king of defenders

Chapter 350 Orlando Summer League

Under the leadership of Meng Yun, the red team further expanded the point difference, and soon led the white team by nearly [-] points.

In fact, the game is not very important. The important thing is to run the lineup and let the players get familiar with it as soon as possible.And this process was unexpectedly smooth, at least for the red team. Under the leadership of Meng Yun, the red team already had the appearance of a team. The players were willing to share the ball and played brilliantly.

The white team will be much inferior.

"We lack a core here. It's hard to bring the players together and just fight on their own." Assistant coach Ron Rostern shook his head and sighed, walked to McAdoo, and said: "There is no doubt about Meng's ability. Definitely enough to be the core of the team. I suggest using Meng as the core in the summer league, what do you think?"

"Hehe, I also have this idea." McAdoo laughed.

The summer league does not require a head coach to lead the team, usually an assistant coach leads the team. The team's lineup and tactics are discussed by the assistant coaches.

In fact, as long as McAdoo and Rostern nod, there is basically no problem. Dan Craig will definitely not object. Another assistant coach David Fizdale will not be involved in the Orlando Summer League because of his personal affairs. join.

On the field, it's still going on.
After the second quarter, McAdoo called Meng Yun to his side and said: "Meng, you did a good job, I am very satisfied. But I hope you can do better, lead the players, so that they can also play very good."

Meng Yun frowned, and hurriedly said, "Yes, coach."

The following third and fourth quarters are pure training, and the lineup is fine-tuned.

This training game has two meanings, one is to observe the players and understand the players; the other is to run the lineup.

The first goal has basically been achieved in the first and second quarters. Both McAdoo and Rostern have some understanding of their players.Then the third and fourth quarters are about running in the lineup.

McAdoo and Rostern began to consciously adjust the lineup, frequently rotated personnel, and tried to find the best combination of personnel.

In the end, the game ended, and the red team defeated the white team.

Of course, the result is not that important, and the score is not important. McAdoo looked at Meng Yun and others, and did not mention the score at all. Instead, he said: "You have to make a good summary and see what you did in this game." Well, what is not doing well. Then correct and improve yourself.”

"Yes." Everyone responded in unison.

Then everyone disbanded, and today's training came to an end.

Zoran Dragic and Henry Walker left the arena together. The two have a good relationship in private, so they sided at the beginning of the day.

"Walker." Zoran thought for a while, and persuaded: "You didn't want to fight against Meng. You should have seen that he will become the core, at least in the summer league stage. Confronting him will not do you any good. .” It was because he wanted to understand this point that Zuo Lan made a change and stopped being hostile to Meng Yun.

As a friend, he felt that Walker should be persuaded.

Walker stopped, gave Zoran a cold look, and said angrily: "Zoran Dragic, can I understand that you are making excuses for your betrayal?"

"Betrayal?" Zoran's face changed: "I didn't betray, and I can't talk about betrayal. We have no grievances with Meng, don't we? Walker, I just want to give you a kind suggestion, because we are friends."

"I'm not friends with you. I won't be friends with a traitor like you, put away your so-called "well-meaning advice", I don't need it." Walker said angrily, turned and left.

Watching Walker go away, Zoran sighed helplessly.

For the next two days, the Heat were in intense training.

On the first day, Meng Yun fought and pulled a gang to neutralize the prestige of the team, and the NBA is a place where "strength speaks for itself". Meng Yun's strength is strong enough, so no one would dare to mess with him easily.

Of course there are exceptions, such as Walker.

Walker still has a lot of hostility towards Meng Yun. If the two are on the court at the same time, Walker will never pass the ball to Meng Yun.

Seeing this situation, McAdoo discussed a few times, and simply refused to let Walker and Meng Yun be on the court at the same time.However, because Meng Yun has a lot of playing time, Walker has to avoid Meng Yun and share playing time with other players, so Walker's playing time is not much, only a few minutes.

This made Walker very upset, but helpless.

From July 7st to July 1rd, in addition to routine training, the Heat used confrontation training, mainly to run in the lineup. McAdoo, Craig, and Rostern were constantly adjusting the lineup until the first It took three days to fix the lineup. The starting lineup included Joshua Smith, Greg Whittington, James Ennis, Taylor Johnson and Meng Yun.

At the same time, the team also finalized the summer league roster, a total of 18 people, including Bradford Burgess (Bradford Burgess), Zoran Dragic, James Ennis, Jr. Juwan Howard, Kenny Carroll, Tyler Johnson, Tyler Kalinowski, Rodney McGruder, Shabazz Napier, Gabriel Olaseni ), Willie Green, Meng Yun, Joshua Smith, Travis Trice, Seth Tuttle, Henry Walker, Greg Whittington and Joseph Young.

On July 7, after training, the Heat players and the coaching staff boarded the plane together and flew to Orlando, preparing to participate in the Orlando Summer League.

The crowd arrived in Orlando and rested overnight, and they ushered in their first game the next day.

A total of 10 teams participated in the Orlando Summer League, namely: Magic (blue team, white team), Nets, Hornets, Pistons, Pacers, Clippers, Grizzlies, Heat and Thunder.

The time of the game is from July 7th to July 4th. The points system is adopted, and the points are scored based on the outcome of the game. On the last day, the matchup is based on the points ranking. 7th, 10th vs 1th, 2th vs 3th, 4th vs 5th, the winner between 6st and 7nd will be the champion.

July 7th is the first day of the Orlando Summer League. There are 4 games in total, namely the Heat vs. Pacers, Pistons vs. Magic White, Magic Blue vs. Clippers, Hornets vs. Thunder, and Grizzlies vs. Nets.

At 8:[-] in the morning, near the start of the game,

There were a lot of people in the auditorium. Although it was not as popular as the regular season, there were so many people, but it was not too small. Many people wore Heat jerseys or Pacers jerseys to cheer for their favorite teams. .

Many reporters also came to the media area, among them was TJ Watson. Two days ago, his interview with Meng Yun was published, announcing that he had returned to the United States.Today can be said to be Meng Yun's NBA debut. Although it is only the summer league, it is also very meaningful. TJ-Watson will never be absent.

In addition, Penguin sports reporter Wang Yue also arrived.

Seeing the Pacers players coming out, there was a burst of cheers. TJ and Wang Yue cheered up, not because of the Pacers, but because the Heat players were about to come out.

"Here we come." Wang Yue's eyes lit up and he held up the camera.

TJ also held up the camera, waiting for Meng Yun to arrive.

Hot club players filed out one by one, Tyler Johnson, Juwan Howard Jr., James Ennis, Zoran Dragic, a dozen people came, and the audience cheered.

But soon the cheers disappeared, and the fans looked at the player tunnel and stood there in a daze.

TJ and Wang Yue were also stunned. The Heat players all came out, but it seemed that someone was missing. Where is Meng Yun?Why didn't I see Meng Yun, where did he go?

(End of this chapter)