NBA Backer King Chapter 379

   Chapter 379 Kobe Trials with the Lakers

   "Old K, how confident are you in the Western Conference finals against the Mosaic Big Three? Now that your finger is injured, will it affect the Western Conference finals?" A reporter asked on the sidelines.

"When we meet three guys who are in a group, even if we lose, we are still honored to be defeated. Besides, they may not be able to win us. This time we will be the same as in 1994. We will drag it to the end with them until the tiebreaker and watch them form a group. What's the use?" said the old man.

Houston, the home of the big dream, he invited Barkley and Drexler to watch the game together. When he saw this, he thought of the situation in 1994, and said very sadly: "Old K is really not a good thing, he would rather let him go. Jordan won the championship, and he didn't want me to win it, how did I offend him?"

   Barkley said with a wry smile: "You and Michael change teams. Now he is the one who has the headache, and you are the one who is giggling."

   "Poor Hakim, I can't win the championship, but I still have the title of holding the team, haha..." Chicago, after hearing Wang Tiejun's words, Jordan couldn't help laughing.

  After the press conference, Pharaoh and the team doctor went to Dr. Carter to check his fingers. It was a common strain of knuckles. Dr. Carter suggested to rest for at least a week.

  On the 16th, when I woke up this morning, Lao Wang found that his fingers were really swollen, and the pain became worse, which made his mood worse.

   "System, I use medicated oil every day, why is it so easily injured?"

   "Medicated oil only enhances your ability to resist injuries and diseases, it cannot save you from injury."

   "Well, I got injured for the first time in four years, so I'm pretty lucky."

   He sprayed some anti-swelling medicine on his fingers again, which was given to him by the team doctor, and then applied ice compresses. In the afternoon, he felt that the redness and swelling began to subside slowly, but the pain still existed, and it would not get better after a while.

   "Does it still hurt?"

   Yu Feihong asked, and after seeing him nodding, he said, "Then I will inform my family and return to China in a few days. By the way, how many days will it take to sweep?"

   Lao Wang is speechless, auntie, what do you mean? No matter how powerful the group is, it is impossible to sweep us.

  In the morning, the media reported that Wang Tiejun was injured.

   "Four years later, Old K is finally injured!?"

  The news headline of the Chicago Sports News not only added an exclamation mark, but also added a question mark, indicating that the media is in a complicated mood.

   "Old K will get hurt and prove he's not an iron man." The New York Times.

   "Old K fought with an injury, and the injury aggravated, our chance has come." The Houston Chronicle.

   That night, the Magic and the Knicks started a G6 battle in Orlando.

  O'Neal worked hard, but unfortunately Ewing didn't want to lose. He broke out at home, scored 38 points and 14 rebounds, defeated O'Neal with Hardaway, led the Magic to win the G6 game, eliminated the Knicks, and reached the Eastern Conference Finals.

   "Oh, comfort him."

   Seeing O'Neal's disappointment, Pharaoh couldn't bear it and made a phone call.

   "Shark, you have embarrassed our behemoth. What kind of boss do you still need? Be Jordan's younger brother, or come to the Suns as a backup for me, and I will take you to the championship."

   "Shut up! Old K, I know you're injured, and you can't make it through the Western Finals. You bastard, go to hell, it's better to be swept by the Big Three."

   "I did it with good intentions, and I comforted you, but you dare to scold me?"

   "Damn comfort, when you are eliminated, I will comfort you like this."

   On the morning of the 17th, Team Mosaic got on the plane.

  Buckley specifically contacted Pharaoh before getting on the plane, saying that he was injured. The three wanted to come and see him and asked him to pick them up at the airport. Pharaoh agreed.

  At 1:00 noon, after the Mosaic team arrived in Phoenix, Pharaoh called Lightning together, picked up the Big Three, and went directly to the martial arts hall.

  The martial arts hall prepared hot pot and medicinal food, and five people gathered around the table to eat.

In the middle of the meal, Da Meng nudged Barkley with his elbow and gave him a wink, the latter would be sorry, coughed twice and said, "Old K, look, you are all injured now, just do it. Don't work hard, it's not worth it, what should I do if the injury gets worse? Jordan will let us deal with it, and we promise to kill him and not let him live."

   "Yes, old K, we are all our own people, don't fight in the nest, let's save our strength to do the East and do Jordan." Drexler also agreed.

   Old Wang sneered twice, glanced at Lightning, and then both of them looked at Da Meng to see what this guy was about to say.

   "Cough!"

  Da Meng coughed dryly and murmured, "Old K, Charles and Clyde are right."

   "Haha..." Lao Wang and Lightning laughed.

  Buckley said angrily: "Old K, are you really going to fight with 1994? This time is not as good as that year. You have no good fruit to eat."

   Old Wang laughed and said, "Isn't it too soft to be hard? Look where this is, Charles, you dare to threaten me?"

   As soon as he finished speaking, sixty or seventy brothers stood at the seven or eight tables next to him, including thirty brothers from the fighting hall.

  Buckley rolled his eyes, stood up, waved his hands, and shouted at the dozens of brothers: "Brothers, sit down, sit down and eat your food, we don't beat our own people."

"Ha ha…"

  The crowd laughed and continued to eat and drink.

   "Can you tell me something?" After sitting down, Buckley poked Pharaoh.

  Pharaoh reluctantly stretched out his right hand, showed his index finger, and said, "There is still a little redness and swelling, and the pain is still there. I didn't feel the pain when I played the game the day before yesterday, and it doesn't affect my shooting. It still hurts a little bit now.

   The management doesn't want me to play with an injury. If you are lucky tomorrow, I may not play. However, I can't guarantee the next few games, if the injury heals, we will have a fight. "

  The three of Dameng looked at each other and laughed.

   A game is also a game. If you win the away game first, you have the advantage, and then return to the home court. With the strength of the three of them, it will not be a big problem to win the Suns.

  Dameng and Barkley are mainly worried that old K is working hard, consuming their physical energy like in 1994, playing until the last second of the tiebreaker, making them unable to continue in the finals, then it will be troublesome.

   After eating and chatting for a while, the three of Buckley drove back to the hotel in Pharaoh's car.

   "You said, is that guy old K lying to us?"

   "It's possible, old K is very cunning."

   "But his index finger is still a little swollen, it must be hurt."

   "Prepare for him to play, but his state will definitely not be that good. We must win this game."

This afternoon, in Philadelphia, Kobe Bryant has received training invitations from many teams, including the Lakers, Clippers, Mavericks, Spurs, Celtics, Suns, etc., nearly 20 teams They all sent him an invitation.

   There are three teams he most want to go to, one is the Bulls, the second is the Suns, and the third is Philadelphia.

  Jordan is his idol. He wants to go to the Bulls the most, but this time the Bulls didn't send him an invitation to try out, probably because there is no lottery pick?

  Suns, that's because of the idea after worshipping Old K as a master, going there to continue learning with Old K.

  Philadelphia is his hometown team. He has been training at the digital team's training base since middle school. He hopes that the digital team can select him this time, but it is almost impossible. He was not invited to try out this time.

   Generally, people who predict that the draft is not high will basically run all over the teams that send out invitations, and will not miss a chance.

   But people with high predictions don't need them. According to their predictions and the team's draft picks, it's enough to focus on running a few teams that are most likely to select them.

   And there is the official training camp before the draft, and some strong predicted lottery picks are not afraid of missing opportunities.

   Kobe received an invitation and was discussing training with his agent.

   His agent was Arne Trem, a friend of his father.

"Kobe, according to your predicted pick, you may enter the lottery, or you may fall out of the lottery. Lack of NCAA qualifications is your biggest deduction. So now we have to decide which teams to focus on preparing for. training," Tellem said.

   "Arne, tell me straight, which ones?" Kobe said.

Tellem has long thought about it and said: "The lottery will only be drawn after the Eastern Conference and Western Conference finals. Now I don't know the lottery lottery ranking, but there is a principle, we only go to the team with the lottery lottery. ."

"certainly."

   Kobe nodded, he didn't think he would fall out of the lottery.

It has been close to a year since he started training the old K's technique of exerting force last year, and he has not interrupted one day. Although there are no 100,000 training sessions now, there must be 20,000 to 30,000 training sessions. He has mastered a certain amount of time. His skills, this little gain, has already made his back punching technique improved.

The growth of    back-playing skills has helped him a lot. For example, he can get rid of defenders faster than before and complete breakthroughs after back-playing.

   His first step is not fast enough, which is a big weakness of his, due to his talent.

  If the first step is not fast enough, the breakthrough will be like muddy water, unable to get rid of the defender cleanly, so the hit rate of the pull-up jumper after the breakthrough will be affected.

Now that his back-playing skills have improved, he will choose back-playing more instead of facing the basket. He will use it to shake the center of gravity of the defender, and then take the opportunity to complete the breakthrough, whether it is to kill in or rush after the breakthrough. Stopping jumpers is a big help.

   So the increase in strength has also made him more confident. He believes that in the next training, as long as he shows his real strength, his ranking will definitely be improved.

Tellem calmly analyzed: "Philadelphia, Mavericks, Raptors, Grizzlies, these are the bottom teams in the league, they are most likely to draw the top three picks, these teams may choose you Sex is minimal, then the other teams we should try out."

   Kobe said unhappily: "It is said that Iverson should be the No. 1 pick. I am not worse than him, and the fast break is not worse than him. I can beat him in low singles."

Hearing this sentence, Tellem asked: "Kobe, the Suns have the Hornets' first-round pick, there is a high probability that they won't be able to draw the top three picks, so their pick is No. 13, you have contacted old K Well, since they sent out an invitation to try out, they should have planned to choose you."

When Kobe heard this, he said dejectedly: "Don't mention old K, I called him master for nothing. He said that if I lost the election and then let the Suns give me a chance to try out, he looked down on me too much? I am the most handsome this year. The good one, sooner or later I will make him regret it."

   "Anyway, the Suns' Hornets pick matches your predicted pick very well, and you have to go to the Suns to try out." Tellem said.

   Being looked down upon by others, Kobe didn't want to go, but after thinking about it, he nodded.

   "There are also the Lakers. The Lakers are short of people right now. Their general manager, Mr. West, personally contacted me. We should pay more attention to their trial training." Tellem said.

   "Lakers?"

   Kobe nodded, of course it would be good to be able to play in Los Angeles.

  Telem said: "In addition, the green team also attaches great importance to you. Their staff contacted me by phone. I hope you take this trial training seriously."

   "Green Team?"

   Kobe also nodded, the cardinal's team is also a good choice to go there.

Tellem added: "We will go to the West first, and the first team will go to the Lakers. Being able to play there is one of the best choices. We will start tomorrow. The Lakers will go to the Clippers, then the Spurs, the Suns, and then To the green team in the East..."

  18th, the match day of the Western Finals G1 match.

  This series is broadcast nationally by ESPN, and the commentators are Winston Rollin and Carter Oldman.

   At three o'clock in the afternoon, they came to the American West Arena to make preparations.

   At this time, the Mosaic team has already started training in the arena. They are all acquaintances and are going to chat and ask for some inside information.

   "Carter, a reporter from China's CCTV." As soon as he entered the venue, Luo Lin saw Zhang Lili who was chatting with Barkley on the sidelines.

   Oldman nodded and said, "I know that he, Zhang, used to be a trainer beside Old K, and he has a very good relationship."

   "Hey, Charles, hey, Zhang."

   "Hello, Carter, Winston."

   "Hello."

   When the two passed by, they greeted each other.

   "Hey Zhang, is there any news about old K, I heard that his finger was injured, is he recovering now?" Rollin asked.

   Zhang Lili smiled and said, "Not yet, the coaching staff has put him on the injured list."

"what?"

   "Can't we fight tonight?"

  Rollin and Oldman were surprised, this is his big news, it seems that the old K was seriously injured.

   "It should be impossible to fight." Zhang Lili laughed.

  Buckley's face was also full of smiles. Zhang said that, it seems that Old K didn't lie to him, and he will win tonight.

   At this time, Kobe had already arrived at the Los Angeles Lakers headquarters with his agent and started his first tryout.

   The management of the Lakers attaches great importance to this trial training. General manager Jerry West personally presided over the trial training, which made Kobe feel respected and in a good mood.

First, I conducted various physical tests. The dynamic talent is very good. The vertical bounce is 92 cm and the assist jump is 108 cm. Although there is no explosive beast-level talent, Kobe is still less than 18 and his body is not fully mature. The test results show that , he already has a first-class dynamic talent, there is still room for growth, and there is still a distance from the ceiling, which shows that there is still potential for cultivation.

   In terms of static talent, his wingspan is average, similar to his height, only three centimeters more, his palms are also average, and his standing reach is 258 centimeters. He does not have top talent, but it is also very good, first-class static talent.

   Next is the shooting test, three points are average, B+ rating, but it can be used.

   In this era, the three-pointer strategy is still not taken seriously. Even if Kobe's three-pointer is not available, the Lakers will not give up on him because of this.

   Kobe was a little proud, because he wanted to join the Suns, so he studied the Suns' lineup and knew that Old K needed people who were good at mid-to-long shots.

   Mid-range shot, similar to three-pointers, level evaluation, can be used.

   But the mid-to-long shot test did not show the potential of a sharp shooter.

What he is best at is breakthrough scoring. This is the most efficient way to score on the outside. There is no one. Therefore, in the next breakthrough test, he performed well and received an rating. Whether it is a layup after a breakthrough, Or the pull-up jumper after the breakthrough, the performance is very good.

West nodded, his breakthrough ability is good, which shows that Kobe's ball control skills, pace application and man-ball integration skills are all good. As for mid-range shots and three-pointers, those are all skills that can be practiced, and it is not too much now. It is important to practice slowly in the future.

   Finally, I tested low-post singles. Many times the perimeter must also be good at low-post singles. In the past, Jordan was the best at low-post singles, which led the league to introduce the Jordan Law, which shows the importance of this technology.

  West paid special attention to this test, because Kobe had learned the skill of relying on the old K, and he wanted to see if it was true.

   The match against Kobe is a trainer of the Lakers. He is 203 cm taller and stronger than Kobe. He was also an NBA player. He was a third-round pick in the 1980s, but he was eliminated after only two seasons.

   "Boom bang bang..."

Kobe took the ball with his back, and between dribbles, his left foot stepped inward. After reaching the defender, he suddenly pressed his feet downward for a while, and his whole body exploded instantly. His left shoulder and back slammed inward, with a bang, hit the defender.

   The weight of the defender is 100 kilograms. Kobe is only 90 kilograms now, which is ten kilograms worse. This is a huge difference.

   But under this collision, the center of gravity of the defender was still bumped. Although his feet were not bumped, his upper body leaned back.

   And taking advantage of this opportunity, Kobe turned around and slipped and took the ball into the paint area, which was a tomahawk-style dunk after a step.

   "Clap clap clap..." West clapped happily.

   He seemed to see the appearance of old K from Kobe's back play.

   Kobe is also very proud, he trains the most in this position, he even imitates the use of old K's footsteps.

At the beginning, he hadn't observed any difference in Old K's pace, but after the last time Old K asked him to train for at least 100,000 hits, he repeatedly observed the old K's game video, and finally found that Old K's pace was abnormal. place.

   That is, the feet should be close to the floor, and the movement should not be lifted too high, so that the force will be faster.

   He imitated it repeatedly and got a little bit of it, but he always felt that he didn't get the hang of it.

   Thinking of this, he was a little annoyed again. Old K must have been hiding it for himself. He only taught him the technique of exertion, but not the use of steps. It's abominable!

   Then Kobe tested his ability in defense and confrontation, and his defense received an level evaluation against level.

   In terms of his weight, he was originally not good enough for level confrontation, but because of Tieshan's power-generating technique, although it was only rough, it also increased some confrontation capabilities.

Kobe Bryant's training with the Lakers was very successful. West told him and his agent Arndrum on the spot that if he fell on the Lakers' sign, the Lakers would definitely choose him, and if he was selected by other teams ahead of time, the Lakers would Will also seek a trade, in short, the Lakers will not give up on him.

After sending the two Kobe Bryants away, West compared the evaluation of the trial training with the evaluation of Kobe Bryant by the Lakers scouting system.

   "There has been progress in confrontation, breakthrough, pull-up jump shot, etc. It's a little troublesome!"

   But he is not happy, because Kobe is not just trying out the Lakers family. Once his trial results are better than expected, his draft prediction will also be adjusted upwards, and it will be even more difficult for the Lakers to select him at that time.

   One of the biggest competitors is the Suns who hold the No. 13 pick in the first round. Because the Suns have always lacked excellent shooting guards, it is very likely that Kobe will be selected in this draft.

   (end of this chapter)

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