Paper Gui Luo City|Pelinka got Reddish, can the ice shooter be perfectly resurrected next to James?

After the opening of the NBA trade market, the management of the Los Angeles Lakers acted quickly, they signed new signings to supplement the roster in the near future, the Lakers introduced role players with two significant characteristics, one is to find those former high picks and high talent rookies but are currently in the frustrated stage of players who urgently need to prove themselves, more typical are Monk, Stanley Johnson, Hachimura Takashi, etc., because the Lakers have super exposure, so they attract more attention, and this is the best stage for players to re-play their value, Second, James Old Iron Ritchie Paul will take advantage of signing players under his own agency to introduce players to assist James at a super cost-effective price, such as Lonnie Walker, Trail Brown, etc. last year, all of which let the Lakers get the first month at a price below the market price.

Recently, another typical player of this type has joined the Lakers, he is the 10th pick of 2019; is also the Lucas Newton agent of Ritchie Paul's Lucas Newton player Cam Reddish, Reddish's talent is completely undoubted, what he lacks is ball skills and ball intelligence, in order to let everyone better understand the Lakers new signings, I opened a Lakers offseason new signing basketball story series, today the first issue will bring you the former proud son Cam Reddish.

Cam Reddish was born on September 1, 1999 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a small city of only 35,000 people, less than 20 miles from Philadelphia, the most famous sports star is Tommy Lasoda, he served as the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the American Baseball League for 20 years from 1976 to 1996, and the baseball atmosphere in the area was very strong, and Michael Joseph was a Hall of Famer-level baseball player, and basketball was much inferior. Before Reddish, the most famous basketball player here was Callif Wyatt, who briefly joined the Chinese CBA Guangdong Hongyuan in 2013 and currently plays in the Israeli league, followed by Reddish, who is the basketball glory of Norristown.

Reddish's basketball enlightenment came from his father Robert, who was a basketball player at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989-91, Reddish also has a younger brother Allen, who is four years younger than himself, and his father has consciously cultivated their basketball interests since the brothers would leave, the first toys of the two were baby versions of basketballs and ball frames, Reddish's mother Sannia was the principal of a local elementary school, and the parents had a clear division of labor, the father was responsible for basketball training, and the mother was responsible for learning.

Reddish is an introverted, not good at expressing people, this is also his character drawbacks, life Reddish is very quiet, like to listen to music, on the basketball court like to use ball skills to speak, from elementary school to junior high school Reddish are physically and academically excellent children, especially in basketball, from junior high school gradually become a well-known local young genius, the father also realized from that time that his son is talented in basketball, the future may eat this bowl of rice, so he gave up work to cultivate Reddish.

Basketball genius in addition to physical talent but also have diligence, according to the recollections of his father Robert, Reddish has consciously received devil training since junior high school, he only does three things a day, study, basketball training, fitness, especially basketball training intensity comparable to adults, he gets up at 6 o'clock every day to start running training, runs to school at 7 o'clock, goes to the gym after school hours, goes home after school in the afternoon to continue basketball training until the evening is close to the early morning, the most important thing is that all this is done in his conscious stateHis father was only responsible for arranging training sessions, and later his high school coach Poger found out and told him that it was currently a critical stage of growing his body, and he must ensure 8 hours of sleep every day, which gradually changed his life routine.

In high school, Steve Talena, director of athletic admissions at Westside High School in Pennsylvania, found Reddish, who was attending high school at Haverford at the time, playing point guard, Letana only watched Reddish a game and couldn't wait to start lobbying for a transfer, the biggest advantage of Westside High School is that the team has a talented center Bamba, and the team's head coach Seth Berger has a huge reputation in the American high school basketball circle, and the AUU team he established "The Ultimate Team" has trained Lonnie Walker, DiVincenzo, NBA stars such as Mikal Bridges, Lonnie Walker and Reddish later became teammates to represent AUU teams across the United States to play against teams everywhere.

Reddish and his father immediately agreed, in his sophomore year he transferred to Westside High School, head coach Berger gave him unlimited trust in both the varsity team and the AUU team, he as the main point guard and Bamba teamed up to play a very dominant performance in Pennsylvania, the team reached the state finals, but unfortunately lost to the opponent in the finals, this year he and Bamba were selected for the United States National Youth Team 36-man training squad, Reddish was eliminated at the last minute.

Reddish and Bamba made a comeback in 2017, the duo won the state championship with a devastating performance, Reddish averaged 23.8 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists per game, Bamba averaged 14 points, 11 rebounds and 6 blocks per game, they helped the school win the first state championship since its founding in 1799, and their story was made into a documentary "Our City" by local media.

This summer, he was finally selected for the U.S. National Youth Team and went to Egypt to participate in the U19 Men's Basketball World Cup, this U19 men's basketball team was led by University of Kentucky coach Kalipari, and Reddish was selected to join the NBA players who later joined the NBA include Pririchard, Quickley, Kevin Hunt, Josh Okogie, PJ Washington, etc., for the American men's basketball team, not winning the championship at all levels is a shame, and this team has become a negative model. They were beaten 99-87 by RJ Barrett's Canada Under-19 in the semifinals and were criticized after the game, with Reddish playing in seven games as a striker, averaging 10.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.

Reddish's personal peak was in the 2017-18 season, when teammate Bamba left for college, Reddish became the absolute core of Westside High School, he averaged 22.6 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, although the team failed to win the state championship again, Reddish personally won the Pennsylvania Basketball Mr. Honor by a huge margin, ESPN overall rating of 96 points five-star high school student, mock draft third pick, behind Cayne Williams and R.J. Barrett.

All key universities in the United States have issued a recruitment invitation to him, and he finally set the selection range on five schools such as Kentucky, Duke University, and Villanova University, and coach Kalipari, who has had national team cooperation experience, personally came to his home to do the joining work, and Duke University's advantage in addition to the old K coach, there is also the early lock of five-star high school student RJ Barrett and five-star high school Trae Jones, in addition to Cayne Williams is also very devoted to Duke, After weighing the trade-off, Reddish finally decided to join Duke, and shortly after he announced his decision, Cayn Williams also announced his arrival, and as a result, Duke won the high school recruitment stage that year, they won the top three high school students that year, and they were named the top seed team in the NCAA championship before the season began.

Then Reddish was invited to participate in the major brand invitational tournament, at the Nike Global Summit, Kobe Bryant personally taught him skills, after the game the media photographed James, Rich Paul and others having dinner with him, Durant posted his highlights on his social media and commented: Unparalleled, almost everyone is optimistic about him becoming a future star.

Let's go back to God's perspective now, he and Barrett and Cain to form the Duke Sanje actually did more harm than good, the team was organized with Trae Jones, Barrett and Chain took a lot of the ball on the offensive side, Reddish went from an offensive core in high school to a 3D forward, his game scenes and style evolved in a different direction, because Cain was too strong, the team often dominated the game with a crushing posture, and Reddish also missed a year of very valuable training time, and the team won the ACC Division championship with a 29-5 record.

In the March Madness game Duke University all the way through, they only have one goal to win the championship, in the final four they met Winston, Tillman led Michigan State University, this game Reddish did not enter the starting due to injury, the game also became one of the classic battles in NCAA history, the omnipotent Cain was entangled by Tillman and consumed a lot of physical strength, the game was very anxious, in the last 1 and a half minutes of the game Duke led 66-63, Then Tillman then scored two points to bring the score closer to 65-66, and back Barrett missed the attack, Winston made a three-pointer in the 34th second of the game to help Michigan win 68-66, Duke University attacked, In the last 5.2 seconds of the game, Barrett made an offensive foul and got two free throws, under great pressure he missed the first free throw, the second free throw he wanted to deliberately miss the free throw and then take the rebound, but the free throw was ghostly scored, and the team did not time out and did not have 4 fouls to get the opponent to make the free throw, and finally Winston dribbled the ball to avoid the defense and consumed the last 5 seconds, Michigan State University players were celebrating and Duke University was in tears.

A season of college games made Reddish's draft market drop a lot, he was dropped from the original scouting draft candidate to the 10th pick was selected by the Atlanta Hawks, to be fair, Reddish got a chance after joining the NBA, he got a lot of playing time in the rookie season, but as the game progressed, his shortcomings were exposed more and more, the inefficient and single individual offensive means that he could not become the core, and partnering with Trae Young basically did not need to carry the ball, Reddish could only develop in the direction of a 3D player again, As a player who grew up playing at the heart of the offense, defense is not his absolute strength, and as a guard swing man in the same position competition is growing compared to the black and white Hunter, the second season he played more than two dozen games at the beginning of the season after suffering a serious injury almost reimbursed, while the Hawks reached the Eastern Conference Finals without him, and he did not return until the final games of the Eastern Conference finals, and he came off the bench to score a team-high 21 points in Game 6 against the Bucks to rekindle fans' hopes.

The Hawks had a poor record in the 21-22 season, Reddish and Trae Young had poor chemistry, he was traded to the New York Knicks in the middle of the season, and Thibodeau, a defensive coach, wanted to tease him, and after half a season, Hibbodeau lost confidence, and in November 2022, Thibodeau announced at a press conference that Reddish fell out of his nine-man rotation, and he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in February this year, playing 20 games and performing well.

At the end of the season, the Blazers did not make a qualification offer for him, he can only start from scratch, of course, he still has a chance, after all, he is only 23 years old this year, we look at his comprehensive performance in the past four seasons, he can only be regarded as a barely qualified 3D player at this stage, he needs to adjust his mentality to reduce his position, really start from a dirtier and more tired defensive job, he has the ability to carry the ball offensively and shoot three-point shooting without the ball (of course, not stable enough), he and the Lakers' Troy Brown, Vanderbilt functional role is similar to last season.

There are many cases of injuries in the NBA, those players who killed in high school and college with extremely high physical talent entered the NBA as a high draft pick or quickly fell due to poor strength, poor opportunities, inconsistent ball style and other issues, and finally failed to meet people's initial expectations, Reddish's original draft template was Rudy Gay, and the ceiling was Paul George, hoping that he could cash in on his talent in the Lakers and re-play his value.

(Text/Our Aesthetics in L.A.