Thinness may not be Zhou Qi’s biggest shortcoming.

According to Wei Xia's observation, he has two biggest shortcomings, one is the problem he suffered when he was a child.

When he was in the sports school, he was a defender and had excellent basic skills in controlling fortunes. He won Chamberlain-like data in the Turkish Invitational Tournament, which became famous for the great devil, and led the National Youth to win the first world championship in the history of the Chinese basketball team.

At that time, he was a small forward playing style.

The youth team can dominate with talent, especially his height, long arms, and being able to attack with the ball is an unsolvable bug at the junior level. In the adult team, confrontation is the place to determine the upper limit. Zhou Qi cannot be as dominant as the youth team. Confrontation is a large part of the reason, but it is not just confrontation. According to Wei Xia's observation, his basic skills in the inside line are very poor. If it were ten years ago, he might not have the chance to play the NBA at all.

Now is a different era. The 76ers' 41 system, the Warriors' small ball storm, and Curry's epoch-making three-pointer have brought about a revolution in the basketball world.

This is an era of spatialization, so poor basic skills in the inside line may not affect Zhou Qi's NBA prospects.

Another problem with him is his scouts' common fighting spirit and commitment to the game.

Wei Xia can understand what he calls paddling and lack of fighting spirit from the athlete's level. His body shape is often short, and continuous force will be squeezed out quickly. I believe that in order to protect him, sports school coaches will save his energy and energy since childhood. In the long run, he will develop this habit.

In addition, before adulthood, he has been in and out of national youth teams at all levels to play competitions. Whether it is the Asian Youth Championship or the World Youth Championship, there are not many opponents worth taking seriously. If the opponent is too weak, he can dominate the game; if the opponent is too strong, he can't win no matter how hard he plays, so he just takes a walk or simply saves his physical strength. Only when he encounters strong Asian enemies and those opponents who can fight in the World Championship will he give his all.

This bad habit of being a small fashion, big but not good, was brought to the adult team, so every American scout who went to China to inspect him left a very dazzling evaluation of lack of concentration, doubts about enthusiasm, lack of competitiveness and other very dazzling comments on the report.

Wei Xia observed Zhou Qi for a long time, and he was playing a three-on-three full-game confrontation.

Zhou Qi is very clear about what role he will play in the NBA. He basically just pick-and-roll outspreading and rarely goes as the ball holder does not give him the ball.

He is still adapting to the NBA's range.

In this match, he made 1 of 6 three-pointers.

But his opponent made Wei Xia’s eyes shine. He was a pure black man. His physical condition and figure made Wei Xia think of Durant.

His defense area is large and his pace is extremely fast. If he can shoot three points, he will definitely be the perfect number four position under the 41 system.

Wei Xia seemed to think too far. This man didn't shoot three points at all. He came with the attitude of governing Zhou Qi, and every attack would have to attack the penalty area.

Then, Wei Xia saw another surprised scene.

He likes to dribble with his left hand, then pick up a beautiful right hand and turn around and make a layup.

Zhou Qi suffered two losses before he was cheered up. Then, he discovered the opponent's problem. This man could only dribble with his left hand and then turn around and lay up with his right hand.

Although his body's layup was very smooth, as long as the defenders were seen through, especially Zhou Qi's 217233 physical configuration, he could only look for hats.

Zhou Qi seemed to find that there were many people looking at them, and his trial performance was very important.

Zhou Qi, who is serious, is a fearsome defender.

Facing rookies of his class, his body will not suffer a big loss, and his arm span advantage is enough to close everything. Coupled with the same height and best-in-class movement speed, his basket protection ability is still top-notch even if it is placed at the NBA level.

"Wish, do you have any ideas?" Hinki suddenly appeared, which really scared Wei Xia.

"Jesus Christ!" Weisha complained, "Sam, why are you walking without sound?"

Hinki is a person who doesn't know how to joke. When Wei Xia complained, he just said apologetically: "I don't want to bother you."

"Scaring may be a worse choice than disturbing," Wei Xia complained.

"Well, then do you think there is a good choice among this group of people?" Hinki asked.

Today, the 76ers tried out a total of 8 fresh players.

There are 6 in this game and 2 on the side.

"I'll just get straight to the point." Wei Xia asked, "Does the team plan to choose cheese 1?"

The word 1 Qi is very similar to "cheese" in the English context.

"He has great potential, isn't he?" Hinki asked back.

This is equivalent to answering.

"Even if he is thin, he may not be able to adapt to the strength of the NBA, and even his age is not real?" Wei Xia believes that the team cannot ignore these things.

He was just not sure whether the 76ers were suitable for Zhou Qi.

A player like him needs correct long-term planning and slowly polishing to become successful.

The question is, which team will care about non-loto players?

"It is precisely because of his age that we can get him." Hinki felt that if Zhou Qi did not make an age goal, then in this draft, with his talent and official age, it would be impossible to fall to the end of the first round or the second round.

"As for physical confrontation, everything that can be improved with training is not a problem."

“In the rankings we have, there are not many options available.”

It seems that Hinki is not purely for the Chinese market. Indeed, Zhou Qi's talent is well-known.

"Then I strongly recommend that you focus on your cheese opponents," said Wei Xia. "His talent is not inferior to cheese."

Hearing this, Hinki said with a smile: "From the perspective of development, the person you are optimistic about may not be as good as cheese."

"Oh?" It turns out that Wei Xia doesn't understand the ball?

"That kid is an African, 22 years old, averaged 2010 in the intermediate league average, looking thinner than cheese, and ncaa's three-point shooting percentage is only 20%.

Simply put, when you are old and play in a weak competitive league, the data is seriously hydrated. At the age of 22, you look thinner than Zhou Qi, who is 20 years old. As a very thin wing, NCAA's short three-point line hits 20%.

In addition to age and data, which require reading scout reports, Wei Xia has already learned about the fact that he is very thin, has poor three-pointers or even cannot make a shot through observation.

What attracted him was not just the size.

"Do you know where I like him?" This sentence sounds erotic.

Hinki's rhetorical question is even more erotic: "Size?"

Fortunately, these are two pure straight men, and even if someone hears their conversation, they won’t think about it.

"First of all, he has a lot of energy," because Wei Xia himself is a very energy-rich player. "As a wing player, he has delicate skills and knows how to do things with his arm span. This shows that he is not a fool, and the straight line speed is very fast. Whether you follow up on fast attacks or counterattacks with the ball, you can see him running like a cheetah. And his lateral movement speed, my god, this is talent, this is a six-foot-nine-inch spider-man!"

Scouts analyze players based on the details they observe and predict prospects based on their talents and immediate combat power.

The players can see some strange things.

Some players only value whether the player’s household registration book is from their alma mater. If so, they have no brains to choose;

Some people value whether the quality of players is in line with the team's culture;

Wei Xia also has a set of standards. He valued Hayward at the beginning because the other party was like him. In college, for the needs of the team, he was willing to fight with the No. 4 position, and made a name for himself, attracting the attention of the whole United States.

The person he saw today, what he saw, was a power of desire.

He has a good impression of such players. As for his skills, speed, and athleticism, they are just characteristics of his strengthening impression.

The 76ers only have 24 picks in the first round and 27 picks in the first round, so there are not many choices left for them.

Wei Xia gave his own opinions, said hello to Zhou Qi and left the sunset center.

Before the draft, the 76ers were the first to report that they were preparing to sign a contract with the Chinese center Wang Zhelin who was selected last year.

This news is exciting, but what Chinese fans didn't expect was that a few days later, the 76ers selected Zhou Qi with the 27th pick in the first round.

This is a relief for Zhou Qi and his family.

On the day of the draft, Zhou Qi's team seemed to have received the verbal promise from the NBA team, so TX Sports, who received the news, invited his father to the live broadcast room to witness it together.

As a result, until the end of the first round, 76ers took action and Zhou Qicai made the list.

Perhaps it was because of shame that deprived the language organization ability, Zhou Qi's father said incoherently: "With Yao's lesson, Zhou Qi will definitely find a foothold in the NBA."

In addition to choosing Zhou Qi with his first round pick, the 76ers also chose older rookie Pascal Siakam with the 24th pick in the first round.

And, the second round of the second round selected the guard of North Carolina (marcus   paige    pg).

The draft came to an end, and the 76ers chose an inside, a wing, and a defender.
Chapter completed!