Chapter 121: Why It Was Born
"Hey, Dragon, I heard that you recently received an invitation to the league's three-point shooting contest and an invitation to a slam dunk contest, is there such a thing?"
The Rockets didn't play today, and they didn't arrange in-team training, but he basically came to the arena to report on training during every break.
It's not that he has a superhuman work ethic, but if he stays home because he has nothing to do, it is estimated that the embarrassing thing of the last time he was lacking in skills will happen again.
Gasol Jr. and Lowry also chose to run to the training gym when they were not competing, but they are not the same as Totoro's motivation, they really want to seize every moment to improve themselves.
"yes, I've heard that we've got a lot of All-Star games on our team this year, and we can go to Phoenix together."
My Neighbor Totoro smiled and beckoned to Lowry, who was still practicing his inside back play skills and outside three-point shooting, there are really not many people who can go to the All-Star Weekend for the Rockets this year, except for Totoro himself, Da Yao Tie must be the starting center of the Western Stars, Artest was selected into the Western Star bench squad, Lowry and Gasol Jr. have been invited to participate in this year's Rookie Challenge, and here plus one plus is already four people.
And Totoro himself is even more incredible, in addition to his rookie challenge and All-Star game are stable, yesterday the league also issued a notice to let him participate in the slam dunk contest and three-point contest, and he broke the NBA record by participating in four games in a row in the All-Star Game.
Some fans who have just started to pay attention to Totoro recently may feel a little strange, they can understand it when they are invited to participate in the slam dunk contest, after all, he can stage some amazing dunks in official games, and everyone is looking forward to his performance in the show, but these fans in the three-point contest don't understand it a little, is the three-point game My Neighbor Totoro's specialty?
So these people went to check the three-point shooting record that Totoro played so far in the regular season, and shot 22 of 60, with a shooting rate of exactly 36% just over a little bit.
This three-point shooting is not outstanding in the league, and the average of 3.2 three-point shots per game is not particularly much, but this shooting rate is not particularly iron, according to the standards of players who can participate in the three-point competition in previous years, Totoro should not be shortlisted.
But who made him popular now?
Compared with the lively slam dunk contest, the three-point contest has always been a star-studded game, and the ratings in recent years have been even more bleak, because the three-point contest champions are the little-known role players in some teams who win the three-point contest every year, which makes many celebrities with good faces refuse the league's three-point contest invitation, and then the three-point contest is becoming more and more boring, and there are more and more big-name stars to participate, and there is less and less popularity in this dead loop.
However, Totoro's invitation still made the top management of the alliance very happy, as a thriving star, and a handsome face has been yellow, Totoro's appeal in Asia is no small thing.
Even if Yao Ming's career is successful, his influence can only be limited to the scope of China, for some reason, the small countries around the Great Celestial Empire are always eyeing the Chinese nation, so they are very repulsive to those Chinese celebrities in the world, but the nature of Totoro is completely different from the little giant.
He has American citizenship, who is America? Isn't it the American dad of those small countries? So after Totoro became famous, it was a different identity in the eyes of those Koreans and Japanese, he was first of all the pride of the whole Asian, and secondly, he was not the Chinese he resisted, and the most important point is that Totoro is still so strong on the basketball court, which is enough for them to follow Totoro with all their hearts, although Totoro itself does not want to be the sun in the eyes of the Goryeo stick and the Japanese dwarf.........
And the yellow race has always been in an absolute weakness in the basketball field, and now suddenly a chinchilla who can compete with blacks and whites has popped up, and he is about to be regarded as the light of Asia in the basketball field.
But his reputation has risen as rapidly as a rocket, as a Chinese, the Great Celestial Dynasty's support for his own family is needless to say, NBA President David Stern is also very optimistic about Totoro, this three-point contest is he forced to send invitations to the other party, even if Stern also knows that Totoro participated in only a bright appearance, his three-point shooting level is okay, but compared with those role players who rely on three-point shots to eat, Totoro is still a lot weaker, But the fact that the other party can give himself face like this still makes the NBA president very happy.
In the past, he really didn't love him in vain, and in the future, those star whistles on him must not be missing, and he wants to let Totoro, an orphan, know what love comes from his father.
After the Nets, the Rockets are about to take on the Cavaliers at the Toyota Center.
This game was positioned by the league for national live broadcast early, and when Totoro's performance gradually highlighted, everyone was waiting for this moment to come.......
James, known as the emperor of the new basketball era since high school, is known as a historical physique, and some American trainers believe that even the best black man in the world, the gorilla's iron-clad body is estimated to be a genius that can only be produced in a few years.
Coupled with superb ball skills, superior ball intelligence, a very mature overall view of the game and the ability to control the team, and a great leadership temperament, James has combined all those historic abilities together and become the ruler of the new era of the NBA.
However, he has not been on the throne for a few years, and he has not even won a championship, and he is not yet on the throne, and a small forward similar to him, or even younger and more talented than him, has jumped into people's eyes as if he was born.
The historical record that was broken by James is now being broken again by Totoro, Totoro looks like Zhan Huang in many ways, but it seems to be stronger in many ways, Totoro is like a basketball player born to beat James.
So people are looking forward to what kind of Mars collision with the Earth will be the first time these two people meet?