Many non-American players will face one of the most practical problems when entering the NBA, which is the problem of integrating into the team.

Especially those players who have not experienced American basketball culture and have played directly from foreign professional leagues and then entered the NBA, whether as draftees or free agents, have problems in how to integrate into the NBA.

The first thing to bear the brunt is the issue of game style. The NBA pays more attention to physical confrontation and tests the players' personal offensive abilities. Therefore, during the game, there will always be one of the most intuitive questions: Americans' unique personal heroism will always outweigh the

The team's tactical system and fans also prefer star players who can use their personal abilities to end the game.

What is obvious is that no matter how well foreign players have performed in their respective leagues before, facing extremely athletic NBA players, it will be difficult to display their basketball IQ and basketball skills.

And because of the language barrier, it is not easy to cooperate with teammates even if you don't have a clear advantage in personal offense.

Not only did several Chinese players face this problem in the past, but also the various superstars in the European arena were unable to easily integrate into the team when they came to the NBA stage.

Many people are talented, but they cannot fully integrate with the team and cannot perform quickly on the court, so they will naturally remain on the bench.

It was in the past few years of the NBA that for international players, especially those who had already been established, not many players came out after coming to the NBA. This made the Major League Soccer League, which paid attention to the differences in basketball culture, begin to change its course.

Committed to building a better NBA, NBA officials are now starting to take the route of young people. Through cooperation with college sports, they have begun to search for talented players around the world and let them directly enter American high schools and universities when they are still young.

, allowing them to adapt to the American basketball culture in advance, and change in the direction of adapting to the American basketball culture during the growth period of their youth.

Instead of just bringing in MVP-level players from foreign leagues like before.

Through the early training of young players, these international players can better integrate into the American basketball cultural system. When they perform brilliantly and enter the NBA through the draft, there will no longer be any need to adapt to the team.

It's a problem, just improve it step by step.

It was because of the fact that Zhang Feng played for an American university and because he was a Chinese player that the Blazers management considered all factors and signed him.

Business factors are business factors. If there is no room for growth, even if Zhang Feng represents the vast Chinese market, the Blazers will not waste their precious salary space to sign a player who cannot play.

If Zhang Feng's current strength is to participate in the draft as a young foreign player, then the Blazers may not choose Zhang Feng in the final stage.

It was because Zhang Feng had played in the NCAA for two years, performed fairly well in the Patriot League, and was recommended by McCollum that the Trail Blazers selected Zhang Feng, got his priority signing rights, and allowed him to join the team.

The team's summer league.

After officially receiving the contract and joining the team for training, Zhang Feng at least behaved very outgoing, which is extremely crucial for integrating into the team.

After the first game, Zhang Feng's "heroic appearance" waving a towel on the sidelines was not only recognized by Chinese fans, but also by the Blazers' coaches who had a new view of this Chinese boy.

You know, waving towels is not a light job. Every player on the team who is waving towels on the sidelines must be a player who is very dedicated to the game off the court.

Zhang Feng also always promotes the Chinese people's advantages of hard work and hard work off the court. He is the hardest training player in the Trail Blazers. This also makes head coach Stotts want to find an opportunity to test Zhang Feng's official NBA status.

The quality on the field.

The long NBA season has a schedule of almost two days and one game. In the second game of the season, the Trail Blazers returned to their home court, the former Rose Garden Arena. In the new season, it was renamed due to the annual naming fee of US$4.2 million.

Moda Center.

Facing the Nuggets at home, who are still in the rebuilding period, the Trail Blazers performed extremely well in this game and did not give the Nuggets any chance. In the first quarter of the game, they relied on Lillard's strong personal performance to directly win the game.

It widened the gap in the game.

In the first quarter of the game, Lillard was on full fire. He made three of three three-pointers from outside and scored 13 points in the first quarter. Relying on his personal strength, Lillard established a 10-point lead for the Trail Blazers in the first quarter.

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Zhang Feng was waving his towel on the sidelines again, cheering for team boss Lillard and performing various celebrations.

As for Aldridge, this game seems to be an intra-team competition with Lillard. During Lillard's rest time, Aldridge, who leads the team, is also stirring up trouble inside the Nuggets.

Aldridge faced the Nuggets' old and small inside players. Without exerting too much energy on the defensive end, he played with ease on the offensive end.

With one hand, he turned over and shot a high jump shot, which was simply incomprehensible. He successfully destroyed the Nuggets' inside line. The Blazers, who were blooming inside and outside, directly blew the Nuggets' defense away. The role players of the Trail Blazers on the offensive end also fully blossomed, helping

The team's two stars continued to expand their lead.

At the end of the three quarters, Lillard and Aldridge both scored more than 25 points. Lillard, who has three-point shooting range, scored 27 points in the three quarters, while Aldridge scored two-pointers and free throws one after another.

Scored 25 points.

The Trail Blazers, who led by 23 points in the third quarter, turned the fourth quarter into garbage time.

However, the Nuggets did not replace the substitute lineup at the beginning of the fourth quarter, so the main players of the Trail Blazers continued to play for a few minutes for the enjoyment of the game. With the first official announcement of the fourth quarter

During the timeout, the Nuggets replaced all their substitute players, and the Trail Blazers also replaced their main players. The game entered garbage time.

As many as 8 minutes of garbage time gave the players of both teams enough time to express themselves.

Although Zhang Feng got the approval of Stotts and had been waving the towel on the sidelines during this game, talking and laughing with Lillard and McCollum off the court, it was Leonard who took the lead!

As a white high center, Leonard is a bit clumsy, but he is still capable of protecting the basket in the paint.

The garbage time of the game is naturally the time for the defenders of both teams to perform. Unless there are absolute open opportunities inside, otherwise the defenders will force themselves to express themselves and directly take action.

Leonard kept running back and forth on the court. When he was unable to grab offensive rebounds, he could only get two backcourt rebounds in the backcourt. Other data, except for playing time, were 0.

Even in garbage time, Zhang Feng, who was still involved in the game on the sidelines, still received Stotts' special attention.

With three and a half minutes left in the game, Stotts took advantage of a dead ball opportunity, called a timeout, and then sent Zhang Feng to replace Leonard.

Chinese player Zhang Feng, a second-round pick and a towel-waving player on the sidelines, immediately earned a chance to play in the Trail Blazers' second NBA game.

For rookie Zhang Feng, the one facing the Nuggets on the court at this time is the Russian substitute center Mozgov.

Mozgov, who just signed a three-year salary of 14 million with the Nuggets this season, is in the prime period of his career. His height of 2.16 meters is the same as Zhang Feng, but he has experienced several seasons of NBA training and competition.

In terms of position comparison, Zhang Feng's body shape is still significantly slimmer than Mozgov's.

However, Zhang Feng cherishes his time on the court very much. Compared with Mozgov, who has established himself as a substitute center in the Nuggets, averages enough playing time per game, has good scoring and rebounding performance, and does not care about garbage time, Zhang Feng is

Extremely hardworking.

Even though Mozgov's physique was obviously stronger, as soon as Zhang Feng came on the field, he directly challenged Mozgov for a physical confrontation. He used his small skills to make a big difference, and it was a tough physical confrontation.

The center's task is to fight hand-to-hand inside. Zhang Feng used his enthusiasm to successfully arouse Mozgov's anger.

Mozgov, who originally planned to play basketball for a few minutes, also took up his posture to block positions with Zhang Feng.

The two of them collided with each other under the basket, and each other's sweat blended together and dripped on the floor...

However, there was still no chance for the ball to pass inside.

Trail Blazers guard Patton directly played alone and forced a shot to complete a half-interception.

Mozgov's focus was on how to teach this young Chinese guy a lesson. Rather than physical confrontation, Mozgov really enjoyed the pleasure of bullying this rookie.

But when Mozgov turned his body, preparing to completely block Zhang Feng's position, he suddenly discovered that Zhang Feng, who had been resisting his body, chose to dodge this time. Mozgov, who did not use the strength, instead

Some of them exerted too much force, and the soles of their feet were a little unstable, but they still managed to control their bodies and stand still.

Zhang Feng, on the other hand, turned around in a wide range, came out from behind Mozgov, and completed the jump from the other direction.

After all, the game is garbage time. Except for Mozgov, the other Nuggets players are almost waiting for defensive rebounds, which gives Zhang Feng more room to take off.

Patton's shot bounced out directly and did not fly to Mozgov's area. However, Zhang Feng actively avoided Mozgov's defensive range and just barely touched the ball. He did not choose to grab the rebound.

Giving the Nuggets players a chance to defend again, Zhang Feng directly moved his palm forward and completed the tip-in during the take-off process.

Zhang Feng's good hand feeling was fully demonstrated. This tip-in was extremely soft. Although the ball did not directly enter the frame, it bounced off the backboard and the neck of the basket and finally did it.

Zhang Feng's first goal in his NBA career was obtained by actively fighting for offensive rebounds on his own, using his own enthusiasm. By the way, he also added an offensive rebound statistic.

Although Mozgov wanted to regain the field and hit Zhang Feng when he was attacking, the Nuggets' defender seemed to have not seen Mozgov's position and hurriedly took action to complete the attack.

Zhang Feng directly grabbed the rebound when he hit the iron...

The game finally ended at 116-98. Zhang Feng came off the bench for three and a half minutes, made one shot, scored 2 points on a tip-in, and contributed 4 rebounds including an offensive rebound.

In his NBA debut, his performance was quite remarkable. What Trail Blazers head coach Stotts admired very much was Zhang Feng's enthusiasm, especially when he faced Mozgov directly and took the initiative to find physical confrontation at both ends of the offense and defense.

Mozgov's physical strength, but at critical moments, he always gets rid of confrontation methods that are not conducive to him, and instead relies on technology and mobility to make position choices, which Stotts admires very much.
Chapter completed!