Chapter 383

Soon after the finals ended, there were more people on the training field in Phillips Arena, and Liu Mang's quiet time was over.

The boss and coach Kruger returned from vacation, and the pre-draft training is about to start. The Eagles have the third record in the league and have a 27th overall pick.

It is said to be the 27th pick, but it can actually be regarded as the 26th pick, because the Timberwolves' 24th pick was deprived.

The resources of this year's draft are very good, and there are more rookies who are regarded as the first-round picks than the previous two years combined.

The first tier of rookies, this is the new rookie tier division that was only mentioned last year.

Due to the success of Garnett and Kobe, a large number of freshmen and high school students have participated in the draft since 1997. The draft has changed from selecting Duncan and O'Neal who are mature enough to enter the NBA and become superstars to selecting potential stocks. Now it is extremely difficult for a rookie to be selected as an All-Star, let alone the best team. High school geniuses such as Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry are considered to be able to make progress in their careers. An All-Star is considered lucky.

Now rookies are divided into 4 tiers. The first tier, that is, T1 rookies, is predicted to be a rookie who can make at least one All-Star in his career.

It seems that there are as many as 24 All-Stars every year, but this is not an easy task, except for Kobe, Yao Ming, O'Neal, Duncan, Iverson, Garnett, Carter, and McGrady, who will not be shaken in the next few years. In the starting lineup, Dirk Nowitzki, Nash, Ben Wallace, Stoudemire, and Marion will be the All-Star starters or substitutes in the next few years. Now we have to add Liu Mang who is either a starter or a substitute In addition, in two or three years, James Wade, who has dominated the All-Star starting lineup since the second grade, and Arenas, who is about to break out, can see that there are only two positions left for rookies. It is actually quite difficult for an All-Star player to appear.

Those who are predicted to be the No. 1 pick every year are also regarded as the first-round rookies, which is the so-called T1 rookies.

There are five T1 rookies this year, and last year there were only two, one for Pau Gasol and one for Kwame Brown, and Kwame Brown is gone.

2000 rookies, there are also only 2 T1 rookies, Kenyon Martin, Swift, and the others are gone.

And this year's T1 rookie has a full five, known as Duncan's Jay Williams who can change a team, Dajuan Wagner who scored 100 points in high school, NCAA scoring leader, rebounding king Drew - Gooden, Brazilian genius violent insider Nene Hilario, and Caron Butler, who has outstanding talent in drug trafficking since childhood but makes people worry about whether he will do bad things again.

If you add Yao Ming, there will be 6 T1 rookies this year.

T2 gear has the potential to start in the NBA, and there are many this year. Chris Wilcox, who just helped the University of Maryland win the NCAA championship, and Amare, who has changed 6 schools in 4 years of high school, has a 105 cm vertical jump. Stoudemire led.

T3 and T4 are rookie ratings with rotation potential and no NBA ability, respectively.

The Eagles' pick is also looking for targets in T3.

The comprehensive and sound training system and scouting system of the four major leagues in the United States are usually quite accurate when classifying rookies. Although there are occasional cases where Arenas is misjudged and rated as a T3 rookie, most of the time Still very accurate.

From the beginning of June, after knowing the draft picks, the teams in the lottery area have already started the draft trial training. On June 15th, the NBA officially held an open competition for 20 rookies who were invited into the small green room. Afterwards, the draft trials of other teams without high draft picks also began.

Of course, except for the Timberwolves, they have no draft picks, and the only second round was traded to the Spurs.

The Eagles have a 27th pick in the first round and a 19th pick in the second round exchanged with the 76ers. The Eagles invited more than 20 players to participate in the trial training.

Although it is only a first-round pick with the 27th pick and a second-round pick, they are also two picks. In fact, even a second-round pick can attract countless college students and overseas players to try out. For most basketball players who were born in slums, as long as they enter the NBA, their fate will change.

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On June 17th, Liu Mang was training at the training ground. Recently, due to the draft trial training, the arena was a bit noisy, and there were people coming and going. I have trained in individual places, and there will definitely be many small trial trainings in the future. It is impossible to decide who will give the millions of dollars in just one day of trial training.

The offseason is really the best time to improve your ability. The gap between players who are persistent and willing to work hard and players who are talented but start to slacken after getting a lot of money is opened in the summer.

After more than ten days of hard training, Liu Mang's three-point ability value has increased by two points, and he is already at 81. Now he is at the best age for improvement. Improve two or three points after the end of the season.

It is not difficult for people of the yellow race to practice three-pointers accurately, but it is more difficult to be more accurate when they are accurate. Liu Mang broke through the three-pointer ability value of 80 in less than three days after he started training. Later, even if I found the feeling of training, it took half a month to break through to 81.

As Liu Mang practiced three-pointers, there were more and more people in the arena. A large number of staff members and scouts came with some obviously timid young people.

In fact, Liu Mang may be younger than most of these people, but Liu Mang feels that he is already a second-year player, and rookies are all young people!

Liu Mang ignored them and practiced on his own. At most two of these people will stay, and most of them may not be able to make it to the NBA in the end.

It's not that Liu Mang looks down on people, but that there's no need to waste that time. There's no difference between being friendly and indifferent to them. If you can become teammates, let's talk about being teammates.

The main reason is that Liu Mang didn't see that there were "acquaintances" among these people, that is, he didn't see that he could stay in the NBA to the point where he could have an impression.

Liu Mang was wondering if he should talk to the coach about the teammates he wanted, but he was just a rookie and didn't know if he had the right to speak.

Liu Mang was practicing. Those rookies who were brought by the staff to change into the Eagles training uniforms all came to the training ground. Mike Woodson asked them to warm up. They didn't know what to do, and then they practiced around Liu Mang. Watching Liu Mang practice three-pointers around the half court.

Slowly, watching Liu Mang hit more than a dozen three-pointers from time to time, there were bursts of exclamations from around.

"What's the matter?" Liu Mang missed his last three-point shot in 300 seconds, and looked at the people around him dissatisfied. The 100-point superstar value is gone!

"Huh?" Liu Mang closed his eyes and rubbed his eyes with his arm, did he see it wrong!

Even if there are quite a few big players around two meters and a few meters tall, a big man who stands out from the crowd appears in sight. Even standing behind the crowd, Liu Mang can't fail to notice his existence, just like a firefly in the dark night Same……

"Hi, Dayao?" Liu Mang called out in surprise.

"Hello, Ace, I'm sorry to let me, thank you." Yao Ming squeezed out of the crowd very politely.

Looking at the thin and skinny girl Zhao Riyue, Liu Mang was a little excited!

Dayao!

I only saw it once on TV before, and it was the first time I saw Yao Ming in real life!

So thin, so long! So slim! There's something about wearing an Eagles practice uniform.

Damn it!

Yao Ming did not accept the invitation for the previous matchup in the small green house area. Of course, it was thanks to the Basketball Association that Yao Ming was only allowed to come to the United States for a week. Almost all the lottery area teams wanted to invite Yao Ming to try out, but Yao Ming saw the invitation. There are too many teams, so I told David Stern, why don't we all play together? Then David Stern organized a trial training at the Knicks' Garden Plaza. It is said that a large-scale public trial training will be held on June 20.

In other words, Yao Ming did not accept any trial training from any team. This has already been criticized in the United States. Many celebrities said that the Chinese are so arrogant?

First, a notorious rookie, and then a prospective No. 1 pick who has not yet entered the NBA, all so "arrogant".

But why did you come to our team?

Liu Mang stepped forward and shook hands with Yao Ming.

Sure enough, the Chinese still don't come to cuddle and hug, it's too basic, how good it is to shake hands, two big men can't get pregnant.

"Dayao, why are you here? I remember Director Zhang gave you my phone number, you should have called me earlier, and I will pick you up." Liu Mang asked pleasantly.

"I called, but you didn't answer." Yao Ming took out the Nokia mobile phone that looked like a pocket toy in his hand and shook it as a joke, "You refused to answer my call, so I can only come here to find you by myself. "

Liu Mang thought for a while, it seems that oh, my mobile phone is in the locker...

Liu Mang immediately changed the subject: "Dayao, are you here for a trial training? Just kidding, you are the No. 1 pick."

"Ace, if you say this, the media will say that the two of us are arrogant. Do you think I should agree with you, or do you think you are not the number one?" Yao Ming laughed.

"Haha, you are the best rookie of the new class!"

"Accept your auspicious words, in fact, I think so too."

Liu Mang looked at Yao Ming who was obviously more active and willing to talk than Wang Zhizhi, and probably understood why Yao Ming was rated so much higher than Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian even though his performance in his rookie season was mediocre.

Yi Jianlian also had 8 points and 5 rebounds in his rookie season, as well as his long-range shooting ability and physical fitness comparable to a black man with first-class physical fitness, but he couldn't survive in the NBA. , The chance of survival in the NBA is much higher than that of Wang Zhizhi.

Yao Ming's speaking style is obviously more humorous, more willing to talk, humble and not unwilling to express his self-confidence.

But... Liu Wei still feels strange, we only have a 27th overall pick, invite Yao Ming to try out?

"Dayao, why did you come to our trial training? We can only have a chance of getting you if we send me and a few starters to Grandet." Liu Mang asked curiously.

"I heard that you were injured. The American media said that I would not come to the trial training because of my big name. I can only accept the invitation of one team. Come and see you." Yao Ming joked.

"That's right, I was injured, it was serious, I lost the East Finals, and my heart hurts." Liu Mang shrugged and curled his lips.

As for the national conditions, there are some things that cannot be clearly stated, but everyone understands. At this time, the coaching staff and the boss brought some reporters and cameras from the United States and some reporters and cameras from China, and the chat between the two was almost like this.

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Yao Ming's first public trial training is very serious and important. Although it is unlikely to affect the No. 1 pick, at least let others see his ability.

Yao Ming also has no privileges. When he comes to tryouts, he has to be the same as everyone else, including warm-up, physical fitness test, shooting test, technical movement demonstration...etc., just like everyone else.

Liu Mang wandered around among the rookies who kept coming for trial training, wanting to see if there was anyone he had an impression of.

I searched for it, let alone, it really exists!

Tayshaun Prince, Carlos Boozer!

Prince's monkey-like body and face were instantly recognizable, but Boozer didn't recognize him right away!

There are also some impressive players, Dan Gadzuric, David Anderson, Matt Barnes, the first is Yi Jianlian's teammate, the second is Yao Ming's teammate, and the third is Fisher brother-in-law.

These are basically rookies who may be selected at the end of the first round and the second round. They will naturally come when the Eagles invite them to try out. The two picks of the Eagles are in this range.

"Little Prince, Boozer, and Barnes!" Liu Mang wanted the team to choose these three!

However, the Eagles don't have many draft picks, how can I tell the coach and the boss? How to convince them?

This is a first-round pick that can be sold for 2 million in cash and a second-round pick that starts at 600,000 in cash.

Moreover, the first-round pick is a four-year contract, and the second-round pick also has at least 1+1.

Liu Mang is not the domineering Emperor Aotian, it is impossible for him to believe whatever the boss says.

While Liu Mang was wandering around thinking hard, coach Kruger found Liu Mang at this time: "Ace, you are wandering here, have you seen any rookies who think they are good?"

After watching Yao Ming's trial training just now, Coach Kruger felt that the other people's trial training was not good.

If the Hawks also invited Jay Williams, Drew Gooden or Stoudemire and others, of course they would not feel this way. Those rookie seasons were no worse than Yao Ming.

However, most of the invited are T3 rookies who are predicted to be selected and a few T2 rookies, so the gap is naturally large.

"Yes!" Liu Mang was worried that he couldn't think of a way to talk about it, so he replied immediately.

"Yes? Ace, your vision is so high, how can you have a rookie you think is good?" Coach Kruger became interested.

The kind of character that Liu Mang showed, his vision is so high, who are his friends in other NBA teams? McGrady, Carter, Kobe, Jordan, Shuangsha...

Liu Mang could answer yes without hesitation. Coach Kruger was very interested, but he still asked, "You're not talking about the big man in your country! We can't choose that one, why don't you trade?"

"..." Liu Mang was speechless, as expected, big men are popular! This is the first time I met you, are you going to sell your disciple?

We agreed to help Qianfandu together!

Indeed, Liu Wei saw Yao Ming's performance during the trial training just now. Such a height actually has the mobility no worse than a tonnage-type center of about 2.1 meters, excellent shooting touch, and even dribbling. The team's management will be red-eyed.

"No kidding, Ace, which rookies are you looking at, I'll take them to the second round of testing." Coach Kruger said seriously.

This is not casual, but today's trial training, most of the performance is like that, very average.

If he can really perform amazingly in the trial training, will he be selected in the last round of the first round? The rookies in this pick are all men with certain immediate combat power or pure physical fitness.

"Well, it seems to be called Prince. I think his mobility and wingspan are excellent. During confrontation practice, his movement prediction is very good, and his defensive awareness is also good. Adding a little muscle is very suitable for Sharif as a substitute." Liu Mang pointed out Said the little prince who was sitting lonely on the sidelines.

"Prince?" Coach Kruger flipped through the scouting report that invited him to try out.

A senior graduate from the University of Kentucky. He is already 22 years old. His assessment is T3. He has no potential. He is thin and weak in confrontation. He has excellent mobility and excellent three-pointers...

In fact, if it weren't for his excellent mobility and three-point ability, Prince wouldn't even be able to make it to the NBA. When he was selected by the Pistons, the Pistons didn't expect him to be able to play.

Big four data, 13 points and 6 rebounds, was eliminated in the first round of March Madness...

Coach Kruger looked at the data, the performance, and the report of the first trial training, it was very mediocre...

Forget it, Coach Kruger found a trainer and asked the trainer to take Prince to another trial training, and told the trainer to take Prince to another training ground, which is the usual training ground for the visiting team to warm up before the game. .

The trial training at the training ground is private, and it is the second trial training of the focused players.

Each team has such a second trial training, in order to prevent other teams from finding out who they want to choose.

I will also find some that I don’t want to choose to confuse the line of sight.

Seeing that the trainer came to him for another tryout, Prince was stunned for a moment. Isn't this the second round of tryout opportunities only for the legendary rookie who has been spotted? When he saw Liu Mang pointing at him just now, he thought that he had offended this legendary domineering senior at some point, and felt hopeless about his future.

Unexpectedly, this senior asked himself to go to the second round of trial training!

Prince felt like a pie fell from the sky!

Prince is the kind of person who is not good at expressing words, especially his personality is very calm, so calm to the point of a little indifference, he can sit aside and watch his teammates fight.

His Chinese nickname is Little Prince, not only because his surname means prince, but also because he is like a quiet prince even when playing games, but his professionalism is nothing to say, against James and Pierce They are all the same, they play hard and have a good relationship with teammates, the kind of friendship between gentlemen.

And he knows how to be grateful. When he was in college, he sometimes couldn’t eat. His girlfriend worked part-time to give him living expenses. She was really not a good-looking black girl, but after making a lot of money, Prince did not abandon her. The two got married quietly, and later had two children and became a happy family.

Moreover, Prince is one of the five tigers of the Pistons. After the Pistons persisted until the Pistons gave up and refused to renew his contract, he left the Motor City in the summer of 2015 for 13 years.

Prince has gone to many teams for trial training before, but no matter which team's trial training, he did not reach the second round. In fact, the Pistons later selected him and did not pay much attention to him, just because they wanted to select the University of Michigan. The star player Karim Rush was selected ahead of schedule, and Prince was selected. From the fact that Prince played less than 40 games and played less than 10 minutes in his rookie year, it can be seen that the Pistons did not want to cultivate His idea, he was able to play it purely by his own efforts and won the favor of Larry Brown in the second grade.

Although Larry Brown ruined Milicic, it has a lot to do with Milicic himself not working hard, and Prince's talent is definitely not as strong as Milicic's talent that can be seen with the naked eye, but Prince's A coach like Larry Brown appreciates this attitude of doing his best.

Knowing how to be grateful and loyal makes Prince very grateful for Liu Mang's seemingly casual gesture.

Liu Mang didn't know that Prince was so moved by just pointing his finger like that...

There is still a big chapter, and there will still be 4D updates today.