Chapter 021: Wildflowers Bloom
At the Oklahoma City Thunder's training gym, Kevin Durant is working on his three-pointers.
Well, a hollow into the net.
"Listen, Kevin, if you can keep up that diligence, I'm sure you're going to be a superstar." For Durant, Presti has nothing but appreciation or only appreciation.
His actual height has grown to 208 centimeters since he arrived in the NBA, but his bone age test shows that his height will continue to grow.
He has movement beyond his height and an extraordinarily long arm span, and while Durant's frame means he is not destined to be as strong as LeBron James, Durant's bench press shows that he is not afraid of confrontation.
The main thing is that Durant has practiced very diligently, and his mid-range shooting percentage this season is significantly higher than last season.
"But you also need a proper rest, there is a very interesting live broadcast today, take a look?" Presti said after passing the ball to Durant.
Durant wiped his sweat with his collar and nodded.
Presti opened his laptop, and Presti asserted that the rise of webcasting was bound to overwhelm traditional television stations because the Internet was so convenient.
"Stephen Curry vs. James Harden, oh yes, and that Chinese center who is called the next you." Presti smiled, if Lin Yi knew that his nickname of Asian Durant had been confirmed, I don't know what his expression would be.
Stephen Curry again?
It's a name Durant heard in college.
He was a freshman that year, Curry was also a freshman, and both of them were excellent scorers in their respective leagues in their respective colleges, so the two young people were like a bar, Curry scored 30 points this time, and Durant scored 31 points when he got off the court.
For Durant, who has just entered the NBA for two years, he has not completely given up on college basketball, so he went to watch the battle between Oklahoma City and Davidson Wildcats with Westbrook and Jeff Green that day.
Stephen Curry impressed him again, and Durant liked the way Curry played.
"Hmm...... This Shammgod ......" Presti's eyes narrowed, and it seemed that the information the scouts had given him before was not accurate enough.
Presti took out his phone, these damn scouts, I must get a more comprehensive profile of this Chinese center, his template is not Durant, because his skeleton is visible to the naked eye......
Hell, he's so fast, and he even looks better on the dribble than he did when Durant was in college.
And the most important thing is his height, he has grown taller again? It looks like it's 215 centimeters.
Round 2 front-end? Are the reporters of the draft network blind?
At this time, Lin Yi, who was fighting with James Harden, did not know that the Thunder had sent their own scouts and would follow the whole process in the next Davidson College game.
The basketball hall of the Sun Demons, after the timeout came back, the two sides went back and forth, and the score has now been 25-27, and the Wildcats are slightly behind.
There were 5 minutes left in the first half, and Lin Yi also began to attack inside.
After the Sun Demon became familiar with Lin Yi's rhythm, the team's rapid change of defense and contraction made Lin Yi very uncomfortable, and Stephen was also uncomfortable, so Lin Yi changed his mind and attacked inside.
Lin Yi asked for the ball in the low post, he grabbed the basketball with one hand, and after shaking it for a while, he caused the opponent's defensive foul and will get a "1+1 free throw".
According to the NCAA free throw rule, if the opponent does not accumulate more than 10 fouls, the offensive player will perform the "1+1 free throw" when he gets the free throw, that is, the first free throw can be used to execute the second free throw.
This is also a major feature of the NCAA.
Even if it's a foul, it's not easy to score for me, Lin Yi wiped his sweat.
Free throws are a point-giving for Lin Yi and Stephen Curry.
Lin Yi's "1+1 free throw" was successful, and the score became 27-27 draw.
The Sun Demon came back, James Harden burst into points, his teammates missed the three-point shot, Lin Yi grabbed the defensive rebound, and the Wildcats failed to make the conversion, and continued to implement Lin Yi's tactics of asking for the ball in the low post.
Height is the most valuable talent.
McLopp smiled, our Lin can not only play like a small forward, a guard, he has absolute height, soft touch and solid footwork.
Under the basket, Lin Yi turned left, Grant was fooled again, Lin Yi switched dribblers to turn right and then used skyhook to score the ball!
"Well, he's improved again! That's what the big guy is supposed to do, right, Dale. Reggie Miller teased.
"It's really a standard skyhook, soft feel!" Dell Curry commented.
"Sky Hook! And his heavenly hook action is simply a reproduction of Abdul-Jabbar himself. Wu Xiaolei suppressed the excitement in her heart and wrote it down in a small notebook.
As long as you use a feint to score a goal, it will be regarded as a big dream footstep by default by the system, so after this goal is scored, Lin Yi is one step closer to unlocking the big dream footsteps badge.
Now Lin Yi can't wait to level up faster, because he needs the empowerment of those skills and consciousness of the real five positions (all professions).
He now relies entirely on his understanding of basketball and the opponent's fear that he will turn around flexibly to make fake moves, in fact, every time he fights against Lin Yi, it seems a little difficult.
It's okay to play this kind of team that doesn't have a real center.
If you meet those centers with excellent skills, Lin Yi's interior attack is not so easy to play.
"It's really too much, to steal all the media attention with such a game." In the audience, a slender black guy muttered to himself, he was wearing a peaked cap with a low brim, making it difficult to see his appearance.
"Including yours? DeMar? Another black guy laughed.
"Hey, I just wanted to see James, after all, there's a good chance we'll meet them in the divisional finals." DeMar DeRozan said.
"Listen, man, I think UCLA's Darren Collison is our big enemy, just look at his backup, Russell Westbrook, in the NBA." DeRozan's black guy next to him said.
DeRozan shook his head, Darren Collisson? Of course he knows that guy has a few brushes, but in DeRozan's eyes, this year's Pacific 10-School League division, his opponent is only James Harden.
"But it's a pity for Davidson, their opponents in the Southern League are Oklahoma and prospective Blake Griffin, and it's impossible for the crazy March bunch of crazy people to give such a minor league wild card." The black guy continued.
DeRozan watched intently, he didn't even care what the black guy said.
The scouts in 2009 were said to have lost their jobs five years later.
Because they miscalculated this generation of rookies.
Whether it's Stephen Curry, DeRozan, or Harden, everyone's scouting report has become a joke five years later.
This is the time when wildflowers are in full bloom.
They don't have the explosive talent of the 03 Golden Generation, nor do they get the attention they deserve in the future, but they have truly become the generation with the most All-Stars since then.
Davidson Wildcats and the Sun Devils played the first half, 32-33, and the Sun Devils led by one point.
Lin Yi had 14 points and 7 rebounds in the half, and Stephen Curry had 15 points and 5 assists in the half, and the two combined almost all the team's points, and the only missing three points were contributed by teammate McMillan.
And James Harden has already scored 20 points in the half.