From South China Tiger to NBA King

Chapter 58 Summer League Opening

The 2017 Summer League will be held in two places.

One is Las Vegas, the world-famous casino city, and the other is Long Beach in Los Angeles.

The Long Beach Summer League is first and the Las Vegas Summer League is second.

Jianghu did not participate in the Long Beach game, but invested in the training arranged by the team with Smart and Jaylen Brown.

In this half a month, he has been adapting to the rhythm of the NBA and concentrating on improving himself in the training camp.

Training can also add experience, although the addition is very little, but every time it is successfully added, the world will fall into extreme excitement.

In the past two weeks, Jaylen Brown and Smart have completely recognized the strength of Jianghu.

During these two weeks, apart from daily training, the most frequent event among the three was heads-up.

At first, Jaylen Brown and Smart wanted to bully the rookies, trying to tease the world in the heads-up.

Who knows that when they really fight, this is not the case at all. Jianghu's excellent shooting ability and wingspan can always allow him to avoid the blocks of the two and hit the ball.

The weirdest thing is that Jianghu's physique obviously doesn't look very strong, but his strength is terrifying.

In a one-on-one duel, Smart wanted to make an offensive foul in Jianghu, but Jianghu confiscated his feet, and even knocked Smart out...

Smart is dumbfounded...

Although he purposely didn't stand firmly on his feet, but he didn't fly to hit the basket...

He only wants to make offensive fouls, not reincarnation...

Smart took it.

In the beginning, he clamored every day that he wanted to fight Jianghu one-on-one, but in the next few days, no matter what Jianghu called him, he stopped coming.

It doesn't mean my stomach hurts, or my knee hurts. Anyway, I feel all kinds of discomfort all over my body.

Jaylen Brown is a hard lump. He doesn't know what it means to back down. No matter how much force Jiang Hu uses to overturn him, he will always stand in front of Jiang Hu in the next second and continue to defend.

Faced with such a hard knot and teammates, Jianghu did not dare to use his full strength again and again. Under such circumstances, Brown was able to fight Jianghu 46 times.

As the training progressed, the relationship between the three improved a lot. Smart is fierce and shrewd, but he is not very flattering when he speaks carelessly, and Jaylen Brown is a boring gourd.

On the contrary, Jianghu, although he is the youngest, is the strongest, and he is more measured in his words and deeds, so that both Smart and Jay can listen to him.

Indistinctly, Jianghu has become the core figure of this trio.

After the training, Smart chose to take a vacation. He will return to the team in August and enter the team training camp.

As for Jianghu and Jaylen Brown, they boarded a plane to Las Vegas to participate in the summer league held there.

When Jianghu participated in team training, many of the other rookies had already played in the Summer League in Long Beach, and some even performed well.

This year's third overall pick, super rookie guard Mark Fultz, has played two games on behalf of the 76ers, facing the Trail Blazers and the Jazz in two games, averaging 19.5 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game.

His teammate, last year's No. 208 pick, Ben Simmons, performed very well after a one-year truce. With a height of 17.5cm, he played a point guard and averaged 7.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and [-] assists per game.

The combination of Mark Fultz and Ben Simmons helped the Sixers nearly dominate the Long Beach Summer League.

Tatum hasn't been acclimatized with the Phoenix Suns.

Also played in two games, averaging 16.7 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, which also gave the Suns management hope of revival.

Incoming Suns vice president of operations James Jones told reporters: "I sat on the sidelines and watched all of Jason's games seriously. I didn't even want to miss a second."

"I love Jason so much and I'm glad we made the right choice."

"Jason's performance, even if another team trades the No. [-] pick, I will hang up on him as soon as possible."

In addition, the Los Angeles Lakers also had a good performance in the summer league. They sent a very strong lineup this time. This year's No. [-] player-Lonzo Ball and last year's No. [-] Brandon Ingram.

Ball struggled in the first game of his career. He shot a terrible 15-of-2 shooting percentage, scored 5 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. …

Fans of good things even made up a joke for Brother Qiu: I ask you how much you can worry, and choose a ball with the second pick...

好在第二场比赛，他便立马迎来了反弹，第二场打出11分、11个篮板和11次助攻的三双，第三场更是轰下36分、8个篮板和11次助攻的超级表现，第四场又得到16分、10个篮板和12次助攻。成为了夏季联赛历史上首位多次打出三双的球员
In addition, the Lakers also have the No. 17.5 first-round rookie Kyle Kuzma and the No. 27 rookie Josh Hart, who averaged 30 points per game, and center Ivica Zubac.

The backup center is Thomas Bryant.

Such a future NBA full-rotation lineup is at the top even in the entire summer league.

The Lakers' public relations team has not been idle during this time.

Newspaper headlines of all kinds of Bauer appeared one after another, and various video highlights were flying in the sky.

Crazy promotion of Ball's excellent results, it looks like promoting Ball as the strongest rookie of the year.

Coincidentally, the first opponent Jiang Hu faced after coming to Las Vegas was the Los Angeles Lakers.

July 2017, 7, Las Vegas.

The reporter also interviewed Brother Qiu and asked him what he thought of the upcoming yellow-green summer league matchup.

Brother Qiu said with a smile: "The Los Angeles Lakers played against the Boston Celtics. I think this matchup is exciting enough no matter where it happens. The fighting spirit."

"I'll do my best."

"Beating the Boston Celtics will always mean something to the Los Angeles Lakers."

Reporter: "This is the first summer league match of this year's No. [-] champion. Do you have anything to say to him?"

Brother Qiu: "I watched Jianghu's China Finals video, and he played very well."

"But frankly, I don't think he was effectively defended. In the Chinese league, he almost passed his defender with one step. This of course proves his talent, but also shows that he faces top players Inexperienced defensively."

"In tomorrow's game, the coach arranged for us to defend him with different people."

"I'll defend him too, let's see how he performs then."

Brother Qiu smiled and said: "As for what I want to say to him? I want to say to him: Give up, Jiang, the Boston Celtics will not be the opponent of the Los Angeles Lakers, and be ready to accept our sanctions."

What Brother Qiu said was not malicious, it was just a pre-match interview and some harmless ridicule.

Jiang Hu didn't say anything after seeing it, but he had already made a decision in his heart.

That is - in this match, he must be beaten face to face! !
(End of this chapter)