Chapter 102: Hello Auckland
Roy certainly doesn't plan to join the Los Angeles Lakers, or rather, he hasn't even considered joining any NBA team for the time being.
Through the "NBA Encyclopedia", Roy roughly knows the strength and weakness of the 30 teams in the NBA, of course, the strongest team in basketball is not the Los Angeles Lakers, the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers are the teams that are talked about the most by fans.
It doesn't matter, the NBA is still far away anyway, and the reason why Roy said those words was nothing more than to let Lonzo know that his competition with him had officially begun.
Roy has changed, and since using the "Kobe Bryant Training Package", Roy feels like he can't stop at all, and his life has been renewed.
Basketball is all about him and life.
He'd get up early to practice because Bryant said, "Nobody has ever seen four o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, I've seen it." ”
He's going to practice hard because Kobe Bryant said, "When I retire, I want to look back at the road I've walked and every single day, I've given my all!" ”
He will even go toe-to-toe with the Ball brothers, as Bryant said, "Take every opportunity you can, prove yourself to everybody, prove that you can rise to the challenge." ”
Unlike the talented but lazy Lonzo Ball, Roy, who has no friends and no private life, is honing his basketball skills in an almost crazy way.
Gymnasiums, field courts, open-air basketball hoops, Roy can be seen everywhere you can see basketball.
It doesn't matter if you're in a foreign country, basketball is the universal language of the world.
It's okay to be isolated by the team, loneliness gives Roy more strength.
He got up early and trained late, and his attribute points were also soaring, so the time flickered to November 7th, Saturday, the day before the opening of the California High School Basketball Championship, Roy had his first relaxation after arriving in the United States, which was the day when he and Cheng Zixi's brothers and sisters made an appointment to watch the game together.
Today's game will be played by the Golden State Warriors at home against the Sacramento Kings, which will be played at 19:30 local time.
Su Dong sent Roy to Auckland early, and under Roy's introduction, Su Dong met Cheng Zixi's brothers and sisters again and had dinner together.
Oracle Arena, the home of the Golden State Warriors, is a modern arena built in 1997 with a capacity of 19,596 spectators, benefiting from the Warriors' championship success last season, which was second only to the Los Angeles Lakers in the entire NBA.
The tickets purchased by Cheng Zixuan are in an excellent position, located in the third row of the infield spectator seats, and every detail on the court can be clearly observed.
As a standard rich second generation, it is naturally trivial to treat Roy like this.
With 30 minutes to go, the big names of the NBA came out to warm up, and this was Roy's first time getting up close and personal with these legendary NBA players, and he was naturally excited.
Unlike Cheng Zixi's brother and sister's purpose of watching the excitement, Roy wants to see a lot of things.
The first is to look at people, Roy's previous judgment on who is strong and who is weak in NBA players basically comes from "NBA2K16", and now, he can finally examine the depth of these NBA professional players with his own eyes. Well, Stephen Curry's ability is between 91-94, Klay Thompson is 83-87, and what about Draymond Green? 72-82, how big is the range of changes in his ability?
The second is to learn technology, through the "NBA Encyclopedia" digested in the past few days, he is full of curiosity about small-ball tactics, which is highly recommended by the basketball god Jordan is from the hands of the Golden State Warriors. Existence is reasonable, no matter how his other "master" Abdul-Jabbar belittles small-ball tactics, but fellow guard Roy doesn't want to miss the opportunity to learn from Curry and Thompson.
Finally, it is to master the rules, after studying the "NBA Encyclopedia", Roy has a new understanding of the rules of the NBA, it can be said that the rules of the NBA game are independent of any other basketball rules, if you want to gain a foothold in the NBA in the future, you must adapt to this slightly perverted rule.
In Roy's recital scouting, the game begins.
Compared with the Golden State Warriors, who are also from California, the Sacramento Kings are a lot shabby, and the injury of star DeMarcus Cousins has made the team's staffing miserable, and the only stars who can handle it are the aging Rudy Gay and the "center" point guard Rajon Rondo who can't shoot.
However, the game did not immediately become one-sided because of the disparity in strength, which is one of the charms of the NBA, which is full of uncertainty.
In the first two quarters, "Curry" Curry and "Buddha" Thompson felt cold, the two took turns to play iron on the outside, and "Broken Egg" Green and Harrison Barnes also contributed three and four irons respectively, and the entire Warriors team was groggy, unable to open the situation on the inside, and completely paralyzed on the outside, not at all like the defending champions who had won five consecutive wins at the beginning of the season.
After halftime, the Warriors led by just eight points, 46:38.
"It's a boring game." Cheng Zixuan yawned and complained faintly.
"I'll just say don't come to see Curry, it's better to watch the Los Angeles Clippers." Cheng Zixi's hostility towards Curry has not been eliminated, even if the Golden State Warriors are now half of her home team.
"Roy, what do you think?" Cheng Zixuan turned his head to look, and only Roy was meticulous in the entire first half, and he was still recording something with his mobile phone.
"It's not interesting to just watch the game, but don't you notice? Curry's shot was fast again, Thompson's breakaway was stronger, and Green gained 3 pounds......"
"Roy, Roy, look, look, the halftime shooting event is recruiting spectators, you go and go." Roy was still talking to himself analyzing the player's data, and was suddenly pulled down by Cheng Zixi......
The Warriors' lounge is also bustling with activity, with head coach Steve Kerr's back injury still healed, and the season-opening games have been directed by assistant coach Luke Wharton.
Walton is still a fledgling young coach after all, and he hurriedly ended the halfcourt setup with a few casual words, so the Warriors' big players can only watch TV and tease each other.
"Hey, Clay, it's this boring halftime event again, do you think there's going to be a lucky winner today?" Curry gritted his braces and shook his head there with a grin.
"It's been two years, and no one has been able to win that pitiful $10,000, and I don't know why Bob would come up with such a boring fan interaction." Thompson was honest, and he was right, since the event was planned for two years, no one had ever shot in the center circle, so much so that some people laughed at Warriors general manager Bob Meyers for designing such an impossible game.
"Come on, it's no wonder that the crowd can score, even our MVP (Stephen Curry) can't shoot it, right? Hahaha. Green added fuel to the fire, and he was making fun of Stephen Curry's first-half iron strike.
"At least not Stephen and Klay today, and of course, Drummond you are even more hopeless." Iguodala didn't forget to make up for the two shots, and he continued to tease the whole team for hitting iron today.
"You see, there's an Asian face coming up for the challenge." Barnes's words immediately drew everyone's attention back to the TV, "He's not short, at least six feet four inches." ”
"Hahaha, his shooting stance is really corny." It's still Green who complains.
"Drummond, don't talk nonsense, this shooting position of his is the standard textbook shooting action of the last century." When it comes to shooting posture, Clay is an expert.
In fact, after the NBA entered the new century, in order to cater to the taste of the audience, there were more and more casual, elegant, and graceful shooting moves, and those conformist standard moves were regarded as old-fashioned.
"Oh." With a sigh of regret from the crowd, Roy's first ball hit the neck of the basket.
"Hey, did you see that? The guy actually tried to score a goal with a shot in the center circle. Barnes, who had been lying flat just now, sat up as if he had seen a rare animal.
He has his surprise reason, even NBA professional players can only try their luck by throwing in this position in the center circle, and Roy actually uses a standard shooting posture, which shows that Roy's arm strength far exceeds that of ordinary people.
"No, Klay, this guy is really shooting." Curry also noticed something special about Roy, "I'm X, he has a really long range. ”
"He's striking again!" Even Azeri, who had been silent for a long time, couldn't help but scream.
"I'm X!" A second later, the Warriors' locker room exploded.
Roy, who was on TV, hit a long-range three-pointer with a standard jumper 13 meters from the basket......