Chapter 21: Twenty Votes and Twenty Hits
Dominating the NBA, many people will take it as a joke, just like Brother Qiu's father said that he could beat Jordan 1V1, Zhang Feng felt that it didn't matter, since someone wanted to engage him, he would cooperate with them, play with these people, and attract more attention by the way.
Hawke did as Zhang Feng instructed. After washing up and having breakfast at the hotel restaurant, Zhang Feng prepared to go to the Knicks training center to prepare for today's shooting test.
Today's shooting test is open to the media, Zhang Feng knows that his performance and remarks will definitely attract a lot of attention, and there will inevitably be many interviews, so I will warn the female reporter Finney.
All the tryouts arrived early, and Frank and some even trained early. As soon as Zhang Feng entered the training center, he felt the gaze of everyone, and Kazak quickly greeted him and asked seriously: "Feng, are you in trouble?"
Zhang Feng didn't expect Kazak to know about this matter, it seems that the female reporter's energy is indeed quite large, but Zhang Feng didn't care much, and said with a smile: "It doesn't exist, I can easily solve this matter." ”
"Okay, I hope it won't affect your performance today, come on" Kazak still didn't forget to encourage Zhang Feng.
The shooting test began quickly, this time not one by one, but with a group of several people running and catching the ball. The shooting test is divided into running catch-and-shoot and standing catch-and-shoot shooting, mainly shooting three-point and mid-range shots.
The shooting test is more appealing, because as a rookie, he rarely starts directly and gets the opportunity to possess the ball, most of the time he comes off the bench to be responsible for receiving and shooting, and the ability to play without the ball must be practiced.
As soon as the whistle blew, the first group of tryouts began to run to catch the ball and shoot, but the performance of the first group was average, basically only 30% average shooting.
Hornacek stood on the sidelines, accompanied by Kazak and several other assistant coaches, he was pondering, in fact, he only cared about Franck's Zhang Feng's performance, but at the moment he was irritable, because last night he had just made up his mind to persuade the management to use the No. 8 signing, but something happened late at night, Hornacek knew that the female reporter who reported Zhang Feng, in his cognition, the person targeted by the female reporter was not good in the end, and it would definitely be difficult to persuade the management if he tried to persuade the management again.
Soon the running shooting test of the tryouts in the first group was over, and Frank was in the second group, and during the French league period, Frank was a good shooter, and this performance was not unexpected, Frank hit four shots in two corners and 45 degrees. A total of 20 balls were shot in the entire shooting test, 2 in the bottom corners on both sides, two at 45 degrees on both sides, and one in the front, for a total of 4 rounds.
Soon Franck's shooting test was over, and others couldn't compare with him at all, and in the whole shooting test of 16 out of 20, Frank leaked a satisfied smile and glanced at Zhang Feng defiantly.
Zhang Feng knew that Frank was afraid that he would threaten his draft prospects, but how did Frank know that Zhang Fengzhi was not here. What Zhang Feng wants to fight for power is the No. 5 pick of the Kings, and this Knicks trial is just a safe and polite move.
The last time, Zhang Feng went on the court for a shooting test, and the media on the sidelines began to take pictures on a large scale, the corners of Zhang Feng's mouth curled, knowing that his strategy was successful, so the next thing is to slap his face with strength. Many trial players were envious, because they could see that this was obviously the media that paid attention to Zhang Feng.
It seems that under the influence of media photos, all the trial players in Zhang Feng's group performed better than the previous two groups, and Zhang Feng scored 14 goals in a row without any suspense.
Zhang Feng's combo made Frank nervous, Frank himself only hit 16 goals, but the terrible Zhang Feng actually hit 14 goals in a row.
"Can he hit 20 goals in a row?" Someone on the sidelines started talking.
"I think it's possible, this Chinese is in very good shape"
"That's not necessarily, megalomaniacals, claiming to dominate the NBA, and being able to hit so many is also dribbling" Someone objected and gave his reasons.
"Why don't we make a bet on lunch at noon, $30?"
"No problem, who's afraid of whom".
Hornacek also made a bet, but he made a bet with himself that if Zhang Feng hit 20 goals in a row, he would desperately suggest to the management to use the No. 8 pick to select Zhang Feng.
The fifteenth ball, frontal shooting, the person in charge of serving seems to be deliberately making things difficult for Zhang Feng, the pass given is a little higher, the running shooting test is time-limited, and the ball must be released within 1 second after receiving the ball, if the person who passes the ball is high or low, it will take time to adjust, and the adjustment process may not be good if you are in a hurry.
Zhang Feng smiled contemptuously and expressed his contempt, and threw it directly without adjusting after receiving the ball, hitting it with a perfect hollow, and glanced back at the person who served, as if to say: "How is it?" The corners of the serve's mouth twitched and his face darkened, as if he didn't mean it.
The sixteenth ball, at a 45-degree angle on the right, Zhang Feng passed the ball before he ran into place, and it was a strong pass, but he didn't expect this person to target himself, Zhang Feng didn't even choose to use a shooting posture when he saw the move, but threw the ball to the basket along the pass, and hit the board.
This ball made everyone confused, but there is no rule that you can't shoot like this, so this ball counts.
As a head coach, Hornacek deals with people from all walks of life all day long, and immediately saw that this serve was deliberately embarrassing Zhang Feng, and he wanted to laugh angrily in his heart, so he walked over and said loudly: "Make it a little more difficult for him, and come up with a passing method that you think makes the receiver the most uncomfortable", Hornacek thought that since you want to embarrass others, then see if you have the ability to embarrass others.
The seventeenth ball, in the bottom right corner, the passer "sure enough" followed Hornacek's advice and chose not to look at the pass, which was not a show of skill but a random pass, and the ball flew off the field. Zhang Feng flashed, received the ball and quickly jumped to the bottom corner, jumped and shot, and continued to hit.
The eighteenth ball, in the bottom left corner, where is the person in charge of serving seeing that the last server has made such a difficult throw, and thinks in his heart how to be the most uncomfortable pass? Yes, he threw it vigorously in Zhang Feng's face.
Zhang Feng also thought it was funny, but he didn't expect these people to think that they could make things difficult for themselves in this way. didn't want to think about it, Zhang Feng directly clamped the ball flying over with two fingers, the ball stopped steadily, threw it up at will, and still hit.
The nineteenth ball, forty-five degrees to the left, Zhang Feng still hit. This situation puts a lot of pressure on the frontal passer, and he started to make it difficult, but he didn't even make it difficult, and the last ball was the last one, let's be ruthless. After the positive serve decided to be ruthless, he did not choose to pass the ball to Zhang Feng, but threw it to the backcourt, the ball went directly over the middle line, Zhang Feng quickly caught up, and threw the ball directly in the backcourt, but there was no solution, and finally the twentieth ball hit, or a hollow ball.
The people present have been paying attention to Zhang Feng's shooting since Hornacek shouted, but they didn't expect Zhang Feng to shoot 20 in the face of such a difficulty.
Frank's face was dead, he knew that his Knicks journey was over, unless he beat Zhang Fenghao in the next matchup to score 100 points, but is this possible?
Hornacek won the bet, was excited, and decided to desperately suggest to management that Zhang Feng be selected with the No. 8 pick.