"What? Still haunted? It was Fei Genwei, the team doctor of the Shanghai Sharks Basketball Club, who spoke.

"I thought I put it down, but I still had some reluctance to see this flag" At this time, the tall man was standing in the center of the club's training venue, and above him hung the championship flag of the 2002 Shanghai team.

That year, the Shanghai team, under the leadership of Yao Ming, won the championship undisputedly, and this year's tall and strong could also do it, but it was just that step away.

"A little setback for young people is good for the future, and I'm sure you'll win another championship flag for the club sooner or later," Fei Genwei smiled and patted his tall shoulder.

"Maybe," the tall man smiled at the amiable old team doctor.

After nearly two months of conservative treatment, Gao Dazhuang has been able to walk freely, but the team doctor Fei Genwei repeatedly emphasized that Gao Dazhuang still cannot do strenuous exercise.

These days of daily supplementation made the tall and strong body slightly fatter, and the hair also grew a lot, and even had a lazy feeling, but the tall and strong himself could feel the "beast" hidden in the body.

The unexpected defeat in the finals and nearly two months of meditation and cultivation have calmed Gao Dazhuang's mind a lot, during which Gao Dazhuang reviewed his entire sports career, with gains and losses, and of course, more gains.

Gao Dazhuang even took advantage of this rare break to make up for a lot of basketball expertise, and even got involved in unpopular disciplines such as sports medicine.

The defeat in the finals did not put Gao Dazhuang on the "cusp" of public opinion, thanks to the club's all-round protection.

Although the club unfortunately missed the championship this season, the whole team is very tacit, and the young players have gradually grown, especially the three post-92 players who are tall and strong, Yang Kai and Zhai Yi have determined the status of the team's main force in one fell swoop, plus two very dedicated foreign aids, Harris and Landry.

In fact, if it weren't for the accidental injury of the tall and strong in the finals, maybe the Shanghai team would have won the Beijing team 4:0, creating a super "black eight" miracle, and winning the championship with an undefeated record of winning and sweeping 3 consecutive games.

But just one step away, Gao Dazhuang's injury shattered this dream, but through these facts, we can clearly see Gao Dazhuang's absolute core position and unparalleled role in the Shanghai team.

If the tall and strong team who returned from injury can maintain the form of the playoffs in the coming year, then there is no doubt that the Shanghai team will be the biggest favorite to win the championship in the CBA league next year, and the Shanghai team with the young tall and strong as the core will establish a dynasty again.

But tall and strong is too good, his amazing performance in the World Youth Championships has attracted the attention of the world, and the outbreak in the playoffs has made him famous, after the season, many domestic media and experts have unanimously said: Maybe the CBA has been difficult to retain tall and strong, and the NBA is his stage.

Despite the injury, in several mock drafts on the American draft website "DraftExpress", Gao Dazhuang still hovered between fifth and eighth, ranking in front of Gao Dazhuang are all proud people from the NCAA, Gao Dazhuang is firmly the first among international players, and the draft website evaluates Gao Dazhuang as "an all-round guard who is not afraid of physical confrontation, excellent offensive skills, and outstanding vision, and his biggest problem is that he is not aware of defensive alertness and lacks experience in major tournaments."

It can be seen that the potential of tall and strong has received more and more attention from across the ocean, which has also put Shanghai Sharks Basketball Club under great pressure.

Shanghai fans are also very conflicted in their hearts, on the one hand, they hope that their idol Gao Dazhuang can lead Shanghai to establish a dynasty, but they also hope that Gao Dazhuang can create a world in the NBA like Yao Ming, and the fans on the Internet are divided into two factions and have a fierce debate.

The final end of the controversy ended with a long conversation between Yao Ming and Gao Dazhuang, and the two had a long exchange, and then the Shanghai Sharks Club did not issue any official explanation, but when questioned by reporters, Yao Ming revealed that "all decisions of Dazhuang will be respected"

Yao Ming's statement made the situation gradually clear, and many media speculated that the NBA would be the next battlefield for tall and strong.

The London Olympics are in full swing to attract the focus of the media, and Gao Dazhuang quietly appeared in his hometown in Xiangxi, Hunan.

Xiangxi, Hunan Province, is located at the junction of the northeast side of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the south-west end of the western Hubei Mountains, and the Wuling Mountains run diagonally through the whole territory from the north east to the south and west.

Xiangxi is a poor place, and when it comes to Xiangxi, people often think of the perennial garrison, the successive years of banditry, the Gu poison of the Miao people, and the corpse drive in Chenzhou...... But when you walk into Xiangxi, you can really discover its beauty.

Different from the last time, this time the tall and strong is "homecoming", although he did not sign a big contract with the Shanghai Sharks Club, but the prize money for entering the finals is not a small number.

Gao Dazhuang not only reserved a large amount of tuition for his little sister, but also bought a lot of furniture for the family, and even bought a small truck suitable for the mountains for his father.

Seeing the relief on the old cheeks of his parents and the adoring eyes of his little sister, the tall and strong once again deeply felt the warmth of home.

"I will definitely take care of you," Gao Dazhuang silently swore in his heart.

"It's really a place with good mountains and good waters" This time, Gao Dazhuang's girlfriend Xia also accompanied Gao Dazhuang to return to Xiangxi to visit relatives, but now it is a white-haired foreign old man standing next to them.

"Yes, this is my home, no matter where I am, no matter how good it is outside, there is no good home," said Gao Dazhuang.

"But birds only grow when they fly in a storm, don't they? In the outside world, you may give a lot, but you can get more" This white-haired foreign old man who appeared in the tall and strong home is the NBA's famous "Godfather of the Draft" Matty Black.

In fact, on the second day of Gao Dazhuang's injury, Marty Black appeared in the hospital room of Gao Dazhuang out of place, of course, he did not get a good face from Gao Dazhuang.

But Marty Black gradually accepted himself with his sincerity and patience, of course, there is another important reason for this, that is, Marty Black is a close friend of Yao Ming, the owner of the Shanghai Sharks Club, in the United States, and Yao Ming received a lot of help from him in the United States.

Tall and strong still remembers the first time he met Marty Black, Marty Black said: "I've been in the league for 45 years, Iverson is the fastest player I've ever seen, some players are just instantaneous speed, but Iverson is running all the time, no one can catch up with him, when Iverson breaks through, don't try to keep up with him, otherwise his feet are enough to break the defender's ankle once they start." And you, tall and strong, you let me see the shadow of Iverson, of course you are still far away, but you have a chance to surpass him"

In order to let Gao Dazhuang let down his guard, Marty Black told Gao Dazhuang a lot of draft stories:

In 1987, Matty Black, then NBA's director of scouting, began to pay attention to Pippen's potential, and the Bulls had a special eye for Pippen.

The Bulls predicted that he would be one of the first players to be selected in the second round of the rookie selection, so the Bulls were confident that they would get Pippen in the first round, but Pippen was so impressive in the various selection camps that for a moment the attention of the entire NBA football world was focused on Pippen, and everyone was interested in getting to know the young man with big arms, and he became the hottest rookie in the 1987 NBA rookie selection.

However, the Bulls would not let anyone else take his treasure, and in order to secure their chances, the Bulls entrusted Marty Black with him to compromise an insider deal with Seattle the night before the selection: if Reggie Williams and Ammon Gillum had been drafted, Seattle would select Pippen with their fifth pick, and then trade him for Chicago's eighth-choice center, Alden Pollinis, in exchange for a second-round pick in Chicago and a first-round pick in 1988 or 1989.

Marty Black's move laid the foundation for the establishment of the Bulls dynasty.

Even the tall and well-known McGrady was written by Marty Black:

As a member of McDonald's All-America's No. 1 Team, Maddie led Montesion Christian School all the way to No. 2 in the national power rankings and was named "High School Player of the Year" by USA Today, and his stats (27.5 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.8 steals) in 1996-97 caught the attention of every college basketball coach, and Maddie seemed to be on the verge of joining the Wildcats because of his affection for the University of Kentucky and Coach Rick Pitno.

But then NBA superscout Matty Black revealed that Maddie had been listed as a first-round pick by several NBA teams, knowing that only Duncan and Van Horn would be guaranteed to get lottery picks in that year's draft.

At the suggestion of Marty Black, Maddy decided to skip college and try his luck in the NBA draft, eventually making McGrady the eighth high school player in the NBA.

Which team can find a low-potential player? And what team would waste a good draw in their hand?

"The draft is an imprecise science" Matty Black once said of the draft: "Because when you select a player with a valuable draft pick, you don't know if he's going to be a crazy gym rat, or a drug addict, or a madman who hits a tree on a motorcycle, or even a guy who chokes the coach's neck, and that's why I came to China to find you, because I want to see with my own eyes if you're the rat or the madman?" ”

Later, during his recuperation, Gao Dazhuang asked Mattie Black a lot of knowledge about basketball and learned a lot of NBA secrets, which also allowed Gao Dazhuang to successfully pass that particularly difficult time in the hospital, and this experience made Gao Dazhuang trust Mattie Black.