NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Zhang Jinshui and his group returned to the basketball court along the corridor, only to find that the court that had gathered a lot of people just now became empty again, only two staff members were left waiting for them on the sidelines.

One of the staff members politely invited Zhao Min'er and Chen Fei to the leisure area on the third floor. They were reporters from Huaguo Wutai and were not eligible to participate in the final meeting between Zhang Jinshui and the Rockets.

Another staff member led Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin to the viewing room on the fifth floor.

After Zhang Jinshui walked in, he found that the viewing room was very large. There was a long white wooden table more than three meters by eight meters in the center, surrounded by at least 20 chairs. On the white wall, there is a huge projection screen.

Dawson and Van Gundy were already in the spectator room. Seeing Zhang Jinshui, they greeted him together.

Van Gundy took the initiative to extend his hand to Zhang Jinshui and said, "Hello, Zhang Jinshui, I'm Van Gundy. I was busy with trial training on the court just now, and I didn't come to say hello to you. I hope you don't mind."

"How could it be!" Zhang Jinshui hurriedly replied, he could finally talk face to face with Van Gundy himself, whom he had admired for a long time. .”

In the last life, Rockets fans had mixed reviews of Van Gundy.

Many people complained that Van Gundy put Yao Ming on the inside to play a traditional big center, wasting his soft touch on the outside, and even attributed Yao Ming's premature retirement to Van Gundy's overuse of him. They complained about Van Gundy .

But Zhang Jinshui didn't see it that way. He felt that it was Van Gundy who built Yao Ming into the cornerstone of the Rockets' team, and after Yao Ming stepped into the paint, he gradually grew into the most dominant big center in the NBA. From this point of view , Van Gundy had no problem at all with Yao Ming on the inside.

In short, Zhang Jinshui has always admired Van Gundy.

"This is our viewing room. During the season, before almost every home training, Coach Van Gundy will call all the players to sit in this room for 10 minutes to deconstruct the opponent's tactical system."

Dawson on the side introduced with a smile, and pointed to a huge armchair and said to Zhang Jinshui:

"This chair is specially made for Yao Ming. Many Rockets players like to compete with Yao Ming. If you are interested, you can sit on it and feel the sense of space in this chair."

Of course Zhang Jinshui was very interested, so he walked over and sat down immediately, and found that the chair was indeed very spacious, and it was estimated that Zi Chunlin would be able to accommodate it if he came to sit with him.

"Miss Zi, come and sit down too, let's talk about the trial training just now." Dawson pointed to the chair next to Zhang Jinshui and said to Zi Chunlin.

He and Van Gundy sat on the other side of the table corner.

After the four were all seated, Dawson said: "First of all, thank you very much for coming to our team's trial training, which gave us the opportunity to get to know you better. Next, let Coach Van Gundy speak."

Van Gundy coughed lightly, then cut to the chase:

"Zhang Jinshui, congratulations, your performance in today's trial training is very good.

Our Rockets are very willing to use the 24th pick in our hands to draft you. "

"What?" Zhang Jinshui couldn't believe his ears, and turned to look at Dawson.

In his original expectation, the final meeting after this trial training should waste a lot of saliva on politeness and discussing the performance of the trial training, and then talk about the draft in a roundabout way.

He never thought that Van Gundy's speech was so direct.

However, in his heart, he admired Van Gundy's style.

Seeing Dawson nodding with a smile, Zhang Jinshui looked back at Van Gundy.

"Our Rockets are very willing to use the 24th pick in our hands to take you." Van Gundy repeated again, and then said:

"Judging from this trial training, your three-point shooting and breakthrough with the ball are very good, even in the NBA, it is at the top level.

However, you also have many obvious shortcomings. For example, your physical fitness is very average, your passing is very poor, and your defense may be able to cope with some weak teams in the regular season, but in the playoffs, it is very difficult. Could be a liability to the team.

Since your three-pointers and breakthroughs are what our Rockets urgently need, if you can become a member of our Rockets, I will directly let you enter the rotation, and I will specially help you design tactics to maximize the lethality of your offense change.

As for your shortcomings, I will ask the team to hire someone to help you make up for them bit by bit.

Of course, the premise is that you agree with these views of mine. "

"I agree very much." Zhang Jinshui said sincerely: "Passing and defense are indeed my biggest shortcomings, and I have been feeling recently that how much I can achieve in the NBA in the future may not depend on my three-pointers and three-pointers. The breakthrough, instead, depends on my passing and defense."

"It's very good that you have such an understanding." Van Gundy nodded in relief.

At this moment, Dawson interrupted the communication between the two in a timely manner, and said to Zhang Jinshui: "Before Coach Van Gundy imagines what you should do after joining the Rockets. We still have to solve a very difficult problem.

As Coach Van Gundy said, we'd love to draft you.

However, we only have one No. 24 pick, and your strength is at least worthy of a lottery pick.

So, we have a presumptuous proposal, and I hope you don't mind. "

"What proposal?" Zhang Jinshui asked.

"We can promise you now that we will definitely select you at No. 24 and will apply for the small green room qualifications to the league for you.

And you, you need to use the reason of injury to reject all the next trial training arrangements, and hide your true strength from the outside world before the draft. "

"Ring ring ring." At this moment, the phone on the table rang.

Dawson held the phone in his hand and didn't rush to put it to his ear, but then said to Zhang Jinshui:

"The advantage of accepting our offer is that you can immediately release yourself from the high-pressure atmosphere of the workout and prepare early for your upcoming NBA career.

The downside is that you have to hide your strength and thus lose the lottery pick.

We understand this is a difficult decision, and we will give you and your agent ample time to discuss it.

But before discussing, we hope you can take a call first. "

Dawson handed the phone directly to Zhang Jinshui.

Zhang Jinshui vaguely guessed something, his heart started beating violently, he took the phone and put it next to his ear, trying not to tremble in his voice: "Hi, hello."

"Hello, Zhang Jinshui, I'm Yao Ming." A deep and hoarse voice came from the other end of the microphone: "I hope you can hear me clearly, it's only three o'clock in the morning here in Huaguo, and I'm sleeping soundly , but was woken up by that crazy old man Dawson."

"Hello, Yao Ming, it's a pleasure to talk with you on the phone. I've always been your loyal fan." Zhang Jinshui said, trying to suppress the excitement in his heart.

"It's an honor. I haven't met you yet, but just now Dawson and Van Gundy told me a lot about you, your three-pointers, your breakthrough...

Now, not only them, but I also think you are the one our Rockets need most.

I want to invite you to join the Rockets and fight side by side with me. Are you willing to seriously consider it? "

Zhang Jinshui thought for a while and said, "Can you give me a minute?"

"No problem at all."

Zhang Jinshui covered the microphone with his hand, turned around and approached Zi Chunlin's pretty face, and asked solemnly: "Sister Chunlin, Yao Ming invited me to join the Rockets. I really want to agree to him. Do you agree?"