Chapter Thirty-Nine: Byron Davis
March Madness is always packed with schedules, and the UCLA Bruins head to Memphis for the Final Four after a comfortable win over Kansas State University, led by No. 1 favorite Michael Beasley, to reach the quarterfinals.
Their opponent was the powerful University of Memphis, however, they didn't have time to let Xiao Simulate Memphis' ace core Derrick Rose because they didn't have time.
Derrick Rose, like Michael Beasley, is the biggest favourite for this year's winners. Basically, it has been ensured that the order will not fall out of the front. Whoever the first team picks, the second team picks the one left among them.
Both men have been called geniuses who have been seen for twenty years.
On top of that, Derrick Rose plays the point guard position. And the core of UCLA is precisely the point guard position. It was a daunting challenge for Westbrook. Many people praise him for his talent, but whenever he is compared to Derrick Rose, people habitually ignore him. After all, Rose has led Memphis to a 36-game winning streak this year.
Westbrook was in a hurry to prove himself.
However, the end result was still unfortunate, although he was not too far behind in terms of numbers, but the end was that Derrick Rose led the team to victory, and the University of Memphis thus qualified for the Final Four, and Derrick Rose also broke his own record to 37 consecutive wins.
This game, Xiao Swan also watched.
He pondered as he watched, and he pondered not anything else, but the gap with Derrick Rose.
Calculated and calculated, Xiao Sang was a little pessimistic and found that there were not many things where he was stronger than Derrick Rose, it was nothing more than the objective conditions of height and arm span. In addition, he is a little more flexible and agile, and he also has a slight advantage in terms of body control and the integration of man and ball. Everything else was blown up. Even Xiao Sage's proud explosiveness and speed are slightly worse, and the scoring skills, assist skills, and breakthrough methods are even worse.
"No wonder it's a top hit! I'm far worse than him!! ”
Xiao sighed leisurely.
Ranny Kuhn on the side gave him an angry look: "People have been playing basketball since they were sensible, and you have only been learning for less than 20 days, and you want to be stronger than others, are you too anxious?" ”
"Huh." Xiao scratched his head and said with a little embarrassment: "I heard Mr. Wooden say that the champion has the highest salary. ”
"You can get into the NBA now, and when you get in the NBA and you have exposure, you won't be short of money anymore. When the time comes, the salary will be reduced to a small percentage of your income. You have to believe in the strength of Chinese businessmen, Chinese advertising has taken over almost the entire NBA arena. ”
"Hopefully that day will come soon." Xiao Shi closed his eyes and prayed silently. For him, money is the biggest motivation, and he is really poor.
"I've mentioned your name to the Lakers' scouting chief, and he said he'd keep an eye on you. When it's offseason, you're going to go to various camps. I'm sure as long as you're good enough, the Lakers will definitely send you an invitation for a tryout, after all, I have connections with the Lakers. Lenny Kuhn said with a bit of a stinking fart.
His expression is very exciting, so wonderful that Xiao Sa can't even see that he is acting.
"Thank you, Lanny." Xiao Sa stood up and gave Ranny Kuhn a big hug, and then he went back to his room to rest, he was now practicing and studying hard every day, and his body was in great need of sleep.
Ranny Kuhn looked at the back of Xiao Shi leaving, secretly clenched a fist, and a firm voice rose in his heart: Xiao Shao, you have to fight.
At the same time as this voice came out of his heart, Kupchak's indifferent words sounded in his head: "What? You're going to recommend me a talented defender from China? Come on, the best defender in China was given up by us last year, and he didn't do anything on the bench and we gave him a ring. ”
"He's different from Sun, he's a genius, a real genius!"
"Come on, Lenny. You've never recommended a talent for us in the NBA for nearly a decade, and I've had huge doubts about your professional abilities. Also, please stop promoting any more Chinese players, I'm very disgusted by their tampering with their age. Finally, standing in front of you is the general manager of the championship team, the Lakers, stop bothering me with such trivial trifles, OK? ”
Kupchak's indifferent words and disdainful expression swirled in Lenny Kuhn's head, which was a great insult to him. Before he knew it, the nails in his clenched fists had cut through the flesh, but his fists didn't let go at all. He was really enraged!
Therefore, he made up his mind that he must send Xiao Slack to the NBA, he must let Xiao Slack make a name for himself in the NBA, and he must let Kupchak's arrogance be swept away.
But until then, he was not prepared to accuse him of this humiliation. He was afraid that this incident would affect the morale of the sluggish people.
But in reality, it's quite the opposite. Xiao Sao is not a fragile sissy, he is simply a man soaked in bitter water, and nothing can knock him down. The difficulties that didn't kill him have become a stepping stone for him to become stronger.
If he had known Kupchak's contempt and ridicule for him, he would have been silent at the time, and he would not have rushed up and beaten him like ordinary young people. But he will definitely write it down silently, and then keep sharpening his strength, until he is strong enough to fight back, he will definitely return it tenfold or even a hundredfold.
In the chic hometown, Lianhuatun, almost everyone knows a sentence, would rather offend the black blind than the wolf cub.
The black blind refers to the black bear, which is almost the most destructive animal in the Northeast. And the wolf cub is Xiao Sa, Xiao Xiao once ate wolf milk for a period of time when he was young, and since then he has fallen into this nickname.
For the people of Lianhuatun, offending the black bear is at most being beaten by the black bear. And offending Xiao Shi is definitely a protracted battle, and you get his way without paying attention, and you can't find any evidence. The wolf cub always has enough patience to torture those who offend him, making it difficult to guard against it.
After a long time, no one dared to offend him anymore.
The next day, the UCLA players came back dejected.
For them, this year's season is over. Kevin Love and Westbrook, two core players with high hopes, also announced that they would participate in the NBA2008 draft, and everyone was generally more optimistic about their future.
As the season drew to a close, UCLA players left the arena and rarely came back to practice.
Only the scruff keeps coming every day, Westbrook comes twice occasionally, but not often, and he's very busy right now, going to various magazine interviews and building momentum for the draft.
For the draft, Xiao Sao is not in a hurry, because as long as the application is submitted forty-five days before the draft. John Wooden meant to let Xiao Dash practice well now, regardless of anything else.
Xiao Swan has also done this, and there is no distraction to improve the technique.
At this time, his basic skills were very proficient, and John Wooden had almost taught basketball theory. After determining that Shaw wanted to be a shooting guard, he found a video collection of Michael Jordan and began to teach Shaw how to learn and add his own characteristics.
John Wooden explained very carefully, and Xiao Shi also learned very seriously.
At the same time, he practiced more seriously.
After discussion, he definitely started with the technique of back-to-back singles.
The technical movements are not difficult to master, after all, Xiao Shi has a dream enhancement system, and he is mellow very quickly. However, the hit rate has become a big problem. Just like his dashing jump shot, the shooting percentage is simply not as good as his spot shot.
The most important and important task of a scoring guard is to score, no matter how standard and skillful the action is, the shooting rate is not high, and it is still useless to score.
Just when Xiao Xiao was worried about the hit rate, a newcomer finally came to the UCLA arena, and this newcomer was a relatively big name, and it turned out to be Byron Davis. UCLA is his alma mater, and he trains here almost every summer or at the end of every season. It was a little earlier this year because his team didn't even make the playoffs.
Byron Davis didn't come alone, as a big-name star, or a big-name star in the past, he was always there everywhere he went. This time, he brought a personal strength and conditioning coach, a personal shooting coach, a personal defensive coach, and some special assistants.
All in all, very big scene.
Soon after he arrived at the court, he spotted Xiao Shi.
He thought that Xiao Xiao was a new player in the school, and he also thought that Xiao Xiao must be his fan. Therefore, the first time he saw Xiao Shi, he issued a special order: "Hey, junior brother, you go to the warehouse to help me find a few Spalding basketballs." The training balls here don't meet NBA standards. ”
"Huh?" Xiao Shi frowned, he looked at this bearded man who hugged back and forth, he didn't know who this thing was at all. In his impression, only the terrorists in the Middle East are such beards, after all, Ben ** left a deep impression on him.
So, he didn't bother with Davis at all.
"Hey, junior. You didn't deliberately ignore me just to get my signature, did you? Well, you've got my autograph, I'll sign my name on a basketball later. Can you go get basketball now? Byron Davis said feeling very good about himself. He's in a good mood today.
Signature?
Xiao Shi frowned, completely unable to understand what Davis was talking about.
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Ask for a recommendation ticket!!
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