NBA: I Really Have No Talent

Chapter 35 : This kid’s road is wider

The Salt Lake City Summer League was originally called the Rocky Mountain Summer League. The purpose of the initial establishment was very pure, just to promote the Jazz in the Utah area.

At the beginning, the participating teams were all made up of alumni from various universities. They were basically used for training the Jazz. Their strengths were uneven and there was a big gap between them and the home team.

Until 1990, the Jazz invited the Trail Blazers, Suns and Kings to participate in the tournament.

This year not only the above four teams, but also the Timberwolves and Nuggets in the Northwest Division are also invited to participate in this event…

Therefore, there are a total of six teams participating in the Salt Lake City Summer League. The scale has increased compared with previous years, and the gold content is also higher.

Every summer in the NBA is usually a time period for the big-name stars and the main players of the team to take a vacation. After a whole season of intensive schedule and high-intensity competition, they need a period of rest, so these players Under normal circumstances will not participate in this summer league.

However, those free agents or rookies in each team do not have this kind of treatment, and they must not be able to rest.

In order to gain the trust of the team and launch an impact on the team’s roster for the new season, they had to conduct some confrontational training, which constituted the main player composition of the summer league.

In addition to them, some fringe players from various teams, NBA Development League players, and some international players will also participate in the summer league.

On the whole, this is where each team trains and tests players.

Everyone’s goal is very clear, is to use the summer league to win the trust of the team, not to be cut in the new season!

The day after he was notified, Wang Pan came to the arena and met his teammates in the summer league.

The composition is very complicated, and there are various channels.

But none of the starting players in the team came, and the main substitute did not come.

Not to mention that Carl Malone and John Stockton are even more unlikely to appear.

At a glance, the most conspicuous thing is undoubtedly Greg Osttag, who was selected by the team with the 28th overall pick in the first round of the draft this year.

Without him, this guy is too tall and too strong.

The height of two meters eighteen can be said to stand out in the stadium, the weight seems to be at least more than 200 kilograms, and it is definitely an inside behemoth.

With this height, heel and body, one stop inside, it is full of deterrence.

Perceiving the arrival of Wang Pan, everyone came over and watched. Everyone looked different, curious, disdainful, and indifferent…

Looking at all these gazes, Wang Pan didn’t pay much attention to it, and went straight to the assistant coach of the team who served as the coach of the team’s summer league.

Seeing Wang Pan walking over, the assistant coach who was full of serious expression immediately showed a smile:

“Wang, you are here.”

“Bacon, I won’t be the last one to arrive, am I?” Wang Pan said casually.

When training with Carl Malone and John Stockton in the arena before, I have already met this assistant coach. The two sides have had some exchanges, and they are quite familiar.

“No, there are still a few development league players who haven’t arrived. They should be coming soon.”

For Wang Pan, the assistant coach named Bacon Jeff seemed very polite. After all, the two core big men in front of the team, and even the head coach Jerry Sloan, urged him to be here. The players who have been observing and caring for in the next summer league will certainly not be as indifferent to other players.

This scene fell in the eyes of the surrounding players. Everyone was surprised. Naturally, there will be many discussions…

“The coach and that guy look very familiar. Everyone is a newcomer. He is different in two or three seconds. Isn’t he a related party?”

“I know that kid is a high school guard selected by the team in the second round of the draft this year. I really don’t know what the management of the team thinks, and he used such a valuable draft pick on this guy. , It looks so average, and nothing great.”

“Maybe it’s really related, I don’t think that the yellow race can play basketball.”

“Cut, as long as I have a chance later, I will definitely clean up that guy on the court and let him know how good I am. On the basketball court, I look at my strength, not my face.”

“…”

As a rookie selected by the Jazz this year, Greg Ostertag didn’t participate in the exchanges of everyone. He looked at Wang Pan, who was very familiar with Bacon. It seemed that There was a curious look in his simple and honest eyes.

You know, he didn’t have this kind of treatment when he was selected by the team in the first round. Why would a player who was selected at a later position in the second round receive such preferential treatment as an assistant coach? Is it really a related household?

It seems that I can’t think of other reasons, but thinking of his own agent’s advice to be cautious in the team before leaving, Ostertag didn’t reveal too much expression on his face, and he always seemed very calm.

Not long after, with the arrival of several development league players, the team members have all arrived, and the players walked to the field and settled.

“interesting…”

Perceiving the hostility in the eyes of the surrounding players, and deliberately not standing with him, as if to draw a line, to isolate him, Wang Pan smiled faintly, did not care, where there are people, there is Arena.

Especially when it is of vital interest, they will become very sensitive and xenophobic.

When he had just communicated with Bacon, he had already noticed the gazes of these players. They obviously had something to do with their brains, and they were psychologically imbalanced.

Wang Pan became the object of their exclusion.

It’s a pity that these guys are just incompetent and furious. On the basketball court, it still depends on their strength. Wang Pan doesn’t feel that he is not convinced even by this group of guys who can’t play in the NBA or rookies, whether it’s basketball or Fist, he is confident that he can defeat this opponent.

The iron for the past few months has not been in vain. If you really want to do it, everyone will give him a TUO skin!

Well, of course, not including the tall and down-to-earth fellow…

Perceiving that there is no one standing next to Wang Pan, Ostertag, who Wang Pan called a small hill, “checked the gaps”, stepped to his side and stood still, looking down…

Optimistic Wang Pan also looked at him.

He grinned while looking at each other.

I was a little surprised at the other party’s behavior, Wang Pan didn’t think much about it, smiled and nodded towards him, then retracted his gaze and looked at the assistant coach.

Realizing that the other person is also looking at him and Ostertag with a smile, Wang Pan can’t help feeling a little funny when he thinks of the content of the exchange between the two just now:

“This kid’s road is wider.”

It was at this time that the assistant coach clapped his hands and attracted everyone’s attention. He then made a silent motion with both hands. After looking around the players seriously, he finally fixed his eyes on Wang Pan. On his body, solemnly said:

“Everyone is here, what I want to announce next is that there is only one task for all of you to complete this summer league…”

Slowly raising his hand, pointing to Wang Pan, Bacon continued: “That is to try to pass the basketball to the king!”