In the afternoon, Zhang Hao and Carter continued to train, and Mike Bibby went to play the game. He had a game this afternoon, and tomorrow it will be the McDonald's High School All-Star Game. After today's game, more than 2,000 fans on the scene will vote for 18 All-Star High School students.

But Zhang Hao didn't care, and Carter didn't care. The two competed in shooting duels, each time they had 50 goals. Zhang Hao made a long shot, Carter made three-pointers, and occasionally Carter would also make mid-range shots. Carter's foundation was also good, but compared to Zhang Hao, who specialized in mid-range shots and has made rapid progress recently, it was indeed far behind.

This made Carter more interested and decided to work hard on this.

On the second day, the McDonald's High School All-Star Game was coming, and neither Zhang Hao nor Carter were ready to watch it. The strength of the players on the field might not be lost to them. At this stage of high school, physical fitness is the first, so a genius like Mike Bibby who has outstanding skills has attracted special attention from those universities. Because of their specialty and good physical fitness, they are really a lot of things to do.

But the game itself...it's really nothing to watch.

Just when the two were focusing on personal training and occasionally trying to show off, there was an office on the second floor of the Great Western Forum Arena, from time to time, someone would watch the two's training in the window for a while.

"Jerry, are you observing that high school student again?" A middle-aged man in his 40s entered the office and said to Jerry West, general manager of the 50s at the window: "That person named Carter is very good, right? We can wait for him to come out of college and try to choose him."

In the public, Carter, who is still a high school student, is not known to him, but for the management of the NBA team with many scouts, Carter's talent has long been recognized. After all, he is the best high school student in Florida. He received a full scholarship promise from a basketball school North Carolina. After two or three years of college training, under normal circumstances, a very outstanding professional player will definitely appear.

Jerry West smiled and replied: "Yes, Mickey, Carter is excellent, maybe it will be part of our future revival plan."

The Lakers have a lot of high-quality chips, but the lottery picks in the next few years will not be easy to exchange. They have to really lose money, and they may have to use the center to exchange them.

There must be many teams competing for a talent like Carter. From the information currently known to Jerry West, he judged that the draft will be very popular in the next few years, and some teams will be very serious in the bad situation. Genius college students like Duncan, Iverson, and Olovo Kandy are so attractive.

Their Lakers' record will definitely not be much worse. With Divac, an All-Star center, who has also won so many outstanding players with mid- and low picks in the past three years, the playoffs are still in place, and it is basically impossible to get a lottery pick in the next two or three years.

Of course, what should be paid attention to is still to be paid attention to. Jerry West already has a revival plan and has begun to make arrangements in the media, but he is still one outside line.

Carter is one of the goals that Jerry West is concerned about. He reminds Jerry West of his youth Dominic Wilkins.

He started out because Carter came to train and paid attention to it, and did not go to Seattle with the team. They definitely didn't have a chance to win the championship this year. Although Eddie Jones and Van Exel have the strength of the All-Star Edge and Divac is also at the All-Star Edge level, it is difficult for these three to win the championship... Even if the three are at their peak, it is difficult for Jerry West to focus on the future since the mid-season trading deadline has not been gained.

By the way, Jerry West paid attention to a Chinese high school student and the talented white point guard in New Jersey. It was just because this Chinese high school student showed amazing running and jumping ability in the dunk contest trials two days ago. In the past two days, McDonald's has increased its publicity in the Chinese community, and Jerry West has an impression.

But he found that this Chinese high school student not only has excellent athletic ability, but also has excellent shooting ability!

Jerry West has observed Chinese players. From a theoretical perspective, these players have good shooting talents, but their shortcomings are more prominent. They maintain mobility and lack confrontation.

The same is true for Zhang Hao. If you want to talk about the shortcomings, it is that it is too "slim". It doesn't matter in high school, but it may be exposed in NCAA adult games.

Also, often speaking, the upper limit of Chinese players is not high, mainly Chinese basketball, which is basically limited to China. Chinese basketball is a system product and rarely lets players go to Europe and the American leagues to play. Chinese basketball development is abnormal. Almost every player has grown taller since childhood and plays centers from the beginning. The basic skills of inside players are relatively outstanding, but the basic skills of outside players are generally that they only start to concentrate on practicing outside skills after they are shaped, but it was too late at that time.

He saw Zhang Hao's training these two days and discovered something amazing.

In terms of technology, Zhang Hao has no choice but to compare with Mike Bibi, and is far behind Carterby.

But in mid-range shooting, Zhang Hao, who is still in high school, has already reached the NBA level! Maybe it is not particularly outstanding in the NBA, but it is definitely qualified, and even excellent!

Mike Bibby and Carter don’t have much conception, so they think Zhang Hao’s CNB is very good, but Jerry West, who has worked in the NBA for more than 30 years in the player + manager era, has seen more things.

This is not the end. Jerry West keenly saw the difference between Zhang Hao's training on the second day and the first day's training. In other words, Zhang Hao can complete an effective summary after one day of training!

It is different from being able to summarize things every time you train.

Zhang Hao's talent in mid-range shocked Jerry West! Mid-shooting is the most difficult of all shooting skills. Mike Bibby only specializes in the two-point range from the free throw line to the three-point line. Although Carter's shooting made Jerry West feel his comprehensive shooting talent, his talent in mid-range is not as amazing as Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao reminded Jerry West of a player - Andrew Tony of the former 76ers, the mid-range shot king who beat their championship team more than a decade ago in the Finals.

Jerry West specially asked a scout to collect Zhang Hao’s information. Since Zhang Hao is a high school student in Los Angeles, the information is not that difficult to collect.

The results collected made Jerry West a little puzzled. Why is such a high school student not interested in college?

Jerry West even believed that Zhang Hao went to study in the United States and then started practicing after becoming interested in basketball, because he could see something very special in the past two days...

However, Jerry West thought about it carefully and didn't even know Zhang Hao, the general manager of the local NBA team in Los Angeles, let alone those universities? Even he, in the past season, has only focused on local high school students in Los Angeles.

After all, so many high school students enter college every year, so many college students participate in the draft every year. After the draft reform, only 54 players enter the NBA through draft every year. Student groups must have the ability to obtain this way in the NBA. The focus on high school students is indeed the best players in every state deserve attention.

After paying attention to Zhang Hao, Jerry West remembered the high school student who could become a bead of his life in high school.

Next, even if Zhang Hao can't play in the NCAA first-level league, the secondary league... Jerry West doesn't think there is anything wrong with it. He may get the most resources and performance opportunities because there are no other geniuses. The disadvantage is that the NBA's attention to the secondary league is not that high, and there will be some attention. Every year, there are a few NCAA second-level league players selected by NBA teams, but this is what Jerry West wants. If Zhang Hao's pick is too high and has a lottery zone talent, then he will have no treasures to pick up.

Of course, it depends on whether Zhang Hao can continue to make progress in college, a high school student with top unball talent...

Accidentally discovered a dusty genius, Jerry West was very happy, while Mickey Kupchek didn't understand why this teacher and boss was so happy. Carter's talent was not as good as he could make him so happy, right? No matter how outstanding Carter is, he wouldn't be better than Mike Bibi's future No. 1 candidate, right?

...

On the evening of April 27, the McDonald's All-Star High School Championship came to an end, and the final MVP was won by a strong senior high school striker Devin George.

As expected, no splashes emerged. The next morning, when Zhang Hao was looking for this news in the sports newspaper, he found a very small page in the secondary page, and talked about Devin George's data and winning the McDonald's High School All-Star MVP.

The headlines of the Los Angeles Times, which is the news that the Lakers beat the Supersonics, is the trailer for the McDonald's high school student dunk contest tonight!

He also posted news that CNTV was going to broadcast live, as well as participating players, etc.

Zhang Hao has been training for the past two days, but later realized that he was used by McDonald's to attract Chinese communities to watch programs, which made him very happy. Which basketball player doesn't want to be paid attention to?

In his opinion, the flying devil from Wake Forest University who did not want to be named created a character who "I don't care about popularity", but they all do crazy things to attract fans.
Chapter completed!