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There is the NBA giants Los Angeles Lakers, but it has nothing to do with Tiger, because he went to the Los Angeles Clippers, who have a record of missing the playoffs for 16 seasons. Fitch couldn't bear it anymore and chose to leave. Andy prepared these materials early and gave them to Tiger to understand.

Tiger has very little impression of the Clippers, maybe because of his poor results, maybe because he was really overshadowed by the Lakers' shine, so he received very little attention. But Tiger didn't have a choice, he's just an NBA rookie, what was his first impression after coming to the Clippers? The team lacks pursuit. Duncan's Spurs cut back their season on January 10, while the Nuggets, who are also in the belly, began their team assembly on January 13, while the Clippers only started gathering on January 16, and their first preseason game started on January 26, and they only had 10 days to get the players to get to know each other.

As a rookie, Tiger is very self-conscious, came to the Clippers' training gym early, found it empty, and started some simple training by himself. Skinner was the second player to arrive, and he was a rookie this year like Tiger, and the players of the team did not arrive until 9 o'clock, and they did not change their clothes for training, but gathered together to talk about the holiday life. Ford also came to the training gym, he took a look at the training gym, and began to talk to the assistant coach next to him, but there was still no assembly.

Around 10 o'clock, a few more players came to the training hall, and Coach Ford saw them coming, so he asked the players to gather, and then said hello to everyone, and let the two rookies start to introduce themselves.

"Hello everyone! My name is Tiger. Washington, you can call me Tiger, it's a pleasure to be a part of the team, and I hope I can have a good time with you in the future. Tiger made a brief introduction, he didn't say what university he came from, his name and resume are very little unknown in the United States, he didn't need to say this, it gave people a sense of showing off.

Skinner saw Tiger make a brief introduction, and also followed Tiger's appearance and briefly introduced himself, in American college basketball, the players' attitudes towards Tiger are divided into two kinds, one is unconvinced like Carter, with the goal of catching up with Tiger. One is like Skinner now, they worship Tiger and admire him, so Skinner sees Tiger's approach and simply follows it.

The old players, although they didn't expect Tiger's attitude to be so good, but they didn't give him a warm welcome, they didn't accept Tiger's low-key at all, casually introduced themselves, said hello to Tiger, and dispersed, today is the day of the team's gathering, the coach did not arrange the team's training, let everyone find their own feelings, and Tiger has been waiting for the physical examination arranged by the coach, but was directly forgotten by Coach Ford.

In the afternoon, the old players ended the training early and left together, Tiger was still doing the training tasks he had set, and Skinner looked at Tiger's training attitude, so he stayed and trained with Tiger. The first day of training ended like this, Tiger was disappointed in his heart, he never thought that it would be like this in the NBA that he had so longed for, he knew that there would be all kinds of dark sides here, and he had heard some of them before, but the Clippers players, this kind of chaotic life without pursuit at all, was something he couldn't imagine.

After that, the team had some joint practice, and Tiger, as a scoring guard, still tried to pass the ball out, playing like Wake Forest, but his teammates were not actively running, and the coach did not arrange any targeted tactics. Tiger didn't have much hope for a team that got the top pick, but now he knows that he really has a reason to be bad.

On January 26, 1999, the Clippers ushered in their first preseason game, playing at home against the Timberwolves, and there were no spectators in the stands around them, maybe because of the preseason, maybe because they were not interested in the Clippers game, or maybe they came to see Garnett, a star player, who knows?

Before the opening, Tiger hugged Garnett on the sidelines, chatted for a while, Tiger and Garnett met in high school, Garnett is a very passionate player, watching him play can mobilize people's excitement, his serious and focused attitude towards the game, never care about doing some dirty work, so that Tiger admires him very much, and Garnett's personality is also the kind of self-confidence and freedom of righteousness, the two in high school, the first time they met, they regarded each other as friends, although there was little contact over the years, But it has always maintained a good relationship.

In this game, the Clippers played very badly, Tiger's passes were all ruthlessly beaten by his teammates, the hand felt poor, and the defense was like sleepwalking, only half a game was played, and the suspense was lost, Tiger was replaced early, sitting on the bench, watching the bench lineups of the two teams playing garbage time, his eyes were in a trance, how long has it been since he lost? Such a disparity in scores is the first time in his life!

After the game, the Clippers players fled the court, and Garnett came to Tiger's side, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Man, you're playing so well at Wake Forest, you have to get used to this feeling of losing, there's no team in the NBA that doesn't lose." ”

"I'm okay Kevin, it's just that I'm not used to it when I first arrived in the NBA, and I'll get better slowly." Tiger looked a little frustrated.

"Tiger maybe you need to change your play, you need to attack the basket more of yourself, and if you don't get support, then you can score on your own, so maybe you can get some wins."

Tiger looked at Garnett and suddenly thought to himself, yes! The wolf king is also lonely, basketball is a five-person sport, but without the help of his teammates, he can only rely on his own hands, loyal as Garnett finally left Boston.

After taking a shower in the locker room and changing clothes, Coach Ford walked in and announced the dismissal, and the next morning was off and the afternoon was trained. Tiger looked at the soon empty locker room, thinking about his teammates' attitude towards losing the game, and felt tired at first, this place was different from his former Christian High School and Wake Forest University.

Ha! once lamented Carter's fate, and now fate has played a joke on him!

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When I used to read books, I didn't like to see the dividing line, so rice bags rarely got these, and today I will mainly share them with you. The rice bag received a notice that the book will be pushed up at 2 pm tomorrow, and I am very happy, which is inseparable from everyone's support. Tomorrow is a good day, weekend! The book is pushed up for the first time! It's still my birthday, and I'm a year older, but I'm still happy to decide to watch tomorrow. Finally, thank you again for your support!