Chapter 377: A Bad Start

"That buddy was your acquaintance just now?" Randall asked.

"yes, Duke's future star!" Haugis nodded.

"Come on! What future superstar can Duke make? Can you compare to my Kentucky? Randall's tone was full of pride in his alma mater and disdain for Duke.

Haugist glanced at Shashewski at the door of the locker room and deliberately plucked out his ears, "What did you say?" Why don't I seem to hear clearly? โ€

"I said I'm Kentucky where the stars come out, Duke...... I mean, playing everyone is like a college that abuses vegetables, and all the people who produce are Hall of Fame players, far greater than the stars! Randle wanted to continue to belittle Duke, but when he looked back, he also saw Shashefsky, and in front of the greatest coach in the history of Duke University, where did Randle dare to speak out?

"Did you just say that?" Hogist pretended to be puzzled.

Randall lowered his voice and scolded: "I'm half a year older than you, and I'm a year ahead of you, you don't take me like this!" Knowing that the coach was standing in the back, he tempted me to spray Duke! โ€

"What did I do to you? It's obvious that you don't like Duke! Hougist shrugged his shoulders "innocently".

"Anyway, that guy doesn't look like a superstar, at most he's the next Sam. Kassel! Randall continued to suppress his voice.

Hoggist scratched the back of his head, "It's not that miserable, is it?" Brandon has hair! โ€

Sitting in front of the locker, Haugist was worried again, these four pairs of shoes were carefully selected by himself, but which pair to wear first? The purple and gold mandarin ducks symbolize the Lakers, the red and green mandarin ducks symbolize Christmas, the blue snowflakes symbolize the winter snow, and the white snowflakes symbolize the history they carry.

So Hogist changed into a white snowflake that symbolized the Lucky Year of Ruixue, and Randall continued to ask curiously, "This is also the sneaker specially designed by Li Ning for you?" It's too vegan, isn't it? Isn't it too insincere? โ€

"You don't understand traditional Chinese culture, these shoes can be said to be full of details, and they are related to my hometown and family, and ordinary people can't design such exquisite details. These details have to be carefully observed up close, and that's the most funny! Hoggist said proudly.

"Do you have to take a closer look? Why is it so strenuous? This particular version of the sneaker should have an intuitive visual impact! Randall said with disgust that the temper of black Americans is so simple and direct.

"See the white snowflakes embroidered on it? It's called the details! See the anti-slip lines on the soles? It's called the details! Hougist took off one of his shoes and threw it to Randall, "You're talking about a signed shoe, and I'm calling it a work of art!" โ€

Randall took the sneakers and looked at them carefully, and sure enough, the texture was completely different from his own sneakers, and he had to admit that Hoggist's description of the shoes was not exaggerated.

"It's so creative to use Chinese characters to make anti-slip lines on the soles, and this is the coolest sole texture I've ever seen!" Randall exclaimed heartily.

Hoggist smiled slightly, "The anti-slip pattern on the sole is indeed a great idea, but it's not Chinese characters!" Rather, it is a kind of script that my family has created and used for more than 200 years, and now basically no one knows this kind of script, Li Ning can find these 4 characters and design them into anti-slip lines on the sole. I think it's pretty impressive. โ€

"Your family still has a special text? Sounds too lofty, could it be that your family was once a nobleman with a title? Why haven't I heard you mention it before? We all only know that you are a star of the casino, but we didn't expect you to have noble blood, which is really disrespectful! Randall's face struck with admiration.

"My family doesn't have a title, it's a real royal relative! In China, it should be called the imperial family, forget it, there are too many dynastic changes in Chinese history, and you don't understand it when I told you! Hoggist took back his sneakers and put them on, and patted Randall on the shoulder, "Young man, do a good job, and knight you after helping this king win the championship in the future!" โ€

In the Christmas game, ล aลกewski sent the strongest starting lineup, Jeremy Lin, Kobe, Hoggist, Randle, Turner, and the opposite Clippers starters were also as everyone expected, Paul, Redick, Bamot, Griffin, Jordan Jr.

Before the two sides got on the court to jump the ball, Jeremy Lin suddenly asked Hougist, "Griffin is not low in popularity in China, right?" Does he have any Chinese nicknames? โ€

Hogist was stunned for a moment, and then smiled obscenely, "His nickname, at the beginning, the flying storm was really shocking, so the Chinese fans directly transliterated his name as Li Fen, but then his arm span gradually became the object of ridicule, so now domestic fans call him 'Short Fen' more; I heard that Griffin bought two bottles of mineral water for 40 yuan and gave the boss 100, and the boss found him 50, he took the money and studied the authenticity and left, without calculating the price at all, so there are still many fans who call him 'Silly Fen'. And don't look at these two nicknames as mockery of him, but Clippers fans and Griffin fans like to call him that, and they think it's affectionate. โ€

"It's terrible, will the fans 'affectionately' call me Silly Lin or Silly Hao?" Jeremy Lin asked worriedly.

"That's definitely not going to happen, domestic fans will quote Lin Pingzhi's nickname in "Smiling Proud Jianghu" at most to call you Xiaolinzi, which sounds like a eunuch!" Of course, the second half of the sentence was just a slander and did not say it.

The game officially began, this time Turner actually managed to grab the ball from Jordan Jr., Hougist received the ball directly across the halfcourt, and saw Kobe Bryant in the elbow area, after all, Kobe Bryant had a rotation rest in the last hard game against the Thunder, and now he is in the best condition, so Hoggist did not hesitate to hang the ball to Kobe.

Kobe Bryant received the ball with his back, pushed past Redick's turnover jumper, but failed to hit, the ball bounced high, past Turner and Jordan Jr., who were entangled under the basket, and flew to the free throw line.

This time the rebound was firmly protected by Jordan Jr., and Hougist clapped his hands in annoyance, it was simply an unforgivable mistake that such a simple shot would be missed. However, it was important to return to defense, and Jordan Jr. gave the ball to Paul, who had already dribbled through the half.

On the flank, Paul and Jordan Jr. were going to play a block, but Jordan Jr. blocked Jeremy Lin to the death, but Jeremy Lin also quickly entangled Jordan Jr. after losing his position, so that he couldn't go down. Paul moved sideways from the flank, and Griffin, who bypassed the free throw line, came to the other wing, and Turner was blocked by Griffin and couldn't follow, so Randle took the initiative to switch to Paul.

Paul returned the ball to Griffin, who retreated to the top of the arc, and Griffin took advantage of his speed to turn past Turner and rush inside, scoring two points with a low-handed layup. Haugist sent the baseline ball to Jeremy Lin, and everyone ran through the half court together, and Hoggist fell to the bottom corner to catch the ball, and along the baseline to burst Bamot, who was sideways and tried to force Haugist out of the baseline with reasonable body contact.

But Hoggist found that Griffin on the strong side had a tendency to shrink to the basket, so he directly used the long arm advantage to hit the ball from behind Bamot to Randle in the elbow area of the strong side, and Randle took advantage of Griffin's defensive position to catch the ball and jump shot, which was also easy to hit and scored two points.

Paul was not in a hurry, steadily dribbled to the frontcourt, just passed the middle line and stopped and began to direct his teammates to run, Redick came from the top of the arc to the low post, and Bamot covered each other to run, slipped to the bottom corner of the strong side again, borrowed Jordan Jr.'s cover to move a step to the line, received the ball and shot three points, Horgist chased very tightly, but was still blocked by Jordan Jr.

Immediately after that, the audience saw a crazy scene, Hoggist didn't know whether he was overconfident or whimsical, and actually jumped up directly behind Jordan Jr. to try to intercept in the back row. Even though Hoggist's height and arm length are amazing, but Reddick's three-point arc is still higher, Hougist feels that the ball is just passing through his fingertips, just a little bit worse, but in the eyes of the audience on the sidelines, this ball is simply out of reach of Hoggist's hand, so the fans in the front row feel a little funny when they see the remorseful expression on Hoggist's face.

However, although Hoggist failed to block the ball, the cold basket also rejected Redick's shot, and the basket was relatively empty, and Kobe Bryant calmly accepted the rebound. Quickly advanced to the front court and motioned for Randle to come up to cover, but the chasing Bamot bypassed the cover in time, and Kobe Bryant failed to use the cover to get inside, but Randle pulled up to the low post and got an open opportunity.

Kobe Bryant was quick and hit the ground to give the ball to Randle, but Jordan Jr. made up for it in time for Randle. Randle dribbled and turned to wipe it to the basket, but when he turned around, he saw that Jordan Jr. was still in front of him. So he split the ball to the weak side, but Paul shrewdly reached out to cut off the passing route.

The ball was intercepted, rebounded from the ground and flew into Jordan Jr.'s arms, Jordan Jr. hurriedly sent the ball to Paul, Paul dribbled a step to face Jeremy Lin, who was defending frontally, and quickly distributed the ball to Redick, who was fast on the side, Redick dribbled to the wing and wanted to stop three points, but Kobe Bryant had already stood in a defensive position and jumped up to block Redick's shooting angle.

Redick forced the ball in the air to Griffin next to him, and after landing on the ground, he cut to the basket, Griffin hit the ball to the basket, but the ball smashed on Randle's foot and bounced off the sideline. The Clippers reopened the sideline ball, Paul received the ball at the top of the arc and borrowed Jordan Jr. to cover the free throw line, and directly made a jumper shot.

Haugist dribbled to the front court and distributed the ball to Randle in the elbow area, Kobe Bryant shook off Redick's defense and cut inside from Randle's back, Redick reached out to pull Kobe's jersey, but he didn't grasp it and fell and hit Randle's knee. In order to protect his knee from being injured by the force of this anti-joint, Randall hurriedly fell to the ground. All this was seen by the referee and directly whistled for Redick's foul.

The Lakers restarted the game, Horgist sent the ball to Kobe, Kobe Bryant played a block with Turner on the wing, but after bypassing the screen, he was caught by Redick and Jordan Jr., Turner raised his hand on the side for a long time, but Kobe Bryant couldn't split the ball under the pressure of Jordan Jr.'s long arm. In desperation, Kobe Bryant could only jump out of the baseline and try to share the ball in the other corner in mid-air, but the witty Paul leaned out of tiptoe from the court and directly broke the ball.

I have to admire Paul's overall view, when he intercepted the ball but was about to lose his center of gravity and step out of bounds, he turned his head and threw the ball directly to Griffin, who was fast behind him, Griffin dribbled quickly and cut into the middle from the flank, trying to attract Redick who was going to divide the ball to the bottom corner after the defense, but accidentally got out of his hand when he collected the ball, and in the process of adjusting the pace, Griffin regained his grip on the ball, and saw that there was no one in front of him to defend and simply scored a layup with his low hand again.

Hougist was very unhappy, this is the home court of the Lakers, how can he let Griffin go wild, so he took the initiative to ask for the ball and rushed to the frontcourt, Turner came up to cover Hougist, but Hougist did not plan to block and dismantle, and still dribbled on the flank. Although Hougist did not plan to go around the screen, Jordan Jr. repeated his old trick to wrap Haugist with Bamot.

The sneer on Hougist's face flashed, my height and arm span are stronger than the boss, and I defended Kobe Bryant in the same way, but I couldn't stop my ball, so Hoggist forced a step through the defense of the two, and then stopped and leaned back, hoisting the ball to the basket, Turner knew how to rush to the basket in two steps, and jumped in the air to catch the ball and complete the dunk.

Paul signaled Griffin to send quickly, dribbled directly and pushed a quick counterattack, and directly stopped at the top of the arc to shoot a three-point shot, the ball bounced high and flew to the free throw line, Jordan Jr. followed up and rushed directly to grab the rebound, Randle jumped up in the paint area when he saw this, and wanted to give the rebound to Turner under the basket, but he didn't control the strength well, and actually pointed the ball directly into his own basket. The scoring stats of this own goal also fell to Jordan Jr., who was closest to the basket.

Randle looked at his teammates with a helpless expression, "Damn, I've never shot so accurately!" โ€

Hoggist patted him on the shoulder and half-jokingly comforted, "It's okay, don't be so nervous, even if you behave as usual, I will give you a knighthood!" โ€

Jeremy Lin controlled the ball over half court and gave Kobe Bryant to the elbow area, Kobe hit the ground and divided the ball under the basket of Turner, Turner held the ball with his back and wanted to use his feet to shake off Jordan Jr., but failed to succeed, Turner did not reluctantly attack, but withdrew from the three-second zone to return the ball to Kobe, and mentioned that the elbow area covered Kobe, this time Jordan Jr. still chose to wrap Kobe, and how could Kobe fall twice in the same pit, before Jordan Jr. pounced to seal the passing line, Kobe quickly hit the ground and gave the ball to Turner, Turner took off directly from outside the paint area, Griffin, who is guarding through the defense, wants the overlord to bow hard.