The three-point line is really too close

Chapter 12 Give them the Summer League MVP
On July 2006, 7, the NBA Summer League officially started in Orlando.

The NBA Summer League is usually held in Las Vegas, Orlando and other places. It is a league held by the NBA for free agents and rookies every year shortly after the draft. Some teams can take this opportunity to test the quality of their rookies. Or observe some undiscovered pearls.

Generally speaking, the main players and main substitutes of each team will not participate in this event. They will seize all the time to rest and prepare for the new season.

The purpose of the summer league is mainly to win trust.

Free agents must win the trust of NBA teams and believe that they have the strength to play in the NBA.

The rookies must win the trust of the team's head coach and impact their playing time and tactical status in the team.

Even for the Raptors, which was selected as the No. [-] pick this year, its head coach Mitchell also bluntly stated that he would not use Bargnani as the team's main starter at the beginning of the season.

Unless, his performance in summer league and preseason is good enough.

As for the NBA preseason, it is a warm-up match for NBA teams before the start of the regular season.The purpose is to allow each team to adjust the lineup, familiarize themselves with their own team's style of play, determine the team's lineup for the new season, and at the same time improve the communication between players and coaches, which is more important than the summer league.

After discussing with the team, Zhang Bolong decided not to play in this year's summer league.

He plans to follow the team's main lineup for training camp training, mainly to complete some NBA-level high-intensity confrontation training, as well as 5V5 full-court team training games, etc., so as to gradually adapt to the intensity of the NBA.

After the preseason, Zhang Bolong officially put on the No. 17 jersey to represent the Los Angeles Lakers.

Although he is an average rookie at the end of the first round on the surface, Zhang Bolong's status in the Lakers is far from being so marginal.

Whether it is the team management's emphasis on his strength and market value, or the prestige of his hands-on, ball-by-ball play, it has proved that he will play an extremely important role in the Lakers in the new season.

The one-on-one match with Kobe that day was just the beginning.
Since then, Zhang Bolong has challenged all the players in the team one by one. Except for Odom who is basically [-]/[-], everyone else, including Smash Parker, is almost convinced by this overly powerful rookie. .

Among them, the most docile one is the "little shark" Bynum who is still in a normal mental state at this time.

Zhang Bolong used the offensive method of "bald head" in one hand combined with worshiping Buddha to play, and easily made this fresh-faced stunned young man in military training want to die.

After hitting the big stick, he personally designed a set of very cool cock hair hairstyles for this future "washing, cutting and blowing" boy.

After feeding this sweet jujube, the little shark threw himself at Zhang Bolong's admiration, and yelled "Boss is awesome".

The last hurdle to establish the status of the team lies in the A-level star Odom with an ability value of 85.

As the absolute main force and backup core of the Lakers' two consecutive championships in the previous life, Odom's comprehensive means are undoubtedly stronger than the current Zhang Bolong.

Whether left-handed or right-handed, whether offensive or defensive, even the organization and dribbling of the [-]-foot-[-]-inch big man can play well.

Perhaps his only shortcoming at present is that he will be in a trance from time to time, and it is difficult to concentrate.

Taking advantage of this, Zhang Bolong has completed many successful defenses or offenses.

Zhang Bolong knew why.

Because he had encountered the "late return" Odom several times when he got up early.

Although they were all teammates, Zhang Bolong didn't bother to say anything, he didn't come to be a life mentor for others.

Who is Odom, the fans of later generations are already very clear.

If the sky does evil, it is still forgiven; if you do evil yourself, you cannot live.

Every time Odom wins, he will always show off triumphantly, and then be choked back by Zhang Bolong with all kinds of trash talk.

After the heads-up round was completed, Zhang Bolong had preliminarily established his status as the team's "second and third swingman".

When the actual combat begins, he will fully demonstrate his organizational talents, secure the second position of the Lakers, and suggest to Phil Jackson...

Let Odom go to the bench to shine.

……

The Summer League game started soon, and Zhang Bolong, who thought he had nothing to do, was once again involved in the media.

The reason is that in the No. 30 pick Bargnani's first summer league game, he played 11 minutes on behalf of the Raptors, scored 7 points on 20 of 4 shots, 93 rebounds, 85 blocked shots and [-] steal. The team defeated the Wizards [-]:[-].

Through the excellent performance of the first show, many American media have sent praises to him, and the local newspaper in Toronto even directly wrote:

"The gap between him and Dirk may just be the strong self-confidence accumulated over time."

In an interview after the game, the white boy mentioned Zhang Bolong's previous remarks again, and said: "I heard that he did not participate in the summer league. Was he cut by the Lakers? I wish him a speedy recovery from his injury."

And Adam Morrison, who is a third-round pick, averaged 24.5 points per game in the two games that have been completed, which made people exclaim that "Bird II" has arrived.

Corresponding to the two is Zhang Bolong, who had made bold words during the draft.

At the beginning, there were many media who paid attention to him because of these words, but now, he has not even signed up for the summer league, and his whereabouts have always been mysterious, and many media want a side but cannot get it.

Finally, on a morning when the sun was rising, the reporter who had squatted outside the apartment all night finally found Zhang Bolong.

"Hey Dragon, hello!"

The drowsy, curly brown-haired man saw Zhang Bolong riding his scooter energetically, and he suddenly became energetic, and rushed up three steps in two steps.

"Uh, hello."

"This is the Los Angeles Times, I'm sports reporter Matthew Black, sorry to bother you so early."

"No, you worked hard too."

"This is our job," he said, raising the microphone, "May I ask why you didn't participate in the summer league?"

"I don't think it's interesting. I don't have a defender like Kobe to put pressure on me."

A Kobe-like defender?
Why don't you let Jordan defend it!
Blake complained silently in his heart, and asked again: "Then, what do you think of Bargnani and Morrison's outstanding performance in the summer league? Bargnani easily scored 20 points in his debut. 16 points in the half."

"In other words, he only scored four points in the second half?"

"However, he scored sixteen points in the first half."

"But he only scored four points in the second half. It's nothing to be proud of. It's anticlimactic. All I see is chicken feathers."

"The last question," Black said helplessly, "do you still think that your original promise will come true? You will be the best rookie."

"Of course, since they played so well in the summer league, then I will give them the summer league MVP."

(End of this chapter)