Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Little Brother Who Doesn't Come
Jerry Sloan didn't ask for much on the first day of training for the Utah Jazz, most of the Jazz's current players are the same players from last season, and the team's core lineup is completely original except for the league's former best defensive player, one of the best blockers in NBA history, and the Jazz's center Mark Eaton retired and left.
In this case, the Jazz are not so urgent about the pre-season training camp, after all, most of the core players are already very familiar with Jerry Sloan's set, and the main task of the Jazz training camp before the start of the season is just to integrate the new players into the team's system, and such a task is not very difficult anyway.
Therefore, this year's season training camp is much easier for the Jazz players than last year's season training camp.
Last year, because the team reached the Western Conference Finals, the media all over the United States were looking forward to whether the Jazz should rush into the Finals vs. the Bulls, the most promising Western team that year, was naturally under a lot of pressure from everyone, and after last season, this team was only sixth in the West in the regular season, and it was out in the first round of the playoffs, and in the end everyone saw that the king and future of the West was not in Malone and Stockton, but in the dead fat Barkley, In the end, the team in this small city can do whatever it wants, and no one will care about them, even if this team has two stars who have entered the dream team.
If it weren't for Lin Han's vigorous draft this year, I'm afraid that not many people would really pay attention to the Jazz this summer, which has no scandals or infighting, is not so popular, and the team is not so distinctive.
The integration of the team, it is actually very simple to say, but it is not so simple to do, in the Jazz, the stability of this team is indeed the best in the NBA, the team does not have any big thorny players, the team's leading players do not seem to be so difficult to serve, the team's head coach Sloan does not have too many bad deeds except for being old-fashioned and strict, such a team is a typical team that is the easiest to let players in, at least it looks like this.
It's just that it seems to be the case, when Lin Han and they came to the team's training gym, things are not like this, such as Stockton and Karl Malone and Jeff Malone Tom Chambers and other veterans have been staying together, interacting with each other on the training ground constantly, talking and laughing are completely like the owners of this training gym, without a little restraint, and there doesn't seem to be much fear and anxiety for the head coach Sloan, and Jerry Sloan really doesn't care if these veterans are really warming up at this time, really training.
In addition to the veterans of these teams, such as some of the team's Mesozoic players, such as Tyrone Corbin and some of the team's newly introduced players such as Felton Spencer, are all working hard, at least it seems to be working hard, and it seems that they want to show something good in front of Jerry Sloan to attract the attention of the team's head coach Sloan, even the team's small forward David Bennault last season is injured and is working very hard to practice shooting, and even the team's bench interior line with a major injury, Isaac Austin, known as Little Marlone in college, is also pretending to be on the side, dangling around in front of Jerry Sloan.
Whether it is the veterans and cores of the team who don't care, or the Mesozoic generation and the league players found by the team with a very strong desire to play, although these two groups of guys seem to be out of place, but they all have their own very clear goals, the veterans and cores have fixed abilities, as long as they maintain their condition, such a reality does not require them to work hard, because hard work may be wrong for them, a bad injury will be lost, and they have been stereotyped in Jerry Sloan's heart, What kind of characteristics don't need to be proven for a long time, which is completely different from those of the Mesozoic and the newcomers to the team.
However, in this Jazz team, the side that is even more incompatible with these two groups is naturally Lin Han, Aaron Williams and Brian Russell, the three newcomers, Aaron Williams and Brian Russell, needless to say, they don't know what they should do at all, Sloan and the coaching staff don't say anything, looking at the veterans of the team who are chatting and the middle generation of the team who are training hard, these young rookies are stunned, and they don't know what to do for a while, of course, These two guys didn't know what to do at this time, and Lin Han was no better, and he didn't know what to do at this time, and how to express Xiàn at this time.
Although Lin Han is very young, because of family reasons, he also has experience in social universities, although he can't do anything exquisite, but he also knows some rules.
A newcomer like him needs to abide by some rules, such as the team's veterans and leading players who come to the team in a sports car for $100,000, so Lin Han's car can't pass this number.
If the team's veterans and core players are very ordinary in the training ground, Lin Han can't be domineering as soon as he comes to the team, as if he wants to attract everyone's attention, if he really does this, then he will really become Jordan, aren't you scared when you train? When you get to the court, buddy doesn't pass the ball to you, look at how you are sassy, Jordan can also be snorting off the court, this is a person with real skills, but Lin Han is not Jordan, he is not sure if he really has the ability now.
So for Lin Han, the training ground can't go to the table xiàn to make these veterans and masters bored, when they get to the field, when the team officially plays, you can play whatever you want, no one will say about him, of course, naturally say that the good team wins.
Therefore, this is also what Aaron Williams and Brian Russell are worried about, they are too active like those Mesozoic players in the team, which will give people the feeling that their group is here to grab power, and I am afraid that it will not be long before they will be hostile to the Mesozoic and despised by the veterans.
But the head coach of the team will definitely be dissatisfied, uncle, I chose you to contribute to the team, you don't show anything, uncle, how can I come to inspect you?
Therefore, this degree is really difficult to master, but fortunately, although Stockton and Malone have the idea and practice of giving these rookie players a little bit of power, but it is not too difficult for Lin Han and these rookies, seeing that Lin Han and the three of them have not known what to do, after a period of helplessness, the two leading players of the team also smiled and came over to give these three people some guidance and help, in fact, for Malone and Stockton, they don't really want to do any guidance for these rookies, Just let these three young people and other players know that these three people will be covered by us in the future, and no matter how dazzling they are on the training ground after that, it is also allowed by our two big guys, which is to loosen their burden and give them room to swing freely.
In fact, in the NBA, most teams are like this, rookie players come to serve tea and water first, this is to get off the horse, teach a lesson, let the rookie know the rules, when the rookie knows the rules, the team leader will directly hug the rookie and say: See, this is my good buddy, everyone will cover it in the future.
It's just that Lin Han was very domineering and calm when he was in the locker room before, and he didn't care about the dismount that Stockton and Ma Long set up for them, and he didn't serve tea and water, and he didn't greet the boss so positively, in this case, Lin Han, the new 'little brother', was not very good, so although Ma Long and Stockton appreciated Lin Han's psychological element, as the leader of a team, Lin Han, a rookie, was an unrecovered person and still needed to be beaten.
Therefore, after Lin Han was a little reluctant to go to the place where Marlon and Stockton were talking and laughing, he asked what he should do with these people, Malone and Stockton quickly hugged Lin Han and called him buddy, and they officially covered these three people under their wings.
"In the past, many people said how to come to the NBA rookie players, but now it seems that what these people say is really true, if you didn't go to pay tribute to Malone and Stockton, we would probably have to be hung for a while, and the coach wouldn't care about this kind of thing."
"This is something that belongs to the players, how can the coach care about these things, maybe on the first day of today's training camp, the coach is deliberately not assigning any tasks, that is, let the players solve these things themselves, but thank you Lin Han for this matter, obviously, the two bosses of our team are coming for Lin Han"
Watching the two bosses Stockton and Malone leave with a smile, Brian Russell also took Aaron Williams' words and said, in fact, he also wanted to come out before Lin Han came out, but in the end, he still suppressed this idea, after all, in the eyes of Malone and Stockton, the three of them are not dominated by him, if he dares to overstep his bounds, there will be no good fruit to eat in the future.
Therefore, although Lin Han was beaten by Malone and Stockton, and went to worship the mountain and recognize the boss, Lin Han was a little depressed for a while, in addition to making money in the NBA, he did Jordan, but he didn't expect to end up doing what he did at Utah Valley Community College, which made him find someone to reason.
But fortunately, because of such a thing, Lin Han became the eldest of the three rookies, whether it was Williams and Russell, they were all around Lin Han, and it also represented Lin Han's official integration into the Jazz team, which is also a good thing.
It's just that soon, when the Jazz's training camp came to the second day, an incident in Chicago made almost the entire Jazz training camp crazy, it shouldn't be said, it should be said that this incident made the whole NBA and the whole United States crazy.
On January 6, 1993, the day the Chicago Bulls training camp opened, the league's No. 1 star, Michael Jordan, announced his retirement from the NBA!
Steel, steel, steel
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