Chapter 241: Summer league picks

The fiery July began to come to North American University 6. The hot summer has officially arrived. All parts of the United States are shrouded in intense heat. This summer seems to be particularly hot. A small ≥ said ＜﹤≦＜≦＜≦≦﹤ is the off-season of the professional league, and at the same time as an singular year without various championships, so the players are either comfortably on vacation or busy participating in various commercial and social activities. But for those newcomers who have just joined the nBa league and are ready to start their careers in three months, the July summer league is a necessary excess. Even LeBron James should try the water on the summer league field and feel the atmosphere of the professional league in advance.
Since 30 teams are scattered all over the United States, the host city of the summer league is divided into four, namely Las Vegas, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Orlando. The Boston Celtics chose to participate in the Orlando Summer League to exercise Their rookies, and, see if they can recruit in the summer league and find some useful cheap players.
Because the transaction was officially completed on July 1, after Kevin Garnett joined the Boston Celtics, their staffing was really stretched. To this end, Fox-Leon had to personally lead the summer league, ready to use his venomous eyes to make a Taobao in Orlando.
In the Orlando hotel, Leon is distressed by the team's roster. The summer league also needs to make up 15 people. The problem is that the Celtics can't make up 12 people now. He still has to make up 15 people for the summer league team.
In fact, getting 15 people is not difficult for Leon. In summer training camps like Orlando, three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged young players are everywhere. Some are undrafted players who have not been selected in the draft this year, and some are players who are in the league or other leagues. Anyway, they want to rely on the summer league to show their faces in front of nBa coaches and scouts, saying that they cannot get a valuable trial opportunity. , And even got a short contract to find a chance to enter nBa.
Therefore, there are basketball gold prospectors everywhere. If Leon wants to call some local scouts or agents, they will be able to provide Leon with a dozen young guys who can play.
But Leon came to Orlando with a mission this time. His goal is not just to train his two rookies. He also wants to find one or two available talents as much as possible to fill the Celtics lineup. For this reason Leon released news that the Celtics need to join the minimum salary players, hoping that those players who think they have the ability to enter the nBa can sign up for the Celtics summer alliance.
As soon as the news was released, Leon quickly received a large number of calls and text messages, all of which were called or come by some third- and fourth-rate agents, recommending their players to Leon. Regardless of three, seven and twenty-one, Leon first asked these agents to pass the player's basic data and information to his mailbox, and then he began a painful screening.
Although these agents will exaggerate in the player report, the data will not deceive. Leon used his powerful data processing capabilities to quickly set a standard in his mind. For him, he doesn't need those who score strong and rebound in the low-level leagues, because he knows that such players have no room to play in the nBa. What he wants is guys with special abilities in other areas.
After two overnight screenings, on July 6, Leon finally selected 12 Celtics summer league roster, except for Marquis Daniels, Boris Dior, Alexander, and Dailer In addition to the five players who are or will play for the Celtics, Mbot and Bellman, the other seven are all unsuccessful players in recent years.
Leon does not look at positions when selecting players, which means that he will not deliberately choose two or three in each position in order to make up a team, but choose the best based on ability. So among these 7 people, there are 4 forwards and 2 shooting guards, while the Celtics currently have only 1 point guard in short supply.
However, Leon also knows that it is unrealistic for the position of point guard to find a lost or young junior player to fill the vacancy. Point guards rely very much on experience and maturity. These young point guards all go With a long line, the point guard's leather shooting guard's heart, Leon does not expect to find a good point guard in the summer league.
On the contrary, strikers eat their bodies. As long as they dare to fight and fight, there will be one or two strikers who are based in nBa in the summer league. Ben Wallace was one of the top players in the summer league, and is now the core of the Pistons' defense.
Of course, it is not easy to find another Ben Wallace, and these forward players have the same obvious flaw as Ben Wallace-undersize. Out of the four forward players, two power forwards are small forwards. The height of the two small forwards is the height of the guard. There is no alternative. If they have a normal position and height, they will not lose the election.
In the early morning of July 7, Leon came to the basketball stadium of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, which is the venue for the Celtics this summer training camp. In order to facilitate the management of the players, Leon and the Celtics summer league team arrived in Orlando a week in advance, renting the local university venues for training, in order to avoid possible interference in Boston and allow the players to concentrate more on practice.
Leon arrived very early. When he opened the gate of the training hall, the sky was just getting bright. You know it was summer, and it was completely bright after six o'clock. At this time the arena was empty, with no one. Last night, Leon sent a text message to all the players participating in the training camp, asking them to arrive as soon as possible without specifying a time, just to see if it is earlier than him.
As a result, Leon sat on the bench on the sidelines and watched the sky gradually light up outside. The 12 players only arrived 66 consecutively. To the last player to arrive at the arena, Leon said straightforwardly: "Tomorrow you don’t have to Here again, professional basketball is not for you." In this way, the 12-man roster became 11, and the whole team was quiet for a while.
This improvised, unorganized and disciplined team, where everyone has their own purpose, stood in front of Leon. As a coach, no matter what the ultimate goal is, leading a team should be the most basic requirement for yourself.
"Today is the first day of training. Some of you are eager to enter the NBA, some are about to enter the NBA, and some have played in the NBA for several years. But from you, I don’t see the basics that a professional player should have. Quality. You came later than a coach!" Leon began his training, which was the first step in his selection.
"If you want to play in the NBA, please come and train earlier. If you are about to enter the NBA and play, then please come and train earlier. If you have been playing in the NBA for several years, then you should come earlier. Training!" Leon's sudden roar startled everyone.
"Of course, I didn't tell you the time is also a problem, so starting tomorrow, at 5:30 in the morning, I will accompany you." At 5:30, in fact, the NBA team does not train so early. But this is not the NBA team, but the more cruel NBA candidate team.
Leon quickly started his first training project. It was neither tactical practice nor basic skill training, nor was it a subtle off-ball simulation training, but the simplest physical training-running a lap and ran a whole one. In the morning ~EbookFREE.me~ Leon knows that one week of training time can not train anything, so this week is not so much training as a test, testing the will, endurance, motivation and basic skills of this group of players . After these tests, combined with the summer league performance, Leon will make his choice.
A morning run made everyone exhausted. Two guys even complained that they shouldn't participate in the Celtics summer training camp. They felt that such training was meaningless and couldn't improve themselves. These two men were naturally blacklisted by Leon. The training camp is called the training camp. In fact, it is the place where the players show themselves. The real training improvement depends on their daily hard work.
The two rookies, Daniels and Dior, also looked tired. Obviously, this didn't look the same as the NBA training they had imagined. However, awed by Leon's brutality, they did not show any emotion.
What really caught Leon’s attention was a small forward. He showed a lot of energy and vigor in the morning physical training, and did not show a trace of impatience. He seemed to be satisfied with everything, and he was also in the morning. Came early.
Therefore, Leon silently recorded his name on the watch list, this guy named Haslem. (To be continued.)