"Yang, you brought him?"

At Boston's North Shore Garden Arena, Stevens pointed to Whiteside, who had been in Boston for three days and was training with the team's starting center, Kelly Olynyk. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Yes. Li Yang nodded and said, "I met him in the Development League game, and we had a bet after the game that if I can get a foothold in the NBA and he can't, then come and pick up the ball for me." It just so happened that Kelly came to train in the past two days, so he called him to be a sparring partner. ”

Stevens doesn't think what Li Yang said is true, as a smart person he knows Li Yang's intentions in doing this, but he doesn't think there is anything wrong with it, Li Yang, as the star of the team, has the right to bring a friend to the stadium for training, of course, Li Yang did not directly find him and Danny Angie to give each other a contract, but chose to let the management make decisions in this way, which is not offensive.

Now that he knows Li Yang's intentions, Stevens of course needs to seriously consider Li Yang's thoughts, and after looking at it carefully for a while, Stevens commented: "His athleticism and defense are very good. ”

"He's really good at his physical gifts. Li Yang nodded and replied, compared with two years ago in the development league, Whiteside is significantly taller, and his body is more sturdy, coupled with his height of 2.13 meters and an arm span of 2.31 meters, standing on the inside line can make people feel the pressure.

Of course, Whiteside's talent has always been not weak, he was considered extremely talented in the draft, but because of ADHD, coupled with worrying emotional intelligence and attitude, he fell into the second round of the draft, and after that, it did prove that these flaws greatly affected his performance on the court, and he was reduced to the point where no one wanted to play in the CBA last season, and he could only play in the CBA Division II.

However, after a year or two of wandering, Whiteside has obviously matured a lot, and with Li Yang as a role model, his attitude is also more correct, so he naturally looks like a good person at this time.

"Young, we can give him a non-guaranteed contract to go to training camp, but I'm not sure if he'll be able to stay, because we have 18 players on our training camp roster. ”

After Stevens finished speaking, Li Yang immediately agreed: "Of course, I also want my teammates to be the best. ”

Li Yang did not immediately tell Whiteside the news, and after talking to Stevens, Li Yang also began training.

There are still about ten days before the start of the training camp of the new season, and on the Celtics side, the players have also returned one after another, and Li Yang will not feel lonely in the stadium.

"Jay, man, come on, let's practice!" After finishing the warm-up, Li Yang found Jay Crowder.

Jay Crowder was a small forward who was traded from the Mavericks when he sent Rondo away, was selected to enter the NBA in the second round in 2012, and has been on the bench with the Mavericks for the first two years.

In the playoffs with the Mavericks last season, Li Yang had a confrontation with the other party, and had some impressions.

After two or three days, Li Yang was pleasantly surprised to find that Crowder's defensive ability seemed to have improved again, although it could not be compared with Leonard and Li Yang's own top outside defensive players in the league, but his defensive ability was also very good among the league's No. 3 players.

Originally, Li Yang was worried that he would not have a defensive player like Leonard after coming to Boston, but he would not be worried, and whenever he needed to practice attacking with the ball, he called Crowder to play the position.

"Okay, Yang, don't think about attacking so easily in my defense today!" Hearing Li Yang call himself, Claude immediately responded, and then stepped forward to stop Li Yang.

For Li Yang to call himself a sparring partner, Claude did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but was very happy. Crowder's foothold in the league is defense, and being able to hone his defense against Li Yang is exactly what he wants.

In fact, when Li Yang called Crowder for the first time, Crowder had another idea in his heart that he wanted to let Li Yang see his defense, which was related to the Mavericks being eliminated by the Spurs last season. Li Yang also had a good performance in that series, but Crowder may not be convinced, and many people think the same thing in their hearts, Crowder also thinks that Li Yang's offensive ability has the bonus of the Spurs system, in Crowder's impression, Li Yang is the outside catch and shoot in addition to the breakthrough dunk, such a one-on-one, Crowder does not think that the other party will take advantage of anything in his defense.

However, after the first day of alignment, Crawford was surprised to find that Li Yang's offense not only did not weaken as he imagined because he was not in the Spurs system, but was much stronger than he imagined.

If there was such a performance against Li Yang on the first day, Claude thought that Li Yang was in good shape, then on the second day, Li Yang continued to score various goals under his defense, which made Claude convinced.

So at this time, when Claude went to play against Li Yang, he no longer had the idea of testing Li Yang's offense, but simply wanted to hone his defense through the confrontation with Li Yang.

Li Yang and Crowder started training opposite each other, which immediately attracted Stevens' attention, and when he saw Li Yang using various means to throw the ball into the basket in Crowder's defense, Stevens's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, in his coaching career, whether it was in college before, or last season in the Celtics, he had never coached such a top offensive player.

"If Young can develop his playmaking ability with more possession......," Stevens said thinking about the scene, and Stevens was looking forward to the start of the new season.

Stevens is not the only one who pays attention to Li Yang and Crowder, but also other Celdortics players who have come to the arena.

As soon as the expert makes a move, the defensive skills and enthusiasm shown by Claude are clear to everyone present, but under such a defense, Li Yang's offense still seems to be at ease, at least in terms of offense, Li Yang's strength has convinced everyone present.

The atmosphere of the scene, Li Yang can naturally feel that there are several more Celtics players who came to the stadium today than in the previous two days, including some veterans of the Celtics last season, Avery Bradley, the second highest salary in the team and the longest stay in the team now, and the young player Jared Salinger, who the team focused on cultivating in the first two years, came to the stadium today, so Li Yang also tried his best in the confrontation with Crowder.

It's just that in this way, these people are convinced, but Claude, who is opposite Li Yang, is distressed, when Li Yang directly shakes off his defense and throws the ball into the basket again, Crawford can only let out a sad cry in his heart: "Perverted!"

At this time, Crawford suddenly wondered if his decision to promise to train with Li Yang every day for the next day was correct.