Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already June 2008.

In the past two months, some players of the Devils team, the trident of Xu Yong, Harden and Ayers, plus Kuksicks, Boateng and Albert formed a mini training camp and sweated in the school's training hall.

The content of their respective training is different.

Xu Yong practiced pull-up shots and dribbling breakthroughs, Harden practiced shooting and defense, Ayers and Boateng practiced inside positioning and offense and defense, Albert practiced shooting and breakthroughs, and Cooksix practiced defense and spot three-pointers.

It can be seen from the content that their training contents are overlapping.

This will be very convenient, for example, Cooksix defends Xu Yong, Cooksix defends Harden, and Cooksix defends Albert.

Kuxkes: o(╥﹏╥)o

In addition, there are exactly six people, so it is impossible to practice on the whole court, but the three-on-three half-court arrangement can still be a good way to test the training results.

Among them, Xu Yong's pull-up jump shot and Harden's defense were particularly impressive.

These two technologies have one thing in common: they were both created from scratch.

After nearly two and a half months of training, Xu Yong's pull-up jump shot has shown initial results. What he needs to do now is to gradually improve his stability.

As for Harden's defense, it depends more on willingness and commitment. Because Xu Yong's ball-handling ability has improved, he can allocate his physical energy to defense.

In order to improve his lateral movement ability, which is the most important in defense, Harden also lost weight and gained muscle, which made him look more muscular.

All in all, after two months, their progress is visible to the naked eye.

And in recent days, Sandek also finished his player observation and returned to school.

When he appeared in the training hall, the players stopped training one after another.

When Xu Yong and Harden saw the familiar figure coming to the training hall with Sandek, they were both stunned.

Harden looked incredulous, and Xu Yong couldn't help but wipe his eyes.

Because that person is DeMar DeRozan!

Sandek actually convinced DeRozan to come to the Devils?

No, American high school students graduate in May or June. In other words, DeRozan should have decided to play for the Devils before graduation!

"DeMar, why didn't you tell me in advance?" Harden asked with his eyes wide open. He was so smart that he naturally wanted to get that level.

"I want to give you a surprise. Tell me, are you happy now?" DeRozan asked with a smile.

Harden burst into laughter upon hearing this and gave his childhood friend a big hug.

How could they not be happy? They didn't get to play in the same high school, but now they finally get to play together in college.

Xu Yong also walked forward at this time, and after DeRozan and Harden hugged each other, he shook hands with him and bumped shoulders with him.

Harden was more excited and more surprised.

In his last year of high school at Compton High School, DeRozan averaged 29.2 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3 steals per game, leading the team to finally win the California High School League championship. Such statistics and performance ranked him directly fifth among the 2008 high school students, which is much higher than Harden at the time!

And he has the impression that Harden and DeRozan did not graduate from the same university.

It is also impossible to say that because he was reborn, Harden and DeRozan's childhood relationship has become closer.

So the only explanation is that the appearance of this butterfly changed the course of history.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing for DeRozan? Xu Yong doesn't know, but what he can be sure of is that this is definitely a good thing for the Devils.

With the addition of DeRozan, the talent of the Devils team has also been greatly improved.

Not to mention the fans, he himself is full of expectations for the new season.

After DeRozan joined, their training intensity and enthusiasm increased a lot compared to before.

Because they can see their own progress, and the addition of DeRozan is real, they can be expected to achieve great things in the new season.

Cooksix was forcing a smile.jpg, because he had to defend another person, DeRozan.

Everyone, human or ghost, is showing off, only he is getting beaten.

When the two were attacking and defending one-on-one, Xu Yong watched from the sidelines and gained a basic understanding of DeRozan's current strength.

Contrary to his impression that "the college version of DeRozan was a rough guy", DeRozan can now play facing the basket and with his back to the basket, and his mid-range shots and turning around during breakthroughs are his specialties.

This is actually somewhat similar to Griffin, whom he played against last season. If he can perform technical moves at the intensity of NCAA games but cannot do so in the NBA, then he will look like a rough guy.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to average nearly 30 points per game in high school.

Moreover, DeRozan is very fast and has strong explosive power. Like Xu Yong, he is also good at flying and hiding.

But if you compare him with Xu Yong, he is worse in terms of dynamic jumping and jumping speed, as well as static height and wingspan.

This is probably the reason why, despite his great skills as the successor of Mamba, he always gives people the feeling that something is lacking.

The lower limit of basketball depends on hard work, but the upper limit depends on talent.

Moreover, his current confrontation ability is relatively weak. After all, few people dare to train their strength as hard as Xu Yong did when they were growing up.

"Xu, should we look forward to the championship next season?" At this moment, Albert turned around and asked.

Xu Yong smiled and neither answered nor denied it.

I didn't answer because I didn't want to undermine Albert's confidence.

The reason why he didn't deny it is that what Albert said was like a bell in his arms, which he wanted to ring beautifully.

It’s not that easy to win the NCAA championship. Do you really think this is a basketball novel?

Of the two teams that made it to the finals last season, the University of Kansas had 10 four-star players (including 5 five-star high school students), 7 of whom later entered the NBA; the University of Memphis had fewer players who entered the NBA, only 4, but it also had 8 four-star players. The key was that they had experienced Rose, who was already unstoppable in the NCAA.

And last season was by no means an exception. Take 2009 for example, a weak year for the draft. The winning University of North Carolina had 11 four-star players (including 6 five-star players), 7 of whom entered the NBA. The runner-up Michigan State University also had 8 four-star players.

This actually illustrates a fact, because the NCAA does not have a transfer system and students can play for four years, there is basically only one way to win the championship: pile up talent.

Otherwise, why are the champions always the big teams?

It’s all about internal competition!

As for them, even if we count the newly arrived DeRozan, there are 2 five-star players and 1 four-star player, and the rest are just small fry. Only Cooksicks, a three-star player, is considered to have good talent.

This is actually a bit like the Rockets last season. They seem to have a chance of winning the championship, but they are just watching.

However, although the championship is difficult, it is foreseeable that they have the opportunity to go further in the tournament.

Of course, one must eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. Now is not the time for them to think about the championship.

Because DeRozan's joining will actually bring a lot of problems.

For example, ball possession. Harden is the ball-holding type, Xu Yong also needs ball possession in the new season, and DeRozan also needs ball possession. Another example is how to arrange the starting lineup. If DeRozan directly challenges Cooksix, the team's perimeter defense will collapse again, because DeRozan's defense is not much better than Harden's, etc.

Of course, these questions were all thrown to Sandek.

Xu Yong is not worried about this. Sandek has already proved his ability last season, and he believes that Sandek can handle it.

Shortly after DeRozan arrived in Tempe, Xu Yong followed Yao Ming back to China.