The taste of failure is bitter, and this is the same for everyone, or God is fair when it comes to experiencing failure. Even if you are a generation of genius Michael Jordan, when you were suppressed by the "Detroit Bad Boys Army" and "Old Bird" Larry Bird, you didn't have many good days.

The media and fans are always harsh, they will not be tolerant and understanding of your occasional slump because of how many highlights you have played in the previous games, digging up the insider, making something out of nothing, crossing the river and tearing down bridges, beating the water dogs, these are all common tricks used by media people, and it is even better if the target of their attack happens to be the popular fried chicken.

Unfortunately, this time Roy was shot again.

Unfortunately, Roy is the favorite fried chicken of those media people.

Roy's media spotlight coverage is a sure thing, not only because he lost, but also because he lost to the league's No. 1 LeBron James, and this time it was a team and individual lose-lose, and he had just announced his rhetoric.

The most popular newcomer in the league VS the first person in the league, this is definitely a topic of interest to fans all over the world, and because of this, Roy can be regarded as a real taste of being criticized this time.

"The first person in the league to give the best rookie a taste of the brutality of the NBA."

"It's too early to take over, there's too much hype, and Roy is a rookie at best."

"Towards the altar? Roy's devilish schedule has just begun. ”

Are the media harsh? Harsh.

However, if the media is really so tolerant and caring, then 90% of them will be laid off and go back to farming, and they will not hesitate to bomb and chase after news points without sparing, which is the essence of media people.

But is there no problem with what the media says? Not exactly.

For the rookies of the NBA, after entering February, their game will indeed become extremely difficult, first, their fighting spirit and energy stored before the season are slowly weakening as the game deepens, second, their physical strength should also enter a bottleneck period, and third, after more than 2 months of games, they are no longer mysterious, and more and more teams will find ways to restrain them. The combination of these unfavorable factors is the so-called "rookie wall".

For the whole day, Roy didn't turn on his TV and phone, and he knew exactly what he was up against.

Fortunately, this is not the first time Roy has been besieged by the media, guessing that he can face the doubts and criticisms of the media all over the screen, and even joke twice, "At least the media thinks I'm better than Ingram."

For the whole day, Roy didn't turn on the TV and his phone, and he had more important things to do.

The tape of the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers had been delivered to him by this time, and Roy remembered Hernangomez's words.

"You scored in front of LeBron [James] in the game, and you had beautiful footsteps, didn't you?"

Footsteps?

It's footsteps, for the technique of footsteps, Roy's ability is mostly blank, except for the basic direction change of steps that he has learned from Derek Ross before, Roy basically hasn't practiced much scripting skills.

Counting the 41 NBA regular season games Roy has played so far, there are almost only two offensive methods, one is to rely on physical talent to break through unreasonably, and the other is to rely on his height and arm span to make a more unreasonable "**" jump shot.

And the reason why these two styles of play are unreasonable, the reason is very simple, in the final analysis, basketball is still a sport that relies on physical fitness to survive, and if you have a body against the sky, you are basically half of the success. Therefore, on the football field, you may see Maradona, who is 166 centimeters, and Messi, who is 168 centimeters, are domineering, scoring goals like chopping melons and vegetables. And on the basketball court, no height and weight is almost equivalent to losing half of the first, everyone knows that as strong as Jordan, Kobe, James, O'Neal, if there is no body against the sky, then no matter how good their skills are, I am afraid it will be difficult to become a generation of superstars, at best, they may only reach the height of Nate Robinson or Damon Stoudemire.

It is precisely because of this that the NBA often dedicates a group of wonderful players with explosive physical fitness and rough skills who can enter the first round of the draft, not to mention Shaun Kemp and Stromeyer Swift, and Dwight Howard and DeAndrew Jordan in the close, but don't say it, even the guy who eats with the body is enough for these "partial players" to get a million, tens of millions of big contracts in the NBA.

However, Roy is completely different from these guys, he will not be discouraged because he has an absolute advantage in his body, and after being beaten by James again, he began to reflect and began to self-examine. Roy understands that his ability comes from accidents, from "plug-ins", and his real basketball foundation is actually very shallow, which cannot withstand scrutiny at all, and may not stand the test of time, so he also attaches great importance to his own problems.

If it weren't for basketball, he wouldn't be worth mentioning at all, this is a phrase that Roy has always reminded himself, and now, he has a sense of crisis.

If you can't take the old James, then if there are newcomers with more physical fitness in the future, your position will undoubtedly be in jeopardy.

You have to be able to use your body, you have to be able to use technology, and you have to be able to use your mind.

After thinking about it, in the end, Roy finally found the crux of his problem.

That's right, God gave Roy a strong and cheating body, but that's not all, even if Roy can beat 99% of the NBA's opponents with his physical talent with his youth, there will still be so many 1% of the top masters blocking his way, and the 1% of the top masters not only have the same anti-heaven body, but also have stronger technology and richer game experience, which Roy can't fight.

And under the premise that he can't improve his game experience in the short term, honing his skills has become Roy's fastest way to improve himself.

The second encounter with James made Roy realize this again, and Hernangomez's unintentional words reminded him that avoiding the real is the hypothesis, and attacking the weaknesses of the other is the king, maybe James's weakness lies in his footwork and agility?

This may be true, since God gave James a height of 6 feet 8 inches (203 cm) and a weight of 250 pounds (113.4 kg), as well as a staggering athletic talent, he must have been left with an "Achilles ankle", or perhaps that is James' footwork ability.

Open the webpage, search for "James" and "footsteps", and it is really all black James content, what "crab step", "overlord step", "dragon eight steps", "god of walking", for James's foot work, at least the fans have maintained a high degree of unity of opinion, that is, James's foot work is not worth writing about.

And that tape of yesterday's game immediately confirmed some of Roy's thoughts. In the picture, Roy's only single James success was to rely on the change of pace and the movement of footsteps to make James make defensive moves in advance, so as to get rid of the successful completion of the score.

Is this called "outwitting"?

Following Hernangomez's words, Roy searched for "Kobe" and "footsteps" again, and this time Roy's eyes were met by another world, flexible turns, alert dodging, constant shaking of arms and bodies, dazzling foot movements, and just the right timing of the shot, this is the footwork skills shown by Kobe.

Although Kobe Bryant is not an "ankle finisher" in the traditional sense, when it comes to foot work, he is indeed a lot stronger than James, even compared to his idol Michael Jordan, he is definitely not lagging behind.

Roy was so attracted by Kobe's footsteps.

Before that, he had never thought that basketball was still a sport that relied on foot work, and he always thought that as long as he was faster, higher, stronger, and more accurate, he would be able to beat all his opponents. So before, Roy spent almost all of his energy on how to improve his physical fitness, how to improve his shooting percentage, and the kind of frontal offense of the hard-bridge horse did allow him to defeat Hayward and Lillard, who were far inferior to him, and also allowed him to defeat Wiggins, "White Edge", who were in good shape but with relatively rough skills, but when he met the "Brother Alphabet", Westbrook and James, who were more dominant in physical fitness and not inferior in technology, it gave him a headache and even played abnormally.

You can't just attack blindly, basketball is not as simple as you imagined, sometimes the work of the feet is probably more important than the work of the hands, and Roy, who was fascinated by it, finally understood this truth......