Card Bishop of Basketball

Chapter 11 Old Bath: I still have a junior? (2500 word chapter)
From the perspective of the scene, it seems that Myers suppressed Ratliff and became the overlord of the inside line. Ratliff, who defended on the defensive end, hit the iron many times.

But in fact, Ratliff is both father and mother, grabbing rebounds on the offensive end, and then squeezed a guy who was much heavier than himself to force a shot, and on the defensive end, he had to help defend Iverson who broke through, haha People like Pulin.

As long as Ratliff dared to leave the basket, he would immediately lose points on the inside, but if he didn't leave the basket, the opponent's fat center would pull to the outside and make mid-range shots one after another.

In one game, the rugby brothers combined scored 57 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists. Basically all of Iverson's assists were given to Harprin, and Harperin followed his most accustomed approach after a strong start. Play, play off the ball.

Meng Yifan is also quite helpless. After developing the offense with the ball, the next step is to train Harprin to be a scorer like a melon. Even if he has half the singles firepower of a melon, plus a tough defense, he can be regarded as a team star. up.

As a result, Halprin has returned to his comfort zone after hitting and hitting. He can simply catch and shoot without the ball. Who wants to play singles with the ball to death.

Ratliff scored 11 points, 17 rebounds and 4 blocks in this game. The rugby brothers each blocked one shot. Miles enjoyed VIP treatment and enjoyed two blocks exclusively.

From the data point of view, Myers' 12 points and 11 rebounds don't seem to be much worse than Ratliff's, but Ratliff's 17 rebounds, 9 are frontcourt rebounds, and Myers is all backcourt rebounds.

In this game, every time Ratliff took a shot, he shot against the meat shield Miles when he was double-teamed inside, and even faced the steals from Iverson and Harprin. Every ball is very tough.

On the other hand, Miles, relying on Iverson's ball after rushing to the inside, the offensive end stood outside the penalty area and waited to catch the ball. As a heavy-duty center, he resolutely refused to enter the penalty area for half a step, and avoided Ratliff to play the whole time.

And as an inside man who has inherited the glory of Georgetown University's center, Myers seems to have a sworn hatred for offensive rebounds. He refuses to fight for life and death and watches the opposite small guard jump three feet high to grab the rebound. indifferent.

If you are a fan who doesn't watch the game, or the management, look at the record, hey, it turns out that the unknown center in Georgetown can compete with Ratliff. It seems that this guy has no training value.

In this game, Myers should be most grateful to the outside line of the University of Wyoming. In this game, he has become a legend, never passing the ball, taking decisive shots, and hitting the iron.

Perhaps in order to make his good brother's statistics not ugly and make his shots more resolute, Myers helped the Wyoming defender get a rebound many times. Such behavior made Iverson and Harprin call them undercover.

Not only Iverson and Iverson on the court, but even Meng Yifan off the court was twitching his eyes, but after looking at the score on the court, Meng Yifan said that there was nothing wrong with Miles' undercover behavior. .

Georgetown University now likes to give the opponent an illusion that it can catch up with the point difference, and then every time the opponent catches up and is still five to seven points away, Iverson suddenly explodes and helps the team open Points difference.

Of course, if you ask Meng Yifan, Meng Yifan will definitely not admit that there is a point-controlling behavior. It must be that the other players in Georgetown are too bad. Just the right burst cut super data.

For the 1995 draft, Meng Yifan's most intuitive feeling is that many leftovers were in the first round, and they were selected at the end of the first round. Jerry Stackhouse.

But if you want to talk about how strong Stackhouse is, that's not enough. Every team treats him like a mercenary and leaves when he runs out. No team is willing to use him as the core of the team for a long time.

Among other things, in Stackhouse's rookie season, the No. [-] pick was selected by the number, and then the team won the No. [-] pick in the second year. Among them, Stackhouse's ability to lead the team has an intuitive performance.

Antonio McDyess, who was the second overall pick in time and space, is a good big man with a solid offensive mid-range shot and a strong defensive positioning awareness. He has been to the All-Star team, was selected to the best third team, and won the Olympic Games with the Dream Team. gold medal.

However, this gentleman has had constant knee injuries in his career, playing and stopping, and after a serious knee injury, he has changed from a first-rate insider in the league to a second-rate insider.

The first pick, Joe Smith, was left to the NBA with the famous "yin and yang contract incident".

At that time, Fagan signed a fake contract with the Timberwolves far below Smith's market price ($2 million for 175 years), and then secretly asked the Timberwolves to promise Smith a long-term maximum salary contract in two years ($7 million for 8600 years). .

For Fagan, such a contract can collect huge labor fees from it. For the Timberwolves, the team can also avoid the league's luxury tax. As for Joe Smith at the time, he only had a long-term maximum salary contract in his eyes, and the ability Hohoh a lifetime of silver.

The top three picks are definitely not as good as Garnett, the King of Wolves, Wallace, and others who are picked in the back. It is even said that the number one pick, Joe Smith, has never been selected to the All-Stars in his career, and his strength and popularity are not that good. drop.

Although Meng Yifan has no interest in this year's NBA draft, and if he is interested, no one invites him to help in the draft, but he writes some player analysis reports to disrupt the draft market and build his reputation.

At the same time, Meng Yifan also wanted to see a different NBA development from his previous life, not the same as his previous life, where he had no participation and could only watch the TV screen.

Picking up the keyboard, Meng Yifan began to comment on Ratliff. Ratliff's biggest problem is that as a center forward, he is weak in confrontation and short in height; as a power forward, he moves slowly and lacks the ability to open up space. .

Of course, Ratliff still has many advantages. Although his single-defense ability is not outstanding, his ability to assist defense is very strong.He often switches defenses to the guards, defending smaller guys who pop up to the basket.

Although it is easy to be thrown away, Ratliff's excellent wingspan and amazing jumping can always make some incredible blocks, which can both boost morale and deter opponents.

Considering that the league where Ratliff's university is located is average, Ratliff is not a very strong immediate combat player, but with his excellent physical condition and a terrifying sense of blocking shots, he will definitely make a difference in the NBA in the future.

If the team is willing to work hard to train, Ratliff will become an All-Star player, he will definitely have a place in the best defensive team, and he can even become the core of a team's defensive system.

In Meng Yifan's eyes, Ratliff is a shrunken version of Uncle Mu, the peak Uncle Mu who defends both inside and outside, and wags his fingers arrogantly all day long.

Although Ratliff can't resist, he can take off faster and jump more. Even if the inside line is swayed or pushed away, he can still take off quickly to interfere with the opponent's shot.

Meng Yifan's evaluation of Ratliff in this wave is not low. With the wide spread of "Washington Post", it has aroused wave after wave of attention and discussion.

The Lakers game ended that day, and as soon as Old Buss came down from the auditorium, he was stopped by reporters and asked him what he thought of his junior.

Old Buss was confused at the time, because in the game against the Magic just now, Old Buss was only thinking about how to win over a terrifying inside giant to join the Lakers, and he didn't even notice who was his junior.

In order to maintain his love for his alma mater's personality, Old Buss also spoke nonsense, expressing that he is optimistic about his juniors, and his talented juniors will definitely make a world in the NBA.

What Old Bath didn't know was that the reporter was actually asking about Ratliff who hadn't graduated yet, and the polite words of Old Bath were embellished and embellished by the reporter and moved to the newspaper.

Everyone knows the vision of old Buss, Magic Johnson is his favorite rookie, so the juniors that old Buss is optimistic about, even if they have the blessing of the same school, it is not too bad to think.

In this way, by accident, people suddenly had a strong interest in Ratliff, expecting him to become the pillar player of the new generation of insiders in the league.

(End of this chapter)