Chapter 40: He Must Be Obtained
"Stephen ate hot pot and had a bad stomach, and D'Antoni had a bad brain. I don't know what the point of his commitment is, but first of all, from their current record, it's very difficult for them to get a high pick unless they trade, and without a high pick, what can they do to guarantee their promise?"
"Secondly, does Stanford's Tiger really deserve a high draft promise? He's not the best point guard in the NCAA, and even after his name should be in the top 10, I can easily pronounce the names of five point guards who are definitely better than him... Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Randy Foye, Darren Collisson...... If D'Antoni's head had been normal, he wouldn't have said such childish things. ”
"In the end, I don't have any opinion about Zhou Zheng himself. He's a good point guard, a very unselfish style of play, a great passer, and a lot of imagination and speed. But... I have to say that he doesn't fit into the NBA, even though he led Stanford to an all-time winning streak. However, his body can't withstand the NBA-level collision at all, and he really doesn't have any offensive ability, and the current NBA has higher and higher offensive requirements for point guards, and not being able to score is equivalent to cutting off his own hands. ”
Draft-picking expert Chatford was overwhelmed and whipped in, and he fired a ferocious first shot at D'Antoni in his capacity as authority.
He was followed by Bill Simmons, ESPN's most senior columnist and NBA expert: "It's just a hype, and it's all about acting, starting with D'Antoni's mouth shot with Stanford's female coach in the media. The so-called Run-Bomb Founder Divergence is simply made up by them, in order to attract everyone's attention and focus on this new set of offensive tactics. ”
"That's why the Stanford women's coaches are joining the Suns' assistant coaching team, and they planned it from the start. And D'Antoni's draft promise is just to build momentum for his run-and-gun tactics, and at the same time to help Zhou Zheng increase his popularity so that he can be selected in a relatively high position. ”
"It's all a routine. ”
Bill Simmons analyzes D'Antoni's draft promise from a conspiracy theory perspective.
There was a lot of agreement on this speculation, and everyone thought that this should be the case.
Because Zhou Zheng really doesn't look like a person who can be selected in a high order, the final explanation must be... D'Antoni is hyping up and building momentum for Zhou Zheng's draft market.
"I've said long ago that he can't be an NBA player, playing well in the NCAA doesn't mean he's going to be favored by the NBA, and... He didn't play much well, averaging just 4.2 points per game. Darren Collison was particularly dismissive when interviewed.
His UCLA has already fought Stanford twice, both times defeated. But he scored 21 points for the second time, and this is the capital for him to laugh at Zhou Zheng.
He thinks he deserves the promise of a draft even though he wasn't ready to go to the draft in '05.
Darren Collison was unleashing the taunt, and Raymond Felton from faraway North Carolina was also taunting Zhou Zheng there: "They just want to use this way to attract attention, but needless to say, it is useless, and smart people can see that it is a poor performance." ”
Zhou Zheng ignored these cynicisms, he didn't pay attention to the news at all, he knew that he would definitely enter the NBA, and he was full of confidence in himself.
And D'Antoni didn't respond, but the Suns' uniform team has been making trades in the hope of getting a higher draft pick. The operation began a week after they sent their strength and conditioning trainers to Stanford for a field trip.
The Suns owner is not a fool, and he won't make a trade because of D'Antoni's words. He had to think it through.
After a week-long follow-up at Stanford University, the NBA's most prestigious strength and conditioning trainer came home with a thick stack of workout reports that were much more detailed than Bobby's. They came to the conclusion that Zhou Zheng's body will definitely reach the NBA confrontation level after professional training, and may even reach the top level of the NBA, because all the data is in the form of a curve rising, and from his physical structure, his room for improvement is very, very large, and even their physical experts were shocked to say... He's like a newborn baby, which makes us so excited that we have to get him!
The boss of the sun believes in professional judgment, so he ordered the uniform team to quickly start the transaction plan, and Zhou Zheng must be in the bag. Moreover, he must not leak the news, he doesn't want to be cut off.
So, that's why D'Antoni chose to keep his mouth shut after being ridiculed.
After the silent Zhou Zheng led the team to a 24th straight victory, he left for the Chinese New Year, and he took a two-week leave from Sani, and he plans to return to the team when March Madness arrives.
This made Sani extremely helpless and helpless.
She's just hoping that Zhou Zheng will be able to get to Los Angeles before the first knockout game arrives, and now Stanford's situation is... No Zhou Zhengzhen can't do it.
Before Zhou Zheng left California, Sani had an in-depth chat with him.
"Do you think I'm a vain woman, the RUN-GUN tactic is obviously your patent, but I used the authority of the head coach to snatch it. Sani looked at Zhou Zheng's eyes very seriously.
She wanted to see anger or disgust in Zhou Zheng's eyes, but Zhou Zheng's mood did not fluctuate at all, and he replied very lightly: "I think you are too serious." You know, I'm a kid and I don't take this thing seriously. So please don't take it too seriously. ”
"It's very embarrassing for you to talk to me about this so solemnly, and I don't like to sit down with my friends and talk about these things. ”
Zhou Zheng told Sani his inner thoughts very seriously, and he hoped that Sani would not take this thing to heart.
"Doesn't this thing matter to you at all?" asked Sani curiously.
"Yes, it doesn't matter. You are more important to me, you are my friend. Zhou Zheng replied: "It's like Leon borrowed my car every time he went on a date, and he even crashed the front of my car the night before, but I first cared about whether he was injured or not, and I wouldn't claim compensation from him." Friends are much more important than cars. ”
When she heard Zhou Zheng say, 'You are more important to me', Sani couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, she had to admit that the young man in front of her was very charming.
So, she couldn't help but ask: "You're so kind, aren't you afraid that your friends will hurt you?"
"Will you hurt me?" Zhou Zheng asked rhetorically, looking directly into Sani's eyes.
Sani thought about it, and she suddenly felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. So she stood up and reached out and patted Zhou Zheng's head: "I'm your coach, and now I order you to run thirty laps around the court immediately." ”
"I don't want to see my friends being bullied on the pitch by those rude guys. Sani muttered inwardly.
Zhou Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he took a step forward and ran.
He wondered in his heart, why are all women so inexplicable?
Zhou Zheng shook his head and sped up.
Running 30 laps is no problem for him now, and for the first time Sani sat on the sidelines and watched him finish 30 laps, and when Zhou Zheng came over sweating profusely, she even threw him a towel.
This conversation obviously didn't have much impact on Zhou Zheng, but for Sani, it inexplicably made her heart open up a different emotion.
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