Chapter 330: Little Rabbit, Raise Your Head
After entering May, the NBA's playoff schedule has reached the second round, and at this time, each of the remaining teams can be called the top teams in the entire league.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Lawrence? Porter is looking forward to the start of the second round of the playoffs, and he does have a place to hesitate now, because when he took over the Trail Blazers three years ago, the team was a Western underdog deep in the lottery zone of next year's draft, but now they have reached the second round of the playoffs for the second year in a row.
In the hands of Lawrence, the Trail Blazers team, which was originally in deep chaos, has been reborn, and he has created an offensive and defensive tactical system for the team in the past few years, and the combination of inside and outside play is now a popular trend in the league, and it is also regarded as the future trend of the development of the entire basketball game, and the Trail Blazers are also known as the most likely team in the league to achieve a dynasty in the future.
Now in this Trail Blazers team, the core player selected after Lawrence officially took over the super interior Brent? Charles, the big man who is two meters and one and a half tall, supports the offense and defense of the entire Trail Blazers, he is the undisputed core of the team, the most indispensable player on both offensive and defensive ends, and Lawrence also selected Brent with the 15th pick in the first round? Charles's vision is seen as a good head coach who is very good at finding young players, and the first fourteen teams that missed Brent in that draft now regret vomiting blood because they missed out on a player who could lay the foundation for a team.
This year's Trail Blazers met the Houston Rockets, who eliminated them in the second round of the playoffs the previous year, in the first round of the playoffs, and this time the Trail Blazers managed to get revenge, with a score of 4-2 that made the Rockets, who are also known for their interior line, hate home.
Now in the second round of the playoffs, the Trail Blazers are facing the Los Angeles Lakers, who suffered a heavy blow in the first round, and it can be said that the Trail Blazers are already looking forward to the team reaching the Western Conference Finals.
Although the Los Angeles Lakers made it through the first round of the playoffs, their star of the game, the league's top power forward, Sterry? Carter suffered a serious injury in the tiebreaker, and the Lakers' outside core point guard Charles? Mobley was also banned for five games for attacking the referee in the first round of the tie-break, and without the two cores inside and outside, the Los Angeles Lakers instantly became a second-rate team in the league, and their hopes of advancing were very slim, and almost most of the North American media were relatively optimistic about the Trail Blazers.
So now almost all the players of the Trail Blazers are excitedly waiting for the game to start, many of them have never played in the Western Conference Finals, and they are full of anticipation for the Western Conference Finals and even the Finals.
But that doesn't include Turgon, who has been with the Trail Blazers for a year.
Since joining the Trail Blazers, Turgun has not been able to play his super performance in the North American College League in the NBA, and even Turgun is not even guaranteed to play, he was initially used as the team's third point guard, until the middle of the season, the Trail Blazers' scoring guard position was less due to injuries and Turgun had a more stable playing time, but even then, he was at most a substitute and played a whole season, Turgun only started three games, two of which came in pre-season, while the remaining one he played less than five minutes before resting with an injury.
It can be said that Turgon's NBA journey is completely a situation of high start and low walking, countless fans who are looking forward to his wonderful performance are now basically silent, and many North American media who were originally optimistic about Turgun have completely changed their tune, and the claim that Orientals are not suitable for basketball has once again risen.
However, although Turgun has suffered a crisis of trust from all sides, he has never given up, he has silently endured everything with the support of his girlfriend Anna and Wang Lei, and he knows that the reason why he does not perform well is not because of his own ability, but because he cannot gain the trust of his coach and teammates.
In his limited playing time, Turgun has always been the most efficient player on the team, he has done his job with due diligence, he has tried his best in any position, and even scored 13 points in just six minutes on the court, but no matter how good Turgun is, he has not been able to gain the trust of head coach Lawrence.
Lawrence was prejudiced against Turgun from the beginning, and when he was drafted, Lawrence never agreed with the team's selection of Turgun with the first round pick, and even he didn't think the Oriental could play in the NBA. Bruce, the physical outside attacker, is Lawrence's target, but the team manager forcibly chose Turgun for the sake of the vast market in the East, which makes Lawrence angry and angry, so he has always been prejudiced against Turgon.
Turgun didn't even know that Lawrence was privately calling him an "Oriental freak", which was pure discrimination.
Because of Lawrence, most of the Trail Blazers are reluctant to contact Turgon, and even when Turgun has a very obvious vacancy on the court, no one is willing to pass the ball to Turgon, which makes Turgun unable to obtain data even if he plays, and his limited performance is basically obtained by his own hard work.
Now that the second round of the playoffs is underway, Turgun knows he won't have many opportunities to play, so he happily follows his teammates and then walks straight to the bench to sit next to the water cooler, yes, that's where he's always been sitting this year.
"Hey, bunny, head up."
At this moment, Turgun heard a voice that he had not heard for a long time, and he keenly noticed this unusually familiar but long-time unheard voice in the noisy sound of the scene, and looked up to see that it was the tall and free figure, the gentle and firm smile.
Turgun smiled, he rarely smiled on the field in the past year, and now he smiled, because he knew that person was the one who knew him best, and that person was worthy of being his coach in Turgon.
"Coach, why are you here?"
"I'm here to save you from the sea of suffering, little rabbit, get ready, the future will be wonderful."
Wang Lei's voice was extremely firm, he knew what happened to Turgon, and now he was here, so he wanted to prove that it was not that Turgun was incapable, but that these white skins were not knowledgeable at all.