stadium ambition

Chapter 49 Try Now

Su Yang thought for a moment: "Do you mean OJ Mayo? Or someone else?"

There are many lists for the ranking of high school students in the United States, just like Austin Rivers was once named the number one high school student in the United States, but that year more lists ranked Anthony Davis as No.1.

Now OJ Mayo is almost recognized as the number one high school student in the United States, but Su Yang still wants to ask clearly first.

It's really not interesting to play with OJ Mayo. If it's someone else, maybe we can talk about it in depth.

Rodney's voice came from the other end of the phone: "OJ Mayo, of course. Let me introduce myself first. I am the founder of the B-SHOCK brokerage company. We are mainly responsible for player brand building and operation. I have spent the past ten years... "

Rodney narrated a lot, Su Yang listened patiently out of politeness, and understood roughly.

To put it simply, Rodney wants to cooperate with Su Yang from now on, which is equivalent to angel investment.

In the past ten years, Rodney has had many player management cases. The most famous one is the one that was almost sued at the beginning of the century. , don't worry at all.

Rodney bluntly said that many famous players have received money in advance. Su Yang knows this is true. It is almost an open secret that powerful players received funds in advance. Received.

As an investment condition, Su Yang can get many benefits, including but not limited to 5 US dollars in cash, and as an investment return, Su Yang needs to choose to sign a brokerage contract with Rodney after becoming an NBA player, with a period of at least [-] years.

At the beginning, Su Yang felt strange about setting it to five years. Then he thought that the rookie contract would end in four years, and even if he signed a qualification contract, it would only be five years. If the player performed well, he would definitely sign a big contract. Rodney, as the agent Naturally, you can get money.

As long as Su Yang is willing to accept, he can be arranged to join an AAU team and join forces with Mayo.

It's quite tempting to say, but Su Yang has no interest, money is not the key, the key is that Mayo is not easy to get along with.

"I'm not interested in joining any AAU team right now, and I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate later."

Rodney's calm voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, listen, I don't know what you are resisting, but I don't think you should bury your talent. You must become famous as soon as possible. If you figure it out, you can do it at any time." Make this call."

Hearing the busy signal, Su Yang put down the phone, feeling that Rodney is quite interesting.

As a player, you really need to become famous as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to change the opinions of fans, coaches and others.

Just like Paul George was selected as the best defensive second team player in the 12-13 season, but in fact his defensive contribution that year was not as much as the 11-12 season. Just the same as before.

Leonard also won the best defensive player of the year in the 14-15 season because of his low draft pick and the great aura of the Spurs. However, he was able to be selected as the best defensive player a long time ago, purely because of stereotyped images. .

But Kobe is different. The big city giants, the All-Star center traded, and the NBA will get unlimited attention. As soon as he played a great defensive season, he was immediately discovered and recognized by the fans and coaches, and he was directly selected as the best first defense. .

"We'll think about it after we're done." Su Yang made up his mind and went back to the living room to watch the Lakers game.

Zheng Xiang also ran out to watch together. The two sat on the sofa, and one was holding a can of beef jerky.

The Lakers' opponent was the Bulls, who were visiting as a guest. Kobe caused Andres Nocioni to foul twice in a row in less than 2 minutes. Unfortunately, Kobe seemed to be in poor condition, and made three free throws in total.

Bulls head coach Scott Skiles chose to make a substitution, and rookie Luol Deng played against Kobe.

Seeing this situation, Zheng Xiang shook his head regretfully: "That player named Andres is so stupid. He sent two fouls in a row at the beginning, and the whole team fell into a passive position. Moreover, Kobe just picked on this rookie and gave a fart. The Bulls will lose. gone."

Su Yang watched silently, thinking that it was really difficult.

This group of people on the Bulls field is basically a pure defensive player. Duhon is estimated to be almost the same as Smash Parker. Sefolosha has not yet grown up. If Hinrich misses a three-pointer, the game may enter garbage time early.

"Oh, let me wipe, the situation is not right." Zheng Xiang sat upright and watched. "This rookie named Luol Deng seems a bit aggressive..."

As soon as the words fell, the TV screen showed that Luol Deng hit a three-pointer and was still defending against Odom.

Su Yang put down the beef jerky in his hand: "It seems to be true, the difficulty of the ball just now was quite high."

Amidst the two people's emotions, Luol Deng seemed to be on the hook, hitting shots one after another. After the first quarter, Luol Deng scored 10 points on 8 of 17 shots.

Su Yang thought to himself: "Could this be the reason why Kobe made a deal and the famous need the Bulls to keep Luol Deng?"

"This is too fierce! Come on, don't let the Lakers win, otherwise my beef jerky won't taste good." Zheng Xiang, as a Spurs fan, saw that the Bulls had the hope of beating the Lakers, and his expression was so excited that Jackpot.

But when Zheng Xiang was full of hope, Luol Deng suddenly couldn't get the ball, and the Bulls coach didn't make any adjustments.

Throughout the second quarter, Luol Deng only took one shot, and it was a catch-and-shoot shot that was about to run out of offensive time.

During the half-time break, Zheng Xiang yelled at the Bulls coach Skiles for being an idiot who can't employ people at all.

Su Yang also finds it very strange. Skiles is a player who has set a record of 30 assists in a single game. It is impossible not to know what kind of impact a player with a hot hand suddenly loses the right to shoot, and why he has not made any adjustments. ?

Come back from the half-time break, the situation has not changed.

Luol Deng still only had one shot in the third quarter, but the Bulls didn't lose too much.

Until the last minute of the fourth quarter, when the Bulls trailed by a full 1 points, they seemed to finally react and try to give the ball to Luol Deng. As a result, Luol Deng hit the iron continuously, and the overall data was fixed at 10 of 16 shots. Lost by 10 points.

"Can you be an NBA head coach at this level?" Zheng Xiang was very angry. "If there is an NBA team to hire in the future, it will be an absolute idiot. Doesn't this delay the development of potential rookies?"

Su Yang didn't answer, staring at the TV screen and fell into thinking, mainly because he didn't know much about Skiles. He only remembered that his coaching career had a very low winning percentage, but every time he coached a team, it was basically in the period of rebuilding or failing. Shortage major general.

On the TV screen, Kobe and Luol Deng hit each other with high fives, and Luol Deng looked a little aggrieved.

It's normal to think about it, the first quarter of the game was so good, anyone would think it was his big show night.

But the result is watching other people's shows, and passively losing an important game, it's hard to think about it.

...

In the afternoon of the next day, Su Yang rode his bicycle to the Arrowhead Stadium in Anaheim to continue to participate in the training camp.

Westbrook and the others had already arrived and were sitting on the sidelines flipping through the newspaper, laughing from time to time.

Su Yang walked over to take a look and found that they were reading the "Los Angeles Times", with the headline saying 'Harper Training Camp'.

"You're here." Wei Shao raised his head to signal Su Yang, and then raised his hand to cover an area of ​​the newspaper. "Look, this news report has scored all our players who participated in the training camp this time. Guess how many points you got?"

When Westbrook said this, Harden and the others also stared at Su Yang with smiles on their faces, as if waiting for something interesting to happen.

Su Yang frowned slightly, wondering if these guys were up to something, he had to be careful.

"How much is the total score?"

"The scoring mechanism is the same as NBADARFT, with a total of eleven items, each with a full score of [-]."

"Why do you let me guess?"

"Because we want to know what you think of yourself." Westbrook chuckled. "Especially compared to this report."

"Then my self-assessment is 75 points. It should be that the points related to height and strength are too few." Su Yang decided not to think about it any more.

"Wow, you overestimate yourself too!" Westbrook pretended to be surprised, and then smiled and removed his hands to cover: "The writer of this report thinks you only have 61 points, and the lowest of us all have 83 points. so funny."

Hearing this, Su Yang was stunned, 61 points was too low, not as good as many second-round picks.

Westbrook handed over the newspaper: "We all know your level. This report is just nonsense. You can keep it as a souvenir. When you achieve results in the future, share it with everyone and use it as a party joke."

Su Yang took the newspaper, took another look carefully, and found that besides the rating, there was also a brief comment.

[Mr. Ron Harper's evaluation of Su Yang's strengths and weaknesses is almost exactly the same as this newspaper's previous prediction. This high school player from China rarely has almost every basketball skill, but each one is relatively mediocre.

Many people have expectations that he can enter the NBA and achieve similar results to Yao Ming, but that will definitely come to nothing.However, this expectation will continue, and it will not be punctured for the time being before playing against real NBA players. 】

"It's kind of interesting." Su Yang folded the newspaper and decided to follow Westbrook's suggestion to keep this report as an encouragement to himself, and use it as a joke when he became famous.

Everyone was laughing and playing, and the time came to five o'clock in a blink of an eye, and the training camp was officially held.

Ron Harper arrived as scheduled, clapped his hands to gather everyone around, and looked around with his hands on his hips.

"Yesterday afternoon, I made comments to all of you, and most of you nodded in acceptance, but I know that many of you must feel dissatisfied, especially James Harden, so today I invite a real NBA player to let You can feel what NBA-level offense and defense is, and help you truly realize your own strengths and weaknesses."

"Who is it?" Everyone showed curiosity and followed Harper's gaze towards the entrance of the arena.

"Please applaud the Bulls player Luol Deng, he will help you improve!"

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Luol Deng walked to Harper and took a seat: "Let's start, who will be the first?"

The voice fell, and the cheers of the crowd disappeared. You look at me, and I look at you.

After all, he is Luol Deng, who is 206 cm tall. If you think about it, you will know how difficult it is to fight.

Su Yang raised his right hand: "I'll do it."

(End of this chapter)