"Why don't you have any consciousness at all, I'm stepping back, you should find a way to use this space to move to your shooting area, not drill into my blocking area......"

"Your shooting is terrible, isn't it? Why don't you have a strong point? You've got to develop a strong point this summer so that you can have your characteristics in the game, otherwise you won't get playing time, and you won't be able to play well even if you go to the development league......"

"Footsteps! What about your steps? You're gone as soon as I turn around? Now you're not a college basketball player, you're not in good shape, you're short and short, you have to play to your athletic strengths, predict my turnaround route, and the college rush game doesn't work well in the NBA......"

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“……”

Sun Ce squirted while practicing, but Jimmy Butler didn't talk back, but kept nodding.

Because Sun Ce is telling the truth, his advantage in college is facing Sun Ce...... Except for athleticism and better confrontation than Sun Ce, there is nothing else to do.

Sun Ce also understood why Jimmy Butler sat on the cold bench in his rookie year.

Trained one-on-one with Sun Ce, Jimmy Butler was abused to death.

If it weren't for the fact that Sun Ce, who has not officially become a teammate, can't see Jimmy Butler's ability evaluation, I really want to see how low it is, and it would be miserable to be lower than Vazquiz in the preseason of the season that just ended.

Technically, Sun Ce feels that Jimmy Butler can do anything, but there is no point in the NBA for the time being.

And Jimmy Butler's defensive end, there is really nothing to praise except for positivity, Sun Ce also understands why Thibodeau's keen defensive head coach doesn't give Jimmy Butler a chance in his rookie year, even CJ Watson's kind of player who shoots more than 30 percent from the field and is infinitely blown up on the defensive end can play more minutes than such a player who is full of enthusiasm and extraordinary hard work.

Because Jimmy Butler is a real dish, Sun Ce checked that Jimmy Butler played in college when he was a freshman, averaging 18+7+3 per game, the gap between that level of league and the first-tier league...... Probably similar to the NBA and NBDL, Jimmy Butler, a sophomore, transferred to Marquette University, Wade's alma mater, and sure enough, the data plummeted, averaging 5+4 per game, and the junior finally had the starting strength, but the junior and senior only averaged 15+6 data per game.

If it weren't for the fact that many freshmen and sophomores did not participate in this year's draft, Jimmy Butler's performance in college would basically not have made it to the first round, and he averaged 15+6 per game in the middle and late stages of the second round.

But the more this is the case, the more surprising Sun Ce feels that Jimmy Butler can play, and later he can actually become an average of 20+5+5 players per game.

There are many fans who watch Jordan, Kobe, and James get an average of 20+5+5 seasons per game, and think that the 20+5+5 level is very simple, in fact, before the data explosion, there are only two or three people who can do it in a season, and they can get an average of 20+5+5 data per game, and their records are okay, all of them are MVP candidates.

However, although Sun Ce was very abused, he was hit so painfully...... But you still have to hold on, otherwise how to pretend to be forced, how to let the right protector be an honest bodyguard?

This guy is really strong, more than 220 pounds, which is almost 100 kilograms, but he looks very thin, that is, the kind that is full of muscles in his bones.

It's just that they won't take advantage of his body yet.

Sun Ce couldn't teach this either, so he sprayed it and let him figure it out by himself.

Sun Ce was a little regretful, the left protector didn't come, but he thought about it that he didn't seem to be able to suppress the left protector, that guy only has a strong point in shooting on the offensive end, and bullied him in other aspects, that guy will definitely not be convinced, but it is better than shooting...... Sun Ce thinks it's good for Thompson to train with Battier.

Thinking of Coach Hollins' arrangement of Thompson and Jimmy Butler, Sun Ce can see the difference in the importance that the team attaches to the two.

Sun Ce himself felt that training with Jimmy Butler was boring, and he didn't have much patience, and the coaching staff must have guessed it, so the coaching staff really just wanted Sun Ce to borrow the training gym for Jimmy Butler, and didn't even let Jimmy Butler live in his house.

On Thompson's side, he directly lived in the mansion that Battier bought in his early years, and let Thompson train with Battier, and the treatment was completely different.

Sun Ce remembers that Coach Hollins said that Thompson was the son of his former teammate......

Even in the NBA, the relationship is still very important, and if you have a father with many friends, you can get preferential treatment when you enter the NBA.

It may also have something to do with the pick, but the identity of the son of a teammate may be the most important.

As for the second-round pick Adam Hungao, the Grizzlies had no intention of signing him, but just bought two plane tickets and booked a two-night hotel to see how good he was, and sent him back to Europe after watching it.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, after finishing the first training session with Jimmy Butler, and giving Jimmy Butler the code to the courtyard gate and the key to the training hall, Sun Ce left his training alone.

It's not all boring to train with Jimmy Butler, it's not always so boring to train with multiple people, mainly because the day after tomorrow, that is, the day after the last collective bargaining before the offseason, Sun Ce will return to China with Zu Gee, and the shutdown will be suspended, and the business activities in the summer will still be carried out.

Now Sun Ce is waiting for the day when the labor negotiations are reached, just come back and sign the contract, everything has been negotiated, just wait for the details of the specific changes to the new version of the share, salary cap, and rookie renewal terms to come out, and calculate the salary.

If a new collective bargaining agreement is really reached tomorrow, Sun Ce will certainly be happier......

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However, the suspension of such an inevitable thing, Sun Ce's arrival did not affect its occurrence.

On June 29, unsurprisingly, collective bargaining broke down.

In the evening of the next day, Sun Ce and Zu Ge took a direct flight from Memphis to the imperial capital, and arrived in the imperial capital on the morning of the 31st between China, first sent Zu Ge back to his home in Tianjin, and then returned to Beijing again, practiced the Nash training method, and after a night of rest, the endorsement activity began on July 1.

At 12 noon Beijing time, the NBA headquarters in New York, the United States, held a press conference in the early morning to announce the suspension of the NBA.

The NBA shutdown and the U.S. government shutdown seem to mean the same thing, shutting down all departments of 30 teams, and all NBA teams have withdrawn all player-related sections of their websites, prohibiting any NBA team staff from having any contact with NBA players, including discussing players on any occasion.

The team's management is stricter, even if it is mentioned on the side of the road that a player has been recorded by passers-by, the team will be fined 1 million US dollars......

There are also restrictions on players, all arenas, including rented arenas, are forbidden to any NBA players, and if you want to go to a concert and it happens to be held in an NBA team's rented or self-owned arena, you can't watch it.

This has no impact on Sun Ce for the time being, in fact, if an agreement is reached in labor negotiations before the start of the training camp, it will have no impact on the active players, and the only ones who have been unlucky from the beginning are the rookies who have just been selected this year, the first-round pick is okay, they have a guaranteed contract, and the team will find a way to help him find a place to live and train in advance.

There are indoor and outdoor basketball courts like the Grizzlies that borrow teammates; There are also local billionaires like the Hornets, who provide Irving with accommodation, training facilities, and personal coaches, and the sponsors still sign contracts with the top pick for money, which is more comfortable than training in the team's arena in the offseason; No matter how bad it is, it can be like a bank loan, being selected by an NBA team in the first round, it is the best credit collateral, and the bank does not think that the NBA will always be shut down, and will always resume operations.

But most of the second-round picks are quite miserable, many players who should have been selected in the second round in a normal draft year this year entered the first round, and many second-round picks should have been lost, and their strength was not up to the NBA level.

Now that there is no summer league for them to try to show their abilities, most players have been abandoned by NBA teams before the shutdown is over, except for the kind of post-draft medical and technical tryouts that do well, most of them have no help from the team, the local billionaires, and sponsors, and have to find a way to get through this time on their own.

In terms of the probability of successfully entering the NBA, this year's second-round pick reached the lowest level since the beginning of the new century, with 8 teams or individuals giving up their signing rights before the shutdown began, and the team's waiver represents the selected player becoming an unrestricted free agent, and the second-round pick player giving up the signing right means that he cannot sign with an NBA team for one year.

On Sun Ce's side, there was no problem, and the business activities were going smoothly.

Fans and sponsors will not mess up their own rhythm of life because the NBA is suspended.

Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou; Osaka and Tokyo on an island; Seoul, South Korea; Singapore; Istanbul in Europe, Barcelona in Spain, London in England...... After half a month of endorsement activities, the last stop came to Sun Ce's hometown, this time some of Sun Ce's teammates also came, and after Sun Ce's personal endorsement activities on behalf of Econe, he participated in the publicity activities jointly conducted by Memphis City Hall and Panda Base with Randolph, Gasol Jr., Battier, and new teammate Nash.

The NBA shutdown is just a matter of the NBA, because Sun Ce promised not to leave Memphis if he did not win the championship, the Memphis City Hall increased its investment in Sun Ce, and had more cooperation with the Chengdu Municipal Government, paid or free to help the agricultural aspects of the plain of Chengdu to achieve mechanized operation and management, and sent professional technicians; Correspondingly, the Chengdu Municipal Government is actively trying to open a direct flight route from Chengdu to Memphis, and the Memphis City Hall is actively cooperating to expand the development of the tourism market in Memphis.

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"Steve, you're really not going to my house for dinner? Don't listen to Zach and Mark, our family is very friendly. ”

"No, I'm jet lag, my stomach is upset, and I can't eat."

It's not like I haven't seen your dad! Nash wanted to say it directly.

In fact, if you look at Sun Ce's father and Randolph separately from what they said Sun Ce's house is a devil's restaurant, Nash doesn't think it's terrible, and his teammates always like to joke.

But the image of Sun Ce's father, coupled with Randolph and Gasol Jr.'s vivid description of how evil Sun Ce's restaurant is, combined with Nashin's belief or not!

The main thing is that Conley, a top student at Ohio State University, changed the team and followed Yao Ming to the magic capital to eat desserts happily.

Sun Ce felt so sorry, he blamed the two fat people, it was too much, so he could only say to Nash: "It's a pity, my dad also prepared a special food for you, then let's go first, Juanjuan, Chloe, Stephen, Ayesha, let's go." ”

Hearing the adjective special food, Curry, who was already very resistant, cried and said, "I don't have an upset stomach, can't I go if I don't go......"

"How is that possible? Ayesha, you want to try authentic Chinese hot pot too, right? Sun Ce said to Curry's model girlfriend.

"Stephen, didn't you just eat four burgers at noon and said you weren't enough?" Ayesha Alexander was also teasing Curry, "I'm back in China for the first time and want to try it, can you come with me?" My dear. ”

Curry feels hell, he just renewed his contract with Nike for two years, and successfully became a separate spokesperson from a member of the "Potential Star Cluster", although there is no possibility of issuing signed shoes, but with a higher endorsement fee, a total of 5 million US dollars in two years.

This is the first time he has come out to do publicity activities personally, so he will not die, on July 17th, he came to Chengdu to do activities here, as Sun Ce's former teammate, although Curry has not yet exploded, but there are still some fans in China who rely on Sun Ce, and the focus is on Sun Ce's fans' love house and Wu.

So, in order to expand Curry's commercial influence, Nike asked Curry and Sun Ce to participate in the event together and show their faces, after all, Curry's personal words may not have too many shots in China's sports media.

Then, Curry was dragged on the devil's road by Sun Ce, the worst thing is that even his girlfriend who has known him for many years looks like he wants to see him play, his girlfriend Ayesha Alexander's maternal grandfather is Malaysian-Chinese, Ayesha Alexander doesn't look so much like a European and American, he is really interested in Chinese food, he has understood, but he has not come to China to experience it firsthand.

"Let's go, Stephen, just to talk about your marriage at the end of the month, who else did you invite besides inviting me......"

Sun Ce was carried into the thief's car by Sun Ce with Curry's desperate expression and drove to the devil's restaurant in his worldview......

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After a beautiful dinner with Curry and a beautiful night with Wang Keying, Sun Ce's commercial activities for sneaker endorsement came to an end.

The next morning, Sun Ce and Wang Keying stared curiously at Curry's pouting ass again, and sent him to the West China Anorectal Department.

said that he would not eat it, but last night Curry felt like he was going to eat their house......

Not surprisingly, Curry, who hadn't eaten such spicy food for a year, was admitted to the hospital again.

But Ayesha Alexander, who also eats a lot, seems to be fine, Sun Ce guessed that whether the co-authorship is suitable for Sichuan-style hot pot is also related to genes?

When he went home this time, Sun Ce heard that his mother had plans to use his fame to open a hot pot restaurant in the United States, but the focus was not Memphis, but San Francisco, the largest concentration of Chinese in the United States.

"Juanjuan, after your aunt and my mother open a hot pot restaurant in San Francisco, let's send an all-you-can-eat super VIP card to Stephen, let him practice more, he can't do it!" Sun Ce said deliberately in English.

Zu Goose was speechless, this is to kill this elementary school student!

However, Zu Ge was curious about why Curry deliberately grew a beard, but he didn't look as mature as some of her school's second- and third-graders......

Ayesha Alexander, who was also outside the clinic, was very happy: "Oh, thank you so much, lord, I will definitely bring Stephen to visit often, he is very famous in San Francisco, and he can help you attract customers when you open a shop, of course, for free, as long as we can eat for free." ”

"That's it?"

"That's it!"

Sun Ce and Curry's girlfriend high-fived......

Curry, who had just come out of the clinic and was about to go for a colonoscopy with the nurse, heard the conversation between his girlfriend and the ex-roommate who killed a thousand knives, and his legs went weak and he almost knelt down.

Curry already felt that the Chinese hospital was pitted, and he did colonoscopy at every turn, and he didn't find anything wrong when he did it last year, and he did it this year, although Sun Ce asked the dean to directly exempt him from registration so that he could enter the emergency department immediately, but he had to pay the money himself, and he was still feeling sorry for his wallet, so he heard his girlfriend and Sun Ce having this evil conversation!

Curry can't think of anything more desperate in this world!