Chapter 19: New Friends
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Time flies, and Jonny has to come out of a town that is a bit of a paradise and he's going to play in the Summer League.
Although Jonny really didn't want to play in this summer league and felt that it was a waste of time to participate in this kind of informal competition, Jimmy Adams and Anfernee Hardaway both called him, and they both said that it would be good for him to participate in the summer league, and Jonny came out of Lockwood and rushed straight to Orlando.
Jonny didn't stay in Orlando for a few days, because the team had already assembled, and he left for Long Beach, California, where the summer league was held.
And in this team, Jonny also saw an acquaintance, that is, the same Amar McCasgill who was his teammate in the Chicago training camp.
When he first met Jonny in Chicago, McCasgill was very disdainful of this training camp teammate, and even felt that he had been moldy for eight lifetimes, and he would have such an unfamous and perhaps incapable teammate.
However, they played the first game together, and of course the last, and Jonny was the best of the five of them, and Anthony Walker, whom he highly valued, was actually the worst of all. After being eliminated in the first round of the training camp, they never met again.
Then, in the draft, the Magic selected Jonny in the first round, which surprised McCastle Gill, because he had already received the Magic's draft commitment, and next, he was likely to be Jonny's teammate, and what happened next confirmed all this.
McCasgill found himself as Jonny's teammate, a player he looked down on who was drafted by the same team ahead of him and paid more.
Of course, McCasgill adjusted very well, and he became very enthusiastic after meeting Jonny, and he didn't look down on Jonny at all.
Jonny naturally doesn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiley person, and he is also very enthusiastic about McCasgill , and the two have become the best relationship in the team now.
And in this team that competes in the summer league, there are a few people who hold Magic guaranteed contracts like Jonny and McCasgill, Darryl Armstrong, who is a third-year this year, and his position is point guard; Brian Evans, the player the Magic was originally going to select, but because of Jonny's outright, Brian Evans was finally selected in the second round, and then he was cut and joined the Magic, and his position is small forward; David Vaughn, a first-round pick selected by the Magic last year, is at power forward; Clifford Lodger, a third-year student who was cut by the Warriors, had 7 points and 7 rebounds in his rookie season, but because of injuries, he was waived by the Warriors and signed a base salary contract with the Magic this summer.
In addition to these players, the rest of the players are some rookies and fringe players in the league. And the players with contracts are naturally the players that the Magic team focuses on cultivating, and there are no players in these players who overlap with Jonny's position, so Jonny's position as a starting point guard is still very solid.
Arriving in Long Beach, California, the Magic players were led by their coaches to choose their jerseys, and Jonny picked and chose a No. 27, the number he was selected by the Magic. And McCasgill saw this, and finally chose a No. 20, which is also the number that the Magic selected him, and the Magic selected him with the 20th pick in the second round.
This time, the Magic led the team to the summer league not with the head coach of the Magic team, Brian Hill, but the team's assistant coach Ricky Adubatu.
Adubatu smiled kindly at Jonny, then clapped his hands and brought the players together.
"This year's Summer League is in Long Beach, California, and we're playing five games against the 76ers, the Midvorki Bucks, the Chinese national team, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors. We don't have tactics in the summer league, everyone is free to work together, play good statistics and results, and that's it. Adubatu spoke quickly and then let the players train freely.
Jonny thought about the schedule that Adubatu just said, 76ers? It seems to be the team that the champion is on, right? And the Chinese national team? Jonny's face was a little strange when he heard the name, and the Los Angeles Lakers, that hateful Kupchak, that weird Kobe Bryant.
Jonny felt that the training was boring, and the whole team seemed to have no opponents, because Adubatu did not arrange tactics and did not arrange other training sessions, so they have been playing a relaxed intra-team match, and Jonny found that there was really no opponent in this team.
The scoring guard in this team or the small forward who has changed the defense, no matter who it is, can't prevent Jonny's breakthrough, and now Jonny's side is the main team wearing the main vest, the starting point guard is Darryl Armstrong, the starting point guard is naturally Jonny, the starting small forward is Brian Evans, the starting power forward is David Vaughn, and Amar McCasgill plays the starting center.
The starting point guard on the bench is called Jabari Kanan, a white scoring guard who is good at shooting three-pointers, but his defense is a little poor, and in the face of Jonny's European step, he can only watch Jonny rush inside again and again. So soon the bench team made a change of defense, and the sturdy small forward Mark Henry defended Jonny, but he still couldn't defend it.
In the end, Adubatu on the sidelines saw Jonny rushing into the inside of the substitute team with skilled European steps again and again, and then scored.
And for Jonny's style of play, he also feels comfortable with Darryl Armstrong, because Jonny keeps breaking through, and the defensive focus of the substitute team is on Jonny, and as a result, Darryl Armstrong gets a lot of opportunities, and the cooperation again and again also makes him and Jonny more and more familiar.
The boring training passed quickly, Jonny sweated profusely off the court, and went directly to the bathroom of this arena to take a shower, the environment of this arena rented by the Magic in Long Beach is still very good, at least there is no shortage of hot water in the bathroom.
Darryl Armstrong and Amal McCasgill also walked in, and McCasgill said hello to Johnny and stood beside Johnny with a smile and took a shower. Armstrong stood quietly in the shower opposite, thinking about how to greet Jonny.
Seeing McCastgill standing next to him, Jonny involuntarily ducked.
This made McCasgill laugh: "Haha, Jonny, I'm not a rabbit, you don't have to be afraid!" ”
Jonny pouted, "Who knows?" ”
At this time, Darryl Armstrong felt that he could interject, and he said with some nervousness in his heart: "yes, who knows? But Amar is so tall, I think he's going to have to crouch down! ”
And this somewhat nervous remark caused Jonny and McCasgill to laugh wildly, this little man was so funny, he actually had such a lot of associations.
"That's right, so Darryl, you're the most suspicious, because you don't need to crouch down at all!" McCarsgill gasped with a smile.
Jonny couldn't help but laugh too.
All of a sudden, they were in a mess. (The novel "Basketball League of Legends" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )