The guy Bill Duffy is talking about is none other of his All-Star shooting guards, DeMar DeRozan.

Unlike the talented Roy, the black shooting guard has relied on his diligence to step by step onto the All-Star stage in recent years.

DeMar DeRozan was drafted by the Toronto Raptors with the ninth pick in 2009, and as an offensive shooting guard, DeRozan's physical fitness is not too good, which can be seen from his physical measurements at the time, he is more than a little worse than Roy. However, with the continuous efforts of the day after tomorrow, DeRozan has practiced a very powerful mid-range shot.

In July and August, when all NBA players were vying to post travel scenery and family photos on Twitter, DeRozan silently chose to practice hard.

After listening to Bill Duffy's description of DeRozan, Roy immediately decided to give this summer to this black guy, Roy is going to train with DeRozan, it must be an unforgettable summer......

Of course, Roy has a lot to do before that.

First, on July 1, Roy officially signed a four-year rookie contract with the New York Knicks, according to which he is on a guaranteed contract for the first two seasons and a team option for the second two seasons. That is, after the end of the second season, the team has until October 31 of the same year to choose whether to exercise the third and fourth year team options.

The New York Knicks offered Roy a salary of $21.4 million over four years, including $4.74 million in the first year, $4.96 million in the second year, $5.17 million in the third year, and $6.53 million in the fourth year, which is almost the maximum salary that a rookie can get.

In addition, July 1 is also the launch day of the NBA's free agent market, and as soon as 12:01 p.m. arrives on that day, the pent-up enthusiasm of each team immediately explodes.

This year, due to the significant increase in the NBA's salary cap, teams will have enough salaries to attract good players, and those so-called role players may also have the opportunity to earn tens of millions of annual salaries. It can be said that the summer of 2016 will be a summer of "nouveau riche".

Sure enough, as soon as the trading market opened, amazing transactions continued one after another.

Of course, the astonishing of this does not mean that the star level of the players is amazing, but also the salary offers made by the various teams.

On July 1, Chinese-American Jeremy Lin transferred from the Charlotte Hornets to the Brooklyn Nets for three years and $36 million, becoming the first role player to get a 10 million contract this summer.

On July 2, the aging "Eagle King" Joe Johnson signed with the Utah Jazz for 2 years and 22 million US dollars, Lore Deng joined the Los Angeles Lakers for 4 years and 72 million US dollars, and Joe Jim Noah joined the New York Knicks for 4 years and 72 million US dollars, becoming Roy's new teammate.

Three signings, three rotation players, and a frighteningly high salary.

Of course, the most important transfer news is undoubtedly on July 4, Kevin Durant announced that he would join the Golden State Warriors for 2 years and $54.3 million, and he and Curry, Thompson, and Green formed the most terrifying "Big Four" in history......

"It's been a crazy summer, you say, Roy."

In Bill Duffy's training ground, a sweaty black player sat on the sidelines and watched Roy's shot, he was DeMar DeRozan, and he was talking just now.

Seeing Roy ignoring himself, he said to himself again: "It's really surprising that Kevin (Durant) will join the team that defeated him, what do you say?" ”

"I'm still a rookie in the NBA, so if you ask me, I don't know if this year is crazy." As he spoke, Roy hit another three-pointer.

This is the third day of DeMar DeRozan and Roy's training together, and this time, two shooting guards, one black and one white, began a month-long personal training session with the help of co-agent Bill Duffy.

This kind of small-scale player training camp is different from the official training camp, which is usually organized by the star himself, and then invited his friends to participate, and sometimes by players from the same agency.

For example, Russell Westbrook, the NBA star nicknamed "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is also a representative of hard-working players, and he will take the initiative to bring in players on the team and practice in the summer.

Another example is LeBron James, the founder of "Brother Basketball", who also likes to bring Anthony, Wade, Paul and other friends to train with him in the summer.

Truth be told, DeRozan is actually an introverted and shy player, and when Bill Duffy first proposed that he train with this year's Tanhua Show, he initially wanted to refuse.

However, after a moment of thought, his curiosity prevailed. He was full of curiosity about the tanhua lang from the East, especially Roy's "kung fu basketball" and hand-changing shooting, and on second thought, it might be a pleasure to have someone to talk to train with.

DeRozan agreed to Bill Duffy, but he still miscalculated, and not only did Roy not train the "kung fu basketball" and hand-to-hand shooting he expected, but he was even more taciturn than himself.

The two of them have been training together for three days, and together they have said no more than a hundred words, and the only way they can communicate is basketball.

DeRozan also miscalculated Roy's ball skills, he originally wanted to teach Roy how to shoot as a big brother, but when he really practiced, he found that Nima Roy's mid-range shooting was actually more accurate than his own.

Now DeRozan is unhappy, he is a veteran who has been immersed in the NBA for seven years, is his shooting not as good as a "rookie" who has not debuted?

Therefore, at DeRozan's suggestion, another element was added to the training of the two, that is, the shooting competition twice a day, which was the beginning of the scene.

The content of the two-man competition is very simple, a five-point shot game inside the restricted area and a five-point shooting game outside the three-point line, the two shoot five balls at each point, and then calculate the total shooting percentage.

From the start of practice on July 2 to today's July 4, the two have played a total of six games, and these six games have ended in Roy's complete victory, and even Bill Duffy is very surprised by this result.

Because at the level of NBA players, DeRozan can already be regarded as a relatively accurate type of player, he shot 44.6% from the field and 33.8% from three-point range in the past 2015-2016 season, which is basically above the NBA average, but if you consider that DeRozan's offense is mostly based on mid-to-long-range shooting, this shooting rate is not bad.

But even so, as soon as Roy was compared, DeRozan's shooting was immediately overshadowed.

Roy's shooting percentage is simply astonishing when unmarked, according to DeRozan's description, Roy's shooting action is standard, the rhythm is stable, he can shoot at a fixed point, and he can also complete the shot on the run, and no matter what the state, his stability is extremely terrifying.

It can be said that Roy is the kind of genius who survives to shoot.

"With Roy's style of play, he's likely to be the second Steve Curry." Here's DeRozan's feedback to Bill Duffy.

Bill Duffy snickered when he heard this, he didn't tell DeRozan how embarrassed Wiggins was by Roy last time.

Perhaps, this is Roy's talent.

Roy and DeRozan's training continued until the end of July, during which time another Duffy's favorite general, Damion Lillard, visited him and trained with Roy for a day, and he was equally impressed with Roy's abilities.

He even mentioned his Trail Blazers predecessor, another Roy, "The Yellow Mamba" Brandon Roy.

"There's a lot of similarity between them, they're the kind of people who have an extraordinary hunger for victory."

"But alas, he's not my teammate."

"It looks like this year's Knicks are amazing."

After the July training session, Roy will report to New York on August 1 to play in the team's summer league, at the request of the team's general manager, Steve Mills......