Chapter 52: This is not his team yet
After the game, Totoro walked back to the locker room with his teammates, and lost the first debut game, Totoro was not so unacceptable in his heart, after all, the Rockets played against the championship team "Los Angeles Aircraft Carriers", but in the end, the whole team, including Da Yao's distrust of himself, was the most unhappy in his heart.
If you have a chance to perform and you don't take it, and then the team doesn't trust you, so Totoro will admit it, but he doesn't even have such a chance in the end, which is a bit annoying.
After the end of the game, Da Yao and Artest first occupied the bathroom in the locker room to take a shower, and the press conference after the game was generally attended by the team coach with the boss and the second master, and in this game Yao Ming scored 32 points, Artest scored 25 points, as far as the performance is concerned, they should indeed follow the coach to attend the press conference.
In accordance with the fine tradition of the NBA, the Rockets, as a team playing on the road, first held a media press conference.
"I'm sorry, may I ask, why didn't Totoro, who performed so well today, come to the press conference?"
As soon as the Rockets' coach and the two key players sat down, the reporter's question made the three of them look embarrassed.
The little giant is a little better, his easy-going and humble personality has always made him not very concerned about who steals the limelight, but the beast's face is not very good-looking.
It's a well-known fact that black people are very utilitarian, and Artest is one of those typical black people.
Before coming to the Rockets, the Beast came with the idea of being the boss, he had played several excellent seasons with the Kings, and the current coach of the Rockets, Adelman, was also his mentor to the Kings.
When the old coach first joined the Rockets, he really didn't regard the little giant as a descendant, and he did have the idea of straightening Artest.
But the Rockets aren't what Adelman says, he's a part-time worker after all.........
Alexander can't say how good Yao Ming is, but he also knows the benefits that Yao Ming can bring to himself, so he will definitely do enough work to do enough to save face, just like saying that Da Yao is the core position of the Rockets team, unless the little giant abdicates himself to make way for Xian, even James will not be able to snatch the core position from Yao Ming when he comes to the Rockets.
The beast naturally can't be compared to the little emperor, so after Maddie was traded away, Artest has already thought about being the second leader of a team, but now the problem is that he seems to be a little unstable even as the second leader.
"As far as I think, two of our best teammates are here today, I understand why you're asking that, if you think we don't meet the rules of the league, you can go to the league and complain about us, now, please don't ask about anything that has nothing to do with the game, okay?"
The old man said with a cold face, and he didn't have the slightest politeness to those reporters.
"Well, I'm a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and we've carefully observed that you didn't get Totoro involved in the last few attacks, which is impossible for a player who has been playing well throughout the game, can you explain here what your tactical plan is? It's still a manifestation of your veterans crowding out rookies in the whole! ”
Journalists are not easy creatures to deal with, and the first question that comes up is unusually sharp.
Interestingly, the reactions of the three people on the stage were different, Adelman was obviously angry, Da Yao was surprised, but Artest twitched the corners of his mouth a little weakly.
"The question you asked is not professional at all, this is just My Neighbor Totoro's first game, it is his first regular season, he still has time to train himself in the game and gain experience, he still has a long way to go in the future, come on, he is only in the first year this year!"
The old coach clung to this as Totoro's first game, although this is understandable.
Even in the NBA, this is also a place of seniority, not that you have the strength to mix well in the team, the specific situation can refer to Kobe Bryant in the first season, when O'Neal was already in charge, the Worm did not have a high tactical status when he first entered the Lakers.
"I'm an ESPN reporter and I have a question for Mr. Artest, can you explain why Totoro got open shots in a couple of offenses with three minutes left in the game? Is this what the coach meant? ”
My Neighbor Totoro just didn't go to the press conference, otherwise he would probably laugh out loud.
The Chinese pointed to the bright light and swore that he absolutely did not give these reporters and the media money, and he also wondered how reporters would bring up topics related to him today.
"It's a matter of tactics for our team, I follow everything the manager has planned, I don't hesitate to attack when he thinks I should attack at the last moments, I will defend when he thinks I should defend!"
Artest was born and raised in the black ghetto of New York, in the drug-infested Queens, the beast of his childhood was fed up with violence and poverty, weakness and helplessness, he chose to use basketball to escape everything, so Artest is not very good at being a person or talking, and is very possessive.
"But from my personal point of view, I don't think the dragon should take that responsibility, at the end of the game, that's the moment when the team boss should play, the team is not his now, it's me and Yao, and I don't think the team boss will be him in a year, the most important thing for him now is to learn how to play basketball next to me and Yao, how to adapt to the NBA, not to take on the task of finishing the game."
The beast's words made the reporters in the audience boil, and I believe that his words will definitely appear on the pages of major newspapers and newspapers, and if you are lucky, it is estimated that it will be no problem to mix a few headlines.