Chapter 14 - Not the same team match
Just as Ning Yi’s positional skills breakthrough, Rick Adelman arrived, clapped his hands, and shouted at the crowd: “Come here, I have something to say.”
The crowd quickly surrounded.
Rick Adelman said: “Yes, there is more than a month before the preseason. Our players will return to the team one after another, but the problem now is that there are a lot of team members.”
Listen, everyone’s hearts are gurgling. Although they have long known that this day will come, they really have come. Except for a few people, most people can’t help but change their faces.
Today the team is still in the form of training camp, with a large number of people, 14 people.
This also only includes rookies, lost drafts, free agents, and some “homeless” wandering in other leagues, excluding Timberwolves’ main players, old players, etc.
Now that the preseason is approaching, the original Timberwolves players will also return, such as Kevin Love, Kevin Martin, Ricky Rubio, Nikola Pekovic, etc…
When these players return, there are naturally some people who are now staying in the center of the target to leave.
This is inevitable. Everyone knows that during the period in front of them, the reason they worked so hard is that they did not want to be one of the people who left.
“I tell you this, I hope you have a psychological preparation, we will announce the list of personnel tomorrow.” Rick Adelman said: “Okay, relax, wait for us to play a team match. This time Unlike the previous one, this time it was not a half-time confrontation, but a full game.”
“In addition, the game time is longer than before, divided into the first half and the second half, each 20 minutes. Let’s go, prepare.” Rick Adelman waved his hand and motioned for everyone to disband.
Everyone spread out, but their faces were very serious and not easy at all.
There is no doubt that today’s match is not the same as in the past. Not only is the situation changed, but also the coach’s last inspection of the players, it is related to whether they can stay in the team.
There are also some players who do not need to worry about whether they can stay in the team. For example, Gorgie Dion and Shabatz Muhammad are draft players and are guaranteed by rookie contracts. Even Ning Yi, at least not need to worry about this issue before the regular season, because he has already signed a contract with the team.
It’s just that even they have to be cautious.
This match is very unusual, especially at this time point, you can be regarded as the final inspection of those “pending” players.
But who knows, is this also a survey of “signed” players?
After all, even rookies such as Dion and Mohamed can stay on the team, but in the regular season, it is still unknown how much time they can play in the regular season.
In order to express themselves and fight for more playing time, the “signed” players did not dare to be sloppy. They also had to wait in line and perform well.
“I’m afraid not many people will play in this match.” Ning Yi secretly said, looking at everyone, his blood began to boil.
Ning Yi also needs to perform well. What he signed is only a training camp contract, which can only guarantee that he can participate in the preseason.
What’s more, he broke through to level 6, and he is eager to know how powerful the level 6 position plus the 7th level CIC can be.
……
After a while, everyone was ready and the match started.
The people were divided into two groups, A and B. Ning Yi was in the A team, and Vernon Kane, Gorgie Dion, Robbie Hammer and others; Shabatz Mohammed and David Cage , Billy Garfield, Robin Duane and others are on the B team. This group is very average, and the strength of the two sides is not much different, ensuring that the game will not fall to one side.
“beep……”
The whistle sounds and the game begins.
At the beginning, the two sides directly launched the attack, without temptation.
Team A attacked. After the ball reached the frontcourt, it was given to Dion. Dion took the ball to make an acceleration breakthrough, killing the inside and leaning on the defender, a lever.
Now!
goal, team A 2:0.
B team counterattack. After several passes, Shabatz Mohammed was hit. Muhammad glanced at Ning Yi, his face was murderous, decisive singles, and he rolled inward against Ning Yi.
“It is relying on the body again, shameless enough.” Ning Yi scolded inwardly, quickly retreated, and did not confront Muhammad’s body at all, because the physical qualities were quite different and would definitely suffer.
“Humph, weak chicken.” Shabatz-Mohammed smiled triumphantly, turned half and half, striding very hard, had reached the restricted area, and then jumped directly and hit a board.
After the ball was scored, Shabatz-Mohammed looked at Ning Yi and proudly said: “Weak chicken, see it? This is called basketball. Your kind is not called basketball at all. Only women can only shoot.”
Since the beginning of the summer league, until now, Shabatz-Mohammed has always been against Ning Yi, and Ning Yi does not deal with it, and he works against him everywhere.
In fact, the relationship between David Cage, Robin Durn and Ning Yi has improved and eased over the period.
Only Shabatz-Mohammed and Ning Yi are still stiff.
This is related to the old grudges, but the most important point is that Ning Yi and Shabatz-Muhammad overlap in position, UU reading www. Both uukanshu.com are small forwards and are in a competitive relationship.
The Timberwolves’ scheduled starting small forward is Corey Brewer, who was traded from the Nuggets this summer, and Shabatz Muhammad can only play as a substitute.
Even as a substitute, the Timberwolves also have a bunch of forwards, including Zeiss Budinger, Dante Cunningham, Derek Williams, Luke Richard Bamot and so on.
So many people shared the time after Corey Brewer’s end, Shabatz Mohammed was already depressed, and now there is one more Ning Yi, he can be happy to blame.
For Ning Yi, the guy who killed halfway to eat, Shabatz-Mohammed’s instinctive dislike, plus the initial unhappiness, dislike became disgusting, so Ning Yi was everywhere unhappy.
“Is this guy a mad dog? Bite people if he doesn’t move!” Ning Yi was furious and his pupils shrank into needle tips, “OK, let’s play, I will accompany you.”
It is not Ning Yi’s style.
……
Team A attack.
Ning Yi came to the frontcourt, and Shabatz-Mohammed greeted him with a smirk: “Aren’t you upset, then are you also playing one on my head?”
“As you wish.” Ning Yi said, gave his teammates a look, and then toe to move, the body like a butterfly, flashed away.
“Fuck!” Shabatz-Mohammed was taken aback and immediately chased up. Seeing that Ning Yi received a pass from his teammate, he jumped subconsciously and reached out to cover it.
But Ning Yi didn’t jump. He waited for Shabatz-Mohammed to get up. He jumped, leaned against Shabatz-Mohammed, his waist and abdomen, and his body curled up. He dropped the ball while falling.
Ps: Rolling around the floor for recommendation, for a reward!