Chapter Ninety-Nine: Tryout for the Lakers
It is also a series of physical fitness tests and various basic skills tests. Zhao Wei and Ingram www.biquge.info both have a lot of physical exertion, but Ingram looks much better than Zhao Wei. He was still standing upright, while Zhao Wei was already bending over and supporting his knees to rest for a while from time to time. At this time, the performance of the two is naturally under the observation of the Lakers.
After waiting for Zhao Wei and Ingram to recover, the two received a notification from Wharton that they would play a 2vs2 match against D'Angelo Russell and Anthony Brown.
Zhao Wei looked up and saw that Anthony Brown was already actively warming up and seemed to be enthusiastic about the game; Zhao Wei also noticed D'Angelo Russell, who was reluctant to be next to Anthony Brown at this time.
Russell was indeed reluctant, so he just let himself watch the tryout, and even arranged for himself to compete with two recruits. How can he be regarded as the successor of the post-Kobe era, is it too cheap to do this? He was already thinking about how to talk to Kupchak after the match. It is important for Kupchak to improve his status in the team.
Shout! A whistle blew and the game began.
The first wave of offense is on Zhao Wei's side. The alignment between the two sides is naturally Russell against Zhao Wei, while Ingram is against Anthony Brown. The rules of the game are that both two points and three points are counted as one point, and whoever scores eleven points first on both sides wins.
Zhao Wei slowly controlled the ball at the top of the arc, and his natural reaction to Russell was to see it in his eyes, this last year's list of eyes was really above the top, and he didn't bother to fight with the two of them at all. Zhao Wei smiled in his heart: "Since you treat us like this, then there is no need for us to save any face for you." You're just waiting to be ravaged by us. ”
Zhao Wei waved his hand at Ingram, and Ingram understood. Take two steps to the inside, hold Brown behind him, and prepare to hit Brown with his back.
Wharton saw Ingram's movements, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said to Xiao beside him: "He is really good at using his physical advantage, knowing that Brown is shorter than him and his speed is not worse than him, so he uses his height advantage to play Brown on the inside." ”
Zhao Wei's movements were not slow, Ingram was just about to get to the position, Zhao Wei immediately passed a high ball, and the speed and height of the ball gave Russell no chance to intercept. In fact, Russell didn't intend to intercept, he didn't even raise his eyelids when Zhao Wei passed the ball.
After Ingram receives the ball, he dribbles it inside and pushes it inside. Brown knew that he was going to hit himself inside, but although he suffered a lot in terms of height, he saw that Ingram's body was too thin, so he expected that Ingram's strength must not be too great, so he did not go all out to defend it. But when Ingram pushed inside, Brown's eyes widened suddenly, and he was startled by Ingram's sudden burst of power, although he hurriedly increased his strength, but at that moment, his body had been pushed back a step.
Ingram felt empty behind him, knew that Brown was pushed away by himself, turned his left foot to the baseline, turned around and retreated at the same time, with his height, he immediately opened a full meter distance from Brown, two long arms held the ball, making his shot very high, although Brown tried to reach, but he was still only able to reach the position of Ingram's elbow. Zhao Wei didn't have any doubts about whether the ball could be scored or not, because Ingram's hand was very soft. Sure enough, the ball went into the net cleanly hollow.
The next three balls, Zhao Wei and Ingram use the same cooperation, Ingram is relatively easy to score, although Brown increases the strength of the defense, but Ingram is not a dead brain, he will immediately make a sudden forward turn, relying on his height, Brown still can't make much impact on his shooting.
Syllable! Zhao Wei and Ingram high-fived in celebration after scoring the fourth goal. What the two of them didn't notice, though, was that the Lakers' management had a good assessment of Ingram's back-to-back singles skills. The strength is greater than imagined, and when encountering a defense that is stronger than one's own strength, it will not be nonsense, and the use of one's own strength is relatively ingenious. But at this time, they are also a black line in the head. These two children are really speechless. I know you have such an advantage, but you are here for a trial and need to show as much of your talent as possible. It's good for you two to hold one person and beat it up.
"Hey, man. Are you here today to try out your serve? Russell said unhappily in his heart, although he was unhappy that the score was behind, but what was even more unhappy was Zhao Wei's attitude towards him, this guy actually let himself stand in front of him, without anything to do, like a fool standing with him.
"Hey, man, are you going to defend with your eyes today?" Zhao Wei was not afraid of him at all. Even if I do become teammates, I won't be afraid of you, not to mention that we are not teammates now.
"Are you just talking to your future captain?" Russell raised an eyebrow.
"On the pitch, we're opponents." Zhao Wei said calmly.
"Yes, then let me see how much you can make me think of you as an opponent." Russell's eyes finally widened, and he looked at Zhao Wei with a playful smile.
As the two had a messy conversation, the smell of gunpowder on the court gradually became stronger.
Zhao Wei didn't pass the ball to Ingram this time. Ingram also knew what Zhao Wei was going to do, and immediately came out of his heart and came to the other side outside the three-point line. Zhao Wei took the ball and made two feints to break to the right in a row, but Russell was not deceived, and the center of gravity did not make any movements.
Russell said to himself, "Are you going to fool me with this lame feint?" Sure enough, it's still a child. He saw that Zhao Wei was going to make a move again, and he thought that Zhao Wei was still making a feint to make a breakthrough.
Zhao Wei did not go to the right this time, but to the left, and his movements were not fast at first, but Zhao Wei did not react when he saw Russell, he knew that Russell was taking his action as a fake. At this moment, Zhao Wei's speed suddenly exploded. Swish! Strike to the left.
Russell was startled and slammed to keep up, his speed growing over the course of a season and summer. But just when he had just caught up with Zhao Wei and didn't have time to get complacent, he saw that the distance between himself and Zhao Wei suddenly widened. It turned out that Zhao Wei made an accelerated breakthrough, and after Russell caught up with him, he suddenly made a crossover, stepped back and pulled the ball back to his right hand.
Russell was shocked: "Oops. Immediately chased back, because he had already seen Zhao Wei preparing to shoot. But what made him completely realize that he was not facing an ordinary opponent was that when Russell was chasing back, Zhao Wei's hand that originally seemed to be chasing the ball suddenly withdrew, his body was lowered, and suddenly he accelerated forward, directly from Russell's right side, and under Russell's eyes, an easy layup ended the attack.
Shout!!! At this time, with the goal scored, the referee's whistle blew.
All four on the field looked at Wharton at the same time.
"Alright, this game is over for now." Wharton said with a smile.
"Coach, why is it over, the score hasn't arrived yet." Russell's voice was a little anxious.
"Because we were trying out, not really playing, and just now the two of them have already shown what they can do." Wharton's smile narrowed slightly, he naturally saw Russell's performance just now, when he tried out Zhao Wei and the two of them, he also wanted to suppress and suppress the spirit of his future disciple by the way, the right is corresponding to the strength, in this business alliance, it is better to keep a low profile before you show enough strength, and his own disciple obviously does not have a clear understanding of this aspect, "Okay, you guys play a few more balls." ”
As soon as Wharton's words came out, Xiao beside him was stunned, but he immediately understood Wharton's intentions.
But while their intentions were good, things didn't seem to be going their way. In the next game, Zhao Wei used Ingram's block to score a goal again, the second attack, Russell's defense was obviously much more active, he did not take the block and dismantle this time, but took a bypass from the rear, although Zhao Wei saw the empty block and shot decisively, but the previous physical exertion, so that his shot, the strength was small, and the ball hit the front line. The offensive opportunity was ceded to Russell.
After Russell won the ball, his momentum was obvious. His clever eyes stared at Zhao Wei in front of him. He is a left-handed general, choosing to break through with his left hand, Zhao Wei tried hard to follow, but Brown appeared on his side at this time to block himself, Russell smiled at the corner of his mouth, grabbed the gap of less than a second, and when Ingram made up the defense, he made a decisive shot and scored.
In the next offense, Russell showed his blocking skills, and he used Brown's blocking and pick-and-roll one after another, or shooting after blocking and pick-and-roll, or breaking through the interior directly after blocking and picking. After scoring several goals in a row to chase the score of the two sides to 6:4, Russell's momentum rose again, this time he did not take advantage of Brown's blocking, but went to the bottom line to settle down, ready to single Zhao Wei.
Bang bang bang!! The collision of flesh and flesh, Russell, who has been playing for a season, is much stronger than Zhao Wei physically, although Zhao Wei tried his best, but he was still pushed by Russell to the inside line, when there was only one meter left from the basket, Russell topped again, intending to completely push Zhao Wei away this time, he scored a layup, but he slammed it, but found that there was no one behind him, the old force was exhausted, the new force was not born, he used great strength to push Zhao Wei away, and it broke out quickly, but he didn't expect Zhao Wei to suddenly get out of the way at this time, Without a point of strength, Russell sat on the ground with his ass and the ball out of his hand. Although the ball was quickly picked up by Brown and scored on a layup, Russell's mistake was very annoying.
Wharton took it when he saw it, knowing that his intentions almost failed completely, but fortunately, it worked a little. Shouted to stop the game.
Next, Wharton arranged a 3vs3 game in a relatively rare manner. Such a competition is generally rare in tryouts. The last time the Lakers scheduled such a game was last season for Russell, who tried out last season. It was that game that showcased Russell's excellent team ability and broad vision that led the Lakers to choose Russell in favor of Russell in the 2015 draft. Even though the Lakers have been questioned since selecting Russell, Kupchak chose to stick with his decision. So even if Russell caused the video gate, he is still on the Lakers, and it is very likely that he will become the leader of the Lakers next season under Walton.
Since Zhao Wei only had two people on their side, Wharton arranged for Larry Nance to them. Larry Nance Jr. was selected by the Lakers with the 27th pick in the first round last season, and the Lakers may not have much hope for him, but as the game progressed last season, Nance Jr.'s energy and enthusiasm in the game made the Lakers favor him, and even squeezed out Randle for a while and became the starting forward of the Lakers. At the end of the season, he averaged 5.5 points, 5 rebounds per game, and shot 52.1% from the field, which is a very good result among rookies. Of course, this is for his draft pick. 2015 was a promising year for the draft, and the brilliance of a talented man like Russell in his rookie season was overshadowed by many of his peers. And the two most behemoth among them are the Timberwolves' No. 1 pick Towns and the Knicks No. 4 pick Porzingis (nicknamed Boshen). Downs is only the fifth madman in history to score 18+10 in his rookie season, while Porzingis has a surprising talent in his body, both of whom are talented and talented. Of course, there are also people like Booker, Winslow, Turner, Jokic, Okafor, Moodier and others who are not good at stubble. So at the end of the season, it's no surprise that Russell wasn't named to the rookie first team.
Back in the game, Zhao Wei had a three-man lineup with Nance Jr., while Russell, Anthony Brown and Randle were on the opposite side. Of course, although Wharton sent a strong lineup, he did not send the strongest lineup. If he lets Clarkson play, then Zhao Wei's side may definitely lose. There's a huge gap between a player who has played two seasons in the league and a rookie who hasn't played a real game. Even if you're a talented player, it's a reality you have to accept. In this way, it does not mean that Zhao Wei and they won this game.
The game was very intense, and Zhao Wei and they still inevitably lost, but they also got eight points.
Zhao Wei's organizational ability was well exerted in this game, whether it was controlling the rhythm or grasping the offensive opportunity, or the route and accuracy of the pass, all of which were unanimously affirmed by the coaching staff who watched the game. But their attention is still more on Ingram. (To be continued.) )