Chapter 151: Don't listen to the old man
The CUBA National Semifinals held by Jimei University attracted many people's attention.
Not only students from Jimei University and Xiamen universities came to watch the game, but also many people outside the students also paid attention to the game, especially what Chen Zhi showed in the game.
Chen Zhi, a Chinese CUBA student, announced that he would participate in the NBA draft in advance, which did not cause much turmoil in the NBA scouting, probably during the period when Joe Jason visited Chen Zhi in China, and there were some exchanges about Chen Zhi in the NBA scouting circle, and then he was completely silent.
It's not that NBA scouts are not responsible, but the number of people who participate in the NBA draft every year is too much, and the number of people who participate in the early draft announced by the league this year alone is as many as 162, and these people are all young men under the age of 22 who want to announce their early participation in the draft.
In addition, the NCAA, which is the base of basketball talent in the United States, and professional leagues around the world have many players who have reached the age of 22 and need scouts to pay attention to.
Once a player reaches the age of 22, he is automatically placed in the target range of the NBA draft. For example, Wang Zhelin, a Chinese player who plays for the Fujian team, is just 22 years old this year, and even if he does not sign up for the NBA draft, he may be selected by an NBA team, but the signing is relatively late, and it is unknown whether he will eventually get an NBA contract.
There are even more players in this age-appropriate draft, and even if there are many scouts in the NBA, it is impossible to understand these people one by one, especially international players, which is more difficult to understand.
Therefore, there are many outstanding talents in the draft, but they are not well-known or recognized by the NBA team at the time of the draft, and unfortunately they are not selected, and these people's own basketball strength may not be worse than the strength of the selected players.
The NBA's current highest-achieving draft pick is probably Ben Wallace, one of the Pistons' five Tigers, who won the 03-04 season championship, a one-time block king, a two-time rebounding champion, a four-time best defensive player, and was selected as the best defensive team for five consecutive years in 02-06. Now the most well-known draft in China is naturally Jeremy Lin, who has caused a wave of Lin madness.
The uncles who watched the game on the sidelines of Jimei University have more or less connections with the scouts of the major NBA clubs, and they came to watch the game at this time, which can be said to act as the eyes of the NBA scouts.
Even now that the NBA draft is approaching, most of the major clubs already have their favorite players and alternatives, as long as Chen Zhi shows enough convincing performance on the court, it is still very likely to re-enter the vision of NBA scouts, and even some teams will make draft adjustments.
So before coming to Jimei University to compete, Zhou Jian specially found Chen Dao and repeatedly warned him to regard this game as his personal show, especially on the offensive end, he must attack more, show his rich offensive means under the basket, cut high scores, and then consider passing and organizing the team to attack.
Zhou Jian even made a special trip from Yangcheng to Jimei University to watch the game, and at the same time intended to supervise and remind Chen on the sidelines.
"Chen is attacking, attacking by himself!" Zhou Jian shouted at Chen Zhi on the sidelines, and was very dissatisfied with Chen Zhi's performance. He obviously didn't take his words to heart, and after scoring a few goals in the opening game to gain the lead for Yangda, he kept passing the ball, and the frequency of attacks was far less than his own asking for the ball.
Chen Zhi obviously heard Zhou Jian's shout, turned his head and smiled at Zhou Jian in the dribble gap, continued to advance with the ball, and came to the three-point line, facing Wu Pengbo, who was standing on the defensive side, without the intention of stopping.
Wu Pengbo focused on Chen Zhi in front of him, and his mind was all devoted to defense, he was working hard to study Chen Zhi's dribbling paths, and he had gained it so far, but he found that Chen Zhi liked to change direction in front of the continuous body, and he could try to make a steal under the first change of direction on his dribble.
Seeing Chen Zhi's intention to move his right hand to the left, it was obvious that he was changing direction to the left, and then he was afraid that it would be a cross-step to break through to the left! Wu Pengbo made a decision immediately, leaned forward suddenly, and stretched out his right arm to stop the ball halfway, at least hindering this change of direction!
After stretching out his hand, Wu Pengbo instantly regretted that the basketball was not handed over to Chen to his left hand as he expected, but returned to his right hand again through Chen to the right crotch, and inside-out dribbled under the crotch on one side!
"That's it, pass and rush to the basket to finish the offense!" Zhou Jian looked at Chen Dao and shouted in his heart.
It's a pity that Zhou Jian's eyes were full of longing, and he saw Chen Zhixiu pass the ball again, and the basketball fell on the crotch of Liu Lei, who was staring at Li Xuedong, and Liu Lei, who was facing away from Chen, heard the sound of the basketball near him, and immediately subconsciously looked back to check the situation, but found nothing.
Li Xuedong has already got the ball, Liu Lei, who is in charge of defending him, has not reacted yet, Li Xuedong opened his hand and hit a three-point shot!
Chen Zhi broke through again and again, almost facing the basket, and then passed the ball out again, Li Xuedong, Wang Shihua, Lu Taishan, Song Lei continued to receive the ball and scored the ball, but Chen Zhi shot very few times.
Seeing this, Zhou Jian couldn't help but feel a little angry from the bottom of his heart, what kind of attitude did Chen Zhi have, it was the right choice to brush up his data at this time, but Chen Zhi was still passing the ball, and even made a few passing mistakes, which was rare in his previous games. Chen didn't take the NBA draft seriously! Brushing out good data may not be able to enter the NBA, let alone now, I have been passing the ball selflessly, how to show my strength, attract the attention of scouts, don't listen to the old man, and suffer in front of me!
Chen Zhi did not enter the scoring mode to dominate the game, in fact, after the Yang University team played this series of games, the players have become more and more accustomed to the game, and adapt to the rhythm of the game with strong teams.
Yangda's game against Tsinghua looked very fierce when Chen Zhi did not exert his strength, and the score was deadlocked until the end of the last quarter, when Chen and Li Xuedong scored consecutive points, and Yangda won by five points.
"Jiang Lanyue, Chen can't fight like this." Seeing the Yang University varsity team that won the game celebrating on the field, Zhou Jian sighed and said to Jiang Lanyue who was not far in front.
When Jiang Lanyue heard this, she immediately understood what Zhou Jian meant, and now this time is indeed one of the few opportunities for Chen Zhi to show himself.
The players on the Yangda bench also rushed into the field after the whistle sounded at the end of the game, and more than a dozen players gathered in a group to cheer and celebrate, surrounding Chen Zhi and Li Xuedong in the middle.
Jiang Lanyue, who was sitting in the coach's seat, could vaguely see Chen Zhi's figure through the gap, his watery eyes blinked twice, thinking back to the terrifying progress speed of this guy in the past year since he knew Chen Zhi, and said to Zhou Jian firmly and with interest:
"From what you and I know about Chen Zhi, he is by no means a stupid guy. If Brother Zhou doesn't change his choice after giving advice, then we might as well believe him and see what surprises he will bring us. ”