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Chapter 86 I Had a Game with Manager Joe That Year (Long Chapter for Tickets~)

In the middle and late May, the NBA's fourteen teams that did not make the playoffs completed the lottery.

This lottery is the most concerned about by all NBA rookies participating in the draft, because it involves a series of subsequent changes. It can even be said that the fate of some people is connected with this lottery at this moment.

There is no doubt that the Philadelphia 76ers were the big winners of the night, and they won the No. [-] pick in the first round.

The Raptors, with the third-worst record, got the second overall pick, while the Grizzlies, with the worst record, got the third overall pick.

This is the top three, and it has also become the three teams that all rookies are most concerned about.

Every year among the rookies in the draft, there are always some upsets and dark horses. Although there are only a few top picks, who knows about such things?There will be something different if you don't keep it neat. Who made this place the birthplace of miracles?

By the end of this lottery, the NBA has completed two rounds of the playoffs.

At this time, some teams that lost the playoffs and were about to go home to fish began to conduct trial training. The teams in this part of the trial training were relatively late, in the middle and lower reaches of the first round.

Qin Fei has been to Portland, New York, and Cleveland

Regarding some of his physical test data, the teams that have tried out all have first-hand information, including the scout data obtained through other channels before.

Before the joint trial training, Qin Fei went to the Pistons for the last stop, and he went alone, because Kobe didn't want to go to the Motor City at all, so he didn't contact the Pistons.

What happened to the Pistons in 96?

In terms of record, during the regular season, they tied for sixth in the Eastern Conference. They faced the Orlando Magic in the first round and were swept out 3-0.

The best player on the team is the second-year Grant Hill, who averaged 40 points, 20.2 rebounds, 9.8 assists and 6.9 steals in 1.3 minutes per game.

Therefore, although the Pistons lost to the Magic, they are essentially a very promising team. The combination of Grant Hill and Alan Houston is enough to make people have unlimited reverie.

In this class of rookies, their most wanted is Marcus Camby.

It's a pity that Camby is a lottery pick, and they are the last picks in the first round, so at the beginning, they didn't invite Qin Fei for a trial training. It was Tellem who won the trial training for Qin Fei after passing the introduction.

"This is called spreading the net across the board and more blooms." On the way to the Motor City, Tellem hoped that Qin Fei would lower his requirements first. First of all, he would not have to worry about which city it was, but to ensure that he was selected in the first round.

In the prestigious Palace of Auburn Hills.

Pistons' meritorious head coach Jack McCloskey and head coach Doug Collins, who took office just last year, inspected Qin Fei who had a trial training today.

Doug Collins came to the Pistons for a year and helped the Pistons win 18 more games than last year. Although they were swept away by the Magic in the playoffs, they still showed the potential of the Pistons to rise. General manager McCloskey is the builder of the bad boys in the history of the Pistons.

Qin Fei is doing a sprint test on 3/4 of the field. After finishing, he will immediately conduct a shooting test.

The shooting test includes two types, one is a mid-to-long distance street ball jumper, and the other is to complete a dribble jumper under the defense of a staff member holding a jamming stick.

Qin Fei performed well in the former test, with a hit rate of over 60.00%, which is considered a pass, but the latter test was terrible, with two out of ten.

"Is this the strength of the NCAA champions? It shouldn't be!" Doug Collins doesn't like "Blacksmith" very much, including the team's star player Grant Hill, who is not very accurate in three-pointers. Now, under his request, he is also slowly starting to learn three-pointers. Qin Fei's determination is probably even more exaggerated than Grant Hill.

"It looks like you haven't watched the NCAA finals this year, have you?" the gray-haired general manager Jack smiled.

He dared to say such a thing, and Collins did not dare to have any angry thoughts after hearing it, and made a gesture of willingness to listen to it.

Jack pointed to Qin Fei and said, "This kid's most prominent features are breakthrough and defense. It is written in the scout report that it is impossible to see his superiority with such an ordinary basic test."

"So?" Collins nodded. So that's the case. He really didn't know this player, and he was all focused on the playoffs.

"So I helped him find a match."

Jack smiled mysteriously. Just as he finished speaking, the door outside the training hall suddenly opened, and a black middle-aged man wearing a Pistons training jersey walked in.

Qin Fei heard the reputation and looked, and the man walked straight in front of him.

Qin Fei blinked his eyes, try again?

"How did you invite him here?"

Before Qin Fei and Joe Dumas played against each other, the coach first thought it was unreliable, and they were all on vacation. Shouldn't a veteran like Dumas enjoy the sun and the beach?

"Joe is concerned about the work of the Pistons. This time I have considered him. He is the best choice to test Qin Fei's individual defensive ability." McCloskey said lightly.

On the field, Qin Fei has already recognized the person who came.

At the beginning, he was still a little unfamiliar. After all, the other party was not a top-ranked NBA star, but he soon recognized it. Isn't this Nima the only gentleman in the bad boy army?

Sure enough, Joe Dumas shook hands with Qin Fei politely, and began to introduce himself, and said that he wanted to have a one-on-one trial test with Qin Fei.

"Okay, okay." Of course Qin Fei agreed, he wished someone could challenge him one-on-one.

The staff emptied the instruments, and Qin Fei and Dumas played one-on-one.

Dumas gave the ball to Qin Fei, indicating that Qin Fei can attack first.

From Isaiah Thomas to Dennis Rodman, to Lambiel, Mahon and others, they are all rogue-like characters, but Dumars has a tough style on the court, a taciturn off-court, a pure nature, and good manners.

Dumas' registered height is 1 meters, and he looks shorter than Qin Fei. His muscles are very clear, and he seems to have a lot of strength.

"Is this too big a gap?"

Qin Fei didn't need to think about it to know that even Dumars at the end of his career was definitely much stronger than him at this time. He was the MVP of the finals and the player of the best team and best defense for many times!

After holding the ball, Qin Fei has been thinking about how to attack.

In Dumas' eyes, Qin Fei hesitated in his attack.

There were not many people in the arena. After the staff stepped aside, it seemed that there were only two people left, and it became extremely quiet.

Dumas opened his arms, closed them and smiled.

Once on the field, he is extremely focused.

This was the task assigned to him by Old Jack, and of course he had to complete it. The relationship between him and Old Jack was very unusual.

The two faced off, and Qin Fei tried a three-threat attack, but Dumas remained unmoved.

It would be useless to try more, so Qin Fei bent down, raised his head, and stared at Dumas with a fierce gaze.

When Dumas saw this look, he was overjoyed, this kid is not bad!

Qin Fei moved, and suddenly stepped to the right to break through.

The starting speed of his first step was astonishing, even faster than the absolute speed during the test just now. The two big men who were observing were startled and looked at each other.

Experts pay great attention to these details. In their eyes, Qin Fei's first explosive move is a bit like Grant Hill.

Although Qin Fei is fast, the 33-year-old Dumas is also fast in reaction and lateral movement. With small steps, he blocks Qin Fei like a moving wall. At this time, Qin Fei has just moved out of the second step, and the explosive activation brought by the "Master of the First Step" is gone.

He chose to turn around and dribble. As soon as he turned around, the ball in his hand was shot off with a "snap".

Qin Fei turned around, the ball disappeared, and separated the human ball, and his face was not very good-looking.

Dumas picked up the basketball, ran to Qin Fei calmly, and passed the ball to Qin Fei: "Don't be distracted, it's time for me to attack."

"Come on!" Qin Fei clapped his hands, maintaining his attention like never before.

This should be Qin Fei's first matchup with an active player in the NBA, and he is one of the more powerful active players. He knows that he was careless just now, so he should not turn around and dribble to expose his flaws.

Of course, this was just his idea. He knew that Dumars' defense was strong because of his sticky defense, not his stealth. If Dumars steals like this, it means that he is really not good enough.

Dumars' offense has gradually become a combination of sudden shooting and shooting. This season, he has become a stable outside shooter for the Pistons.

Qin Fei stuck tightly, and Dumars had no room to shoot. After three threats, he dribbled the ball to the right and broke through.

The speed of the first step is not fast, but the rhythm of the combination of the fake throw and the real jump is very good, and the second step takes up half the advantage of the body, and he subconsciously raises his elbow.

"Pong!"

Qin Fei was elbowed in the chest and grinned in pain. Dumas made a one-handed throw and scored easily.

"Hey, I'm sorry, I'm used to it." Dumas looked at Qin Fei who was rubbing his chest apologetically.

Don't you mean gentleman?

Qin Fei rolled his eyes, he didn't seem to talk, threw the ball to Dumas, and asked: "Come again!"

For the second ball, Dumas suddenly took a step back and made a mid-range jumper. Against Qin Fei's defense, he still made a hit.

For the third ball, half turn around and shake Qin Fei away, and hit the throw

Pistons head coach Collins couldn't stand it any longer. He turned his head and said to Old Jack, "Sir, this kid can't do it. Both offense and defense are blown up."

He was a little impatient and wanted to leave the training hall, but Old Jack was still very steady: "Don't worry, let's take a look."

Collins had no choice but to continue reading patiently, feeling extremely disdainful in his heart, thinking that Qin Fei was at most a second-round pick, and the first round might be a bit overestimated.

Dumars was very surprised when he held the ball outside.

Qin Fei's reaction is that this guy is adapting to the confrontation with him. Just now on the third ball, Qin Fei has already defended very well. If he is more ruthless and stretches out his hand, the interference to him will be even greater.

But this kind of thing is experience, and if you don't have time to accumulate it, you can't learn it. Strong learning may lead to fouls.

For the fourth ball, Dumars dribbled the ball under his crotch and received a breakthrough to the right. Qin Fei always defended well.

Qin Fei took a step forward, but did not jump after being forced.

Because Dumars is a fake action.

Stopped the ball?

Everyone at the scene was stunned. Dumas couldn't move and forced a fallback jumper, while Qin Fei kept his upper body straight all the time, soaring into the sky and trying to interfere.

For the sake of defense, even if he does not move, it is a good defense. If he moves, that is the best defense.

Dumars raised the arc to avoid being blocked. With a good touch, he wiped the edge of the basket and almost made a three-point shot.

"Young man can do it, this defense!"

Dumas is very sure of Qin Fei's defense. In the current Pistons team, there are no more than three players who can have Qin Fei's single-line defense level.

When Qin Fei was rejoicing in defending against an NBA player's attack, he suddenly absorbed a little bit of the three-point shooting attribute.

It's so easy for me to wipe?

Looking at Dumas who is slightly out of breath, he feels a little guilty. He is a 33-year-old veteran. Seeing that he is about to retire, he has lost a little attribute. I really don’t know how long it will take to practice again, and it may never come back.

On the sidelines, Old Jack applauded Qin Fei himself.

"Have you seen it? This is the speed of progress of young people."

"Maybe it's luck?" Doug Collins always felt that it was unreliable to choose a 17-year-old boy, but it was undeniable that he didn't want to leave now, and he wanted to continue to investigate Qin Fei.

Dumas really couldn't attack, and after scoring three in a row, Qin Fei blocked three in a row, making his head look ashamed.

However, Qin Fei's own offense was also very immature under the defense of Dumas. He had been crazily hitting the iron, and only hit a breakthrough layup during the period.

As long as Qin Fei breaks through, Dumas, who weighs only 86 kilograms, can't stop Qin Fei who has all kinds of "Terminators" when he makes a layup.

At the end of the trial training, Dumas praised Qin Fei's performance very much.

He said to the head coach and general manager: "This is a very good guy with excellent qualities that fit us very well in Detroit."

Collins wondered: "What quality, be specific."

Dumas said excitedly: "It's tough enough!"

As an instructor, Dumas's final evaluation was A-level defense, B-level finishing, C-level breakthrough, and D-level shooting. Considering his young age, he has great potential and is of great training value.

"At the end of the first round, I can't choose any good immediate combat power. If Qin Fei falls in front of me, I will definitely choose him." General Manager Jack finally expressed his opinion to Collins, and Collins nodded, which can be regarded as approval of his operation.

After Qin Fei left, agent Tellem was invited to the general manager's office.

"We hope to reach an agreement. We will ensure that Qin Fei will be selected in the first round. At the same time, we also hope that the excellent history and team culture of the Pistons will attract Qin Fei."

"But our Pistons are relatively late in the draft, and we are very worried that Qin Fei will be drafted by other teams before."

Jack veiled something else, and Tellem knew it.

Tellem said: "Qin Fei also likes the Pistons very much, and being able to play for the Pistons will be a good start for his career dream."

Tellem asked: "If Qin Fei is picked up by the previous team, will the Pistons choose to trade?"

Jack frowned and wanted to say yes, but remembering the attitude of the head coach Collins, he finally sighed and did not give a clear answer.

"Then why didn't the Pistons try to trade for a higher pick to select Qin Fei?" It was one of Tellem's jobs to secure a higher pick for Qin Fei, so Tellem gave another opinion, which was essentially more beneficial to Qin Fei.

Jack agrees with this suggestion: "We will make appropriate operations in the draft, and we don't rule out paying some price to get a higher pick in order to select Qin Fei."

"That's the best thing ever," Tellem said with a smile.

"However, we also hope that Qin Fei can keep some of his physical test data and scout reports confidential. It is best to keep a low profile during the joint trial training in Chicago."

Tellem laughed loudly when he heard Jack Fang's suggestion: "Sir, you are really worrying too much. Qin Fei has always been a humble and low-key good boy."

　Guess which team?Good night, my friends~

　　

　

(End of this chapter)