USA Today reporter Marcod, who is good friends with Zhang Zifeng. Lakawa went to interview Lao K and asked: Mr. Mike, there have been rumors recently that Zhang Zifeng has hidden dangers in his knees. What are your thoughts on this matter?

Lao K immediately said indignantly: "This is slander, and I vouch for my personality." Zhang Zifeng's body is very healthy, and there is no so-called hidden danger of injury. ”

His own disciple came to ask him to clarify the rumors, and of course Lao K was duty-bound.

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With Lao K's public statement, the rumors about Zhang Zifeng's knee hidden danger temporarily stopped for a while.

But in order to completely dispel the concerns of the team's head coach and general manager, Zhang Zifeng still went to the training of these teams.

Zheng Xinguo told Zhang Zifeng to perform better during the training during this time, he did not accompany Zhang Zifeng to the trial, he was busy muddying the troubled waters.

Of course, Zhang Zifeng can't go to every team for training, it's hard, tiring and not cost-effective.

Teams that already have excellent shooting guards, such as Harden's Rockets, DeRozan's Raptors, Thompson's Warriors, etc. Automatically ignored by him.

Why do you go to these teams for training?

They're selected, and then the new season, what to do with yourself!

Farming data in garbage time?

Don't be funny, if you do this kind of work for a year or two, you may be wasted.

Just like Milicic back then, he didn't get a chance to work out in the Pistons, and his talent was abandoned in the end.

From the point of view of personal interests and playing style, it is best to go to the team where the scoring guard line is not strong and needs to replenish blood.

In this way, he has a better chance of being selected and becoming the core of the team.

Zhang Zifeng prioritizes teams such as the Timberwolves, Lakers, Mavericks, Spurs, and Pacers.

Zhang Zifeng's first stop was to go to the Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves have the champion sign, and the old wolf king has publicly welcomed him, so of course Zhang Zifeng wants to give face.

The Timberwolves' home arena is the target center, but that's only for games.

The Timberwolves' tryout was held in the Minnesota State University gymnasium.

Inside the gymnasium, Zhang met Garnett and Timberwolves general manager Milt Newton.

"Welcome to Minnesota, do you need a break to start the tryout tomorrow?" Garnett said with a smile.

"No, I want to start the trial now!" Zhang Zifeng said.

"Good. Then you warm up first, and then perform well, I look forward to being teammates with you! Garnett patted Zhang Zifeng and walked away, not disturbing Zhang Zifeng to warm up.

Zhang Zifeng spent thirty minutes completely warming up his body, first measuring the basic data of his body.

Zhang Zifeng followed the Timberwolves physical fitness coach and team doctor into the measurement room to measure the basic data of the body.

Especially for height and arm span, many players' data are watery. It's like Barkley, it's like Durant.

One is inflated, the other is inflated.

The club has to measure it itself to be reassured.

Zhang Zifeng, 1.97 meters tall, has an arm span of 2. 09 meters and weight 94.2 kg.

The physical fitness test is mainly based on the basic data of running and jumping, bench press, squat, round-trip running, and 3/4 sprints.

The bounce on the spot is 75.1 cm, and the run-up bounce is 90.17 cm.

When he saw the 110 kg bench press and 160 kg squat that Zhang Zifeng could complete, Garnett nodded with satisfaction.

Such data is not good or bad in this rookie, it is qualified.

However, they don't expect a yellow man to have such unnatural statistics, they value his scoring ability and ball intelligence on the court more.

A lot of black people have a good body, but they don't have a head. It's like the Rockets' former power forward, like McGee.

Such people, no matter how physically they are, are useless, because they can't understand such advanced tactics, they are always outside the team's system, and you don't know what they want to do in the next second!

Although Zhang Zifeng's physical statistics are not outstanding, Garnett is more looking forward to seeing Zhang Zifeng's performance on the court.

Since moving from the Timberwolves to the Celtics, the Timberwolves have declined, and the Timberwolves have been at the bottom of the league for several seasons.

The Timberwolves have always had good strength on their books, but they always drop the chain at critical moments.

Therefore, Garnett very much hopes that the Timberwolves can pick a leader who can be the king of wolves and lead the Timberwolves to rise again.

Garnett has seen Zhang Zifeng's performance in NC+, and he admires Zhang Zifeng's leadership style very much.

That's why he stood up and publicly expressed his hope that the Timberwolves could choose Zhang Zifeng.

Although Zhang Zifeng's physical test data is not particularly outstanding, it can also reach the NBA level. At least in terms of physical confrontation, Zhang Zifeng can handle most of the defenders.

That's enough, after all, not everyone is Jordan and Kobe, they can be top on both offensive and defensive ends.

As long as you can mark most of your shooting guards and then score effectively, you're a good shooting guard.

After the physical data is collected, it is the official trial.

First, there is a one-on-one bullfight to examine the individual skills of the players.

In the end, it will be a five-on-five, a team combat ability of the test players.

The Timberwolves have the No. 1 pick, and a lot of rookies have come over for tryouts.

In addition to Zhang Zifeng, there are more than two dozen people who came here for a trial today, including the top pick Downs, and his teammates Devin Booker, Willie Cowley Stein, and Trey Lyles, a total of four Kentucky players.

This season, the University of Kentucky has also performed well enough, winning 38 consecutive seasons, if it weren't for the surprise upset loss to the University of Wisconsin in the Final Four.

Otherwise, the finals of Duke University and Kentucky will be a contest.

One-on-one bullfighting.

Zhang Zifeng faced German. Booker.

German. Booker obviously disdains Zhang Zifeng, in his opinion, Zhang Zifeng is touted, he can come out only because he didn't meet him Devon. Booker.

If you meet yourself in the finals, you will definitely be able to beat him.

German. Booker stood outside the three-point line with the ball in front of Zhang Zifeng, Zhang Zifeng knew that this guy wanted to be with him very much, and his shooting was excellent.

Zhang Zifeng leaned forward and sank down, staring at the other party seriously.

"Zhang Zifeng, is it? Don't think that just because all the media are touting you is worthy of being compared to me! ""German. Booker said disdainfully, "You're just being touted, I'll blow you up later!" ”

After speaking, the ball was interspersed back and forth under Booker's crotch, and seeing that Zhang Zifeng was not fooled, his center of gravity was still very stable.

Booker changed direction and kicked his left foot to the right side of Zhang Zifeng.

Zhang Zifeng slid sideways, following closely with the opponent, not giving the opponent a chance to rush straight to the basket.

Seeing Zhang Zifeng's defensive footsteps, Gane, who once won the Best Defensive Player Award, nodded, Zhang Zifeng's defense was really good.

Zhang Zifeng's reaction surprised Booker, but he quickly reacted that being able to become the debut of the giant Kentucky naturally has his strengths.

Suddenly, with a step back, Booker jumped up and shot.

Just when Booker thought he had created space to shoot and could shoot with peace of mind.

Booker, who was jumping in the air, found Zhang Zifeng's hand appear in front of him, "Damn, how can this be?" ”

One-on-one, again in the air, Booker had to choose to force a shot.

Touch!

The ball hit the iron unsurprisingly.

'He's very good defensively, he's very good on his feet, he's not risking the ball and he's not trying to block the shots, which is important. Because of the blind pursuit of blocks, it is easy to foul. A good defender must know how to control the number of fouls he commits and try to interfere with the opponent so that the opponent's shooting percentage drops. Garnett said to General Manager Milt Newton.

Milt Newton didn't speak, but continued to look at the field, which was just beginning and needed to be examined more.

However, I have more understanding of Zhang Zifeng in my heart.

Zhang Zifeng picked up the ball and looked at Booker. "Say it's good to up! Since you can't do it, then I'll blow you up! ”