A 5-on-5 trial is the one that best reflects a player's true strength.

Although it is not possible to judge whether a player is good or not based on one game, combined with the on-court performance and people's previous understanding of a player, at least people can see a player more thoroughly.

Link moved a small bench to the edge of the training pitch and felt like a coach for the first time.

As soon as he sat down, he noticed that Jokic on the court was staring at him. After realizing that he was also looking at him, Jokic immediately twisted his face away.

Jokic's league and team, even if placed in the European league, are not famous, let alone a European powerhouse.

Therefore, in the European league, Jokic rarely sees European superstars, let alone NBA superstars!

Suddenly around people who could only be seen on TV, Jokic inevitably looked at them with curiosity.

However, his round figure and looking around make him a lot worse than other rookies in terms of momentum.

Jokic was the focus of the Grizzlies on the subject of observation. Harris, as well as Dinwiddie, who had just recovered from a major injury, were placed on the first team.

On the other side, there's Jellamy. Grant, Jordan. Clarkson, K.J. McDaniels and Jokic's opponent is senior interior player Dwight Powell from Stanford University.

For Powell, Link can be regarded as having some impressions. Although his stats weren't very bad in college, he didn't make it to the NBA. But in the future, he was one of the big rotations for the Dallas Mavericks.

He has what it takes to survive in the NBA.

So for Jokic now, Powell can be described as a strong opponent.

The game started quickly, and in the jump stage, Jokic's bounce from Campby Aged Duncan made Link's face green.

It's a person recommended by yourself, can you give yourself some face!

Basketball was easily taken away by Powell, his physical fitness is not top-notch, but he is also the type that can run and jump.

Jordan. Clarkson broke through as soon as he received the basketball, and his assault left most people unresponsive.

And just like that, Clarkson broke through to the inside. At this point, Jokic is the only player who can protect the basket.

"Come on, boy, stop him!" Link clenched his fists and thought silently in his mind

As a result, the bulky Jokic was passed by Clarkson before he could turn around.

Jokic seems to be a big truck driving overweight on the highway, and he can only watch Clarkson's "little car" whizz past him.

After the breakthrough, Clarkson jumped on one foot and suddenly jumped into the air like a UF equipped with an anti-gravity device, and won the dunk!

Clarkson's reported height is 96 meters, and Link's actual height is estimated to be only 93 meters. Although he is a little shorter, he is not false at all to attack the basket.

Next to Link, Chris. Wallace nodded in satisfaction. In the second round of the show, Clarkson's instant combat power is not often available.

After the switch between offense and defense, Joe. Harris struggled to get an inch under McDaniels' defense.

He is indeed a marksman, but no matter how good a marksman is, he must have space to shoot in order to score. And Harris's average athleticism makes it difficult for him to get rid of the defense on his own.

In the end, the offense had to be taken over by Dinwiddie. It's just a pity that in Jeramy. With Grant's defense, Dinwiddie's breakthrough was unthreatening.

Dinwiddie fought hard, and he wanted the Grizzlies to know that he wasn't depressed after the injury. But pushing too hard is sometimes not a good thing.

In the end, Dinwiddie's layup was directly fanned by a volleyball cap from Powell, and Jokic's team was embarrassed.

"Powell's physical fitness is beyond imagination, what do you think of him?" Beside Link, Joggle smiled and discussed with Link.

"It's okay, it's okay." Link nodded absentmindedly, Jokic's team was also beaten too badly!

After an attack, Jerami. Grant took advantage of his height and reach. Once again, Jokic's defense has become an ornament.

Although he bravely pounced, before he could jump, he was killed by Jerami. Grant spaced up.

Although Jokic is heavy, his strength is really too weak. The existence of a plank for 20 seconds is really no joke.

Don't look at Randolph who is also fat, but Link knows very well that the fat of the "big black bear" hides real tendon meat. What about Jokic? Fat is still fat underneath.

Toned Jerami. Grant and Jokic faced each other without pressure.

After Jokic was dunked, he looked pitifully at the sidelines. As a second-round show, the trial is like this, and he basically messed up.

Link didn't have any words of encouragement, which seemed unfair to the other rookies. But at this time, it was Georg who was the first to get into Link's ear.

"By the way, when watching the video, Jokic seems to be best at strategy and shooting, right?"

"Huh? Well...... Yes, judging from the video, he is a center with a high ball quotient. Link nodded repeatedly.

"Hmm...... He's not fit for hand-to-hand combat on the inside, but maybe he can do something else. Snyder, go up and tell them to let Jokic hold the ball. With a big wave of his hand, Jogle decided to give Jokic a little room to show himself.

Joggle is well aware that you can't just look at a player's weaknesses, you have to make him play to his strengths.

No player is perfect, and every player has what they are good at and what they are not good at. But if a player's strengths outweigh their weaknesses, his imperfections are not unacceptable.

Tony, for example. Allen, just looking at the shot, a player like him can't play in the NBA at all. But in reality? Tony. Allen is a big part of the Grizzlies.

But Jogger won't use this sentence on Link, because in his heart, Link is perfect......

Snyder rushed up and stopped the game, and he scared Jokic out of the way with a wicked look, and Jokic probably thought he had been brushed off.

But then, presumably hearing Snyder let him hold the ball, Jokic's expression changed from horror to surprise again.

It's a bit unkind, but Link really finds this expression very funny. It seems that in the future, I will have to participate in this kind of trial activity.

After more than ten seconds, the game resumed. It's impossible for Snyder to give them any tactics, and this kind of trial is based on individual ability. After a simple sentence of "give Jokic more balls", what to do is up to the players.

It's an atmosphere that Link has experienced, and that's how everyone played when they were in the Development League. Showing oneself comes first, tactics and everything else comes second.

Training resumed, and Jokic leaned on Powell from mid-range.

Dinwiddie really didn't trust the big white man, and he wanted to punch the basket himself to prove that his body was completely fine.

But he did get caught up in Jelami. Grant was struggling, so in the end, Dinwiddie hoisted the ball to Jokic.

Jokic holds the ball with his back, his muscular arms in stark contrast to the muscular Powell behind him.

Jerami. Seeing this, Grant immediately went to wrap Jokic, believing that he and Powell together were enough to make the big fat man miss.

Dinwiddie saw Grant leave him, and immediately cut diagonally to the basket.

But he didn't expect much, and he didn't expect Jokic to see opportunities on his side.

The bag between Grant and Bowell was formed, and Jokic couldn't turn around the frame at all, let alone see Dinwiddie behind him, who had cut into the box.

Just when everyone was waiting for Jokic to come out, the big fat man suddenly passed the ball behind him with one hand!

Dinwiddie was stunned when he saw the basketball flying over, he didn't expect Jokic to really see an opportunity with his back to him!

Bowell turned around in surprise, but all he saw was Dinwiddie with both hands.

After Dinwiddie dunked, Link turned his head to look at Chris next to him. Wallace, only to find that he had opened his mouth wide.

Link smiled, it seems that Jokic's tryout is not completely over.

On the next few offenses, Jokic showed his excellent playmaking ability. His ball intelligence, passing vision and passing accuracy were all on display.

At his instigation, Joe. Harris and Dinwiddie are no longer struggling to move an inch.

He can pass the ball with one hand the moment he touches the ball, he can shoot softly when he gets it, and he can clearly spot every potential opportunity in the high post. Even on a fast break, Jokic used a backdribble past Powell.

The techniques he displayed were amazing and iconoclastic. Nowadays, there are few centers in this league who play like him, his ball quotient is amazingly high, and the ball feels like a defender! It's hard to believe he's only 9 years old, and he's only been training in regular basketball for less than four years!

Although his athleticism and figure are still so spicy, Chris. Wallace at least saw the sparkle in Jokic.

If he can lose weight successfully, then Grizzly will get a second Mark. Gasol? This question has already made Wallace start to think.

In the end, Jokic's team won the 5-on-5 trial game after a bad start.

Jokic had 6 points and 4 rebounds, was dunked twice, and was flipped twice, but he handed out 6 assists in an unusual way!

At his instigation, Dinwiddie and Joe. Harris played like a fish in water. You know, these rookies haven't even practiced together before, but even so, Jokic can string together the offense.

This kind of ability is not something that can be exercised by acquired exercise, the body can be trained, but the ball quotient is really talented.

Especially for interior players, this talent is even more rare. Many interior players have played in the NBA all their lives and don't know what it means to play and pass.

After the trial, Wallace let everyone go after a few polite words, and didn't leave any player in particular to say that he was interested in him or anything like that.

Jokic looked a little lost, and he must have thought his trip to Memphis was completely messed up. He wanted to ask for a Link autograph, but he didn't bother to walk up.

But after all the outsiders had left, Wallace said to Link, "I have to say, Link. The boy you asked us to find...... It's kind of interesting. ”

Before leaving that day, Wallace made a pair of copies of Jokic's game footage from Jogel's computer and went home to study it.

Link reckons that history may be about to change again.