The rookie trial entered the second day, and the trial trial also became a technical test.

On this day, many players with average physical fitness but excellent skills emerged, and even a few players who were relatively behind in physical tests showed extraordinary personal abilities during technical tests.

In general, there are many players in this era who value skills, so during the second day of trial training, many players received the attention of the coach.

In terms of basketball, black athletes who run fast and jump high and have strong physical fitness must have a more dominant position. However, in the 1940s, there were no black athletes in professional basketball, and all whites on the court were all white. The physical fitness of white players is far inferior to that of black players. Since no one is the type of muscle athlete, we naturally have to focus on technical training. Therefore, players of this era spend much more time on technical aspects than on physical exercise.

After the second day's trial, those players with excellent skills stood out, and those players with outstanding physical fitness and excellent skills became the most popular buns in the eyes of coaches of each team and became the focus of coaches of each team.

In fact, for these coaches who watch the trial, they have no experience. This is the first time to hold a rookie trial, and the coach does not have a standard for judging players. If you perform well today, you think you are good, and if he performs well tomorrow, you think he is great. It is probably like a person who has entered the supermarket for the first time, and he is dazzled when he sees the shelves of dazzling products.

The third day of the rookie trial was a five-on-five battle.

Players are divided into two groups to play games, and there is no limit on the time of the game, but because there are a large number of people trying out, each player only has about ten or twenty minutes of performance, and will be substituted as soon as the time comes.

Players also know that they can get little time and opportunities are very rare, so they should show themselves as much as possible as they go on the court and show their best side to the coaches of each team.

The practical drills are different from the previous physical and technical tests. Many people have excellent health and excellent skills, but when they are in actual combat, their performance is a bit poor and they have not fully utilized their physical and technical advantages.

Some people also performed mediocrely in previous tests. They did not have excellent physical fitness, or excellent basketball skills, or neither, but they seemed very powerful in actual combat, beating players who were better physically and had better skills than them.

In competitive sports, this is not new. There are always competition-type athletes who look unknown on weekdays, but when they arrive, they are like they are injected with blood and can perform at a super level.

What's more, basketball is not the kind of brainless sport. Basketball players have to use their brains in the game. The kind of basketball players who play with their brains are more difficult to deal with than those who rely on their bodies or skills. Many times, a player with excellent physical skills cannot bring victory to the team, but a player with excellent brains can take on the leader on the court and lead the team to continue to move forward.

During the third day of actual combat, many players who played with their brains also emerged. These players naturally received the focus of attention from coaches of each team, and some coaches really like these players who played with their brains.

Basketball in the 1940s basically had tactics greater than technology, and technology was greater than body. Basketball in this era did not have such a complex tactical system, and coaches were not very good at tactical targeting, so a new set of tactics emerged and could dominate for several years. For example, the fast breakthrough tactics of "Cardinal" Auerbach, no one cracked them for three years. Therefore, a smart player can strictly execute coach's tactics and have a very good on-the-spot response, which is very popular among players.

Because everyone's skills are average and their bodies are similar, it is normal for the tactics to be expanded.

Before George McCann, basketball did not pay much attention to the physical body of players, or the advantages brought by the physical fitness of players were not so obvious. In the future, black athletes joined the basketball game, and with their strong physical fitness, the body gradually became one of the qualities that basketball players must possess. Of course, this process took decades. After all, even the Mengyi team was defeated in front of Yugoslavia. This shows that in the late 1980s, black people with excellent physical fitness did not have dominance, and their personal abilities still could not compete with excellent skills and tactics.

After the 1990s, professional basketball's requirements for physical fitness have become higher and higher, and the threshold for professional basketball players has become higher and higher. More and more players have begun to rely on their bodies to play and crush their opponents on the court with their strong physical fitness. In the draft, those players with excellent physical fitness have also become higher and higher in the rankings.

In basketball in the 1940s, even if players have excellent physical fitness, they are not enough to crush their opponents. Therefore, those players who show great physical fitness on the first celestial side are less popular after the trial training of the third day.

After the three-day trial, each team has several goals, and next, each team can invite the players they like to have a separate trial.

The players are all looking forward to the team's invitation. If you can get the team's invitation at this time, it means that the team is interested in it and has a greater chance of being selected. Even if you cannot be selected in the end, if your performance impresses the team, you may be able to get a contract.

Of course, there are also some excellent players, such as Eddie Sardovs, Elny Culverly, Stan Mosaic, and Max Zaslowsky, who have received invitations from several teams.

Gold will always shine. These future basketball masters have performed well in rookie trials. They have indeed touched many teams to turn around and light up the lights for them.

As for those players who did not receive a separate trial invitation, although they were a little depressed, this trip to New York was not nothing. At least they visited a metropolis like New York and saw the world, which was also an unforgettable experience.

Three days were very short, but it was an important change for the entire professional basketball. After that, Chen Qiang's new league began to monopolize the best young players in the United States, while the other two basketball leagues ABL and NBL could only eat some leftovers of the new league.

In a sports league, if there are no excellent players, decline is inevitable. Why is the European Football Professional League better than the South American Football Professional League? It is because they have enough excellent players. By the same token, the South American Football Professional League is better than the Asian Football Professional League, and it is also because the South American players are better than the Asian players.

However, the speed of information dissemination in the 1940s was not smooth. Although Chen Qiang's new league held its first rookie trial, the other two basketball leagues in the United States did not respond much. Perhaps their senior management did not know about the rookie trial in the new league.

These two relatively loosely managed basketballs have not realized that Chen Qiang's butcher knife has begun to fall. Four or five years later, the two earlier leagues, abl and nbl, will inevitably become sports leagues in the 18th tier of the United States.

...

The rookie trial took some of Chen Qiang's energy. After the individual trials of each team were over, Madison Square Garden would hold a formal draft.

The cars sold very well with Master Kong. The first batch of new cars he got from General Motors was quickly wiped out by the American people, and Master Kong also made a lot of money from it. However, Master Kong was not satisfied with this, and he got the second batch of cars from General Motors.

In addition, the antique company in New York also brought good news to Chen Qiang, and they found the Chou Ox and Yin Tiger among the twelve zodiac beasts.

When Chou Niu and Yinhu were found, they were used as decorations in the garden of a certain family. The antique businessman spent only five dollars to buy the two beast heads and then received a reward of one hundred dollars from Chen Qiang.

After Chen Qiang learned the news, he immediately rushed to the antique shop in New York, intending to bring back the two beast heads.

In the antique shop, Chen Qiang held a magnifying glass and carefully looked at the two beast heads. Although he had been used as a decoration in the garden for a long time, the two beast heads did not rust. It has to be said that the highest level of copper smelting technology in ancient China was indeed very impressive, and a century-old stainless was not blown out.

"Mr. Chen, are you satisfied with these two beast-headed bronze statues?" The antique shop owner said with a smile. He knew that the person in front of him was a big customer. He would work hard or enjoy life for the rest of his life, so it depends on the boss in front of him.

"Yes, I've taken these two, by the way, I said there are other antiques?" Chen Qiang continued.

"Yes, I also collected a few pieces of porcelain." The antique shop owner said.

Chen Qiang turned his head and said to Mr. Wu, who had been a pawnshop in China, and said, "Mr. Wu, please trouble you."

Mr. Wu nodded and checked the pieces of porcelain as the antique shop clerk.

The antique shop owner came to Chen Qiang and said, "Mr. Chen, I have a friend who really hopes to meet you after learning that you have acquired a large number of Chinese antiques."

"Is your friend also an antique collector?" Chen Qiang asked with a smile.

"That's right. He has a lot of Chinese antiques in his hands for sale. I wonder if Mr. Chen is interested." The antique shop owner continued.

"Of course I'm interested, but I just don't know how many Chinese antiques he has?" Chen Qiang asked.

"There must be ten or twenty thousand pieces?" the antique shop owner replied.

"Ten or 20,000 pieces? Are you kidding? We are talking about serious antiques, and that kind of ragged iron doesn't count." Chen Qiang said.

Chen Qiang felt in his heart that many of the so-called 10,000 or 20,000 antiques were probably copper coins left in the Qing Dynasty. There were many such things among the people, and even the Kangxi Tongbao was not worth much money in the 1940s.

The antique shop owner immediately defended, "Mr. Chen, my friend is full of real antiques, and they are all treasures among antiques. They are definitely not trashed iron."

"Ten or 20,000 pieces are treasures? Who is your friend, so big? Those who don't know what they think he stole the imperial palace in China!" Chen Qiang teased.

The next second, Chen Qiang suddenly thought of another very bad possibility. One or two thousand precious antiques are not something that ordinary people can take out. Could it be that some people in China are reselling antique cultural relics?

"It shouldn't be that the senior executives and bosses in China wouldn't be so conscience-free. Even the antiques from the Forbidden City dare to resell! But now there is a mess, and they can't do such a thing as betraying ancestors and forgetting their ancestors."

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang said, "Okay, help me make an appointment with your friend, let's meet."

...

In a high-end cafe, Chen Qiang met a man with a hooked nose.

"Hello, Mr. Chen, my name is Knell." The other party said.

This person's English sounds strange, and he tends to be British English, but he has a unique accent inside.

"Hello, Mr. Knell. Please sit down." Chen Qiang asked Knell to sit down, and then asked, "Mr. Knell, you should not be an American, right?"

"Yes, I'm French." Knell answered.

"France?" Chen Qiang nodded thoughtfully. France is now under the control of the Germans, so Mr. Knell should be the Frenchman who fled to the United States.

"I feel deeply unfortunate about your country's experience." Chen Qiang said politely.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, I am equally unfortunate about what happened in China." Knell responded politely.

"But I believe that both of our countries will sooner or later drive away the invaders." Chen Qiang paused and then got to the point. "I heard that Knell had a lot of Chinese antiques in his hands, with a quantity of up to 10,000 or 20,000 pieces?"

"To be precise, it's more than 30,000 pieces!" Knell answered.

"So many?" Chen Qiang was shocked. He even felt that he had encountered a liar, how could a foreigner take out 30,000 Chinese antiques unless he really stole the Chinese palace.

Knell continued, "In fact, these antiques are not my own."

"Sure enough, there is a big boss behind him." Chen Qiang said in his heart, but asked, "Who is the boss who really wants to sell antiques?"

"It's the French government. I'm not referring to the pseudo-government in Paris." Knell said solemnly, "The government I'm talking about is the Provisional Government of Free France!"

"Are you a member of the Provisional Government of Free France?" Chen Qiang asked in surprise.

Knell nodded, "Yes, I am the envoy sent by General Charles de Gaulle to the United States."

At this moment, Chen Qiang finally understood why Knell dared to say that he had more than 30,000 Chinese antiques in his hand to sell. The French really had the ability to produce 30,000 Chinese antiques, and they were all treasures.

Not to mention anything else, just in the Louvre Museum in France, there are more than 30,000 Chinese cultural relics collected!

Chen Qiang suddenly felt that his previous guess was right. Knell's antique was really stolen from the Chinese palace!
Chapter completed!