You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 83 Soaring into the sky

Dustin Salisbery (Dustin Salisbery) is a scout for the Philadelphia 76ers. Today is the opening day of the Philadelphia Top Five Tournament. He accepts the task assigned by the team to continue to follow up on the progress of the star player "Wish" of the Villanova University Wildcats.

Why do you say continue?
Because "Wish" has always been in the pocket list of the 76ers.

"Wish", as a rising star in Philadelphia, is very popular. The 76ers have already planned that as long as he participates in the draft and has a trial round, if it is not too bad, he will bite the bullet and bring him back to the team with the ninth pick.

As a result, "Wish" never considered participating in the draft, and announced to stay in school in mid-April.

The 76ers had no choice but to regret, very helplessly, and even selected the little AI Andre Iguodala, who was considered by scouts to be less aggressive, with a little disgust.

Although they failed to bring "Wish" back to the team, the 76ers still kept him in the pocket list.

Let the scouts follow up to prepare for next June.

Solberg has some ties to the game, as he has a player with the same name and surname on the Temple University Owls, who is his younger brother.The father in the family has no education, so he chooses his name very casually, and the two brothers have exactly the same name.

At the beginning of today, Solberg found that "Wish" was much thicker than in the Big East Championship half a year ago.

Then Solberg found several other scouts.

That fat guy from Boston is back, and who is that from the Los Angeles Lakers?

Solberg found that he was not a familiar face he had seen in the past. Judging from his appearance, he might be a higher-level scout than the one he had seen frequently in the past.There were also stranger scouts he couldn't see his way around.

A Philadelphia civil war that was not included in the official record has attracted so many scouts, which shows that the sensation caused by "Wish" last year has not subsided.

The game started with Wildcats junior center Jason Frazier jumping to the ball.

"Wish" still stands at the fourth position.

He sprints upfield, wobbles around the sideline, cuts to the hoop, and points high in the air.

"An alley-oop? With his physical fitness?" Solberg thought that "Wish" wanted to entertain the audience.

Watching him dunk, it's as if Kobe, Carter, Tracy McGrady, and Steve Nash participated in the slam dunk contest together. The first three hit themselves to the point of being unwell due to too many strikes/was kicked by Bowen/overslept on the day of the game/leading to the league having to make Nash the slam dunk king—the same disappointment.

The basketball flew out of Aaron Ray's hand.

"Too high!"

Solberg had already seen the results of this attack.

Inevitable mistakes!

Fortunately, Americans don't have a tradition of eating shit when you bet wrong, otherwise Solberg would have eaten a ton tonight.

"Wish" stepped on the paint and jumped up in front of the scouts. Not only the scouts knew his weight, but also the opponents, so they would not be defensive against his jump.

It was because he was unprepared that he jumped out of the limit height after the run-up - 123 cm!

Solberg saw with his own eyes that "Wish" leaped over his younger brother, caught Ray's high-altitude catch with his right hand firmly, and aimed at the basket. Keith Butler, the seven-footer of the Owls, just half turned around, and felt his body was knocked away by a brute force. Then, the basket on his head was like a watermelon that had been split.

At that moment, "Wish"'s parents were stunned. They opened their mouths in unison, and their upper and lower lips stretched to an O-shape. The audience all stood up and shouted loudly.

""Wish" himself should have been kidnapped by a UFO, and now the race in front of us is an artificial human!" Even the live announcer couldn't believe it.

Wei Xia's teammates experienced the same shock, and now watching him dunk, instead of showing a trace of surprise and the desire to jump up and applaud, they stretched out their legs and muttered arrogantly: "Who do you look down on? One day, the tall man who has leaped three meters will make such a fuss again!"

The scouts couldn't help but look at their peers.

Most of them have followed "Wish" for half a year or a year, and they know what this gentleman is capable of.

He can play a defensive power forward in a college game, play a combo guard on the offensive end, and run for 40 minutes without a break.

But he can't fly.

He could suddenly turn deadly in the Big East championship game against Connecticut.

But he can't fly.

He might surprise any scouts who thought he had a low ceiling in the future.

But he can't fly.

The outside world looks down on him, and scouts think that his upper limit is not high. All the contempt comes from the same reason: in this era of swingmen flying around, it is difficult for a retro swingman like him to reach the height of his predecessors.

Although the body cannot represent everything, it does determine the upper limit of the player.

Now, the floor flow recognized by all scouts is flying in the game.

"Wish should have flown a meter high just now?"

"Damn it, is that man really Wish?"

"That's him! It's amazing, we have another flying man in Greater Philadelphia!"

Solberg's hands were trembling. The 76ers originally expected that "Wish"'s draft prospects this year would decline, and he could be selected with a late pick.

But now
After watching his dunk just now, he knew that the other scouts at the scene knew that the lottery was his lower limit, and there was no pressure for him to get into the top ten picks. It was his performance in the new season that determined whether he was in the top ten, or the top five, or even the top three.

The fans at the scene had no defense against this.

With his stronger body than last year and the explosive power gifted by Skywalker, "Wish" grabbed 15 rebounds angrily, played 3 times in the alley-oop, grabbed offensive rebounds under the basket and dunked twice, and broke through the opponent's seven-foot inside line with the ball from the outside line once.

One game, 6 dunks.

Those brutal dunks reminded the audience time and time again that "Wish" has undergone a terrifying evolution in physical fitness in the past half a year.

此役，韦夏出场34分钟，看起来没怎么发力就砍下全场最高的24分15篮板4助攻4抢断2封盖。

Temple University was beaten to the ground, and its core Marty Collins was like seeing a ghost: "I'm definitely fucking dreaming! Let me wake up!"

(End of this chapter)