The rookie tryout entered the second day, and the tryout project became a technical test.

On this day, there were many players with average physical fitness, but very good skills, and even a few players who were relatively backward in the physical test, but showed extraordinary individual ability in the technical test.

In general, players in this era still pay more attention to skills, so in the second day of the trial, many players have received the attention of the coach.

When it comes to basketball, black athletes who run fast and jump high and are physically strong are certainly more dominant, but in the forties, there were no black athletes in professional basketball, and the court was all white. White players are far less physically fit than black players, and since everyone is not that type of muscle-stick type of athlete, it is natural to focus on technical training, so players in this era spend much more time on technical aspects than on physical training.

After the second day of tryouts, those players with excellent skills stood out, and the players with outstanding physical fitness and great skills became the eyes of the coaches of each team and became the focus of the coaches of each team.

In fact, for these coaches who watched the tryouts, they didn't have much experience either. After all, this is the first time that a rookie trial has been held, and the coach doesn't have a standard in mind to judge a player, so if you do well today, you think you're good, and tomorrow he's good. It's probably like a person who enters a supermarket for the first time and is dazzled by the dazzling array of goods on the shelves.

The rookie tryout on the third day was a five-on-five battle.

The players are divided into two groups to play, and there is no limit to the time of the game, but due to the large number of tryouts, each player only has about ten or twenty minutes of performance time, and when the time is up, he will be substituted.

The players also know that there is not much time they can get, and the opportunity is very rare, so as soon as they get on the pitch, they try to show themselves as much as possible and show their best side in front of the coaches of each team.

The actual combat drill is different from the previous physical test and technical test, many people have excellent physical and technical skills, but when it comes to the actual combat confrontation, the performance is a little poor, and the physical and technical advantages are not fully utilized.

There are also people who have been mediocre in previous tests, they don't have great physical fitness, or they don't have great basketball skills, or neither, but they are very good in practice, beating players who are physically better and more skilled than them.

In competitive sports, this is nothing new, there are always that kind of competition-type athletes, who look obscure on weekdays, but when they get to the game, they are like playing chicken blood, and they can perform at a super level.

What's more, basketball is not the kind of brainless sport, basketball players have to use their brains in the game, and the kind of basketball players who play with their brains are more difficult than the kind of players who rely on their bodies or skills. In many cases, a player with great physical skills cannot bring victory to the team, but a player with a good brain can act as a leader on the pitch and lead the team to keep moving forward.

In the actual battle on the third day, there were also many players who played with their brains, and these players naturally attracted the attention of the coaches of each team, and some coaches also really liked this kind of players who played with their brains.

In basketball in the forties, it was basically about tactics over technique, and technique over physical. Basketball in this era does not have such a complex tactical system, and coaches are not very good at playing tactical targets, so a new set of tactics has emerged, which can dominate for several years, such as the "Cardinal" Auerbach's fast breakthrough tactic, which no one has cracked for three years. Therefore, a smart player can strictly implement the coach's tactics and can have a very good on-the-spot response, which is very popular with the players.

Because everyone's skills are average, and their bodies are similar, it is normal for the role of tactics to be expanded.

Before George McCann, basketball was not as important as the physical aspect of the player, or the advantage that the player's physical fitness brings, was not so obvious. In the future, black athletes joined the basketball game, and with strong physical fitness to dominate basketball, the body gradually became one of the qualities that basketball players must have, of course, this process also took decades, after all, even the dream team was deflated in front of Yugoslavia, which shows that at the end of the eighties, black people with excellent physical fitness did not have the dominance, and their personal ability was still not comparable to excellent skills and tactics.

After the 90s, professional basketball has higher and higher requirements for physical fitness, and the threshold for professional basketball players is getting higher and higher.

In the 40s, even if the players had excellent physical fitness, they were not enough to crush the opponent. As a result, players who showed great physical fitness on the side on the first day were less popular after the third day of tryouts.

At the end of the three-day trial, each team has a number of goals, and then each team can invite their favorite players for individual tryouts.

The players are all looking forward to an invitation from the team, and if they can get an invitation from the team at this time, it means that the team is interested in them and has a better chance of being selected. Even if you don't get selected in the end, if your performance impresses the team, you may be able to get a contract.

Of course, there are also some good players, such as Eddie Sadows, such as Ernie Calfley, such as Stan Mosaic, such as Max Zaslowski, who have been invited by several teams.

It's gold that always shines, and these future basketball greats have all performed well in rookie tryouts, and they have really moved many teams to turn the lights on for them.

As for the players who didn't get a separate tryout, although it was a bit frustrating, this trip to New York was not for nothing, at least it was an unforgettable experience to visit the metropolis of New York and see the world.

Three days was a very short time, but it was an important change for the entire professional basketball, and since then, Chen Qiang's new league has begun to monopolize the best young players in the United States, while the other two basketball leagues, ABL and NBL, can only eat some leftovers from the new league.

A sports league, there are no excellent players, the decline is inevitable, why the European professional football league is better than the South American professional football league, is because they have enough excellent players, the same reason, the South American professional football league is better than the Asian professional football league, but also because the South American players are better than the Asian players.

It's just that the speed of information transmission in the forties was not smooth, although Chen Qiang's new league held the first rookie tryout, but the other two basketball leagues in the United States, ABL and NBL, did not react, maybe their senior management did not know about the rookie tryout of the new league.

The two relatively loosely managed basketballs have not yet realized that Chen Qiang's butcher's knife has begun to fall, and in four or five years, the ABL and NBL, two leagues that were established earlier, will inevitably be reduced to the 18th tier sports league in the United States.

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The rookie tryout took some of Chen Qiang's energy, and then after the individual tryouts for each team were over, Madison Square Garden would hold an official draft meeting.

On the side of Mr. Kong, the cars sold very well, and the first batch of new cars he got from General Motors were quickly swept away by the American people, and Mr. Kong also made a lot of money from them. However, Kong Dagongzi was not satisfied with this, and he got a second batch of cars from General Motors.

In addition, the antique company in New York also brought Chen Qiang good news, they found the ugly cow and the tiger in the zodiac animal head.

When Ugly Niu and Yinhu were found, they were used as decorations in a family's garden, and the antique dealer paid only five dollars for the two animal heads, and then received a hundred dollars from Chen Qiang.

After Chen Qiang learned the news, he immediately rushed to the antique store in New York, intending to bring back the two beast heads.

In the antique shop, Chen Qiang held a magnifying glass and carefully examined the two beast heads. Although they have been used as decorations in the garden for a long time, the two heads of beasts have not rusted. I have to say that the highest level of copper smelting technology in ancient China is indeed very good, and the century-old stainless steel is not blown out.

"Mr. Chen, are you satisfied with these two bronze statues of beast heads?" The owner of the antique shop said with a smile that he knew that the person in front of him was a big customer, and whether he would work hard or enjoy life in the rest of his life depended on the boss in front of him.

"Yes, I took these two, by the way, I also said there are other antiques?" Chen Qiang then asked.

"Yes, I also received a few pieces of porcelain." The antique shop owner spoke.

Chen Qiang turned his head and said to Mr. Wu, who had been a pawnshop shopkeeper in China, "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry for you." ”

Mr. Wu nodded, and followed the antique shop clerk to inspect the porcelain.

The owner of the antique shop approached Chen Qiang and said, "Mr. Chen, I have a friend who would like to meet you very much after learning that you have acquired a large number of Chinese antiques. ”

"Is this friend of yours also an antique collector?" Chen Qiang asked with a smile.

"That's right, he has a lot of Chinese antiques that he wants to sell, I don't know if Mr. Chen is interested." The antique shop owner then asked.

"Of course I'm interested, but I don't know how many Chinese antiques he has?" Chen Qiang asked.

"There have to be 10,000 or 20,000 pieces, right?" The antique shop owner replied.

"One or two thousand? You're kidding? We're talking about serious antiques, and the kind of broken copper and iron doesn't count. Chen Qiang said.

Chen Qiang felt in his heart that the so-called 10,000 or 20,000 antiques, probably many of them were copper coins left over from the Qing Dynasty, and there were many such things among the people, even if it was Kangxi Tongbao, it was not worth a few dollars in the forties.

The owner of the antique shop immediately defended: "Mr. Chen, this friend of mine has real antiques in his hands, and they are all treasures among antiques, and they are definitely not broken copper and iron. ”

"One or twenty thousand pieces are treasures? What is the origin of this friend of yours, such a big deal? Those who don't know still think that he robbed our Chinese palace! Chen Qiang teased.

In the next second, Chen Qiang suddenly thought of another very bad possibility, one or two hundred thousand precious antiques, this is not something that ordinary people can take out, could it be that someone in China is reselling antique cultural relics!

"It shouldn't be, those domestic executives and bigwigs shouldn't be so unconscionable, even dare to resell the antiques of the Forbidden City! But now that the war is in chaos, they can't do this kind of thing of betraying their ancestors and forgetting their ancestors. ”

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang opened his mouth and said, "Okay, help me make an appointment with which of your friends, and we will meet." ”

……

In an upscale café, Chen Qiang met a man with a hooked nose.

"Hello Mr. Chen, my name is Quesnel." The other party spoke.

This man's English sounded a little strange, a little more British, but there was a unique accent in it.

"Hello, Mr. Quesnel. Have a seat. Chen Qiang beckoned Quesnel to sit down, and then asked, "Mr. Quesnel, you shouldn't be an American, right?" ”

"Yes, I'm French." Quesnel replied.

"France?" Chen Qiang nodded thoughtfully, the current France is under the control of the Germans, so this Mr. Quesnel should be a Frenchman who fled to the United States.

"I am deeply unfortunate about what has happened to your country." Chen Qiang said politely.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, I am equally saddened by what happened to China." Quesnel responded politely.

"But I believe that sooner or later our two countries will drive out the aggressor." Chen Qiang's voice paused, and then he got to the point: "I heard that Quesnel has a lot of Chinese antiques in his hands, and the number is as high as one or two hundred thousand? ”

"More than 30,000 to be exact!" Quesnel replied.

"So much?" Chen Qiang was taken aback in his heart, he even felt that he had met a liar, how could a foreigner get 30,000 Chinese antiques, unless he really robbed the Chinese Imperial Palace.

Quesnel continued: "Actually, these antiques don't belong to me. ”

"Sure enough, he has a big boss behind the scenes." Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart, but he asked: "Then who is the boss who really wants to sell antiques?" ”

"It's the French government. I'm not talking about that puppet government in Paris. Quesnel said solemnly: "The government I am talking about is the Provisional Government of Free France!" ”

"You are from the Provisional Government of Free France?" Chen Qiang asked in surprise.

Quesnel nodded: "Yes, I am the envoy sent to the United States by General de Gaulle. ”

At this moment, Chen Qiang finally understood why this Quesnel dared to say that he had more than 30,000 Chinese antiques to be sold, and the French really had the ability to take out 30,000 Chinese antiques, and they were all treasures.

Not to mention anything else, just in the Louvre Museum in France, there are more than 30,000 pieces of Chinese cultural relics in the collection!

Chen Qiang suddenly felt that his previous guess was right, Quesnel's antiques were really snatched from the Chinese Imperial Palace!

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