Early the next morning, Yao Ming drove to pick up Zhang Chu to the club as promised. www.biquge.info At this time, the players' summer vacation has ended, and today is the first joint training of the new season, and they are nervously preparing for the 06-07 season.

In the car, Yao Ming briefly introduced the current lineup of the Rockets and the coaching staff, and talked about the position, ability, characteristics and personality of each player.

Through Yao Ming's introduction, Zhang Chu has a preliminary understanding of the players of this season's Rockets:

Center: Yao Ming. Subs: Mutombo.

Power forward: Howard. Subs Hayes.

Small forward: Battier. Subs Novak.

Shooting Guard: Maddie. Subs: Snyder, Hyde, Wells.

Defender: Alstom. Subs: Sula, Spanoolis, Lucas.

The full name of this Howard at the power forward position is Juwan Howard, not the "Monster", and the full name of Howard of the Magic team is Dwight Howard.

This is not a hopho. Howard of the Rockets is a veteran, one of the famous "Michigan Five" of NCCA in the 90s, a teammate of Chris Webb, and a man of the year who was also a dominant figure. However, he is now 34 years old and has passed the peak of his career. Zhang Chu remembers that Zhu Wan Howard's comprehensive strength in the NBALIVE2006 is only about 68, and it is difficult to be qualified as the starter of a team that aims to impact the championship.

There are a total of fourteen people, plus Zhang Chu, basically the fifteen-man roster of the Rockets for the new season is basically formed. Of course, it hasn't been finalized yet, and the Rockets will come to observe some free agents and rookie players in the upcoming preseason, free agents may also sign short-term contracts, and rookie players may also be sent to the Development League.

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Rocket Club, training grounds.

Since it was the first joint practice of the 2006-2007 season, many of the players had already arrived early, and members of the coaching staff such as Rockets head coach Van Gundy and assistant coach Tom were also quietly watching the players on the court, occasionally putting their heads together and whispering about something. After a summer of recuperation, many players have obviously gained weight, obviously not paying attention to their usual training and diet...... This can be a big headache for head coaches and strength and conditioning coaches.

Coach Van Gundy is very short, and the familiar bald head is exactly the same as on TV, except that he is always pacing back and forth on the sidelines, shouting and commanding, while he seems calm and quiet at the moment.

"Hello, Zhang!"

"Hello, Coach Fan!"

Zhang Chu greeted the coach and players, while Yao Ming acted as an interpreter, but when he heard Zhang Chu call Van Gundy "Coach Fan", it was also a black line......

"Hello and welcome to join!" Maddie, the boss of the team, also walked over, and there was a rare hint of a smile on his sleepy face.

Zhang Chu hurriedly made himself smile more sincerely, left a good first impression on others, and shook Maddie's hand. This is known as the most talented one in the NBA in recent decades, but unfortunately he was finally knocked down by injuries and did not reach the height he deserved, which is embarrassing.

A white player who shook hands at the end, Zhang Chu is no stranger, Novak, some time ago in the rookie training camp, Zhang Chu and he were teammates for a short time. The Rockets drafted three rookies this year, Guy, Novak and Zhang Chu, and Guy has already given it to the Grizzlies in exchange for Battier. Now in this team, only two rookies are left, Novak and Zhang Chu, these two rookies are in the same situation, and they are also sympathetic to each other at the moment, and they have exchanged for a while.

Everyone got to know each other again, and then, Zhang Chu and Novak began to conduct adaptive training under the arrangement of the assistant coach. And Yao Ming talked to Van Gundy about Zhang Chu's contract, after all, Zhang Chu was not familiar with his life and had no agent, so Yao Ming promised to help him with the matter.

Of course, Van Gundy would not object to Yao Ming's help, so he agreed casually, this thing is mainly the business of the boss and the general manager, and it is not his head coach's responsibility. He quietly revealed to Yao Ming that the contracts of the two rookies, Novak and Zhang Chu, have been drawn up, with Novak being $450,000 a year and Zhang Chu being $400,000 a year.

Yao Ming frowned slightly, this annual salary is not high, but it is also within the normal acceptable range, after all, Novak is the 32nd pick, Zhang Chu is the 60th pick, it is normal to be lower than the former.

"Well, okay, I'll talk to Mr. General Manager again." Yao Ming nodded to Van Gundy.

Van Gundy patted Yao Ming's waist and said, "That's it, you go to warm up first, and Tom and I will go to study these new team members." ”

Yao Ming, Maddy and other veteran players, Van Gundy has nothing to guide and practice anymore, but these new players, especially Novak and Zhang Chu, he still have to study the technical characteristics well, and use them reasonably during the game to maximize the interests of the whole team.

In this way, the veteran players were led by the assistant coach to warm up and compete in the team, while Van Gundy let Zhang Chu and Novak do various technical moves, and he himself carefully recorded them in his notebook.

Novak has been shooting, standing outside the three-point line, he is a white player, 2.08 meters tall, is a tall small forward, the biggest feature, or the only advantage is the three-point accuracy, and the rest, basically no characteristics.

No, Novak was throwing, Zhang Chu helped pick up the ball for him, and he threw twenty balls in a row, but he didn't miss a single shot.

As for Zhang Chu, when he came to the Rockets for trial in May 2006, his comprehensive strength was 50, and now it is close to October, and five months have passed.

His current overall strength has reached 65, which is already the passing mark for NBA players, at least as a bench player, even if he does not use the "mind control" skill. If you add the anti-heaven skill of "mind ball control", hehe......

The overall strength is 65, and the highest abilities are: bounce power 75, speed 70, strength 68...... As the comprehensive strength became higher and higher, the difficulty of improvement became greater and greater, and at the beginning, the comprehensive strength was increased from 20 to 50, and it only took four or five months.

And now, it took five months to go from 50 to 65. The higher you go, the more difficult it is to further improve.

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Soon, after a day of observation, Van Gundy had a comprehensive understanding of the situation with Zhang Chu and Novak.

Novak's advantage is that he is accurate in three-point shooting, and as a No. 3 position, small forward, his height of 2.08 meters is also very advantageous, and it is difficult for defenders to block his shots. The shortcomings are a bit too much, slow speed, inflexible footsteps, poor defense, only fixed-point shooting, no ability to attack with the ball, and poor physical confrontation ability......

This is also normal, Zhang Chuji doesn't know very well, anyway, Novak's comprehensive strength in the NBALIVE2006 is definitely not 65, not as high as himself.

As for Zhang Chu, Van Gundy also recorded it in detail: the characteristics are very comprehensive, the bounce, strength, and speed are okay in the position of small forward, as for the shortcomings, it is comprehensive mediocrity, and there is no one particularly outstanding. Everyone said that Zhang Chu's defense was good, but Van Gundy observed it all day, and let Novak have a one-on-one confrontation with Zhang Chu, and he didn't find anything against Zhang Chu's defense?

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