basketball task

Chapter 6: Training the Rockets
Chen Jianghua is hopeless, Yi Jianlian?Sun Yue, Qian Ning thought about it and dialed Yao Ming directly.

Ah Lian and Sun Yue are also rookies this year. Now they are probably running back and forth for trial training. It is inconvenient to disturb them. Yao Ming is better. There is nothing wrong with them.

Communicating with Yao Ming was much easier than expected. As expected of Yao Ming, Yao Ming has a cheerful personality, high EQ, and is very enthusiastic. Hearing that Chen Ning will also participate in the draft, he is very supportive and willing to help find an agent. After all All NBA agents have professional agent certificates, and they are very familiar with contract amounts, taxes, and laws. Some big-name agents can also use their personal connections and their players' connections to make the rookie player's NBA journey smoother and unimpeded. .

"As far as I know, the UAE has just signed an agent, Dan Fagan, who is very shrewd and good at using various methods to maximize the interests of the players, but sometimes the methods are too extreme and have a bad effect."

The Dan Feigen Channing mentioned by Yao Ming also knows that in order to get big contracts for players, he will do whatever it takes. The more famous one once helped Parsons slap the Rockets hard, and dragged Wall to keep him from signing sneakers. The contract, it is estimated that after a while, he should hint that the United Arab Emirates will not go to the Bucks because of its big name.

Such an agent values ​​too much money and interests, and is short-sighted, unable to see the long-term benefits. He doesn't know when he will be tricked by him. The worst thing is that he easily ruins his own signboard, and Qian Ning is unwilling to sign.

In fact, Yao Ming's partner, Bill Duffy, is not bad. He is well-known in the industry, has good business ability, and is decent and sincere. It is quite safe to deal with such a person.

However, Duffy is very famous. He is already Nash's agent and has always been in a cooperative relationship with the Yao team. Such a gold medal agent will also have high requirements for players. An unknown player like Channing must not be able to see it. Yao Ming should have thought of this, so he didn't have the nerve to mention Duffy.

In the end, after Yao Ming consulted Duffy, Channing successfully signed the agent contract. The other party was John Hamilton, who was recommended by Bill Duffy.

Putting down the phone, Yao Ming heaved a sigh of relief. As the best big brother in the NBA, he was always called by various calls to ask for experience and build relationships, which made him quite helpless. But as a rare Chinese in the NBA Yao Ming sincerely hopes that more and more compatriots can come here, at least he can have a friend who can speak Chinese with confidence.

"A Lian, Sun Yue, Qian Ning, hurry up, one is short of three!"

Yao Ming smiled, thought again, and dialed the phone again.

……

Houston, Toyota Center.

Today is the group trial training day of the Rockets, and it is also the first trial training invitation that Channing has received.

Arriving at the arena early, Channing began to warm up diligently. When the coaching staff entered the field, he was fully active. Channing is confident that he can show his ability in today's confrontation match. The big man with 2.07, excellent Running and jumping ability, good inside defense, are his business cards, and also the foundation of Channing's impact on the NBA.

There were a dozen or so players present. In the crowd, Channing recognized a little black guard at a glance. He was in his early 1.8 years, dark and thin. A player who is very likely to be selected in the first round.Acquaintances are easy to talk to, but Channing tried to strike up a conversation, but was ignored. . .Well, the prospective first-round pick is aligned with the undrafted pick, so arrogant, Chan Ning rolled his eyes, not as knowledgeable as her.

After the head coach Adelman finished his speech, the trial training began. The match was divided into two parts. First, the coaching staff tested the interested players individually, asking them to run, jump, shoot blue, and dribble. Take two laps to see their strengths and strengths and weaknesses. These players are basically not well-known. The team has some interest in them, but they don't know enough about their characteristics, so they seized the opportunity to invite them to come over for field inspections. The team led by Brooks Four or five players will not participate in this, because Adelman likes this little black bean very much. The Rockets have basically decided to select him in the first round.

The tester for Channing was an unsmiling white man. With a sullen face, he asked Channing to go out and shoot a few three-pointers. Channing could only bite the bullet and made 20 of 3 shots. Channing quickly explained that he was an inside player. The ball distribution is still under development, and I don't know if the coach has listened to it.

Then came the shooting again. Chan Ning's performance in the middle distance of each position was also very average. Since he has been gaining weight and improving confrontation recently, his touch has been completely lost.

After the shot was over, no one paid attention to him. Channing sat on the bench and felt terrible. Adelman is a coach he knows quite well. He likes offense and has no sense of defense. He coached the Kings in 2001-2002 and brought With the most offensively talented big man Chris Webber, as well as White Chocolate, Mike Bibby and others, they played a gorgeous Princeton system. The brilliant offensive performance fascinated the fans, and also made Adelman deeply involved .Newly joined the Rockets, Adelman will definitely improve the offense, and give priority to those guys who can shoot and pass. Players like Channing who rely on interior defense have a high probability of not being able to deal with Adelman.

Sure enough, Channing was put on the bench from the beginning to the end of the entire match and did not get a second of playing time. Aaron Brooks became the most shining star, his speed and shooting shined.

"Let me play, it will definitely limit his performance!"

Channing tried hard to win, but was ignored once again.The players present are full of famous names. There are many top high school students in various states, NCAA marksmen and so on. Nobody like Chan Ning is valued at all. Chan Ning even thinks that if it is not for Yao Ming's For the sake of face, he will never have the chance to come in.The trial training ended quickly, and Channing's opportunity slipped away.

Walking out of the training hall in disgrace, Xiaohua and Xiaoxin got impatient for waiting outside. When they learned that they didn't get a chance to play for 1 minute, the three of them became angry and scolded the Rockets for being blind and the NBA didn't want to wait.

This video was taken by Xiaoxin and uploaded to Qian Ning's Chinese website, where it got heated discussions among netizens.

"Running to find food on other people's land is stealing other people's jobs. It must not be easy!"

"Yeah, I used to blackmail him for hype, but now it seems that I really want to play in the NBA!"

"With this courage, Channing will be a fan for life!"

……

The short-term loss did not dampen Channing's confidence, and he continued to train hard day after day, while making several calls to his agent every day.

(End of this chapter)