lakers championship

Chapter 98 Think about it
Seeing the chatter of the Sequoia team, Johnny raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to ask:

"Such an arrangement, who agrees? Who opposes?"

After the voice fell, most of the Sequoia players lowered their heads, and no one said anything.After all, on a college campus, the power of the head coach is much greater than that of NBA coaches.

If there is an objection, Doryan must be one of them.After the one-on-one match before, he thought that his starting position was unbreakable, but he thought that it would be worse for Tianyang to take the team's second position in a blink of an eye than losing the starting position.

But he didn't show too much displeasure, he just muttered silently in his heart, he must prove to Johnny who is the better player.

"Tomorrow, we will play against Arizona State University. Their regular season record is very close to ours. They are our main opponents in the playoffs. Tomorrow's game is an early matchup!"

The Pac-[-] team, the men's basketball field, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is the absolute overlord.The stars produced by it, aside from the ancient stars such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are just as popular as Westbrook, Love, LaVine, Watson and others.

Fortunately, UCLA's players are not very prominent this season. On the contrary, UC Berkeley, which has Jaylen Brown, is unanimously favored by various media.

It is particularly optimistic that there is nothing wrong with it, after all, ESPN predicts that the draft will be ranked in the top 3.

The top four teams currently in the division are Oregon, Utah, Arizona and UC Berkeley.

Among the remaining schools, Stanford, Oregon State, Arizona State, UCLA, and University of Southern California are all relatively close in level. If they are ranked according to strength, the five schools have a chance to fight for the second round of the playoffs.

Every year in the crazy March of the NCAA, except for the automatic promotion of No.1 in the playoffs of each league, other universities can only be screened by the organizing committee, and the division ranking is an important criterion.

Therefore, Tianyang knew that Johnny's emphasis on the early duel was not intended to injure the players.

There is no problem with the starting point, but in Tianyang's view, it is really unwise to change the team's second offensive point before the war, even if he himself becomes the second offensive point.

He pondered carefully, but before he could figure it out, he heard Johnny say again: "This is the end of today's training, we will gather at the old place tomorrow, Tianyang, come with me!"

Johnny led Tianyang all the way to the coaching staff's office, and waved for other assistant coaches to leave.

With such a battle, Tianyang was even more confused. Could it be that he wanted to teach a unique secret book?

"What is your dream?"

"What?" Tianyang thought he had heard wrong.

"I asked, what is your dream?"

Um?Could it be that 'half the country' Wang Feng is sitting opposite?Traveled to the recording site of the new song?
After repeated confirmation, Tianyang found that Johnny's expression was serious, his eyes were fixed on him, and there was no sign of joking at all.

This made Tianyang scratch his head, not knowing what to say for a while.

Johnny continued to stare at him without speaking, waiting silently for his answer.

After about 10 seconds, Tianyang said in a low voice: "Go back to China at the end of the semester, find a job, work hard to earn money, marry a daughter-in-law, give birth to a baby and herd sheep."

Just when Tianyang was secretly proud that Johnny must not understand the stalk of "giving birth to a baby and herding sheep", Johnny suddenly asked loudly: "What about your basketball dream?".

The volume was a little too loud, which made Tianyang lose all smiles.

"It has been realized. Joining the Sequoia team and representing Stanford University is my basketball dream."

"Is that all?"

"Yes, with my physical fitness, I've made it this far. I'm very successful. Coach, you don't know. I just entered school and played on the court. I told those students that I was a member of the school basketball team in China. Guess what? What did they say?"

Johnny shook his head.

Tianyang said with some displeasure: "Those people told me that the basketball team members of Chinese schools are only qualified to play skateboards in the United States, and physical confrontation is not at the same level at all. Later..."

Tianyang hesitated to speak, but Johnny still didn't answer.

"Then I wanted to join the Sequoias and prove them wrong, but I didn't even make it through the primary."

"So after that, you gave up trying. If it weren't for your long shot at Staples last year, Blount wouldn't have found you for four years."

"It had nothing to do with Brown. After that, I never appeared on any of the school's courts."

"It seems that you are very concerned about other people's evaluation?"

"People live in the world and have social attributes..."

"Stop, stop philosophizing with me. I'll just ask, why do you think I put you as the second firepower on the team?"

"Is my three-pointer good?" Tianyang tried to guess.

"There are too many people who are good at fixed-point three-pointers, but even in the NBA, only one-handed fixed-point three-pointers are difficult to be responsible for, such as Novak, James Jones, Belinelli, think again?"

"Think about it again... I really can't think of it..." Tianyang frowned.

"I didn't go to see your Northern California Community Competition finals, nor did I watch the video, but I heard from people in the coaching circle that Kerr plans to invite you to join the Golden State Warriors and become a member of the assistant coaches. Is there any? ?”

Tianyang did not expect Johnny to be so well-informed, nodded and said, "There is such a thing, could it be you..."

"Yes, you are right. Our team is on the field and needs a leader. You are the most suitable candidate. If you have not performed well, I will directly promote you to the core of the team."

Tianyang broke into cold sweat hearing Johnny's words, and before he could sigh, Johnny said again: "Do you remember what I said when I recruited you?"

"Beauty...beauty...beauty is enough?"

"That's just a joke. Besides, I asked, and the scholarship is useless, because you will graduate soon."

"So, you use the team's second firepower to fool me..."

"That's not the point. The point is, do you know why I was willing to make that promise?"

Tianyang didn't answer, Johnny paused and continued: "Because I think you have the potential to become an NBA player. It's not the kind of person who is called to participate in the summer league because of your Chinese identity, nor is it the second round. Ended up as an attempt by the team to bet on luck, but a first-round pick, maybe even a lottery pick!"

He didn't answer before, but now Tianyang can't speak. Before Johnny, Cole, who had the highest evaluation of his basketball level, just invited him to participate in the assistant coach interview.

Now, Johnny said that he might become a lottery pick. Although Tuckers also said the same thing, one of them is a rough field player, and the other is the head coach of the NCAA Division 1 school team. There is no credibility at all. Compare.

"Oh, it's a pity that my physical fitness..."

Before the exclamation was finished, Johnny interrupted directly: "It's no pity, physical fitness can't represent everything, otherwise, how could Steve Nash get two MVPs? If you think Nash's case is too far away, then I think Demonstration, with a height of 188cm and a thin body, he was also selected at the 10th pick, what is impossible?"

With reason, evidence and demonstration, Tianyang fell into silence.

"I know what you are afraid of. You are afraid of being laughed at after failure, but if you don't try, then when you are old, you will only talk about it in front of the TV. Maybe you could do it back then."

"You know that famous line in the Celtics training room? Which one hurts more? Regret or hard work?"

"Your life and dreams belong only to you, don't make changes because of other people's evaluation."

"You are working hard. In nearly a month, your arms and thighs have grown thicker, but in your heart, you still dare not admit that you want to be an NBA player."

"There's nothing to be afraid of, Roscoe-Allen and Reed-Travis are both going to sign up for the NBA draft."

"That's all for now, think about it."

(End of this chapter)