Chapter 33: Good Guy Bowen

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This night, on domestic websites, "that damn thin man" and "that failed hemp stick" became the most frequently appeared sentences.

The uproar of the race against the Rockets in China continues, and in the United States, Yao Ming's popularity, even at his peak, is not as great as it was reported in the domestic media. In the Americans' mind, it was just a pointless preseason game.

Chamberlain's life was also business as usual.

Returning from Houston, the Spurs have entered an intense regular season preparation, and as the team's third or fourth center, he is not dominant in all aspects, and he rarely has the opportunity to play in the confrontation.

Most of the time, he is a spectator, and even if he is on the court, he will not get any chance to make a shot.

And the saddest thing is that as an inside lineman, he also has to resist the attacks of his teammates, you can't always touch it in a training match, right?

So....... It was as if everyone had dunked on his shots.

As for the current situation, Chamberlain is very open. Even if he is a reborn, he is just an underdrafted rookie. Even God cannot rule everything in the world, he can only influence his followers.

But this was not the greatest ordeal Chamberlain faced. The biggest pain was -- he tried to ask these old birds of the alliance for some questions, but they told him to buy takeout and feed the pigs, and feed the pigs. Go for you while playing!

At this time, an unexpected person from Chamberlain helped him!

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are fights. The NBA is a real thing. Don't forget that they are competitors, competing for everything in a team, playing time, shots, salary space, etc. Not everyone is Duncan, and not everyone is an "admiral".

However, there was one person who would remind Chamberlain from time to time and teach him some tricks and lessons that would be useful in the game. But for this person, Chamberlain was very wary. "Nima, weasel give the chickens a New Year's greeting!"

When it comes to him, many people will have some impressions. The most hated thing is that he abolished the league's famous "Flyer" Carter.

He's the Spurs' No. 12, Bruce Bowen.

Chamberlain in his previous life had never entered the NBA, and he had just entered this life, and he had not been in contact with basketball for a long time. All of his advice to Bowen couldn't tell right from wrong, just instinctively wary.

After a long time, Chamberlain found that it seemed that Bowen was not bad. He has a good relationship with all his teammates, he is also polite to his teammates, he dresses appropriately....... It seems that he also rescued some black children.

Sometimes that's how it is, people are terrible, and everyone is golden. However, despite Bowen's enthusiasm, because of the position, his help to Chamberlain was very limited, and Chamberlain was very resistant to the small actions he taught him.

Well, the main thing is that his help gave Chamberlain only three hundred points of experience!

Time flickered like a carriage running over a gravel road, quietly walking away while people were still paying attention to the stumbles they encountered.

On October 28, the NBA regular season began.

For the Spurs, for Duncan, the year has a special significance. They were champions in the 02-03 season, but their leader "The Admiral" retired after winning the championship, and whether they can continue to shine is a question that the Spurs, this is Duncan, and it will have to be faced.

The Spurs' first opponent was the Phoenix Suns, and at that time the Suns did not have Nash, and there was no "bombardment tactic" that swept the world. At that time, their point guard was Marbury, the "lone wolf" who later lived on the stinky street of New York.

There was no suspense in this game as early as the beginning of the game, the Suns, who were much weaker than the Spurs, and last year's best rookie as the team's main power forward, "Little Overlord" Standudemier, was still lying on the injury list.

Duncan, who was bent on proving himself, led the Spurs to not give the Suns a chance, and the game went into garbage time early. Popovich, who didn't want to lose character at the beginning, came on as a substitute at the end of the third quarter. Oxlade-Chamberlain was not given a chance to play.

Now he is the substitute of the substitute, the ultimate water cooler manager.

You have to be happier than them when they score, you have to be more upset than them when they hit irons, turnovers, fouls, you have to get in the water, towels when they come off...... That's all Chamberlain has been doing these days.

I barely played much, occasionally went up in garbage time, shot the right wood, assisted the right wood, grabbed rebounds, only made mistakes, fouls, and caused others to foul in my busy schedule, just like the New Year.

There is playing time, there is a data wood, Nima!

Yao Ming said, "What is so special about my wood, in the NBA, there are champions every year." ”

But no matter what, the champion is the champion. "Water" such as Kwame Brown, at the beginning did not need to lift shoes, and the playing time was also very fixed.

From the Phoenix Suns to the Denver Nuggets, from the New York Knicks to the Miami Heat, Chamberlain has only played two minutes against the Knicks. Completely hit the soy sauce, and there was no mistake left.

He never thought that he would become a main force when he first came, and he never thought that someone would be injured sadly when he first came, but he never thought that he would not even have garbage time.

On the sidelines, he waved a towel, looking at the same level of "little melon" Anthony, "Flash" Wade on the court, Chamberlain couldn't help but regret it, he felt as if he really made a wrong decision, he didn't seem to be in such a hurry to enter the NBA. He only got 140 experience points in four games, you must know that his current experience in opening the training camp is 100,000!

He was in a daze..... Especially when Bowen comforted him like this: "Rookie, you have to know that I didn't become a professional player until I was thirty years old....."

Chamberlain: "......"

"Brother, are you sure this is a comfort rather than a blow?"

We can't change ourselves, we have to change the world. Okay! This person is crazy, or is it more reliable to change himself. The young people who have experienced the tempering of Hongchen no longer have their original stubbornness.

"I want to get playing time first." In the dead of night, Chamberlain, who had no nightlife habits, began to think about his career in his rented room.