Chapter 334: Turgun and Blair
As a current NBA top star, Blair? Although Bowman is in a team with poor results, Blair is on the list this season.
Although Blair, who averages 28.6 points per game, is only fifth in the scoring list, Blair, who is 1.97 meters tall, still has an average of 9.4 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game, and his average of 3.4 steals per game ranks second in the league.
In the season that has just ended, Blair has suffered a lot, the biggest of which is, of course, the former manager's seizure of power.
In fact, Blair doesn't care who the team listens to, as long as he can have the ball, then he doesn't care about anything else, but as soon as the team's former head coach comes to power, he wants Blair to hand over the ball, and then give rookie Stiles a hand, which Blair, as the boss of the team, absolutely can't bear.
And the reason why the Kings have not achieved well this season is not only the discord within the team, but also the chaos of the team's management.
The Sachsa consortium that previously controlled the team was a consortium formed by several local Sacramento capital, which did bring the Kings back to life at the beginning, but then the consortium continued to have disputes over equity issues, and various large and small shareholders continued to pour, which also led to chaos in the management of the entire team, after all, there are too many "mothers-in-law" on the top, and it is not appropriate to listen to anyone.
In fact, this is one of the reasons why Blair chose to support Wang Lei, because compared to before, at least the Oriental did not let Blair hand over the ball as soon as he came, and the new owner Francis seemed to trust the Oriental very much, which gave the haggard Blair hope, and he hoped that the team he loved could go to the top in his own hands.
Last season has passed, Blair has not relaxed because of the holiday, the team is in the process of a series of player trades, but all this has little to do with Blair, he himself does not care about these, this withdrawn star favorite places to stay are the training hall and the court, even during the holidays, his daily training has never stopped, which is why Blair can grow as a rookie who was selected at the end of the first round to become the top swingman in the league now.
This year's draft is about to begin, but Blair doesn't pay attention to that, and he continues to train according to his plan every day.
Three days before the start of the draft, Blair met the new head coach Wang Lei and the young man who looked a little shy and dressed strangely in the team's training hall.
"Blair, you're so early."
Wang Lei and Blair have been in contact before, and they have established a preliminary cooperative relationship, as for the future is unknown, but at least this is a good start.
"Hello, Coach."
"In the future, you will call me Wang, of course, you can also call me Stone, my Chinese name has a lot of stones, come, introduce to you, this is the player I brought out, his name is Turgon."
Wang Lei introduced Turgon, who came to Sacramento early, to Blair, and in the coming season, these two will be the core of the team, Wang Lei hopes that they can also build trust, which will make Wang Lei's job a lot easier, but these two usually don't talk much, so Wang Lei is a little worried that they will have conflicts.
"Hello."
"Hello."
Sure enough, as Wang Lei thought, two guys with relatively conservative personalities don't seem to have any sparks together.
"Blair, Turgun is an important piece of the puzzle for me to build a team, maybe you don't recognize him right now, but I hope you can take him to get acquainted with this place first, I hope you can have a good chat, I have to leave for New York for the draft."
Wang Lei stubbornly left directly, he knew that no matter how much he said, it was better to let these two guys contact by themselves.
After Wang Lei left, Blair continued to train with the ball alone, his warm-up method is different from others, generally players first do strength training before starting to train with the ball, but Blair has always done a little bit of ball training first, so that the ball in his body warms up, and then he will carry out the next training.
Turgon, who went to the locker room to change clothes, also quietly walked to another basket on the court with the ball, and the two of them went on their respective training in silence, and the squeaks of sneakers against the floor in the whole stadium were made.
After a while, however, Blair stopped warming up because he heard a different sound, the sound of a continuous, uninterrupted basketball passing through the net.
Blair looked back and saw that Turgun was doing a one-man three-point drill, which is a man who constantly shoots and runs back and forth in two corners, which is a very regular training in training with the ball.
However, what surprised Blair was Turgon's high shooting percentage.
Although it is a shooting training in an unguarded situation, but after the uninterrupted high-speed switchback run, this kind of shooting practice in the bottom corner is very physically demanding, and it will also affect the player's shot, because in the case of high-speed movement, you not only have to adjust your shooting speed and arc, but also have to control your own small frequency, this simple training is actually very difficult to do.
Turgun's shooting did not make any mistakes, every shot was almost exactly the same arc and speed, and what surprised Blair even more was Turgon's shooting speed, in his opinion, Turgon's body has not been completely twisted at all and the ball has been shot is no different from a blind throw, but Turgun can shoot every time.
After ten minutes of high-speed switchback and three-point training, Turgun didn't miss a single shot, and Blair's eyes began to shine, wondering what kind of ability this young man who looked more like a movie star could have.
"Can you speak English?"
"Whew—yes, I went to college at Stanford." Ten minutes of intense training made Turgun a little out of breath.
"You're shooting great."
"Thank you."
"Interested in PK?"
"Come on."
For the next two hours, the entire arena was still only the sound of sneakers rubbing against the floor, and there were not many words on either side of the bullfight, it was a confrontation between you and me.
Blair's super explosiveness and strong physical fitness made Turgun tired, and Turgun's flexible ball control and super projection ability also made Blair unable to defend himself, which was almost a mutual explosion situation.
This is how the two guys, who have too few words to break down, start their friendship.