Chapter 813: Joints
"So, the captain of our North District celebrity team this time is Xiao Yao!" Yi Yang finally said, "Do you have any opinions?"
"No!" everyone turned their heads to look at Xiao Yao and shook their heads.
This time, the Masters in China is the same as the Masters in American professional basketball, and both teams have to choose a captain. At the time of the game, the captain will be the last to play. Referring to the celebrity game of American professional basketball, the captain will not choose the former professional players on the team, and most of them will be the most popular acting stars on both teams.
In the North District team, although Xiao Yao is not very old, his reputation is definitely top-notch, and everyone has long been mentally prepared for Yi Yang's selection of Xiao Yao as the captain. At this time, Yi Yang said this, which means that in addition to the consideration of fame, he also chose Xiao Yao for technical and tactical reasons. If you really want to consider these two aspects, there is no one in the team who is better than Xiao Yao, and everyone will naturally not refute it out loud.
"Let's do some basic exercises for running, shooting and passing, to see your basic skills, and then we will play in a team to check everyone's performance in the confrontation, and finally I will design some simple offensive routines for everyone, I hope you can play as much as possible tomorrow to make the game more exciting. Seeing that no one objected, Yi Yang began to arrange the training session.
"Yes!" the team members said in unison.
In the next training session, Xiao Yao did not have any outstanding performance. For example, everyone knows that Xiao Yao can dunk, but when he runs the basket practice, Xiao Yao always makes honest layups and does not dunk once. However, through the previous practice subjects, you can still see that Xiao Yao's basketball skills are indeed very good. Whether it's a layup, a shot or a pass, the movements are standard and beautiful, and the completion is also very good. Another point is that Xiao Yao's performance in training is very stable, and there are few mistakes.
Later, when Yi Yang explained the offensive tactics to everyone, not counting the retired former professional player, Xiao Yao was the one who understood the fastest among the non-professional players. In the end, Xiao Yao, like the retired professional player, became Yi Yang's assistant coach and began to help others explain and practice the coordination of those offensive tactical routines.
The duration of this training session is two hours. Two hours later, everyone was almost done, Yi Yang gathered everyone together and announced the end of the training session: "Okay, that's all for today's training, hard work! I hope everyone will have a wonderful performance tomorrow and win the team in the South District!"
"Thank you, Director Yi!" everyone smiled and said to Yi Yang.
"Xiao Yao, since you are the captain, shouldn't you express it?" Fang Qing asked Xiao Yao.
"How do you say that?" Xiao Yao asked.
"Now that the training is over, as the captain, shouldn't you treat everyone to the east, gather everyone together for a while, and continue to contact and connect with each other?" Fang Qing said.
"This, everyone is a big star, a busy person, is there nothing else to do after training?" Xiao Yao asked.
"No, no, as long as you, the captain, have a treat, we will definitely go!" the others laughed.
These people are all stars, there are a lot of announcements, and it's true that people are very busy, but tomorrow is the celebrity game, and today's training session is in the afternoon, and no one has any event announcements after today's training session.
Through this training session, everyone basically recognized Yi Yang's arrangement of selecting Xiao Yao as the captain and the core of the field from the bottom of their hearts. Through Xiao Yao's selfless passes again and again during training, everyone has a good impression of him and doesn't mind further contact with him.
"It's not a problem to be a guest," Xiao Yao said with a bitter face, "But I still have something!"
"Do you have anything else?" Fang Qing was surprised for a moment, then smiled, "Private matter, right?"
Although Xiao Yao has an agent, he has always decided whether to take the job or not, which is not a secret in the circle. Fang Qing is an actor and knows this. Tomorrow is the Masters, and it's already past four o'clock in the afternoon. Even these artists, who are controlled by the company and agents, have not been notified of their itinerary after the training, and she doesn't believe that Xiao Yao, who is in charge of her own affairs, will arrange a job for herself at this time.
"It's not a private matter, it's a job. Xiao Yao said, "I'm going to the stadium rehearsal in a while!"
"Rehearsal, isn't our rehearsal tomorrow morning?" Fang Qing asked strangely.
"It's a rehearsal for the show!" Xiao Yao said.
"Performance rehearsal?" Fang Qing said in surprise, "What? are you still a guest performer, and your name is obviously not on the performance list!"
"There is no one on the list, but there is indeed me," Xiao Yao said, "I ask the organizers not to announce it!"
"As a player and a guest performer, you are really busy!" Fang Qing said with a smile.
"Then when are you going to perform?" Yi Yang said with great interest, "The rookie game the day after tomorrow or the main game the day after tomorrow? Don't tell me it's tomorrow's celebrity game!"
"It's tomorrow's Masters, I'm performing at half-time. Xiao Yao said, "But don't worry, the halftime performance will not affect my performance in the game." ”
The last halftime performance at the US Masters, Xiao Yao discussed it with Bilsa in advance. Xiao Yao didn't plan to go back to the locker room to change his performance costumes for this performance, so he didn't deliberately notify Yi Yang, the coach, in advance.
"Halftime performance of the Masters, isn't that your girlfriend's performance time?" Fang Qing said, "You want to sing with your girlfriend?"
"No, when she sings, I give her live guitar accompaniment!" Xiao Yao said.
"Just playing guitar with accompaniment? That's fine, it shouldn't make a difference. Yi Yang nodded.
"Coach Yi, don't worry, my physical fitness is fine!" Xiao Yao said, "I sang at halftime at the American Masters, and in the end, I helped my team win the game!"
Xiao Yao still didn't say anything about performing alone, but in order to avoid any opinions when Yi Yang found out tomorrow, he cut his playing time in the second half, so he still reminded him in advance.
"It's not good to delay the rehearsal, so why don't you change the matter of the dinner party after tomorrow's game?" Fang Qing said.
"Why don't you do that?" Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "It won't take too long for me to rehearse." It's still early, you go find a place to play first, and when I'm done rehearsing, I'll go to you again. Don't disperse too early, wait for me to pay!"
Xiao Yao's performance doesn't need any cooperation, the main thing is to try the live sound equipment in the past, and it doesn't take too long.
"Then you bring your girlfriend with you!" Fang Qing said, "Anyway, you are accompanying her, it is a rehearsal together, and you just come over together when it is over." ”
"Okay!" Xiao Yao hesitated, but nodded, "If she can come, I'll bring her with me." ”
"Okay, then let's say okay! We'll send you the address after we find the place in a while, waiting for the two of you to come!" Fang Qing said.
"Okay, that's it!" Xiao Yao made an OK gesture.
Sun Tingting's rehearsal was completed in the morning. In order to prevent Sun Tingting from knowing that he was also going to perform in the halftime, Xiao Yao deliberately did not rehearse with Sun Tingting, but asked the organizer to arrange the rehearsal time for his solo performance after the training session.
In the afternoon training session, Sun Tingting originally wanted to come with Xiao Yao and watch them train on the side, Xiao Yao persuaded her to rest in the hotel on the grounds that she felt sorry for her hard rehearsal in the morning and didn't want to show affection in front of her teammates, and then went back to accompany her after he finished training, so as to use the time after training to go to the gymnasium to complete her rehearsal. At this time, Sun Tingting was not in the gymnasium, Xiao Yao was afraid that his teammates would ask about the afternoon rehearsal, and it was impossible to pick up Sun Tingting to go to the party after the rehearsal, so he could only lie and say that Sun Tingting could not come.
Although this lie is easy to be exposed, as long as Sun Tingting is not let know about it before the halftime break of tomorrow's game, Xiao Yao's goal will be achieved, and it will be meaningless whether this lie will be exposed. Xiao Yao is still very confident that he will keep this lie until the halftime of tomorrow's game.
After saying goodbye to his teammates, Xiao Yao rushed to the venue for tomorrow's game alone. On the way to the venue, Xiao Yao sent a message to Sun Tingting to tell her that her teammates asked to have dinner together after training and only go back in the evening, and let Sun Tingting arrange the activities by herself.
Xiao Yao believes that with Sun Tingting's character, if she didn't take the initiative to mention it, she would not have proposed to make it up to these unfamiliar people. Not long after the message was sent, Xiao Yao received Sun Tingting's reply. Sun Tingting really didn't ask to participate together, but just reminded him that there was a game tomorrow and told him not to drink more.
After the rehearsal ended, Xiao Yao rushed to the meeting place sent by Fang Qing, and after meeting everyone, he mixed up with Sun Tingting on the grounds that Sun Tingting was tired from the rehearsal, that she would perform tomorrow, and that she needed to maintain her state.
These people don't have any personal relationship with Sun Tingting, and Sun Tingting's absence is not rude, at most it gives everyone a more reserved and shy impression, and everyone doesn't care too much.
Many of these people met privately for the first time today, and this gathering was just an ordinary social event to strengthen relationships and expand relationships. There will be a game tomorrow night, and there will be some activities arranged by the organizers during the day, so this dinner party did not make a big noise, and it did not last very long, and it was dispersed before it was too late.
The next morning was nothing, and in the afternoon it was mainly the players who had a rehearsal for the appearance ceremony, and then some celebrities took the opportunity to have some fan meetings and media interviews. Some of these events are arranged by the organizers, and some are organized by the celebrities' agencies and teams themselves. Xiao Yao didn't do these flowers, and after the rehearsal ceremony, he went back to the hotel to rest, and waited for the evening.
The Masters are dominated by entertainment stars, so it's not just a basketball game, it's also an entertainment event. The Masters start in the evening, but this time the Masters have a red carpet ceremony, and the red carpet ceremony starts in the evening.
The time and location of the Masters match have been announced a long time ago, and the red carpet show before the game has also been announced a long time ago. During the red carpet show, a lot of media reporters and a lot of celebrity fans and viewers also gathered outside the red carpet. When every star appears on the red carpet, there will be a cheering and screaming of fans.
Although Xiao Yao didn't let Sun Tingting go to training with him on the grounds that he didn't want to show affection to his teammates, he still generously pulled Sun Tingting to go with him on the red carpet show.
Xiao Yao's popularity alone is high enough, and at this time, the two walked the red carpet together, and the audience and fans watching the red carpet were naturally more excited, and the screams sounded were almost the highest in the audience, and even scared some reporters.
Of course, the journalists who will be scared are basically newcomers to sports reporters or entertainment journalists.
Everyone knows that Xiao Yao is very well-known, but the popularity is not the same thing as the number of fans on the scene and the popularity of the scene.
Looking around, the fans and audiences outside the red carpet basically can't see the cheering sign holding Xiao Yao's name, and there are very few cheering items with Sun Tingting's name, so some people will have the illusion that Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting don't have many fans and are not popular. But veteran entertainment reporters who really know more about the situation in the industry know that Xiao Yao has always been opposed to fans supporting on the spot, and he doesn't like fans spending money to buy support. Xiao Yao's fans don't take any cheers with Xiao Yao's logo when they go to the scene, and it is impossible to judge the number and popularity of Xiao Yao's fans on the spot, and they are relatively calm about this.
The red carpet show has an on-site interview session hosted outside the venue, and after Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting signed on the sign-in board, they were naturally pulled by the outfield host to do a short interview.
It's still winter in January, and it's still very cold in most places. The outdoor red carpet show is definitely a test for celebrities, especially female stars in thin dresses. But fortunately, this year's All-Star Weekend was held in Yangcheng in southern China. The temperature in Yangcheng in the evening today is still around ten degrees, and it is not too torturous for the female stars in dresses. Xiao Yao was not too worried that Sun Tingting would be frozen, so he was relatively patient in the red carpet interview.
In the interview session, Xiao Yao was unsurprisingly asked what he thought of MVP. Even Zhuo Zhiyuan, who was the strongest basketball master in the past few years, behaved unusually low-key this time, Xiao Yao thought that he had handled the relationship between the team and his teammates more appropriately, and he still gave an "official" statement that the team's honor was greater than his personal honor.
It's just Zhuo Zhiyuan who is extremely low-key. Among the stars who walked the red carpet before, except for those who knew that their basketball level was not good and some stars who looked hopeless from their figures, as long as they played basketball well, whether it was Xiao Yao's opponents or teammates, they did not shy away from expressing their desire and confidence for MVP in the interview. In this link where many celebrities show their "character", Xiao Yao is unusually without "character", but it is also a unique personality embodiment.
Of course, Xiao Yao is so modest that he has no idea about MVP, it may also be because he doesn't have to say some things himself. When the outfield host asked Sun Tingting next to Xiao Yao, Sun Tingting bluntly said that Xiao Yao was the best person in basketball, and did not shy away from expressing confidence in Xiao Yao's MVP, which made the outfield host smile and sigh as if he had been fed a handful of dog food unexpectedly.
The exclamation of the host outside also received a great enthusiastic response from the onlookers outside the red carpet.
"It's all called sprinkling dog food, what should I do at halftime?" Xiao Yao thought to himself as he looked at the screaming fans.
After the off-site interview, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting entered the venue.
After entering the gymnasium, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting had to change their clothes, so they were temporarily separated.
After Xiao Yao entered the locker room, he quickly changed into a jersey, covered a pullover outside, took out a small box from the pocket of the changed dress, took it in his hand, and ran quickly into the stadium of the game.
The tournament was broadcast simultaneously on TV and online. The TV broadcaster is CCTV's sports channel, and the live webcast was still obtained by Haiyan Video. Whether it is CCTV or Haiyan Video, reporters are arranged to do on-site interviews in the venue.
There was still some time before the start of the game, but there were already some spectators in the audience. Some of the stars who came in after walking the red carpet came to the stadium after changing their clothes, some sat on the bench and chatted, some took the basketball there to shoot and warm up, and some reporters took advantage of this time to find the stars who came in first to do pre-game interviews, and the scene was a little noisy.
When Xiao Yao came in, a reporter from Haiyan's video saw it and stopped him for an interview.
"Sorry, wait a minute!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, passed the reporter, and ran quickly towards the field.
The reporter looked back in surprise and found that Xiao Yao did not greet his teammates, but ran directly to the audience.
"Zhao Rui, their relationship is really good!" The reporter followed Xiao Yao's figure for a while, and found that the audience seat where Xiao Yao went was in the second row, and the person in the seat was also a star, so he couldn't help but smile in his heart.
Zhao Rui and others also came to see Xiao Yao's game, but they were neither team members nor performers, so they entered the venue in advance without walking the red carpet. They are Xiao Yao's friends, and they are Xiao Yao's relatives and friends tickets, and their positions are in the second row behind the bench.
"Here you go, put it away, hide it!" Xiao Yao quietly stuffed the small box in his hand to Zhao Rui, and said in a low voice, "Don't be discovered by Duo'er in advance!"
"Don't worry!" Zhao Rui took the small box, stuffed it into the inner pocket of his jacket, reached out and pressed it on it, "I can't lose it, and I won't let Duo'er find it in advance!"
Sun Tingting is a guest performer, not a participating player, and the seat is also in the audience, and she is arranged with Zhao Rui. When Sun Tingting walked the red carpet, she wore a dress, and she didn't change it so quickly. Xiao Yao hurriedly changed his clothes and ran into the venue, just to connect with Zhao Rui before Sun Tingting came in.