59.3 Opponents

Las Vegas or the desert, Sun Ce carried the short-sleeved T-shirt he brought to Oakland and went to the arena with Curry to join the team.

On the night of the 10th, after staying in a hotel in Las Vegas, Sun Ce realized how stupid he was.

"Fortunately, there is you, Stephen, why is this place so hot during the day and so cold at night!" Sun Ce put on Curry's coat, turned on the air conditioner, and complained to Curry's constant white eyes.

In fact, if it is really that cold, it is not necessary to wear a coat.

When Sun Ce and his teammates first arrived here during the day, the heat wave when they got off the plane was almost fatal. A group of people rushed into the shuttle bus as if they wanted to be chased and killed. The temperature reached 45 degrees at noon.

But in the evening, it dropped to 20 degrees. After dinner, I couldn’t leave the hotel at night because of safety issues. This is the summer league coach Smart who led the team to explain the precautions before departure... for two rookies and two undrafted picks After explaining the precautions, Sun Ce and Curry returned to their double room, when the temperature had dropped to 12 degrees.

12 degrees is not very cold, but the temperature changes as high as more than 30 degrees in a day, which is unacceptable.

With the hot air from the air conditioner blowing out, Sun Ce continued to complain: "Turn on the air conditioner during the day and turn on the heating at night, Stephen, if I don't get the contract, will it be very profitable to come here to repair the air conditioner?"

Looking at Sun Ce, who is more than two, Curry kept comforting himself: "I am a big brother, I have to be patient, I have to be patient..."

Seeing Sun Ce going to school with a small schoolbag on his back in the morning, Curry felt strange. Cooperating with this guy, he didn't even know the big temperature difference between day and night in the desert.

Although Las Vegas is a metropolis, it is still a desert area. Curry came here to play in the high school All-Star Game after graduating from high school, but Sun Ce has never been here. Sun Ce knows that there is a temperature difference between day and night in the desert, but he has no such concept. The game is played in the desert.

...

After resting for a night, Sun Ce got up early the next morning as usual. Las Vegas in the morning is very cold, and the early morning in Las Vegas is really not very safe. Fortunately, the hotel has a gym.

Just after five o'clock, Sun Ce wanted to use the gym, and the hotel attendants were speechless, but during this time, the hotel had been booked by the NBA, and it was used as a place to stay for a part of the summer league team. The front desk could only be in charge of managing the gym. My colleagues rushed to the hotel to open the gym.

After running for an hour, Sun Ce felt refreshed and went back to his room to take a shower. Curry also woke up at this time, and went to have breakfast together.

"Stephen, Noah, do you also get up so early?"

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Anthony Randolph greeted them warmly.

Sun Ce and Curry synchronized their actions again. They glanced around and didn't see Watson. It seemed that they could have a good breakfast.

Randolph was a little embarrassed watching the actions of the two. It was true that the last time he asked Sun Ce and Curry to have lunch together, he made them lose face.

But this time Randolph deliberately avoided Watson. He knew that Sun Ce and Curry would get up very early, and he had been waiting here. Arrived.

Curry felt that it was a bit inappropriate for people to greet him like this, so he responded immediately after reacting: "Hi, Anthony, you are so early too."

"Good morning." Sun Ce preferred this way of greeting.

Each took a little food, mainly eggs, milk, and vegetables.

It was just seven o'clock, and there were only three of them in the restaurant, and the others were waiters, so they sat down at a random table.

"We're going to play against real NBA players tomorrow, how are you nervous?" Randolph asked.

"I'm very excited, I really want to play the game quickly!" Curry showed his fighting spirit to his seniors.

"Uh..." Sun Ce was puzzled,

Asked: "Stephen, aren't you worried about losing to those first-round players?"

"..." Curry was speechless, and asked back: "Aren't you excited to play with NBA players?"

"No, I'm nervous."

"..."

"..."

Looking at the speechless two, Sun Ce said with a smile: "Just kidding, I am also very excited, I want to see how my strength can play when there are NBA players as opponents."

"Noah, you must be fine. You can score 21 points against Wade." Randolph praised in his tone.

"Yes, Noah, you're fine. Your skills will definitely be better. Your current breakthrough is better than mine. It's definitely fine." Curry also echoed.

Sun Ce was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the two to make such an evaluation.

Randolph is okay, Curry trained with him for six days before, don't you know his level?

In fact, in the eyes of most of the management, Sun Ce just exploded out of hell that day, letting the management of each team know that this person exists, but it is not without precedent. There have been many such examples before. A player played one or two games instead of an injured player, and the result broke out, but in the end the contract was given to the other party, and the other party withered all of a sudden. Slowly, the management of each team was very concerned about these players who broke out in one or two games when they gave the contract. Be very cautious, not to mention only two draft picks per year.

Old players have also seen many such examples.

But Curry is a rookie and Randolph has just finished his rookie season. They still maintain a "young mentality" relatively speaking, and they recognize Sun Ce's good game.

The reason why Randolph regards Sun Ce as a future teammate is because of that game.

The same is true for Curry. He wants to compare with Sun Ce in everything, because Sun Ce has "proved" himself in the NBA, even if there is only one game.

In Curry's view, Sun Ce's skills are poor... He watched the video of that game several times, and Sun Ce's skills in that game were also poor, relying on speed and golf intelligence to play.

Especially the speed, Curry is actually very envious of people like Sun Ce who are top-notch in a certain aspect of physical fitness. Although it is easy to be restricted, he at least has a strong point.

Sun Ce's speed is his strength.

Sun Ce was also very happy to get an unexpected evaluation, but it also brought pressure.

That is to say, some people have expectations for him, and the expectations are quite high!

...

After breakfast, they each went back to their rooms to rest for a while, and after eight o'clock, they came to the meeting room arranged by the league for their team.

At nine o'clock, the players arrived, and Smart arrived later and opened a PowerPoint with a projector.

The names of the four teams are written on it, the Bucks, Timberwolves, Knicks and Warriors.

"Just now the league sent us the results of the random grouping. We are grouped with these three teams, and we will play a game with each of these three teams..."

Smart briefly explained, and began to analyze the current summer league lineups submitted by the Bucks, Timberwolves, and Knicks.

Why is it at present? The players of these summer league teams may be picked up by other teams after one game. Of course, other teams with contracts have no way to sign and draft rookies. There is no way for the team to sign. The other selected players have all received summer league contracts. One of the clauses is the priority signing right of the training camp contract. The player's team can match.

There is also a salary for signing the summer league contract, which is higher than that of the development league. Every player with a summer league contract has a salary of $6,000 regardless of whether he has played all the games or not.

On the contrary, selected rookies like Sun Ce and Curry and players with contracts have no money to take.

The purpose of the summer league is to let the fans have a few interesting games during the offseason to chat about comfort, with a certain amount of salary, and those players who have a certain strength in the NBDL but are not confident that they can enter the NBA will also come to earn money. Some money, after all, NBDL's salary is too low.

In Smart's introduction, Sun Ce, Curry, Chris Hunter and other pure rookies learned about the rules of the summer league. Although they knew that there was a league before, they really didn't know the specific competition system.

The 22 teams participating in the Las Vegas Summer League this year were divided into five groups, with two groups of five teams.

The first place in each group advances to the quarter-finals, the remaining 17 teams are ranked according to points, the top three enter the quarter-finals, and the rest go to qualifying matches.

Either way, each team has six games to play.

The competition system is simple and somewhat confusing. After all, it is only a summer league. It is good to have such a stable competition system.

But for the three opponents in the group stage, Sun Ce felt that it was a coincidence that all three opponents had point guards who were selected in the first round!