"I don't practice much, but I think it's necessary."

Sun Hao told the truth.

He'd used the step-back step in Europe, but he didn't have much time to practice the long-range threes.

"I can teach you some details, but it's up to you whether you can practice it or not."

Harris said with a smile.

Sun Hao's eyes were full of gratitude when he looked at Harris after hearing this.

At this time, Harris had nothing to do with the Chinese men's basketball team, and there was a lack of ability to guide him in these shooting details.

You know, if you haven't played a game in the summer league, the hell knows if he's going to play it or if he's going to sit on the bench for a season.

So it's really rare.

Harris said to do it, the other team members left after training, and he stayed alone to open a small stove for Sun Hao.

Of course, what Harris taught is not the double step-back step that catches the rules like Harden in the future, but the standard step-back.

However, there are many details that can be delved into.

Like dribbling.

It may seem unrelated to the act of stepping back, but it is an important detail.

Because the step back has a step back to collect the ball, it is easy to be tackled if the ball is in front of the body at that moment.

So if you want to step back, it's best to bring a crotch when dribbling, which can effectively avoid being tackled.

Another example is footsteps.

When stepping back, it is best to have the opposite foot and the hand that dribbles the ball, so that you can fully distance yourself from the defender.

"The step back is the same as dribbling, you need to master the left and right sides together, so when you usually train, you have to practice the left and right foot step."

Some of what Harris said involved the technical details of basketball, which Sun Hao did not know.

This is also the experience that Harris has summed up after so many years of coaching.

In particular, Harris has spent a long part of his coaching career as an assistant coach, and he will pay more attention to these technical details.

These have benefited Sun Hao a lot.

He looked at Harris with gratitude in his eyes.

After all, he was just an NCAA teaching assistant in his last life.

Don't think this position is awesome, the NCAA head coach is the biggest, combining power and one.

Teaching assistants, just a little better than odd jobs.

It's two completely different concepts from the NBA's teaching assistants.

Otherwise, Sun Hao would not just know some training methods, he would be the head coach there every day, and even after the crossing, the basketball IQ would only be 51.

It was at this time that he suddenly thought of the caddy function in the system.

If Harris could be had, it would definitely help him a lot.

However, according to the system, he must first establish a sufficient friendship with Harris.

Harris had zero contact with him before, and it wasn't a one-time thing to do.

However, because the relationship between the two is that of a coach and a player, those who can quickly increase their favorability will naturally play well on the field.

Summer league is already very important for a rookie like Sun Hao, and with this layer of relationship, he has even more reason to play well.

After two days of training, Harris took the Mavericks to the Long Beach Coliseum, where they will host their Summer League opener.

Their opponent is the Chicago Bulls.

Like the Mavericks, the Bulls are in a rebuilding and are trading frequently in this year's draft.

In addition to Sun Hao's trade, they also traded the seventh-pick selected center Chris Meem for the Cavaliers' eighth-pick Jamal Crawford.

It looks strange, but it's not uncommon in the NBA.

Pick the players you want first, and then get some small bargains out of you.

For Klaus, this is all routine.

The quality of the 2000 rookie was mediocre, but if one of the best guards was to be judged, it would be Crawford.

If Reid hadn't been injured, the position would have been his.

Crawford's brilliant handling skills and explosive scoring prowess make him the only player in NBA history to win Sixth Man of the Season three times.

And his career is as long as 19 years, averaging 20+ per game at his peak, and he is resistant and able to play.

Of course, that's for the future, and Crawford is expected more now than in the future...... Larger.

Imagine how hard it would be to get the eighth pick in a draft full of interior picks, and you know how strong he is in this rookie class.

And he, like Sun Hao, is also a dual-energy guard, and he is likely to be on top of Sun Hao in the game.

Sun Hao met a boss-level opponent in the same class at the beginning.

And the strength of this Bulls team is ridiculously strong in summer league.

With the exception of Crawford, the team's interior is luxurious.

The inside big man he got when trading Sun Hao, the 12th pick, Etan Thomas, is the same as his name, with a muscular body, he is a meat tank.

and their No. 4 pick, "Tattoo Expert" Marcus Fetzel.

Fetzel is highly regarded in the NCAA, not only being selected to the first team of the United States, but also leading the team to the NCAA quarterfinals as a key player.

In the future, he will often be labeled as a parallel trade in the NBA because of his personality and injuries, so that future experts will evaluate him more on his more than 30 tattoos.

However, Fetzel, who has not yet started his NBA journey, is highly expected by management, and his strength is also in the first tier of the summer league.

In addition to these three lottery shows, this Bulls team also has a figure who will become famous in the future.

Ron I'm still a rookie Artest.

There's also a little story about Artest's participation in this summer league.

Artest, as the No. 16 pick last year, averaged 12 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 steals per game in his rookie season, and was all-round offensive and defensive.

Originally, such players would not have been required to play in the Summer League.

Artest didn't have the idea of coming himself.

But maybe it was because the team lost too much last season and it was very unruly, and the team management still let him come.

The purpose is self-evident, the rebuilding team hopes to comfort the hearts of fans with the summer league championship.

The Lakers in history have done that more than once after Kobe Bryant's retirement.

The Bulls are the originators of this.

In addition to these four, second-grader Mike Ruffin, this year's No. 32 show A.J. Guyton, and No. 34 show Harred Al Amin.

With all the talent and power at their toes, it's not an exaggeration to say that this Bulls team is the strongest team in Summer League.

Not only is the opposing player a boss, but the opponent is also a boss, and the beginning of Sun Hao's NBA career is very difficult.

Harris seemed to know this, and on the way to the stadium, he emphasized the game mentality with the players.

Winning or losing in summer league is not so important, showing the results of your training and your individual ability is what the coaching staff wants to see.

Sun Haoquan listened, it was true to say so, but for him, as long as he played, he was rushing to win.

If not to win, then what else to play?

Long Beach, the largest satellite city of Los Angeles, is a quintessential port city with the 10th highest throughput in the world.

It is said to be a satellite city, but in fact it is not small at all, the seventh largest city in California, both in terms of economy and city size.

The Long Beach Coliseum can accommodate 6,000 people to watch the game, and the scale is not small.

The Mavericks came early, the Bulls hadn't arrived yet, and the audience was still sporadical.

Once arriving, Harris quickly signaled for the team to warm up early.

Sun Hao also began to find a feel on the outside.

The three-point line in Europe is 6.25 meters in FIBA, but the distance in the NBA is 6.7~7.25 meters (the three-point line in the NBA is not a regular semicircle).

In other words, there will be a maximum difference of 1 meter, which is why many overseas players will not adapt to the three-point line at the beginning of the NBA.

However, because Sun Hao often shoots long-distance or even ultra-long-distance three-pointers in Europe, he will adapt much faster than others.

Of course, there is also a process, and thanks to the system upgrade, he has more time to adapt to this.

While practicing, Raga Bell suddenly walked towards Sun Hao.

Sun Hao cast a puzzled look at him, judging from his previous dealings, his roommate seemed to be relatively withdrawn.

"Jamal give it to me."

Bell didn't say much, but he got straight to the point.

Sun Hao nodded and agreed.

Crawford is 1.96m tall, the height of a typical striker swingman.

But people play a double-way guard, and they fly up with one hand on the dribble.

After Sun Hao played against Kobe Bryant before, he knew that this kind of player is difficult for him to defend against now.

Bell offered to ask, and he was happy to accept.

Of course, pie doesn't fall from the sky, and the reason why Bale did this is obviously not to treat him as a buddy.

You must know that these two roommates have only spoken two words between them since they met.

Meet a sentence, just a sentence.

Crawford, with his flamboyant style, will be the center of attention, just as he did in the NCAA.

There's nothing more tangible than playing against a player like that.

The premise, of course, is that Bale has enough confidence in his defense.

As we got closer to the start of the game, the fans in the stadium gradually increased.

Summer League is nowhere near as intense as the NBA regular season or even preseason, but because of that, it's cheap.

This is actually a way for the NBA to officially promote.

The warm-up was almost the same, and Sun Hao rested on the sidelines a little earlier as he did in Europe.

"Why haven't the Bulls come yet?"

Behind him, there are fans chatting.

"I don't know, I'm waiting to see Jamal's performance."

"Jamal is so cool, I've seen him put on a show at Rock Park and it's really cool."

"You're also here to see Jamal?"

"yes, I wasn't going to come for this game, but as soon as I heard about Jamal, I came."

At this moment, there was a cheer from the entrance of the players' tunnel on the other side.

Crawford arrived, and many fans shouted at him.

Sun Hao also turned his head to look.

In addition to the fans, he also saw the Bulls' head coach Pink and general manager Klaus, both down to the court to chat with Crawford.

In the previous draft, I heard from Barkley that Crawford and "Street Ball King" Alston were on a par at Rock Park.

Now hear and see the reaction of the fans and the Bulls management.

Before Crawford entered the league, his popularity exploded.

Or to put it another way, Crawford would be the star of the night.

The crowd in the arena continued to grow, and the Bulls began to warm up.

Sun Hao naturally paid attention to Crawford.

He'd seen it at the draft before, but Crawford was wearing a suit at the time.

Wait for Crawford to take off his training jersey and wear only the jersey.

So skinny.

This was Sun Hao's first feeling.

But by the time Crawford began to warm up, that feeling was replaced by ethereal.

His combination of dribbling and man-ball is more visually striking than it would seem in the live broadcast of the game.

Take the simplest crossover as an example, the feeling of being one with the ball is really not only training, but also an innate talent.

It's not unreasonable for him to gain so much popularity before he even entered the league.

After the warm-up, the game between the two sides started quickly.

Started on both sides of the field.

Mavericks: Sun Hao, Bale, Alexander, Harvey, Sanders.

Bulls: Guyton, Crawford, Artest, Fetzel, Thomas.

Thomas flicked the ball back to the Bulls halfcourt to officially kick off Summer League.

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