Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 7: Who You Are

Chandler didn’t respond to the taunt, he was still thinking back to Li Wan’s fast-break dunk just now.

Before the draft, he fought against Li Wan at the New York Knicks’ trial camp, and he shouldn’t have such physical fitness!

Phil Handy was also slightly stunned, and immediately found Li Wan’s physical test data. This is what Li Wan left over from the Lakers’ tryout on June 14.

In just about 1 month, his physical fitness has improved significantly?

In fact, Li Wan has not focused on improving his physical fitness.

The reason why he seems to be better athletic than he was originally is because of his longer and more resilient Achilles tendon.

A more powerful “engine” can naturally start faster.

Chandler’s physical fitness is also at the upper middle level of the league, and it is normal not to catch up with him.

As for the bounce height…

Li Wan’s height of 2.02 meters is already taller than Chandler, coupled with his excellent reach, it is easy to misunderstand that he can actually jump so high.

Nate Robinson himself played one with the ball, faster breakthrough speed and stronger body, although only 1.75 meters tall, he forced the right position, playing like the number one “LeBron James”.

Now that he plays this level of competition, it is really not challenging.

He shouldn’t have come either…

Nate Robinson, a rookie in ’05, came off the bench for the Knicks last season, averaging 10.1 points per game. At the beginning of the new season, he is a third-grader.

In the summer league, most of them are the fringes of the league and the draft losers.

He is here, a bit of a “father beats son” feeling.

Offensive and defensive conversion, Li Wan still took the ball in the backfield, dribbled through the half, and Chandler looked at him no longer contemptuously at the beginning.

After experiencing the attack and defense at the beginning of the game, he could clearly feel that Li Wan had grown a lot.

Is this the benefit of entering the league at 19?

Growing so fast…

In the past month, Chandler has not practiced less, but the 21-year-old has basically formed his physical condition, and his playing style has gradually been set, and after a month of practice, he does not feel any change in himself.

Li Wan’s progress made him a little jealous, there was still 1 and a half months before the start of the new season, and the devil knows how much stronger he would become when the new season met.

Chandler, who showed a tough defensive attitude, made Li Wan’s dribbling a little difficult.

However, he still protected the ball well and waited for his teammates to pick it up.

Judging from his ball handling performance in this round, Phil Handy is somewhat convinced that his ball holding level has indeed improved, although it has not reached the point of proficiency, but Li Wan could not hold the ball at all a month ago.

That’s really fast enough.

If he knew that Li Wan had raised his dribbling to this level in half a month, he would only be surprised.

“Bang! ”

The ball left Li Wan’s hand and never came back, this is the summer league.

The Lakers’ offense in this round ended with iron.

“Little Potato” looked for opportunities to give Chandler the ball, but Levan was very clever enough to grab the position early and prevent Nate Robinson from having an easy pass.

Nate, who tried unsuccessfully, attacked on his own, and once again hit the basket by himself, picking the basket to score.

Compared to the pass just now, he is much more decisive in attacking with the ball. He originally belonged to the master of chaotic war, and the organization of the attack that allowed him to take a look at it belonged to Deng Chao making his own movie. – scrapped.

Chandler followed Li Wan’s appearance and tried to grab the position in advance and prevent the Lakers from passing the ball to him, and Li Wan, who noticed this, pretended to be close to Marcus who was holding the ball, but while reaching for the ball, he quickly ran to the basket without the ball. Chandler grabbed the position early and was thrown away. By the time he caught up again, Li Wan had already received the ball and shot.

Cic……

That’s definitely gone!

Chandler was confident and ready to grab the rebound.

Unexpectedly, the ball fell into the net and scored very crisply.

In, in?

Chandler looked at Li Wan, who had once again incarnated as the “Crooked Mouth Dragon King”, and couldn’t believe it. Phil Handy was still holding Li Wan’s scouting report and saw Li Wan throw into the middle distance, revealing the expression of his grandfather looking at his mobile phone.

– Lack of scoring means, lack of stability in mid- and long-range projections on the outside.

This doesn’t vote…

Pretty good!

While Phil Handy watched the scouting report, Li Wan played another offense, still the same catch-and-shoot, and the ball once again got into the basket.

Who are you!

Chandler was tempted to ask.

Better physicality, dribble, and mid-range shots…

Is this still that Li Wan?

What a change!

Phil Handy threw the scouting report to the staff next to him, at least in this game, this report on Li Wan is inaccurate.

Can burst and throw, and explosive power…

Chandler was a little more hesitant when defending Li Wan.

Li Wan, who played “Wolf”, decisively called the left side to block, but when his teammates came up, he did not go that side, but from the right side, holding the ball and entering.

In the confrontation, he puts the basket into the frame.

6 points in a row!

At this time, there is still more than 1 minute before the end of the first quarter…

Maybe it sounds like six straight points isn’t crazy, especially since it’s still the summer league stage.

But when this happened to Li Wan, a guy who averaged 6.6 points per game in the NCAA06~07 season, it was somewhat incredible. Summer League is undoubtedly more intense than the NCAA.

Moreover, the person defending him is Chandler, a 21-year-old rookie with a very good combat ability.

Being able to play such a performance in the more intense summer league only shows that Li Wan has improved.

In fact, he did improve.

Phil Handy stood on the sidelines and could already say at least 3 things about the changes in Lee.

Li Wan, who opened up on the offensive end, continued his form and scored another six points in the second quarter.

At half-time, he had 12 points.

In contrast, Chandler, who is characterized by immediate combat power, only scored 5 points in the first half. Not even half of him.

It’s just that in the fourth quarter of the game, Li Wan’s scoring efficiency became lower due to physical fitness, and the frequency of mistakes became higher. By the end of the game, he had 18 points on 8-of-19 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws, in addition to four rebounds, four assists, five fouls and five turnovers.

The Lakers also lost to the New York Knicks 86-95.

Nate Robinson “Little Potato” scored a game-high 24 points, and he really “quacked” on this stage. If Li Wan remembers correctly, he was also the final MVP of this summer league.

Chandler, who won the ball, was not happy, and left with his head stuffed as soon as the game ended.

At the end of the game, he barely scored a double-double, scoring 10 points, but his shooting percentage was an ugly 3-of-10 shooting, plus six fouls and seven turnovers.

He didn’t look like a 21-year-old NCAA junior, but rather a “four-star” high school student who had just graduated from high school.

Before entering the passage, he secretly looked for Li Wan’s figure, wanting to say something cruel to him in his heart, but when the two looked at each other, Li Wan had already turned into a “crooked-mouthed dragon king”, like a smile with one hand on his waist, waiting for him to turn his head!

Chandler was like seeing a cat’s rat, and his steps to leave the arena were a little faster.

Thanks to Zhu Miao for the 500 coins.

Thanks to the 588 coins rewarded by Tim of the Book City.

(End of chapter)

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