42. Fantasy and Reality

"Brother Tyreke, what are you talking about..."

"Look, that's Rubio from Spain, that's Flynn from Syracuse University, that's Curry from Davidson College..."

Sun Ce tried his best to talk to Evans in the past two days, trying to get closer.

But Evans, when he was in the room, focused on playing game consoles, and only occasionally responded to Sun Ce's nagging. Now that he is in the Oracle Arena, he just nodded when he heard Sun Ce's nagging, and didn't say much. .

Sun Ce is also helpless, this type of guy is too difficult to deal with!

His personality is not bad, he doesn't have a bad temper, and he won't be proud or conceited because he is the most talented rookie point guard in this class, even if the agent forced him to take care of him who is not familiar at all. Chinese players, he has no complaints...

But it is this kind of personality that has no emotions at all, which Sun Ce finds it difficult to deal with.

After two days of contact, Sun Ce can only use one word to describe his relationship with Evans - the friendship of gentlemen.

The relationship is called a weak one!

Sun Ce probably understood why Evans was crippled by the Kings when he averaged 20+5+5 per game in his rookie season. People with this personality are cold and cold, but they will not reject people.

For a talented new star who can average 20+5+5 per game in his rookie season, who would give way to a rookie point guard to play shooting guard in the second grade, and give way to a rookie shooting guard to play small forward in the third year ? This is the guy in front of him.

Sun Ce worked hard for two days, but there was no way out. He concentrated and prepared for trial training.

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The Warriors, who had the seventh pick in the first round, traded the seventh pick in the second round in exchange for the Thunder's second round pick for next season and the 24th pick in this year's second round.

In this trial training, there were 13 invited players and 103 players who applied for trial training. A total of 116 players came to Oracle Arena for trial training.

In fact, the point is that the second round of picks attracted many people to apply for trial training. The first round was fine, basically they were invited to try out. Eighty percent of those who applied for trial training were Sun Ce who took the initiative to apply for trial training.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the Warriors staff divided the trial rookies into two parts and were taken to two areas for trial training.

The difference in remuneration is obvious. Sun Ce is waiting in line for the physical test. There are more than a hundred people and a dozen staff leading them, and there are more than a dozen people on the other side, and there are more than a dozen staff...

There is no time to demonstrate the flexible use of technology as imagined, no opportunity to show your understanding of tactics, or even a chance to talk more with the assistant coach in charge of observation.

"Good morning sir."

"Hello, boy, your tryout begins."

With such a simple conversation, Sun Ce couldn't say a few more words with this assistant coach.

Physical tests, shooting in various areas, speed with the ball, running around obstacles with the ball... After repeating the content of the previous simulated training, a staff member of the Warriors informed him that he could leave.

It was as simple as that. After the trial training, Sun Ce waited for Evans to complete the trial training together with several rookies under Bill Duffy who were also fighting for the chance to be selected in the second round.

Sun Ce and these companions were slowly queuing up together, waiting for the trial training. There were only a dozen rookies who were taken away by Warriors coach Don Nelson and chief consultant Jerry West.

Sun Ce saw that from ten o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone on his side had finished their trial training, but the dozen or so players on the other side hadn't finished yet...

"The difference in treatment is really huge!"

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"Noah, the next Timberwolves tryout is very important. They are the team most likely to select you. They are more eager than any other team to be a point guard. You must play your best performance this time..." Bill - Duffy said to Sun Ce very seriously.

"I know, I will work hard, thank you, Bill, for giving me this opportunity."

"No, this is not an opportunity I gave you, but an opportunity created by your own performance in the game. If you didn't have a good performance, those teams would not give you a chance to try out. You can only Rely on yourself to get what you want, and you have to work hard in the next workout, especially the Timberwolves, they are the targets of all brokerage companies."

After the trial training with the Warriors on the 7th, Sun Ce followed Bill Duffy and his team to Los Angeles on the 8th.

No. 9 is the Clippers' workout.

The situation is exactly the same, the content of the trial training is rigid, except that the order of the content of the trial training has changed, there is no other change.

The Clippers staff are okay, the trainers and assistant coaches in charge of commanding the trial training are numb to these applicants who have little talent for trial training.

Similarly, after Sun Ce's trial training ended, he waited with others for the completion of the trial training of Evans, who was the favorite in the draft.

In Los Angeles, Sun Ce met Curry again, and the two had known each other. They nodded when they met, and there was no further exchange.

After the trial training on the 9th, Sun Ce followed Bill Duffy back to Phoenix on the 10th. Since the gap between the Suns' first-round pick and the Clippers' first-round pick was too large, the two teams did not consider staggering. The matter of the trial training day is extremely unfriendly to the rookies who apply for the draft.

After Bill Duffy sent Sun Ce home, he gave a few instructions, and immediately headed to the American West Arena. The trial training in Los Angeles ended yesterday, and he arrived in Phoenix on a plane at 6 o'clock this morning.

Evans didn't go to the trial at this stop, and there was no need to consider that Evans would fall into this position, because every trial before him was very good, even with the No. 1 pick, people decided they would choose White Howard Blake- Griffin's Clippers were full of praise for Evans in interviews.

It may be that he has known about Sun Ce's situation in the Suns for a long time, and Bill Duffy may have communicated with Alvin Gentry. Sun Ce was not arranged by Bill Duffy to go to the Suns for trial training, so he asked Sun Ce to go home and rest , to go to Minneapolis on the 12th, to have the 5th, 6th, 18th, 28th overall first-round picks and the fifth overall pick in the second round The Timberwolves with the No. 2 pick and the 25th pick in the second round have a full six picks for trial training.

The Timberwolves' trial training on the 13th is comparable to the joint trial training. It will last for five consecutive days. From the 13th to the 17th are the trial training days of the Timberwolves, and it is also the most important trial training for Bill Duffy's agency.

Bill Duffy took another rookie under him named Earl Clarke who had a chance to be selected in the first round to the Suns for trial training. Of course, the dozen or so players who might be selected in the second round The rookies also went.

The encounters between Oakland and Los Angeles shattered some of Sun Ce's fantasies about trial training.