Healing Basketball

Chapter 4 4. The psychological burden of the skinny melon (for collection)
Another upset!

Not many people at the scene understood David Stern's name. Liu Xiu was stunned when he heard David Stern's strange voice pronounced his name. When the spotlight hit '噗' stood up.

Few of the hundreds of New York fans at the scene knew who the name David Stern was reading was, but when the spotlight hit Liu Xiu, they knew it, and they quickly burst into violent cheers.

At present, it has only been more than two months since Liu Xiu helped Syracuse University win the NCAA basketball championship. They have a certain fan base in New York. This result surprised them. Syracuse University has two lottery picks!

In terms of unpopularity, the Grizzlies chose Liu Xiu, not as big as the Pistons did not choose Anthony and chose 17-year-old Darko Milicic.

But this is the last lottery pick!

All the members of the Little Green House who have not been selected are staring at this pick eagerly. They were originally hostile to each other, and they all had the most dreaded competitor in their hearts, but Liu Xiu was not on the list of everyone's dreaded competitors.

Boy, it turns out that the guy they ignored gets picked!

Why is he?
The lottery rookies who had already been selected were also very surprised, including the No. [-] pick James, all turned their heads to stare at Liu Xiu.

James was also guessing with his relatives and friends who would be the No. 13 pick, but he didn't expect it to be this guy.

Looking at Liu Xiu's ordinary appearance, he was about ten centimeters taller than the average height in the United States, and his body shape is also the size of a passerby. Compared with everyone here, he is directly fat...

Liu Xiu is not completely unknown among the rookies in this year's draft. The matter of squatting with Anthony's group became a 'fire' in the middle of the season.

In terms of strength, Liu Xiu has it. At any rate, he is the core of the championship team's guard line, but every year there are NCAA basketball championship champion guard line cores. How many of them can enter the NBA?Compared with other members of the Little Green House who were not selected, Liu Xiu has no advantage.

Also the face...

Nima, the Grizzlies choose based on face?

James is a bit pained, who is selected at the No.13 pick has no effect on him, but after he analyzed the wave, he came to a conclusion that made him feel pained.

Not to mention others, even Anthony, who was looking forward to Liu Xiu's selection, did not expect Liu Xiu to be selected in this pick. He initially thought that Liu Xiu must be selected in the high pick, but after entering the trial training stage, he reluctantly accepted It's good that Liu Xiu can be selected.

Anthony is indeed a person who has always wanted to do great things, to be bigger and stronger since he was a child. After being shocked, he got up and put his arms around Liu Xiu's shoulders: "gogogo, brother, you have been selected! The [-]th overall pick!"

Liu Xiu was frightened, not that it was a bad thing, it was a great thing, but this good thing like a pie from the sky knocked him out of his wits.

Hearing Anthony's words, Liu Xiucai reacted, stepped forward to take the ball cap handed over by the Grizzlies management, and walked onto the stage.

The Grizzlies front office wasn't as enthusiastic as the previous team's front office, but no one noticed them.

David Stern watched Liu Xiu put on his hat and walked onto the stage, without doing anything extra, shook hands, took a group photo, and then left the stage.

In fact, David Stern really wanted to dance a disco at this time!Fortunately, he is a professional, hold back.

Another Chinese player in the lottery!Still an outsider!

He is optimistic about Liu Xiu's future?No, in his opinion, how Liu Xiu will develop in the future is a matter of the future. Is the future important?It's very important, but the future is accumulated bit by bit now. What he needs now is to promote China's NBA inside and outside double stars in China this summer!
Being able to create higher attention for the new season in China is the reason why David Stern is excited.

Moreover, Yao Ming's failure in the early stage of his rookie season, and he played in the middle and late stages is also beneficial. Even if Liu Xiu did not play, this kind of attention can be extended as much as possible. Also make the most of it.

As for whether the Grizzlies will waste a lottery pick... anyway, David Stern doesn't care.

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Watching Liu Xiu return to his seat and take a deep breath to adjust his emotions, Anthony is not very good at talking, but he can say congratulations to his younger brother as a bigger and stronger boss.

Liu Xiu was selected in the lottery. For Anthony, it is not important to be selected after falling to the third pick!

Anthony recalled the past with Liu Xiu.

Last August, Anthony came to Syracuse from Baltimore's Towson Catholic High School, and he quickly gathered two younger brothers by relying on his outstanding virtues.

But just became the boss of a trio, and was thinking about how to make it bigger and stronger in the future, when the two younger brothers were beaten and asked him for help.

He knows that these two younger brothers are fighting, robbing, bullying the weak... they can do it all, these two younger brothers at the same level only got into Syracuse University because American universities must give blacks a certain amount of admission, and they can't get 100% diploma.

When he heard that the other party was a Chinese, Anthony knew what happened.

The two younger brothers who were just accepted wanted to do bad things and were killed instead.

But no matter who is right or who is wrong, he Ann just made his debut at Syracuse University, and his younger brother was beaten up, and he must recover, otherwise, how can he become bigger and stronger in the future?

Then, Anthony and Liu Xiu ushered in the first heads-up match, Anthony did not have the advantage, and he could see that the opponent was more than capable. Judging from Anthony's rich experience, even the two useless younger brothers may not be able to beat it!

Anthony didn't try his best, he wanted to become bigger and stronger, and he worked his best for small things... What are you trying to do?
After doing one game, Anthony felt that this was not good. Although he didn't suffer, he didn't get back the scene.

Fortunately, although he has an aloof personality, he still has brains, and he quickly thought of a way - if the person who beat his younger brother was his brother, then the one who beat his younger brother would teach him a lesson!
Rounding off is fine.

Liu Xiu was very kind and accepted the invitation from Anthony's gang.

Anthony did not expect that Liu Xiu already had a certain reputation in the gangster circle at Syracuse University. Ordinary people dare not provoke him, but Liu Xiu is not a gangster himself.

After Liu Xiu joined his small gang, the speed at which he became bigger and stronger was significantly accelerated.

Anthony is the head star of Syracuse University. When returning to the team in the new season, Liu Xiu said that he wanted to visit the basketball team. Anthony went directly to the basketball club to recruit Liu Xiu.

Anthony, a rookie, also added a guy who didn't look like a high-level amateur basketball player like the NCAA into the team, but Jim Boyheim, the coach of the Orangemen of Syracuse University, did not refuse.

What kind of person Anthony is, Syracuse University has already investigated clearly, and some things have to be coaxed.

There are only a dozen official players on the school team, but there are hundreds of players in the basketball club, so it doesn't matter if there is one more. It's troublesome if a genius like Anthony is dissatisfied.

University coaches have a lot of power, but whether their position is stable or not depends on the performance of the team.

Moreover, when Jim Boyheim treated Liu Xiu, he gave some preferential treatment. Seeing that Liu Xiu was at the level of an amateur, Jim Boyheim gave Liu Xiu more opportunities to practice with him. Let Anthony see this friend more on the team.

But one day Jim Boyheim still chased Liu Xiu, and chased Jiutiao Street... His daughter was a sophomore at Syracuse University and worked as a club manager in the basketball club, so she fell in love with Liu Xiu.

Although there was no follow-up, Liu Xiu was the one who was favored and did not follow, but Jim Boyheim was still furious for a while.

In terms of basketball, at the beginning, Liu Xiu was just a training partner, and his level was very poor in Anthony's opinion, only at the level of an amateur. The advantage is that as a guard, he is particularly solid and his speed is not bad.

But soon, after a two-month training period, Anthony was surprised.

After getting acquainted with Liu Xiu, Anthony knew that this guy was too lazy to die. In the past two months, apart from the training arranged by the coaching staff, Liu Xiu rarely had private training. Regarding the "hard work" in basketball, he was serving as a training partner for the team. Internal training games, and occasionally going to the school's open-air court to play dam ball with Anthony who wants to show off...

And just two months later, Liu Xiu actually impressed Jim Boyheim with his good performance in the pre-season trials, such as being selected for the waiting list!

Once the guards in the team's official roster are injured or unable to play for other reasons, Liu Xiu has the opportunity to play as a substitute.

Later, Liu Xiu used the astonishing speed of a genius like Anthony to become a substitute, a main substitute, and a starter all the way... In the final NCAA basketball championship finals, Syracuse University won it with 11 points and 10 assists in a single game. With the help of Anthony, Anthony soared 35 points, breaking the single-game scoring record for a freshman in the finals, leading Syracuse University to win the championship with a 92-71 massacre at the University of Kansas.

21 points difference, the last NCAA finals point difference than this game, or 1990 University of Nevada massacred Duke University by 30 points.

Liu Xiu was not a member of the school team in her freshman and sophomore year. She just received professional basketball training in her junior year and made rapid progress in her junior year... Anthony got used to it and recognized Liu Xiu's talent.

Anthony, who didn't feel the pressure until March Madness, knew very well that as long as the college competition is not at the top 64 level in the United States, no matter how strong the competition area is, it is only an amateur competition.

After one season, Anthony has concluded that Liu Xiu's rapid progress during the season has nothing to do with Liu Xiu's hard work during the season.

This guy only plays games and trains in the team during the season, and he is usually lazy and almost never trains!
Anthony has never seen such a lazy basketball player as Liu Xiu, from junior high school to college, he has never seen one.

You can tell by looking at the body shape. Liu Xiu is 188 cm tall and weighs 205 pounds. If calculated in catties, the height measurement value is almost the same as the weight measurement value!After playing for a season, I still gained a few catties.

Anthony, who has a big brother mentality, naturally has to think about his brother.

Anthony is sure that if he is not in the Orange team, even if Hakeem Warrick, the core insider teammate, is selected to stay in school because of lack of confidence, plus Liu Xiu, it will be difficult to make it to March Madness.

As for Liu Xiu's progress in the knockout stage in March, Anthony obviously felt that the game in the competition area was faster!
Originally, Anthony was invincible in his freshman season. After winning the championship, he had no nostalgia for college. He had already decided to participate in the draft in advance. He analyzed a wave with his wise brain and decided to drag Liu Xiu to the NBA.

Anthony has long understood that although Liu Xiu’s family is not poor, it is not easy for his parents to support him to study in the United States. There are relatives who work in the United States, but at most they are considered middle-class families.

As the eldest brother, although Liu Xiu is older than him, and Liu Xiu never accepts being a younger brother, Anthony is also thinking about Liu Xiu. Since Liu Xiu has a talent for playing basketball, he has to dig it out... This world There are many opportunities to become rich in the world, but for both of them, playing in the NBA is the best opportunity to become rich!

The key point is that they just won the championship, and all the news about their team that Anthony heard and saw was touting. In his opinion, this year is the best year for Liu Xiu University's data + team record. Likely to be drafted high.

In Anthony's view, Liu Xiu's lazy personality, without playing more intense games in his senior season, may make little progress, and the record of the Orangemen next season is definitely not guaranteed... After thinking about it for a few days, Anthony, Pulling Liu Xiu to sign an agent together, and sign up for the draft together.

It's just that when it really came to the trial training stage, Anthony was dumbfounded.

After Liu Xiuman turned 21, he performed very well in March Madness, but at the age of 21, players who can enter the NBA, at this age, their performance will basically not be worse than this.

Coupled with the supposedly lazy personality, and a background in school gangs...

So people are contradictory. Liu Xiu has a draft status, and he went back to the age of 20 before he officially received systematic basketball training.

Ever since, Liu Xiu got a very weird draft prospect—from the middle of the first round to losing.

It is not ruled out that some teams will give it a try.

It is not even ruled out that there are teams that want to take a chance on Liu Xiu but are worried that the pick that is too late will be selected with a higher pick first.

But the probability of the second situation, as far as Anthony knows, will not be higher than the probability of him becoming the No. [-] pick in the context of the Cavaliers winning the No. [-] pick.

Therefore, after Anthony fell to the third pick and went to the Nuggets, he was ready. As long as there is no team that wants Liu Xiu, or Liu Xiu is abandoned by other teams in the future, he will also want the Nuggets when he is the top player. Sign Liu Xiu.

Who knew that Liu Xiu was actually selected at No.13!A little higher than the expected highest mid-first round!
Now, the burden in Anthony's heart has been completely relieved!
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(End of this chapter)