Healing Basketball

  Chapter 4 4. The Psychological Burden of Thin Melon (For Collection)

   Another upset!

Not many people at the scene understood the name that David Stern pronounced. Liu Xiu was stunned when she heard David Stern pronounce his name in a strange tone. When the spotlight came on 'Baby' stood up.

   Few of the hundreds of New York fans at the scene knew who David Stern was reading at first, but when the spotlight hit Liu Xiu, they knew, and they burst into violent cheers.

   At the moment, it has only been more than two months since Liu Xiu helped Syracuse University win the NCAA Basketball Championship, and he has a certain fan base in New York. The result is so surprising to them, Syracuse University has two lottery picks!

   In terms of unpopularity, the Grizzlies chose Liu Xiu, and the Pistons did not choose Anthony to choose the 17-year-old Darko Milicic.

   But this is the last lottery pick!

   All the members of the Little Green House who have not yet been selected are staring at this position eagerly. They were originally hostile to each other, and they all have the most feared competitors in their hearts, but Liu Xiu is not on the list of competitors that everyone fears.

   Good guy, it turned out that the one they ignored was chosen!

  Why him?

   The lottery rookies who have been selected are also surprised, including the No. 1 pick James, who turned their heads and stared at Liu Xiu.

  James was also guessing with his relatives and friends next to who would be the 13th pick, but he didn't expect it to be this guy.

   Looking at Liu Xiu's unremarkable appearance, in the United States, he is ten centimeters taller than the average height, and his body shape is also the shape of a passerby. Compared with everyone here, he is a fat man...

  Liu Xiu is not completely unknown in this rookie draft, and the matter of squatting with Anthony's group was still 'hot' in the middle of the season.

   In terms of strength, Liu Xiu has some strengths. After all, he is the core of the backline of the championship team, but every year there is the core of the backline of the NCAA basketball championship. How many can enter the NBA? Compared with other members of the small green house who were not selected, Liu Xiu has no advantage.

   is just the face…

  The Nima Grizzlies are selected based on their faces?

   James is a bit of a pain in the ass. Who is selected in the 13th pick has no effect on him, but after a wave of analysis, he came to a conclusion that made him a pain in the ass.

Not to mention others, even Anthony, who was looking forward to Liu Xiu being selected, never thought that Liu Xiu would be selected in this pick. He initially thought that Liu Xiu must be selected in the high pick, but after entering the trial stage, he reluctantly accepted it. It would be nice if Liu Xiu could be selected.

   Anthony deserves to be a person who has always wanted to do big things and become bigger and stronger since he was a child. After being shocked, he got up and put his arms around Liu Xiu's shoulder: "gogogo, brother, you have been selected! The thirteenth pick!"

   Liu Xiu was frightened, not to say it was a bad thing, it was a good thing, but the good thing that fell like a pie today made him dizzy.

   Hearing Anthony's words, Liu Xiucai reacted, stepped forward to take the ball cap handed over by the Grizzlies management, and walked onto the stage.

   The Grizzlies front office wasn't nearly as enthusiastic as the front office's, but no one noticed them.

  David Stern watched Liu Xiu put on a hat and walked on stage, without doing extra things, shaking hands, taking photos, and then leaving the stage.

   Actually, David Stern really wanted to dance a disco at this time! Fortunately, he was a professional, so he held back.

   Another Chinese player in the lottery! Still an outsider!

   Is he optimistic about Liu Xiu's future? No, in his opinion, how Liu Xiu will develop in the future is a matter of the future. Is the future important? It is very important, but the future is accumulated bit by bit now. What he needs now is to promote China's NBA internal and external double stars in China this summer!

   Can create more attention for the new season in China, which is why David Stern is excited.

Moreover, Yao Ming collapsed in the early stage of his rookie season and only played in the middle and late stages, which is also beneficial. Even if Liu Xiu didn't play, this attention can be extended as much as possible. If Liu Xiu played, it would be better, if he didn't play, Also make the most of it.

   As for whether the Grizzlies will waste a lottery pick... David Stern doesn't care anyway.

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   Watching Liu Xiu return to his seat to take a deep breath to adjust his emotions, Anthony is not very good at speaking, but he can say when he wants to congratulate his younger brother when he is bigger and stronger.

   Liu Xiu was selected in the lottery. For Anthony, it was completely unimportant to be selected after falling to the third pick!

  Anthony recalled the past with Liu Xiu.

   Last August, Anthony came to Syracuse from Towson Catholic High School in Baltimore, and he quickly gained two younger brothers with his outstanding virtue.

   But when he just became the boss of a trio, he was thinking about how to become bigger and stronger. The two younger brothers were beaten and asked him for help.

He knew that these two younger brothers fought, robbed, bullied the weak... They could do it all. These two younger brothers only got into Syracuse University by relying on the certain admission quotas that American universities had to give black people, and they couldn't get 100%. Diploma.

When    heard that the other party was a Chinese, Anthony knew what happened.

   The two younger brothers I just accepted wanted to do bad things and were killed.

   But no matter who is right or who is wrong, he has just made his debut at Syracuse University, and his younger brother was beaten. He must find the scene, otherwise how can he become bigger and stronger in the future?

   Then, Anthony and Liu Xiu ushered in the first duel, Anthony did not have the advantage, and he could see that the opponent was able to do it with ease. Judging from Anthony's rich experience, plus two useless younger brothers may not be able to play!

  Anthony didn't work hard, he wanted to become bigger and stronger, and he worked hard for small things... What are you planning?

After    did one, Anthony felt that this was not good. Although he didn't suffer, he didn't get the scene back.

   Fortunately, although he is arrogant and arrogant, he has a brain, and he quickly thought of a way - if the person who beat up his younger brother is his brother, then beating his younger brother is a lesson to the younger brother!

   Rounding up is fine.

   Liu Xiu was very generous and accepted the invitation of Anthony's gang.

  Anthony didn't expect that Liu Xiu already had a certain fierce reputation in the gangster circle of Syracuse University, and ordinary people would not dare to provoke him, but Liu Xiu herself was not a gangster.

   After Liu Xiu joined his small gang, he became bigger and stronger obviously faster.

  Anthony is the star of Syracuse University. When he returned to the team in the new season, Liu Xiu said that he wanted to go to the basketball team. Anthony went directly to the basketball club to recruit Liu Xiu.

   Anthony, a rookie, also put a guy who doesn't look like a high-level amateur basketball player like the NCAA into the team. Jim Boyheim, the coach of the Syracuse University Oranges, did not refuse.

  What kind of person Anthony is, Syracuse University has already investigated it, and some things have to be coaxed.

   There are only a dozen official players on the school team, but there are hundreds of basketball clubs, and it doesn't matter if there is one more. Dissatisfaction with a genius like Anthony is troublesome.

  The college coach has a lot of power, but whether the position is stable or not depends on the team's performance.

And when Jim Boyheim treated Liu Xiu, he also gave some preferential treatment. Seeing that Liu Xiu had the level of an amateur, Jim Boyheim gave Liu Xiu more opportunities to spar with him. Let Anthony see this friend in the team more.

   But one day Jim Boyheim was still chasing Liu Xiu, chasing Jiutiaojie... His daughter was a sophomore at Syracuse University, worked as a club manager in the basketball club, and fell in love with Liu Xiu.

  Although there was no follow-up, Liu Xiu was the one who was favored and did not follow, but Jim Boyheim was still furious for a while.

  In terms of basketball, at the beginning, Liu Xiu was only a sparring player, and his level was very poor in Anthony's view, only the level of an amateur.

   But soon, after a two-month training period, Anthony was surprised.

After getting acquainted with Liu Xiu, Anthony knew that this guy was too lazy to die. Except for the training arranged by the coaching staff, Liu Xiu rarely had private training in the past two months. Regarding the 'hard work' in basketball, he was playing as a sparring partner. In training games, occasionally go to the school open-air court to play dam ball with Anthony, who wants to be in the limelight...

   And just two months later, Liu Xiu actually moved Jim Boyheim with his good performance in the pre-season tryouts, such as being selected on the waiting list!

   Once a defender in the team's official roster is injured or unable to play for other reasons, Liu Xiu will have the opportunity to play as a substitute.

Later, Liu Xiu used the speed of progress that a genius like Anthony was astonished, and became a substitute, a main substitute, a starter... The final NCAA basketball championship final, Syracuse University won that is a joy, Liu Xiu scored 11 points and 10 assists in a single game. With the help, Anthony scored 35 points, breaking the single-game scoring record for a freshman in the final, and leading Syracuse University to slaughter Kansas University 92-71 to win the championship.

   21 points difference, the last time the NCAA finals point difference was bigger than this game, or 30 points in 1990 when Dahua University slaughtered Duke University.

  Liu Xiu was not a member of the school team in his freshman year and sophomore year. He had just received professional basketball training in his junior year and made rapid progress in his junior season... Anthony had become accustomed to it later and recognized Liu Xiu's talent.

   The competition in the division is like a game, and Anthony, who didn't feel the pressure until March Madness, is very clear that college competitions, as long as they are not at the top 64 level in the United States, no matter how strong the division is, they are only amateur-level competitions.

   After one season, Anthony has already concluded that Liu Xiu's rapid progress during the season has nothing to do with Liu Xiu's efforts during the season...

   This guy only plays games and trains in the team during the season, and he is usually lazy and almost never trains!

  Anthony has never seen such a lazy basketball player Liu Xiu, from junior high school to college, has never seen him.

   You can tell by looking at her body shape. Liu Xiu is 188 cm tall and weighs 205 pounds. If calculated by pounds, the height measurement value and the weight measurement value are almost the same! After playing for a season, I have gained a few pounds.

   Anthony, who has a big brother mentality, naturally has to think about his brother.

  Anthony is sure that if he is not on the Orange, even if Hakim Warrick, a core inside teammate, is selected to stay in school because he has no confidence, plus Liu Xiu, it will be difficult to make it to March Madness.

   And Liu Xiu's progress in the knockout stage in March, Anthony obviously feels that the competition is faster in the competition area!

   Originally, Anthony was invincible in his freshman year. After winning the championship, he had no nostalgia for college. He had already decided to participate in the draft in advance. He analyzed a wave with his wise brain and decided to take Liu Xiu to the NBA together.

   Anthony has long understood that although Liu Xiu's family is not poor, it is not easy for his parents to support him to study in the United States. He has relatives working in the United States, but at most it is a middle-class family.

As the eldest brother, although Liu Xiu is older than him, and Liu Xiu never accepts being a younger brother, Anthony is also thinking about Liu Xiu. Since Liu Xiu has a talent for playing basketball, he has to dig it out... In this world There are many opportunities to be rich, but for both of them, playing in the NBA is the best chance to be rich!

The key point is that they just won the championship. The news Anthony heard and saw about their team was all touted. In his opinion, this year is the best year for Liu Xiu University's data + team record. Likely to be picked high.

From Anthony's point of view, Liu Xiu's lazy character, and he didn't play more intense games in his senior year, may have made little progress, and the Orange People's record next season is definitely not guaranteed... After thinking about it for a few days, Anthony pulled the trigger. With Liu Xiu, he signed an agent and signed up for the draft together.

  It's just that Anthony was dumbfounded when it came to the trial training stage.

   Liu Xiuman performed very well in March Madness after he was 21 years old, but at the age of 21, a player who can enter the NBA, at this age, his performance is basically no worse than this.

   In addition, he is said to be lazy and has a school gang background…

   Therefore, it is contradictory to say that people are contradictory. Liu Xiu has a draft market, and it was only when he was 20 years old that he officially accepted systematic basketball training.

   As a result, Liu Xiu got a very strange draft expectation-the middle of the first round to the loss.

   It is not ruled out that some teams will fight.

   It does not even rule out that there are teams who want to take a shot at Liu Xiu but are worried that the too late pick will be selected with a higher pick.

   But the probability of the second scenario, based on what Anthony has learned, is no higher than the probability that he will become the No. 1 pick in the context of the Cavaliers drawing the No. 1 pick.

Therefore, after Anthony fell to the third pick to go to the Nuggets, he was ready. As long as no team wanted Liu Xiu, or Liu Xiu was abandoned by other teams in the future, he would also want the Nuggets to be the tyrant. Sign Liu Xiu.

   Who knew that Liu Xiu was actually selected in the 13th pick! A bit higher than the expected mid-first round!

   Now, Anthony's burden is completely relieved!

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   (end of this chapter)