Forty-Five. The Night Before the Draft

"Noah, over here..." Brother Teddy waved at Sun Ce.

"Bastard, you actually live in such a good place!" Sun Ce looked at the luxurious super five-star hotel where John lived, and was so jealous!

This is a luxury hotel located near the Chinese Consulate in New York. It is located in the prime location of the New York Bay, an inland waterway connecting Manhattan and Newark in New York City. You can look directly at the Statue of Liberty with the naked eye from the southwest, and you can look directly to the north. Looking at the Empire State Building, you can go to sea by rowing a boat...

Today is June 25th, and Sun Ce came to New York with Bill Duffy. After taking makeup photos, he waited for the draft meeting the day after tomorrow.

The so-called fixed makeup photos are wearing sportswear, holding some poses with a ball and some movements of playing with a ball.

For a non-popular player like Sun Ce, the shooting was over in one minute.

After that, Bill Duffy asked Sun Ce to pay attention to safety and to move freely.

On the afternoon of the 27th, we will go to Madison Square Garden together and wait to be "flipped". Of course, Sun Ce is not a player in the Little Green House, so he can't be a candidate for the draft. Just read the name of the round show and it's over, unless DeAndre Jordan fell to the second round from the green room like last year.

But every agent wants their player to be drafted in the first round, which means a guaranteed contract.

Of course, it's not bad to be selected in the second round, it's better than losing.

It is too difficult to get into the NBA after being drafted. Even if you have the strength, it is still very difficult, because it is difficult to get a chance to perform. The summer league team must give priority to the performance of the rookies they selected. All the ball rights are given to the rookies. One hundred Not one of the undrafted picks may get a training camp contract. After all, there are still some veterans who can get a training camp contract without participating in the summer league. dozens of times higher.

After Bill Duffy instructed Sun Ce, he took Tyreke Evans to work on other things.

Tomorrow, those small green room players will have a game. This is the last chance for the small green room players to show their abilities, and it may have a great impact on the final draft order.

Evans, as the best rookie that Bill Duffy's agency got this year, is of course Bill Duffy's most important thing. It is because of his personal friendship that he can give a little advice to a rookie like Sun Ce who is waiting to be signed. superior.

Sun Ce didn't go back to the hotel by himself, and he didn't know many people. Even the dozen or so in Bill Duffy's company who hit the second round didn't have a good relationship with each other, after all, they were all competitors.

On the contrary, Evans, who is predicted to be selected in the top five or even the top three picks in the draft, has a better attitude towards Sun Ce.

After finishing the work of taking makeup photos, Sun Ce followed the address to the hotel where John stayed, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became!

Madison Square Garden is also in Manhattan, and it is closer to the Chinese Consulate, but non-green house players like Sun Ce, who live an hour away by subway from Madison Square Garden, have all lived in Brooklyn!

The hotel arranged by the league is not bad. It has booked a five-star hotel in Brooklyn for rookies and agents to live in, but compared with the ultra-luxury hotel in the prime location in front of them, it is obviously very different.

"You live with future NBA stars, I envy you." John complained.

"What does it mean to live with a future star? The person in front of you is a future NBA star!" Sun Ce emphasized.

"Oukouk..." John took Sun Ce into the hotel and returned to his room.

Sun Ce consciously took out a bottle of red wine and a red wine glass from the refrigerator in the small bar, took a sip and said, "John, I was selected in the draft and I can't enter the venue. What are you doing here?"

"In the second round, you are also the number one basketball star in our school! If you are selected on the 27th,

My buddy will take you to play, this is New York! If you are chosen, what kind of woman we can't get that night? "John said nothing when he said the first sentence, but he seemed very excited when he said it later.

Brother Teddy and John came to New York. Of course, they were waiting for Sun Ce to celebrate after being selected, or to take Sun Ce to have fun after losing... Anyway, regardless of whether Sun Ce was selected or not, the final result of the night was probably the same.

"Fuck off..." Sun Ce threw his credit card and passport to the Teddy in front of him, "Help me get a room, I won't go back to that hotel tonight, the guy I'm staying with has body odor..."

"OK, our future big star, my little brother is going to open a room for you... You don't need to pay the money, my black card can be discounted, try to be selected!" John threw the credit card back to Sun Ce and went to open a room.

Sun Ce looked at John's father-in-law's sinister smile, matched with that Leonardo-like face... smiled helplessly, and put away his credit card.

"Chosen?"

Sun Ce opened the system panel and looked at his latest ability evaluation.

"Comprehensive evaluation C-;

Physical quality C: speed A+, strength D, endurance C+, jumping C;

Shooting evaluation D:, three-pointer F, mid-range shot D, layup B+;

Technical evaluation C: B in ball handling, C+ in passing. "

In more than two months, Sun Ce's strength has undergone a qualitative change. In the past ten days, Sun Ce's strength has finally been raised from D- to D-level. The other head coaches have improved more or less. But it hasn't reached the point where it can be judged by the system to break through to the next level.

This also allowed Sun Ce to understand some things about the system evaluation, such as being evaluated by the system as stars of the same level, the gap between them may be quite large.

Of course, although he has made great progress, Sun Ce's strength is not as good as that of Dragic who was blown up by him more than two months ago, perhaps even when Dragic first entered the NBA.

Although in the past two months or so, Sun Ce has improved very rapidly, but that is because his strength was very weak at the beginning, and a little improvement is obvious. With Nash's guidance for nearly a month, he has surpassed ordinary people and even surprised Nash. , allowing him to barely reach the marginal level of the NBA.

Since the average level of the NBA is C-level, Sun Ce estimates that there should also be D-level drinking fountain administrators.

During this period of time, apart from training and waiting for the draft to come, he can only think wildly when he has nothing to do. He estimates that F-level players should barely be able to play, E-level players are probably at a good level among amateur players, and D-level players have a chance to play low. Level professional league or a good level in the NCAA, and occasionally there will be D-level players in the NBA...

This is just Sun Ce's rough estimate. When he had the opportunity to enter the NCAA Division II league, his ability evaluation was only D-.

Although the strength of the C-level is not strong, it is barely considered a C-level anyway. Sun Ce feels a little bit of hope. No matter whether he can be selected or not, he will fight in the summer league!

The stronger the ability, the more he can feel the gap with NBA players. When he used the staged burst, he felt that Dragic, who was above the average level in the NBA, was nothing more than that.

But after his own ability became stronger, Sun Ce felt that... Except for those with extraordinary talents like Beasley and Mayo, most people want to enter the NBA, and the effort they put in is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

The more this is the case, the more Sun Ce looks forward to it!

After working so hard, how can we not go to the NBA world to give it a go!