I'm really not a superstar

Chapter 106 Summer League
After the transaction review was approved, Joey Dorsey's signing rights came to the Houston Rockets.

As a first-round pick, his contract is theoretically a done deal.However, to really sign a contract, you have to wait until the summer league is over.

Unlike the regular season or preseason, Summer League features mostly rookies and sophomores, as well as free agents that teams scout.Moreover, big-name free agents will not participate in this event, and feel that it is demeaning.

They have only one purpose in participating, which is to win the trust of the team, get a contract or not be cut.

To be precise, the summer league is a stage for young people to showcase their talents, which sounds very passionate and romantic.

But in fact, this is also a show where a group of fringe players desperately sell themselves to buyers in order to get a job, so it seems extremely cruel.

The summer league is a stage where romance and cruelty, dreams and reality intertwine and collide.

Here, no one cares about honors, tactics are not important, and it doesn't even matter whether the game is won or lost. All the players have to do is to show their abilities and talents as much as possible.

This is like a huge primeval jungle, with leopards, lions, crocodiles, monitor lizards, bears and many other beasts in it, and only the one who survives in the end is the winner.

The summer league is not a unified league, but is composed of multiple loose leagues, including official events, as well as spontaneously organized events by NBA teams and teams in other basketball leagues.

In the summer of 2008, there were three officially recognized NBA events: Orlando Summer League, Rocky Mountain Summer League and Las Vegas Summer League.

Among them, the Las Vegas Summer League was established for the shortest time, but it was sponsored by EAsports, with the largest number of participating teams and the largest scale and influence.

This year, a total of 21 teams participated in the Las Vegas Summer League, including Joey Dorsey's Rockets.

Rose's Bulls played in the Orlando Summer League.

Dorsey still regrets not being able to come to Las Vegas with his good brothers.Originally, I planned to take a critical eye with Ross, and have a good look at the luxury and money fans of Z capitalist countries!
However, after Dorsey saw the schedule, he took a breath.

This is too dense!Even the donkeys of the production team didn't behave like that!
7月12日—7月21日，10天时间里要打6场比赛！平均一天半打一场！
At this time, the format of the summer league is still very general, just the participating teams play against each other.It was not until 2013 that the preliminaries + playoffs mode was introduced and a championship was established.

The rules of the game are also different from those of the NBA: 4 quarters of 10 minutes each; halftime is 4 minutes less than the NBA, only 8 minutes; overtime is only 2 minutes, and the second overtime adopts the sudden death method. Ball wins!
Dorsey hadn't studied the summer league in his previous life, and he didn't expect that the basketball game would be in line with football.And it used the Golden Ball earlier than FIFA.

Speaking of winning the golden goal, Dorsey couldn't help but think of Trezeguet's shaking nipples when celebrating the golden goal lore...

In addition, in order to make the game faster and increase the player's personal performance time, the number of personal fouls has reached 10!And free throws have to wait until the team has accumulated 10 fouls.

It is foreseeable that such a game will be full of confrontation and hand-to-hand combat!
A day and a half of a high-intensity game, plus daily training time, I guess I don't have time to experience the feasting and luxury of the decadent capitalist society!

airport.

Two big men with suitcases stood out from the crowd.

If you are a basketball fan, you can definitely recognize these two young people.They are this year's No. 6 draft pick Derrick Rose and No. [-] pick Joey Dorsey.

The destinations of the two are different, one is Orlando and the other is Las Vegas.But the purpose is the same, they are all going to join the team and participate in the summer league.

They were accompanied by family members, with Rose by his two older brothers and Dorsey by his cousin Tom.

Behind them, there are coaches and teammates from the University of Memphis, as well as classmates and friends who have a good relationship.

Coach Calipari stood among the crowd, looking at the two disciples in front of him with blurred vision.

As a famous coach, his subordinates have trained countless excellent players, but in terms of the most satisfying ones, these two are the ones in front of him.

He has high hopes for these two children, and even vaguely feels that these two disciples will stir up stormy waves in the NBA arena in the near future.

"Fight well, I am looking forward to your future, don't let me down!"

When parting, Kashuai hugged the two proud disciples and sent his farewell words.

"By the way, Dorsey, although it's a bit of a spoiler, I still have to remind you to keep your mouth shut!" Kashuai also gave Dorsey a special piece of advice.

After saying goodbye to everyone, the two protagonists hugged each other tightly.

"Joy, I will pay attention to every game of yours. Play hard and don't let me down! You also want to watch my games! If you have time, come to Chicago to find me. Of course, I will also watch you... ..." Ross murmured.

"Okay, I know what you mean, mother-in-law is like a girl, do you still remember the ancient Chinese poem I taught you?"

"Remember. Mo Dao has no confidant in the future, and no one in the world does not know the king!"

"Very well, this is for you!"

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When the backs of Dorsey and Ross disappeared in the transit passage, everyone dispersed.

Fan Jian turned around and came to a corner of the terminal, where a long-haired girl wearing sunglasses was still staring blankly at the empty boarding gate.

"Okay, don't look at it, it's already gone!"

"Shut up, you don't need to remind me, it's annoying!" The girl was fierce and savage, and it was Cao Doudou.

"I really don't understand you. If you don't want to part with it, go and give it away. Zi Luo is gone anyway!"

"It's because Zi Luo left! Also, do you need to worry about it? You're cheap!"

As she said that, the girl flew up and kicked Fan Jian.

But Fan Jian had been prepared for a long time, with agility, he avoided the girl's attack lightly, retreated to a safe area, and smiled meanly: "Although your twin tails are gone, your temper has not changed at all! Oh, By the way, you without twin tails are like a cat without a tail, it's really uncomfortable..."

The last voice had already been heard from afar, because the girl had already started chasing him desperately.

On July 7, Dorsey came to Las Vegas to officially report to the Rockets.

It is said to be the Rockets, but in fact there are not many Rockets players. Most of the team are free agents who come to try out and be inspected, and there are some players from the Rockets' NBDL affiliate team, the Vipers.

The personnel changes in the summer league are very large, and they can leave at any time if they can't play well. If a certain player arouses the interest of the team, they will be added to the team at any time.

It often happens that a player plays on this team in the morning and goes to another team in the afternoon.

Even the head coach is not Rick Adelman, the old man is on vacation, and the team's chief assistant Ayrston Turner is commanding on his behalf.

Turner is also an experienced coach. As a supporter of the Princeton system, he has long followed Adelman.

In Dorsey's memories of his past life, after Adelman left the Rockets, the Rockets uniform team considered turning Turner into a full-time job, and conducted a round of interviews for this.

It is said that the interview was very successful, and the Rockets management was very satisfied with Turner's resume, ability, character, and professional attitude. Then the next day, the team announced the signing of Kevin McHale.

It can be called a classic example of "ten moves but rejection".

The inauspiciousness of the Rockets manager Mosaic can be seen from this.

In addition to Turner, the Rockets' three other assistant coaches are also there. They are Jack Sigma, the Hall of Fame center who is responsible for training the team's big men.

TR Dunn, when he was playing, was selected to the All-Defensive Second Team for three consecutive seasons from 1982-1985.Now in the team, he mainly adjusts the offense and defense of the outside line, and serves as a technical analyst to spy on the opponent's intelligence.

Another is RJ Adelman.From the name, it can be seen that his reincarnation ability is very strong.

Yes, his father is head coach Rick Adelman. In addition to shouldering some physical and technical training in the team, he is mainly responsible for the communication between the coaching staff and players, and also serves as a senior scout.

In this team, Dorsey can name only a few young Rockets players, point guard Aaron Brooks, power forward Carl Landry, and free agent Vaughn Weaver.

These are all players who ended up staying on the team in their previous lives.

In addition, there are point guard "Big Strawberry" Strawberry and "CBA Famous" small forward Harris.

If I remember correctly, both of these unlucky guys were cut in the end, and they failed to catch the last train of the regular season.

Most of the rest have never even heard their names.

After a little familiarization with the environment, after three training sessions, the summer league will begin.

(End of this chapter)