Yesterday's last 5v5 confrontation ended with the victory of Zhang's red team. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Wei scored 22 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists in just 20 minutes, which is not at all like a 20-minute game, and he made a name for himself in just one game.

The next day, Zhang Mao did not participate in the 5v5 confrontation again, because today's game is to give the rookies who did not play well yesterday a chance to make up for the exam, and those rookies who performed well on the first day do not need to play again today.

In the afternoon of the same day, the "joint trial" entered the last link - the "interview" link.

In the "Interview" session, each team can interview up to 15 players and have up to 30 minutes of conversation with each player to get to know their personalities and qualities.

Speaking to the media, Lakers general manager Jerry West said: "The most important thing for me right now is the interview process with these players, through which I can get to know them better, add to what I know about them, and then make the final decision." ”

Someone like Jerry West, who has moved from a legendary player to team management, knows very well that it is not only talent but also "personality" that determines a player's ceiling, and if a genius with a personality like "Big Dog" Robinson has a physical talent comparable to Jordan's, it is difficult to say whether he can play at an All-Star level in the end.

But just like in the workplace, players have their own job of preparing for interviews, and their agents go to great lengths to organize the questions their clients may be asked and how to answer them correctly, which can make interviews less effective.

"They're just like machines, waiting for you to ask them the questions they're ready for, and there's no acting at all." Only half a day later, the general manager of the Raptors, "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas, began to complain, "What a hell, they are all memorizing manuscripts, and I even saw guys who forgot words." This usually lasts for 10 minutes, until we start throwing questions around the bend, and that's when we can really see the qualities of these children and get to know their true side. ”

In fact, each team has already made long-term observations of their favorite candidates, and has a considerable degree of understanding of their background information. Now by asking questions, they can also tell if the player is honest or not. In order to get the most honest answers, teams often use a variety of techniques, and some teams even hire psychologists to help.

But there are also teams who believe that the results of this test are no longer accurate after a series of interviews with various teams.

Some people even think that the gimmick of this joint trial is far greater than the practical significance, and some scouts said: "This kind of joint trial is just three or four days, and some unrealistic evaluations are made." At the end of the day, it's business, it's entertainment, and the league used those four days to make a great pitch for the draft. ”

In the interview session, naturally many teams have contacted Zhang Fu, his performance in each trial link is obviously the top existence of all the rookies in this year, and now there is no big suspense in entering the lotto area, the only question is: can he rush into the top five, or even the top three?

However, after the interview, many teams were scared away by Zhang Fu, including several teams who were very interested in him.

That's not to say there's anything wrong with Zhang's interview, his language skills are arguably the best of all the rookies this year, and compared to those who stutter, he's a speaker.

But the problem is that Zhang Qi is too confident, and he belongs to the kind of person who is very difficult to fool.

All teams can hear his personality from Zhang Mao's words, if you use Chinese words to describe it, it is "rather a chicken head, not a cow queen", but it is this character trait that made him secretly abandoned by many teams after the interview.

Most of these teams that gave up on him already have a core or a new star that they plan to cultivate.

If Zhang Wei refuses to be subservient, it is easy to have conflicts with his teammates.

This is very important, even if you have the strength, but no matter how strong the strength is, it is not as important as the stability of the dressing room, so many teams have to give up on Zhang Qi.

Besides, he is just a high school student after all, except for the fish belly team who is willing to spend time and energy to cultivate him, the slightly stronger team really does not have such courage, and dares to spend three or four years to bet on an Australian genius who has just landed in the United States for less than a month!

There's no denying that Zhang has been outstanding in the tryouts, but just one tryout doesn't prove that he's better than the likes of Starkerhouse, who excelled in college for two years in a row, because he hasn't stood the test of time.

Zhang Wei didn't care, he didn't feel that his requirements were high, and depending on the team, his requirements were not the same.

When facing those strong teams, his requirements are only absolute workhorses; In the face of those weak teams, he asked to take himself as the core of the team.

In fact, he also knows that even if these teams agree to him on the surface, they may not be trustworthy in the end.

This is not a matter of agreeing to it, even if it is the top pick in the draft, you have to rely on your own strength to fight for the status of the team, and if you don't play well, you won't be able to play.

But the problem is that if you don't even want to be perfunctory, you don't plan to give him a chance to play at all.

Zhang Qi is still reluctant to go to such a team.

He's already shown what he's capable of in this tryout, so he doesn't feel like he's asking too much, he's got what it takes.

He's not the nobody he was a few days ago, and while he's still not well-known in the media, he's already one of the best outside players in the rookie class in the eyes of these team executives.

After the end of the "joint trial", some of Zhang Fu's performance in the training camp was immediately deliberately exaggerated by the media, but it was not a good performance, and these were amplified by the media on his bad side.

This phenomenon is very abnormal, just like the only heads-up match he lost, the media focused on his loss, almost always using adjectives such as "defeated", "ravaged", and "defeated"; Including the skirmish between him and Garnett, as soon as it reached the mouth of the media, it also turned into a malicious attack under his annoyance!

However, there was not much coverage in the American media about his back-to-back victories over Garnett and Starkerhouse in heads-up matches, as well as his 5v5 carry in the final game.

"Strange, why is this happening?" After the trial camp, Zhang Mao was very puzzled to see that the American media reported on him in a vague manner, but it was a big story about others.

What's even more excessive is that when these guys reported on themselves, not only did they not mention the good ones but also questioned him for taking banned drugs during the trial, and falsely reporting his age.

But when reporting on other rookies, it was completely reversed, just blindly highlighting the good points of these players, but avoiding the important and ignoring their embarrassment and bad side, and many things that affected their draft market were not even mentioned.

"Are you trying to deliberately lower my draft market?" Zhang Wei felt that it was probably the agent behind those rookies who was making it bad, and those guys had such energy in the basketball field, and they were deliberately suppressing his draft market.

The Australian media has no channel to know the story in the trial camp, and they will reprint it as much as the American media writes, and the same is true for other countries, which makes Zhang Mao's reputation bad all of a sudden.

The final result is that the local fans who are still paying attention to Zhang Zhu in Australia at the moment are very disappointed, it seems that the Australian genius went to the United States, and really became an ordinary rookie, and there was a scandal of fighting and brawling, which can be described as a loser and a loser!

The Chinese media did not reprint these news, mainly because there were not many magazines in China during this period that specialized in reporting sports, let alone basketball magazines. China's later sports magazines, especially basketball magazines, were almost all developed after Yao Ming entered the NBA, with the help of domestic newspaper groups.

Zhang was a little angry at the deliberate suppression of him by the American media, but he felt that such repression might not be able to suppress him.

During the trial process in the past few days, most of the team's senior management was on the scene, how could these reports be deceived by these people who are really in charge? At most, he just blinded the fans who didn't know the truth, he didn't care that much.

After this joint tryout, Zhang Fu does not plan to go to the Celtics and Hawks for trials, but the plan to find an agent must be accelerated. Because he feels that it is precisely because he does not have an energetic agent to help him hype behind the scenes, that there will be a situation where his performance is obviously the best, but in the mouth of the media, it is just a very ordinary situation.

With the draft just days away, his last stop is New York, where his last two tryouts will be the Knicks and Nets, with all other tryout destinations canceled.

On June 25, the father and son came to New York, the first city in the United States.

At this time, the media reports are still very unfavorable to him, if there is any good news in the past few days, it is that Zhang Yu found that his little girlfriend in Australia has actually increased his "favorability" and "loyalty"!

Zhang Wei thought that these unfavorable reports might disappoint his little girlfriend when they reached Australia. But unexpectedly, after arriving in New York, his little girlfriend called him first to comfort him.

"The media reported this, why did the girl's favorability actually rise?" Zhang Qi suddenly became puzzled, a woman's heart is really elusive!

Strictly speaking, the Big Apple only has one and a half teams, the Knicks are of course a New York team, but the Nets can only be counted as a half, even if they have always wanted to move to New York from across the river, but the league does not want to see two teams in a city, which will make many teams find ways to move to big cities, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the NBA.

Of the two teams, the Nets only have one lottery pick, but they have a head coach who has a soft spot for Ed O'Barnon, so Zhang's main target is the Knicks, who are more likely to draft themselves than the Nets.

The reason for this is because Knicks head coach Don Nelson is very optimistic about himself, especially after the joint tryout, this person has to call his dad almost every day.

In fact, after the joint tryout, Zhang Fu no longer wanted to go to other teams for a separate tryout, and this time he came to New York for a tryout before the draft was about to start, completely for Don Nelson's sake.

The head coach, nicknamed "Mad Scientist", has been patting his chest on the phone and promising that Zhang Fu will be the core of the team, and even talked about some of his team building plans with great interest on the phone, including how to cultivate Zhang Fu, etc., and even specific tactics can be said one or two.

Looking at it this way, it really doesn't look like he's fooling.

Besides, how could anyone make up such a long-term + detailed plan in order to deceive a rookie?

This Don Nelson made Zhang and his father feel a sense of madness between his words, as if an anatomist had seen aliens, no wonder he had such a nickname.

But soon, Zhang knew that his tryout with the Knicks would not be fruitful. Because the day before he went to this team for a tryout, the Knicks suddenly traded all of his draft picks, and there was not even a second-round pick left, so he didn't need to go again.

Moreover, at this time, Knicks coach Don Nelson has already crossed the river and is difficult to protect.

What Zhang didn't know was that after the joint training ended, Don Nelson immediately accelerated the trade plan with the Golden State Warriors, and the team owner didn't seem to object.

But on the eve of Zhang Zhu's trial, Don Nelson suddenly received a letter of dismissal from the team, which made the mad scientist who was full of plans completely dumbfounded?!

"Lyon, trust me, you're going to be a superstar in this league, the Knicks are going to regret the decision they made today, and now I can only wish you all the best in the draft." After being fired at the speed of light, Don Nelson made a phone call to Zhang Mao that night that looked like a will, and startled him.

However, Zhang Mao has a very good impression of this one-sided head coach.

Through the contact in the past few days, coupled with the New York media's reports on this matter in the following days, Zhang Fu felt for the first time in his life what it means to "die for a confidant".

How could this Don Nelson be so appreciative of his 18-year-old foreign high school student?

Through the pervasive New York media, Zhang Yu quickly learned the truth about Don Nelson's fire, which turned out to be directly related to him!

According to New York media reports, Don Nelson actually planned to trade Ewing for the Warriors' No. 1 pick, and such a big deal scared him.

Who is Ewing?

The Knicks' core is no worse than Olajuwon, who has just won two consecutive championships, and if the head coach of the Rockets wants to trade Olajuwon for the top pick, and then select him as an 18-year-old Australian high school student, it will definitely be the end of being fired.

"Mr. Nelson, I regret not being able to play under your guidance, I think my trip to New York is coming to an early end, and hopefully we will have the opportunity to join forces in the future, and I hope that you have a plan as well." In the end, Zhang can only express his heart, he will definitely not go to the Knicks for a tryout, and he really hopes to play under this head coach who appreciates him so much one day.