Chapter 17: Team Confrontation (Part 1)

"Are you that rookie?" Mike Brown stared at Zhang Kong and looked up and down. To be honest, he almost forgot that the team had such a second-round final show. There is no other reason. The second-round final show is too unfavorable. Even a first-round final show is not forgotten by the head coach, but the second-round... Although there have been some second-round picks over the years in the NBA, they are mostly at the forefront of the second-round. As for the end of the second-round, that's really awesome...

Perhaps they can be lucky enough to enter the NBA, get a one-year unsecured contract or just a ten-day short-term contract. When the contract period reaches, if necessary, they may get a new contract to stay in the NBA and at least earn money to support their families. But if they are laid off, it proves that they cannot gain a foothold in the NBA and end up playing in the Development League, and even stay away from basketball from then on.

Second-round picks, more than 80% of second-round picks, eventually left the NBA in this unlucky way. They either spent their lives in an ordinary way, or accidentally entered the black street and traveled back and forth in prison.

In this case, Zhang Kong's final show in the second round naturally could not attract too much attention. It was reasonable that Mike Brown almost forgot him.

Mike Brown, who taught by Vicky, actually has considerable requirements for the team's discipline. Although Zhang Kong's belated behavior is in line with the rules, it still makes Mike Brown quite unhappy. Of course, my king James is an exception. Don't forget that the identity of Mike Brown's head coach is only a part-time job, and his main job is my king's nanny.

But it's not that bad. From the perspective of rules, Zhang Kong did not violate the rules. This is equivalent to his behavior of giving up his qualification for the summer league. It is only related to the players themselves, and it does not have much impact on others. However, what makes Coach Brown the most dissatisfied is that he doesn't know that Zhang Kong has signed the contract. This behavior of bypassing him makes Mr. Mike Brown feel that his rights have been questioned.

"Okay, then let's do it first, change your clothes and shoes, and play a team match first."

"Okay!" Zhang Kong nodded, then went to the locker room to change his clothes. After changing his clothes and shoes, he got the yellow vest representing the substitute. Obviously, in the next match, he must be assigned to the substitute lineup.

At this time, the main lineup has been decided.

Center: Ilgoskas, referred to as Big Z, comes from Lithuanian's seven-foot-three-inch giant, a typical European center template. Although it moves slowly, it is very threatening on the defensive end with its tall figure and rich game experience, and it mainly relies on projection ability on the offensive end.

However... the seven-foot-three-inch Ilgoskas jump shot? There are not many people who can block it. Although he has gradually stopped jumping recently.

Power forward: Drew Gooden, a typical American center, an inside defensive player, who is more offensive than the basket in the offensive field. He has no offensive ability after leaving the three-second zone. He is not strong in fighting for offensive rebounds, but he is very good at blocking and protecting defensive rebounds.

Small forward: Of course it's LeBron - My Emperor - James. Unless Mike Brown's brain is burned into charcoal by aliens, he will never remove James from the starting lineup.

Scoring guard: steal king Larry Hughes.

As for point guard, Mike Brown hesitated for a while and finally chose Damon Jones. Compared with the rookie, he finally chose to trust the veteran. If nothing unexpected happens, this lineup will be the starting lineup of the Cavaliers in the new season, and this is already the strongest lineup that Mike Brown can rank.

As a substitute for the sparring team

Center, I don’t know what purpose Mike Brown arranged for Zhang Kong to be the substitute center.

Power Forward: Dwyane Jones

Small Forward: Twenty-three-year-old forward swaying man Hassan Adams

Devin Brown and Shannon Brown formed the Brown duo on the back.

During the kickoff, Zhang Kong and Ilgoskas stood in the middle circle together.

"Little guy, be careful later." Ilgoskas whispered to Zhang Kong: "You made Coach Mike angry."

"Hmm?" Zhang Kong was stunned for a moment, looked up at the sidelines. At this moment, Mike Brown was looking at Zhang Kong. He noticed Zhang Kong's gaze and immediately turned his head away. At the same time, he couldn't help but curse. He knew that Ilgoskas must have betrayed him.

Seeing Mike Brown's performance, Zhang Kong smiled indifferently: "What if he doesn't matter, it's just a mascot."

Zhang Kong's indifferent performance made Ilgoskas stunned for a moment. He had seen a confident rookie, but he was still so confident in the end of the second round. To be honest, I have never seen anyone in Ilgoskas' basketball career.

For a moment, Irgoskas couldn't help but become a little curious about Zhang Kong and also had some favorable feelings. As young people, there are infinite possibilities in the future. If they were a timid guy without confidence, they would probably not have achieved much.

Ilgoskas has been playing in the Cavaliers for nine years and initially played basketball in Lithuania for several years. Now he is thirty-two years old and is becoming more and more accustomed to seeing the young rookies with the eyes of an old guy. Seeing Zhang Kong's confident look, he couldn't help but smile and then stopped saying anything else.

At the beginning of the jump ball, although Ilgoskas was a few centimeters taller than Zhang Kong, his jump was really sad. Many knee surgeries had already made his jump infinitely close to zero. Zhang Kong just jumped lightly and pushed the basketball to his side.

Ilgoskas doesn't care. He didn't win the jump last year. He was even more miserable than Yao Ming when it comes to jumping. Yao Ming can win twice occasionally, but he can't win once.

Shannon Brown received the basketball and immediately started the motor and rushed towards the Cavaliers' inside line regardless of the ball. Because it was the kick-off, and in the training game, the Cavaliers' defense was broken by Shannon Brown before it was established. After rushing into the penalty area, a big windmill dunk scored two points.

"Fuck, I'm jumping so high." Zhang Kong's eyes changed a little when he looked at Shannon Brown. This guy's physical fitness was really good. He was once a violent detonator who was as famous as LeBron and James in high school. His physical fitness was definitely at the top level.

Now, LeBron James is gradually becoming a superstar, but he is a substitute who sometimes cannot even play the ball. The two are still on the same team... I have to say that IQ is really important.

He was sent a slam dunk at the beginning, but the main team had no expression. After serving again, Damon Jones controlled the ball and advanced all the way. At this half, Damon Jones drove the ball a few times, but did not hand the ball to LeBron James. Instead, he passed it directly to Drew Gooden, who reached out to ask for the ball.

Drew Guden is the one Mike Brown chose to teach Zhang Kong a lesson.

The best choice is of course LeBron James, but Mike Brown doesn't have the courage to arrange for his "boss" to do such things.

Mike Brown originally wanted Ilgoskas to suppress Zhang Kong. After all, Ilgoskas is the center of the regular Indian team, and the two of them are just in the match.

Ilgoskas is kind-hearted and doesn't like fighting. Although he respects himself as a head coach, he also ignores him. He doesn't want to do it. Even if he does it, with his personality, at most he can just perfunctory Mike Brown Ilgoskas is not the kind of person who likes to oppress newcomers.

Mike Brown thought about it and felt it was difficult for him to touch Ilgoskas, so he finally found Drew Gooden.

In Mike Brown's opinion, it was a bit of a waste to teach a lesson to a second-round final show, using Drew Gooden. He just called an inside from the bench. Who can't bully him? Anyway, it's just a second-round final show.

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Chapter completed!