Chapter Ninety-Eight: Summer League Ends
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On July 7, the Knicks announced the official launch of the team's summer training camp. Green will be involved in the team's joint practice, while Wilson will also be the rest of the camp. Chandler, Daniro. Gallinari and other young players in the team, as well as the newly signed Channing . Frye, the rest are free agents who don't have guaranteed contracts and could be cut at any time.
David. Lee, Ellington, Nate. Robinson and other veteran players are not participating in summer training, and these players are still on their vacation trips, and it is conservatively estimated that they will join the training camp in August, and the training will start in July with the team's benches, rookies and development league players.
On July 10, Wu Huang attended two Knicks practice sessions today, and now he is trying to build muscle, but the team's strength and conditioning trainer told him that he will probably not gain much muscle in his first season, and he is not advised to soak too much time in the gym.
Wu Huang was very painful, and after training in the afternoon, he gave an exclusive interview to ESPN, in which he confirmed that he would participate in this year's Las Vegas Summer League.
"I just found out that the first game was against the Clippers, and the media must be hoping to create an epic duel atmosphere for this match, but I'm not going to check which game will meet him, and if you're going to call this game a show of Wu Huang and Griffin, feel free, but I wouldn't put a special label on a game like this." Wu Huang really doesn't care much about this kind of competition, and even in the preseason, he doesn't think he will encounter too many challenges.
On July 14, the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers will play their first summer league games. The match became eye-catching thanks to the presence of Wu Huang and Griffin as the two champions and the leader. Under the watchful eye of a full stadium of NBA coaches, scouts, media and 18,000 fans. The Knicks eventually lost 100-110 to the Los Angeles Clippers. New York's champion Lang was favored by many parties, and finally unfortunately reaped a defeat.
Griffin continued to show dominance in college, scoring 28 points and 12 rebounds in the opening game to lead the Clippers to a victory over the Knicks and avenge a tragic elimination in the Sweet 16.
Wu Huang's performance today was not as good as his opponent's, with only 22 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 turnovers in the game.
In this game, the Knicks' defense was really a problem, even in an inconsequential summer league game. But to give the opponent 110 points, obviously too much.
The last time a Summer League game drew so much media and viewers was back in 2003, when it was LeBron Brown. James and Dwyan. Wade's debut, for which the game was specially scheduled for the Magic's home arena, was specially scheduled for the Magic's home arena, when a total of 15,000 fans watched the game of the two geniuses in '03.
In charge of defending Wu Huang today is Sebastian. Telfil, James Ang. Curry and Bobby. Brown, these three are the Clippers' focus on this season's bench point guards, due to the limited strength of the three, even the wheel battle is not much of a threat to Wu Huang.
But Wu Huang didn't have good luck today, missing the first shot of the opening game and facing the defense of two Clippers players. He threw a three-no-stick.
The Knicks trailed 0-10 at the beginning of the game and played more than 3 minutes later. Wu Huangcai assists Danny. Green hit the team's first goal.
Perhaps because it has only been a week since he has been practicing with the team, Wu Huang's organization and combing of the team's offense today is still a little rough, and he, the point guard, needs to run in with the team for a longer time, and it is far more difficult than Griffin as a power forward.
Halfway through the first quarter, Wu Huang scored his first point after joining the Knicks through a pull-up jump shot after a cover, and then Wu Huang wanted to help his teammates score, but unfortunately the players and rookies in the Development League have been wasting Wu Huang's assist opportunities. Green also made a mistake in one of his combinations, and in the next round, Wu Huang dribbled the ball with his foot and went out of bounds.
After playing 6 minutes in the first quarter, Knicks assistant coach Mike Brown. Woodson replaced Wu Huang, and the Knicks fell behind 20-29 in the first quarter. At the beginning of the second quarter, Wu Huang continued to sit on the bench, and Knicks assistant coach Mike Murphy continued to sit on the bench. Woodson's face-to-face instruction to Emperor Wu was actually to let him go and not think too much, just increase his personal offense.
In the second quarter of 6 minutes and 50 seconds, Wu Huang returned to the court, this time he strengthened his personal offense according to the instructions of the assistant coach, and continuously used simple blocking and dismantling to shoot and hit, Wu Huang used his strong personal offensive firepower to help the Knicks play a 9:0 score climax.
But then the Clippers focused on the interior, and Griffin staged a shocking dunk, and soon led the team to give the Knicks an 8:2.
Wu Huang did perform slightly worse than Griffin today, he also struggled a little on the defensive end of the three opponents, and like other young NBA players, he was blocked as soon as the opponent used the screen, or the speed of the defense was significantly slowed down.
It's not a question of defensive ability, of course, it's a matter of the pace of the game, and the NBA's interior is also more in place and more brutal than the NCAA players in doing off-ball screens.
At the end of the first half, Wu Huang scored 11 points, but also had four turnovers, and the Clippers led 59-50 at halftime.
At the beginning of the second half, Wu Huang hit a three-pointer, but then missed two driving layups, and there was an unforced error shortly after......
Wu Huang also felt that his performance today was a bit scummy, but after half a game of adaptation, his form improved, especially showing his extraordinary speed and shooting ability.
In the middle of the third quarter, Wu Huang entered the state, first chased a three-pointer on the fast break, and then made two free throws successfully, and he also played a 2+1 before the game, the Knicks ended the third quarter with 80:82, and Wu Huang used his personal offense to help the team chase the difference to only 2 points.
In the fourth quarter, Wu Huang improved his organization slightly, but his defense was still not good, and even let his players who couldn't remember their names use blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation to break through several times.
Griffin was still on the inside, though a dunk was covered. But look at it from body language. Griffin seemed relaxed.
The game is over. The Clippers won comfortably 110-100 in the end.
Wu Huang's performance can't be considered bad, but the point guard is obviously more difficult to integrate into the team than players in other positions, and it will be more difficult for him to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA than rookies in other positions, which is why few point guards have star stats in their first season.
The next day, some media really began to discuss Wu Huang's ball control ability, in fact, Wu Huang's ball control skills reached the NBA level. It's true that he's not as comfortable as he was in the NCAA.
Yahoo Sports once again took the lead in hacking Wu Huang, and they described Wu Huang's ball control as follows: In the NCAA era, Hugo's ball control gave people the feeling of "going to fall, but it just didn't fall", while in the NBA, Hugo's ball control gave people the feeling of "going to fall, and then the basketball smashed on the instep", which was a great example of yesterday's game: Hugo dribbled the ball under his crotch in a row, and finally the ball smashed on the top of his foot and missed......
New York fans have enough confidence in Wu Huang. Summer League isn't technically an official NBA game. So Wu Huang's debut in the NBA didn't smash up, because his debut was not staged at all.
'I didn't play well and now I have new teammates, a new system and I'm in a new league, so I probably thought about it so much yesterday that I made a couple of low-level mistakes. But I think that as I gain more experience, the mistakes should slowly decrease. Wu Huang returned to New York the next day and commented on his performance in his first Summer League game in an interview.
On July 17, the New York Knicks played against the Detroit Pistons, and Wu Huang felt very good on the offensive end in this game, and he also felt quite good outside the three-point line, shooting nine three-pointers throughout the game. Of course, you also need to have a good opponent on the court, and the reason why Wu Huang has such a strong score** is also thanks to his competitors.
The Pistons played in the summer league with their bench player Will. Bynum and Da Juan. Samos, Will exploded today to score 30 points, Dajuan got 25 points and 10 rebounds, it was because of the stimulation of these two Pistons players that Wu Huang showed such a strong score**, he finally scored 38 points and led the team to a 116-109 victory, including 9 of 14 three-pointers.
The Knicks obviously still have to rely on "offense" to play the world this season, and they were scored 109 points by the Pistons on the defensive end, and they can win such a game, all by playing better on their own offense, Wu Huang's 38 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists are not like an organizational guard at all, but like a scoring guard.
But it's never a bad thing to be able to score, it's just summer league now, Wu Huang's CBA teammates are wasting his assists again and again, it's better to grab the basketball himself, which is also assistant coach Mike. Woodson's advice to him.
In the next three summer league games, the Knicks lost two and won one, which is naturally not a good record, but Wu Huang's personal data is very good, and he has completely turned into a mobile battery with his focus on offense, hitting five or six three-pointers every game, coupled with stable mid-range shooting, he played the most terrifying offensive firepower of all rookies this year on the offensive end.
Wu Huang's style of play fully played to his strengths, although there were fewer assists, but there were fewer mistakes, after five games, he averaged 32 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 4 turnovers per game, which is completely worthy of his champion status.
"Kidd + Nash? This is obviously 10cm tall Aaron. Iverson! After the summer league was played, many media quickly changed their evaluation of Wu Huang, this champion did not show much passing and vision, but cut points like chopping melons and vegetables, and looked obviously more similar to Iverson and Arenas.
Wu Huang scolded in his heart, in the face of a group of CBA teammates, how do you let him show his passing and vision?
In the first game of the summer league, didn't he just use passing as the first choice, and what was the result? He almost smashed that game!
However, it is not without good news, Wu Huang got a message after the end of the summer league, his good friend from college, the rich second generation Bart. Although Bligh unfortunately lost in the draft, but after an outstanding performance in the summer league, Bart was signed by the Nets yesterday with a base salary, and finally achieved his desire to enter the NBA, and New Jersey and New York are only a river apart, and the two can still hang out if they have nothing to do.
As the main small forward of the NCAA championship team, his exposure is higher than that of many NCAA stars, plus his wings and bottom corner three-pointers are indeed very stable, many teams in the NBA also need such a role player, and it is not surprising that Bart can get a base salary.
At the end of July, the NBA Summer League was all over, and the teams completed the examination of bench players and rookies after five games of observation. Over the next two months, teams will enter a training period to hone in on their tactics for the new season and to strengthen the individual training of their players.
Time entered August, and there were a few more people in the Knicks training camp. Robinson, Chris. Du Hong, Wilson. Chandler, Danny. Green, Daniello. Gallinari, Channing. Seven players who have already been confirmed to be in the squad, including Frye, have now joined the team for training. Lee, Ellington, Larry. Hughes and others won't be back until mid-August or the end of the month.
New York Knicks 2009-2010 Preliminary Lineup -
PG: Wu Huang, Nate. Robinson, Chris. Duhon.
SG: Larry. Hughes, Wilson. Chandler, Danny. Green.
SF: Al. Harrington, Danilo. Gallinari, Marcus. Landry.
PF: Qian Ning. Fry, Darko. Milicic, Jared. Jeffries.
C: David. Lee, Eddie. Curry. (To be continued.) )