Chapter 306: A Dilemma
After 24 minutes of group battles, the BLU team won without any surprise, and Brown's gaze at Wallace softened, and the guy's style of play and technical characteristics were indeed very much in line with his team-building ideas. Brown had a conflicting feeling about Arenas, who had been shooting wildly throughout the game, because on the one hand, the team's bench needed such a sharp player who could create his own chances, and on the other hand, he didn't like such a lone wolf who did his own thing and had no team spirit.
After thanking everyone for coming to Philadelphia for the tryout, Brown announced that all the young people who participated in the tryout could leave on their own, but his job wasn't over. After Arenas and the others had packed up their things and left, Brown gathered all the players and coaches who had just seen the whole process of the tryout, hoping to hear everyone's opinions.
McGee was the first to speak: "I think Arenas is good, we need such a good scorer. With Michael coming to the starting lineup, the team's bench is the most lacking in strong scorers, and Arenas is clearly up to the task. I think the key question is, can Arenas be drafted by us at the end of the first round? ”
Brown frowned and said: "Whether you can be selected or not is not something you should care about, you just need to say your own opinion, the specific operation is still up to the management, I can only make some suggestions......"
McGee shrugged, "Okay coach, then my opinion is to go with Arenas, I think he can help our bench lineup." Wallace is not bad, but his ability to score on his own is still a little worse. ”
Richardson coughed lightly, wiped his glasses, and said with a straight look: "These two swing people have excellent physical fitness, and there is no big difference between the two in this regard, but Wallace has an advantage in height and weight." I'm going to talk about a couple of interior players who went to tryouts, and while Haywood has a good nature, his skills are a little too rough, so my advice is to go with Hellam Potter, and the Haitian center is also expected to be at the end of the first round. ”
Brown shook his head and said, "Ballam Porter is really good, he's shown good quality on both ends of the floor, but I can tell you that we're playing for one of the league's best centers, so it's just a plan B to pick up a rookie interior in the draft." If you can, let's talk more about the choice of swing people to see who is more suitable for us. ”
With Brown's words, everyone began to speak freely, judging the strengths and weaknesses of Wallace and Arenas, and unexpectedly, there were more members of the coaching staff who supported Wallace, and the players preferred the team to choose Arenas. In fact, it is not surprising that no matter what their own style of play is, everyone is more looking forward to individual heroism, and Arenas is obviously very in line with their aesthetics, and it is their highest dream to go into the Longtan Tiger's Den alone and take the head of the general in the army.
This is also what Brown is worried about, Wallace and Arenas have their own strengths and weaknesses, and it seems that they are a little unhappy to choose either one. He suddenly thought of a more critical question, the prediction order on the draft website is relatively accurate, now Arenas is predicted to be selected with the top 15 picks, and Wallace is the end of the first round, relatively speaking, the team is more likely to get Wallace, if that's the case, then what's the point of dwelling on it now?
Thinking of this, he looked at Chang Wei, who was speechless next to him, and asked with a little dissatisfaction, "Chang, what is your opinion?" It seems that you haven't said your opinion just now, weren't you the most active when discussing draft goals in the past? ”
Chang Wei smiled apologetically, stood up and said, "Although Arenas's performance was beyond my expectations, I still insisted on choosing him. Wallace is also very good, but his scoring ability is not as good as Arenas, and his ability to create scoring opportunities on his own is also relatively insufficient. ”
"But often, you have to consider that now that Arenas has a much higher projected draft pick than Wallace, and we only have a 30th pick in the first round, are we going to trade up before the draft?"
"It's not a problem, coach, the draft site's prediction is just a reference for us, it doesn't mean that the final player will be selected in that pick, and it's not surprising that the first round player will fall to the second round. If I'm not mistaken, there's a good chance Arenas will fall to the end of the first round, so we can draft him! ”
Halter, who is often in the same hotel room as Chang Wei, asked suspiciously: "Chang, how can you be sure that the previous team will not choose Arenas?" His stats in college are still excellent, every manager is not stupid, I don't believe everyone will give up such a great scorer, it will be difficult for Arenas to fall to the end of the first round, right? ”
Chang Wei smiled helplessly and said, "I have my own sources, and it's not a loss for us, is it?" If Arenas falls to the end of the first round, we can try to select him, and if he is drafted early, then we can pick Wallace and it won't hurt us in any case, right? ”
Brown asked, "So you mean we're still going to pick Arenas?" If we can choose......"
Chang Wei nodded and said, "That's right, I know that Arenas can become the top scorer in the league, and we will definitely not suffer a loss in choosing him." As for his character, I think we can make a good change to him, and isn't it normal for the players to have a little temper? If they have a strong immediacy power, then a little worse temper is nothing. ”
Brown shook his head and said, "I really don't know where you have so much confidence in this guy, if it weren't for the fact that I knew you were a Chinese, I would think you were related to him." I'll go back and think about it for a while, and if you really insist on Arenas, I'll take your advice, because you proved what you can do in last year's draft. ”
Chang Wei smiled and nodded, but did not speak, this is the result he wants to see. He has proven his eye for people, so when he suggested Arenas, Brown's first choice was to follow his advice, if it wasn't for Reed's foundation, maybe Brown would have taken Chang Wei's words as gibberish, right?