Chapter 21 Wildflowers Bloom

Kevin Durant is working on a three-pointer at the Oklahoma City Thunder's practice facility.

Swish, a hollow into the net.

"Listen, Kevin, if you can maintain such diligence, I believe you will become a superstar." For Durant, Presti has nothing but admiration.

His actual height has grown to 208 cm since he came to the NBA, but his bone age test shows that his height will continue to grow.

He has movement beyond this height and a long wingspan. Although Durant's frame determines that he is not destined to be as strong as LeBron James, Durant's bench press results prove that he is not afraid of confrontation.

The most important thing is that Durant has practiced very hard, and his mid-range shooting rate this season is significantly higher than last season.

"But you also need a proper rest. There is an interesting live broadcast today, see?" Presti said after passing the ball to Durant.

Durant wiped sweat with his collar and nodded.

Presti opened his laptop, and Presti asserted that the rise of webcasting would inevitably overwhelm traditional TV stations because the internet was so convenient.

"Stephen Curry to James Harden, oh yes, and the Chinese center who is called the next you." Presti smiled, if Lin Yi knew that his nickname of Asian Durant had been confirmed If so, I don't know what the expression will be.

Stephen Curry again?

Durant had heard the name in college.

He was a freshman that year, and Curry was also a freshman. Both of them were excellent scorers in their respective colleges and leagues, so the two young people seemed to be on the bar. Curry scored 30 points in this game, and Durant scored 30 points. End game will score 31 points, you come and I go.

For Durant, who has just entered the NBA for two years, he has not completely given up on college basketball, so that day he went to see the Oklahoma Speed ​​​​and the Davidson Wildcats with Westbrook and Jeff Green. war.

Stephen Curry again impressed him, and Durant loved the way Curry played.

"Well...this Shammgod..." Presti's eyes narrowed, it seemed that the information the scouts had given before was not accurate enough.

Presti took out his cell phone, these damn scouts, I must get more comprehensive information on this Chinese center, his template is not Durant, because his skeleton is visible to the naked eye...

Heck, he's so fast, he even looks better off the dribble than Durant did in college.

And the most important thing is his height, has he grown taller again? It looks like a full 215 cm.

Second round front end? Are the reporters of the draft network blind?

Lin Yi, who was fighting with James Harden at this time, didn't know that the Thunder had dispatched their own scouts and would follow them throughout the next Davidson College game.

The Sun Devils basketball hall, after the suspension came back, the two sides went back and forth. The score is now 25 to 27, and the Wildcats are slightly behind.

With 5 minutes to go in the first half, Lin Yi also started to attack inside.

After the Sun Devils were familiar with Lin Yi's rhythm, the team's rapid defense switching and shrinking made Lin Yi very uncomfortable, and Stephen was also uncomfortable, so Lin Yi changed his mind and attacked the inside line.

Lin Yi asked for the ball in the low post. He grabbed the basketball with one hand and faltered for a while, causing the opponent's defensive foul, and he would get a "1+1 free throw".

According to the NCAA's free throw rules, if the opponent's fouls do not accumulate more than 10 times, the offensive player will execute a "1+1 free throw" when he gets a free throw, that is, the second free throw can only be executed when the first free throw is made.

This is also a major feature of the NCAA.

Even if I commit a foul, I won't score easily, Lin Yi wiped his sweat.

Free throws are for Lin Yi and Stephen Curry,

It's just giving points.

Lin Yi's "1+1 free throw" succeeded, and the score became a 27-27 tie.

The Sun Devils came back, James Harden made a sudden point, his teammates missed a three-pointer in the open space, Lin Yi grabbed a defensive rebound, the Wildcats failed to make a transition, and continued to execute Lin Yi's low-position singles tactics.

Height is the most precious talent.

McClop smiled, our Lin can not only play like a small forward and a guard, he has absolute height, soft touch and solid footwork.

Under the basket, Lin Yi turned left, Grant was fooled again, Lin Yi switched the dribble to the right and then used the skyhook to score the ball!

"Well, he's improved again! That's what the big man in the line should do, right, Dale." Reggie Miller teased.

"It's a very standard skyhook, with a soft feel!" Dell Curry commented.

"Skyhook! And his skyhook movements are simply a reproduction of Kareem himself." Wu Xiaolei suppressed her inner excitement and wrote it down in a small notebook.

As long as a fake goal is used, it will be regarded as a big dream footstep by the system by default, so after scoring this goal, Lin Yi is one step closer to unlocking the big dream footstep badge.

Now Lin Yi can't wait to level up faster, because he needs the real skills and awareness of the five positions (all occupations).

He now relies entirely on his own understanding of basketball and the opponent's fear of turning around to make fake moves. In fact, every time he fights against Lin Yi, it seems a little difficult.

It's fine to play a team that doesn't have a real center.

If he encounters those centers with excellent skills, Lin Yi's inside attack will not be so easy to play.

"It's too much, to use such a game to steal the attention of the media." In the audience, a slender black guy muttered to himself. He was wearing a peaked cap with a very low brim, so that People can't see his face.

"Including yours? DeMar?" another black guy laughed.

"Hey, I just want to see James, after all, we will probably meet them in the conference finals." DeMar DeRozan said.

"Listen, man, I think Darren Collison is our big enemy, just look at his backup Russell Westbrook's performance in the NBA." The black guy next to DeRozan said.

DeRozan shook his head, Darren Collison? Of course he knows how many brushes the guy has, but in DeRozan's eyes, James Harden is the only opponent in the Pac-10 division this year.

"But Davidson is also a pity. Their opponents in the Confederation are Oklahoma City and Blake Griffin. It's impossible for the madmen in March Madness to give such a minor league wild card." The black guy continued.

DeRozan watched intently, he didn't care what the black guy said at all.

The scouts in 2009 were said to be out of a job five years later.

Because they miscalculated this generation of rookies.

Whether it's Stephen Curry or DeRozan or Harden, everyone's scouting report is almost a joke five years later.

This is the age of wildflowers.

They didn't have the explosive talent of the 03 Golden Generation, and they didn't get the attention they deserved in the future, but they really became the generation with the most All-Stars after that.

The Davidson Wildcats and the Sun Devils finished the first half, 32-33, with the Sun Devils leading by one point.

Lin Yi had 14 points and 7 rebounds in the half, Stephen Curry had 15 points and 5 assists in the half, and the two of them combined to get almost all the points of the team. The only three-pointer was contributed by teammate McMillan.

James Harden had 20 points in the half.