Chapter Ninety-Four: Popovich-style Interview
The night was destined to be unpeaceful, and the impact of the Stevens' remarks was difficult to estimate, with some gossip that the Celtics owner was very unhappy with Stevens' behavior, and his remarks undoubtedly disliked his own players.
Stevens did not give any interviews and did not respond in any way.
Zhang Feng made a phone call to An Jiali, told her about signing the endorsement, and asked her to buy a car after the summer league game, and An Jiali said that if Zhang Feng led the Kings to win the summer league championship, he would prepare a mysterious gift for him.
Zhang Feng originally didn't have much expectations for the Summer League championship, but in this way, he decided that he must win the Summer League championship.
Early on the morning of the 16th, David and Turner walked around the players' rooms, and they were happy to see that none of the players chose to enjoy the charm of Las Vegas, either resting in the room or playing console games.
Turner deliberately gave Zhang Feng a copy of the information of the Nets summer league personnel and asked Zhang Feng to see if there were any good tactical ideas.
Zhang Feng took a closer look at the information, then checked the recent Nets news, and came to a conclusion:
The Nets have never been noticed to reach the top 4, relying on the personal supervision of Coach Atkinson, and the entire Nets do not have particularly high scoring players, but everyone has a few chances, and there are 5 double-double performances in several games. Obviously, the Nets play team basketball.
Zhang Feng is not very worried about this kind of team, after all, the Kings are more talented than the Nets, and the tactical system is not bad, as long as they defend well, it can almost be said that they will win, and those teams that are eliminated by the Nets can only say that they are careless or do not care.
After telling Turner his thoughts, Zhang Feng played 2KNBA and quietly waited for the evening game.
Kobe Bryant went to discuss cooperation today and would not go to watch Zhang Feng's game live, but he still sent Zhang Feng a cheering text message of encouragement, telling Zhang Feng that as long as he is the champion, he will get it.
At 7 o'clock in the afternoon, the whole team of the Kings set off for Cox Arena to participate in the 4-in-2 semifinals of the next summer league. Allen exited the game with a hip injury.
That way, the Kings have a better chance of winning.
By the time they arrived at the arena, almost all of the enthusiastic fans had already entered, and Zhang Feng, who was about to warm up, was pulled aside by a staff member of the Kings, who told him that he was going to be interviewed by ESPN.
was interviewed before the game, wanting to be an ordinary thing, but Zhang Feng was not very happy when he saw people coming over slowly.
The person who came was Julie, the last time she interviewed Zhang Feng and said that it was in the name of a private person, but she turned around and went to interview Daddy, and finally made a Twitter scare thing, although she may have been unintentional, but Zhang Feng decided not to disclose information to her this time.
"Hey, Zhang Feng, do you have any ideas for tonight's game" Julie looked like "we know each other very well", and directly handed the microphone to Zhang Feng.
"Obey the coach's arrangement, implement tactics carefully, communicate more with teammates, and go all out to defend" Zhang Feng mechanically highlighted a string of words with an expressionless face, and probably there was no more "official" answer than this.
"Wow, that sounds like you're getting used to the pace of the NBA?" Julie had a question that didn't have a head or an end.
"Hmm" Zhang Feng didn't even open his mouth this time.
"So do you think media coverage will have an impact on you? You know, there's a lot of player news every day in the NBA, especially for big stars like you, and yesterday everyone was talking about O'Neal and Stevens saying that you have the top 10 potential in history, is there anything you would like to say to everyone? The question Julie really wanted to ask was finally asked.
"No," Zhang Feng replied.
"Okay," Julie was a little embarrassed by Zhang Feng's answer, patted her chest and eased her mouth before continuing to ask
"Kobe Bryant didn't come to see you play today, but he once publicly thought that the Lakers should invite you to try out, and he also co-opened a store with you, did he have any impact on you?"
"Yes," Zhang Feng said.
"Can you elaborate on that?" Julie felt like she could finally get useful information.
"I'm sorry, just now the staff told me to answer three questions in an interview, you are the fourth, I'm going to warm up, bye" Zhang Feng turned around and walked to the shooting area.
Julie's eyes widened as she stood there in a daze, her mouth about to turn into an O-shape, and the microphone almost fell to the ground.
"Are you ruthless, that's a big beauty," Justin leaned over to Zhang Feng and whispered.
"I don't want to cause trouble, if you like this big beauty, next time you go to be interviewed" Zhang Feng intends to be a good person.
"Really, will the staff agree?" Justin got excited.
"After this interview, they should agree," Zhang Feng said with a smile.
The warm-up didn't last long, as fans who came to the new factory to watch the game arrived ten minutes earlier than expected, and the game between the Kings and Nets started early.
Without Jarrett's Nets, they were not the King's opponent at the beginning, Zhang Feng led the Kings players to score 39 points with a 70% shooting rate in the first quarter, but the Nets only scored 20 points.
Those 20 points are still the points that were scored when the Kings were playing crazy and didn't try to defend every ball.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Zhang Feng stopped playing, and he gave up his playing time to Frank Mason as usual, but Mason is not a vegetarian guy, and as soon as he got on the court, he scored 5 points in a row, and the Nets had nothing to do.
Coach Atsengold was in a hurry, and after calling a timeout, it didn't work, and the score of the two teams was continuously pulled apart.
Just when Zhang Feng was bored, the staff stopped Zhang Fen when he walked to the player area and said that he wanted to talk to him about the interview just now.
This staff member was sent by Brandon, the team's deputy general manager, and he said straight to the point:
"Feng, let me introduce myself first, my name is Kevin, the team's senior management hopes that you will cooperate with reporters more in future interviews, and try to show the team's good style, your interview just now is easy to cause disgust from fans"
Zhang Feng glanced at him helplessly and said, "No, I don't agree with your opinion, I think the interview just now is more attractive to fans."
"Why do you say that?" Kevin expressed surprise.
Zhang Feng sat up straight and leaned into Kevin's ear: "Haven't you seen Popovich being interviewed?" His answer was shorter than mine, but everybody found it interesting, and you know nobody cares about this kind of interview, but if it was done differently, it would have been better."
This is not Zhang Feng's real thoughts, he just suddenly thought that Popovich was like this, and he felt very strange why the team suddenly cared about how he was interviewed.