Volume 1: A rookie who breaks into the basketball world Chapter 11: The lazy fellows who sympathize with each other
Maurice Cheeks, who was slacking off, almost fell off his chair.
This rookie… had the best-looking face in the room, and used the gentlest tone to say the most heartbreaking words.
If Liu Xiu's words were put in other situations, they might not be a big problem.
But in a summer league team, no matter how good the tone or attitude is, or how good the looks are, anyone who hears it will know that it is a mockery.
Add to that the way they looked at Liu Xiu just now, and the fact that they were talking without lowering their voices...
Everyone knew that this was Liu Xiu's counterattack.
This is much more lethal than those people's looks and comments!
When the players were about to storm out, Maurice Cheeks stood up and clapped his hands.
Liu Xiu guessed that someone might stand up and was even prepared for a conflict.
The most likely candidate is Quintl Woods, the 21st overall pick in the 2002 first round.
Although it is not known why this player with a contract looked the most unhappy, if anyone jumped out, it would most likely be this person... But Maurice Cheeks clapped his hands, and Quintl Woods, who had already taken a step with his left foot, retracted his foot... He was frightened.
"Okay, everyone is here. Let's warm up first. Kevin, you make arrangements for the project group training." After Morris Cheeks finished speaking, he continued to slack off.
Maurice Cheeks easily prevented a potential conflict.
Today is the gathering day. Most of the Trail Blazers summer league team are here to look for jobs. Although they are unhappy, it is the first day and everyone is restrained in their emotions as they don’t want to be seen as troublemakers.
Since Quintel Woods did not jump out immediately, the others just endured it.
What if? What if that rookie really wanted to bless him?
There is no other way except to comfort myself.
"Our coach seems to be quite authoritative in the minds of the regular players, which is quite different from what Bill said in the news..."
Liu Xiu was of course happy that there was no conflict.
"Healing value +91, from Quintel Woods."
"Healing value +65, from Eric Buckley."
"Healing value +39, from Tita Carter."
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"Available healing value: 5113 points."
Join a new team and get the first wave of healing points!
The new team has just been formed, and every player in the team who comes to look for a job is in the most anticipatory stage.
Even if we just start training in groups, some people's expectations and confidence will definitely be lowered... This will eliminate people. Someone might be eliminated today. The summer league will start the day after tomorrow, July 7th. It is definitely impossible for more than 20 people to play in the game.
Compared to many newcomers who don't know what to do after being selected, Liu Xiu had already found out about these things.
Generally speaking, there are two days of preparation time before the start of the summer league. The first day is for individual tests, and the second day is for team coordination and training tests. People are constantly eliminated in the middle until the team size is reduced to 15 people. However, not all of these 15 people have the opportunity to play in the summer league.
It's not just that teams can give up players at will, players can leave if they want to, and if it's just a summer league contract, players can leave at any time.
It was sloppy, cruel and casual.
But that's the thing. NBA teams don't have such high expectations for finding treasures in the summer league. They will try, but the main purpose of the summer league is to train new players.
So Liu Xiu had the opportunity to fire decisively, and this opportunity was not created by himself, but was delivered to him - when he changed his jersey and came out of the locker room, many people looked at him strangely because of his body shape, and the words spoken without lowering their voices also made him disgusted.
Liu Xiu decisively guided him towards things related to basketball, and after obtaining the healing value, Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief again.
However, there are more than 20 temporary teammates, and not all of them have been given healing values.
Yesterday, Liu Xiu got a list from Bill Duffy. It contained information on most of the players on the Trail Blazers' summer league team . The few that were missing were because the Trail Blazers had not yet included them in the summer league team when Bill Duffy was collecting the information.
Comparing with the information, Liu Xiu has been observing the reactions of his temporary teammates since he first came in .
At the signal from his trainer, Liu Xiu prepared to go to the gym to warm up. As soon as he turned around, he was startled!
A fat black man was hunching over, stretching his almost invisible neck to stare at him!
Randolph actually came to participate in the summer league! This guy will be a junior next season, and he is doing very badly.
Randolph was not included in the information provided by Bill Duffy. Most of them were pure summer league contracts. Perhaps he did not expect Randolph to be arranged to participate in the summer league.
But is this a fight? No, Fatty Lan's eyes should be curious. Liu Xiu took the initiative to greet him: "Hi, handsome guy, hello, I'm Jess."
handsome guy!
This was the first time Randolph encountered this way of greeting, but he liked this word!
A closer look at Liu Xiu's body shape... their average-sized body shape is quite rare in the NBA.
Things like good feelings come all of a sudden.
"Hi, I'm Zack. You're new here, right? If you have any questions, just ask me."
Randolph's response was quite enthusiastic.
Looking at Randolph turning and twisting his body as he walked towards the gym, Liu Xiu didn't expect that after just casually saying hello, the other party would be like this... Is this the American version of "But he called me a beauty"?
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While Liu Xiu and Randolph were warming up, other players had already begun various tests with the help of assistant coaches, trainers and staff.
Only Liu Xiu and Randolph had just arrived and hadn't even done a good job of warming up.
When Liu Xiu came out after warming up, he saw Randolph had already started training.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Summer League, it's the Summer League again..."
While training Randolph he was spraying.
The coaching staff passed by and didn't react, which seemed to be expected...
"This team is really interesting..."
Liu Xiu recalled the reactions of Quintl Woods and Randolph to the coaching staff.
“It’s most important to do your own thing first.”
Although he talks a lot, Liu Xiu was very serious during the warm-up and test sessions, and tried his best to show his strengths.
Unlike Liu Xiu's expectation that many people would come to provoke him, at the end of the day, although he did not communicate with some of his temporary teammates, as if there was a natural boundary between him and some of his teammates, except for the occasional taunts or provocations, no one really broke off relations, including Quintl Woods, who had been unhappy with him since he arrived at the training ground.
He just arrived at the summer league team and didn't want to cause trouble on the first day; he has been in society for a few years and has become more mature; the initial unhappiness has passed and he has calmed down later... Liu Xiu feels that all of these possibilities are possible.
Moreover, not everyone is against him.
He still got to know a few teammates and had some communication with them.
Travis Outlaw, the 23rd pick in the same class, is a high school rookie who plays as a small forward. His name sounds like a criminal, but he is like a good kid.
Although Liu Xiu's words just now were a bit vicious, he looked harmless and good-looking. Compared with the group of Quintel Woods who didn't look like good people and spoke and acted with hostility, high school rookie Otero chose Liu Xiu's side.
This year's undrafted player Matt Carroll is a senior with brown hair in a Lee Rock-style hairstyle and is a 198-centimeter tall white shooting guard.
Reuben Bontjie, a player who entered the NBA in the second round in 2001, is a standard center with a height of 213 cm and a weight of 117 kg.
There was also Randolph, who had been complaining all day and was in the same group with Liu Xiu on the first day.
At the end of the day, most of the temporary teammates hadn't spoken, but Liu Xiu didn't care.
Most of these twenty-odd temporary teammates may never be seen again in their lives after this summer league.
This is not a high probability, but a certainty...
At 4 pm, the day's testing ended.
Liu Xiu, Matt Carroll, Travis Outlaw, Randolph and Reuben Bontjie stood together to form a small team.
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but these five people are just from position one to position five.
"The environment in Orlando is really nice, and there are many museums and parks. Let's go for a walk and then find a place to have dinner?" Liu Xiu extended an invitation to the people with whom he had the most communication during the day.
"I will train for a while to prepare for the game the day after tomorrow."
"I need to discuss my baseline run back to the basket with my trainer..."
Matt Carroll, Travis Outlaw and Reuben Bontjie all stayed to continue training .
Liu Xiu and Randolph left the training ground. It seemed that except for the two of them, no one else left after the training arranged by the coaching staff.
"Zach, should we go back and show our efforts?"
"Ah... yeah, no one's left yet. But, Jace, I've shown you everything I know. There's nothing left to show you. What about you?"
“I also showed everything I know.”
Liu Xiu and Randolph looked at each other, and they felt a sense of mutual admiration.
Right! We are all lazy, so why should we pretend to be hardworking?
Wouldn't it be more embarrassing to pretend for a day or two and then be exposed?
