82. Natural Leaders
Looking at the triggered task, it is difficult...what is not difficult? But the reward is also generous!
Literally, Zhang Hao believes that the second reward is related to playing substitutes. The first reward cannot be guessed what the bonus effect is, but if you can get a silver medal, who will get a bronze?
The rewards are probably because the opening game of the new season regular season is his first game in his career. Such a game was only once in his entire career. He was ready to perform hard. With rewards, he wanted to perform well.
"The probability of my starting lineup is not very high. After all, I am still a rookie. Gilliam, Williams, and Brown have a higher probability of starting lineup..."
This is how the analysis is, but the first game starter must be tried to strive for it! This kind of thing is not a question of whether the rookie should be humble. Of course, it is better to start.
Thinking of starting, Zhang Hao thought that the opponent in the opening game was the Pistons.
"It's a bit difficult... I have to score with Hill when playing the starting lineup. That guy has a 0.1-point average of 20+5+5 per game, right? All-Star vote king... But it may also be a substitute. In fact, it's not that difficult to accept the bronze medal. I'm still a rookie, and it's normal to play as a substitute..."
Thinking of this, Zhang Hao immediately became excited again.
His desire for competition can be seen at a glance by others.
Jason Williams, who had been paying attention to Zhang Hao, was very upset when he saw Zhang Hao's excited expression.
"This rookie is for me!"
After Coleman left, Jason Williams felt that he was the best candidate to replace Coleman. The situation was also developing in this direction, but this rookie suddenly emerged.
The high-ranking rookie is no big deal in Jason Williams's opinion. Several high-ranking rookies are lost every year. At first, he looked down on a high school student, but he did not expect that Zhang Hao's shooting was so powerful.
And shooting ability is what their Nets lack the most.
And Jason Williams feels that he will never be able to practice Zhang Hao's shooting in his entire life.
Zhang Hao was excited to play again, feeling the hostile eyes. When he turned around, he was a little surprised. He thought it would be Almond Gilliam.
During this period, he also learned about the grudge between Kenny Anderson and Almond Gilliam. Chris Morris, who has been very tacitly partnering with Kenny Anderson in the past two years, beat Almond Gilliam to play the starting small forward.
This summer, Chris Morris got a three-year, $8 million contract from the Jazz to leave. He, Zhang, appeared again, and like Chris Morris at the time, he soon got a good relationship with Kenny Anderson.
He thought it would be Almond Gilliam who would target him, but he didn't expect it was Jason Williams, the power forward!
He thought he and Jason Williams might just have a rotation time battle, but the other party seemed to regard him as an imaginary enemy in the starting power forward position...
"Why do I do when I am so tall? It's better to have 199 cm. I would have known how to learn the tricks of a big boss who turns his enemies into friends..."
Zhang Hao was helpless, and his playing style of an unball pitcher had grown to the height of a power forward.
"It's better to play taller shooting guards if you don't grow up... No, it's not good to play shooting guards this year...
Otherwise, if you grow taller and play center... Ahem, this height is pretty good, who can play center...
It doesn't seem like a bad thing to compete for power forwards, and it's definitely more difficult to compete for playing time with Gilliam than with Williams."
Zhang Hao and Jason Williams had an invisible gaze battle. After Randy Whitman arranged the lineup, he arranged the team's two assistant coaches to the two teams.
Randy Whitman, the two assistant coaches, looked very immense. In the middle of last season, after successfully starting the bad mode, the team management fired all the coaching staff members who stayed by Chuck Daly, leaving him Randy Whitman, who was not an old man on the team. He joined the team in the late 1993-94 season and started working.
As far as Randy Whitman knows, these two assistant coaches are friends of the team's shareholders and come to get paid.
The old players of the team also understood the situation and did not break up the relationship with the two assistant coaches. After chatting for a few words, the players began to discuss how to play the game themselves.
Randy Whitman didn't care when he saw this.
The role of the coaching team lies in the construction of the system, the creation of a tactical framework, the guidance of the players... etc., but the game is the key to the players playing by themselves and the cooperation of the players.
Training camp and the next preseason are mainly about making players familiar with tactics and fostering tacit understanding and chemistry.
Based on the strength of the players, playing style, tacit understanding, etc., we will formulate the season's game plan, playing time arrangement, rotation arrangement, and only Randy Whitman is responsible for these.
Team A.
"Aix, you run as you feel, I will pass the ball to your hand and throw that guy Jason..." Kenny Anderson's expectation for Zhang Hao was very simple. He received the ball and threw it into it.
This is based on Zhang Hao's best mid-range shot level in the team, so Kenny Anderson can say so easily.
Otherwise, an 18-year-old rookie who has just been in his freshman year will compete with Jason Williams, who has been playing for several years and has the ability to start the team with a weak team...it will be difficult to think about.
When Zhang Hao heard Kenny Anderson's words, Dela, it seemed that everyone thought he was going to compete with Jason Williams, the power forward.
Looking at his strength of 90 and his weight is light, compared with Jason Williams who has a strength of 109 kg and 87, the tonnage is insufficient, and it is difficult to chisel the basket.
But he is not playing at the basket, and it seems that it is not that difficult to find opportunities to shoot in confrontation!
Thinking that he still plays as a small forward in high school, but when he goes to the NBA, he plays as a power forward, Zhang Hao feels a bit magical.
The Nets players who were divided into two teams attached great importance to this training game because this was the first team training game after their team gathered, and there was no next game. Next was the strengthening of technical and tactical training, and then the preseason game.
If you lag behind your competitors one step, you may be restrained everywhere in the future and you must seize the opportunity from the beginning!
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At 1:30 pm, Zhang Hao came to the training ground early to warm up.
He was the only one who came so early, and the competition started at 3:30. Now he is the only one in the training ground.
When the trainer was called to the training ground to help Zhang Hao warm up, the trainer was not used to it.
After working for so many years with the Nets, this is the first time I have encountered a player who has come so early to warm up for preparations in the training game.
The Guangdong Sports camera team, who was doing the recording preparations, was also surprised. When chatting with the Nets staff, they learned that there was still an hour to prepare slowly, and things would take at least 3 o'clock.
Unexpectedly, someone came to warm up at this time, and he was the youngest Zhang Hao!
When Zhang Hao went to change his training suits, Guangdong Sports staff quickly prepared for the shooting. The main target they were about to shoot was Zhang Hao, and the others were just by the way.
The Nets' competition has begun since the return of players, but no one pays attention to this kind of thing outside.
In the eyes of the outside world, there is nothing else worth paying attention to except whether Kenny Anderson can win the assist king in the new season and Zhang Hao’s high school rookie.
Domestic media want to catch Zhang Hao, a hot figure in the domestic sports industry. The reporter in charge of the coordination saw that Zhang Hao came to warm up so early, and thought of a narrator who wanted to match - "Although he is only 18 years old, he has strict requirements for himself, which is one of the reasons why he can directly enter the NBA after graduating from high school..."
On the other hand, Butch Baird has been paying attention to Zhang Hao. Seeing Zhang Hao’s enthusiasm for warm-up, he is very satisfied and works hard to warm up, which represents very different things.
It’s not that training hard, warming up requires hard work. There have been cases where players who work hard and have good talent, and often get injured due to insufficient warm-up.
Since Zhang Hao joined the team... Even before he officially joined the team, Zhang Hao has always been very satisfied with the information they learned through scouts. He worked too hard, as if basketball was his life. Zhang Hao's progress speed represents his talent.
He is talented and hardworking. Judging from the time he puts in preparation for the game, he is also very responsible for his body and very responsible for the game, even if it is just a training game... In Butch Baird's view, Zhang Hao is a genius born for basketball...
Thinking of Zhang Hao's CET, Butch Baird believes that if Zhang Hao gained a foothold in the NBA, he would develop three-pointers...
However, Butch Baird is preparing to make a fortune in silence, so he will not go around to promote Zhang Hao's talent. Anyway, others will not believe that Zhang Hao has made such great progress in power confrontation. Even if he believes, he will not believe that Zhang Hao can still keep his shot after he increases his power so much.
Another high school student, McHale's way of playing, Butch Baird thought about it and felt that rookie was pitiful...
Get together, warm up, and when everyone's warm-up preparations are ready, all the bodies have started to move, and Zhang Hao, who has tried his best to do his best in all aspects of preparations, came to the court.
Finally, there is a competition again!
In the first time playing against an NBA player, even if it was just a warm-up match, Zhang Hao felt that he was already full of passion!
After taking the ball that bounced over the basket when his teammates shot with a hot hand, Zhang Hao jumped out and made a steady shot... Every time it was time for the game, Zhang Hao would truly feel his love for basketball. Even if he was really less than a year to live and had no way to prolong his life, what Zhang Hao thought about at this moment was not to slut and indulge, but to give all his last bit of strength on the basketball court.
A person's love for one thing can easily infect his partners who are doing the same thing together.
Although the cooperation time is still short, it is actually not officially started and has not played in the preseason. The teammates are still one-sided about how hard and focused Zhang Hao is in basketball. I don’t know that Zhang Hao even warmed up one hour earlier than them, but they felt Zhang Hao’s enthusiasm for the game.
Even his competitor Jason Williams felt Zhang Hao's enthusiasm. That feeling was enough to excite him, his competitor and teammate.
The feeling that Zhang Hao showed was surprised Kenny Anderson - a high school rookie can actually guide the change of fighting spirit of the whole team. I can't tell until the game, but it's just there!
This temperament is what Kenny Anderson always wants to have - leader temperament!
This thing is very important, and its strength and qualifications are also very important, but it is not absolute. Many rookies have become team leaders when entering the NBA, such as Grant Hill of the Pistons.
What the Nets lack most is this kind of player with a leader temperament. Even Kenny Anderson does not have the leader temperament, and even Coleman does not have the leader temperament at the time.
Otherwise, the Nets wouldn't have been in a mess all the time when he and Coleman were two All-Star players.
Kenny Anderson may be the only old player on the team who really wants to lead the team to counterattack after Coleman left. He is really eager to win and the team gets better and better.
Zhang Hao now gives Kenny Anderson a feeling like a clear stream, impacting their stagnant pool.
Seeing Zhang Hao's bright eyes, he felt like he was back in college for a moment...
Chapter completed!