Chapter 9: A Routine
"It's impossible, I'm not going to let my son do this kind of thing, I think you should understand the position of a father. "www.biquge.info Zhang Mo finally spoke at this time, he was still very upright and would not let his son deceive.
Besides, even he can feel that the sincerity of the Lakers is not very high, this head coach is too treacherous, if he is really sincere, then he should find a way to trade a top draft pick, instead of letting them put water in the tryouts of other teams.
Harris's face flushed slightly, since his father said so, what else could he say?
Besides, his previous words were mostly fools, and he thought in his heart that he was using a second-round pick to pick up the cheap.
But now it seems that if the Lakers want to choose this hybrid, they can only find a way to trade a first-round pick, but this is a bit tricky!
Harris knows very well in his heart that it is impossible to say what pick an athletic talent like Zhang Qi will eventually rise to this month, and if the final pick rises too high, the Lakers may not be able to trade for a high enough pick to pick him, or the draft pick that he has worked so hard to trade for is still too low, which will be embarrassing.
So this matter is very tricky, although they fancy Zhang Zhu's potential, but the Lakers do not plan to make too much movement in the transfer market this year, if they use too high a price to trade to a sign that may not be able to choose Zhang Zhu, this will seriously affect the operation of the Lakers next summer, and it is easy to make a chicken-and-egg situation.
Now that more than one team in the league is eyeing Shaquille O'Neal, who is about to become a free agent next summer, considering that the Magic are unlikely to offer O'Neal too much more contract than Penny Hardaway, they may not be able to satisfy the appetite of the big shark next summer, and the possibility of O'Neal leaving the Magic will be very high.
Therefore, in the past two seasons, the Lakers have traded all in preparation for poaching big sharks next year, and they will not pay too much for him no matter how much they value Zhang Yu. After all, these two people, one is a real inside giant, and the other is amazingly talented, but the future is still uncertain, and the Lakers can't affect their plans for a high school student who doesn't know if he can play in the future.
"Dad, I think he's shaking us up and treating us like idiots." After the two fathers and sons left the Lakers' training hall, Zhang Qiu finally showed his fox tail and scolded the white-haired old man while shaking his belly.
He had seen clearly before that the white-haired head coach of the Lakers was very unreliable, and although he looked serious, he felt that this old guy was an old treacherous master.
"At least the Lakers want to pick you, and that's the good news we get." Zhang Mo is still quite optimistic, no matter what the head coach of the Lakers makes, at least they are very interested in Zhang Mao, this is a good start.
Zhang Qi also laughed, he was more confident now. Since the Lakers are optimistic about him, there is no reason for the Clippers to be special, he thinks that he should not fall to the second round, and he can also impact the lottery area, and the future is bright.
In addition to the first and second rounds, the NBA draft also has the so-called "lottery area", which means that after 82 games in the NBA regular season every year, the teams in the East and West 9-14 lose the opportunity to participate in the playoffs, and these teams enter the rookie lottery lineup, which becomes the lottery area.
Of course, the lower the team's ranking last season, the better the chance of being drawn this season, which is why many teams have begun to scramble after seeing that the playoffs are hopeless.
For rookies, if they have the opportunity to enter the "lotto zone", it means that they will be in the spotlight, and they will also get enough attention and development resources from the team after being selected. And these lottery players themselves are the best in every draft. It can be said that the higher the draft rankings, the higher the rookie ranking, the greater their potential to become an All-Star or even a superstar in the future.
However, there are very few examples of second-round shows becoming stars, and the attention and resources they receive are not the same as those of the lotto show.
The next day, Zhang came to the Clippers' tryout base again, this time there were not many players participating in the tryout with him, only five or six people in the court, and the head coach of the Clippers, Bill Feige, was not there, and the tryout was handled by two assistant coaches of the Clippers.
Zhang Qian didn't care about these details, and the whole process of the trial was basically similar to yesterday on the Lakers, except that Zhang Qiu finally refused the request to take X-rays to check bone age. It is not good for the body to take too many photos of this thing, he directly told the assistant coach of the Clippers that he had taken an X-ray on the Lakers side yesterday, and the bone age detected was 16 years old, believe it or not!
This attitude is a bit of a show, and this is also Zhang Mao's daily expansion after the success of the first day of tryout, and he really doesn't look down on the Clippers in his heart.
The two assistant coaches of the Clippers didn't care, because they were very surprised by Zhang's physical data, and this time his physical data was more complete, even with the bounce and bench press.
Zhang Fu's static body side data will naturally not change, but the other body measurement data is different from yesterday, in which the 3/4 sprint time has increased to 3.29 seconds, and the baseline switchback run has dropped to 11.04 seconds, but this difference can be regarded as a measurement error, which person has the same body measurement data every time.
Yesterday he didn't test the jump and bench press with the Lakers, and today with the Clippers he not only did both tests, but also did one more "lateral move" test.
This test is mainly to detect the speed of the player's small range of lateral movement and emergency stop, which is very reference for the player's footsteps on the defensive end, but this is the test link of the inside player, and the outside player generally does not carry out this kind of test, at most the third position will be tested, which can also be seen that the Clippers prefer to choose a dual-energy forward.
First of all, the in-situ bounce height that was not measured yesterday, this is not Zhang Mao's strong point, and he has not been particularly trained in bounce, so the "vertical bounce" only jumped out of 81cm, if it is scored according to the full score of 10, his data is 7.5 points in the third position.
Zhang Zhu's "run-up jump height" is slightly better, and with enough space to run, he jumped 89cm, which is about the same as the best score measured before, but in the environment of the jumping men in the United States, this data is at most 8 points.
Finally, there is the newly added "traverse" test, which simply put, is that the player moves back and forth twice along the two penalty area lines, which can be understood as "repeated horizontal jumps", and the two are still a bit similar, that is, the range of actions is larger.
Zhang Zhu's last measured time was 2.83 seconds, if this score is scored, he can score 9.5 points in his position, generally only a small guard can have this test score, but Zhang Zhu is a small forward with a lot of weight, such a result is very good, and it is no wonder that he can often rush back to the basket in time from the outside to send blocks, his footsteps are very amazing.
The last thing to do was the bench press test, Zhang Yu didn't care about it, lazily pushed 5 times on 84 kg, and then put it down, very perfunctory.
The Clippers don't care, this test is only useful for the interior, and this test is easy to practice, as long as it doesn't push it once, it's fine.
For the maximum bench press test, Zhang Qiu still ordered a 110 kg very perfunctory, and after completion, he stopped pushing heavier ones.
The Clippers saw that he easily pushed 110 kilograms, and it should not be a problem to push 120 kilograms, but they still did not force him to continue testing.
After the physical test, Zhang Qian was unable to conduct a 5v5 confrontation game due to the lack of players on the Clippers' trial that day, so he only showed off his dribbling, pull-up jump shots, and shooting and breakthroughs under confrontation with the trainer in the training hall, which are all single content in ordinary training, but it can also be seen that his skills are not bad, and the results still make the Clippers very satisfied.
For a long time, Zhang Fu has been reported by the American media the most is his physical fitness, which is not reported much on the technical level, and he does not have a professional agent, so the exposure rate has been very low.
This can't be helped, Zhang Zhu is an outsider after all, and there is no agent to help him hype, compared to Joe Smith, Stark House, Rashid Wallace, McDyce, Kevin Garnett, these draft favorites, the American media reports on him too little, and most of the article is focused on describing his appearance, and sometimes there will be some racial discrimination for him to taste, but he ignores his basketball strength, in the end, he still looks down on him as an Australian genius, and his xenophobia is very serious.
"Dad, do you think we should find a professional agent?" After Zhang Yi returned to the hotel after the trial, he saw that there was no newspaper mentioning him today, and it was full of reports of other rookies and those exaggerated and outrageous body side data.
At this moment, Zhang Wei felt that he should fire his father, look at these guys who are all being advertised so much, he wants to have this kind of hype, it is estimated that he has already been lotto.
"I think I should find you an agent." Zhang Mo was a little embarrassed, he could see from the surprise expressions of the two assistant coaches of the Clippers team today, as well as the personal reception of the general manager of the Clippers team later, that his son's genius was not fake, and it seemed that Zhang Mo would at least not be defeated.
"I still don't understand, is it that the first thing these guys do when they meet a good seedling is to let the other party release water in the trial of other teams?" Zhang Yu then couldn't help but complain, because today's Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor actually had a routine with yesterday's Lakers head coach, and he didn't want Bilian to let him go to other teams for tryouts.