Chapter 4 I'm going to participate in the draft
"Do you really want to go to the NBA?" Zhang Baizhi was lying in her boyfriend's arms, still in a not very good mood, and her crescent-like eyes revealed a trace of sorrow. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After only half of the movie between the two, Zhang Yu dragged his girlfriend, who was also very hungry, to a hotel to start a big fight, and his physical strength was too good to say even if he didn't use the bonuses of those cards.
Zhang Qi will shamelessly think that if he is really dedicated, no matter how strong the little girlfriend's sex bath is, he will not be able to satisfy him. After using the card, it is not to mention, he is simply a superman in bed, and his combat power can be said to be invincible in the world.
Zhang Baizhi still looks preoccupied, but it wasn't for her boyfriend's split leg not long ago, she didn't know why, she suddenly stopped worrying about that matter in her heart, and now she was worried about what Zhang Zhu said after the game, she also heard it in front of the TV, if Zhang Zhu really went to the United States, wouldn't they have to be separated for a long time?
"Well...... Zhang Yi found that he didn't really fall in love with this little girlfriend, when he made a decision, he thought about how to explain it to his father, but he never thought about how to explain it to his little girlfriend, he didn't think about it at all, it turned out that what he liked was just the other party's body and delicate face, which was a bit embarrassing!
"Don't worry, I've thought about it, you can come to the United States to study in the future, and I will find a way to arrange it for you as soon as I arrive in the United States." Zhang Yu was thinking about the same thing, but his eyes didn't even blink, and when he opened his mouth, he flickered, "Moreover, I will leave in the summer, and we may be separated for half a year, but you know that I am also reluctant to leave you, but this is the reality, I must work hard for our future, and there will be a short separation in between, but don't worry, as long as I build this home, we will not be separated again." ”
Zhang Baizhi was fooled by her boyfriend, fully showing how innocent a young and ignorant 15-year-old underage girl is, she actually believed the sweet words of this big bad wolf so easily, and it was hopeless.
Zhang Qian hugged his very good little girlfriend here, and the 28 clone reacted again, and continued to say irresponsibly: "Don't worry, I said that I will raise you for a lifetime, and I will never break my word." He didn't lie, but he didn't just want to raise a sister, since he had the harem system, his appetite was too big, big enough to make the Macau gambling king with three wives and four concubines willing to bow down.
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"You're going to the U.S. to play in the NBA?" Zhang Mo only knew that he had this idea after Zhang Yu first expressed his position in front of the media.
Zhang Mo felt inappropriate in his heart, he always thought that Zhang Mo should go to the United States to finish college before participating in the draft, just like Michael Jordan, who just came back, this path is the right way in his eyes.
At the age of 18, he was going to participate in the draft, Zhang thought it was too risky and dangerous, and he was most worried that Zhang Zhu's body had not grown well, and he would be injured if he rushed to play NBA-intensity games. He has also watched the "Slam Dunk", and his knowledge of basketball has also made up a lot in the past two years because of his son, and he has even developed the habit of watching the NBA.
"Dad, don't worry, you don't know my body yet, those black and hard are not as hard as mine, not to mention the brain, those guys don't even know the 'force equals mass times speed' estimate." Zhang Mao's words are exaggerated enough, but as the existence of the first math score in the whole grade, he is indeed qualified to look down on those simple-minded black players.
Zhang Fu's IQ test results are also very high, from his previous ideal of being a programmer, it can be seen that he is very talented in mathematics, although he is not the inherited Zhang Mo, but under the teaching of words and deeds, Zhang Fu's computer knowledge is also one of the best in the school. With these skills alone, he can go to a world-famous school like Princeton or Harvard.
Now even when the media reports, they will add the word "high IQ" in front of his basketball talent, who is called Knox Grammar School is one of the top schools in Australia, so his academic performance in the school is among the best, and it is also regarded as the focus of publicity. Such a genius with excellent character and learning, athletic talent and superhuman talent is obviously more topical. At the same time, his mixed-race status has also made the Australian media less discriminatory against Chinese, and his Chinese name is rarely seen in the newspapers here, and he is basically reported by the English name "Lyon", as if he is a white man.
It's a pity that China is still in the early stage of reform and opening up, and CCTV5 also saw Jordan's comeback, which was the first time in 94-year history that the All-Star Game and the Finals were broadcast by satellite that year, and only a small number of regular season games will be broadcast this year. The domestic fan base is still in its infancy, not only is the number very small, but the fans watch fewer games, and everyone knows less about the NBA, and most fans know a Jordan.
In fact, since 1990, the NBA began to regard China as a potential market, and since then, the NBA has compressed a game into an hour-long videotape, accompanied by music, and sent it to CCTV for free.
At this time, the American media also began to pay attention to this high school star who is a household name in Australia, and it is not easy for a basketball genius to be born in the current Kangaroo country.
Before Zhang Qi, there was only one Luke Longley in Australia who mixed well in the NBA, but the backcourt players basically did not produce any talent, and there were no players who could even play in the NBA.
So when Zhang Qian publicly stated that he was going to participate in the 1995 NBA draft, this was a great event in the eyes of Australians, and many people were speculating whether Zhang Zhu, who had played all over the world in Australia, would he be as invincible as he was at home after going to the United States?
Australia has always been a sparsely populated country, but it's also a developed country, and it's so easy to watch an NBA game here.
Therefore, the level of understanding of the NBA by Australian fans is completely different from that of China at this time, these fans know what kind of place the NBA is, and it is unceremonious to say that even in the Australian national team now, there are few people who are qualified to play there.
They guessed correctly, not only does the American media look down on these people, they also don't know much about Zhang Mao, and because they have a natural contempt for the basketball world outside the NBA, an Australian high school genius is basically a big joke in their eyes. Not even to mention Australia's high school leagues, even Australia's college leagues, Americans don't bother to glance at them.
Now the only people in the world who can be looked at by Americans with a straight eye are the national team cores in those European basketball powers, but even if these people come to the NBA, that is, they will give their superstars a start, and they will be a second leader for you, so Australia's high school genius? Or don't be funny, isn't this an April Fool's joke?
"ESPN" reported on April 25 -
"Why do we want Lyon?"
Don't get me wrong, we're not trying to laugh at him, we're professionals. If he's a number three, he's not badly tall, his reach and weight look attractive, and we've seen him there at the Australian high school level at the national level, beating his opponents like kids! And then what? Our little Australian talent is floating, and he's starting to feel like he can break into the NBA, or even go straight to the draft?
It's clear that the mixed-race phenom thinks the NBA is as easy to conquer as the NBL.
But in reality, the NBL is not even as good as the NCAA.
His performance is very similar to a Chinese idiom - "sit in a well and watch the sky".
We think this sentence can very vividly describe his current state, if this Australian talent is a little more pragmatic, then, we recommend that he go to the NCAA for a few years first, maybe at that time, he will have the strength to enter the NBA to play, after all, his physical fitness is still good, but he must recognize what level of the NBA league.
The Los Angeles Times also poured a bucket of cold water on Zhang Qiu, a broken newspaper that has no say in the basketball field at all, but it has to jump out and shake it twice.
The Los Angeles Times ridiculed Zhang as having a better time getting to know LaRue Martin, a physically gifted forward who made a name for himself by beating UCLA's Bill Wharton in college, and was later selected as the top pick, and then ...... The champion retired after just four seasons in the NBA, averaging 5.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
The implication here is obvious, LaRue Martin is also a very physical player, and he went to college and played Bill Walton in college.
But even so, LaRue Martin proved to be a big parallel commodity in the end.
So just imagine, an Australian high school student who has never been exposed to American basketball at all, even if he is a genius, where can he be a genius?
Zhang Mao's choice is indeed very puzzling to most people, even Australian fans believe that his best choice should be to go to the NCAA for a year or two before participating in the draft.
Now Zhang Zhu only has the experience of playing in an Australian high school, which will indeed cause many people to question, and not many teams will be interested in him, now it is normal for him to be looked down upon, Zhang Zhu is indeed a little too serious about the NBA.
Luke Longley, the captain of the Australian national team who is playing with the Bulls at the moment, suggested that Zhang Qian go to the NCAA for two years first, and then go to the draft when he really adapts to American basketball.
"I've seen Lyon play and he's a really talented player, but he has to recognise the difference between high school and professional and I think I need to talk to him." Luke Longley will return to Australia in June, and he is ready to communicate with this fellow, Luke Longley is optimistic about the Australian star, but Zhang Mao's choice surprises him.
"I'm not going to change my decision, and if no one really picks me, that's when I think about going to college." Zhang Mo let his father be his agent first at the end of April, although Zhang Mo is not very competent to do the work of an agent, but this is the latter's strong request, Zhang Mo is not worried that he will go to the United States alone, and is ready to accompany him to stay for two months to see the environment over there.
In fact, Zhang Mo is not optimistic that his son can be selected, and his plan is that if Zhang Mo really loses the election, he will just let him stay in the United States to study in college. If Zhang Qi can be selected, it will not be too late for them to find a real professional agent at that time, he really can't do this job.
Zhang's high school education ended in May, but the NBA was still in the playoffs, and he was a little embarrassed during this time, because he found that he had no place to train professionally, and finally had to borrow the original school training hall to maintain his condition.
Knox Grammar High School opened up to this, and they opened a training hall for him alone in the offseason, which made Zhang have some good feelings about this shabby school.
Knox Grammar High School is based on Zhang Zhu's special contribution to the school, how to say that Zhang Zhu also brought the team into the national competition for two consecutive years, and also entered the finals historically, and won the first MVP honor in the history of the school. Although Zhang didn't help Knox Grammar High School win the championship in the end, these contributions were enough to make him a sports hero in the school's history.
Soon, after the Australian men's basketball team heard that Zhang had no place to train, they specially invited him to train with the national team in May.
This is another special case, in Australia, there have been no cases of high school players skipping a grade to train with the national team.
However, it is also understandable the approach of the Australian national team, although the outside media, especially the American media, has been watching Zhang Zhu's draft market all the way, but Australians still believe that Zhang Zhu is their most talented talent at present, so they put him in the national team to train together, which is also to help him adapt to real professional basketball early, and at the same time test his gold content.
The level of those games that Zhang Zhu played before was indeed too low, and even many players in the Australian men's basketball team felt that Zhang Zhu might be a genius who was hyped up by the media, and they wanted to see how talented this high school student was, and he dared to run to the draft at the age of 18?
Soon, Zhang Fu continued to show his outstanding physical talent when facing a group of national players. Although he is still a lot behind these national team players in terms of technique, especially in terms of game experience, his physical fitness is still the most talented one in the whole team, even at the national team level. Even in the training match with the national team, Zhang Zhu also staged a head-on shot of several Australian insiders, which is a bit powerful.
Zhang Yi trained with the Australian national team for a month, and these national players were suspicious and jealous from the beginning, and then regardless of whether they still had such emotions in their hearts, but at least the doubts were long gone.
In the national team, although Zhang Mao can no longer kill like in high school, he can play a few games with the players in the national team at this age, which is already a very amazing performance.
The players of these national teams are also secretly muttering, "No wonder this kid dares to skip the NCAA and go to the draft at the age of 18, and sure enough, there are a few brushes to be so arrogant."
Zhang Yu himself slowly has a sense of crisis, although the coaches of the Australian national team feel that his talent is not hyped. The members of the national team also felt that it was remarkable for him to have such a performance at his age. But Zhang Yu himself is not satisfied, even if he has had a lot of wonderful dunks and personal performances in the team's training, but these do not mean anything. Zhang's own feeling is that every training match he plays here is very tough, and he has even been prevented several times, which is something he has never experienced before.
Australia has only one player playing in the NBA, but this team is not unknown, and it is barely an international powerhouse, having reached the quarterfinals at the last Barcelona Olympics and the semifinals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Generally speaking, the national team's intra-team training matches will have a special person to count the player's data, so as to understand the state of the players, and Zhang Fu is also very aware of his performance.
In the past month, Zhang Yu has played a full ten regular team training matches with the Australian national team in the first and second halves, and also played two friendly matches with the New Zealand national team, but he only started 2 of these 12 games, playing only 19 minutes per game, and could only get 7 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, and the shooting rate was only 43%.
Naturally, Zhang was not satisfied with such data, and he began to lose his confidence in his NBA journey. The professional game, sure enough, is not so simple, just the training matches and friendly matches have made it difficult for him.
But this is the so-called "authority fan", Zhang Qian feels that his performance is not good, he feels that he can only play a role player here, and his play is also very limited, it is difficult for him to break through and score as freely as before, and can only occasionally dunk one through the fast break, but this opportunity has become very rare.
In addition, his biggest feeling is that in the systematic defense of the national team, he can no longer use his speed and strong body to blindly do it. In the past, he could easily score points by crushing him directly with his body. But now he found that if he came hard, he would fall into the opponent's defensive trap, and then be cut off in the bag of several people, and the best result would be to force a missed shot, and then be beaten back.
Secondly, his shooting percentage has dropped significantly, and although these opponents are not as physical as him, they can use their rich experience and defensive awareness to affect his shooting and greatly reduce his shooting percentage.
In the first few training matches, he also had several jump shots blocked, which was a humiliating situation. But who told him to shoot too casually, and he still retains the habit of abusing vegetables in high school, but the opponent at this time is already different.
Basically, for the first time, Zhang Qian felt that he was no longer the protagonist, he even had to follow the command of his own point guard to run, and he had to cover other teammates without the ball.
Oh, my God! These jobs were all done for him before, when did he cover for others without the ball?
Also, how could anyone dare to say that he wasn't before?
The most unbearable thing is that he can't touch the basketball anymore!
This is what makes Zhang Wei the most dissatisfied in his heart, although he played the No. 4 position in high school, but the ball holding rate is no less than that of the point guard, but now he suddenly can't get the ball, which also makes him very uncomfortable and dissatisfied.
But these picks are not the case in the eyes of others, in the eyes of others, Zhang Fu is now less than eighteen years old, and he can already play training matches and friendly matches with the players of the national team, and he can also play decently, and often have a bright performance, which is a very incredible thing in itself.
Although his average data per game is unbearable in his eyes, it is a different version in the eyes of others.
The head coach of the Australian national team even thinks that as long as Zhang Qiu trains with the team for a few more months, he will be able to go out to play official matches with the national team, and he will definitely have a lot of playing time.
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In a blink of an eye, the time has come to June, the NBA playoffs have reached the finals stage, and the two strongest teams in the East and West this year are the Houston Rockets and the Orlando Magic.
If O'Neal can beat Olajuwon this time, he will become the NBA's active No. 1 center, otherwise he will have to wait a few more years to take over.
Zhang Wei is more optimistic about the Rockets, although he felt that the Rockets had no chance of winning the championship, but the Rockets who have reached the finals are different.
At the end of this year's regular season, the Rockets finished sixth in the West with a 47-35 record, and at the time most people were pessimistic about the defending champions, including Zhang, who was largely unexpected.
But it is such an underappreciated team, under the leadership of Olajuwon, that has begun to perform its own mythical performance - the Rockets have to be convinced by consecutive victories over the Jazz (second in the regular season league) with 60 wins in the Western Conference playoffs, the Suns with 59 wins (third in the regular season league) and the Spurs (first in the league in the regular season) with 62 wins over new MVP David Robinson.
The main attraction on the Magic's side is, of course, the big shark O'Neal, who has been praised by the American media as a genius that only comes out in 50 years, and is undoubtedly a monster-level demonic center, who is born a ruler of the restricted area.
Zhang Yu is rarely convinced, but he is still convinced by peerless wizards like Jordan and O'Neal, although he is confident that he will not be worse than them in the future, but he also does not think that he can easily defeat these people, these real freaks are the goal of his struggle.
But then again, Olajuwon is also a real genius and leader, in the face of the Magic team that eliminated the Bulls and Pacers, although the Rockets were completely suppressed at the beginning of the first game, the Magic once led the Rockets by 20 points in the first half, but the Rockets chased all the way to only three points before the end of the game, on the other hand, Anderson, the small forward of the Magic team, actually stood at the free throw line and missed 4 free throws, and was finally dragged into overtime by Kenny Smith with a three-pointer.
The two teams played to overtime, and Zhang Wei felt that this time it should be the younger O'Neal who would defeat the 32-year-old Olajuwon, not that he was afraid of being less strong.
But he never expected that the first person who had no strength was 23-year-old O'Neill?!
On the other hand, the 32-year-old Olajuwon was still very brave in overtime, and he also made a rebound at the last moment to kill the Magic.
"This big shark's physical strength is too poor, why is it a little useless!" Zhang Qi began to despise O'Neill, although he was a little fatter, but you are ten years younger than others, how can your physical strength be inferior to that of an old man? There is no other reason for this phenomenon than not training hard.
The Rockets are extremely experienced in the competition, carrying the momentum of the Jedi comeback in the first game, and then did not give the young Magic any chance, and swept the Magic with a strong wind and a falling leaf in three consecutive games. It is worth mentioning that in the third battle, it was Hawley who hit a key three-pointer at the last moment to win the victory, and poor Magic and O'Neal were swept by a group of old guys. And the big sharks, who were more favored before the game, did not take advantage of Olajuwon either, and he was slightly inferior to Olajuwon in terms of personal data and contribution to the team.
Zhang Zhu is ready to leave for the United States at this time, after the start of the finals, there are NBA teams have sent emails to invite him to try out, although the mainstream media in the United States is not optimistic about an Australian high school genius, but with the news of Zhang Zhu's training in the Australian national team, especially under the praise of the Australian men's basketball head coach, some NBA teams also want to see what Zhang Zhu is, what if he is really a genius?