Chapter 360
Chapter 360
In the center of Auckland in July, the weather is comfortable, not hot at all, and there are still white clouds floating in the sky, dotted with the blue sky.
Cole got out of the car and looked at the stadium in front of him. He still hasn't recovered from the shock.
Cole's father was a professor of political science at UCLA University and had been devoted to the study of Middle East issues, so he spent most of his life in Lebanon. Unfortunately, his father was shot dead when Cole was just in college.
Cole fell in love with basketball because of the lack of his father's company since he was a child. However, he never thought that he would become a professional player, let alone join the Warriors. Life is really amazing.
"Hey, brother, what are you doing in a daze?" A big hand patted Cole's shoulder, interrupting Cole's contemplation.
"Some emotions!" Cole smiled at the visitor, who was Anthony Mason who came with him.
"Hmph, of course you are emotional! You and Mickey are both first-round picks, unlike me, who are second-round picks." Mason said this, feeling bitter about it, feeling like all the general managers in the league were blind.
"Hey hey." Richmond behind him heard Mason talking about himself, and he didn't know what to say, so he could only smile in agreement.
The three met at the draft. Cole knew him well, Mason was lively, and Richmond was a bit dull. However, after the draft, the three had dinner together. After getting acquainted, they made an appointment to come together in summer Li Weisi's rookie training camp.
At this time, the rookie training camp held by Li Weisi on a whim is already very famous, because the huge improvement in the strength of the Warriors' young players last season attracted many reporters to interview.
In the interviews, the young players all mentioned that Li Weisi’s rookie training camp, after the media reported it, a large number of fans who didn’t know the truth suddenly realized, thinking: So it’s like this, no wonder the players can improve their strength!
Therefore, fans of other teams also wrote to the team management to suggest that they hold training camps for the young players of their own team, but nothing came to fruition.
Isn't this nonsense?The team bears a training fee for nothing, and the players waste their vacation time. Who wants to do it?
Unlike other teams, because Li Weisi took the lead and most of the team supported the Warriors, which of these rookies who just entered the league would not dare to come?
In the eyes of these rookies, whether they dare to participate in this training camp is the same as not wanting to be in the Warriors!
Therefore, even though Richmond is going to participate in the Olympics this summer, he still decided to come to this training camp first. Otherwise, if the Olympics does not come, he will worry about whether he can continue to stay with the Warriors.
Sure enough, when they walked into the training hall, their thoughts were further confirmed. All the veteran players of the Warriors were there.
Not only that, in addition to the Warriors, there is also a group of Chinese players and American college players. There must be more than 40 people in total, right?
There are so many people, let alone a few rookies, even Li Weisi himself didn't expect that there are so many people in this training camp?
It was agreed a long time ago that this group of Chinese players would come to the training camp, and Li Weisi knew about it, but he didn't expect that his old coach, Coach Montgomery, would find him and let his school team players come to the training camp.
Because of my good relationship with coach Montgomery, I can often use the Stanford Arena for training. This ease naturally needs to be rewarded.
Therefore, in the face of Montgomery's request, Li Weisi could only agree.
In this way, what was originally a simple training camp now has more and more people.
But when there are too many people, it involves a lot of energy for Li Weisi, making it impossible for him to formulate individual training plans for each person like before. It was just too hard for him.
Based on the principle of finding Frank in case of difficulty, Li Weisi immediately called Frank for help.
When Li Weisi fed back these problems to Frank, Frank also immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, first asked the Van Gundy brothers to help, and at the same time put the trainer plan on the agenda.
At this time, the NBA didn't pay much attention to trainers. What really made trainers shine and made the whole league really realize the importance of trainers was after Tim Graver became Jordan's personal trainer. .
Therefore, when Frank found Graver, Graver happily accepted Frank's invitation and came to the training camp on the third day after the training camp started.
Today is the first day, and Graver hasn't come yet, so everything still needs to be managed by Li Weisi and the two Van Gundy.
Fortunately, Stan Van Gundy has been an assistant coach in the Warriors for two years, and his own ability has grown a lot, and he can already play his own role, not to mention the assistance of his younger brother, so it is quite good to manage these two groups of young players.
So, apart from the chaos at the beginning, as the training started, the whole training camp gradually became orderly.
The training this morning mainly focused on physical fitness and recovery training, so the players of the three teams did not separate, but trained together.
However, when the actual training started, the difference in strength quickly appeared. Taking running as an example, the Warriors players were naturally at the front, while the young Huaxia players were in the middle, and the Stanford school team players were actually at the back. It made the Stanford players very angry.
They deserved to lose to the Warriors, but losing to a group of Chinese people who can't even eat enough (mainly because they are all thin and have a long-term negative impression), this is simply too embarrassing!
Therefore, during training, the student players of the Stanford school team began to compete with the Huaxia players everywhere, which made the group of young Huaxia players also confused.
Originally, being able to come to the United States, eat well, dress well, and meet the stars, is like heaven, and they have long been satisfied.
Unexpectedly, after starting training, they were suddenly confronted by a group of college players. In all training, they wanted to compare with them, and the key was to win or lose. How could this be tolerated?They represent the face of the country!
In this way, their competitive spirit was also stimulated.
Although I am young, I am a professional player after all. What are these college students?
Of course they don't understand what the level of the US college team is.
However, with such a misunderstanding, they were not afraid of the Stanford players at all. Therefore, under the secret rivalry between the two teams of young people, they received very good results and made the training camp run more smoothly. .
(End of this chapter)