Chapter 218: Wang Xiao's Invitation
Yi Jianlian's choice is very surprising, because Yi Jianlian's situation last season was not valued by the Nets management at all, and his playing time and opportunities were cut to an all-time low, and at present, no other team seems to be interested in Yi Jianlian.
According to normal thinking, Yi Jianlian has to leave a way back for himself, taking advantage of the NBA shutdown, to go back to the CBA to play first to adapt.
But Yi Jianlian chose to stay in the United States to continue training, and he didn't seem to have thought about the possibility of returning to the CBA at all.
They naturally didn't know that Wang Xiao and Yi Jianlian had an implicit agreement, if Yi Jianlian's three-point ability met Wang Xiao's expectations, then Wang Xiao would give Yi Jianlian a quotation contract.
When it comes to the CBA, can Yi Jianlian practice three points all day long? It's impossible, it's impossible for any team coach to let Yi Jianlian, who is like an inside killer in the CBA, run to the outside to shoot three-pointers, and the CBA's three-point line is also closer than the NBA, which will invisibly affect his practice.
Wang Xiao can see his determination from Yi Jianlian's refusal to return to play in the CBA, and he is very much looking forward to Yi Jianlian's changes in a few months.
If Yi Jianlian can really make the expected progress outside the three-point line, Wang Xiao will definitely keep him, and even give Yi Jianlian a lot of playing time.
Antoine. Jamison will be 36 years old this year, and although his style of play is biased towards pitchers, his fitness and confrontation are still inevitably starting to deteriorate.
Yi Jianlian has height and speed, and if he can develop a three-point shot, he can just take over Jamison's position.
The Wizards currently have a large number of swingmen at the moment, George, Leonard and Parsons are all capable of playing both small forward and big forwards, while Klay. Thompson and Jimmy. Butler can play as a small forward and shooting guard.
There is no player in these swing guards who can directly reach the center position like Jamison, and Yi Jianlian can do just that.
Although it is difficult for Yi Jianlian to compete with NBA players in terms of physical confrontation ability, the center of small-ball tactics often does not fight with opponents on the inside, they often pull out the outside to assist teammates in blocking and dismantling, or directly stand in the top arc or bottom corner and other positions to pull space.
Of course, this premise is that Yi Jianlian must practice enough three-point shooting skills to create a threat on the court, otherwise there is no so-called premise of pulling space.
Whether Yi Jianlian can make a stable three-point shot, Wang Xiao can't come out, but in the training camp, Wang Xiao finally found a seedling that looks very good after Cheng Jie.
Wang Meng, this is a common name, and it happens to have the same surname as Wang Xiao.
With a height of 1.93 meters and a weight of 90 kilograms, Wang Meng looks white and clean, and even looks a little handsome.
Unlike Cheng Jie, who is a little withdrawn, Wang Meng is a self-acquaintance, has a very cheerful personality, and can get along well with most people, and in terms of basketball skills, Wang Meng far surpasses Cheng Jie, and is also a leader among the 100 trainees.
But if you compare physical fitness, Cheng Jie can get rid of Wang Meng dozens of streets.
Because of physical fitness, although Wang Meng's skills are very good, he can only rank last in terms of rating, which is similar to Cheng Jie.
If there is anything similar between the two, it may be the heart that refuses to admit defeat.
Although his physical fitness is a little poor, Wang Meng is very serious in training, and even the defense that he is not good at is quite desperate.
As the time entered November, Wang Xiao's basketball training camp has been held for nearly three months unknowingly.
In the past three months, every half month, the training camp will count a group of trainees with the lowest ratings to leave early, but Cheng Jie and Wang Meng have always hung at the back, crumbling, and it seems that they will be out at any time, but they have never been out.
But that's the end of it.
As the difficulty of the training further escalated, the two inevitably fell to the bottom few and were subsequently eliminated in the rating.
This is very normal, if they can go all the way up to become the final winner, then in the future in the CBA, Wang Xiao must have heard of their names, since there is none, then it means that the two of them are either limited to talent, or because of other reasons such as injuries, in the end they still can't go too far on the road of basketball.
But no matter what the reason is, it doesn't matter here in Wang Xiao.
Both of them looked depressed after being officially announced to be eliminated, and when they were about to leave here, they received a private phone invitation from Wang Xiao.
Both of them seemed surprised, and when they saw each other on the way to Wang Xiao's room, they were even more surprised.
"What are you doing here?"
It was Cheng Jie who spoke first, he looked at Wang Meng, and his tone was a little unfriendly.
With the deepening of the training and the trainees were eliminated one after another, the two who did not belong to the same training ground still met together, and the enthusiastic Wang Meng took the initiative to communicate with Cheng Jie, but due to the previous not very good experience, Cheng Jie had a hostile attitude towards the vast majority of the trainees, and Wang Meng's initiative had a feeling of a weasel greeting the chicken in his eyes.
And although Wang Meng is enthusiastic and cheerful, it doesn't mean that he is a brainless dumbfounder, when he found out Cheng Jie's obvious hostility, although he didn't understand why, he didn't continue to stick his hot face to his cold ass, and of course he didn't make a bad deal because of this, and the relationship between the two stopped there, not good or bad.
"It was Coach Wang Xiao who invited me and said he wanted to talk to me, what about you?" Wang Meng asked.
"What? You were also called by Coach Wang Xiao? Cheng Jie looked at Wang Meng in surprise.
"What do you mean that I was also called by Coach Wang Xiao, could it be that you are too?" Wang Meng also looked at Cheng Jie.
When the two of them received Wang Xiao's call, they were a little puzzled, and at the same time, they also had some expectations in their hearts, because they knew very well that the trainees who had been eliminated before left the training camp directly and had never been alone with Wang Xiao at all.
But they are all eliminated players, and there are many better trainees than them, so there should be no reason.
Wang Meng and Cheng Jie glanced at each other, neither of them spoke again, but they all walked to Wang Xiao's room together.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
"Please come in."
As the two knocked on the door, Wang Xiao's voice came out of the house.
The two pushed the door in, and were shocked by the luxurious decoration of the house.
The housing arranged by Li Ning Sports for Wang Xiao is the highest standard in Li Ning Center, and the layout is no less than that of a five-star hotel, and it is even more different from the residence of Wang Meng, Cheng Jie and other trainees.
In the spacious room, Wang Xiao sat on the luxurious leather sofa and looked at the two people who walked into the room at the same time.
"Welcome, come in and sit."