Chapter 12 What is the real reason for the defeat?
It only takes more than half an hour to drive from George's hotel to Lake Mead, and before leaving, Erin deliberately changed out of her bright red sportswear and put on a skirt, because she has a Canon 550D digital camera in her suitcase, and she said that she will look good in a skirt to take pictures in Lake Mead.
Erin was changing clothes in George's room, and George went to the bathroom to avoid it, which caused the audience in the live broadcast room to complain, and everyone asked George to open the door on the barrage, and George took the opportunity to ask them about the perspective of watching the live broadcast, if there is a camera in the live broadcast of George, then where is this camera? Is it fixed in one position, or can the angle be switched at any time?
But these mysterious viewers didn't want to talk to George about it at all, they were as unreasonable as the soldiers who shouted under the city gates during the ancient wars.
"Oh my God, she's so pretty." After arriving at Lake Mead, Jeremy Lin saw Erin in a long dress appear in the picturesque blue sky of the lake, and the whole person was fascinated.
George listened to Erin's joyful laughter and watched her walk in circles on the beach, the wind blowing on her, blonde hair flying, red dress swaying, and a smile on her face.
Beauty and beauty are like Jordan and Pippen, O'Neal and Kobe, and it's okay to look at them individually, but when you put them together, the enjoyment will be even more shocking.
George has always liked to use layers of oil paint to describe the color of the sea blue water, especially here, not only the water itself seems to be a thick pigment, but even the islands raised in the center of the lake, the mountains along the coast, are also like handmade sculptures and then painted in color, which reminds him of a Chinese word: picturesque.
Erin fed the seagulls on the dock pontoon with a slice of bread she bought at Costco alone, while Jeremy Lin talked about the game that had just ended, and the last basketball was exciting, but Jeremy Lin was still more curious about George's ball control skills, Jeremy Lin looked at George and said, "Joe, why is your ball control so good?" You're supposed to be training hard, right? ”
Jeremy Lin is a point guard himself, and he clearly feels that he doesn't have as much control as George, but he's spent a lot of time training over the years, so he knows George should spend more time on that than he does.
George didn't know how to answer this question for a while, he looked at the clouds floating in the clear blue sky, but his mind remembered that on a rainy night in the past, he was still dribbling on the basketball court, like a demon, tireless.
He still remembers that night, a classmate taunted him, saying that he should go back to Asia, and that he didn't deserve to live in such a nice American family, and he got into a fight with that man, and then used dribbling as a way to vent his emotions, and over the years, he had dribbled countless times to release the pent-up emotions in his heart, because he had asked himself not to bring these negative emotions back to the family that had given him everything.
Because of this, George's ball control skills have greatly improved.
George didn't want to talk to Jeremy Lin about this, saying, "I don't know how tall my biological parents are, so I'm not sure how tall I can get, but I love basketball so much and I want to play professionally, so I try to practice ball control, and I think if I'm not tall enough, at least I have to have better ball control skills than everyone else to survive." ”
Jeremy Lin smiled: "My parents are very ordinary height, I was very short when I was a freshman in high school, but I grew 30CM in three years, thank God, otherwise, I would definitely not be able to enter the NBA, oh, by the way, I haven't entered yet, haha." ”
"You're definitely going to get into the NBA." George encouraged Jeremy Lin, and he also learned about Jeremy Lin's future through a mysterious audience, "In this game, you have 15 points, I have 22 points, and in the next game, I will create more opportunities for you, and the statistics of the two of us will be the best for the Mavericks." ”
The two were talking, when Erin suddenly shouted at the two: "Joe, Lin, you two come here, I found a professional photographer who can help us take a group photo!" ”
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The summer league schedule was not tight, and the Mavericks' next game was three days away, and George and Erin had a lot of time to play together in Las Vegas during these two days, but because Byron had privately warned Erin not to let her delay George's training, they didn't dare to play too crazy.
Soon three days later, in the same arena, the Mavericks' second opponent was the Bucks, and Erin didn't hide it this time, sitting in the front row to cheer on her brother.
However, George didn't know that in addition to Erin, there were two other people who came here to watch his game, not the last game where the website editor Mitch and the famous Stephen A were here, both of whom have left the casino, and Stephen A needs to go back to the show to discuss the changes in the league landscape after James joined the Heat.
The people who came to see George's game were Hodges from the Los Angeles Lakers coaching staff and a staff member named Madsen, who were ordered by Janice Buss, the daughter of Lakers owner Jerry Buss, to check George's strength, although James occupied all the basketball sections on July 9th, but some people still noticed George's stunner and that performance, especially when the opponent that day was the Los Angeles Lakers.
Madsen said: "LeBron James joined the Miami Heat, everyone is looking forward to seeing the Finals battle between LeBron and Kobe, Jeanie Buss said maybe Mike George will give us some instant power, do you think he has the strength to help our team?" ”
Hodges looked at George and said with a flat face: "I don't know, let's see." ”
After the start of the game, George was also excited again, this time the number of online people easily broke 100 early, in order to get a reward, George also tried to have a good performance, however, George played almost the same as the previous game, but the reward he received was far worse than the previous one, which made George very puzzled.
"Why don't they tip anymore?" George is very helpless, he has no experience as an online anchor, so he doesn't know that this is actually a normal situation, many people will choose to tip when they see the live broadcast for the first time, but the second and third time, when they see the same repetitive content, they will not tip again.
In addition, in the last game, the game was against the Lakers, and the opponent was Gerald Green, the "slam dunk king" who was very familiar to the audience, and this time the opponent was the Bucks, and the audience didn't know anyone.
"There are no players in the Bucks who are familiar to the audience, so it's not cool to watch, alas, this game has so few rewards, I'm afraid the summer league will not have enough gold coins to exchange for stars." George began to get worried.
At this time, Hodges, who watched George's half-game, also began to shake his head and sigh: "This young man does have a certain amount of improvisation, but the physical talent is too poor, we are going to strive for three consecutive championships, it is a team that wants to reach the finals, he may not even be able to adapt to the intensity of the regular season, let alone the intensity of the playoffs and the finals, Jenny looked away, he is not the person we need." ”
Madsen also nodded in agreement: "I agree with you, however, although he is not suitable for our Lakers, I think he should at least be favored by some other NBA teams, such as those teams that can't make the playoffs, he still has some strength." By the way, you say, does he know the real reason for his defeat? ”
When Hodges heard this, his body trembled violently, and he remembered that 19 days ago, in the NBA draft, the Lakers almost selected George with the 43rd pick in the second round, but in the end they didn't choose him for some reason.
Hodges said: "He shouldn't know, in fact, the teams at the end of the draft, the Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic and Phoenix Suns don't know, they just saw that we didn't choose, so they didn't dare to choose, maybe he won't be able to enter the NBA in his life, and he will never know the answer." ”
Madsen sighed: "Alas, judging from the explosive news three days ago, I think he will never know." ”
Hodges chuckled, noncommittal.