Chapter Forty-Four: The Summer Fishpond League Begins
"30+7+7?" Zhang Qi received a new mission in the player tunnel, which was the second reward BUFF he received. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
However, it is not easy to get an average of 30+7+7 per game, Jordan's peak seasons are such data, although it is now the summer league, and the difficulty of the game has been reduced a lot, but it is still not so easy to cut the average data of 30+7+7 per game.
"It's time to play!" Larry Drew nudged the absent-minded Zhang next to him, prompting him to play.
"Oh, I see." Zhang Qi responded, still thinking about how to complete this task.
In order to achieve such comprehensive data, he must have a lot of ball possession to support him, he must take the ball from the beginning, score and organize a grasp, and finally have to work hard to grab rebounds to have hope.
"It seems that I have to give my best, I must get this BUFF reward!" In addition to the covetous BUFF, Zhang Qi also made him covetous with 4000 competition points.
It can be said that as long as this task is completed, the 20,000 competition points used to upgrade the store and purchase the gambling function are almost complete, and he is likely to redeem the gambling function before the start of the regular season.
"With such a big arena, am I going to play here in the future?" After Zhang Qi, who was dressed in a yellow jersey, came out on the field, he immediately looked around the arena.
But unfortunately, he did not find the home fans holding up his photo, jersey number and other items, let alone banners or anything, only some Chinese fans wearing his No. 14 jersey and holding up some small signs of encouragement, such an atmosphere is far less fanatical than what he saw on TV.
Zhang Wei was not very happy in his heart, when he was playing in Australia, there would definitely be a large number of crazy female fans in the front row screaming for him! The audience was almost entirely filled with supporters in his jersey, and even female fans threw paper balls directly at him, which recorded the sacred artillery support call.
Today is a great day for him to set foot on the NBA court for the first time, which is very memorable, but the fans in Los Angeles are too quiet, although the lights, atmosphere, music, and DJ performance in the arena make the scene hot, but the decisive factor that determines whether a team is fanatical enough at home is always the frenzied shouts and cheers from the home fans!
Lakers fans are like Sven's gentlemen at the moment, the home fans of other teams are generally dressed very neatly, all the color of the home team's jerseys, but the Lakers' home fans look casual and willful in dressing, it is difficult to find a neat area, and the Lakers' bench is basically the most concentrated part of yellow.
"Hell, isn't it said that the home of the Green Army is a big stop for many away players from looking up at the stadium? The home court of the Lakers, which is on the same level, should not be too far behind! "Zhang Mao still has less knowledge, the home fans are the most important part of the home atmosphere, but there must be a premise - that is, the team's record must be good, and there must be a real superstar in the team, otherwise the noble fans of Los Angeles will not bother to move their throats.
The requirements of Lakers fans can be called the highest in the league, the description of "purple and gold aristocrats" does not only refer to the Lakers, Lakers fans are the biggest "fan" in the league, if there is no real superstar, Hollywood stars and celebrities from all walks of life in the front row will only applaud lazily like now, but don't want them to stand up and cheer for you regardless of their image, unless you call Ervin Johnson, or Abdul-Jabbar or something.
This is the current situation of the Lakers' games in recent years, although Van Exel and others are also All-Stars, they can't arouse the enthusiasm of Lakers fans, so the atmosphere at the Lakers' home court in the past two years is far less than the SHOW· TIME.
The fans are not very enthusiastic, and it's just a little annoyance.
Zhang Zhu's biggest fear today is being discriminated against, and when the first black player entered the league, he even received numerous death threats.
Of course, that won't happen now, but he's worried about hearing the shouts of Chinaman and Chink all over the room!
Fortunately, he didn't see this phenomenon after the appearance, and sporadic scolding was inevitable, but this level of racial discrimination was long gone in his eyes.
Thinking that he was so popular in Australia, he would still hear some Chink voices in the game, which is inevitable outside of China.
"By the way, didn't you say that Nicholson wouldn't miss every game with the Lakers?" There are a lot of problems with Zhang Zhu, and the biggest feature of the Lakers' home court is that Hollywood stars grab a lot of them, and the director of each game can easily find a few big names.
Among them, Nicholson, a die-hard fan of the Lakers, is most famous, he is known as the number one fan of the Lakers, and he almost never misses the Lakers' home games.
"It's summer league and Nicholson won't be there until at least pre-season." Malik said from the side.
"Did I ask you?" Zhang Qi hasn't given this guy a good face in the past few days, and he has made it difficult for him when he has the opportunity, and the Lakers players in the training camp are all frightened by his grudge-holding character, and no one dares to offend him.
Malik's face turned red, he wanted to take the initiative to improve the relationship between the two several times in the past few days, but this little kid was too small-bellied, and every time he made him put a hot face on his cold ass. This time, he was directly choked back, and his face was red with anger at this moment.
"Hmph, do I want to get out easily if I offend?" Zhang Wei said that it was not so easy to get out of offending him, "When you open your mind and take me to a well-known nightclub in Los Angeles for a night, then I will forgive you." ”
The Lakers are ready to have Malrick and Zhang Fu partner at the front today, Michael Finley is temporarily off the bench, and the other three starters are all the team's water cooler guardians last season, and it's hard to say whether they can stay in the regular season, so even Lakers fans don't bother to remember their names.
The Kings' starters are the same, Zhang Wei feels that the names of these people don't need to be remembered, they are likely to play each other twice in their lifetime, and there is no need to waste brain cells at all.
"Fortunately, although the atmosphere at home is average, there are at least nearly 20,000 fans at the scene, and the momentum is still quite spectacular, and it is much stronger than the previous high school games." After Zhang Yu came on the court, he took out the same cold expression as Jerry West and high-fived his opponent one by one, as if he was a big man, and these people in front of him were all pawns.
"Why is this kid such a stinky fart?" Doug Lee, a white small forward on the verge of being cut on the Kings team, was very embarrassed when he greeted Zhang Fu with a high-five, and found that the other party actually touched his hand lightly with a disgusted face, and then turned away with a blank face.
"That's too much, isn't it? Even if it's a mental tactic, you have to at least give your opponent respect before the game. The rabbit butler couldn't see it, and this was the first time he had spoken to him in a didactic tone.
Zhang Wei was also stunned when he heard this, he couldn't imagine that this intelligent AI-like existence would actually teach him the truth of being a human being?
"Okay, but I won't apologize to him until after the game." In addition to obeying Zhang Mo's words in his life, he would turn a deaf ear to whatever others said, but now when he heard the words of the rabbit housekeeper, he immediately accepted and complied, which is not like his character at all.
"Ladies and gentlemen, today we have the first game of the new season for the Lakers, and although it is an inconsequential summer league game, we still have something to watch." Summer league is generally not broadcast live on television, and today is an exception, and these words were made by the live interpreters.
"Look at the little guy who is playing cool on the court, his face makes me jealous, maybe today he will show us what an embroidered pillow is, but I would rather let the Lakers fans see his strength, and then let us understand, why would Jerry trade Jones for him?"
Zhang Yu heard this kind of sarcasm more than encouragement, of course he was very unhappy, how could there be a live commentary for his rookie before the game?
However, the Lakers' live commentator today is so headstrong because his name is Zike Hearn.
This person is the oldest member of the Lakers and a unique figure in the Lakers, who has won two Emmy Awards and broadcast nearly 3,000 NBA games, and is known as the "Voice of the Lakers" ace commentator.
Zike Hearn is in the NBA commentator's field just like Jordan is in the player's field, and countless basketball original words and sayings were invented by him, such as "slam dunk", "three non-stick", "air relay", "pick basket", "break the ball", "garbage time", "three doubles" and other words that are now professional basketball terms, in fact, he invented them in ancient times.
The devil knows what the "slam dunk" of the fifties and sixties was called, is it called "dunk"?
Zike Hearn is not innocent to make things difficult for Zhang Mao, but it is inevitable that people will be a little difficult to get along with when they are old, especially he doesn't need to give face to anyone, he can say whatever he wants.
In fact, Zike Hearn is not the on-site commentary of the Lakers for a long time, although he usually sits in the arena, but he is responsible for commenting on the TV games of the Lakers, and today he came to the live commentary because he bet with a few old friends that Zhang Mao would definitely score 20 points.
Zike Hearn is very unkind when mentioning Zhang Fu, and the contempt and sarcasm in his tone are obvious, but he still defends Zhang Qiu to the outside world.
In the past few days, it is precisely because of the maintenance of Zhang Qi that the old immortals of other teams have laughed at it, so it is understandable that the old man is not in a good mood at the moment.
NBA live commentators can't speak during a game, they can only encourage fans to cheer for the home team during a timeout!
However, during the game, the on-site commentator can only shout when the player scores, and cannot affect the game casually the rest of the time.
The on-court game has already begun, and the Kings' backup center Doon Coswell wins the scrum.
The Lakers' backup center, Fred Roberts, is already a 35-year-old veteran, and Zhang feels that this thing is enough to even match himself.
The first time he defended, Zhang Mao felt a pain in the NBA rules!
I saw that the three outside players of the Kings mentioned near the three-point line, and the other pulled to the position of the weak side near the bottom corner three-point line, leaving only the 213cm tall center of the Kings to attack alone in the low post on the strong side.
Zhang Qian has always disliked this kind of defensive rule, if it were changed to Australia, he would definitely rely on his fast pace and good explosiveness, and directly clubbed to a position that can take into account multiple directions, and will never honestly hit people and mark people.
But in the NBA, he either goes to wrap up the opposing player with the ball, or honestly stands in the distance and watches the play, don't want to defend two people alone, this kind of commotion is not allowed in the NBA at this time.
Like this, everyone pulls away, and eight pairs of eyes look at the two one-on-one heads-up, which is generally based on the singles efficiency of the ball holder.
If one side always wins and scores heads-up, the defender has to wrap it up, and a man is revealed on the outside.
If this person's shooting is still accurate, it will become a situation where the Rockets have won two championships.
The "three-point shot" is in this situation, and it is getting more and more attention from everyone.
This is also an inevitable development under the existing rules, and the evolution of the NBA's style of play will always follow the rules, and the rules will always be modified according to the appetite of the fans.
The eighties and nineties were the era when heroic ideas were all the rage, and even movies were images of Stallone and the governor's iron-blooded tough guys or lone heroes, and fans watching the NBA naturally liked to watch similar star singles and tough collisions between muscles, so the rules have been moving closer to heroism.
But "pop" is by no means static, once people's aesthetics are tired, it's time to change tastes, and now fans have begun to get tired of this popular style of play for more than ten years.
The NBA's current trend is that outside stars are becoming more and more popular among young fans, everyone is tired of seeing the hard bridge and hard horses of the strong inside, and the outside stars who are about 2 meters tall can shoot suddenly, and their back play is more pleasing to the eye, replacing the center to take over the entire league has long been the general trend.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that since fans like to watch the performances of outside stars, the rules of the league will be more and more inclined to the outside line, especially those defenders who play picturesquely.
The Kings' Doon Cowswell is a mediocre interior player, so his heads-up didn't bring points to the Kings.
Zhang Qi kept talking about 30+7+7 in his heart, and when he saw this, he quickly rushed to the basket and grabbed the rebound from his opponent's head with a very fierce jump.
"Awesome, the first rebound of my NBA career!" Zhang was smiling when he grabbed the rebound, his first statistic in the NBA was a "backcourt rebound", and although the summer league stats will not be included in the player's career database, he still feels happy.
In the transition of offense and defense on the court, the Lakers played a similar routine on the offensive end, but the main player in the heads-up became Zhang Mao's outside line.
"That kid catches the ball, I bet he won't score five cents." When the Lakers fans saw the team's first offense, the four players spread out and let Zhang Fu hold the ball on the strong side and play alone, and they were immediately interested.
"I bet that kid won't even find the basket." Lakers fans don't seem to be optimistic about Zhang Fu, there are few high school players in NBA history who can play, even if Jerry West is optimistic about him, fans still don't have much confidence in this mixed-race child.
"I think this idiot is going to make a straight mistake!" There are many of the more than 20,000 Lakers fans at the scene, and most of them are male fans, especially the male fans with female companions around them saw that the girl actually cheered for a Chinese, and Zhang Fu's first batch of black fans was born.
"Give up, you won't stand a chance against me." Zhang Mao was not nervous at all, what level of players in the summer league was, he already knew in his heart, he had some trash talk before attacking, squeezed his back backwards after settling down, and immediately opened his hand to ask his teammates for the ball.
Lakers point guard Frank King was drafted this year, and of course he didn't dare not pass the ball to Zhang Fu, and quickly sent the ball to Zhang Fu.
Zhang Yi easily used his strong body to keep Doug Lee, who was opposite him, behind him, and Frank's pass was not difficult in the slightest.
"This kid doesn't have enough strength at all!" Zhang Yu leaned in with his back just now, and he had a score in his heart.
This white striker, who is only 195cm tall and weighs about 200 pounds, is at least a grade and a half lower than him in terms of confrontation ability, but he took a big step back as soon as he leaned in.
Leaning on ...... Double-leaning ...... Three by ......
Zhang Zhu's first attack did not play fancy techniques, but used strong force to chisel in.
However, there is still a lot of skill in his feet, and every time he squeezes, he can see his pair of long and thick legs constantly moving into the penalty area, and it only took three squeezes to step on the line of the penalty area, and poor Doug Lee couldn't bear his strength at all.
The Kings didn't shrink the defense to wrap him, these people think it's too cheap to wrap up an 18-year-old high school student on the first offense, and now they only think that Doug Lee is too good to even play against a high school student who has just turned 18, and this level should be rolled back to the Development League as soon as possible.
Zhang Qi had an absolute advantage in strength, and when he came to the attack area, he easily turned around and passed Doug Lee.
Then, under the slightly surprised eyes of the Lakers fans in the audience, a powerful one-handed slam dunk easily got his first point in the NBA.
Doug Lee showed a helpless face behind him, Zhang Qiu's ferocious back punch left him powerless, regardless of height and weight, speed and foot, he was completely inferior.
Zhang Yu didn't give him any chance, from his back to his back to his back footsteps, to the final turn and dunk, his movements were not fancy, but he was absolutely done in one go, without revealing a flaw to give the opponent a chance to defend himself.
His first offense in the NBA was flawless, and his teammates naturally continued to give him the ball, and the Kings were soon faced with a choice - "to pack, or not to pack?" “
This problem is a difficult problem in any era, and it is not easy to deal with even if there is a joint defense.
Especially when Zhang Fu easily scored points on Doug Lee with his back attack three times in a row, the Lakers fans at the scene finally cheered for his wonderful performance, and the "Great Western Forum Arena" finally had a bit of NBA game atmosphere.