Chapter 162: Dick Silk Counterattack
In the away dressing room, Woodson asked Sun Yue: "What do you think, how does Arenas make you feel."
"I just want to say that it's terrifying, even in the face of that Bryant guy, I don't have the same powerlessness as I do today." Sun Yue said with a wry smile.
"But it's not impossible, we can continue to fight him like this, wheel warfare against him, I don't believe it, I can't clean him up, he can't have infinite physical strength."
Woodson felt that Sun Yue was right, maybe a wheel battle was an absolutely sharp weapon against Arenas, after all, the Eagles have many scorers and can take turns to deal with this big general.
"Arenas, let me use this method to compete with you today." Woodson thought to himself.
In the second half of the game, Woodson defeated Sun Yue, who had been fighting for 20 minutes, in the middle of the third quarter. Johnson was on the field to lead the bench against Arenas. Sun Yue rested on the sidelines, preparing for the decisive battle between the leaders and the Wizards in the fourth quarter.
Sun Yue took a closer look at Qiao on the field. The contest between Johnson and Arenas, Johnson was just pressed to the ground by Arenas and rubbed, if it weren't for Arenas believing too much in his shooting and having some poor shooting options, the Wizards would have further expanded the score advantage.
When it comes to Arenas, everyone in the league may think of the word magic, why? Because Arenas is really the representative of the grassroots turning into a phoenix! His basketball career has been filled with all sorts of dramatic changes.
Born on January 6, 1982, Arenas has the typical personality of the Capricorn sign, patience, inhibition and stability, hard work and steadfastness, step by step slowly, but under the deceptive peaceful and low-key exterior is a strong self-confidence and ambition that is boiling and surging all the time in the depths of the heart.
It is this deeply hidden stubbornness and self-esteem that drove him to choose 0 as his back number. A person's life is often completely on a different track just because of the influence of one person, one word, or one thing. And the story of "Agent Zero" happened when he was a freshman in high school......
The young Arenas was easy-going and disciplined, away from all the troubles on the streets, and while he had become a good player in high school, he didn't get much playing time and couldn't contribute dazzling statistics. He has a wide range of hobbies, including football, basketball, and track and field. But at the end of the freshman season, his coach came to a life-changing conclusion: "You're never going to go into college to play basketball." ”
"I think that's how it all started," Arenas later recalled, "and before that, I enjoyed playing basketball, but I wasn't obsessed." I just love playing because my friends play and playing allows me to get away from a lot of trouble on the streets. ”
But that summer, young Arenas was filled with another kind of motivation - to prove that coach wrong! He started practicing basketball every morning before dawn, and spent the whole day on the basketball court playing heads-up or teaming up with different people. Anyone, at any time, on any venue, on any game. As long as he can participate in the competition, Arenas will not let go, often not seeing anyone for a day until midnight and not returning home. His father knew where he was playing, and he knew that he could stay away from drugs and violence, so he was happy to let him go as he went.
"I think that's where it all began. He practiced almost from morning to night that summer, and often went straight to the court with a basketball after dinner. He started practicing basketball every morning before dawn, and spent the whole day on the basketball court playing heads-up or teaming up with different people.
Time flies like an arrow, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Arenas scored 33 points per game in the final year of the high school season to become the top scorer in California high school. But the same story repeats itself: the so-called "pundits" in the newspapers predict in a sympathetic tone that he "maybe" be good enough to sit on the bench in college basketball, but that he will play zero minutes.
In fact, not many local basketball schools in California had heard of the 33-pointer-a-game kid, and Arenas' father even had to call the USC and UCLA faculty heads to introduce his kid. In the end, because another child who had promised to go to the University of Arizona regretted going to another school, and there was a vacant basketball scholarship spot, Arenas was "lucky" to take the last train to enter the University of Arizona, a famous basketball school.
During his two seasons at the University of Arizona, Arenas averaged 15.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in 70 games (he entered the NBA Draft after his sophomore year). The year he left school, he ranked 25th on the Arizona scoring charts (1,105), becoming the sixth sophomore in the school's history to score 1,000 points. In 2000-01 (sophomore year): Appeared in 36 games, averaging 16.2 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.81 steals per game in 29 minutes played.
On the day of the draft, Arenas watched his name slip all the way down on TV in a hotel in California, and after the entire first round, there was still no name of his own, Arenas angrily opened the window and threw the diamonds, watches, gold chains and other jewelry he had just bought into the street, turned off the TV, and called his college coach to cry bitterly. The coach quickly comforted him by saying that he was drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the second pick in the second round.
The stubborn and even somewhat paranoid Arenas announced on the spot that he would be able to start in less than the middle of the season, a promise that was rare for a second-round rookie, not to mention that Golden State already had a good backcourt combination in the team at the time.
But, once again, Arenas lived up to his promise.
The following year, Arenas scored 18 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists per game, becoming the league's most improved player.
Arenas became a restricted free agent with early Bird rights in 2003. The Washington Wizards offered Arenas a contract with a starting salary of $8.5 million, but the Warriors could only afford to give Bird's early exception (around $4.9 million at the time), so they couldn't match the contract at all and could only watch Arenas go.
In 2004-05, Arenas went to the next level, scoring 25.5 points per game, tying a career-high 4.7 rebounds per game and averaging 5.1 assists and 1.74 steals per game, becoming one of the league's top scorers.