Chapter 32: Run-and-Boom
Wang and his players spent two weeks in Orlando tomorrow.
The summer league is divided into many places, and the first summer league of this year was held in Las Vegas, with a total of sixteen teams participating in it, and it lasted for nearly half a month.
Orlando's Summer League is behind Las Vegas, with twelve teams competing on a smaller scale.
Holding multiple places, different summer leagues, purely to save money on travel costs, and players don't have to go back and forth, just play games in one city for more than ten days.
With the start of the training camp, Wang Mingming has established a good relationship with the players - for Coach Wang Mingming, who controls the power of playing time, the players are of course willing to be enthusiastic.
Randy reminded Wang that tomorrow, the summer league schedule and time should be based on the NBA.
For example, those who currently play an important rotation role in the home team 76ers, the summer league will be the core of the indispensable, and those who are marginal in the 76ers and join the NBA through the draft, can serve as a starter in the summer league, and they have not even stepped into the NBA threshold, but they are only invited or signed up by themselves, they can only be substitutes, and the playing time is not guaranteed.
So tomorrow according to this directive, Wang made a little arrangement and discharged Louis Williams, Willie Green, Saab Safrosa, Paul Millsap and Stephen Smith.
Stephen Smith is 2.06 meters tall and is also a mobile interior lineman, so after this arrangement, the 76ers players at every position are much shorter than the standard height of their position.
They are 1.88m, 1.93m, 2.01m, 2.03m and 2.06m.
Randy was worried about the team's lineup, but Wang was confident in it and focused on training Paul Millsap.
July 11, Orlando Sports Center.
Summer League attracts some fans and is far cheaper than the normal NBA regular season ticket price.
The 76ers' first game opponent was the "host" Magic.
The Magic won just two fewer games than the 76ers last season and finished 10th in the East, but the difference is that the Magic is a new team in the league, and the team is built with the '04 No. 1 Dwight Howard as the core, and compared to the 76ers, they are simply the rising Suns.
But in the summer league, there are few bigwigs on the Magic team.
Of all the players in the competition, the most notable player is JJ Redick, a rookie picked by the Magic with the No. 11 pick this year.
JJ Redick from Duke University averaged 25.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2 assists per game in the 05-06 NCAA season, setting a record for Duke's total points and total three-pointers, with 450 three-pointers made in four years of college.
Redick, who was a college man, also had a top-five draft pick, but fell to the 11th pick because of a seemingly unhealed foot injury and a bad side.
He participated in the summer league, just to win the scoring title, the MVP and the championship.
In addition, inside player Marcin Gortat from Poland is also in the spotlight.
Gortat was actually picked by the Suns with the 27th pick in the second round in '05.
However, due to contract issues, Gortat has continued to play in Europe and hone his skills.
Later, Gortat was traded to the Magic by the Suns, and this year, Gortat won the league championship in the German basketball league Cologne Rheinenergy, which attracted the attention of the NBA, and the Magic specially invited the 22-year-old Gortat to participate in the summer league.
The game hasn't started yet, and the 76ers have fallen behind in terms of fame compared to the two teams.
The guest commentator of the game looked at the 76ers and looked at the decline of Wang tomorrow, "The starting lineup he arranged is simply not as good as the level of a junior high school teacher, and I don't see any hope that the 76ers, who have an average height of only 198.2, have any hope of winning." If you want to shoot without shooting, if you want to break through without breaking through, if you want to pass without passing, the Magic team has the home court advantage and can solve the battle in three quarters. ”
Oakland fans were very excited after hearing this, waiting for Wang Tomorrow and the 76ers to make a fool of themselves, in their impression, the term coaching has nothing to do with the yellow race.
The game started immediately, with Gortat standing in the center circle and jumping with Stephen Smith, who was pushed out by the 76ers.
Stephen Smith is a marginal man of the 76ers, he may be cut at any time, he is thin, and he was mainly in the No. 3 and No. 4 positions in the team before, but when he arrived in Wang Mingming's lineup, he was directly pushed to the No. 5 position.
But he has excellent physical fitness, can run and jump, and although Gortat is 2.11 meters tall, he can't beat him in the jump ball.
Wang will sit on the sidelines tomorrow and discuss more tactics with Randy Ayes.
The coach of the Magic side is Patrick Ewing, one of the famous "four centers" in the 90s, and this summer, Ewing successfully ran for the assistant coach of the Magic team, and this time he led the team to participate in the summer league, which is similar in nature to Wang Mingming, which is nothing more than to prove his coaching level.
Ewing is not as calm as Wang Mingming, and he really feels the huge pressure when he is in the position of the number one head coach, he doesn't know how he is arranged on the field, but looking at Wang Mingming's calm appearance on the other side, he always feels a little bad.
"Are you too unconfident? What threat can these stinky tomatoes and rotten gourds pose to the magic? ”
Then he was taken aback by the 76ers' opening offense, and Louis Williams just dribbled to the three-point line and directly dribbled to the three-point line.
Louis Williams was so quick that Magic point guard Travis Dinar didn't have time to react before he watched him shoot a three-pointer.
"Bell~"
Successfully striking iron, the basketball was protected by Gortat.
The 76ers retreated like a tide, except for two insiders, the other three outside lines did not miss the frontcourt rebounds at all, and between advance and retreat, it was lightning fast.
The Magic slowly dribbled through the half, and JJ Redick wanted to make an opening jumper to echo the fans who came to cheer him on.
As a result, Dinard ignored him at all, Dinard was a rookie selected by the Magic team last year, and this year is a sophomore, even if the rookie is high, he is only a rookie, how can it be so easy to want to take the ball and attack by himself?
So Dinard dribbled to face Louis Williams, changed direction with a large cross-step, and shook it to the inside.
Louis Williams' defense was extremely poor, and he lost his position after eating, and Dinard easily came in, giving him a perfect score for this dashing breakthrough in his heart, and was thinking about what beautiful way to end this attack, when suddenly there was a whistling wind behind his head!