the rest, only noise

Chapter 1206

In this eventful summer, does Louis really have the luxury of a vacation?
In fact, this matter should be viewed from two aspects.

If it's for David Robinson's contract renewal, then Louie is naturally on vacation.

If it is for reinforcement work not related to Robinson, or other emergencies, then Louie must be in working condition.

He just doesn't want to be distracted by re-signing Robinson.

In fact, he is not idle at all.

This year is the Olympic year, and whenever this year comes, the entire sports world will work for it.

Since this year's Summer Olympics will be held in Atlanta, USA, Louis has become even busier.

This kind of busyness mainly comes from a certain big country in the East.

If there are domestic contestants who want to come to the United States to set up spots in advance to adapt to the atmosphere here, then they usually contact Louis for help.

Louis is a well-known egg man, and he never shirks when he can help.

After Bruce Lee, he is the most important face of Chinese descent in European and American society. He is also careful in everything, but he has always been willing to help this kind of easy help.

However, the NBA still had an own goal with the national basketball team.

This own goal is like this. When the NBA contacted the Chinese Basketball Association, it mentioned that it might regularly invite the national basketball team to the United States to participate in the NBA Summer League in the future.

For some reason, the domestic side interpreted the future perfect tense as the present continuous tense, and they wrote back to the alliance office: "We accept your invitation."

This can't be done for the NBA.

In order to avoid misunderstanding between the two parties, Stern contacted Louis to know how to deal with this matter.

Louis felt a little dumbfounded at the time.

But after thinking about it, anyway, the national basketball team will come to the United States to play in the Olympics this year. There is nothing wrong with coming here early to play Summer League to warm up, but funding is a problem.

The league has no record on this matter at all, and naturally there is no funding for inviting the national basketball team to the United States.

Louis made several calls to league-related sponsors to see if he could resolve the issue.

In the end, Coca-Cola was willing to sponsor US$30 for the national basketball team to come to the United States, which was considered to have solved the problem.

Once the funds are available, it will be a matter of arranging for the national basketball team to participate in the summer league.

The league arranges the national basketball team into the Fira Summer League.

There were originally only eight teams participating in this summer league, and the sudden addition of a foreign team still has an impact on the schedule.

According to the regulations, unless the Chinese team can play the top four records, otherwise they will only participate as an invited team and will not be counted in the ranking.

For the Chinese team, being able to participate in a high-level summer league before the start of the Olympics is no less valuable than going overseas for training, not to mention that the expenses are fully covered by the NBA, and it doesn't matter if you can't get into the top four and don't count in the rankings.

So, is the matter resolved?
Originally, Louis didn't watch the Summer League, but because of the Chinese team's joining, he paid much more attention to the Summer League.

The Lakers are one of eight teams participating in the Phila Summer League, and several rookies selected this year are going to play, led by Rick Carlisle.

Three days before the start of the Summer League, the Chinese team arrived in the United States.

Louis looked at their big list, good guy, there are a bunch of acquaintances on it.

The head coach leading the team is Gong Luming.

The list of 12 people is: Hu Weidong, Liu Yuqing, Kang Chengbiao, Du Shuai, Lin Junwu, Gong Xiaobin, Sun Jun, Bart, Li Nan, Liu Yudong, Wu Naiqun, Li Xiaoyong.

Among them, five players from the United States are from the Road Academy.

There is even Lin Junwu, a promising college student.

The other seven domestic elites were all members of the 96 Golden Generation in Louis's previous life, and in this life, each of them came from the NBA Chinese Basketball Academy.

The NBA Chinese Basketball Academy was also led by Louis, but with the development, it has gradually become a springboard for domestic and foreign travel.

The Local Sports Bureau will select top talents to go to the NBA Chinese Basketball Academy for training. Although these talents have gone to the NBA Academy, their relationship is still there. Many things are restricted, and they are not as free as the students of the Road Academy.

Although five foreign players from Luyuan were selected, Louis still feels that this is not the strongest lineup of the Chinese team.

Since Lin Junwu, who is still in college, can be selected, why can't Wang Zhizhi, who is also well-known and known as the top insider in the United States, not be selected?
In Louis' previous life, Wang Zhizhi was the youngest player of the 96 golden generation.

Louis originally thought that after Yu Tiancan was reimbursed for the season, Wang Zhizhi would have a good chance to show his prowess in Atlanta, which would greatly increase his draft market. As a result, he was not considered at all in China.

In addition, the Chinese team has three active NBA players who have been left out.

They are Magic's backup center Chu Nan, Lakers' second-year power forward Wu Qi, and Wang Mukong, who has now transferred to the Vancouver Grizzlies.

The Chinese team should not be strong enough to ignore the three of them.

There is only one explanation for recruiting only five players from the Lu department. They don't want to see the players from the Lu department sit big.

This is also in line with the usual style of young commander Gong Luming.

Louie's understanding of this boss is mainly due to a series of measures taken by the other party when he entered the palace for the second time in 2015 to take charge of the national basketball coach.

The boss advocates the three obediences and the three majors, emphasizing the obedience and discipline of the players. He always has a factional string in his mind. He does not allow more than two players in the national team from the same place, and he likes to step on his predecessor's performance to stand up for himself.

He said that the older generation rely on the old to sell the old, and they no longer have the sense of honor to win glory for the country.He also said that Guo Yikong likes to be on top, adding to the chaos.He felt that the Chinese team was superior and deserved to dominate Asia. As a result, he was caught by the despicable islanders in the Asian Games and ended up in an embarrassing fifth place in Asia.

But in the end, under his rule, the Chinese team regained their standing on the top of Asia, and picked up the Xiaokuailing style of play, laying the foundation for the future coach Li and Marshal Du, two "exquisite" coaches of the underworld, Daxing's three-back lineup to feed the fans all over the country.

It is really not surprising that they did not form the best team of the national basketball team in Louis' eyes. This has always been an inherent feature of the system.

The factions are intertwined and the forces are mixed. Shuai Gong's ability to license five players from Lu's department to be selected for the national team is already due to the superior strength of these players.

If he could choose, Louis would replace Lin Junwu with Wang Zhizhi.

Wang Zhizhi is definitely the most talented player in the national basketball team, enough to plug Yu Tiancan's absence.

Although Lin Junwu also has NBA potential, Louis is not optimistic about his development.

To use an inappropriate analogy, he is like a Guo Yikong who has strengthened his physical fitness.

He is the kind of player that Shuai Gong hates the most.

He doesn't use his brain very much when he hits the ball axis. Once he enters the rhythm, he is naturally unstoppable, but the premise is that the team has him as the core.

It is impossible for the Chinese team to use him as the core.

When he's on the floor as a role player, he can look dazed.

Louis boldly predicted that Shuai Gong would give the classic "Jing Tian Chao" to Lin Junwu 20 years in advance.

Since the Lakers will play against the Chinese team during the summer league, it is rare for Louis to appear in the summer league training facility.

Although they didn't play a game, Bryant has established himself as the boss.

Nash has no dispute about this, he was originally a non-contested player.

Malik Rose's vitality is very good, he has mature combat power, and it is no surprise that he will be the starting fourth position of the Lakers Summer United team.

The case of Ben Wallace is unique.

When Carlisle first saw him, he asked his height.

Da Ben, who is only [-] feet [-] inches, said without changing his face: "I am [-] feet [-] inches tall... I can play in any position."

"Can small forward play?"

"can……"

The big Ben at the small forward position is simply a disaster. The defensive end has good footsteps, which is the only advantage. The offensive end is useless and completely useless.

After watching it for a few minutes, Louis couldn't help but communicate with Carlisle: "Rick, why did you let Big Ben play the third position?"

Carlisle is also very helpless. Summer League itself is a game to test the player's style and level. If Daben can play the third position, it will definitely benefit him in the future. There is a world of difference in the development of a [-]-foot-[-]-inch pure center forward who can play from the third position to the fifth position.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. If he can play the [-]th position, Kobe can play the [-]st position. Can they play? Don't you know if you don't have this ability? I just want to see him play the center forward, don't give him another position!"

The story of Big Ben tells us that in life, if you speak too hard, you will easily get yourself into trouble.

On the eve of Summer League, Louis called Liu Yuqing out to meet the new Lakers teammates.

Unexpectedly, Kobe knew Liu Yuqing, and knew that there was a competitive relationship between them, so when they met, he said very unfriendlyly: "I will never be a substitute for the substitute. I will blow you up at the Summer League to prove my strength. You just wait!"

The corner of Liu Yuqing's mouth twitched.

Kobe's performance reminded him of Garnett's various childish behaviors.

No... Compared with Kobe, Garnett is considered mature.

"Xiao Liu, this kid treats everyone like this. He even wanted to blow Benj up during his trial training." Louis smiled, but there was a certain hint in his eyes, "Tomorrow's game, have a 'good' fight with him."

Kobe asked excitedly: "Coach, do you want to come and watch?"

"Is there any inconvenience?"

"It's nothing inconvenient, no, if you ask me, it's just too convenient!" Kobe stared at Liu Yuqing with high spirits, "I will definitely not let the water go!"

Liu Yuqing frowned, her patience with high school students reached the limit.

(End of this chapter)