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Chapter 35 Important Decisions

After the battle with the Golden Bears, Tianyang was completely on fire.

In China, Aaron spared no effort to introduce him on basketball-related websites, starting from the Staples shooting, to joining the Sequoia team to win the first game, and then to facing the 16-year draft pick Jaylen Brown. Luo Luofeng's experience has been written into a touching story.

In three games, the average of 21 points and 11 assists per game allowed Tianyang to gain a large number of fans in China. The story written by Aaron received 20+ reposts and 3 comments.

Most of the people, including some professional players, expressed their encouragement to Tianyang, hoping that he would take one step closer to becoming a Chinese defender who can gain a foothold in the NBA.

At Stanford, Tianyang’s story was also published on the school’s official website – the front page of the story column. This time, Coach Johnny did not ask anyone for help. It was completely written by the school’s news department and displayed on the home page for a full 3 days. It will not be like it was before. , It was ripped from the website in less than 3 hours.

NBA players who left Stanford, such as Brook Lopez and Landry Fields, tweeted that Tianyang's story was very inspirational.

The story of Tianyang spread in the school, and a large number of fans went to the basketball training hall to take photos with him and ask for his autograph, so that Blount'complaints affected the team's training.

In addition to being popular in China and Stanford University, Tianyang has also become popular in the eyes of NBA scouts.

Just because Jaylen Brown tweeted: Tianyang is his strong opponent, now and in the future, he uses Tianyang as a warning, tries hard to spur himself, and reminds himself never to slack off.

Jalen – who is Brown? The top 16 in the 3 NBA draft. If it weren't for the shooting and dribbling, he could still compete with Simmons for the No. [-] pick.

For him to make such an evaluation, Tianyang is obviously a very talented player.

After the scouts caught fire, Coach Johnny's phone was completely off the hook.From turning it on in the morning to turning it off at night, I received a call from a scout in an average of half an hour, and the content was without exception asking about the basic situation of Tianyang.

At the beginning, Coach Johnny answered every call carefully and elaborated in detail, but later it was too many, which affected his personal work and rest, so he could only send long posts on Twitter and INS to introduce SkyOcean at once.

But the NBA scouts were not reconciled. Johnny didn't answer the phone. The calls of the four assistant coaches, Blunt, Harzer, and Walsh, were busy, and they rang from morning to night.

In the end, all four of them learned from Johnny and wrote an article "Li Tianyang I Know", which was published on their respective social networks.

……

Los Angeles, the Lakers training base, inside the president's office.

While browsing the news, Jim Bass sighed and said: "I should have believed in Banner at the beginning and shouldn't have gone to UCLA to watch the game. Now it's a match. We want to take him with the 20-25 pick. easy."

"A grain of gold shines everywhere. With the professionalism of NBA scouts, even if he kills a lion in Africa, he will be discovered, and we find him first, which has a huge advantage."

Seeing that Kupchak seemed confident, Jim Buss couldn't help but ask, "Where's the advantage?"

"I told you before that he was given a 20-25 pick because his opponents were too weak and the sample was too small. Now he has played against Jaylen Brown and averaged 3 points and 21 assists in 11 games. Has raised his draft pick to 16-20. I think this pick range is also what he hopes for. Therefore, compared with other interested teams, we have more than double the time to design a Reasonable plan to get him."

"What if it's higher than that?" Jim asked back.

Kupchak shook his head, "If it's higher than this, it's not worth it. Did you watch his game against the Golden Bears? The physical confrontation was completely lost to Jaylen Brown, and a player with poor physical fitness has no upper limit. Not too tall. He is suitable as a bench gangster, providing the team with firepower without pressure."

Jim curled his lips, his expression a little dissatisfied, "Your statement is too absolute, both Nash and Curry have proved themselves"

"Then think about it, in the entire history of the NBA, is it more famous like Nash, or like..."

"Don't talk about it, I understand what you mean. But there is one interesting thing. I just found out the day before yesterday that the person who won the team's midfield shooting award last Christmas was Li Tianyang."

"Huh? What are you trying to say?"

"Didn't you read the article published on the official website of Stanford University? He was invited by the community basketball team to participate in that kind of game because he hit a super long shot at Staples, and then entered the vision of the head coach of the Sequoia team. To be famous again, to be as popular as he is now. This is God's arrangement, he is destined to be a Laker player."

……

In the King's Avenue community, Tianyang was worrying about learning about the physical enhancement program.

In the battle with Jaylen Brown, his physical fitness was completely defeated by the opponent, and he was still after 7 days of closed special training.

He was deeply stimulated. After returning home, he bought all the plans immediately, and planned to persist and practice repeatedly every day after finishing the study.If you meet Jaylen Brown in the playoffs, you can't be as embarrassed as before.

But apart from the training time at school, he only had time to study systematically every night, but even so, he failed to get good learning opportunities.

Because he became popular, the phone was also ringing, as long as he turned on the phone, he would see dozens of text messages, several missed calls, and 99+ friend requests on WeChat.

At the beginning, he selectively responded to text messages, answered calls, and added friends, but there were too many and he was too busy, so he could only set multiple 'do not disturb periods', ignore all text messages, and refuse calls from strangers.

But that is not a long-term solution. Good friends like Aaron must keep in touch; parents must also report their safety every day;

The point is that Aaron has also contacted dozens of brands that want to cooperate with him. Sneaker companies like AT have already approached them and said that they would go to Palo Alto for an interview in person.

There is not much time left until the draft day, and Tianyang knows that if he is busy with trivial matters, it will be difficult for him to improve.

After thinking hard all night, Tianyang made two important decisions.

The first is to establish a personal team to handle matters related to the draft and media contact.Originally, because of the problem of training and diet, he had been determined to build a team, but the demand was not as strong as it is now.This time, he was too busy alone, so he made up his mind.

The second is to publicly announce that before officially signing a contract to become an NBA player, he will refuse to invite all brand manufacturers to cooperate and invite interviews. He will spend all his time on personal training.

Although the second decision may cause him to lose a lot of money, he feels that he must go all out. If the pick is too low because of a certain statistic, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

After making a decision, Tianyang relaxed physically and mentally, and began to comprehensively and systematically practice the physical fitness enhancement plan.

(End of this chapter)