am i proud?

Chapter 2 Now that you have traveled through time, how can there be no system?
Sitting on the bed, Wang Dalin carefully sorted out the rather messy memories of this life.

In this life, his name is still Wang Dalin, and he was born in Chongqing, China on March 1982, 3. All these are no different from him in the original time and space.

The difference is... In this life, he has grown rapidly since the first year of high school, almost every year, and he can grow more than ten centimeters every year.

He was 170 cm tall when he was in the first year of high school, and he had grown to 186 cm in the second year of high school just a year later.

A year later, when he was in his third year of high school, his height was 198 cm... Well, this height is exactly the same as a certain old hooligan and a certain Mamba!
By the second semester of the third year of high school, his height had reached 206 cm!

In April 2000, he grew another 5 centimeters, reaching 211 centimeters!

This is barefoot height!The real deal is 211 centimeters!

His wingspan is even more exaggerated, it is 231 centimeters!

Look at these big hands again, holding a fried chicken leg is probably like holding a toothpick, right?

Many basketball players have already grown very tall when they received systematic basketball training, so no matter how hard they practice, their skills are still rough. For example, Sun Moumou, who is 10 centimeters taller than Yao Ming, can only sit on the bench in the CBA.

Wang Dalin in this life started systematic basketball training very early on, initially with the basketball team in the city gymnasium.

At that time, he was still in the first year of junior high school, and his height was less than 1.5 meters. He was inconspicuous among many basketball teenagers.

At that time, Wang Dalin silently polished his various skills, from the first year of junior high school to the graduation of the third year of junior high school, until he grew taller after entering high school, and it was out of control...

Although Wang Dalin's Guangyi Middle School is not a large high school basketball team in Chongqing, it is definitely not a famous basketball school. However, since Wang Dalin joined, the strength of the Guangyi Middle School basketball team has been increasing day by day like a rocket.

Especially after Wang Dalin was in the second year of high school, his height soon exceeded 1.9 meters, which made the various skills he honed so hard to fully display.

In the 90s of the last century, no matter which city in China, a height of more than 1.9 meters was absolutely outstanding, not to mention that Wang Dalin's height soon exceeded 2 meters in his third year of high school.

In addition, Wang Dalin is not a "silly big guy" who only has height.

In the third year of senior high school, Wang Dalin led the Guangyi Middle School basketball team to defeat opponents like chopping melons and vegetables, successfully won the championship of the city's high school basketball championship, and represented Chongqing in the knockout round of the Southwest Division of the National Championship.

In the knockout round of the Southwest Division, Wang Dalin led his team to win the championship with an average of 39.5 points, 23.5 rebounds, 7 assists and 9 blocks per game, and won the MVP title of the Southwest Division in one fell swoop.

Just after the Spring Festival in 2000, the Guangyi Middle School team participated in the final stage of the national championship.

十六进八的比赛中，身高已206公分的王大林狂砍51分19篮板10助攻11盖帽的超大号“四双”，率领球队以97:83大胜对手。

Then the Guangyi Middle School team won three games in a row and broke into the final.

The opponent in the final is the Shenzhen Sports School of Guangdong Province, the champion of the southern division. The team has a talented new star-Yi Jianlian who is only 16 years old! (He was born in 1984, not 1987!)

Moreover, the players in each position of this team are very capable. If their opponent is not Guangyi Middle School led by Wang Dalin, I believe they will definitely win the national championship this year.

but……

The immature Yi Jianlian received systematic basketball training for too short a time. Facing Wang Dalin, he seemed at a loss and played seriously abnormally. He only made 17 of 4 shots in the game, scored 14 points only by free throws, and only grabbed 5 rebounds.

王大林全场21投13中，其中三分球6投3中，外加罚球9中8，砍下37分13篮板7助攻6盖帽2抢断，率队战胜强敌成功登顶，夺得了2000年全国高中生篮球锦标赛的冠军。

Due to his outstanding performance in this competition, many CBA teams have offered him olive branches, including some strong teams that made it to the playoffs last season, but Wang Dalin did not accept the invitations of these teams.

Because he has a higher and bigger goal in his heart, that is - NBA!

In the original time and space, the first Chinese player to land in the NBA was Wang Zhizhi. He was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the 1999th overall pick in the second round (7th overall) in the summer of 36.

If Wang Dalin could land in the NBA in 2000, he would be the No.1 Chinese player landing in the NBA!

But landing in the NBA...is it really that simple?

You must know that when Wang Zhizhi reported to the NBA, he had already played in the CBA league for 6 seasons.

2000-2001赛季，这位CBA联盟的王者场均可以砍下26.3分、11.7个篮板、1.6次助攻、2.1个盖帽和1.7个抢断。

即便是他被达拉斯小牛队选中的1999年，那个赛季他的场均数据也有25分7.8篮板0.8助攻2.5盖帽和1.2抢断。

But...he was only the 7th pick in the second round, and he could only be ranked 36th among all the rookies that year!
Wang Dalin, a high school student who has not yet graduated, has never even played in the CBA league. If he wants to enter the NBA through the draft, this is tantamount to fantasy!
Here, we have to talk about one person.

When Wang Dalin was leading his team to compete in the final stage of the National High School Basketball Championship, there was a visitor from the other side of the ocean sitting in the auditorium. His name was Ryder Ikels.

Ryder Ikels was born in 1966 and was selected by the Washington Bullets with the 1988th pick in the second round of the 7 NBA Draft (same as Wang Zhizhi). He has only played for two teams in his career.

One is the Washington Bullets and the other is the Miami Heat.

His career was short. After the 1997-1998 season, Ikels retired at the age of 32.

After retiring, he went to a high school as the head coach, but his coaching performance was not very good, and he was fired after just over a year.

Now, relying on his early relationships, he has a job as a scout for the Miami Heat.

This gentleman has not had any bright moments in his entire career. He is a proper role player and averaged 13.5 points per game in the best season.

However, Ikels believes that he has a pair of discerning eyes, especially after the Dallas Mavericks selected the Chinese player Wang Zhizhi for the first time a year ago, he also came to China and decided to look for a basketball potential in this mysterious oriental country.

When he saw Yao Ming who was over 7 feet 5 inches tall, he couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

Although Yao Ming's stature is thin and his confrontation ability is extremely weak at this time, he is still agile at such a height, and his shooting touch is even softer than that of Olajuwon back then. In time, if he only needs to increase his physical strength a little bit, wouldn't he be an NBA super center?
But after contacting him, he was helpless, because at this time Yao Ming had no plans to participate in the NBA draft at all, and he was only thinking about leading the Shanghai team to win the CBA league!
There are no talents who can play in the NBA in the CUBA league this year, so Ikels had to lower his goal by another level and began to pay attention to the ongoing National High School Basketball Championship.

So...he was pleasantly surprised to find Wang Dalin.

好家伙！年仅18岁身高就已达到了6尺11寸，而且臂展超过了7尺6寸……啧啧啧，看着就令人惊叹不已啊！

(Reminder: The habit of the NBA at this time is to measure the height of athletes after wearing shoes!)

After watching several games, Wang Dalin's excellent performance completely conquered Ikels.

what is this?This is clearly a dimensionality reduction blow, okay?

A few years ago, when Kobe Bryant was killing all directions in the American high school basketball world, he probably felt like this?
What attracted Ikels the most was that the 18-year-old Wang Dalin hadn't registered with the Chinese Basketball Association, and he hadn't even attended a sports school...he was just an ordinary high school student!
Wang Zhizhi was selected for the national team at the age of 17, okay?

Such a player who is not in the system has no obstacles in drafting and signing. Isn't this the genius player Ikels dreams of?
So he revealed his identity to Wang Dalin and hoped to bring him to Miami to participate in the pre-draft trial.

After listening to the interpreter's intermittent words, Wang Dalin also showed a joyful expression, but he still had to ask his parents for advice - this... is going abroad after all!

Fortunately, Wang Dalin's family background is quite rich in this life, and his parents run a restaurant. Although he is not considered a wealthy family, he is still better than a well-off family by more than 01:30.

So, after some exchanges, both parents agreed that Wang Dalin would follow Ikels to the United States to participate in the Miami Heat's trial training.

For this reason, Wang Dalin even had to give up the college entrance examination in July—if he really had to wait until the college entrance examination was over before going to the United States, the day lily would be cold! (The college entrance examination was changed to June in 7)
After arriving in Miami, Wang Dalin immediately participated in various trials with great enthusiasm.

However, this king who dominates the domestic high school basketball world struggled very much against the opponents from the world's number one basketball power.

To put it bluntly, his confrontation ability is too poor!
Although his static talent is excellent, and his speed and jumping are not bad, but after all, he is only 18 years old. Facing these "black and hard" confrontations, his various technical movements that have been invincible have lost their shape.

When Yao Ming first entered the NBA, he suffered from a lack of confrontation ability, and he often played very difficult under the basket; Wang Zhizhi rarely played around the basket, and was basically a high-level turret on the outside.

Previously, Wang Dalin shot 65% from the field and 41% from the three-point range in the final stage of the National High School Basketball Championship, but that was just the intensity of domestic high school basketball.

Not to mention the NBA, even it is still far behind the CBA.

His current opponents are considered marginal players in the NBA, and the intensity of this level of confrontation is even higher than that of the CBA!

Although head coach Pat Riley is very interested in his outstanding static talent, he has even verbally promised to use the 23rd pick in the second round to win him.

But when it came to the draft day, the "magic fortune teller" broke his promise.

The Miami Heat, which had only two second-round picks, first selected Eddie House with the 8th overall pick in the second round, and then Ernest Brown with the 23rd overall pick in the second round.

In this way, Wang Dalin became an undrafted pick that no one wanted.

As a traveler, Wang Dalin certainly knows Eddie House, a guard who won the NBA championship with the Boston Celtics as a main rotation player in the team in 2008.

And Eddie House was also a famous man in the NCAA!
身为NCAA太平洋十联盟中第一个单赛季四次拿下40+得分的球员，埃迪.豪斯曾有过单赛季8次单场得分30+，还打出了亚利桑那州立大学单赛季得分纪录（736分）和场均得分记录（23.0分）。

In that year, Eddie House's assists and steals were also the highest in the team, with 74 steals and tied for the second place in the single-season steal list in school history.

Losing to such a talented person, Wang Dalin was convinced.

But... which onion is this Ernest Brown?
As a veteran NBA fan (self-proclaimed), Wang Dalin has never even heard of this guy's name!
It's no wonder that this unknown guy hadn't played a few games in the NBA, and was sent to the NBDL Development League team by the Heat in his rookie season.

There is one thing to say, this guy did well in the Development League... Later he also played in the Chinese CBA League for several seasons...

According to Wang Dalin's habit of playing the dynasty mode in the NBA2K game, it is estimated that this guy will be cut immediately, so as not to look disgusting in the lineup list!

"Hey!" Wang Dalin sighed softly, and thought to himself, "It seems that I can only return to China in despair... It is not unacceptable to be able to play in the CBA in this life!"

At this moment, a strong male voice suddenly sounded in his mind, like an evening drum and morning bell: "All the information of the host has been detected, and the basketball career professional system is officially launched..."

Immediately, a picture similar to a nine-square grid appeared in his mind. The names of the nine grids were "personal attributes", "system mall", "system tasks", "team lineup", "endorsement contract", "real-time data", "NBA records", "team rankings" and "personal assets".

The tone of the entire interface is gray and black, which is somewhat similar to the early "NBA2K11".

Looking at this picture, Wang Dalin couldn't help being ecstatic, and murmured, "I knew it... I knew it... Now that I've crossed over, how can I not give a system?"

(End of this chapter)