Chapter 114: Intra-team confrontation

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The Lakers' boys all summer, not just Zhao Wei, but everyone almost soaked their time in training.

After Kobe Bryant's objections were terminated by the Lakers in exchange for Cousins. Zhao Wei and Ingram have finally ushered in their signing day.

Ingram's contract is undoubtedly a top-tier contract for a rookie. And Zhao Wei's contract is relatively smaller.

Zhao Wei's contract is a four-year contract, with a salary of 800,000 yuan in the first year, 1.2 million yuan in the second year, 1.8 million yuan in the third year, and a restricted player in the fourth year.

That's the definition of a restricted player. It is your parent team that will have the right to sign you first. And if another team makes an offer to you, your parent team can offer a match. If you don't match, then you can join the team that made your offer.

With the end of the signing of all players. The Lakers' training camp for the new season has begun.

All the Lakers players showed up in the arena with a new look and a new look. Here, Zhao Wei also met his fellow countryman Yi Jianlian. At first glance, Yi Jianlian and Zhao Wei were very imaginative, always with a gentle smile, and spoke modestly and cautiously, but Zhao Wei saw the difference between Yi Jianlian and what he knew before. That's self-confidence. In the past, Yi Jianlian was an introvert in media reports and had little communication with his teammates. And if you look at him, his eyes will involuntarily look away, his eyes are misty, and he doesn't know where to look. But how can the current Yi Jianlian look like the legend. Fluent in English and comfortable with media interviews. And there was a lot of confidence in his eyes.

"Hey." How can you not say hello when you see a fellow countryman. Zhao Wei almost burst into tears as he sang in the song.

"Hey, Zhao Wei." Yi Jianlian said with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you, to have a fellow here, and to be lucky to be a teammate." Zhao Wei said happily.

"Haha." Yi Jianlian laughed.

The two talked for a long time, and during the training, Zhao Wei and Yi Jianlian were arranged in the substitute team. As the cooperation between the two increased, the relationship gradually warmed up. Soon they joked like old friends who had known each other for many years, went out to eat and drink together, and so on.

After getting along, Zhao Wei told Yi Jianlian a lot about the American side. In order to allow Yi Jianlian to quickly adapt to the NBA, after all, he has been away from this arena for four years.

And Yi Jianlian told Zhao Wei a lot of domestic things. Zhao Wei couldn't help but have the idea of returning to China to take a look. Zhao Wei decided that after the end of this season, he must return to China to take a look, after all, he has been away from home for so long.

Today, as always, there were some trainings, but just after the players finished basic training, Wharton didn't immediately let everyone rest, but called everyone together.

"Today we will have our first five-on-five formal training session."

Most of the people in the team were young people in their twenties, and they were all full of joy when they heard that they were going to compete.

"Russell, Williams, Deng, Randle, Mozgov, Anthony Brown, Calderon, Blake, you're in a group. Clarkson, Hultas, Ingram, Nance Jr., Yi Jianlian, Zhao Wei, World Peace, Zubac are a group. Wharton looked at the tactical board and said, "Clarkson, your group is led by Shaw. ”

Shout!!! A whistle blows, and the game begins.

The starting lineups of both sides are Russell, Williams, Deng, Randle, Mozgov; Hultas, Clarkson, Ingram, Nance Jr., Yi Jianlian.

Mozgov was the first to gain possession of the ball in the jump ball.

In terms of talent, the lineups of both sides have their own advantages, but in terms of experience, it is obvious that Russell is much richer on their side.

After just a few offensive rounds in the opening stanza, Russell's experience advantage on their side was evident. Although the score did not open, the rhythm on the field was firmly controlled by them, as fast as they wanted, and as slow as they wanted.

The positional battle fell, and Russell passed to Mozgov, who was on the inside to get to the position. Compared with Mozgov, Yi Jianlian has no advantage in height, and although Yi Jianlian is much stronger physically, he is still a little worse than Mozgov. In such a positional battle, Yi Jianlian does not have the slightest advantage in attacking the inner line.

Mozgov made a forward turn feint, followed by a back turn hook layup, and the ball didn't go in. However, it caused Yi Jianlian's foul. Got a free throw. After hitting both free throws, Russell's side extended the score to seven points.

Hurtas made a break through to Mozgov with the help of Yi Jianlian's block, and suddenly threw the ball to the basket, and Ingram on the weak side had already made a block with Nance Jr. at a position of 45 degrees to block Randle. Nance Jr. jumped to his feet after a run, and the god descended to smash the ball into the basket with one arm. It's kind of a return shot.

But in the next few offenses, Russell took over the game, and continued to use the offense after blocking and dismantling with Randle, or three-pointers, or mid-range shots, or layups, instantly widening the score gap to 15 points.

At this time, Shaw called a timeout. Tactics have been rearranged. Let Nance Jr. and Yi Jianlian do more blocking and dismantling for Ingram, use the bottom line to run out of the vacancy, and make a brave shot after receiving the ball.

After the game restarted, Ingram did just that, using the blocking and dismantling of the bottom line to run out of the open space a few times, and after hitting a few balls, he bit the score. The margin did not continue to widen.

Zhao Wei was pleasantly surprised to see the fighting style of the Lakers' veteran coaches. Wharton immediately whispered a few words to Russell on the sideline when Nance Jr. made a free throw.

Although Zhao Wei didn't know what Wharton had arranged, he must have thought of a strategy for Ingram.

The game continued, and Zhao Wei found that the Russell group (we refer to it as Group A, and the other group is Group B. Their defense has changed, their pressing has become more ferocious, and they have switched defenses every time they have a pick-and-roll. And this defensive strategy has played a very good defensive effect for Group B. Because Yi Jianlian is a projection insider, his own position is originally very outward. This just makes Group A not have to worry about the big and small situation that occurs when changing defenses. If you shoot from the outside, you only need to interfere with Yi Jianlian as much as possible.

Yi Jianlian's hand feeling is not good, and several mid- and long-distance shots after the opening are big. It is enough to see that he is nervous and uncomfortable with the rhythm at this time. The NBA is arguably the fastest-paced game in the world. They can play with a time accuracy of a few tenths of a second. Otherwise, there would not be a classic lore of a few tenths of a second by Fisher and others.

The constant switching of guards and physical confrontation limited Ingram's play. Fortunately, at this point, Clarkson began to play. After changing direction, he accelerated to break through and hit Mozgov's shot. In this ball, although Clarkson had the advantage of taking the lead, he was able to knock away Mozgov, which is enough to prove that Clarkson's hard work this summer has worked.

After receiving Hurtas's return pass, Clarkson raised his hand and shot an open three-pointer into the field. In the face of Randle's defense, after breaking through, he glided, dodged Randle's long arms, and easily licked the basket to score. Clarkson's continuous play stimulated Russell, who had been trying his best to organize his teammates, and Russell counterattacked, a sharp stop, outside the three-point line, and came with his hands open. Three-point !! Also in color. After the goal, he also cast a defiant look at Clarkson.

Clarkson pouted in frustration. He controlled the ball himself across the half, faced Williams' defense, and shot directly. It's a pity that the strength is too great. The first quarter of the game ended.

Group A is still 15 points ahead of Group B.

Wharton looked at the competitive nature of his players on the field and nodded with satisfaction.

Clarkson saw that Wharton was not angry about his goal, and thought to himself that it was a different coach. If it was Byron Scott last season, it is estimated that he would have scolded himself for his righteous anger long ago.

"Zhao Wei, Zu Baci, you two are up." Shaw shouted.

"Yes." Zhao Wei was a little excited. I thought it was time to show the results of my special training.

Since this is only a match within the team, it is not a real game. So it didn't rotate as often as it did during the game. And the game time is not as long as the actual 12-minute game, but about eight minutes in a quarter.

Zhao Wei replaced Hurtas who went off the court, but instead of letting him play point guard, Clarkson moved to the point guard position, and Zhao Wei was in the scoring guard position. Zu Baci replaced Yi Jianlian.

But after I started playing, I found that the intensity of the game now is incomparable to that of the summer league. It's more than twice as strong as that. Zhao Wei kept interspersing the running position under the cover of his teammates, and finally used three blocks to run out of the open position, Clarkson accurately passed the ball to Zhao Wei. Catch the ball and shoot it, and the action is done in one go.

When he saw Zhao Wei shooting, Wharton's eyes lit up on the sidelines. Because he found that Zhao Wei's movements had changed, the jump height was not so high, but the shooting speed was faster, and his shooting hand shape had also changed. Although the ball did not score, it was only a goal, and Wharton was satisfied with Zhao Wei's change. In the next few attacks, Wharton also paid special attention to Zhao Wei.

Clarkson was also happy to make balls for Zhao Wei, Zhao Wei got the opportunity to shoot one after another, and several shots were three-point shots, and he hit two shots in succession. Bottomless Wharton's eyes lit up again and he laughed. smiled in his heart: "No wonder this guy's shooting is so familiar, it turned out to be an imitation of Klay Thompson, at first glance his size and physical condition are really a bit similar to Klay." The little guy is good, able to find his own direction of development. ”

Finding your own position and development direction in the NBA is an important prerequisite for you to be able to establish yourself in the NBA. Every player who can play in the NBA is a great person anywhere else. But in the NBA, he may be a small role, or even just a water cooler manager.

Some people will think that they are all such players, what's the use of keeping them, just quit. But that's not necessarily, just like the Lakers' "Sakistone" Thackeray a few years ago. Firmly occupies the position of the Lakers' water cooler. But a lot of players who are better than him can't play. Perhaps the most well-known is the Rockets' legend Josh Smith. The former spring man fell in an instant in a year or two, to the point where there was no ball to play. You must know that he is only about 30 years old, and he is in the age of fighting.

It's impossible for all of the team to be Kobe.

Zhao Wei's excellent shooting attracted the attention of Group A, and Williams adopted a close defense against Zhao Wei, which made it difficult for Zhao Wei to get a shot. Zhao Wei, who received the ball, had no choice but to give up after trying to break through several times with the ball. Because he found that at this time, Mozgov, who was on the inside, was staring at him with a fierce light, ready to teach himself a lesson.

The ball is passed back to Clarkson. Clarkson accelerated to break through, but when he reached the bottom line, he was stopped by the tiger-eyed Mozgov, Clarkson had no chance to shoot, and when he wanted to pass the ball out, he found that all his teammates were entangled. Just as Mozgov was triumphant, Clarkson made a flustered look, suddenly turned around, and after jumping, his light hand reached under Mozgov's armpit. He made a pick-and-roll behind him.

Group B played a small climax under Zhao Wei's excellent shooting, and the score gap was chased to within 10 points.

At this time, Ruel Deng in Group A showed the consistency of a veteran, scoring three consecutive singles against Ingram, including a rebound after a missed shot. The score was pulled apart again.

Shout!!! The whistle blew. Shaw made a substitution at this point, and World Peace came on for Ingram.

Compared with Ingram's slender figure, when Zhao Wei saw World Peace on the field, he felt like a giant bear striding with heavy steps, trying to crush everything in front of him. Just seeing it gives people a sense of spiritual oppression.

World peace came to the team relatively late. As the veteran of the team, the hero who once helped the team win the championship, everyone respects him very much. Zhao Wei has never really seen world peace, but he knows the original deeds of world peace, and the Auburn Hills Palace incident alone made Zhao Wei tremble. Because we came late, we didn't have much time to communicate. Zhao Wei may be a psychological burden, he has a sense of distance from world peace, and he does not dare to get too close to world peace.

"How to defend? It all cheered me up. "As soon as World Peace came on, he shouted at everyone. At the same time, Zhao Wei happened to be next to him at this time.

Syllable!!!

World peace slapped Zhao Wei on the shoulder. Zhao Wei was photographed. After an awkward smile, he immediately grinned when he twisted to the side. This strength, a slap on the shoulder must be hot on the shoulder.

World Peace did not target Ruel Deng after he came on the court, but switched with Nance Jr. to guard Randle. Although Randle didn't score much during this time, he had some of Green's style, and after grabbing the rebound, he pushed directly on his own. It can reduce the waste of time, and after half-time, there is a chance to pass the ball directly or attack the basket, and with his impact, as long as he rushes, it is difficult to stop.

His sudden cold arrow pass also caught Group B off guard. He's already another organizing point in addition to Russell. (To be continued.) )