Chapter 20: The Asheville Heights Team

This unpleasant trial caused Sun Yi and Princeton to argue for a long time.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is not Liu Hao's problem, but that his teammates' passing is too poor, don't you see that Liu Hao also has a good performance when he receives the ball normally? Moreover, Liu Hao's performance on the defensive end is also very good.

In the end, Princeton couldn't stand the chatter of his old friend, so he gave his pertinent evaluation, saying that Liu Hao might have a chance to play in the Development League, and said that he would help Liu Hao contact a team in the NBA Development League.

In fact, the overall strength of the NBA Development League is about the same as that of the CBA, don't think how powerful it is because he brought the word NBA.

In Liu Hao's previous life, several domestic players had played in the Development League, and it turned out that it was at the CBA level.

Now Liu Hao is definitely a superstar if he is placed in the CBA, after all, he has defeated Han Yu, the first person in CUBA, even if he is placed in the CBA, he is not weak.

Over the next week, Liu Hao trained non-stop and then visited the neighborhoods.

These days, I finally have a little bit of a feeling for American English, at least I can understand most of it.

"Hey, Liu, I've never met a Chinese defender as good as you!" A black guy named Devin praised Liu Hao's skills.

Devon lives in the Carmel neighborhood just outside Chinatown and is a well-known master within a radius of dozens of miles.

After a week of socialist edification (education), he now has great respect for Liu Haoke, because he is afraid of being abused.

"Huh!"

Liu Hao could only smile at this, and now he still rarely speaks, probably because of ......

I'm afraid of revealing my English!

Back in Chinatown, Sun Yi had been waiting for him here for a long time.

"Liu Hao, just now Princeton called me, he said that the Asheville Heights team in North Carolina seems to be interested in you, let you prepare and go to the trial tomorrow!"

Sun Yi's words were obviously a little excited, and he was very much in favor of the fact that domestic players could use the platform of the United States to train themselves.

After being a scout for so many years, he believes that the reason why domestic players can't go far in the World Series is still too closed.

Now even the country has advocated reform and opening up, and basketball should be even more so.

So for Liu Hao to be able to accept staying here, he didn't mention how happy he was.

He also knows a little about Liu Hao's family, so he can only do his best to help him gain a foothold here.

And the development alliance is a good platform that can not only make money, but also strengthen itself.

Although the development league players are divided into three tiers of A, B, and C according to their strength and seniority, they can only receive an annual salary of $25,000, $19,000 and $13,000 respectively (season salary), which is a drop in the bucket compared with the NBA, which has an average salary of $4.58 million and ranks first in the world, and is far less than the CBA foreign players with an annual salary of millions of dollars.

But this is enough for Liu Hao to survive here, according to the tradition of our Chinese nation to be diligent and thrifty, Sun Yi still trusts Liu Hao very much.

The Asheville Highlanders, whose main stadium is the Asheville Civic Center in North Carolina, was founded in 2001.

Sun Yi took Liu Hao to the Asheville Civic Center to participate in today's trial, although Princeton had recommended it in advance, but today's trial staff here still didn't want to believe that such a yellow-skinned kid would have any good performance.

Asheville is still one defender short of the roster this year, so almost all of the people who came to try out today were defenders.

After the physical test data came out, everyone in the civic center did not dare to underestimate this Chinese named Liu Hao, after all, Liu Hao and them stood on the same level only by talent.

George Grevine is the backup center for the Asheville Heights team, and he's here today with another backup center to help select the last defender.

The game begins.

Liu Hao, who used five kinds of props in advance, was in excellent shape, hitting three points as soon as he came up, and then sent an assist to center George.

On top of that, he's been excellent on the defensive end as well.

The other defenders are not far behind, and the person opposite Liu Hao is a white guy named Johnson, his physical talent is extremely explosive, but his brain is not very good, and he is a popular candidate today.

On the offensive end, Johnson is effortless against Liu Hao, as long as he gets the space to start, then he can easily push Liu Hao to score.

But almost every shot this guy gets by hitting it in, and his outside shot doesn't seem to be accurate.

On the defensive end, under the premise that Liu Hao has scored three points, this Johnson is extremely easy to jump under Liu Hao's various feints.

Even if the heart is not sincere, this feint is also smart!

So in the eyes of the trialists, the two turned out to be blowing each other up! This immediately improved Liu Hao's image in their hearts.

It is worthy of being recommended by NBA scouts!

Princeton: Actually, I just can't refuse him, so I'll leave it to you to refuse......

Although Johnson performed well on the court, scoring was easy, all kinds of strong bursts, fast breaks, and violent dunks.

But looking at the score of 21:34, his team was a full 13 points behind, and this Nima had just reached the second quarter!

Let's take a look at the data comparison between Johnson and Liu Hao:

Johnson: A pair of 40s with 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting, all two-pointers, 1-of-4 free throws, 4 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 blocks, 0 steals, 1 turnover, and 0 fouls.

Liu Hao: Hit 4 of 5 shots, including 2 of 3 three-point shots, and got 10 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 0 blocks, 1 steal, 0 turnovers, and 1 foul.

Such a comparison made the tryouts hesitate in their hearts.

"It feels good today, hehe!" Looking at this huge score difference, Liu Hao suddenly had an idea, if I swiped the data, would it be more reflective of my strength.

So Liu Hao frequently scored a few goals with the help of George's blocking, either scoring or assisting, further widening the score gap to 20 points.

After several attacks, George was also impressed by this yellow-skinned boy.

It was thought that he had only been lucky enough to score more points by making two three-pointers, but now it seems to be a fallacy.

But at this time, someone will definitely stop Liu Hao, the center on the opposite side is also the team's substitute center, his strength is not bad compared to George, but he doesn't seem to touch the ball much tonight.

Now he decided to target this yellow-skinned kid first, and he definitely couldn't lose too ugly.

So when Liu Hao broke through to the basket next, he suddenly flew over from the side to save the situation with a wonderful block.

However, what surprised him was that Liu Hao had been paying attention to him, so this ball appeared in the Development League's version of Rondo playing James in the air.

George in the back shouted after receiving the ball: "Naishus! ”

Bang dang!

This dunk took away the confidence of everyone on the other side to win.

There was almost no suspense in the next game, and in the end, Liu Hao's side defeated the opponent with a score of 97:63.

Among them, Liu Hao scored 27 points, 5 rebounds, 10 assists, and 1 steal on 12-of-18 shooting.

Even if Johnson scored 30 points, 11 rebounds and 0 assists on 14-of-23 shooting, it didn't help.

It's not that Johnson doesn't know how to pass, it's just that he thinks like this: these teammates are here to support him, so he just needs to watch himself perform.

Under Johnson's excellent "defense", his teammates failed to play at the level they should have, and he was really the best defender of the game!

With such a result, as long as the trainer is not a fool, he will choose Liu Hao.

Although Johnson relies on his body to score here like chopping melons and vegetables, there are many people who are physically stronger than him after arriving in the league, and guards who don't like passing and inaccurate outside lines are definitely a cancer in the team.

What's more, George also recommended Liu Hao to the tryouts.

So in the end, Asheville chose Liu Hao, a yellow-skinned boy who was not recognized by them at first.

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