Chapter 65 Team Battles Can Be Lost!

As a famous basketball school in the United States, the Orangemen of Syracuse University is one of the traditional strong teams of the NCAA. Most Chinese fans know and know Syracuse University, more because Syracuse University is the star of the NBA Nuggets, Cameron Anthony's alma mater.

The famous battle for the No. 1 pick in the 2003 NBA draft revolved around two talented players, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. The leaders who won the championship on the field, both of them are regarded as the cornerstone of the team by scouts.

Don't look back at the year with the eyes of the future. After all, the star players who led the team to win the NCAA championship during college and then entered the NBA to get a high draft are indeed one of the few in the long history of the NBA.

As we all know, the 2009 class is a great year for guards. James Harden, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, Ricky Rubio, Darren Collison, and Zhu Holiday all won in the future. Big contract, and the first two are NBA MVPs...

It is no accident that Jonny Flynn, who was able to be among this group of talents, and was promoted to the NBA as a leader.

In the "never-ending" six-overtime battle in the Big East this year, Jonny Flynn played a full 67 minutes of the game, scoring 34 points, and he was the hero of the team's victory.

This player with the best jumping ability and extremely fast speed has generally received great praise for this game in the scouting report, and is described as a player with a strong competitive spirit and a big heart. And it is rated as a backcourt player whose jump shot is still under development, has outstanding confrontation ability among strong physical point guards, and has excellent comprehensive athletic ability.

Being able to get such a scouting report, it is conceivable that Jonny Flynn played quite well in the NCAA.

However, Jonny Flynn has had a cliff-like career in the NBA. In the first year, he averaged 13.5 points and 4.4 assists per game, which definitely matched his pick. However, in the second year, due to injuries, this data dropped to 5.3 points and 3.4 assists. By his third year, Flynn was running out of balls.

The reason is that what really restricts Jonny Flynn from playing in the NBA is his height of 183 centimeters. The NBA is not without precedents where he was not tall enough to play, such as Allen Iverson and Chris Paul.

But unlike Chris Paul and Allen Iverson, the jump shot mentioned in Flynn's scouting report did not really show up until the day he left the league.

As a player with a height of 183 centimeters, Flynn always loves to rush to the inside line full of people to show his jumping. It is conceivable that what awaits him must be tragedy.

A strong breakthrough ability does not mean a strong finishing ability. The careers of Iverson and Paul are more about the combination of sudden shooting and passing, one inch long and one inch strong. This principle is also applicable in the NBA. Even Westbrook, who is physically talented, has an average finishing rate at the basket of only about 50%.

Of course, another reason for Flynn's tragedy in the NBA is that the team that chose him was the Timberwolves.

Looking at the history of the NBA in the past ten years, if you look at it from the perspective of hindsight, the Timberwolves are far more stupid than the other 29 teams.

Therefore, if a team fails to make the playoffs after more than ten years of poor performance, then this team still has some reasons of its own.

For example, in 2009, it was understandable that the Timberwolves did not choose Stephen Curry. After all, Curry rejected their trial training, but they left a lot of excellent guards behind and chose Johnny one after another after choosing Rubio. Flynn, you must think this team is crazy.

Jonny Flynn, who had a good chance in the first year, could have survived in the league if he cultivated his shooting ability. However, the coyotes who were also desperate for death immediately gave up after Rubio decided to come to the NBA. Joni Flynn was injured for the second year.

Perhaps many fans of Curry have to thank the Minnesota Huskies (Timberwolves) for not choosing Curry, because unlike the "bad teams" like Golden State back then, the Timberwolves are really bad from beginning to end.

The impetuous management made them impatient to cultivate the high-quality rookies they selected in those years, nor did they let them cherish the precious draft picks in their own hands.

To put it bluntly, in the NBA, if you don't exchange your potential for talent, everything is a blank check. After all, Zhong Yong has a lot of injuries in the NBA.

Although the success rate of the 2009 rookies is very high, Erha, who is deadly, doesn't care about it. After all, Erha becomes crazy, even their own fans are afraid.

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If Lin Yi and Blake Griffin are regarded by American scouts and fans as old enemies in the NCAA arena, then Jonny Flynn is Stephen Curry's biggest enemy in the NCAA arena.

The rivalry between the two lasted for a whole season. Jonny Flynn, who averaged close to 18 points and 7 assists per game, was a super point guard in the NCAA, but played "29+10" in the weaker Southern League. Stephen Curry is considered an epoch-making pitcher.

Stephen Curry is currently ranked third in the ESPN draft network and Draft draft network with a slight advantage, but Jonny Flynn, who also led the team to the Sweet 16, also has the expected top six picks.

In terms of team strength, the Orangemen of Syracuse University are far above the Arizona Sun Devils. In addition to Joni Flynn, they also have Paul Harris, one of the top three scorers in the Big East, and their strength is not bad. White insider Eric Devendorff and insider barrier Rick Jackson.

Although none of these people made it to the NBA except for Jonny Flynn, they are also stars on the NCAA stage.

Just like the players of the Wildcats complained, they are a serious team with strong overall strength.

As for the NBA?

Cherish those stars who can play in the NBA! For every star who can play, there are at least hundreds of players with similar talents as him.

Otherwise, why are there so many NBA stories? Because the NBA, a league composed of supermen, is the grave of countless basketball geniuses.

Even an ordinary role player, he was still a very famous star in his college days!

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"Lin, I must find a way to overwhelm Johnny..." Babyface suddenly said in Stephen Curry and Lin Yi's room in the hotel where the Wildcats stayed.

Lin Yi curiously asked the reason.

"New York also favors Johnny!" Stephen Curry clenched his fists.

Lin Yi understood that team battles can be lost, but Flynn must die, oh no, team battles must also be won!

After all, Babyface has been obsessed with New York for a long time, and anyone who stops him from going to New York is a big villain in Babyface's eyes.

So Lin Yi approached Wildcats coach McCropp before the game and gave him some advice.

In fact, it is not difficult for Stephen Curry to overwhelm Jonny Flynn. First of all, Stephen Curry cannot match Flynn.

Whether it is the NCAA or the NBA during this period, the tactical thinking is relatively conservative. You must know that in the future, Stephen Curry will not have the opportunity to blow up the opposing point guard at all, because basically the outside players with the strongest defensive ability on the opposing side will defend. he.

And Curry will not blow up the opposing point guard, he will choose to blow up the opposing insider.

It's much better to play one-on-one in dislocation than one-on-one in matchup.

Secondly, if Stephen Curry wants to have good statistics, he must run up and make transitions, and he must have assists and scores.

Finally, there is the pick-and-roll with Lin Yi. Don’t forget that in the season when Curry broke the NBA single-season 3-point record, it was Bogut who gave him the pick-and-roll...

Bogut's pick-and-roll quality is not comparable to that of Pachulia, McGee, and Rooney.

Of course, Lin Yi would not refuse to help Stephen Curry, because Babyface also helped him a lot and sacrificed a lot of himself.

Lin Yi cherishes this first friend he made after coming to the United States.