Joe Jason soon met with Chen Zhi under Zhou Jian's arrangement. Ｘ

As a scout, you have to have a pair of sharp eyes and judge what kind of character and characteristics the player has through face-to-face communication with the players.

In fact, through the information that Zhou Jian gave him before, Qiao already knew that Chen Zhi could communicate with him in English, but Chen Zhi's English level still surprised him a little, if he didn't know that Chen Zhi was indeed a local Chinese player, he even suspected that Chen Zhi was a yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana man like Jeremy Lin.

After the greetings, everyone sat down, and Joe put the notebook he had been carrying with him in front of him, and the pen in his hand tapped lightly on the paper.

Sitting in this action, he paid attention to the expression on Chen Zhi's face, and even the slightest fluctuation of expression would not be missed. After being a scout for so many years, he has always known that judging a person's true character and quality is often judged by small movements.

For example, some players on the watch list will subconsciously blink or pretend to look away when he taps his notebook with a pen.

These are usually signs of nervousness, because players know that the scouts in front of them are likely to determine whether they have a chance to get into the NBA, and teams often have individual tryouts for their favorite players, and to get a chance to try out individually, it often requires the approval of the scouts, especially for the less famous players.

Of course, it's normal for subjects to be nervous and not to be directly fatalized by this, but Joe likes to describe the details he observes when he does his scouting report.

The Chinese player in front of him made him very satisfied, he didn't want to hide that he noticed his small movements, and then smiled and looked into his eyes, "Mr. Jason, I don't know which club you work for now?" ”

Although many people will disagree, Joe, who thinks he has a lot of research on psychology and behavior, can be sure that this player's psychological quality is very good through this little trick.

"The Dallas Mavericks, the team of the 'German Chariot' Deknowitski!" Joe picked up the coffee in his hand and didn't rush to the mouth, but continued, "What do you think of this team, or rather, which team would you prefer me to come from?" ”

"To be honest, I haven't learned about NBA teams in detail right now, and for someone like me who is more adaptable, it's the same anywhere I play." Chen Zhi smiled and said, "However, I've heard my teammates mention the Dallas Mavericks. ”

"Oh? What do they say about this team? Qiao asked with interest, he really didn't know what the Chinese people thought of the Dallas Mavericks.

"No offense, but my teammates mentioned the Mavericks in passing when talking about the Warriors, who were once beaten by the Warriors and staged the Black Eight Miracle!" Chen Zhi said.

Qiao took a small sip of coffee elegantly, and almost choked out when he heard Chen Zhi's words! Even he, a foreigner, didn't expect that Chen Zhi's first sentence mentioned the black history of the Mavericks. Being "Black Eight" is a stain on any team.

In the 2006-2007 season, Nelson Sr., known as the "mad scientist", led the Golden State Warriors to the eighth place in the West in the regular season, barely catching the last train of the playoffs.

The Mavericks lost to the Heat in the Finals the year before, but the following season, the Dallas Mavericks made a comeback, winning 67 wins, sweeping the entire league, and had the momentum to enter the Finals again to win the championship.

However, when the eighth-ranked Golden State Warriors faced the first-ranked Dallas Mavericks, in the first round of the series, the old Nelson knocked the opponent to the ground with the "Golden State Gang" led by the bearded Byron Davis and Martial Saint Stephen Jackson, and the Mavericks' star Derk Nowitzki was increasingly labeled as "soft".

Without a doubt, this is the biggest stain in the history of the Mavericks and the biggest stain on Nowitzki's basketball career.

"It seems that this incident is still affecting the reputation of Dallas in China." Joe said with some embarrassment.

In the past, which of the players he inspected was not polite and polite, complimenting the Mavericks, it was really the first one like Chen Zhi who was a stain at the first time. But people have already said that they don't know the NBA, and they all hear it from their teammates.

"Actually, it doesn't have much impact now, after all, this was ten years ago, and I only knew what the 'Black Eight Miracle' was in the NBA because of this incident, so I was more impressed. Now the Dallas Mavericks have a good reputation in China, and Mark Cuban and Nowitzki are very popular with fans. Chen Zhi said when he heard this.

Hearing this, Qiao Xin said, "Well, this is the normal rhythm." ”

It's just that Chen Dao's words are not finished.

"However, in the past two years, the Mavericks have a new name in China." Chen Zhi suddenly thought of Qin Zhou's statement at that time.

"Oh?" Joe has some bad premonitions, Dallas really has nothing to praise in the past two years.

Although he had a hunch that it was not a good name, he was still curious about what this new name was.

Chen Zhi saw Qiao's inquiring look, and said with a smile, "Dallas pension team!" ”

Joe Jason couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, this statement is very vivid, in fact, there are fans in the United States who call the current Mavericks so much, among the main players with an average time of more than 20 minutes per game, the youngest is 28-year-old Chandler Parsons, and the other players are all over 30 years old, and Derknowitzki, who was born in 1978, is as high as 38 years old.

This level of aging has even surpassed the San Antonio Spurs, which have always been known as an elderly team, but have unknowingly completed the blood change.

If he hadn't heard Chen's tone or seen Chen's demeanor, Joe would have thought that the player he was communicating with didn't want to play for the Dallas Mavericks at all.

Qiao looked at Chen Zhileng for a while, picked up the pen and wrote down his feelings in the notebook, this is a player with an extremely stable mentality, and has the ability to face big scenes.

Probably because he didn't want the team he was playing for now to be looked down upon, the next conversation became Joe's Mavericks history popularization time, Chen Zhi asked a few questions from time to time, and humbly learned.

After all, he doesn't know much about the NBA, especially for the Dallas Mavericks, a team that has not been popular in the past two years, there is no harm in understanding it.

This makes Joe very satisfied, as players who are good at learning are usually able to integrate into the team's tactical system more quickly.

After the meeting, Joe suddenly felt a little regretful, and it was a pity that he might not be able to get Chen Zhi a team tryout.

The Mavericks are not short of point guards now, although Deron Williams is no longer the super point guard of the Jazz team who "eats and sleeps and plays Paul", but after joining the Mavericks, it seems to have changed to a second spring, with an average of 14 points and 6 assists per game. At the same time, there are also backfield players such as Devin Harris and Jose Barria as substitutes.

And the Mavericks' thirst for center players is well known, and the few draft players they're looking at now are also big insiders.

After handing in his scouting report truthfully, it is foreseeable that it will be difficult to impress the Mavericks management, and perhaps other teams that need point guards may be more interested in Chen Zhi, a Chinese player, such as the Nets and the Suns.

But no matter what, for the sake of his old friend Zhou Jian's face, he must also try to fight for Chen Zhi a chance to try out for the team alone, and it is up to Chen Zhi to himself whether he can stay at that time.