In today's game, Liu Xiu's casual look seemed to others to be indifferent, and some people thought he was confident.

In the eyes of his teammates, Liu Xiu was already high-spirited before the game even started, and his eyes seemed to be full of stars and sea...

Then Liu Xiu was always full of fighting spirit during the competition. He would keep working hard even if he played well. He would not be discouraged if he didn't play well and would try to find a way. In a competition of this level, it seemed that it was not difficult to get him.

But in fact, he tried his best.

'There is a huge difference between professional basketball and college basketball. Centers like Ruben Bontje and Lauren Woods are definitely very good centers in college, but only in the summer league, they are just ordinary players.

, I can’t even play in the NBA.'

Liu Xiu felt a little sad when he thought about this.

He hadn't noticed one thing before - the undrafted players who were looking for jobs in the summer league, and who might really not be able to find a job, and the discarded rookies were all once the favorites in college!

Regardless of tacit understanding or teamwork, and only looking at individual abilities, the summer league can ruin the NCAA Basketball Championship.

When I was in college, it was good to have one or two opponents like Kirk Perry or Lauren Woods in a game.

After leaving college and coming to the summer league, it was just a summer league. Players like Kirk Perry and Lauren Woods were actually one of the weakest players against their opponents...

After all, in March Madness alone, there are more than 60 teams and hundreds of Division I schools. Only a few dozen people enter the NBA every year. The top ones who don't enter are looking for places like summer leagues.

Possibility of entering the NBA.

As for the "laziness" he always maintains on the court, it is actually limited to his expressions and some small body movements that have nothing to do with the game.

He would never tell others that he had specially practiced these expressions and small movements.

'Oh, now that I'm in the NBA, I have to accept this.'

'Playing one more year in college will definitely make it easier to get started in the NBA; but system upgrades will come later...each has its own benefits.'

'My goal for my rookie season - to get stable playing time and have my place on the team!'

Being lazy also has its benefits. After Liu Xiudan felt pain for a while, he chose to accept it.

As soon as I thought about it, the system prompt came.

"Please host to set the simulation training goal and time. The simulation training will be carried out in the set order. When the remaining physical strength is exhausted..."

He has already understood the coaching staff's interest in him, that is, if he can't sell his combat power at a high price, then he will sell his 'talent'!

Therefore, he chose post-up simulation training.

The duration of simulation training is of course tough.

Before falling into a deep sleep, Liu Xiu thought - 'I thought I was a hard-working player. I worked hard every day to restrain my urge to train and conserve my energy for simulated training. However, in the NBA, I turned out to be a talented player...'

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The three summer leagues in early to mid-July have begun.

Liu Xiu saw from the news that almost 350 athletes participated in the first three groups of summer leagues. Among them, there were 106 players selected this year and undrafted rookies, less than half of this year's rookies.

Liu Xiu couldn't help but sigh at this number. The rookie candidate was actually the top amateur basketball player in the United States, and he was a young genius in his twenties.

As a result, more than half of them didn't even get a chance to enter the summer league.

But it’s just a sigh of relief, the daily feelings make me shed tears, and there is nothing more.

The Orlando Summer League has kicked off. There will be one game every day for 5 consecutive days. This event will be over. Rankings will be based on the number of wins.

After all, it is a new summer league, and the rules are not as complete as the Las Vegas Summer League. There are sometimes more than twenty teams participating in the Las Vegas Summer League.

On July 8, the second game day, the Trail Blazers faced off against the host Magic.

Seeing the Magic's jersey at this stage, Liu Xiu thought of the edited interview clip that went viral for a long time - 'I am already thinking about my opponents in the next round.'

McGrady is right about this sentence, but there is another half sentence before it - 'If it were last season'.

The background is that when McGrady led the Magic to face the Pistons, who were first in the Eastern Conference, in the first round, they led by a huge score of 3 to 1. It just so happened that the best-of-seven games in the first round was the beginning of this playoffs.

Damn it, after Tracy McGrady said these words, the Pistons won three games in a row and made a huge comeback 4-3.

The Magic's draft was also very miserable. They actually selected the player they wanted - Reese Gaines, a tall shooting guard who is 198 centimeters tall and weighs 93 kilograms. The draft template is very interesting - Kobe Bryant.

As a result, after the draft, before the free market opened, Reese Gaines fell at a party and injured his groin...

Liu Xiu saw in the news that Reese Gaines was injured for six to eight weeks. To put it simply, he would not be able to play in the summer league.

For the first few draft picks, even if their rookie season is canceled immediately, each team will be patient. However, in the middle of the first round, the rookies in this range are generally the "bet on talent" type of rookies.

Rookies in this range have a certain amount of talent, but their talent is not high enough to be recognized, and their combat power is usually not very high either.

This type of rookie gets injured as soon as he is drafted. He cannot play in the summer league during his rookie season, and his future is cast into a shadow...

The Magic don't have any great young players in the summer league this year. There is only one player under contract, the 2002 second-round pick power forward Robert Archibald.

There are two rookies, one is Zaza Pachulia, who was selected with the 13th overall pick in the second round, and the other is undrafted rookie power forward Britton Johnson.

The other dozen or so players are all Development League players, overseas players, and veterans who have difficulty finding jobs in the NBA for the time being.

Don't tell me, such a team is the strongest among the six participating teams!

92 to 104, the Trail Blazers were beaten by the host Magic and lost the second game.

In fact, summer leagues are not all about winning players with contracts. As more and more summer leagues are held, a group of "old bastards" have appeared.

There is always a group of players whose strength and talent are not up to the NBA level. They hang out in the Development League or low-level leagues. They no longer expect to enter the NBA. They are used to the current life and are even well-known in the locations where teams are located. They compete with each other.

They are very familiar with each other, and they have a tacit understanding when playing together. When playing bad ball, some top NBA stars may not be able to please them when they meet them.

Every year, there are always a few teams that don’t have good young players to play in the summer league, but they have to play. They have to try to find some treasure no matter what. In order to ensure that the lineup is competitive in the summer league, they will sign those players.

'Old bastard'.

This was the first time Liu Xiu encountered this kind of thing. When he heard Randolph talk about this, his basketball knowledge was expanded.

He doesn't think there's anything wrong with this. This is a fuller and more normal basketball world.

In this game against the Magic, Liu Xiu played 26 minutes and scored 9 points, 3 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal, and 4 turnovers. His performance was not bad. He made a few mistakes, but most of them were not his problem.

His style of play is very steady!

He knows what he needs to show, and shows his ‘talent’ on a solid basis.

It's a pity that he didn't get much profit from the Magic team. After the whole game, he only got 71 healing points, and the basic healing value of the game was only 50 points.

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On July 9th, the third game day of the Orlando Summer League, at 7 pm, the Trail Blazers played a game with the Timberwolves.

The strength gap is too big. The Timberwolves did not find a group of "old bastards" like the host Magic team, but the Timberwolves themselves have not had many high-quality young players in recent years.

The problem still lies with the Timberwolves themselves. Joe Smith’s yin and yang contract deprived the Timberwolves of their first-round draft rights from 2001 to 2005!

When many media reported on the punishment suffered by the Timberwolves, they did not say it accurately. They said that the league deducted the Timberwolves' first-round draft picks in the past five years. In fact, the league deprived the Timberwolves of their first-round draft picks in the past five years.

Without first-round draft eligibility, the Timberwolves can't even get the first-round picks in these five years through trade to select their favorite rookie.

So in the past few years, Garnett has gradually entered his peak period, but the Timberwolves have had a particularly difficult time because they have one less method of reinforcement than other teams.

Before this year's draft lottery, the league returned the 2003 and 2005 draft qualifications to the Timberwolves. However, the Timberwolves had a record of 51 wins and 31 losses last season, fourth in the league, and only selected a British player with the 26th overall pick.

Power forward Endi Ibi.

The most profound impression left on Liu Xiu by this power forward of the same generation was that he was thin!

If it weren't for the huge height difference, Liu Xiuzhen would have wanted to sit inside and beat the power forward of the same class.

Liu Xiu, 93 kg. This 206 cm power forward weighs 92 kg.

Tonight, Liu Xiu rushed to the basket and pushed away the opponent's inside layup. Counting free throws, the total was 10 points...

This time the Trail Blazers performed ferociously, slaughtering the Timberwolves by more than 30 points 116-79.

Liu Xiu had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Randolph had 21 points, Travis Outlaw had 21 points, and Quintel Woods scored a game-high 30 points.

In this game, Liu Xiu still didn't get much conventional healing points, 85 points, but he won the game and performed very well. Although it was not as influential as the game with the Heat, Quintel Woods took advantage of it.

The opponent's poor defense of the basket scored 30 points and became the best in the game, but Liu Xiu performed very well and received an A- rating and 150 healing points.

After the game, Liu Xiu looked at the game scores and was satisfied today.

A game has 235 healing points. Normally, it would be enough to simulate training when you are lazy for a day and your physical strength is 'full'. Now when there are games every day, you can only simulate training for a few hours, even if it is a back attack that consumes a lot of healing value.

Training is enough for three days.

The person being interviewed tonight is Quintel Woods, and Liu Xiu will be interviewed by domestic reporters in the locker room later.

Just as he was about to leave, a tall man appeared in front of Liu Xiu.

Future Lakers star LeBron James!

James took the initiative to come to Liu Xiu and greeted him: "Hello, Jess, your performance today was great. I really hope that tomorrow will come immediately so that we can play against each other earlier."

This way of greeting is something James has thought about repeatedly, and is 'unique to Nestume', which is relatively formal.

Later, he complimented me directly without being too polite, trying to build a relationship.

James has watched Liu Xiu's two games, and he thinks Liu Xiu's strength...is average, but Liu Xiu's style of play, James feels, is inexplicably compatible with him.
To be continued...