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Chapter 274

"Hold the grass? It's really me!! It's really me!!"

Although it seems normal to outsiders that Totoro chooses Taj Jbson, after all, he is a comrade-in-arms who has been fighting for a year, and there are still conflicts of interest between NBA teams, but the teams in college can say something. It's all brotherhood, so brothers and comrades-in-arms in college are generally stronger than the superficial brotherhood in the team.

But what outsiders don't know is that when Totoro was admitted to the University of Southern California by taking the exam and entered the school basketball team by signing up, most of them looked down on each other, no matter the skin color or the skills at that time, Long Mao The cat is like a rookie who has never received professional basketball training, isn’t that right? Their academic performance is scum, but they all relied on basketball to get the invitation letter from the university, and Totoro is the opposite. , He got in by himself and then joined from the inside. Isn't there a big difference between the two?
My Neighbor Totoro ncaa had a period of sluggish statistics, and many times it was related to their teammates. However, now that I think about it, Gibson only regrets it. It was really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi. If Gibson had read Chinese novels, Then he will definitely know a classic saying, don't bully the young and poor!

Under everyone's envious eyes, Taj Jbson walked up to the draft stage excitedly, borrowed a hat with a rocket icon from David Stern and put it on, and Totoro had already returned with a blank expression. seat.

Taj Jbson is a very strong player. His age is the oldest in this draft. Born in June 85, he is actually 6 years old this year. Compared with other rookies, his potential seems to be There are not many big ones. For a veteran like him who has fought in the NCAA for 25 years, the height he can reach is already clear at a glance. But on the other hand, his experience, combat power and adaptability must have been honed in college for so long. Those young rookies are stronger, and although his upper limit is not as high as other rookies, his lower limit is more stable than them.

Moreover, Tajibson dares to fight and fight hard. Although he does not have many independent offensive means, he is full of passion on the defensive side. Facing all those players who want to take off in the Rockets penalty area, he will take off and try to block the shot no matter whether he can stop him or not. , This is enough for Totoro and the Rockets. Taj Jbson's height is a flaw. Although his official height is 2 meters, people with a discerning eye can tell that he is falsely reporting his height. Totoro, a small forward They are all half a head taller than him. Gibson's actual height is at most 06 meters.

But this is not a big problem. The most important thing for the Rockets inside is height. Yao Ming is 2 meters, Totoro is 26 meters, and Tyson Chandler is 2 meters. The inside height will never be too short. What the Rockets need is his tireless large-scale movement to help defend and supplement defense, and use his passion to infect the whole team.

With the 30th pick, the Chinchillas took Patrick Beverley. In the second round, he selected Danny Green and Dante Cunningham respectively. These players have one characteristic, that is, they lack potential but They are full of combat power. Beverly is a player who has played professional leagues in Europe for several years. Cunningham and Green are both junior players. They have shown to others what kind of players they are. They can't become all-star players, but they are definitely qualified nba ordinary players. This is the most suitable for the Rockets, whose talents are overflowing and aiming for a second consecutive championship this year. After all, I don't have so long to wait for them to realize their talents .

But here comes the problem. The Rockets currently have only one player on the roster, Ty Jipson, as the team's power forward, but the small forward list has become three, and the point guard has also become three. The real balance has not been reached. If Chinchilla moves up a position to play power forward, the team will instantly become balanced, but Chinchilla himself does not want to play the inside position. If he is allowed to play a cameo in a certain inside game It's okay, but he still doesn't want to let him go to the inside to fight with others hand-to-hand. He will give up his easy work of outside three-pointers to do more difficult work when he is mentally disabled.

However, this problem is not very big, because the managers of the major teams did not leave immediately after the draft. Now is a good time to trade. There is no need to send complicated emails to submit proposals. People can talk to each other.

Morey started to act. He stood up and walked to the New York Knicks. Although the Knicks gave their pick to the Rockets, they also exchanged the eighth pick in the first round from other teams. Morey handed his trade proposal to the Knicks general manager Downey. He planned to pack Lowry, who performed well in the finals, with Dante Cunningham, who was selected by the New York Knicks, in exchange for Jordan Hill, who was selected by the New York Knicks. , Downey only hesitated for a while before agreeing to the plan.

Poor Cunningham and Xiaogang Pao, thought they were stable in the championship team, but they were changed from the western city of the United States to the economic metropolis in the east within a few minutes, and the team also changed from the championship level to the economic metropolis in the east. It turned into a salted fish in the lottery every year. This roller coaster experience can be said to have blinded the two of them at once.

But the nba is a business alliance, they will talk about human feelings, but most of them are just for outsiders to see, they will only play emotional cards with superstars, as for other substitutes or even starters, they will not care about your feelings at all , whoever you are with, as long as it is beneficial to the team, even if you are cut off, there will be no hesitation for a minute.

The actions of the Rockets in the summer offseason have also come to an end. If fans who don't pay attention to the Rockets in the summer, they will definitely not be able to resist the team that half of the team has undergone a major reshuffle in the new season.

The current Rockets lineup is:
Center: Yao Ming, Tyson Chandler

Power forwards: Jordan Hill, Taj Gepson

Small forwards: Totoro, Danny Green
Shooting guards: Andre Iguodala, Shane Battier

Point guards: Chris Paul, Patrick Beverley

The Rockets' 12-man roster is not yet full, and there are so many superstars and quasi-All-Stars in the team. The Rockets' salary space is still a long way from triggering the luxury tax, because among the 10 players, only Paul and Yao Ming The contracts are bigger, and Iguodala and Chandler can only be considered middle-class. Totoro and the three rookies this year are all rookie contracts. Sean Battier is still a middle-class exception.

This summer, the Rockets traded all the big premium contracts. Uncle Mu also bought out the team after he got a championship ring, which further released the Rockets’ salary space. The Rockets’ salary is still enough to sign The two veterans with an annual salary of around 300 million will be the safety locks for the playoffs. After that time, the Rockets will completely complete the lineup upgrade work this summer.

At the beginning of the summer league, players of Totoro's level will certainly not join in the fun. He first represented the team at the airport to pick up the arrival of two new players, Paul and Tyson Chandler, and assisted them in settling them in The real estate in Houston, which was supposed to be the little giant who was the leader of the same team, also came to help, but the poor Yao still couldn't escape the claws of the Basketball Association, and he was called back to play by them in summer, and Totoro was also very distressed little giant.

When there is almost no rest in a year, he usually fights for his own honor, and fights for the honor of the country during the offseason, and it is fine if Dayao is allowed to return to the team in the Olympics and World Championships, but it is only for some friendly matches and Asian leagues. Yao Ming went back in person, which was a bit too unreasonable.

In a big way, it is all for the face of the country, but in fact it is all for his own political achievements. Who makes China only rely on Dayao?
Originally, those basketball associations were still preparing to welcome Totoro, but now seeing Yao Ming's second spring and the rise of Space Yi, they seem to think that Totoro is dispensable again. In that way, his face changed every day, and the conditions that he was afraid of making concessions before became harsh again, which made Totoro himself angry.

Their thinking is easy to understand. They want Chinese basketball to become the top player in Asia, but they don’t want to become the top player in the world, because if the Chinese men’s basketball team has reached its peak, what reason will they rely on to be greedy in the future?

My Neighbor Totoro is also slowly dying for the Chinese Basketball Association. People are patient, but those clowns have undoubtedly broken through their own bottom line, so let them slowly become frogs in a well, but Dayao is his friend. Chinchilla gives up on the Chinese Basketball Association, but he will not be cold to the little giant. One thing is one thing. He can take care of Dayao, which is to let him rest more in the regular season.
The summer league is coming to an end soon. The three rookies selected by the Rockets performed well. A pair of rookies composed of Gibson and Jordan Hill ravaged other teams in the summer league. In the league, they averaged 24.4 points, 21.4 rebounds and 6.3 blocks per game, which can be described as shining in the audience. Although another rookie, Beverly, has poor statistics, his mad dog-like biting defense caught everyone's eyes. Yiliang, although his own offense is terrible, but he can defend other guards like him. The most interesting thing is that when he is facing Curry, Jennings and Fulin, these are all The rookie of the lottery, but they were all disgraced by Beverly. Curry was 13 of 4 shots defended by Beverley, and Jennings was 9 of 2 shots defended by Beverley. Among them, Flynn was the most unlucky and was Beverly's defense was 11 for 0, which can be described as a great embarrassment.

And this is only the summer league, but Curry's mentality of being defended by black shells is out of balance, and he almost got into a fight with Beverly on the court, which is also a bit convincing
After the end of the summer league, it was the preseason. Before the free agent market closed, Morey signed Evans, a rebounding idiot, and Francis, the former leader of Houston, who Chinese fans like very much. Sitting on the team, the Rockets' lineup for the new season is finally finalized.

The Rockets' preseason opponents this year are the Kings, Spurs, Shanghai Sharks, Taiwan Bend Team, Raptors, Lakers and Heat. Most of them are Asian games that leave the United States. There are competitions in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. The NBA sends two teams to overseas competitions every year, one to Europe and one to Asia for overseas promotion, and the Lakers have always been the two teams. A frequent visitor to this team, because of the presence of Kobe, the defending champion Rockets have also become one of them.

Totoro has not made his own trip back to China in the past two months, just because he knew that the team will go back to China for a few days, so he prepared to go with the team at that time.

When they came back and packed their luggage, Totoro practiced with the new team a few times, and then they boarded a chartered plane to fly to the other side of the ocean, the big oriental country where their soul was born.

For other team members, China is a strange place, but for Totoro, China is his real hometown and the place where his soul should return to his roots.

The plane flew for dozens of hours and landed at the BJ International Airport in BJ, the capital of China. Totoro got off the plane and came to the check-in hall. A group of people screamed and wanted to rush over to surround Totoro.

Totoro was startled, and the four bodyguards beside him who were as strong as iron towers immediately surrounded Totoro inside. Totoro didn't want to bring bodyguards with him when he went back to his country, but he went back to his hometown. They are all their own people inside and out, wouldn't it be a bit extravagant to bring a bodyguard?
But when he saw a large piece of blackness, the blind fan who lost his mind at a glance, Totoro still felt that Bugay's decision was correct. This Nima is not only passionate, it can be compared with madness Take the side, if I am a little careless, I will be trampled to death by these crazy fans.
Fortunately, the airport has long expected such a situation. Not only the professional security company hired by the Rockets in mainland China, but also the already strengthened security force at the airport, as well as the local public security police, have gathered here. Withstood the fan base like mountains and seas.

The Rockets players quickly passed the check-in hall, and the originally scheduled fan signing session had to be abandoned.

But what the Rockets didn't expect was that the situation outside the airport was more serious than inside the airport. The number of fans entering the airport could be controlled by security, but the number of fans outside the airport was beyond their ability. .

"Wow, look, Team Rocket is here!"

"My Neighbor Totoro! Where is my Totoro? Where is my Totoro!"

"There he is! He's really handsome. He's much more handsome in real life than in photos or on TV!"

"No! Squeeze further, I want to say hello to him at a close distance!"

(End of this chapter)