In the 2022draft conference, the anxiety atmosphere spread in the rocket draft combat room. At this time, what the rocket was waiting for was only the result of the 16th order.
When Adam Xiaohua came to power and announced that the eagle chose AJ-Griffin in the 16th order, the rocket executives smiled at the corners of their mouths, and joy and lightness occupied their hearts.
Because, the rocket can finally choose Tari Ethan with the 17th sign. Previously, the rocket rejected several transaction quotations involving the 17th sign, just waiting for the high school teacher to learn from “yellow Mamba” Roy, since he was three years old, he has dreamed of playing against LeBlanc James.
The rocket’s expectations paid off. In the first two pre-season games, Ethan scored 20 points. He scored 22.5 points plus 9 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 2 steals in only 22.7 minutes. In the 2022th rookie, Ethan is currently the winner of the preseason. In this reconstructed rocket, Ethan, who is only 21 years old, is expected to be the answer to the rocket attack line in the next 10 years.
From the current perspective, Ethan, who is 2 meters tall and 03 meters tall, has amazing talent for arm show and bounce data, but in fact, Ethan was not famous in high school. In the first two seasons of high school, Ethan played for Sheffield High School in Seattle. Former pioneer player Roy was the coach of that team. It is certainly a good thing to be able to accept the guidance of former NBA All-Star. The problem is that it is very difficult for Ethan to get the appearance time in Sheffield High School. Ethan didn’t even get the chance to play on the champion day of Sheffield High School in 2018.
“At that time, he was really dissatisfied with me because of lack of playing time,” Roy recalled, “but his advantage was that he never complained and worked hard without playing time, he turned himself into one of the best players in the state.”
In the 2018-19 season, Roy wanted to take a break and leave the handsome position temporarily. Ethan transferred from Sheffield High School to Fei do-win high school. Then in the 2019-20 season, Ethan’s senior four season, Roy took over pointer again, and Ethan transferred back to Sheffield High School. This year, Roy announced that Ethan would not only be the team’s starter, but also the team’s star player. In the state final, facing the team led by the 2022th champion bankero, Ethan scored 21 points and won the championship with 14 rebounds. He was also elected as MVP.
Ethan has always been grateful to Roy, who has been a teacher for four years in high school. He said, “This experience is too special. Whenever you have the opportunity to learn from an NBA All-Star player, that is very special. I just try my best to absorb knowledge like a sponge.”
Ethan was rated as a four-star high school student when he graduated from high school. He chose to join the University of Cincinnati. In the freshman season, Ethan scored 7.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Because there were not many opportunities for performance, Ethan then transferred to Louisiana University. In Louisiana, Ethan’s average playing time increased to 24.4 minutes, and its data soared to 16.9 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.9 steals and 1.1 caps. Ethan was selected as the first team in the SEC division and was elected as the sixth player of the year.
In that season, Ethan was not actually the first. Everton Reed, a five-star high school student, was the first. However, according to Bill Armstrong, the former assistant professor of Louisiana, Ethan actually defeated Reed, and the team didn’t let him play the first because he played the substitute very well.
Ethan is regarded by many as the attacking SABRE. He played elite defensive performance in NCAA. In a season in Louisiana, Ethan scored 3 single-game steals in 11 games, 4th in 64 breakout division in a single season, and 7th in cap Division 36 in a single season, only 0.75 points are lost for each round. According to The database of John Athletic, an expert in The Hollinger, Ethan sent 4.5 steals and 2.5 cap in The 100 rounds of The division, which was very close to Seble in college.
Sam Athletic, a famous talent draft expert in The Vecenie, said that in The past 10 years, Ethan was The player with The closest physical condition to Clippers star kehuai Leonard. His commander was The longest in The 2022th session, he grabbed basketball as easily as grabbing tennis. He had both speed and explosive power in terms of sports ability.
Before the draft, Ethan accepted the trials of Rockets, Spurs, blazers and other teams, and his market was stable in the top 20. Finally, the rocket chose Ethan in 17 sequence. Armstrong was also surprised by this result. He admitted that the Louisiana coaching staff did not expect Ethan to be selected by the NBA team after transferring to play for a year, because he still had defects in technical links such as projection.
“I can be selected from the source myself,” Ethan said. “I think I have carved many technical links, such as my shooting and holding the ball. In addition, I have always had a great defensive mentality. I can instill this mentality into the team and I am all-round defenders who can defend against multiple positions.”
After being selected by the Rockets, Ethan took part in the summer league. When little Jamari Smith was still adapting to the rhythm of NBA, Ethan had become the biggest surprise of the rockets. He scored 15.2 points per game, 10.4 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1 cap.
Reasonably speaking, Ethan has proved himself, but he has not been idle after the summer league. He has been following the trainers and testing the training results through wild matches, Los Angeles, seattle’s semi-professional league matches have their own figures. In the competition organized by Jamal-Crawford, Ethan finally completed his childhood dream and took the place with James. According to Ethan’s mother, Ethan has dreamed of one day confronting James since he was three years old. He has simulated that scene in his mind countless times.
In the preseason, Ethan looked better than three months ago. His defense is still so brutal, and his sense of smell for attacking rebounds is still so sensitive. At the same time, his attacking skills such as projection and breakthrough have improved.
Rocket coach Silas said that they didn’t design tactics for Ethan at all, but Ethan was able to create scoring opportunities by himself. He could send out the snatch and attack the basket, you can also rush for the offensive backboard and put the ball into RIM after hitting the iron in three points.
Not long ago, the NBA official website launched the annual General Manager vote, and 17% of the general managers thought that the rocket’s election to Ethan was the most successful “robbery” in the 2022th draft “. Ethan may not be the core of team building, but in the 2022th rookie, he may be the role player with the highest ceiling.
In the new season, if the seniority is advanced, Ethan may not be able to beat Eric Gordon and Tate in the competition to become the starting point. But in the future, the starting position will eventually be Ethan. He and Jay Green, Smith and Shen Jing carry the hope of rocket revival.
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