Chapter 20 Interviews
"Caniborrowafewminutesofyourtime?mr." (May I borrow a few minutes of your time, sir?) )
Shi Lei looked at the visitor in surprise, but when he saw the other party's skin color and the press card hanging on his chest, he understood everything. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"You can speak Chinese."
In the noisy arena, Shi Lei had to amplify his volume.
"Are you...... Chinese. ”
Lin Junhui was also surprised, he did not think that the subject of the interview actually spoke fluent Chinese, because the domestic media, there is no report about domestic players joining the NBA.
"Yes, my name is Shi Lei."
Shi Lei stretched out his hand. His expression was very calm, but his heart was not calm at all.
"Made, I've finally met a living reporter!"
Lin Junhui mechanically shook Shi Lei's hand, and opened the recorder with an excited expression in the next second.
"Big news, big news!"
"Hello, I'm Tom Sports reporter Lin Junhui, when did you join the Spurs?"
"After Summer League, I was playing for the Celtics and then I was honored to get a call from the team."
"You played for that team in your home country? Why not participate in the NBA draft? ”
"Oh, sorry, I don't think I can answer your question, I'm just an amateur basketball player, and as for the draft, I don't really know how to sign up and what it entails, so that's it."
Shi Lei's lack of experience in dealing with the media leaked out of this sentence, because the sentence itself is a huge news.
However, seeing that Shi Lei didn't want to talk about this topic, Lin Junhui, who wanted to leave a good impression on the other party when they met for the first time, finally gave up digging into this news.
"Why did you choose the number 11 jersey and does it have any special meaning?"
Shi Lei knows the meaning of this question, of course, he will not say things like "I just chose one randomly", but as Lin Junhui expected, he said: "My idol is Yao Ming, and I hope that I can achieve the same achievements as him in the NBA." ”
"So what do you think is the biggest problem you're facing right now? What are your goals for the new season? ”
"First of all, let's help the team win, and secondly, I can play better. As for the biggest problem I'm facing right now, I think it's not adapting to the rules. ”
Lin Junhui obviously misunderstood what Shi Lei meant, and comforted him: "This is a problem that many international players have to take the lead in solving. So do you have anything to say to your fans and friends in China? ”
Well, Shi Lei actually doesn't have much to say, at least until he gets a stable playing time. Yi Di's experience is a lesson from the past, in case he "hits an iron angrily, picks a board angrily, and violates a rule angrily" every day......
So he said very nonsensically: "I hope the fans and friends have a happy life." ”
"NBA adds another Chinese new army, 20-year-old young player joins Spurs" - "In the just-concluded NBA preseason, the Spurs played against Lyon Aswo, China's young player Shi Lei got the opportunity to play, and under his tight defense, he kept a clean sheet against the opposing player, helping the team win the first game of the new season with a score of 112-95 and made a good start......
It is worth mentioning that this young player is the first outside player in my country to join the NBA.....
In the end, he said that he is not very suitable for the rhythm and rules of the NBA game, but he also said that he will play hard, strive to play well, help the team win, and hope that domestic fans can support him more, and he will repay the support of fans with a wonderful performance. Finally, he also wished the fans and friends in China a happy life! -- Tom Sports, reporter Lin Junhui.
Through this report, Shi Lei entered the field of vision of domestic fans for the first time, and some domestic fans began to know that there was such a Chinese player in the NBA.
In Lyon, France, the Spurs did not stay long, and on the day of the game, they flew to distant Israel.
The Spurs' opponent in their second preseason game was Israel's Maccabi.
Maccabi is the dominant basketball league in Israel, having won the championship 50 times since its inception in 1932. It is also a super team in European basketball, having won the championship four times, and won two consecutive championships in 04 and 05. There are many famous European players who have played for this team, including NBA stars!
The Spurs are one of the few teams in the NBA that has always had a complete roster, and they trade every year, with old players leaving and new players coming, but the framework that really supports the team never seems to change. The NBA's greatest power forward -- Tim. Duncan, the league's most famous outside defender - Bruce. Bowen, the top defender with the most breakthroughs and the highest shooting percentage in the league - Tony. Parker, Eagle of the Pampas Steppe - Manu. Ginobili.
Ginobili was on the bench again in this game, and Finley, who joined the team in the new season, started the game, and the other four remained unchanged.
It was a stalemate game, and from the first minute, the scores of the two teams were not separated, and they kept rising alternately, and the biggest difference was only five points.
Finley doesn't seem to be integrated into the team, and has always given the impression of being outside the tactical system, and his performance has not been as dazzling as when he came off the bench in the last game. What's more lethal is that even Parker is restricted, and Maccabi's point guard Odoros Papalukas completely controls the rhythm on the court. There's Duncan, who gives the Spurs an advantage on the inside.
There was no garbage time in this game, and the winner was not decided until the end of the game, and with the play of Duncan and Ginobili, the Spurs won the game 94-89. Shi Lei didn't get any playing time.
However, in this game, Shi Lei was not without gains.
As a basketball player, he learned for the first time the importance of tactical literacy. is as strong as Finley, the former "Jordan's successor", because he could not integrate into the team's tactical system, he played 29 minutes and scored only 13 points, and Ginobili, who had not come off the bench, was high.
Is it Finley's ability that won't let Ginobili? I'm afraid no one thinks so. The only thing limiting his play is that he doesn't fit into the Spurs' system.
It's also a tragedy, when you can't get the world to revolve around you, all you can do is try to keep up with the frequency of its turning, or get knocked out.
Shi Lei didn't want to be the one who was eliminated, so he began to observe Bowen, observing every run Bowen in the offense, every block, every passing choice, observing his defense, and observing every time he chose whether to make up for Parker or Ginobili, who were weak defensively.