About a week ago, the Shougang team revealed that Brown would go to the division to meet the team on the 23rd, when there were still three games before the second stage, but Brown should not play. Because the team is more cautious about brown's use, he is not like Gibson, who can be used to play not long after the end of the quarantine period, after all, Gibson has the basis of running into and integrating with the team last season, but Brown is different. He only had two years of professional playing experience, played in the CBA for the first time, and never practiced with the whole team.
But Brown was activated ahead of schedule. The reason was Gibson's injury in the last round of matches. Gibson was knocked in the last round against Fujian and suffered some injuries. According to relevant people on the team, the injury is not serious. But to be on the safe side, the team decided to activate Brown early.
On the 24th, the team quickly completed an emergency registration for Brown, and then officially announced his joining. On the same day, Brown completed a joint training session with the team, playing his first five-on-five confrontation since joining Shougang. Previously, Brown had played one-on-two confrontation training with players such as Yang Ali and Fan Yiming in Beijing.
In this way, before the match with Tianjin team on the 25th, Brown entered the big list. He hadn't played a single official match in eight months. He didn't know what would happen next.
Yannis's use of Brown is similar to Gibson's. Including arranging his playing time points, and the time rotation with Jeremy Lin, they are very similar to Gibson, but the difference is that Brown has a lot less time than Gibson.
But Brown showed strong confidence in the game from the start. This is impressive. A person who is very familiar with Brown said of Brown with the Beijing Youth Daily reporter: "He actually has a very good mentality, because he just finished the league in Germany, and then he has a new playing opportunity, to be honest, the contract given to him by the team is not too bad, and he knows that he is very young, as long as he is given time, he believes that he can show his own characteristics." ”
Brown showed his characteristics in just one game: his killer skill was thrown one step at a time. "This throw, seen in training, is not the same, but it is very accurate. One look is his killer skill. "Some team members told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter like this." The difference in this throw is that he breaks through one step and then follows the throw. But he is very skilled, and at first glance, he has practiced his skills for many years, and his movements are smooth and accurate. ”
Brown's throw was very powerful, and in the third quarter, it seemed that he could hit a random throw. This shows his skill in this technique.
At the same time, Brown also has a good three-point shooting in this game. Once, still far from the three-point line, Brown opened his hand to shoot and hit. In this game, Brown shot 3-of-4 from three-point range. In the eyes of some teammates, Brown is a game-type player. Because in the previous training process, the three points were not so accurate. But as soon as the game came, Brown felt like pressing the scope on the long-range shot and raising his hand.
In this game, Brown scored 29 points and hit 12 of his 17 shots. Brown told Beijing Youth Daily after the game: "This is the first time I have played an official game in the past few months, I feel great, but more importantly, we won. Yannis also commented on Brown's first performance after the game, saying: "I knew this player when Brown played in Europe, he already had a good reputation at the time, he was very hard defensively and at the same time good. As a new player, he did a good job. And my advice to Brown, and to every new player, is to integrate into the team system as soon as possible, because we are a team that plays in teams. ”
I believe that Brown's debut will make him a countless fans.
But in Brown's case, there are actually many stories that you may not necessarily understand. For example, his idol is Iverson, he is a player who grew up watching Iverson, and his home used to be full of posters of Iverson. Brown once told a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily: "I have worked hard to practice my skills, that is, I want to be like Iverson, I can become an ankle destroyer." At the same time, the more important thing I've learned from Iverson is that deciding whether a player is great, whether he has a great career, is not height, but heart. ”
(Beijing Youth Daily reporter Song Xiang)