Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 60 Woody's template, and another "No. [-]" hit
On March 3, the news that "Magic" Johnson became Woody's agent spread in the circle.

The news caused quite a stir.

Not only because of the fact that the "legendary" Johnson became Woody's agent, but also because the news itself contained a message: Woody is going to participate in this year's draft...

The NCAA does not allow players to have their own agents!
Signing an agent for a high school student often means giving up the NCAA, and even "King" LeBron James is no exception.

Sure enough, on March 3, Johnson invited Woody to the ESPN reporter group. After winning the championship, Woody made his first appearance in front of the media and admitted: "I will skip the NCAA and bring my talent to the NBA in advance!"

The reporters excitedly pressed the shutter to record this historic moment:
The first Chinese high school student in NBA history to participate in the draft was born!
During the next period of time, Woody began to run announcements under Johnson's arrangement.He frequently appeared in front of the media cameras and gained a lot of popularity.But Johnson, who was used to seeing big scenes, felt that it was not enough. He immediately arranged sideline tickets for two Lakers home games. Since it was the end of the season and the rankings of the teams were basically settled, there was no gimmick in this game. Woody appeared on the sidelines and shared a lot of shots.

It is worth mentioning that in one of the games, Woody also met Megan Fox, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. The two hadn't seen each other since the last "Christmas Battle". This chance meeting, plus Megan Fox's friendly greeting, made the media once again bring up the scandal and made a "cold meal".

Fortunately, Woody didn't bring bodyguards, and Megan Fox didn't shoot Woody from behind, otherwise the "scandal" would have turned into a "civil dispute".

At the end of March, the enthusiasm about Woody cooled down a little.

Once some of the big announcements, he has been running almost; second, Johnson believes that it should be "precipitated" for a period of time. There is no popularity, but it is not good to maintain the heat too deliberately. Obviously he knows what "too late". As a rookie, he still has some mystery. A game is a focus war, and even the NBA has to make concessions for them, let alone Woody's election show.

Woody, however, sees the benefits of running for high school students:

In a sense, he is one of the first draft picks in this group of rookies preparing for the 03 draft!

Most of the college students with good prospects are still playing, but he is already improving his own shortcomings according to the template of his respective teams.

This information comes from ESPN.

Woody's "decision" in exchange for the template given to him by most of the team's scouts.

It's still important.

Especially for those whose record this season is not very good, they can definitely get the template set by the high-ranking team. These are all team secrets and cannot be bought with money.

Only a leader in the media industry like ESPN can get it.

Knowing the templates drawn up by the teams with high draft picks, the biggest advantage is...

You can learn about the initial impressions of these teams on him.

At the same time, if these teams send him a trial invitation, it means that they want Woody to grow into the template they have drawn up.

Woody can attack his own "weakness" according to their template, or he can understand the opponent's positioning of his team based on the template, and decide in advance whether to give up the trial training.

At present, the public template given to him by most of the media is the rookie Amare Stoudemire, who was selected by the Suns with the 9th overall pick in the first round last year.

The same physical fitness is the best, good at scoring at the basket.

Woody also showed good pick-and-roll awareness in previous games.

Also because Woody has the ability to handle the ball independently, and from time to time there is a mid-range shot, so he is called the "enhanced version of Amare Stoudemire".

As for those teams...

The template given to him by scouts for the Toronto Raptors was O'Neal.

They believe that Woody has the ability to move as well as the outside line. In the confrontation, he also has the performance of not falling behind against powerful peers like Perkins. He can resist and make up. This has always been the highlight of O'Neal on the defensive end.

The only downside is that he is not as good as O'Neal on the blocking end.

This season, O'Neal averaged 2.3 blocks per game, while Woody averaged less than 1 block per game in the high school league.

Of course, there are reasons to explain this, for example: Woody has only been practicing basketball for one year, and he needs more games to hone his grasp of the timing of blocking shots.

If that's the case, then it's not really a problem.

Because Woody is only 18 years old!
In addition to the similarities on the defensive end, Woody also has similarities with O'Neal on the offensive end:

Good at finishing at the basket and has the ability to shoot mid-range jumpers.

But in these aspects, Jermaine O'Neal is much better.

First of all, O'Neal's footwork around the basket is very beautiful. Among the inside players, there are few better than him. In addition, O'Neal's mid-range jumper is also top-notch. Like Kevin Garnett's "iron jumper", it is already his signature skill. Woody's mid-range is more like an auxiliary method!
But still that sentence...

The 18-year-old Woody has shown his abilities in these areas, which means he can achieve results in these areas!
Now Jermaine O'Neal sits in the top two at the NBA power forward position. Except for Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, he can touch anyone, but he debuted as a high school student and only averaged 4.1 points and 2.8 rebounds per game in his first year with the Trail Blazers.

Everyone comes from a young age.

Scouts from the Clippers believe that Woody can become the next "Chris Webber". Woody's "one-stop backcourt" and various passes from the inside to the outside prove that he has very good basic skills in holding and passing the ball. If he develops it, he is likely to become a very good inside support player.

——He may not have the offensive ability of Chris Webber, but he will definitely be a more reliable restricted area gate than Chris Webber!
Outrageous yet reasonable, very much like the Clippers team...

In addition, ESPN also got the template positioning of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the current "No. [-] pick" with the highest probability, for him, which is somewhat unexpected.

Cleveland Cavaliers scouts actually think he will be the next Rodman!

This……

Woody had to wonder if scouts in Cleveland had peeked at his system.Otherwise, how could Rodman be so accurately positioned?

You know, in the season that just ended, Woody not only averaged 17.6 rebounds per game to lead the league, but also averaged 28.6 points per game, which is also the highest in the league.

No matter how you look at it, it is impossible to link with Rodman, who scored mediocrely, right!
After reading on, Woody realized that Rodman had also become a "scoring champion" in college. Although he was only a "scoring champion" in the NCAA second-tier fringe or even third-tier league, compared with the Ohio high school league, it was "big brother does not laugh at second brother", and no one can look down on anyone.

Cavaliers scouts believe that if Woody can't realize his potential on the scoring end, then the ultimate template is likely to be a player like Rodman.

But if Woody can realize his potential on the scoring end, then he will become an "all-around fighter"...

They gave yet another template that Woody hadn't thought of:
A rebounding version of Scottie Pippen!

You are Pippen!
Your whole family is Pippen!
Seeing this template, Woody was not happy at the time.

Don't get me wrong, Woody doesn't think the "second child" is bad, um... Although it is really bad, it doesn't fit Woody's ambitions.But what Woody criticized Pippen the most was his peak period. When other super giants earned tens of millions of annual salary, he was only more than 2 million.

Can Woody be such a "loser"?
He came to the NBA to make a lot of money!

The "skin" is not a little bit!
There are still many templates. After Woody and Johnson read it, the latter gave his own opinion: "Next, I will package you as a swingman in the third and fourth positions. When we practice more, we will also try to get closer to these two aspects!"

In the NBA, in fact, the most popular is the swingman at the third and fourth positions, who can play outside or inside.

But most of the so-called "three or four" players have become "not three or four" in the NBA. They are too slow to play "three" and too short to play "four".

Woody's latest height measured at Staples is just over 2 meters. At his age, he will definitely grow again, but this height is still too short for the fourth position.

So simply playing the fourth position will definitely be concerned by the team.

But if Woody can show the characteristics of a "swinger in positions three and four": use height to play position three, and use speed to play position four.

The disadvantage of height does not exist!
Judging from the results of Gary Vitti's trial training for Woody, Woody really has the characteristics of "three but four". Next, what Woody has to do is to use this time to strengthen these characteristics.

The training time passed very regularly and quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of April, and the NCAA's "March Madness" came to the finals.

This year's NCAA set a record:
A freshman led a team that hadn't even entered the championship last season, overcame obstacles all the way, defeated one opponent after another, and reached the finals.

This university is called Syracuse University!
This freshman is called Carmelo Anthony!
Yes, it is the "peerless twins" named after LeBron in high school!
For a while, his reputation soared, and he became the "top pick".

Especially after leading the team to defeat the last opponent and win this season's NCAA finals, some media said bluntly: "If the Cavaliers hadn't won the No. [-] pick, then this year's 'No. [-] pick' will undoubtedly belong to Carmelo Anthony. He has proved himself in a higher league!"

　The second update, ask for votes! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)