Ryan West sat on the chair on the sidelines, crossing his legs, holding a pen in his mouth, and staring at more than 20 players on the court who were striving to show himself hard.

He has a surname that is well-known in the NBA.

His father is the famous Lakers celebrity, the legendary NBA-LOGO portrait, Jerry West.

However, from the perspective of appearance, it is difficult for people who are not very familiar with the two to recognize that this is the son of Jerry.

Ryan West was born to Jerry West and his second wife. He has inherited more of his mother in appearance, with only towering eyebrows and deep eyes, especially like his father.

Ryan's son inherited his father's favor and was recruited by the Memphis Grizzlies since 2002 to become a scout on the team.

He has been in this position for 8 years and came to the Lakers in the 2009-10 season, and is also a scout.

This season, after the team owner's son Jace Bass served as scouting director, he cleaned up his past scout team and abandoned two rookie scouts.

Ryan West, as the son of a famous man, was certainly not cleaned, so he stayed.

The Lakers' scouts are mainly divided into two parts.

One is a college scout, who is mainly responsible for discovering new college talents.

One is an international scout who is responsible for the intelligence of new overseas players.

These two parts are managed by Lakers' veteran scout Irving Thomas.

He has been a college scout for the Lakers since the 2001-02 season.

And Ryan West does not belong to either of the two parts.

He is directly responsible for Jace Bass and conducts inspections on any potential rookies.

Of course, for the Los Angeles Lakers, they have never received too high draft picks and heavyweight rookies since they exchanged Divac to Kobe in 1996.

After all, the Lakers, who have Kobe and O'Neal, have been champions for a long time. What's the use of draft picks?

This season, the Lakers have sent away their first-round draft picks and second-round draft picks in 2012 in two deals.

They only have a 2012 second round pick that they got from the New Jersey Nets in 10 years.

It was a three-party deal between the Nets and the Rockets and the Lakers. The Lakers cleared Vujasic's contract and took two second-round picks.

This second-round pick in 12 years was exchanged for the Bucks when the Nets cleared Chris Douglas Roberts.

As for the Bucks' 12-year second-round pick, it is not its own. It is one of the head licks that the Bucks obtained from the Bulls when they traded Salmons in 10 years.

Therefore, this second-round pick was actually from the Chicago Bulls, and after three twists and turns, it was later in the hands of the Lakers.

The second round pick's signing and record are in reverse order. The higher the record, the lower the signing.

Unfortunately, in the regular season of the 2011-2012 season, the Chicago Bulls had the highest record in the league.

So the pick of this lottery is 30th place in the second round and 60th place in total.

That is the last position of the draft!

Then choose damn, how about choosing?

By the 60th place, daylily was picked out.

This means that the Lakers will do nothing again in the draft.

If you can like anything, others will like it, and then choose him.

If you don’t like it…you don’t like it anymore, then don’t look at it.

Anyway, this ranking is too awkward and has no transaction value.

The so-called chicken ribs are a pity to eat when they are tasteless, but it is difficult to even eat when they are tasteless.

You can't eat it at all!

Especially for the Lakers, the top picks in history, the second picks, and the last picks in the second round...

Of course, scouts have to be busier.

Because the Lakers do not have a high draft pick, they need to come to Taobao in such mid- and downstream training camps.

First, we will determine who the 60 people choose, and second, we will examine this group of newcomers.

Someone will definitely fail to be elected. Then they can get a few short contracts, and maybe they can find treasures.

However, Ryan West does not have great hope for this, which is obviously related to the Lakers' tradition.

As a wealthy family, located in Hollywood, the center of the West Coast, the Lakers never lack starlight, so naturally they do not have the habit of digging gold in the cesspool.

Teams like the Spurs, Rockets, and Thunder like to do this kind of work without fear of being dirty or tired.

Lakers? Sorry, there is no need.

Before coming, Ryan West had a main goal, Dalius Johnson Odom of Marquette University.

NBA teams will not wait until the training camp to start inspecting players. As early as in college, NCAA games were the battlefield for scouts.

Johnson Odom is a typical older rookie who has the strength in college but is difficult to survive in the NBA.

Height, weight, age, these hard indicators are all shackles that players like Odom cannot break through, so they can only hover near the NBA goal line.

The Lakers mainly liked his defensive vitality and his strong ready-to-fighting power.

The Lakers' point guard position has been a long-standing problem in the past two years. In March, they just traded the old point guard "Old Fish" Fisher.

The defender Dalius Morris, selected at the 11th draft last year, was not satisfactory to use.

A short and strong defender like Odom is indeed more in line with the Lakers' employment needs and employment strategies.

It was natural for West to come to inspect him.

And he just made his first defense, and his performance didn't satisfy West.

The opponent uses his body to directly press it to the inside line and scores on his head.

He is only against Marcus Damon, who is 6-foot-3, and there are countless tall and strong point guards in the NBA.

In the past two years, it has been a period of high-quality point guards. Ross, Curry, Wall, and Irving are more cruel than the other.

Odom...

West thought that the Lakers had only 60th picks, so he knew that he could not ask too much.

A guard like Fournier who has excellent physical tests, ball control and first-class shooting, can't even think about it.

Immediately afterwards, he saw that Ratliff was defeated under Li Liang's defense.

Very tough, quite perfect defense, didn't give Ratliff a chance.

After Ratliff's ball came out, Damon caught the ball and pointed Odom into the center of gravity.

Odom was too anxious to prove himself.

Damon dribbled directly into the three-second zone from the middle, like a hot knife cutting butter, extremely smooth.

Just when Damon was about to take a layup, a powerful force came from his hand.

With a "bang", the ball in Damon's hand was knocked out!

It was Li Liang who came from the right side to make up for defense.

Damon never expected Li Liang to take action so quickly and did not provide good protection for the ball, which was exposed to Li Liang's eyes.

Of course Li Liang will not be ruthless.

He has cut off James, Durant and Jordan's balls. Just Damon, holding the ball like a watermelon, wants to make a layup?

Go dreaming!

Li Liang, who successfully intercepted the ball, hugged the ball into his arms and passed it out to Fournier on the outside.

"This kid is interesting."

Seeing Li Liang's successful defense twice in a row, West began to turn his attention to Li Liang.

West found Li Liang's physical test report and glanced at it. It was mediocre, but there was no big weakness.

Especially considering that this is a Chinese student player, it is good to have such physical fitness.

Looking at his school information, it turned out to be from Kentucky, the champion this year.

West remembered that he watched the game, the boy who took the free throw at the last moment.

A complete water dispenser, except for free throws, how can you feel good to defend?

West decided to continue watching to see if the two goals just now were lucky.

Li Liang quickly proved his luck with practical actions, "Let me show me your luck?"

There is no such thing as luck in defense.

Fournier also felt a little surprised. This Blues Lee, the defense is good.

After getting the ball, he wanted to cooperate with Li Liang, but found that Li Liang would not come to respond at all.

He ran to the three-point line and stood there and did nothing.

So Fournier got the ball himself.
To be continued...