Zhang Feng's growth is very rapid. For the Blazers' trainers, Zhang Feng is the one inside player that he doesn't need to worry about the least this summer.

He has extremely excellent basic skills in the paint, and has the same high free throw shooting percentage as his Chinese predecessors. He also uses his footsteps in the paint extremely well, and during post-up training, Zhang Feng can turn forward and back very quickly, due to his soft wrist.

, his shot at the end of the offense is very soft, and he has a high shooting rate at the basket.

Although there are also problems such as weak physical confrontation ability and unfamiliarity with using the whole body's strength when fighting from the back, Zhang Feng's improvement speed is very rapid under the patient guidance of the trainer.

Originally, the Blazers' interior trainer complained about the intensity of the offseason work when the team abandoned the young Spanish big man who was originally planned to take a break and chose Zhang Feng, who was predicted to be an undrafted player.

After all, although the Spanish insider is also very young, he has experienced experience in the European Basketball League, has no lack of professional game experience, and has certain confrontation capabilities, which is definitely better than the one in the NCAA.

They can't beat the famous inside line.

But after witnessing Zhang Feng's rapid learning ability and hard-working training attitude, coupled with Zhang Feng's progress that seemed to improve every day, the Blazers' trainer began to prefer this option to Taobao.

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Zhang Feng's technical foundation is there, but the contrast in height requires Zhang Feng to spend a lot of time adapting to the combination of height and post-playing skills.

In college, the head coach pays more attention to the overall tactical training of the team. Although he also gave Zhang Feng some guidance on the combination of center skills, it is definitely not as good as professionals in the NBA.

It's like Zhang Feng's skilled inside skills in his "dream" were not perfectly integrated with his body in reality. Now, under the detailed guidance of the Blazers' professional trainers, Zhang Feng has begun to truly unleash his potential.

Strength, and can have a speed of progress that is visible to the naked eye.

Zhang Feng spent a fulfilling summer in the United States, and even got the attention of the current Blazers coach Stotts due to his rapid improvement in the center position. Of course, a rookie is still a rookie after all. If he wants to reach the top in one step, he still needs to

Experience the baptism of NBA official games.

Zhang Feng, who signed a basic salary contract with the Trail Blazers, is indeed the Blazers' reserve candidate for future centers, but it all depends on whether Zhang Feng can show his strength in the rare playing time and continue to make progress.

improve.

For NBA players, although basic salary players have guaranteed contracts, they still need opportunities and the ability to seize opportunities if they want to have enough playing time and become a role player for the team.

After Zhang Feng trained hard, he also participated in the Trail Blazers' preseason games and got decent playing time. However, because the team basically focused on outside offense, it was difficult to play inside offense.

At that time, it was Aldridge who took care of everything, so Zhang Feng, in his limited playing time, was a pure blue-collar player. On the court, he worked hard for offensive rebounds and protected backcourt rebounds, providing services for Lillard or others.

The guard does a pick-and-roll.

In the limited playing time, Zhang Feng almost always ran back and forth. On the offensive end, the Trail Blazers would not give Zhang Feng any space to use his offense.

There is nothing reasonable or unreasonable. This is the NBA. Here, only the player's strength and reputation are recognized.

Even though Lillard and Aldridge are in the preseason, they are still the points that the team needs to rely on the most. Even because it is the preseason, there will be no problem even if the two of them play alone.

Other players with non-guaranteed contracts and basic salaries can only rely on the ball rights leaked from the two of them to strive for opportunities to express themselves.

And in the order of appearance, Zhang Feng is preceded by the team's main center Robin Lopez and last year's rookie Meyers Leonard. Leonard, who has gone through a year of NBA training, has not been developed.

He still has the trust of coach Stotts, but at least his physical confrontation ability barely reaches the level of the NBA, and he also has time to play as defensive "cannon fodder" in the preseason!

In the first preseason game, the Trail Blazers played 11 players. Zhang Feng contributed 3 rebounds and 2 fouls in 12 minutes of playing time, and was dunked on the head twice by the Clippers' DeAndre Jordan.

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Even though he paid great attention to training during his one year in college, Zhang Feng's physical confrontation ability was still too weak compared with his NBA-level confrontation ability. Jordan directly resisted Zhang Feng both times.

Zhang Feng, who was still in college mind when he forced himself to dunk, played too cleanly and didn't even think of committing a foul.

In view of Zhang Feng's physical confrontation ability, this is also the trainer of the Trail Blazers. The key follow-up training goal for Zhang Feng in the next six months, or even several years, must be to make Zhang Feng reach the confrontation level of the NBA center position!

Before the start of the NBA season, throughout October, the Trail Blazers had 8 preseason games to hone their lineup. Zhang Feng got more than 10 minutes of playing time in the first 3 games, but after that, he has been responsible for guarding the water dispenser.

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In the competition with Leonard, Zhang Feng is still at a disadvantage so far. Zhang Feng and Leonard are the same height, but Leonard's current physical confrontation ability, after a year of orthodox NBA training, is obviously stronger than Zhang Feng.

He can make more contributions to the team on the defensive end than Zhang Feng.

Although Zhang Feng can improve his finishing ability on the offensive end, the Trail Blazers, with Lillard and Aldridge as the two core offensive players, do not have many center positions that will compete with Ade for inside shots.

tactical response.

Robin Lopez, as the starting center, even except for the occasional open opportunity to shoot, the increase in the number of offensive shots requires him to rush for offensive rebounds and strive for a second offense.

Even Zhang Feng's competitor Leonard was actually placed in the third center position in Stotts' tactical drills in the last two preseason games. Although Leonard has practiced

He has a certain amount of physical confrontation, but his pace is too slow, and he lacks good enough defensive lateral movement ability, and his defensive ability is too weak. When Robin Lopez is resting, Stotts is more willing to use it at both the center and power forward positions.

Joel Freeland, who can play, will serve as a substitute center to ensure the team's defensive ability.

For Zhang Feng to be a rookie, it is to use a guaranteed contract to buy a future! What the Trail Blazers management and head coach Stotts value is Zhang Feng's future. Today, Zhang Feng is only the fourth player of the Trail Blazers.

Center!

However, Zhang Feng is content to stay in the NBA, receive systematic professional training, and improve his own strength.

After all, I didn’t have any advice from the system’s grandpa with me. My whole body was sore after training, and I didn’t have any anti-fatigue medicine to relieve the fatigue caused by crazy training.

Zhang Feng is already satisfied with his current height advantage. From now on, he will just use the unique Chinese spirit of hard work and hard work to continuously improve himself.

I think back then, Boss Yao's success was not the result of his own hard work. From being a tall, thin number one pick who could be bullied by anyone, he slowly developed into a giant inside, and he also experienced the baptism of time.

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Zhang Feng knows that as a second-round pick, although he has a good height advantage, he cannot eat a fat man in one bite. He first sets a small goal for himself, which is to seize the time to gain weight and increase muscle content, and strive to squeeze out those who are taller than himself.
Chapter completed!