Chapter 9: Warriors on the Road
August 7th. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoNets head coach's office.
"Chen, the player manager you are looking for has already thought about it. The preseason allowed him to get involved. There is no salary, though. When will the contract be awarded? Judging by his pre-season performances, maybe no contract will be given to him. He'll be competing with Harris, Bennett, Whitehead and McCullough for the season. And Sean has been terminated by us. ā
Atkinson spoke these words relatively quickly.
"I said I hadn't seen Sean in the past few days."
"By the way, Chen, how did you find this Daniels?" The coach asked casually with some interest.
"I looked at all the players who had contracts in the last five years, and the list of players who had been fired from the Development League in the last five years but who had done well in college or in the Development League. Daniels is the best overall stat on the 10-man roster I've found among shooting guards. But that's not to say that the other nine aren't good enough. ā
"Did you do it yourself or did someone sort it out for you?" Atkinson asked, staring straight at me with obvious surprise.
"I sorted it out myself. Not bad. It's not as difficult as it seems. But it also took me a certain amount of time. ā
"Well, now we are still a little short of manpower, and it's a little difficult for you. Well done! Then you go to the arena. Nothing else. Some expressions of surprise and relief alternated on Atkinson's face. The young man didn't seem to be a vase.
"Nothing. Then I'm going coach! Daniels will jump for joy when he hears the news! Looking at the manager, he smiled and nodded. I happily walked out of his office.
Troy Daniels was a statistically impressive scoring guard in college! But perhaps premature fame made him start to be conceited. There are more problems. Until he was snubbed by the NBA team a few times, his self-confidence was severely hit! I believe that after this special experience, he will be able to become more calm. Find the video of his college game and watch it. That particularly arrogant Daniels should be gone.
Really. Daniels danced with joy after hearing the news! But within 1 hour the person was gone.
"Hey! Why are you going to the big night! I shouted at Daniels, who was running out a little unhappily. As for being so happy?
"Chen! I'm going out and training for a while! I'm going to get a chance to show up! ā
Daniels was training for almost most of the day! He doesn't go when we go out to play. A man running around in the training gym. Bring yourself a bunch of basketballs and practice there! It seems that he really cherishes this opportunity!
In the blink of an eye, it was the night before the pre-season. Lin and Brooke looked relaxed. But with four or five players it's not so easy. They had to have three men who ended up being cut by the team.
The Brooklyn Nets will rush to Oracle Arena to face the Golden State Warriors away!
Green, Livingston, Vallejo, McAdoo and McCaw are the Warriors' starting lineup. The Nets sent Hamilton, Grevis, Harris, Langday, and McCullough to the court.
In the preseason, the main players generally don't play much time. Or some simply don't play. The main purpose is to test the run-in of the whole team, as well as to identify and adjust the problems of the team. It's an early warm-up for the regular season.
In addition to Jeremy Lin's 10-million-level contract joining the Nets, this game has become a hot topic for everyone. It was Chen sitting on the bench.
"The Nets have done a great job this season. Let's leave aside what level Brooklyn can achieve this season. Judging from the hiring of Chen as an assistant coach and Jeremy Lin as the core defender, even if the record is not ideal, he will not lose much. ā
"Well, but then again. From the Nets' point of view, this may be their best bet. The operation of previous years has made it possible for the Nets to slow down until 2019. Draft picks, champion picks and throwing out as if they don't want money. As a result. In exchange for a poor performance of just over 20 games in a season! ā
The game started in the small talk between the two commentators.
Green didn't wait for McCullough to come up and hit a three-pointer! Greaves holds the ball and plays the role of playmaker. Passed the ball to Harris. Suddenly, a steal from McCaw passed the ball to McAdoo, who was running together. A direct layup and a violent dunk with a score of 5:0.
When the game reached 12:0, head coach Atkinson called a timeout, made player adjustments, and replaced Carlo with Scolama.
The game started again, and Greaves made a long pass to Hamilton under the basket, who went straight to the basket and scored!
From time to time, the camera is cast on Lin and Chen on the big screen. Brooke and Lin didn't know what they were talking about. And Chen stood up from time to time to communicate with the head coach.
With more than 5 minutes left in the game, he was replaced by Daniels, who had been waiting! The score was 55:43. The Warriors lead the Nets by 12 points. Scola had 13 points, 10 rebounds and three assists. Hamilton had seven points and 12 rebounds.
Daniels, who received a pass from Grevis, did not rush to attack, but passed the ball to Scola while people were not paying attention! Scola scored a 3-point jumper straight from the start! Green, who was still on the court, immediately returned with a three-pointer. 58:46ć
in the next round. Hamilton passes the ball to Grevis, who realizes it's too late for a layup and passes the ball to Daniels, who has been preparing for a long time next to him! Dribbling past McCaw is a powerful dunk!! This dunk seemed to make the drowsy audience come back to their senses and start watching the game again.
In less than 1 minute, Daniels contributed 2 points and 1 assist. The Warriors called a timeout immediately after Greaves hit a 3-pointer. The score is 58:51. It's already 7 points away! Clark replaces McCaw and Thompson replaces Green.
Daniels walked across half court with the ball. Didn't make a move to pass the ball. Chan has been watching his performance. Clark immediately ran over to defend Daniels. But with Daniels' disguised acceleration, he directly passed Clark and then shook Vallejo with a throw! Jeremy Lin and the rest of the team immediately jumped up and cheered!
Although the Warriors rained three points again in the second half. The final score was also fixed at 127:94. But the little-known Daniels still made a relatively deep impression.
Scola had 26 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists, Hamilton had 10 points and 16 rebounds, Greaves had 28 points, 3 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals, and Daniels played 16 minutes and contributed 12 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.