basketball hero

Chapter 254 The Second NBA Season
The one-month special training is finally over. After this period of training, both Ying Xiong and Yi Jianlian's bodies have been strengthened.Compared with the Tianjin Men's Basketball Asian Championships, they are obviously stronger.

Training is hard, but there is joy in the bitterness.After the training, Ying Xiong felt full of energy all over his body, and felt that his physical fitness and strength had improved a lot compared to before.For his second season, he is looking forward to, hoping to improve.

In late September, on the eve of the preseason of the 9-2009 season, the training camps of various teams in the NBA started.After all, Ying Xiong was not traded by the team before the training camp started.Of course, this does not mean that he will definitely play a full season with the Milwaukee Bucks this season. Before the trade deadline, he may be traded by the team as a bargaining chip at any time.

As a second-year student of the Milwaukee Bucks, Ying Xiong participated in the team's pre-match training camp as scheduled.The team did not fire last season's head coach Skiles, maybe the management thinks that the team's poor record last season is not all the responsibility of the head coach.The fact is, of course, last season that the Bucks had a long-term disorganized lineup, and the team suffered a lot of injuries. Among them, the team boss Michael Reed was absent for a long time, and the main center Bogut was also injured. This objectively caused the team Bad record.

This season, the Bucks have added a large number of new faces. The team used the 10th pick in the first round of this year's draft to select the first American player who did not participate in college and directly joined the European League after the implementation of the NBA age restriction. — Brandon Jennings, with the No. 41 pick in the second round, selected the shooting guard from the University of Kentucky — Jodi Meeks. On July 7, the team signed Eisen Ilyasova with a three-year contract worth $18 million; on July 3, the team signed a one-year contract with the former Grizzlies' completely free agent Nicknamed "The Helicopter" power forward Hakeem Varik signed; on August 700, the team traded Amir Johnson and Sony Weems with the Raptors for Carlos Delfino and Rokovukic.

Of course, the Bucks, which introduced a lot of fresh blood, also left a lot of strong players.The team's biggest deal this summer was on June 6, when All-Star small forward Richard Jefferson was traded to the Spurs for Amir Johnson, Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas; Forward Charlie Villanueva signed with the Detroit Pistons on a five-year, 24 million contract; in addition, the Bucks will no longer have Raymond Sessions in the new season.On September 5, general manager John Hammond said the team would not match the offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves, leading to restricted free agent Sessions joining the Timberwolves on a four-year, $3770 million contract.

The Bucks exchanged All-Star small forward Richard Jefferson for two veterans whose contracts are about to expire and a young striker. In the eyes of many media people in the circle, this is the team's plan to clean up what is left of Jefferson. Two-year big contract, hoping to chase superstars like LeBron James and Chris Bosh next summer.

For Ying Xiong, after all-star small forward Richard Jefferson left, he should be able to get some playing time at the small forward position.Delfino and rookie Meeks, who joined this summer, mainly play the 2nd position, but he can play the 3rd position.His main competitors at the 3rd position are the blue-collar striker Mbah a Moute, who had a stable performance last season, and the newly joined swingman Delfino.

Ying Xiong thinks that he can never be inferior to Mbah a Moute and Delfino, but the problem is that if the team thinks that they are inferior to them and does not reuse themselves, but reuse them, this is entirely possible.Last season, there were former All-Star players like Richard Jefferson at the small forward position, and the team leader Michael Reed at the shooting guard position. It is understandable that he was not reused. With a certain amount of playing time, even if the team doesn't plan to trade him, he definitely doesn't plan to stay in such a team. At worst, let his agent apply for a trade.

There is no grass anywhere in the world, and Ying Xiong doesn't have to hang himself on the tree of the Bucks. At worst, he will start all over again. As long as he has the strength, he is not afraid of not being able to find a job in the league.

In the training camp, Bucks coach Skiles met Ying Xiong, who had been missing all summer.Ying Xiong went to the west at the end of last season, and then returned directly to China.After that, it was Denver training-returning to the game-Denver training, no summer league, no meeting with the Bucks coaching staff, everything was handled by agent Bill Duffy.

He didn't see Ying Xiong all summer, but Skiles was not idle. He learned on the Internet that Ying Xiong and the Chinese men's basketball team won the Tianjin Men's Basketball Asian Championships together.However, in his view, the level of Asian basketball is too low, and the basketball teams of individual national teams participating in the Asian Championships are not even as strong as the American high school basketball teams.So even if the Chinese national team wins the championship and Ying Xiong gets the title of best player, it doesn't mean much.When an NBA player goes to that level of competition, he is almost like an adult playing basketball with a child, which is not at the same level.

But seeing Ying Xiong's figure made his eyes shine.Ying Xiong is a little stronger than last season, his skin is darker, and he looks stronger and more powerful.As the head coach of an NBA team, he doesn't even need to look at the performance on the court. Just by looking at a player's body, he can roughly judge whether the player has trained hard in the summer and whether he has strictly restrained himself.Obviously, Ying Xiong belongs to the former.The summer offseason is an excellent opportunity for NBA players to improve themselves. Enterprising and self-disciplined players will train hard during this time period and conduct targeted training on their shortcomings.He is a strict coach who pays special attention to aggressive players.If it weren't for preconceived ideas and the lack of attention from the management, an aggressive young player like Ying Xiong would not have been so hostile to each other last season.

In the training camp, Ying Xiongyi's summer training has achieved remarkable results.He felt that he was full of energy, and his physical condition was much better than before.This is enough to show that altitude training is effective, and the effect is very good.His performance, the coaching staff naturally saw it.The team is also very satisfied with his training results in the summer. The better he is, the better it will be for the team. Whether he is traded or used by himself, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The new season of 2009-2010 is getting closer and closer.This is Yingxiong's second NBA season, and he is looking forward to what he can do in the new season.

(End of this chapter)