June 16th.

The Spurs won Game 6 of the Finals with a score of 88-77, beating the Nets.

Won the championship of the season with a score of 4:2.

The season is officially over.

While all the players entered the offseason, teams entered the busiest period: rookie tryouts, contract extensions, trading players, renewing the coaching staff, management changes......

Soon, the three teams sent specific notices of trial training one after another.

In chronological order, the Pistons, the Heat, and the Mosaics.

Three trials in three days, very compact.

On the morning of the 20th.

Li Lei stepped on a plane to Detroit, the "Motor City".

He was accompanied by Ralph Alstom.

In the past few days, the Pistons have also sent Alstom's intention to sign.

Hopefully, Alston can serve as a backup for Billups and add depth to the Pistons' No. 1 position (playmaking guard).

Alston prefers the Heat, but since the Pistons also have the will, he plans to go and see it too, and accompany Li Lei by the way.

On the plane, Alstom gave Li Lei a secret that fans don't know and players know.

"Larry Brown is a coach in the eyes of the fans, but in the eyes of the players, he is a demon and no one wants to play for him."

'He has his own tactics and any player has to play according to his tactics and is not allowed to have his own ideas. Even if you can win, he won't be able to tolerate you if you don't follow his way. ”

"You know what? It's like a puppet without a mind. If you dare to resist, I'm sorry, you'll be on the cold bench for the entire duration of your contract. ”

"Most importantly, Larry Brown is super super disliked newcomers!"

On June 2, Larry Brown signed a five-year, $25 million contract with the Pistons and will serve as the Pistons' head coach for the next five years.

Alston continued: "Plus, the Pistons are already a strong team that has developed their own defensive system. This season they finished first in the East during the regular season and reached the Eastern Conference Finals in the playoffs. In such a team, players are almost fixed in every position, and it is difficult for rookies to get a chance. ”

Li Lei complained in his heart: This is hell mode!

Alstom's eyes rolled and said slyly: "So, you can deliberately release water in today's trial and don't play to your full strength." It is important to familiarize yourself with the process of the trial and prepare for the next two trials. The Heat have me, the Mosaics have Yao Ming, and in any case it's a hundred times better than going to the Pistons. ”

Li Lei was extremely fortunate to be able to travel with Alstom.

Otherwise, he would have been blinded and would not know anything.

A few hours later, the plane landed.

Li Lei and Alston took a taxi to the Auburn Hills Palace Arena.

Auburn Hills Palace Arena is the league's only home stadium away from downtown, about 80 kilometers from the city of Detroit, in the suburbs of Auburn Hills.

Hence the name of the arena.

Entering the arena, Alston was taken by the staff to meet with Pistons president Joe Dumas, while Li Lei went to meet the coaching staff.

When Li Lei came in, there were already 7 or 8 rookies in the stadium who participated in the trial.

Li Lei's arrival has aroused everyone's attention, and yellow people are indeed rare animals in the NBA.

But that's about it.

Everyone looked at each other a few times, and their eyes were focused on a tall, lanky black man.

"Boris Dior, Frenchman!"

Li Lei had seen this person in the newspaper.

The media predicted that he would be selected in the middle of the first round, or even at the end of the lotto section.

He was the most predicted of all the people on the field.

As for the top few favorites, Li Lei didn't see any of them.

Li Lei guessed: The Pistons should only invite rookies who are in the right position for their fancies.

An unknown newcomer like Li Lei naturally cherishes every opportunity.

And for those big favorites, they will receive countless invitations, but they don't pay much attention to it, and it is likely to push down the invitation of the team they don't like.

In a nutshell: the strong choose the team, and the weak are chosen by the team.

Sure enough, by the time it was time for only a dozen people to participate in the Pistons' tryouts.

First of all, there is the physical test.

Name: Lei Li.

Nationality: Chinese.

Age: 18 years old.

Date of birth: July 27, 1984.

Bare height: 201cm.

(Li Lei still has the potential to continue to grow taller.) ）

Arm span: 216cm.

Weight: 95.5 kg.

Palm length: 24cm.

Palm width: 25cm.

Li Lei's static data is relatively good, with long height, long arms, and large hands.

But dynamic data is pretty average.

100-yard sprint, 3/4 sprint, 3/4 dribble sprint, vertical touch, high jump...... It can only be said that it is average.

Slightly more prominent is the bench press, but only above average.

Li Lei has long known this.

The system panel is there:

Strength 66, Speed 51, Stamina 48, Reaction Speed 62, Explosiveness 38, Balance 50.

The average is 52.5.

50 is the bottom line for professional athletes, and Li Lei's physical fitness has just reached the standard.

At this time, there was an exclamation in the arena.

Li Lei turned his head to look and found that it was Dior doing a physical test, and this guy jumped slightly, and his forehead was already as high as the basket.

Perverted!

Li Lei couldn't help muttering.

In addition, Dior's bounce, power, and explosiveness are amazing, and he is unbeatable among the trial players.

After the physical test, various technologies are displayed.

Ball control, passing, dunking, shooting......

Christian Dior is equally outstanding.

Before he came to the United States, he was nicknamed the French magician, a ball-handling striker with a very comprehensive technique.

There are even media outlets that Dior can play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position.

Skillful ball control, excellent passing vision, and easy to dunk......

The key is that this guy is still strolling around, like taking a walk with coffee, elegant and calm, and he doesn't give his best at all.

Li Lei couldn't help but think: Dior from the end of the lottery to the middle of the first round is already so terrifying, how terrifying should those draft favorites be? What is the terrible existence of the "chosen son" James?

This year is really a big year for the draft, and it is a rare year, which has invisibly brought huge pressure and difficulty to Li Lei's draft.

Compared with Dior, Li Lei's performance is very ordinary.

Passing, dribbling, and dunking are not even a good job.

After all, the system has not yet started the training of these items, and Li Lei has not been training with Crawford for a long time, and his progress is limited.

However, in the projection, Li Lei redeemed a little.

Outside the three-point line, Li Lei shot 20 shots in 1 minute, and Li Lei shot 17, with a shooting rate of 85%.

But Li Lei is only the second place, the first place is Jason Capono from the NCAA elite UCLA, this guy hit 19, the shooting rate is as high as 95%, almost 100 shots.

The last one is a 5v5 match.

It's also the one that best reflects the quality of the players, and everyone values it.

Pistons President Joe Dumas and head coach Larry Brown were all on hand to see the newcomers perform.

In the confrontation match, Li Lei did not perform well because he almost did not get a chance to perform.

There were 10 people on the court, 8 of whom were from the NCAA.

They didn't pass a ball to Li Lei at all.

What's even worse is Dior, he is also an outlier from the overseas league, plus the previous performance was too good, others isolated him and didn't give Dior a chance to perform.

Dior was sweating profusely, and his grace and composure were all gone.

Li Lei is still calm.

He had already discussed with Alston that this trial would be released and that the Pistons would not be favored and fall into the hands of Larry Brown.

"Thank you for your incredible kindness!"

"As a thank you!"

"Blessings to you all being chosen by Larry Brown."

Li Lei silently blessed.

I can't help but think: I'm such a kind and good person.