9. Opportunity
American West Arena, Phoenix, General Manager's Office.
"This boy is more suitable to be the protagonist of publicity than we expected." Steve Kerr looked at what was written in the news about Sun Ce's crazy training yesterday, and felt that the boss's expectations might be a little bit successful.
We have long lost hope of making the playoffs this season, so we can only do some silly things to attract the fans' attention.
The regular season is about to end. The Lakers also signed a 22-year-old Chinese point guard this season, but that point guard did not bring much popularity to the Lakers.
He is in a lazy state with no effort at all, and his strength is average. The Lakers only let him play 15 minutes at the end of the season.
Cole is not optimistic about the boss's publicity plan at all. In addition to Sun Yue, Cole also pays attention to the CBA. After all, he is the general manager. However, after seeing the reports of Chinese players given by scouts, he feels that the Chinese can only do business.
, the three major goals... mainly men's three major goals... But seeing Sun Ce's crazy training energy, it feels very different from the Chinese basketball players in his impression.
Mainly because Sun Ce trained like crazy for six hours from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., which left a good impression on Cole.
Cole himself is not a very talented person, but through hard work, he shot the highest three-point shooting percentage in history during his playing days, which he still maintains to this day.
"This kid is good." Gentry didn't like this kind of hype at first, but after seeing the news that happened yesterday, he saw that a young man who only had some NBA trial and game experience actually worked so hard for this opportunity to participate.
As an older generation basketball player who turned into a coach after failing to enter the professional league in the 1970s, Gentry was also moved by it.
However, good impressions are good impressions, and Gentry only has a good impression of Sun Ce. As for the competition... although it is an insignificant curtain call, Gentry is not prepared to let Sun Ce play for long.
However, Gentry became interested in Sun Ce's trial training. He originally planned to take a group photo and "show off", but now he really wants to talk more with Sun Ce.
Gentry saw Sun Ce's outrageously standard movements when training for shooting. He wanted to see it with his own eyes. If possible, he would try to talk to Sun Ce about being a shooting coach.
A shooting coach does not necessarily have to have good shooting ability. On the contrary, most shooting coaches may have ridiculously poor basketball skills. They just have good movements and are great at customizing appropriate power movements for the players.
Gentry wanted to give Sun Ce a chance, and he wanted to give a chance to the young man who wanted to pursue his basketball dream just like he did back then.
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Sun Ce, for his part, still doesn't know that his crazy training has given some people a very good initial impression of him.
He took a taxi to the American West Arena with a large bag of things that his classmates wanted to give to the stars or ask for autographs. It was exactly 11 o'clock in the morning. As soon as Sun Ce got out of the car, he saw a group of reporters at the entrance of the arena.
When Sun Ce walked up, reporters who had already seen his photo and knew what he looked like quickly took pictures.
When Sun Ce walked up, several people came to greet him.
Sun Ce recognized the future top coach Steve Kerr and the current Suns head coach Alvin Gentry at first glance. Several other staff members did not recognize him. The staff helped him
Take the things and take them into the stadium.
With an official smile, Cole came up and shook hands with Sun Ce.
Sun Ce quickly put his hands on him first and had to be polite.
Cole held Sun Ce's right hand with his right hand, patted the back of Sun Ce's right hand with his left hand, and said with a smile: "Hello, hardworking Chinese boy Noah, I believe you must know me. I would be too sad if you said you don't know me.
, I’ve only retired a few years ago!”
Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, he was too enthusiastic, and he seemed to be pretending to be humorous even though he was not very humorous.
"Of course, Mr. Cole, you are the best three-point shooter in my mind." Sun Ce immediately replied with a flattery.
Although I knew it was a show, the other party had no ill intentions, it was just business.
And Sun Ce didn't say anything against his will, he just said nice things. Compared to the original Sun Ce, his ability to pick up girls may not be as good as the original one, but he needs to have a lot of experience in dealing with people, and he only says nice things.
In the history of the NBA, among players who have made more than 200 three-pointers, Steve Kerr ranks first in total three-point field goal percentage. Among players who have made at least 50 three-pointers in a single season, Steve Kerr ranks first in total three-point field goal percentage.
Cole's 52.4% three-point shooting percentage is also the first in history.
This kind of flattery perfectly circumvents the fact that Steve Kerr is a role player. Whether it is the number of hits or shots, there is a gap between Steve Kerr and Lightning Miller.
Don’t hit the smiling person. Although Steve Kerr is not as "moved" as Gentry by being in the same situation, most people like to listen to good things. The same is true for Kerr. Three-pointers are the most proud of his basketball career.
things.
"Noah, come on, let's stand here..." Cole enthusiastically guided Sun Ce between him and Gentry, allowing reporters to take photos.
After taking the photo, Kerr and Gentry took Sun Ce to the training ground inside the arena.
When they arrived at the training ground, the guy who caught Sun Ce's attention made Sun Ce want to complain...
That guy is too "dazzling", his size is too exaggerated, and he occupies too much attention...
Shaquille O'Neal!
Sun Ce saw that this guy was practicing free throws with all his concentration!
"Hey, hey, if this guy practices free throws so hard every day, he will miss more than 5,000 free throws? Jordan can also practice free throws. This guy's touch is much better than Jordan..." Sun Ce cursed crazily.
As if he had just discovered that Sun Ce had come in, O'Neal took the initiative and walked up: "Hello, please call me Noah, right? I watched your training video. It's really cool. Let's work hard together!"
After saying that, O'Neal opened his arms towards Sun Ce. When Sun Ce saw O'Neal, he cursed at first, and then felt excited when he got closer.
Big star! The most dominant center in NBA history!
But after hearing O'Neal's words, Sun Ce really wanted to reply: "Work hard with you to become a ball?"
"Hello, Noah, I'm Steve..." Nash, who was still wearing a waist brace, also came up to hug him.
Stoudemire, Jason Richardson, Grant Hill...and other Suns stars came up to hug Sun Ce.
Sun Ce was originally looking forward to training with these stars for a day and playing a game together. They might not be able to play for a few minutes, but this is definitely what he dreams of.
But when he actually came into contact with these stars face to face, Sun Ce didn't know what to say, and his mind gradually became blank...
"Live, these are living NBA stars!"
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Chapter completed!