Chapter 233: Interview (II)

When Ye Feng walked into the conference room while wiping his hair, Jenkins was already waiting for him on the sofa. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Ye Feng took a closer look at the senior NBA expert who worked for Sports Illustrated, Jenkins was a middle-aged man with slightly chubby and light brown hair, and he wore a suit with a casual feeling. And Jenkins' eyes are very gentle, and he doesn't look like other tabloid reporters who have a taste of gossip.

Seeing Ye Feng walk in, Jenkins got up and shook hands with him very gracefully, not at all despised Ye Feng because of his age. He was in Portland last night, watching the first game of the semifinals on the bench, and he had a strong curiosity about the lad in front of him. Of course, he is not prejudiced against Chinese players, Yao Ming's existence proves that Chinese players can also succeed in the world's highest basketball hall, but before that, there has never been a Chinese player like Ye Feng, who has pure Chinese blood in his body, but has a very good American basketball background, and his resume before participating in the draft is not inferior to that of rookies in the United States, and even surpasses it, what kind of person is this?

After a few pleasantries, the interview officially began. Ye Feng saw that Jenkins did not take out his small notebook as a reminder like other reporters, but just signaled his assistant to turn on the recording and lighting equipment, and then asked questions calmly. His first question did not surprise Ye Feng: "Ye, first of all, I want to congratulate you, you played very well last night, this should be your best performance in the playoffs so far, right?" Why would you suddenly hit such explosive numbers? I'm sure fans all over the United States and even around the world are eager to know the answer to this question. ”

Ye Feng smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment, but last night's victory was not my credit alone, Brandon, LaMarcus, Andre and other players all gave me a lot of help, even those teammates who couldn't play for the whole game because of tactical reasons, they also gave me spiritual encouragement in their way." A lot of the reason why I was able to put that stats was due to the decision of our head coach, Mr. McMillan, who decided that I was not facing a very strong defense, so he asked me to be the scoring arrow for the whole team, which was nothing, just purely tactical. ”

"Your team had a lot of serious injuries this season, but you knocked out the Suns in the first round of the playoffs and now you're off to a good start in the second round, how did you get back to work so quickly? Maybe the other 29 teams should come and ask you for some experience. ”

"As you said, we've not been in great shape this season, a lot of our team-mates have had injuries, especially Greig, and it's a big loss for us to be out as a starting centre-forward. However, it is precisely because of adversity that we have ignited the ambition to grit our teeth and move forward. In other words, it's mental strength, and if we hadn't cheered ourselves up every day, we might not even be able to make the playoffs. ”

"Actually, I am very interested in you personally, although you are Chinese, but you grew up in the atmosphere of American basketball, and won many individual and team awards as a result, so did Chinese basketball play any role in your growth?"

"Well, I always thought of myself as a Chinese player, even though I was bred by American basketball, but my bloodline made me understand that I am a Chinese no matter what. But when it comes to Chinese basketball, it didn't actually play a role in my upbringing, maybe the only thing is that when the Chinese men's basketball team participates in the World Championships and the Olympics, I will cheer for them in front of the TV, right? ”

"But as far as I know, your father is a retired player, didn't he instill in you some ideas about Chinese basketball?"

Ye Feng was a little wary, but Jenkins's eyes told him that it was indeed just because of personal curiosity, not deliberately targeting Chinese basketball, he thought about it and said: "Your work before the official interview is in place, my father was indeed a professional player, and also participated in the training camp of the Chinese men's basketball team, but one thing you may have forgotten is that he is a player who plays in the Spanish league, if the most profound influence on him should be European basketball, and as his son, I don't need to say more about what I'm more affected by, right? ”

Jenkins smiled awkwardly, realizing that there was something wrong with his question, so he simply changed the subject, and he continued: "Do you have anything to say about your alumni and best friends Loew and Westbrook at the university about how they have been doing this season?" ”

"Kevin and Russell are both very good players, they've both grown so fast this season, not even worse than me, and I was able to get to the semifinals in large part because my team was stronger than the Timberwolves and the Thunder, which they can't match. But I'm very optimistic about the teams they play for, and I'm sure they'll all find a place in the top eight in the West in the near future. This is also Ye Feng's small strategy, he doesn't want to offend Minnesota and Oklahoma City fans because of his casual words, this kind of "optimistic about their future" is the best excuse.

After the two chatted for a while, Jenkins turned the topic to this year's playoffs again, in his opinion, it is very incredible for the Trail Blazers to beat the Suns to complete the following grams, but Ye Feng said: "We are not as bad as the record shows, the Suns are indeed a very tough team, Nash and Stoudemire are one of the best blocking combinations in the league, and Richardson's outside shooting also caused us a lot of trouble, but we still gritted our teeth and beat them and showed our strength." And know that three of the four teams in the West who made it to the second round were lower than their opponents in the first round. ”

Jenkins asked curiously, "So what are your goals for this season?" Finals? ”

Ye Feng shook his head and said, "Now that the first game of the semifinals has been played, no one knows what will happen next." If we put other factors aside, of course our goal is to win the championship, but things can't go exactly the way we want them to, and there are always all sorts of surprises. So our number one goal is to beat the Spurs, and then let's go as far as we can! ”