Zhang Qi spent three days in solo training, with the two coaches taking turns with him for confrontational shooting, breakouts and singles drills. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The rest of the time is about fitness, strength and speed, but not much, because the Lakers' chief strength and conditioning coach is on vacation, and the team can't tailor a physical workout for Zhang for him for the time being.

These are not big deals, Zhang Yu finally knew after a few days why the team didn't let him have a 5v5 confrontation, because people left the training camp almost every day during this time, and the team's task in the past few days was obviously to slim down for the training camp.

Zhang Qi will not see Harris anymore, the team's head coach will not participate in the summer league, and Harris has also gone on vacation after the draft, and it is estimated that he will not return until a month later.

This slimming continued until the 11th, when Zhang Qi began and shrunk down to a team of 20 people for the first 5v5 training.

On July 20th, the "Long Beach Summer League" will begin, and the Lakers need to play 8 games in more than 20 days, against four other teams in the Pacific Division, with an average of two games against each other, that is, one home and one away, a very simple schedule.

Zhang Zhu has finally joined the official joint training this time, and through the past few days with more than a dozen heads-up victories against Malik and Finley, he has shown everyone in the training camp his strength.

Michael Finley, a junior, even struggled to score more than 5 points in a heads-up match with Zhang Zhu, and basically every game ended in being abused by Zhang Zhu.

Fourth-grader Marik Healy was better on the offensive end, but all he did was increase Zhang's defensive prowess, and it became increasingly difficult for him to threaten him, and he was completely treated as an experience baby.

Zhang Mao is also more willing to go head-to-head with the nimble and fast Malik, this type of player is his most troublesome type, which is very helpful for improving his individual defense ability.

Finley's burst flow + confrontation flow that makes more people have a headache, Zhang Mao is very easy to deal with, he only needs to use some prediction, plus physical confrontation can easily block the opponent, he has the most experience in how to fight this simple and rough play, because he is currently also this kind of style.

Of course, in addition to Malik Healy and Michael Finley, Zhang has also singled out with other players in the training camp, and there are even two stronger No. 4 players than him, and a few smaller defenders who are a head shorter than him.

However, these players still can't beat Zhang, and he has a way to gain a physical advantage against a stronger interior player or a more flexible defender than himself.

The Lakers' coaching staff agreed that Zhang had the potential to move from the No. 1 to the No. 4 position, except for the center, who couldn't defend himself, and he could play with the opponent by amplifying some of his physical advantages against players in the other four positions.

It's the same on the offensive end, Zhang is a bit like a magician, and he's also an all-around player who can play from the No. 1 to No. 4 position.

During this time, Zhang Mao's training was boring, but the reports from the outside media were very exciting......

The Los Angeles Times reported on July 18 that the high school rookies traded by the Lakers were said to have performed well in team training, and even made the Magic who came to watch the game full of praise, and the deal has been unanimously approved by the Lakers coaching staff and celebrities.

Soon, a reporter contacted Magic Johnson, who was actively losing weight, and the Lakers legend did not hesitate to share the news he saw with everyone.

"I can tell you about what I saw a few days ago. These days, teams like to divide their players into two groups to play against each other, with the first group to win by 10 points and the losing group to run laps. The magician said with a mysterious expression, "And Leon has never lost, I saw his blue group lead 9:1 that day, and then the coach switched him to the backward red group, and the next thing that happened was that Leon scored 10 points in a row and led the group behind to win." ”

"Nani, is it so amazing?" When Lakers fans saw the news, they didn't believe it very much, which is a bit too exaggerated, right?

The Magic also revealed the progress of his comeback in an interview, and he has now dropped his weight to 265 pounds, compared to a staggering 280 pounds two months ago. Next, his goal is to lose 250 pounds, perhaps in October, which is the comeback qualification that the Magic has set for himself.

"I'm not going to play on the perimeter anymore, the number four position is my best bet, but I have to get my weight down to around 250 pounds, and too much weight will affect my speed and agility. At the moment, I can't join the team training yet, but in two months I will probably be involved in the team's joint training. The Magician didn't know what he said, so Zhang Fu secretly had a cold war, if there was anyone on the Lakers who didn't want to play with the Magic the most, it was his humanoid piledriver.

In this era, people in Europe and the United States talk about Ai Sebian, especially the Yankees are most afraid of this thing, so the news of the Magician's comeback will cause countless stars to boycott.

Zhang Yu was not only afraid of contagion, but he was also afraid of the magician's overly kind eyes looking at him.

That's right, this kind-looking senior superstar is a little too friendly every time he talks to him, and I haven't seen him talk to Malik and Finley so kindly, but he seems to be extraordinarily enthusiastic about him, which is very bad!

This also makes Zhang Fu secretly worried in his heart every time he sees a magician, but he knows that the magician has always had bisexual rumors in the circle, and this disease may be related to his sexual orientation, so Zhang Wei can't help but worry about his chrysanthemum.

But what the magician said is true, Zhang Qi has long been difficult to find a defeat in the training camp, and in the 5V5 confrontation, he is even more invincible.

Zhang Mao's strength in heads-up is more dependent on physical talent to crush, if it is really more than skill, there are now several players with better skills than him in the training camp.

But if you combine his solid basic skills with his ungodly physical fitness, Zhang Yu will really feel invincible in the fish pond.

His "physical" advantage is amplified in 5v5, and he is not only good at singles, but also has good passing vision, which is also his innate talent.

"There are too many players in this league who can play alone, but there are not many players who can break in and pass the ball, and that's what he's worth." Both of the Lakers' assistant coaches were pleasantly surprised by Zhang's passing ability, and if he didn't have this talent, even if he practiced for a few years, he would still only break through, just like Malik. These people will probably never learn to divide the ball for the rest of their lives, and no matter how strong their physical talents are, they will be wasted.

Zhang is also very satisfied with the state he showed in training, and now he is only uncomfortable with some of the rules of the NBA, because he plays international basketball rules in Australia, so he is still a little unfamiliar with many of the rules of the NBA, especially this "illegal defense" makes him the most uncomfortable.

In the past, he liked to use his physical advantage to play joint defense, and NBA scouts also rated him on the defensive end as "average single defense, but excellent in help defense". However, under the rules of the NBA, if the opponent's main point of attack is not with him, then Zhang's ability to assist in defense is reduced by half, because he cannot stand between two offensive players and use his foot advantage to press the ball.

But there are two sides to everything, and this kind of rule also gives him a lot less pressure on the offensive end, and that's the benefit of the rules.

Zhang has unlimited singles rights in the summer training camp, so it is not uncommon to see his teammates on his side all pulled to the outside, and the entire box becomes empty, as long as he breaks through the defender in front of him, there is really only a basket left in front of him.

If the opponent has a trap on him, then his vision and passing ability come in handy.

Seriously, this style of play makes Zhang Qian feel very comfortable, and it would be great if he could play like this in the regular season.

At that time, his data will definitely look better than flowers, and he will definitely get a lot of triple-doubles, which is exciting to think about!

But the problem is that the Lakers have the "madman" Van Exel, who doesn't like to pass, and Ceballos, the "dunk king", both of whom are All-Stars who average 20+ points per game. Even on the inside, who is considered weak, the Lakers have potential for a new star, Campbell, and a Magic who is ready to make a comeback.

The Lakers weren't a weak team last season, and Zhang wanted to be the core here, and his draft pick alone wasn't enough.

Even if he really has the strength, it won't be easy to do.

Unless, he can rush his stats to the top of the team at the beginning of the season without taking up a lot of the ball, so that he can convince the public.

Otherwise, even Jerry West would not dare to give such an order lightly, which would have torn a team apart in the nineties, even if he was optimistic about him.

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On July 20, the Lakers will host their first opponent in the Summer League, the Sacramento Kings.

During this time, Zhang Fu was not busy sleeping powder piling, and the 28cm Italian cannon was ruthlessly put away by him.

In the past two weeks, he has seized every time to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA game, focusing on training and improving himself in training camp.

When to relax and when to work hard, Zhang Qi can still tell the difference.

Today is the first time he has come to the Lakers' home "Great Western Forum Arena", although he learned before the game that none of the Kings' main and important benches came, but this game is his first game in the United States, Zhang Mao is still very excited.

The Lakers' public relations team has done a lot of work during this time, and the newspapers in Los Angeles have been full of all kinds of strong news about Zhang Qi in training these days, which has also aroused the curiosity of many Lakers fans.

ABC Radio even made an exception to broadcast an inconsequential summer league game, which is extremely rare in history, and the three major television stations in the United States rarely even broadcast preseason games, which is inseparable from the influence of the Lakers and Zhang Fu's Chinese identity.

The promotion of NBA teams falls under the jurisdiction of the "marketing department", and Jenny Buss, as the head of the marketing department, naturally participated in the whole process of hyping Zhang Fu.

The Lakers' coaching staff has spent the past two weeks figuring out Zhang's current strengths, and the team's first assistant coach, Larry Drew, has made it clear to his marketing colleagues that Zhang has no opponents in the summer league and can at least play Grant Hill's stats from last season.

The implication of his words is to tell the marketing department, "Don't be polite, even if you blow it to death, you will definitely not be slapped in the face"!

With the assurances of the coaching staff, Jeanie Buss immediately mobilized all the team's media resources and began a 24-hour campaign at full power.

At this moment, outside the Great Western Forum Arena, Zhang Mao's full-body poster completely replaced Divac's position last season in just one week, and the billboard on the street also covered most of the block in a short period of time.

In the sports section of major newspapers in Los Angeles, you can see all kinds of news about Zhang Fu in the past few days, and even some unrelated magazines can see Zhang Fu's figure.

For example, two fashion magazines that have nothing to do with basketball voted Zhang Qi as the most handsome athlete in the United States, and even got a topless training photo of Zhang Qi as a cover.

So, when Zhang Fu's protruding muscles, like solid stones, and handsome, sunny face were printed on the cover of the magazine, Zhang Fu found that his number of fans increased several times overnight.

Under such a collapsed propaganda offensive, an ordinary summer league actually sold 16,000 tickets!

Even if you get the regular season, this number is a good attendance, and most teams can sell half of the tickets for the summer league, which is enough to fill the "Great Western Forum Arena" with 16,000 fans.