After losing to the Celtics, the Thunder have not played in two days. But there were two people who were not idle, practicing in the stadium.

Young leader Durant always goes to the arena early to practice. His shooting training is different from Zhou Xuan's, he has to do 300-400 shots each time, but he is not counted according to the number of times, but is limited to 1 hour, and he shoots wildly without interruption during this time. More importantly, he will practice various shooting styles for different positions and different defensive situations. It's not just a jumper.

When he first entered the league, Durant's shooting was criticized. In his rookie season, Durant averaged 20 per game. 3-pointers, but shooting only 43 percent from the field and 28 from three-point range. 8%。 He won the best rookie, but he was ridiculed for winning the award by swiping data. Chinese fans jokingly called him "Tiedu", but Durant didn't say anything and blocked the doubters with practical actions: in the second season, his shooting percentage increased to 47. 6%, and the three-point shot reached 42. 2%, and became a super scorer.

On the other half of the court, Westbrook was frantically practicing his shooting, sweat already soaking through his jersey. Teach, the assistant coach, shouted at him from time to time, telling him to pay attention to his posture. Cheeks' main job is to help Westbrook develop three-point firepower.

Westbrook has also been working hard in the offseason, going to Santa Monica to train with Rose with renowned trainer McLanan. Rose and Westbrook are both super-physical players with sharp breakthroughs and good explosiveness, but their shooting ability needs to be improved. So, most of the training programs McLanan arranged for them were the same.

In Santa Monica, you have to train twice a day, six days a week. They train for 90 minutes in the morning and an hour in the evening. For the other three days, McLanan will mentor them individually.

For each practice, Westbrook had to make 10 turnaround runs on both ends of the court before shooting drills. McLanan believes that the purpose of this is to allow the players to maintain their shooting touch even when they are physically tired.

Westbrook needs to make at least 400 shots per shooting session, mostly three-pointers, spread across five shooting spots. This is followed by ball control practice and lateral movement practice, shooting practice after dribbling, full-court dribbling and layup practice, and blocking and dismantling tactical practice.

This season, Westbrook's stats improved to 16 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, playing star statistics.

Kobe Bryant's 13th pick became the "successor to Jordan", and James changed from a rough brother to an all-round warrior, all of which are the result of years of practice, and no one can succeed casually. The "Jordan Heirs" movie is like Leo Baova, picking up a pair of shoes and putting them on, and it is impossible to dominate the NBA court. The word "superstar" does not mean the bloody scoring on the field, but the countless sweat on the training ground behind it.

As soon as the assistant coach blew the whistle, the two stopped at the same time, wiped their sweat with a towel, drank a few sips of water, and sank back, Westbrook said with a straight face: "Kevin, we have to win everything we say this time, and we can't let those two second rounds be arrogant." ”

Durant scratched his head: "You still treat the two of them as a second round?" ”

"They're in the second round, they're all young guys, and it's a shame to lose to them all the time." Westbrook said depressedly.

He was talking about Zhou Xuan and Ellis, of course, the collapse of the second-round show combination. Last season, the Warriors suppressed him, Durant, and Green for a year, and now they have added Harden to the team. What's more, now the Warriors are without Randolph, whom they fear the most.

Thinking of this, Westbrook is a little regretful, the opponent is not the strongest warrior, and the win is not perfect.

Westbrook has a very stubborn personality and sometimes does 2B things. To use the manga characters as an example, Westbrook is like Vegeta in Dragon Ball, who wants to fight against the strongest opponents and hates to lose. Another similarity between Westbrook and Vegeta is that they were abused as soon as they appeared, grew up in abuse, and were obviously not opponents, but they could still try to maintain their pride and self-esteem.

Durant smiled: "Let's do our best tomorrow, they won the Magic and are still strong." ”

"No, you have to win, for the honor of the team! Why is Zhou Xuan's nickname Mage, I don't even have a nickname until now, they only call me 'West'?! ”

"Are you doing this for the honor of the team? It's obviously just jealousy, who made you have a 'west' printed on your back number? Durant couldn't help but complain.

His surname is "westbrook", which translates into Chinese as the meaning of westbrook, and the Chinese translation also means west, and Chinese fans use "west" as his nickname. In fact, Westbrook should be glad, otherwise with his usual outfit, his nickname may be "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" or "Raphael" in China.

Westbrook snorted: "I'll guard against Zhou Xuan, Jackson is gone, you should have an easy time running into Garcia, right?" ”

"I don't know what to do, let's see, Zhou Xuan is not the most scorer, you and James (Harden) have to guard against Ellis." Durant has a feeling that he doesn't want to say it, that is, with Zhou Xuan here, everyone has to guard against it. This game is simply impossible to win.

The Thunder coaching staff also discussed tactics together, hoping to win the game, this season they are in an embarrassing low position, they don't want to mess up, and it is a bit difficult to hit the playoffs, and they have to fight every game.

Unlike the Thunder, the Warriors players are very relaxed and go out to play together at night, Emma? Watson was also along, with strong black men such as Turyaf and Blair acting as bodyguards.

A group of ten people searched for three stretch cars and went to the local Cadillac club. Inside, there is everything, billiards, game consoles, chess and card rooms, live escape rooms, bars, discotheques.

After playing billiards for a while, Zhou Xuan found that there was still a darts competition here, and the host stood on the small stage to announce. "$3,000 bonus, plus a membership card for our store."

There is no fee to sign up, and it is purely for the purpose of selling alcohol and promoting the event, and it must be held once a year.

"You sign up and take the first place." Emma said to Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan smiled: "Okay, as you wish, I will win you in a while, and you will go up to offer flowers." ”

At home, Zhou Xuan and Emma often play darts. Rely on this to decide who will do the housework and brush the dishes after eating. At the beginning, Emma won no matter how she threw it, and Zhou Xuan practiced for a week, and he hit every shot.

Dart throwing is a wrist-based sport that is easier to master than shooting. The event has a long history, originating in England in the 15th century. It is recorded that soldiers of the ancient Roman legions were sent by the Roman emperor to the distant island of Britain, where the rainy climate of England did not allow them to spend long periods of time outdoors. So, in the shack, they threw arrows at targets made of cross-sections of oak trees, which gradually developed into the modern sport of darts.

Another theory is that the sport of darts evolved from a 10-inch-long throwing weapon used by British archers in close combat.

The third theory has to do with specific historical figures. King Henry VII of England was weak, considering that hunting was dangerous and hard, he decided not to hunt anymore, and made a short-handled dart gun to throw it into the cross-section of the oak tree to achieve the purpose of fitness, and soon, the palace ministers also fell in love with this sport, and gradually spread to the people.

The modern sport of darts appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, and the Englishman Bailien? Ganlin is credited with inventing the present-day dart scoring system. In 1902, the Englishman John? For the first time, Red set a record of 180 points in a single round.

The British will play this, Zhou Xuan's techniques and everything are taught by Emma, and the blue is better than the blue. As soon as he signed up, many people in the club gathered here, and it was so blocked that those who came late could only listen to the news outside. Zhou Xuan's shooting is common, and no one has ever seen a dart throw.

The sport is also popular in the United States, where it is said that there are 150,000 darts stations and 20 million people who are passionate about darts.

Zhou Xuan waited for a while to play, and in the first round, he startled everyone and threw the highest score of 180 points. He didn't score 150 points in the next few rounds.

"Is there any mistake, it turns out that Emma likes him not because he plays basketball, but because he can throw darts?" Blair's jaw was dropping on the side. "Do you know that he has the ability?"

Turyaf shook his head with his mouth equally open.

A darts enthusiast asked Ellis, "That's amazing, it's just a professional, you can't all play basketball like this, right?" ”

"How is that possible? It's just that this guy will have too many things. Ellis laughed.

Green, who has some research on darts, sighed: "I didn't expect him to have this murderous ability, even if he participates in darts throwing competitions, he can probably make a lot of money." Feel like you can be with Phil? Taylor compared. ”

Phil? Taylor is a legend in the world of darts, having won 13 world championship titles and a total prize fund of more than one million pounds. There must be a lot of darts fans in China.

There are also reporters in the club, and it will definitely be in the news tomorrow, which will definitely make Chinese darts fans excited. In 2008, Shi Yongsheng, a Chinese darts player known as the "Golden Dart King", defeated the European champion in the United Kingdom to enter the main event, and a "Chinese wind" blew at the scene of the World Darts Competition. But his best result was only to enter the main race, and he didn't get a place.

If the "Golden Dart King" knows that Zhou Xuan is practicing casually without washing dishes and doing housework, I wonder if Lu Dao will choose to retire......

After a while, there were no more challengers. The level of amateurs and Zhou Xuan is too different to be compared. Emma took a bouquet of ready-to-go flowers to the podium and kissed them, and the audience took out their mobile phones and cameras to take pictures.

Zhou Xuan said a word when he gave a speech, and the audience applauded. "I'll give everyone a drink!" His worth doesn't care about the 3,000 bonus at all, and everyone else thinks he's too bold!