"Ever since we were drafted, a lot of people have been saying that our team made a bad deal! We brothers can't argue with it now, but we'll use the court to tell those who look down on us that they're wrong! ”

On July 9, 2007, the first game of the Summer League will be played at the "Pavelian's Arena" in Las Vegas.

As rookies selected by the Clippers in the first round this year, the two brothers followed head coach Dunleavy to participate in the pre-game press conference.

"I'm a reporter for the New York Times, and your two brothers are very similar in size and position to your compatriot Yi Jianlian, do you think you will be better than him?"

"We don't know each other, my brother and I grew up in Vancouver and don't know much about the strength of the players in our hometown, so we have to leave this issue to prove on the field, and we are looking forward to playing against Yi Jianlian on the field."

After answering the reporter's question, Ji Guoqiu felt that the questions of these reporters were not too difficult for them, which was also related to the fact that they were still nobodies, and what could an unfamous player get for embarrassment?

However, counting the two of them this year, there are really some Chinese occupying the rhythm of the NBA, plus Space Yi and Sun Yue, there are a total of four Chinese players in the NBA this year, except for Sun Yue, three of them were selected in the first round, which is a great achievement.

In China, even if the media is not optimistic about the two brothers, fans are also excited that the great era of Chinese basketball is coming. Perhaps in the next few years, like this year, there will be batches of outstanding domestic players who will go abroad and come to the big stage of the NBA to shine and win glory for China.

Dunleavy Sr. said in an interview: "Our summer league this year is mainly focused on training and scouting young players, and both rookies and new signings have the opportunity to show their abilities. With a good schedule, the team will change the short-term contract to a one-year guaranteed contract. ”

Although the starting lineup of the Clippers this year is not bad, there are really few benches to be able to use, and the team has signed a lot of short-term contracts of 10 days during this time, hoping to find a few players who can use the wide net in the summer league.

However, in the heart of the old coach, except for the two brothers Ji Guoqiu, there is really nothing worth paying attention to in this group of players, and there is no one who can shine in front of them.

Today's opponent is the Denver Nuggets, last year the Nuggets formed the "Golden Twin Guns" of the Shock League, the combination of Iverson and Melon, the offensive power championship league, but the weakness of the defense made them still unable to compete for the championship, and they did not even break through the first round.

In summer league, most of the main players of each team are still on vacation, and the Clippers themselves are like this, and the Nuggets will not come to participate in such low-level games.

Ji Guoqiu and Ji Guoyi have been reporting to the team for two days, not to mention Brand, Margeti, and even Mobley, Kassel, and Kaman have not been seen.

Later, I heard from the assistant coach that the main players will not end their holidays until the preseason, and at the earliest after the end of the summer league. So they don't need to worry about "carrying bags" for the team boss, and now the two of them have the highest status in the team, but they have a three-year guaranteed contract, and most of the other teammates are non-guaranteed contracts, and many of them are even ten-day short-term contracts.

In the locker room, Dunleavy shouted to the players before coming out: "It's just a summer league game today, to be honest, no fans will watch such a boring game, only the team's coaching staff really pays attention to this game." So, you guys should know what that means? Now shout to me, do you want to play in the NBA? ”

Most of the players in the locker room were from the Development League, and they didn't dare to answer loudly, all of them shouted at the top of their voices: "Yes, we want to!" ”

Dunleavy smiled: "It's useless for you to think about it, the decision is in my hands, and the way to impress me is to have an excellent performance on the court." The starting lineup is now announced, point guard Smush Parker, scoring guard Quinton Rose, small forward Ruben Patterson editor, power forward Ji Guoqiu, and center Ji Guoqiu. ”

The two brothers sat in their chairs and listened to the head coach announce the starting list, they knew that they would definitely be selected as the starting lineup, they were the focus of the team's training, and the coaching staff also wanted to see if the two were on the field and whether they had shown their strength in training.

When the team played, Ji Guoqiu and Ji Guoyi walked out of the players' tunnel, looked around, and found that although the "Pavelian Arena" was not small, there were not many people sitting, at most sixty percent of the attendance rate, and many seats were vacant.

It's normal, they don't have any rookies on the team, and the game is not at home in Los Angeles, and of course not many people watch their games, and it's good to have a 60% attendance. They are nowhere near as good as the SuperSonics and the Trail Blazers, and even the Bucks have a lot more attendance than them, because they have something to watch.

"Pavelian Arena" came to the "Pavelian Arena" today, and it should be a special trip to support the two of them. Although they didn't make a name for themselves during college, there are Chinese everywhere in the world, even in Las Vegas, where there are many Chinese.

The two brothers are very handsome, with sharp edges and corners, straight noses, dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes, plus they are tall, they can really be described as "handsome and chic, and their aura is extraordinary".

Space Yi is the most handsome in the Chinese men's basketball team, but it is still a lot worse than the two brothers. Especially since the two of them are still twins, the visual impact swings there, which can immediately attract everyone's attention.

The elder brother Ji Guoqiu plays center and wears the No. 6 jersey, and the younger brother Ji Guoqiu plays as a power forward and wears the No. 9 jersey.

Nuggets' starting lineup: point guard Anthony Carter, shooting guard J. R。 Smith, small forward Jakhba Diawara, power forward Linus Kreza, center Steven Hunter

In the opposing lineup, J.R. Smith and Kreiza are already famous, one is a famous nerve knife in the league, and the other is a European star, both of whom had good performances last season.

On the other hand, none of the Clippers team has proven themselves in the NBA.

The two brothers are born again and know that the Clippers' record this year will be a mess, in addition to the accidental injury of captain Brand, it is also inseparable from these poor benches. But now with the two of them, the Clippers won't be as slumped as they were in the old plane.

With them, do the Clippers have to wait for Griffin?

"Boss, Kreza is a lot shorter than me, you have to help me brush up more points today." Before Ji Guoyi jumped the ball, he secretly said in his heart.

"It's okay to help you score, but you can't be lazy defensively!" Ji Guoqiu doesn't care about helping his younger brother score points, he is currently defending more than attacking, and is better at defense and rebounding.

The two discussed the division of labor, and the game was about to begin, with the players of both teams returning to their own half of the court and preparing to jump the ball.

Ji Guoqiu's height is 211cm, which is the height of his bare feet, under normal circumstances, ninety percent of the players in the NBA report the height of wearing shoes, and will make a little more false report on top of this. The two brothers were no exception, and the Clippers shamelessly changed their height to 216cm in order to make them more deterrent.

In addition to weighing 230 pounds and 1cm taller, his vertical bounce has also reached 80cm, which is a very good number among center players.

The vertical bounce of Warcraft Howard did not exceed 100cm, and it was already a rare bouncing monster in the alliance.

Ji's opponent is Steven Hunter, who is 213cm tall and weighs 240 pounds, making him slightly stronger.

The referee throws the basketball into the sky and the game begins.

The two bounced to the ground at the same time, Ji Guoqiu obviously outperformed each other in terms of speed and bounce, especially the pair of 228cm arm span, as soon as he stretched it out, he was crazy, and easily dialed the basketball to his own half, and the Clippers attacked first.

The few reporters on the sidelines witnessed the whole process of jumping the ball and marveled at Ji Guoqiu's jumping ability and his terrifying arm span.

The height of the two brothers is almost the same, and the arm span is the same, and everyone thinks in their hearts that when the two of them stand together in the three-second zone, it is like a "Patriot missile" in the sky, and it is forbidden to fly!

Black Parker dribbled to the frontcourt, a player whose heart was higher than the sky and whose life was thinner than paper, who always took it for granted and thought too highly of himself when he was young. Now that four or five years have passed, the edges and corners have long been smoothed, and I know that what I am pursuing is actually just a guaranteed basic salary contract.

So when Ji Guoqiu raised the position to respond, he immediately handed the ball to the other party.

Ji Guoqiu does not have the ability to play alone in the low post, his scoring mainly relies on two low-post and mid-range jumpers from the free throw line, and the rest is the second offense after grabbing the rebound in the front court, plus picking up leaks under the basket to score. However, he has the ability to respond to a high position, thanks to the telepathy between him and Ji Guoyi, the cooperation between the two is beyond ordinary people's imagination, and they can pass the basketball over as soon as the other party has a chance to shoot.

He catches the basketball with his back to the free throw line, quickly turns around, and then uses his reach to hold the ball high in one hand, looking for a pass opportunity and a mid-range shot at the same time, and he is in a position where he can shoot straight away.

Hunter was focused and didn't give him a shot.

Ji Guoyi suddenly started running from the left side of the low post at this time and ran outside the three-point line on the right. His explosiveness, speed and agility are much better than Ji Guoqiu, even compared to the average small forward. This sudden run caught Kreza, who was defending him, a little off guard, and he didn't follow up in the first place.

The opportunity of the Clippers, Ji Guoyi just ran to the right side of the 45-degree three-point line and stood up, and the basketball was just right to pass to his hands, what he had to do was very simple, jump shot......

Kreiza caught up and only raised his hand symbolically, and the basketball had already drawn a wonderful arc, and it drilled into the net with a "swish"!

The elder Dunleavy waved his hand fiercely on the sidelines, what he wanted was a table like the two brothers, and the two of them relied on this cooperation to impress him and the team's top management, otherwise only his head coach's opinion would not allow the Clippers to make a deal with the 76ers.

"These are two gems, and unpolished gems!" Dunleavy thought with some excitement in his heart that the two brothers' physical qualities were definitely first-class among the interior players, and the basic skills of the two didn't seem to be bad, he didn't understand why the two couldn't play in college? With their strength, any team in the top 64 has a chance to win the NCAA championship, but the two are unknown in college?

But then Dunleavy thought that if the two weren't famous in college, it wouldn't be their turn to pick up the leaks. The 76ers have three first-round picks this year, and I'm afraid that the two drafts will be the Philadelphia 76ers at that time.

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