Chapter 373: The Impact of the Draft Draw and the Powerful Suns
Outside the training hall at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, there was a crowd.
Jeff Pendegraf came to the team's training hall as usual to prepare for the summer session.
As a team in the NCAA Fierce Battle League P-10 League, Arizona State University has an awkward position in the P-10 Conference.
The belly of a fish in a standard fish belly.
Not to mention being on a par with the two giants of the P-10 league, UCLA and the University of Washington.
Even the University of Arizona, the University of Oregon, and Stanford University can crush them.
In addition, Arizona State University has a very low status in the academic community in the United States.
The team is not strong, and the school is not strong.
Leads to Arizona State University being small transparent throughout the NCAA.
As the leading player of a small transparent team, it was the first time Jeff Pendegraf had seen so many people outside the school's training hall.
Looking at this crowd of people, who would think that this is outside the training hall at Arizona State University?
Even if this is outside the training halls of UCLA and the University of Washington, there will be people who want to believe it!
It can only be said that thanks to hypersound.
Arizona State University's training hall is home to the Seattle SuperSonics when they travel to Phoenix to take on the Phoenix Suns.
Seattle SuperSonic?
Yes!
Jeff Pendegraf is immersed in sweet and painful memories.
Sweetly, he and Yes entered the P-10 league together.
Both were fresh freshmen in 2005.
Although Yes is the pride of the sky with shining stars.
He's just an obscure fish belly starter.
However, he was once the opponent of Yes!
He did play Yes on the court and scored two points against Yes!
Even though it was two points from six meters away.
But there really are no other defenders between him and Yes, according to the rules, this is also a direct confrontation between him and Yes!
I used to play against the Chosen One, the best defensive player in the NBA, on the court and scored two points!
It was the best memory of his basketball career.
As for the pain......
The games with Yes were shot a little badly by Yes.
Yes in the NCAA small shooting big ability is terrifying.
Even if he has now grown into a star-level interior player in the P-10 league who can get an average of 12+9 per game, his strength has greatly improved.
Every time he thinks about the scene of facing Yes in his freshman year, it feels like he is having a nightmare.
Even if his strength is greatly improved now, I am afraid that it will still be miserable in the face of Yes.
Do you want to stand in front of Yes again?
Forget it!
Don't want to go through it again.
In his own home stadium, being shot wildly by Yes and cheered by the fans of his home team, it was too miserable.
In Phoenix's fandom.
NCAA fans are all about Yes.
Yes's influence among Phoenix fans is huge.
In fact, there are several universities in Phoenix, but they are all fish belly teams that are not good at fish belly.
Relatively speaking, Arizona State University is not bad in a fierce battle league like the P-10 League.
But even so, overall, Phoenix's college team doesn't have great quality and doesn't have a great team history.
It is basically impossible for these teams to have the loyal support of their local fans.
At a time when Yes swept the NCAA by storm in the P-10 league, Phoenix fans were the most enthusiastic outside of Seattle.
This time the SuperSonics came to Phoenix to play in the Western Conference Finals, which for many Phoenix fans, is equivalent to Yes's trip home.
NCAA fans in Phoenix have shouted slogans for Occupy the West Jersey.
"Even if the supersonic loses, Yes is the winner!"
That's why Phoenix fans shouted the slogan of Occupy the West Arena.
By occupying the West Jersey Arena, the losing team can also get the cheers and treatment of winning.
It's really incredible.
From Phoenix Suns to Phoenix City fans.
Phoenix is full of coconut flour!
"Jeff, why are you here so late today?"
Why did you come so late, of course, it was the news of the draft draw at home!
This year's draft draw was a lot of fun!
In particular, it is even more interesting to watch the various rumors and performances of Oden and the supersonic.
The moment the Milwaukee Bucks got the pick, the expressions of the brothers Oden and Conley became the biggest news in the United States.
Auden in the Circle.
Conley jumped up with excitement.
Without the supersonic, they will definitely not get Oden.
Without the must-have Oden, the SuperSonics will certainly use this draft pick to make up for the team's weaknesses.
The whole world knows where the weakest link in hypersonic is.
Rondo, point guard!
After Curry withdrew from the draft, Conley was the best point guard of the class.
Oden?
Conley?
Supersonic?
Who would have thought that the big winner who has been hyped in the United States for half a year suddenly changed when he reached the finish line?
That's how God loves to joke.
"Jeff?"
"Just took care of some things at home, did anything happen?"
Jeff Pendegraf asked, feigning curiosity.
"Big deal, James is going head-to-head with Rajon Rondo!"
Well?
James is singled out NBA stars?!
Jeff Pendegraf was taken aback by his team-mate's words.
James is going to challenge Rajon Rondo?!
Really?
James is a newcomer to the team this year.
He is also the biggest star of the team now.
High school all-star, high school second-team guard, such qualifications, except for those giants, can be the biggest star in any team!
Not to mention their Arizona State team.
Before James joined the team, he was the future boss of the team.
Now he is willing to give up such a position to James.
James turned down UCLA's invitation to come to their school.
That's UCLA!
UCLA in the NCAA Final Four for two consecutive years!
If it weren't for the team's assistant coach, Scott Pera was the one who single-handedly developed James and was the head coach of James in high school.
How could they have robbed UCLA of Arizona State University!
I heard that UCLA sent out NCAA superstars like Afflaro and James who lobbied for the future of teams like Westbrook and Kevin Love.
As long as James joins UCLA, Westbrook and Kevin Love are willing to make Afralo their boss after he leaves.
That's the future boss of UCLA!
Say no, don't!
I have to say that the strongest high school student in California is domineering.
James is well-known in California and nationally famous.
In addition to his fame, he is also very good, and in less than two months after he joined the team, his performance has already conquered all his teammates.
It is now believed that Arizona State is likely to make a difference in the P-10 league next season under James' leadership.
Not to mention competing with giants like UCLA and the University of Washington, there is still hope for reaching the NCAA Championship.
James is very strong, but in the two months of contact, he did not find that James is an arrogant player with a genius disease.
On the contrary, James is also a very humorous and peaceful person.
Would such a person be fine to challenge an NBA star?
Is everyone Durant?
challenged Yes with all his might, didn't catch anything, and let his draft pick plummet.
If James were such an arrogant person, they wouldn't have believed so much that James could lead them forward.
It didn't take long for Jeff Pendegrave to know what was going on.
It's not Rondo that James takes the initiative to challenge.
It was James, who Rondo took the initiative to challenge!
An NBA star who takes the initiative to challenge an NCAA freshman.
How big is this face to be able to do something?
However, if this person is Rondo, then nothing strange is strange.
James is training well with his teammates.
Let's play happily together, let's play together to make offensive players hit people with the ball, and let's happily play together to make defensive players play fouls.
I don't know how to provoke Rondo on the other side.
Jeff Pendegraf and his teammates came to the heads-up court for Rondo and James.
Heads-up is getting ready to start.
Jeff Pandegraf soon saw that familiar figure in the crowd!
Yes!
Still so emaciated.
It's still so domineering!
Just standing there made him feel like he was on the edge of an abyss.
I have to say, that season, Yes really abused their P-10 league people out of the psychological shadow!
Barely picking up his mood, Jeff Pendegraf looked elsewhere again.
There was also a bunch of media from all over the United States and the world on the sidelines of James and Rondo's heads-up.
Looking at these media, the expression on Jeff Pendegraf's face was full of worry.
If James loses, the result is unimaginable!
Durant is now on the verge of falling out of the top five!
Durant was the biggest favorite for the second pick before!
Although there were many people competing for second place at that time, Durant was indeed the most ahead.
Now Durant is almost out of contention for second place.
This is the power of public opinion.
James really wants to behave badly, these people don't mind ruining a so-called young talent.
Rondo is rubbish.
But no matter how rubbish it is, it's an NBA star!
It wasn't long before Jeff Pendegraf and his teammates were stunned by the heads-up format on the training ground!
Not to mention Arizona State players on the sidelines.
Even Ye Si and the supersonic player next to him were dumbfounded.
"Pulled Simple Pick was bullied by an NCAA freshman?!"
I'm not dazzled, am I?!
The look on Millsap's face now is wonderful.
Surprised, stunned, incredulous, incredible.
After following Yes to the Western Conference Finals, to be honest, they really had a little bit of drift.
Especially after the Mavericks swept the Black Eight, because of Tucker's wonderful performance, their media environment was also much better.
The days after the success of the sweep were their happiest days in the NBA.
Not to mention celebrities like Rajan, even substitutes like him and Nick Collison, and players like Marikrose who don't play have to blow it.
At that time, they will even feel a feeling of finally getting through it.
If it weren't for this series against the Spurs, they really feel like they've made it through.
The series against the Spurs, apart from Milicic shining for a while in the final moments of the final game, they played badly.
Definitely not worthy of advancing to the Western Conference Finals.
Either way, the word garbage has been away from them for a long time.
Can ...... now
Listening to the whispers of reporters and the sound of photographers taking pictures, Millsap now had an embarrassed expression on his face.
"The NBA assist king took the initiative to single-handedly pick out the freshman player in the NCAA and was easily defeated in the end?"
"That's too true, isn't it?"
"We don't even talk about how rubbish our teammates around Yes are, Rondo just won't let us go!"
"I heard that Rondo took the initiative to single out this college student because this college student looks like Ginobili, and the game between Rondo and the Spurs was repaired by Ginobili a little badly."
"Hahahaha, everyone is Ginobili in front of Rondo."
Rajan is using his own strength to find the word garbage again!
Millsap didn't even know what to say now.
Looking at Rondo, who silently walked to the corner of the training hall and sat down after losing the heads-up.
Ye Si frowned.
This first-year student at Arizona State is amazing.
Other black geniuses in the United States were all flying at his age.
But he, in addition to flying away, is still a typical floor flow play!
Very characteristic.
The ball quotient is extremely high!
Rondo's strength is poor because of the attack.
But even so, with Rondo's defense, there is no problem in playing the average NCAA star rookie.
What's more, he is also a star newcomer to a fish belly team like Arizona State.
Come out and have fun hitting a cat, who knows it's a tiger.
Ye Si really didn't expect Rondo to be so unlucky.
"Yes, Rajan?"
David Lee was a little worried.
From the beginning of the draft draw, there was an atmosphere of panic up and down supersonic.
Before the draw, public opinion around the world was Yes and Oden's 'O-Ye! 'Combination.
At that time, the media across the United States had already put Auden in advance on the supersonic team.
At that time, it was Milicic who panicked the most in supersounds.
Oden is coming to the team, and Milicic is definitely leaving.
Auden is the Great and the Chosen One.
In any team, he is a well-deserved core star who focuses on training.
If Darko is a regular player, he can also stay and play as a substitute.
Koko is also an All-Star.
Stay in the team and play for Oden as a substitute?
How can it be!
Even if Darko were willing, the team around him wouldn't be a reason.
The SuperSonics got the top pick, which means that this is Milicic's last season with the SuperSonics.
Fortunately, Darko has experienced too many things, the world is warm and cold, the rise and fall of glory and disgrace, it can be said that although Darko is a player in his rookie period, he is already a person who has been reborn once.
So, although Darko has been under the threat of Oden, he has never shown it.
Not only did it not show it, it never affected the mood of the team, and Darko is still fighting this season as if it were his last season playing for Yes.
The supersonic can finally eliminate the Spurs, Yes is the greatest, and the Dakko is also a highlight.
Even if Yes's childlike passing is great, Darko can't catch it if he doesn't try his best.
This is very touching in the eyes of supersonic players.
But yesterday's draft draw was over, and everything changed for the team.
The supersonic did not get the champion lottery that was hyped outside, but the list of eyes.
Dakko doesn't have to go, but it's bad at the same time.
Supersonic is all rubbish except Yes.
This is well recognized.
It's not just the media who thinks so, they think so too.
Since it's all garbage, naturally every position can be changed.
And 2007 was another big year for the draft that was hyped by the media.
Each position has a lot of potential and a new star worth cultivating.
In the center there is Oden.
The big forwards are Yi Jianlian and Horford.
Small forward has Brewer.
The playmaker has Conley.
These are all players who are considered to be All-Stars in the future.
The SuperSonics can't pick Oden right now, but they can pick all the remaining players.
That is, except for Milicic, everyone else in the supersonic team is in crisis, except for Yes.
Next season, the SuperSonics' starters are likely to turn into substitutes, and the substitutes are likely to leave the team.
Now the five starters of the supersonic.
Yes and Daktronics are safe.
Rajan, he and Quentin Richardson will be replaced by Conley, Brewer and Yi Jianlian at any time.
Now, the whole nation is hyped that Rajan will be replaced by Conley next season.
The team selected Conley with the No. 2 pick, and Rajan either substituted or left, and the possibility of leaving was the greatest, and Rajan playing as a substitute was no different from being scrapped.
The image of Conley jumping up and down in excitement at the draw was one of the hottest news stories in the nation today.
You can't expect everyone to be as great as Daktronics.
Darko's experience in the NBA is not comparable to that of any other player either.
David Lee even felt that if he had been in the same situation as Rajan, he might have done worse than Darko.
In fact, he is in a bad mood right now.
Now the U.S. is hyping up the SuperSonics with the No. 2 pick Conley.
But the supersonic may also use the No. 2 pick to select Yi Jianlian.
The team has Yi Jianlian, what is the use of him?
He also did not want to leave the hypersound.
How good is it to brush the data around Yes, why do you want to go?
But as it stands, it is not up to them to decide whether he, Rajan, and the others will leave.
"Mr. Nelson, old man, the team is a little impetuous."
Scott Brooks was worried.
Old Nelson was frowning too.
Yesterday the team didn't get the No. 1 signing, and he was worried about something like that.
In the face of a powerful sun, the biggest and only advantage of hypersound is unity.
The SuperSonics have the most united team in the entire league.
But now, this No. 2 pick from Milwaukee has caused a rift within the supersonic unity.
Even, this is a rift that cannot be repaired.
Rajan is now sitting there drawing circles.
Yes can't even go over to comfort.
As long as Yes does it, it won't be long before the whole of America is in the news that the SuperSonics are going to trade David Lee or Quentin Richardson.
Just because the media across the U.S. is driving Rajan away for the supersonics, it doesn't mean they're not interested in getting rid of others.
SuperSonics these players can be scolded for rubbish.
But leaving the hypersonic is indeed their dead end.
Let Yes come forward and make sure that all of them stay?
How is this possible?
This is the NBA!
Yes If you really want to do this, there will be very big consequences!
The Milwaukee Bucks' No. 2 pick is the sweetest gift to the SuperSonics this season, and the most poisonous poison.
The atmosphere inside the supersonic is very problematic right now, and after the team training in the morning, the elder Nelson talked to Yes about the atmosphere of the team.
said that it was an exchange, but in fact, the old Nelson was reminding Ye Si not to do something unnecessary because of the team's current atmosphere.
Yees knew what Nelson Sr. was worried about.
The more he did before he thought of a foolproof solution, the more wrong he became.
"Yes, let's prepare for the race against the Suns with peace of mind."
Yes finally nodded and took the Suns profile from Coach Nelson Sr.
The profile includes the performance of the Suns players in this year's playoffs, as well as their performance in past playoffs and some of the characteristics of these players.
It's a very good team.
Now the media across the United States feel that supersonic has no chance, not for nothing.
Center Amar Studmeire, a big player who has performed far better in the playoffs than in the regular season.
Yes is the first player to play 40+ against the Spurs in the entire playoff series.
The last player to perform so well against the Spurs in the playoffs was Stoudemire.
In 2005, facing the Spurs and Duncan, who won that year, Stoudemire played 41, 37, 34, 31, and 42 in five games!
Not looking at anything else, just looking at the numbers, would give Ye Si a terrifying feeling.
After he challenged Duncan in his final game, he knew exactly how strong Duncan was.
His five 40+ games against the Spurs are not the same as the five 30+ games against the Stopurs.
Power forward, Boris Dio, in the playoffs last season, Dio was able to contribute an average of 19+7+5 data per game in the Suns.
After the Suns played the pot system this year, a large number of offensive opportunities of the Suns were concentrated in the hands of Nash, Marion and Stoudemire, Dior's statistics are declining, but Dior's weight in the team has become heavier.
With a well-rounded technique and excellent physical condition, coupled with a well-rounded technique and excellent confrontation, Dio is the old Nelson in the Suns and hopes that Milicic can finally achieve what he looks like.
A complete Milicic who doesn't need to be connected to the pot and has a dwarfed height.
Small forward Marion, one of the offensive cores of the Suns' throwing system, has averaged 20+11 per game in the playoffs so far, and the points do not fully represent his strength, in addition to the 20+11 data, he also has 1.5 steals and 1.7 blocks.
Looking at Marion's information, Ye Si's coveted heart rose again, this is a perfect thousand miles pot.
Shooting guard Ragabel, standard 3D, one of the strongest outside defenders in the league, is not the same as Bowen's kind of strongest, Ragabel, is at the top!
Organizational guard Nash, the so-called strongest Yes without defense, has averaged 28 points and 9 assists per game so far in the playoffs, shooting 47.5% from the field, and is the absolute core of this Suns.
He is also the most dangerous man for the Suns.
Nash's stats were taken by Kobe Bryant in the first round and Roy in the second round.
No matter how crooked he was hit by Kobe and Roy, he was able to control the pace of the game.
Incredible technical capabilities.
And in addition to these five super starters, Barbossa, the sixth man of the Suns, is also the best sixth man in the NBA this year.
Players who can contribute an average of 16 points per game in the playoffs.
On the offensive end, it's almost a perfect team.
The sun, really strong.