Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 145 Unexpected and Reasonable
The two sides fought fiercely, and the game lasted for nearly half an hour, and finally Coach Cooper finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

After the game, D'Antoni and Cooper were discussing over there, as if to determine the last candidate to stay, and here, the trial training is almost over.

After the trial training, the players were sweating profusely, and they were all panting heavily on the field, but Mason could not hide his smile at this time. His performance from the beginning to the end can be said to be very good, Staying is basically a certainty.

Seeing Mason's expression at this moment, White said with some displeasure: "The little man succeeds."

Anthony stood up with a smile at this moment: "Come on, let's congratulate Carey!"

When White heard what Anthony said, he was taken aback for a moment. After making sure that he had heard correctly, his face was a little shocked, and he turned his head and said, "Melo, are you saying congratulations? Are you going to congratulate Jim?"

"Of course not..." Anthony smiled and shook his head, then looked in Roger's direction, "Of course I congratulate your good brother..."

Seeing Anthony's reaction, White gave him a strange look. He had no idea what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, but before he could speak, Anthony had already walked there. Although he was puzzled, he had no choice but to hurry up. keep up.

"In today's trial training, everyone performed very well. I believe that everyone played their role with all their strength." D'Antoni stood there at this time, facing the ten players who were sweating profusely in front of him.

Anthony and White stood behind D'Antoni at this time, fighting in a row with Cooper, waiting for D'Antoni to announce the result.

It's just that the expressions of the three people are different. Cooper looks relieved, Anthony looks relaxed, and White looks worried.

"But today there is only one spot, which is very difficult for our coaching staff to choose."

Speaking of playing here, D'Antoni paused, and after scanning the faces of ten players, he then said: "In order to ensure fairness, we decided to announce the last remaining players today."

When Mason heard D'Antoni's words, the smile on his face became stronger. He was originally a player in the NBDL, and of course he knew some unspoken rules. He had to guard against other people's tricks, and it turned out that he would directly announce the result at this moment, which was naturally what he hoped for most.

"After our careful selection, we decided that the last player to stay is..." D'Antoni paused and glanced in Mason's direction.

When Mason saw D'Antoni's eyes, his face exploded immediately, and it really was him!
D'Antoni sighed, and then said, "Kerry Roger."

"Yeah! Yeh!" Mason waved his hands violently, and was about to move forward.

"Yeah!" White yelled suddenly.

Hearing White's shout, Mason was taken aback for a moment, then looked around, only to find that other people looked at him strangely, and even D'Antoni looked at him like a monster.

"It's me?" At this moment, Roger looked at him in disbelief and pointed at himself.

"Young man, it's you!" Cooper stepped forward at this moment and said to him with a smile.

"Yeah!" Hearing Cooper's voice, Roger was sure that he heard correctly, and then jumped up like flying.

"It's not fair!" Mason suddenly shouted angrily.

D'Antoni saw the angry Mason and said, "This is our final choice."

"I'm not convinced, I'm obviously the best in this!" Mason said unconvinced.

"You did perform the best." D'Antoni said rather helplessly.

"Then why didn't you choose me?!" Mason said angrily. After finishing speaking, he glanced at White and said, "I see, it must be because of him, because he and Carey are college alumni, so you are like this. Trial training is meaningless at all, you have already decided! We are simply going through the motions!"

Mason's words immediately caused the players who came to the trial training to talk a lot. Even Roger looked at White and Anthony with some doubts.

"You are wrong." Anthony took the initiative to step forward and said with a smile. Now Mason's words have affected the reputation of the Nuggets. If it is true as he said, I am afraid that no player will come to the Nuggets for trial training in the future. up.

Mason looked up at Anthony at this moment, with horror in his eyes: "It's you!"

Immediately afterwards, he seemed to have discovered something: "It really is you, I said, it seems that you are really playing tricks!"

"Shut up!" White rushed forward at this time, and was about to step forward.

Anthony stopped White, but the expression on his face remained unchanged, he still smiled, looked at Mason and said, "I admit that you performed very well today, but did you find out that the team you are on today Lost."

Anthony's words made Mason speechless for a while. Although there was no detailed technical statistics on the sidelines, his team did lose, but he naturally would not show weakness: "That's because there is a gap in strength between the two sides. My teammates are not as good as those on the opposite side."

As soon as Mason said this, the players in the trial training were in a commotion again. Those who were teammates with Mason all looked at him with contempt.

"You really don't understand." Anthony shook his head helplessly.

"What don't I understand?" Mason looked at Anthony with disdain

Anthony still smiled wryly at this time, he was too lazy to dawdle, and said directly: "Jim, I know you think it's unfair, and I also admit that your scoring ability has the strength to beat some marginal players on the team, but you forgot, today we What the team wants to recruit is the third point guard, do you understand what the third point guard's responsibilities are?"

Anthony spoke with a higher tone: "The responsibility of the third point guard is to firmly control the ball in his hands, and then have a certain defensive ability and passing ability. You scored a lot of points today, but you showed us today. Yes, but your scoring ability, and this is what we need the last, which team do you think will need a third point guard to score crazy shots?"

"Especially in a running and bombing team like ours, where everyone can score." After Anthony finished speaking, he looked at Mason sympathetically.

When D'Antoni heard what Anthony said, he also heaved a long sigh. He was quite optimistic about Mason before the match, but after the match, Mason's shortcomings were completely exposed. He held the ball too much, and his offense was too casual and Likes to work alone, makes too many mistakes, does not create opportunities for teammates, etc.

All of this is what D'Antoni is most concerned about in this trial training, because indeed, as Anthony said, what he wants is just a third point guard.

Mason was still unconvinced after hearing Anthony's words: "I'm still not convinced! If you give up for this reason, you will regret it. I will succeed in the trial training with other teams, and then I will make you regret it!"

"You are welcome at any time." Anthony didn't say much, just smiled and said, "But if you don't go back and train more, I believe it will be difficult to gain a foothold at your current level."

"You..." Mason didn't know what to say for a while.

"Okay, Melo, let him go." D'Antoni said at this time.

Anthony heard D'Antoni speak, didn't say any more, and backed away.

"Melo, he's Melo!" At this moment, a player in the trial training shouted.

"It's Melo, Melo, Melo is observing our trial training!" another player said.

"Who is Melo?" One of the people who did not know Anthony said in the trial training.

"You don't even know about Melo. He is now the league's scoring leader and has tied Chamberlain's scoring record for rookies. Not long ago, he even broke the scoring record set by Michael in Madison. He even won He scored 42 points and beat the Lakers in front of Kobe!" the player who knew the game said excitedly.

"so smart……"

As the players talked about it, Anthony's image seemed to be taller in an instant. Many of these players were in various low-level leagues, and some even came back from overseas. It is normal for some people not to know Anthony, but hearing The insider said so, and those people's admiration for Anthony suddenly rose to a higher level.

Mason felt ashamed and indignant when he heard the players talking about him behind him, especially when the player told Anthony's hot deeds. Although he had confidence in himself, he still had self-knowledge about Anthony's achievements. I'm afraid he This life is impossible to achieve.

"Okay, let's go, Kyrie stays." D'Antoni finally said.

"Let's go, let's go..." Hearing what D'Antoni said, the players all dispersed one after another. Although they really wanted to chat with Anthony, the current situation definitely didn't allow it, not to mention they had to rush On to the next team's tryout.

Mason also walked out of the arena with other players with his head down at this time, but perhaps because of what he said just now, the other players in the trial training deliberately kept some distance from him.

After the other players had left, Roger walked up to Anthony quickly, with a grateful expression on his face, and said solemnly: "Melo, thank you!"

Others may not know it, but he knows it best. Anthony’s advice to him before made him understand the criteria for the Nuggets’ selection. The coach also saw his strengths, how could he not be grateful to Anthony!
(End of this chapter)