Chapter 180: "Genius Training Camp" (Part 3)

On May 12, 2016, in Chicago, USA, the sun was shining and the weather was pleasant.

The day of the bootcamp has arrived.

Su Dong drove Roy to the Attack Athletics training base early in the morning, and a large number of media reporters were waiting outside the door.

Seeing the "prey" Roy appear, this group of "hungry" reporters rushed to rush up, and they were sure that more explosive news could be dug up on Roy today.

But before the trial, Su Dong politely declined all media interviews, and he wanted to ensure that Roy concentrated on preparing for this trial, and Roy entered the arena after a flash of light turning off the road.

The huge stadium was bustling with echoes and the sound of slapping the ball, and many players had already arrived at the stadium, and a few of them Roy recognized the opponent he had played against at the Shikoku Invitational not long ago.

The others are also very familiar with Roy, yes, even those people who Roy doesn't know, after two days of crazy hype, now remember Roy, just look at the expressions on their faces, they don't have a good impression of Roy.

The joint camp was supposed to feature 63 young players, but the unexpected withdrawal of Ben Simmons, Domantas Sabonis and Dejounte Murray reduced the number of players to 60.

Not counting the foreign talents who could not attend this training camp in Europe, among the 60 people on the scene, only about 40 could appear on the NBA stage, and the competition was fierce.

Today and tomorrow is the media open day of the training camp, and the general managers of NBA teams, scouts, and reporters from various media outlets can take a closer look at the 60 players over the course of two days.

The first two days of testing include a physical examination, a physical test and a five-on-five training match.

Of course, there are only 37 players who are really willing to participate in the five-on-five training tournament, and these people basically can't escape the fate of the second-round rookies, and the reason why they want to participate in the competition is nothing more than to step on someone else's corpse and squeeze into the end of the first round.

This is also normal, in today's weakening trust between agents and NBA teams, many agents will instigate players to save their strength, or simply do not participate in the dynamic testing and confrontation in the physical test.

Some powerful agencies, such as Jeff Schwartz's Excel Sports Management, Mark Battlestein's Priority Sports & Entertainment, including Bill Duffy's BDA Sports Management, hold so-called showcase days in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida, etc. They have scouts or general managers from NBA teams go and see their players in action. During this time, agents usually arrange some very relaxed training sessions for their players to better show the strengths of their players while hiding their weaknesses.

As a result, from the team's point of view, they are becoming more and more blind in their selection of players, and they sometimes make overtures to many players and even offer draft guarantees, but there are still endless general managers who are looking away.

The reason why Roy is not favored by some media and professionals is also based on the influence of these objective cases.

Similarly, the reason why Bill Duffy is not in a hurry to hold a show day for Roy is also to let those arrogant American basketball people and media people see Roy's true strength first. In Duffy's eyes, Roy's body is perfect, and he came to Chicago to show everyone his perfect physical fitness.

Therefore, he did not instruct Roy to retain his strength, and Roy did not think of retaining any strength.

After a while, other players also entered the court one after another, Roy saw the old acquaintance Jaylen Brown, who was blue-faced, saw Brandon Ingram who was dancing with his eyebrows, and saw Chris Dunn who was bouncing around, these three guys are also the three stars who have been hotly discussed by the media and fans recently, and who have been more frequent with Roy.

Their expressions are relaxed today, how will they behave later? Did they also come with instructions from their brokers? Roy was looking forward to it.

The physical test of 60 people is a big project, so the staff will start the physical test as soon as all the players are ready.

As usual, the static test is a test that reflects the real condition of the player's body, and no rookie will generally refuse this test unless your physical condition is too mediocre.

The first to take part in the test was Jaylen Brown, who couldn't wait to get out early in the game, hoping to come out on top with a set of highlight-reel stats to salvage his ridiculously dropped mock draft rankings.

And his stats are really good.

● Barefoot height: 6 feet 5.25 inches (196.215 cm).

●Height in shoes: 6 ft 6.75 in (200.025 cm).

●Weight: 223 lbs (101.15 kg).

● Reach: 6 ft 11.75 in (212.725 cm)

● Standing touch height: 8 feet 6.5 inches (260.35 cm).

●Body fat percentage: 5.1%.

● Palm length: 8.75 inches (22.225 cm)

● Palm width: 9 inches (22.86 cm)

Just looking at this statistic, Jaylen Brown has a lot of physical potential, and as long as he develops normally, he can become a very good athletic small forward.

But his data is just good, not amazing, it is the two Chinese players who really bring amazing results, first Zhou Qi on the inside, his barefoot height, shoeed height, arm span, standing height four data are ranked first, although the weight is not ideal, but as a rudimentary form of a defensive gate has been available.

followed by Roy, if Zhou Qi's first gains were all based on his innate advantage in height, then Roy's physical condition in the second position is undoubtedly the best, and there is no one.

Compared with the previous physical test done at Bill Duffy, Roy has grown a lot in various data after recent conditioning.

●Barefoot height: 6 feet 5 inches (195.58 cm).

●Shoeed height: 6 ft 6.5 in (199.39 cm).

●Weight: 198 lbs (89.81 kg).

● Arm Span: 7 ft 0.5 in (214.63 cm)

● Standing touch height: 8 ft 7.75 in (263.525 cm).

●Body fat percentage: 5.0%.

● Palm Length: 9.25 inches (23.495 cm)

● Palm width: 9.5 inches (24.13 cm)

"Oh, if you play in the second position, Roy's figure can be regarded as quite perfect, and his physical condition is catching up with Maddie back then."

"He's only 19 years old, and maybe he'll be able to grow to two metres in another year, and then he'll be even more physically terrifying, and he'll be able to move between the shooting guard and the small forward with ease."

"And if you look at Roy's skeleton, there is no pressure on his body to gain weight in the future."

With the completion of Roy's static test, many scouts and media reporters also started to talk about it.

It's clear that Roy's static data is perfect.

So perfect that many teams that were otherwise indecisive began to think about him.

So perfect that the other high-pick rookies are feeling the pressure.

The pressure on the other rookies was really not small, and they even backed down a bit.

Chris Dunn was the first to announce that he would not be tested for body fat percentage, palm length and palm width, leaving professionals watching from the sidelines wondering if the short man's palm was small.

But bigger variables are yet to come.

If Dunn gave the team manager and media reporters some face, Ingram was more headstrong, announcing on the spot that he would not participate in any public tests, and that he would only announce his results at the following show day.

"Oh." Everyone at the scene couldn't help but be in an uproar when they heard the news.

You know, the general managers, scouts and media reporters of these teams have come so far to see Ingram and Roy, and now, Ingram actually took the initiative to give up this opportunity to show, could it be that he has some unsatisfactory data, or what hidden dangers exist in his body?

Anyway, the wayward Ingram withdrew.

But the other rookies have to continue, they are not big stars, they have no draft promises, they still have to rely on this training camp to increase their attention, after the rookies have completed the static test one after another, the general managers of each team have turned their eyes to the data on the big screen, presumably they all have a preliminary judgment on the "right person" in their minds.

After the static test is over, after a short break, the dynamic test will take place, and more players will drop out of the test.

Needless to say, if the static test is still visible to the naked eye and exposed data, then the dynamic test is a true indicator of a player's internal physical ability.

Players who felt they had good draft momentum but were not confident in their physical qualities chose to quit.

Chris Dunn, Buddy Hield, Scal Rabisier, Jacob Poeltl and many more, and even Jaylen Brown has given up on the test that could save him the score.

The strongmen gave up the test one by one, and everyone complained, but when they were helpless, Roy stood up and wanted to be the first to test......