"Hey, cowboy, there's a party in the evening, do you want to go to it?"

"No, thanks, Murray, I have something to do in the evening."

"I said, man, you're really boring, are you going to live with basketball for the rest of your life? There were a lot of models at the party, all of whom Steve invited. ”

"No, Murray, this conflicts with my plans."

"Oh my gosh, you're a real couple with that ice cube, all he has in his mouth is data, and all you have in your mouth is plan. Well, then have a great time playing with your basketball. ”

Just when Gao Ming was reuniting with old friends and having a good conversation, in the locker room of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Paul West turned down an invitation to a party with teammate Murray Grayson.

As the same year into the league, and on the same team, the Thunder's twin stars Paul West and Murray Grayson have a very good relationship, because Paul West was born in Texas, plus his family runs a farm, so Murray has always called Paul West a cowboy.

The Thunder were able to break into the top eight in the West at the beginning of the regular season this season, relying on the pair of perimeter players who were selected by the Thunder in the 17-18 season.

Paul West, the 27th pick in the first round of the 17-18 draft, and Murray Grayson, the 7th pick in the first round, were both reused after the coaching of Gao Ming, who even offended many of the Thunder's "old men."

Unlike Wang Lei's drastic reforms as soon as he took office, Gao Ming was shackled a lot after taking office, and he had to straighten out the team's internal management while compromising with the Thunder's management.

However, through the above conversation, it is not difficult to find that the Thunder's pair of outside stars have completely different personalities, Murray Grayson is talented but not disciplined, and Paul West, although he is average but absolutely self-disciplined.

Only the Steve that Murray Grayson mentioned before was actually Steve Walcott, the biggest player on the Thunder when he took office.

Steve Walcott, who is two meters and six meters tall, is the real core of the Thunder team before Gao Ming took office, although he is thirty-four years old, but he still maintains a good competitive condition, because he has been playing for the Thunder team, so Steve is very valued by the Thunder team management, although the Thunder team is not much different from the Kings before Gao Ming took office, but Steve is an out-and-out big star.

However, with Gao Ming's appointment, Steve began to have conflicts with Gao Ming, he was dissatisfied with Gao Ming's compression of his playing time, and Steve originally planned to take advantage of the expiration of his contract to sign the last big contract with the Thunder, so the conflict between Gao Ming and Steve was almost public.

Because he is favored by the management, Steve Walcott is not clever at all in the Thunder, and he continues to win over the young people in the team to demonstrate to Gao Ming, but Steve is very clever, he is trying to win over young players to play with him, and in the media to promote that he takes more care of the young people in the team, and then constantly packages himself as a victim, as if he is a very respectful team veteran on the outside, but constantly choking with Gao Ming internally.

If it weren't for the existence of such a-stirring stick, Gao Ming felt that he might be able to take the Thunder team to a higher position.

But fortunately, Gao Ming still has Paul West, a young player who is really self-disciplined.

In Gao Ming's eyes, Paul West is his real descendant, although this young man's playing ability does not conform to Gao Ming's tactical vision, but Paul's extremely self-disciplined, extremely eager to succeed character is enough to win Gao Ming's trust, because Paul West can be said to be the same kind of person as Gao Ming.

Think about it, a young man, no entertainment life, no bad habits, and even never eat all kinds of red meat in order to ensure the state of his body, this kind of ascetic life is not something that anyone can stick to, not to mention that Paul West has maintained this habit of life since the beginning of playing basketball.

It can be said that this young man named Paul West has devoted all his energy to the game and training, which can be seen in his game and training state, and his every breakthrough and violent dunk is unreserved.

Game day is coming, unlike the previous game against the Wizards, the Western Conference Civil War between the Runners and the Thunder has not received much attention, although the Runners now gradually have a lot of neutral fans, but the league is unlikely to focus all the attention on them, compared to this Western Conference Civil War, the matchup between the two teams in the Finals last season is obviously more topical.

However, in the East, there are many Asian TV stations that have signed new broadcast deals with the NBA, and the Runners and Thunder are the teams that have been asked to broadcast the most.

It can be said that this can be regarded as a blossoming in the walls of the NBA, and the matchup between the two NBA teams is seen as a civil war in the East, but this has generated some new interest in the league's top management, and perhaps it is also good to create a new matchup series in the future.

Most of the players in the Thunder team are quite critical of the Runners' current ranking in the West, and it is true that the Runners are the spoilers in the West, although the Thunder are now the top eight in the West at most, but there are still many Western teams who regard the Runners as opponents.

In particular, the Thunder team has Steve Walcott, a-stirring stick, who constantly instills the idea that Orientals cannot be trusted to those young people who are co-opted by him, and even treats the Runners as enemies.

So after the game officially started, the players on the Thunder team played very actively, which made Gao Ming somewhat unexpected, after all, Steve would always give Gao Ming some trouble before the game.

For the running team's style of play, Gao Ming actually studied very thoroughly, when he played the youth group of the National Games, Gao Ming was defeated by the frontier youth team led by Wang Lei, and he attached great importance to the style of play adopted by Wang Lei at that time, which also led to Gao Ming being fooled by Wang Lei to go to the Yangtze River women's volleyball team.

After coming to the NBA, Gao Ming has been studying Wang Lei's style of play at that time, and the Thunder team he is building now can see the shadow of the frontier youth team from many playing styles.

A point guard with super offensive power, an outside line with excellent projection ability and movement ability, and an interior line that can respond to high posts and shoot from the middle, Gao Ming is basically building the team according to this idea.

But Gao Ming actually forgot the most important point, of course, this is not what he wants to forget, but he can't do it at all, that is, for the selection of young players, I have to say that this is actually Wang Lei's most important ability, and it is also an ability that Gao Ming does not have, look at these people on the Thunder team now, Paul West does have a strong attack, but his desire to attack is too strong, as long as he is on the court, his first choice is to accelerate the breakthrough, which made Gao Ming have a headache for a while.