Chapter Seventy-Six: The Draft Conference
The Twin Towers attacked, Anderson just sent the ball to Ulys, LaVine came up high to press, and Hollis-Jefferson was in a good position to cut off the connection between Ulyss and Booker, and Ullis had to give the ball to Whitehead.
Hougist deliberately did not force Whitehead, just to let Ullys pass the ball to him with confidence, Whitehead received the ball and just dribbled a step before Hougist was stealed, Hoggist broke the ball and hit the basket directly, Anderson did not go far after the ball, and saw Hoggist kill and hurriedly prepared to defend under the basket.
Anderson learned the lesson of Booker's last ball, and instead of choosing to block Haugist, he stepped forward and left the reasonable collision zone to stand, ready to make Haugist hit people with the ball.
Compared with Anderson, Hougist can be regarded as the ancestor of fouls, and how can Anderson's intentions not be seen by Hoggist, but Haugist is already very close to Anderson, and it is too late to brake, Hoggist directly collects the ball and ignores Anderson's European step layup.
It was a well-timed European step, and the first step was already on Anderson's side. Baseline referee Green and referee Bonner blew the whistle at the same time and awarded Anderson a foul. At the same time as the whistle blew, Horgist took the second step, jumped on one foot and licked the basket with a low hand to easily score two points.
Because the layup was a coherent foul, Bonner ruled that two points were valid and one free throw was added, and after Horgist's free throw, the GDP had a three-point lead, and Anderson was also saddled with a fifth foul.
Coach Budenholzer angrily slammed the disposable water glass in his hand on the floor on the sidelines, and the drinks in the cup splashed everywhere, staining his trousers and delicate leather shoes.
"Don't get excited! Making a foul doesn't change the course of the game! Hougist shouted at the Twin Towers bench.
What a situation! A high school player is actually mocking the NBA professional coach in front of the opposing bench? This is a scene that has never been seen before! The audience looked confused.
The Twin Towers served, and this time they were doubly careful, and after half-time, Booker and Anderson played a pick-and-roll, and hit a quick three-pointer to tie the score again.
Haugist smiled slightly, and played with Nogueira again, Booker was forced to try to grab the front block again in order to protect Anderson, this time he was close to Horgist and barely squeezed over without being blown foul, and was complacent, Hoggist suddenly collected the ball and jumped up directly, his hands went up, and the ball came out of his hand when he hit Booker's arm.
The referee ruthlessly blew Booker for a foul, and Hoggist won two free throws again.
"I know you want to protect him, you will have no hope if he goes down, but you are too naΓ―ve, I said that not only Anderson, you and I will fight too!" Hougist whispered to Booker.
"What kind of grudge do we have with you? Why are you so directed at us that you have to kill them all? Booker asked through gritted teeth.
"As I already said, this is my grudge against Budenholzer, not against you, if you want to blame him!" Hoggist made the free throw as he spoke.
Booker gritted his teeth in hatred, but he couldn't do anything, and on the offensive end, he used Anderson to cover and shoot a three-point iron. Desmond protected the rebound and handed it to Hoggist, who called for a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc and played Anderson in a misplaced single. Anderson had already seen it and was not going to get involved in the grudge between Hougist and Budenholzer, and he stepped back two steps to prevent a breakout.
In the face of such a good three-point opportunity, Hougist is also very helpless, shoot, although three points are at his fingertips, but it does not cause a foul, Haugist is unwilling; Keep breaking through and making fouls, wasting such a good shooting opportunity, Hougist is afraid of being condemned in his heart.
In the end, Hoggist still made up his mind to go inside and play back. The back dribble symbolically pushed Anderson twice, turned around and slammed his arms up, touching Anderson's arm, the baseline referee Green shook his head helplessly, or blew Anderson's foul, and Anderson also graduated early.
Budenholzer had already felt the disastrous consequences of offending Haugist, and he could see that Hoggist seemed to be a man of retribution. When Anderson was also sent off, he sat down in the dugout, his head buried, his hands in his hair and rubbing his hands, looking rather depressed.
Hougist hit both free throws to stretch the margin to four points. Although it is not much, the Twin Towers team that has lost the inner "Twin Towers" can already be said to be powerless. Booker, Whitehead, and Ullis played a breakthrough ball again, hoping to find opportunities on the outside, and after several rounds of transitions, Hougist switched to Booker, Booker received a pass from Ulys, and there was no direct chance for Hougist, so he had to break through to the inside again. Hoggist didn't defend closely, but put a step away and slid back to retreat, he saw Booker's breakthrough rhythm, and when he caught a glimpse of Booker's power dribbling, he knew that he was about to start accelerating, so Hoggist immediately stopped his backward pace and stood still.
Booker scurried forward only to realize that Haugist was already in position, and it was too late for him to brake. Booker had to do his best to pass the ball to Ullis who ran out of space on the wing before crashing into Haugist. Ullis catches the ball and makes a three-pointer from an open position. And Booker knocked down Haugist at the same time, Split saw it really, even though Booker had passed the ball out, but it was still a foul to knock down Haugist.
As Split's whistle blew, Ullis hit the net with an open shot. Unfortunately, Booker fouled first, and this wonderful three-point goal was also invalidated. Booker also became the third player from the Twin Towers to leave the court with six fouls.
Switching the ball, before serving, Hollis Jefferson stepped forward to persuade Hoggist: "I said, it's almost done!" It's already been three people who have been beaten, and we have won this game, so there's no need to kill them all! β
Hougist glanced at the state of Budenholzer on the sidelines, Budenholzer even looked a little lost, which did not reflect his calmness and calmness as an NBA chief assistant coach.
Seeing Budenholzer like this, Haugist's heart softened, and he whispered to Hollis Jefferson: "Well, I hope he can learn the lesson of this time and stop looking down on the role of making foul free throws." Let's give them a good time! β
In the remaining three minutes, the trio of Haugie Straven, Hollis-Jefferson gave their full strength to beat the Reservoir Dogs, and in the final three minutes, they played a wave of 15-2 climax, and ended the game in the climax.
After the game, Horgist reversed his form on the field and took the initiative to run to hug Budenholzer. He grabbed Budenholzer's hand, leaned over and whispered, "I'm sorry, dear Mike!" I just want you to feel the power of foul making, you're a professional coach, and there are some things I don't need to teach you. I think any way of scoring is worth practicing, because any scoring method will work in a specific situation. β
Budenholzer shook hands with Haugist and nodded thoughtfully.
In the end, Hougist won almost all the honors of the training camp. After the camp closed, Hoggist, LaVine, and Hollis Jefferson said goodbye. Lavin wanted to follow Hoggist back to Las Vegas and wait to participate in the "training camp" held by Hoggist, but Hogist was worried that his participation in the summer league with the Spurs would be revealed, so he politely declined LaVine's request to go back and wait for the notice. Instead, Hollis Jefferson was planning to take advantage of the holidays to visit Washington, D.C., so he went with LaVine.
After Haugist quietly said goodbye to Popovich, Henry was in charge of sending him back to Vegas. At the airport, Henry instructed Haugist: "Just go back and keep up the basics, don't get hurt, and I'll pick you up when the summer league kicks off in Vegas on June 30." β
Haugess nodded, he didn't expect that a trip to San Antonio during the summer vacation would be so rewarding.
When she returned home, Qiu Jingli was still in China and had not returned, and Joseph had also traveled. Hogist began a boring and regular life on his own, training every day, eating and sleeping, no socializing and no entertainment. On the afternoon of June 23, Hougist finished his fitness workout, and without even having time to take a shower, he trotted all the way home from the gym and turned on the TV to watch the 2011 NBA Draft on time.
This year's draft was held at the Prudential Center arena in Newark, New Jersey, which is also home to the New Jersey Nets. This year's No. 1 pick belongs to the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers' record plummeted after LeBron left, with only a dismal 19-63 record in the 10-11 season, and it is reasonable to draw this No. 1 pick.
The TV camera swept over the little green room, giving each popular lotto show a two- or three-second shot. Some laughed at the camera, others waved, but in the corner sat a black rookie with an awkward smile all the time, looking straight ahead, his gaze slightly downward, silent, and not communicating much with the other rookies.
When the broadcast camera gave the rookie a frontal close-up, Hoggist was startled, this is not Kewye who has played with him. Leonard?
Hougist hadn't paid much attention to Leonard when he was in San Antonio, and it wasn't until I saw him in the Little Green Room today that I realized that I hadn't known him very well. But you can't blame yourself for this, after all, Leonard talks too little, and he basically can't communicate normally except for playing.
Horgist took out his mobile phone to search for Leonard's information on the Internet, which he didn't know, and he was shocked when he saw it, and now Leonard's predicted pick is actually the No. 8 pick, because the Pistons with the No. 8 pick have been showing great interest in him. There are even websites predicting that the Raptors will pick him off with the fifth pick.
"Where did Popovich get the confidence that Leonard would fall out of the lottery?" Hoggist was surprised, after all, judging from the predictions of major websites, Leonard is a proper top ten rookie!
The draft got underway, and unsurprisingly, the Cavaliers chose Carey from Duke University. Irving, who is also the third defender in four years.
The Timberwolves selected Derrick Williams from the University of Arizona, who is the sixth player in the history of the University of Arizona Wildcats and the first player to rank first on the team in all three stats as a rookie. As a freshman, he was named the NCAA Rookie of the Year and the Pacific-10 League's best rookie of the year, the nation's strongest sports league, and was named to the Pacific-10 League and NCAA Rookie of the Year team. Not only was he voted the best player in the Pacific-10 Conference this year, but he also led the team to the quarterfinals with a big win over Irving-led top seed Duke University in the Sweet 16.
The Utah Jazz, who hold the No. 3 pick, chose Enes, an interior player from Turkey. Kanter, Kanter's experience was also tortuous, because he played in official tournaments on professional teams in Europe before going to college, so the NCAA banned him from playing in the NCAA for the University of Kentucky. Fortunately, Kanter proved himself by slashing 34 points and 13 rebounds at the Nike Basketball Summit in 10 years, so even after spending a year in college, he still became a tanhua.
The Cavaliers, who have the No. 4 pick, chose Canadian Tristan Thompson of the University of Texas. Interestingly, Thompson attended high school in Newark and is half a local, and the fans in the stadium cheered him on when his name was read.
The next thing is the No. 5 pick, and since there are websites predicting that Leonard will be selected with the No. 5 pick, Hoggist is also very much looking forward to it, and at the same time, he is curious why Popovich is so confident that he can get Leonard in the draft. However, Haugist soon became disappointed, and Stern pronounced a mouthful Eastern European name, Jonas. Valanciunas.
Valanciunas is a professional player in Lithuania, who started playing professionally in '08 and is now the number one player in Lithuanian basketball, and it is understandable that he is ahead of Leonard.
But the Wizards team with the No. 6 pick in hand is incomprehensible, and they actually chose the skinny and tall interior from the Czech Republic. Vesely. Although Veseli is a member of the Czech national team and has also scored good statistics against the top European giants, it was only a flash in the pan after all, and although he is tall but very thin, he is basically a bone frame, and all the websites have not given him a top 10 prediction.
"What's the situation? So many good players don't choose such a bamboo pole? Wizards management is brain-dead, right? And why does everyone prefer Europeans this year? Only 6 were selected, and 3 of them were from Eastern Europe! "Hoggist felt that this year's draft was simply inexplicable.
The No. 7 pick continued to surprise the Kings as they selected Congolese rookie Bismarck from outside the small green room. Biyombo. Finally waited for the No. 8 pick, and they all said that the Pistons were going to choose Leonard, could it be that the Spurs and Pistons made some dirty PY trade privately and Popovich didn't tell me? Haugist became more and more confused.
At this time, Stern stepped up to the podium and announced: "In the NBA2011 draft, the Detroit Pistons selected - Brandon. Knight! β