In the gym, Li Chenglong is sweating like rain.

He has been training at Tim Glover's personal training gym in Chicago for four weeks, but he and the famous Tim Glover have not met a few times, except for the first meeting at the gym, Glover has only appeared three times, and Lee Chenglong has been training with another trainer in the gym most of the time.

With the help of the trainer to put the barbell down, Li Chenglong picked up a towel to wipe the sweat off his face.

"Bruce, this is your last day in the gym, right?"

"Well, the NBA regular season is over, and I'm going to get ready for the draft."

"Well, I wish you a smooth entry into the NBA, and it was a pleasure to work with you."

"Wood, you're a good trainer, and as a token of appreciation, I have to invite you to lunch."

Li Chenglong and the trainer went back to the locker room to change their training clothes and went to the small restaurant in the training hall together.

After four weeks in this training gym, Lee also gained some understanding of NBA trainers.

NBA trainers are partly theorists, partly retired players or people who have a good level of basketball but are physically unable to become professional players.

The first type of trainer has learned systematic training knowledge, as well as special trainer certificates, etc., in the NBA, this kind of trainer is the most popular, and Tim Glover is this kind of trainer.

The second type of trainer is mostly for the stars as sparring partners, and many balls are attached to the first type of trainer. Of course, many of the most famous retired players have opened famous training gyms, such as Olajuwon and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Theoretical trainers also need fame, and Tim Glover became famous as a trainer for Joe, and then invited to continue to train many stars.

And a college player like Lee Chenglong obviously didn't attract Tim Glover's attention, and only sent an ordinary trainer to be in charge of his training.

The trainer in charge of Lee is named Wood Jenkins, who graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in kinesiology.

In sports medicine-related professional fields, the University of Chicago is ranked within the top 10 in the United States. After a few years in the trainer industry, Jenkins, who is not yet 30 years old, is not yet very famous, and now lives on Glover's training gym.

In the restaurant, Lee Chenglong and Jenkins munched on steaks, and Jenkins, as a trainer, didn't look like Lee Chenglong had a small appetite at all.

When they were almost done, the two began to talk.

Jenkins said: "Bruce, you're a talented guy, and I'm sure you can make a name for yourself in the NBA. ”

"Alright, Wood, I'm leaving, and I think it's better for you to give some advice than these frivolous compliments." Li Chenglong didn't care about his compliments.

Jenkins then said: "First of all, your weight is still too light, with your height to cope with NBA-level confrontations, it is better to increase your weight to more than 95 kilograms, and you need to continue to learn the right way to play, you have basically not received proper instruction before, you Columbia University is really bad at basketball, when I first met you, you have more than 10 amateur playing habits, these habits may not be a big problem in the NCAA, but if you bring these habits into the NBA." , which will make you constantly make mistakes on the field, a little bit of exhaustion of the manager's patience, and eventually give up. ”

There was no worried and scared expression on Li Chenglong's face, Jenkins continued: "But you are one of the softest players I have ever seen, you are very talented in shooting, and you are also not weak in dribbling through the ball, I suggest you develop in the direction of sudden shooting in the future......"

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Back in his temporarily rented house in Chicago, Lee looked at the draft projections in sports newspapers.

The NCAA finals have long ended, and Greg Oden's Ohio State University still did not win the championship in the end, they lost to the defending champion University of Florida, but this did not affect Oden to become the champion, almost all newspapers now say that Oden must be the champion, and Durant must be the leader.

In the finals, Ohio lost the game, but Oden played well, completely blowing up the inside line of the University of Florida, scoring a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds, and Noah, who was directly opposite Oden, only scored 8 points and 3 rebounds, and was completely suppressed by Oden.

However, except for Oden and Conley, who played well, everyone else felt cold and finally lost to the University of Florida, which was a soldier for all.

Oden showed his strength in the finals, and now the newspapers are full of bragging words about him, Oden's limelight is catching up with LeBron James before the draft, but unfortunately Oden is an inside player, not as sought after by sports brands as outside players, but there are also Nike, Adi and Puma are all vying for Oden's sneaker sponsorship, and it seems that Nike is closer to Oden.

You know, Nike signed Duncan and Garnett two big men, but later found that the two were very famous, and the sneakers couldn't be sold at all, so the contract expired and was not renewed, and the two switched to Adi, and then Nike never signed big players again, and now Oden once again made Nike interested in big men.

This year's draft is considered not big or small, not small because there are two talented players Oden and Durant, and there can be two talented players in a draft, which must not be said to be a small year, but everyone generally believes that in addition to Oden and Durant, the other rookies to be selected are very average, so it cannot be called a big year.

Durant was eliminated from the NCAA for leading the team to the round of 32, which allowed Oden to lock in the top spot.

Li Chenglong searched for a while, and finally found his draft market prediction, at the end of the first round or the early part of the second round.

Draft evaluation: has a good ability to score, but the thin body may be difficult to adapt to the NBA-level confrontation, the age has reached 21 years old, the potential is insufficient, but can be used as a substitute to steal points.

Here are some draft pundit comments: Bruce Lee is the biggest dark horse maker in the NCAA this year, and if he hadn't led Columbia University to the Sweet 16, he would have the most likely loss in the draft.

Although the words are not very good, Li Chenglong knows that what he said above is basically true, if he hadn't led Columbia University to the top 16, he would indeed be defeated in the draft. I remember that Jeremy Lin just failed to lead the team to the national championship, and his best result with Harvard was the third place in the Ivy League in his senior year, even if his style of play was liked by the audience, even if he was very famous within the Ivy League, the result of participating in the draft was also unsuccessful.

Li Chenglong felt that even if he only reached the national championship and was eliminated in the first round, his draft market should be at the end of the second round or lost.

However, Li Chenglong can't agree with his lack of potential, with the help of magical equipment, he thinks he is full of potential, but this potential can't be shown to those team managers for the time being.