data. I've also heard a lot of bad stuff, and a lot of people think that we're avoiding fitness tests because we don't want to expose the so-called 'flaws'. But this is not true. ”

"Then why didn't Tiger go through the physical test with all the players on the first day of training camp?" asked the ESPN reporter sharply.

"Because the camp doesn't stipulate that we have to take a test on the first day. Rowan Garcia shrugged his shoulders with a 'Did you show off your head' expression.

"Isn't it to hide from something?" the ESPN reporter continued to maintain a sharp attitude: "The whole world knows that Tiger is not physically good, and you don't need to hide it, and this kind of hiding your ears and stealing the bell will only make you look more ridiculous." ”

"Your quality makes it difficult for me to communicate with you. Rowan Garcia shook his head mockingly, and the English gentleman straightened his bow tie before striding out of the camera.

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"Stanford point guard Zhou Zheng finally announced that he would undergo a physical test at half past ten today, and this news detonated Orlando's training camp, and now, a large number of NBA scouts have appeared on the scene, and our front reporters are also recording the facts, and when the test begins, we will conduct live connections. Mr. Forde, before this, you kept saying that Stanford's little tiger was avoiding the physical test in order to maintain the draft market, and now he suddenly threw out the news that he was going to take the physical test, what is your opinion on this?"

ESPN's webcast station was running a live show called 'Straight Hit Draft Camp', and when they learned that Zhou Zheng was going to take a physical test, they quickly brought the topic to Zhou Zheng. Anyway, among this rookie, Zhou Zheng's topicality is the highest. Whether it's the scandal with Lindsay Lohan, or his shocking three-point shooting in the Finals, or signing the biggest endorsement contract in basketball with Adidas, these are all topics of active discussion.

"It's an inevitable procedure, and one of the most important parts of the camp is the physical test. So, it's impossible for him to avoid this link, it's not something that money can settle with, although I know that he just signed a four-year, $60 million contract, and he is very rich. Chatford said with a sneering expression.

His draft market peaked after the Finals, with a lot of people putting him in fourth place, thinking the Hornets might pick him. But now it's starting to decline, and several major draft picks have put him in seventh or eighth spot. Although Adidas has been building momentum for him, he even invited authoritative media such as Sports Illustrated to endorse him. But that doesn't work, the NBA doesn't need fancy point guards, and in a muscular jungle, the so-called flashy moves simply don't stand up to the rush. ”

"I think after the physical test, he will fall out of the top ten, and even fall out of the lotto zone. 'Chatford has a very firm statistic.

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