Chapter 163: Arenas' Weakness
"I like people to be suspicious and look down on me," Arenas said in an Adidas ad, "because I can throw those doubts back on their faces." ”
But don't think that anyone can be as patient and inhibited as he is, and then the opportunity can appear out of thin air for you to humiliate the skeptic to his face. If you think that his repeated humiliation of his doubters requires only patience and restraint, then you are mistaken.
What many people can see may be that Arenas easily gets rid of his defenders with a quick first move and then dunks in the air every game, and what can be seen may be his graceful posture every time he makes a three-point shot into the net.
What no one saw was that he started to climb over the wall and enter the nearby junior high school basketball court at four o'clock every morning in the summer of his freshman year of high school to shoot, but what no one saw was that one of his most familiar friends after entering the University of Arizona was the assistant coach of the team's key management - to help him open the university's 13,000-seat arena late every night for him to practice.
No one saw it, but it was the sweat that he had often shed when he entered the arena at two or three o'clock in the morning since the Golden State Warriors era, and no one saw it, but he had become an All-Star, and he was dissatisfied with his performance after a game with 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists.
There are even times when Arenas's pursuit of perfection borders on paranoia and makes all sorts of strange things that ordinary people look at - he will spend a lot of money to build a hypoxic training room at home to simulate high-altitude training to improve his endurance, especially his concentration in the later stages of the race.
He also ordered the same low-oxygen tent so that he could take it with him when he went to away games. In the summer, he would find someone to train his physical fitness – not just an ordinary sports trainer, but a soldier – and the training included some military training programs, such as weight-bearing mountaineering and weightlifting training.
Although his foot is 14 and a half, he always wears 13 shoes on the field, which has nothing to do with the performance of the game, but another point of his pursuit of perfection, because he is afraid that his feet will look too ugly.
Perfectionist and even a little superstitious, he eats from the same store before every game, parks his car in the same parking space, listens to the same music in the same order, and throws his jersey in the stands after the game.
So Arenas's biggest weakness is his character, extremely inferior and extremely self-reliant, he has a sensitive and fragile heart, if someone provokes him, even if he knows it's a trap, he will run into it with no relent.
That's why today Sun Yue will continue to provoke Arenas with words, and in the face of a high-ranking rookie like Sun Yue, Arenas's inferiority complex or self-esteem as a second-round pick has also been stimulated, and he wants to cut high scores on the heads of Sun Yue and the Eagles more and more, and prove his strength to everyone.
The heart that wants to cut a high score is constantly beating, constantly congesting Arenas's head, and Arenas's shot choices are becoming more and more simple and rough, often choosing to directly pull out the jump shot after half time.
This simple shot option allowed Arenas to score more, but it also allowed the Wizards' lead to be eaten away by the Hawks little by little.
With nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, with Al. Harrington broke through Jamison's defensive layup and the Hawks had caught up the score.
At this time, Woodson also changed all the main lineup to prepare for the final showdown.
Arenas had already scored 45 points by this time, and now he was running to the front court with the confidence of hitting 50 or even 60 points.
Arenas just after the half, Sun Yue immediately greeted him, Sun Yue, who had rested for most of the quarter off the field, had enough physical strength, and he decided to lock Arenas in the last nine minutes.
Sun Yue's aggressive defense had an immediate effect, Arenas tried to break through once and found that there was no good chance to pass the ball to Jamison, who couldn't get the ball past the eager Josh. Smith's defense, passing the ball to Butler.
Butler is upset because he didn't shoot much today, this time the ball is in his own hands, then try to hit one, Butler faces Al. Harrington went inside, and Harrington had to reach out and try to steal Butler's ball while retreating.
However, Butler's goal was not to rush to the inside for a layup, he suddenly made a sharp stop and threw the ball, and Harrington only symbolically extended his hand without interfering with Butler's shooting.
However, Butler didn't touch the ball for too long, so the ball didn't go in, and the ball bounced out on the front of the basket.
Jamison tried to rush inside to grab the rebound from the outside, but Josh was defeated by Josh. Smith was stuck, and Haywood fell back in the scramble with Pachuria, but the ball didn't bounce in that direction, and the ball bounced in Harrington and Butler's direction.
Harrington saw the ball bounce and immediately jumped high to grab the rebound, and when Harrington was about to hold the ball, Butler suddenly jumped up and slapped the ball to the outside, and the ball was taken by Arenas on the outside.
After Arenas got the ball, Sun Yue was one step away from Arenas, and Arenas jumped up one step away from the three-point line now, Sun Yue had to try his best to pounce, but this save obviously had no effect, because Arenas had already shot when Sun Yue jumped up.
Arenas knew it was there when he threw the ball, so Arenas landed and turned around without waiting for the ball to enter the basket, and just as Arenas took a step back, the ball went into the basket.
With Arenas hitting the three-pointer, his scoring stats have reached 48, and he is no longer satisfied with the 50 goal, and he is ready to charge higher.
The Hawks players seemed to be a little impatient by Arenas' arrogant shot, and they had no direction in the offense, and wanted to hand over the ball to Sun Yue to deal with, but they were suppressed by the Wizards' defense. Johnson himself chose to force a breakthrough, but it was also in vain.
The Wizards grabbed the rebound in the backcourt and immediately took a fast break, Butler and Arenas formed a double arrow galloped towards the Hawks' backcourt, although the Hawks players were still a step slow to chase back at the first time, Arenas received the ball and completely ignored Butler, who was in a better position, and threw the ball directly outside the three-point line.
At this time, Sun Yue chased behind Arenas, obviously unable to stop Arenas from shooting, Sun Yue prayed in his heart that this goal would not be scored and quickly rushed into the inside, this time Arenas's luck was not very good, Arenas's shot did not score, and the rebound also made Sun Yue firmly hold in his arms.
Arenas frowned when he saw that the ball did not go in, if he had scored this goal, he would have scored more than fifty marks in this game, and his heart fluctuated a little when he shot, which caused him to miss the shot, and he didn't seize such a good opportunity.
Sun Yue didn't give Arenas much time to think, the first thing Sun Yue did after grabbing the rebound was to launch a fast break with the ball, Arenas was obviously still regretting that he missed a great opportunity to break the fifty-point mark, until Sun Yue had already broken through himself, and it was too late to stop Sun Yue.
Sun Yue rushed past Arenas like a gust of wind, and then accelerated towards the half court, he didn't care about Arenas who was chasing after him, and now Sun Yue had only one thought in his mind, and that was to throw the ball into the basket.
Seeing Sun Yue speeding up, the Wizards' defensive guard Daniels immediately came up to defend, but he only delayed Sun Yue for less than a second, because Sun Yue turned around the moment he met Daniels, and this turn was very beautiful, and even the cameras at home couldn't help but focus for a while.
Daniels was very helpless about this ball, he had just run over and the center of gravity had not been adjusted, Sun Yue gave himself such a moment, how to defend himself, it was not all Arenas was passed by Sun Yue too quickly, and he didn't delay a little, so he couldn't defend on the spot, but the coach would only blame himself, not Arenas.
Thinking of this, Daniels hurriedly gritted his teeth and chased after Sun Yue, who had already passed him.
However, Sun Yue didn't give Daniels a chance to catch up with him, he jumped up directly and threw the ball, just after the ball was shot, Daniels jumped up from behind Sun Yue and tried to block, obviously Daniels was a step late.
As soon as Sun Yueqiu made a shot, Jamison and Heywood quickly jammed Josh. Smith and Pachuria, Jamison, who was born as a goalscorer, knew that there was a high chance that the ball thrown after a long run would not go in, so Jamison did not think that Sun Yue could shoot the ball.
This time luck was not on Sun Yue's side, Sun Yue's shot hit the rebound and bounced into the basket.
After the goal, Sun Yue pretended to be helpless and spread his hands at Arenas (the action was similar to Jordan).
This caused Arenas' adrenaline to soar, and the blood kept rushing to his brain.
Arenas wanted to score a response goal right away, and he dribbled the ball to try to find a weak spot in Sun Yue's defense, Arenas knew he didn't have an advantage in height, but he certainly had an advantage in flexibility.
Arenas kept accelerating and making a quick stop, trying to find a shooting space, but Sun Yue followed Arenas closely, which made Arenas dare not shoot easily, and Arenas finally threw the ball, but this was an opportunity after blocking and dismantling with Jamison.
Arenas breathed a sigh of relief when he threw the ball, he didn't expect Sun Yue to be so difficult, but Arenas, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, became nervous, although Sun Yue was blocked by Jamison, but he did not give up the defense of Arenas, he still pounced fiercely towards the basketball flying in the air.