Fortunately, whether it is All-Star Weekend or Taylor Swift's private concert, there is still nearly half a month to settle down. For Ding Wei and the 76ers' boys, the next game against the Cavaliers is still more imminent.

"Hey! Fourth! When Ding Wei walked into the training ground specially arranged for the away team, the members of the five-person group who had already practiced enthusiastically raised their hands to greet him, although now they still call Ding Wei "rookie" from time to time, but they have undoubtedly regarded Ding Wei as the backbone of their group, and it is probably better to say a word to these five people than the boss McCarvey, of course, this is also something they will not admit if they are killed.

Ding Wei walked towards his companions with a smile, and his eyes looked around the training hall: "It's all early today?" ”

As the team's record gets better and better, it can be obvious from the 76ers' players that the change from the inside out, if the swing in the early season made them from anger to despair, from despair to numbness, then now their competitive factor buried in the bottom of their hearts is being awakened little by little: in the past, they only hoped that the opponent would not be too strong and not too serious, at least give their team a decent way to die, but now they are more and more eager to face off against strong teams, Especially after the victory over the Hawks, who are the number one team in the East, they are already tired of the next game.

"Of course, I'm the first to come, Ding, I heard that you got an invitation to the three-point contest?" As soon as he saw Ding Wei, Nolens-Noll asked excitedly, it seems that he is in a good mood today.

"That's right." Ding Wei smiled and nodded, he naturally wouldn't hide this kind of thing from his teammates.

"Awesome!" Robert Covington punched Ding Wei in the chest, and then shook his head with some regret, "Alas, with the two monsters of Boss and Nolens, my rookie game journey is in vain." ”

The 2015 All-Star Rookie Game was a subversive change in the way teams were formed compared to the past, the previous rookie game was mostly a first-year rookie and a second-year rookie, but this time it was divided into the United States team and the international team, allowing the first- and second-year players from the United States to play against first- and second-year players from all over the world, and the two selected for the U.S. team in the 76ers were McCarvey and Nolens Knoll.

"Robert, your performance has been really good lately," Knoll patted Covington on the shoulder seriously, and then suddenly sneered, "However, when you meet such a good me, you have no choice but to admit it, hahahahaha!" ”

Everyone sweats profusely, and they have never seen such shameless people.

"Rob especially listened to his nonsense, I think you still have a chance, now you see that there is still such a long time before the rookie game, maybe someone will have a bad life and get sick and have a stomach or something......" Tony Roten sneered.

"Well, that makes sense," Robert Covington nodded thoughtfully, "Nolens, if it's a brother, hurry up and pretend to be sick or injured, otherwise, should I take laxatives or some other medicine......"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, let's train quickly." Seeing that the eyes of the two coaches, Brett Brown and Esker, had already turned to this direction, Hollis Thompson was busy reminding the people who were still gossiping.

Everyone was busy and dispersed in the eyes of the coach.

"Won't they be too relaxed? Tonight's opponent is the Cavaliers. Esker worried, although the NBA schedule has been scheduled before, but facing the same game in different situations, the mentality will be completely different, if it is all the way to this game, then no matter which team it faces, it is just the same loss of a game, but once you want to win, you can't help but feel nervous.

"Do you remember the story I told you about the Spurs locker room?" The Spurs' locker room atmosphere can be called the lightest and most harmonious in the entire league, and the jokes are endless, especially the love and killing of Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili is a topic that can never be talked about on the forum.

"Are we as strong as the Spurs......" Asker simply can't accept Brett Brown's logic, even if you're the head coach, you can't play me like that.

"But we're not as old as them, haha," Brett Brown patted his assistant on the shoulder, "Chad, in fact, no matter what the media says, this is just a regular season game that has been predestined for a long time, just like our last win in the East No. 1 or last place in the East can only bring us one win." You definitely won't believe the nonsense of those reporters who write about 'giant killers' and 'challenge kings', and even if you do, it's not really believing, but it means that you care about this game. ”

"Yes, I do care, but what I care about is not what I think, but what they think, and now the media is setting our tone very high, and some even directly shouted the slogan of '76ers sword to the playoffs', you know, we were still the bottom of the league in the first half of the season, and now, in fact, it is not much better, although we have just surpassed the Magic, and now we have three teams behind us, but it is only three, but everyone seems to have lost their cool."

"Chad don't you want us to make the playoffs?" Brett Brown stared at his assistant with a playful look.

"Of course I hope to, but ......" Asker said but he didn't know where to start, there were too many slots, right? Do you need me to say them one by one?

"Maybe that's what you think, we want teams to try to make the playoffs from now on, and we want them not to worry too much about the outcome of 'we didn't make the playoffs,' right?"

"This ...... Right? ”

"So what are our odds of winning if we don't care about the outcome?"

"Uh." You can figure out the answer to this question with your knees, just look at what the previous 76ers were like.

"Actually, what you're really trying to say is that if we don't make the playoffs, even if we win a few more games now, it doesn't make much sense, and a lot of people think that because it's the rules of the NBA. But what many people don't know is how much of a difference these extra wins will have on the growth of a team. Is it just a so-called superfluous victory? No, it's a team's ambition. ”

"Ambition?"

"If you don't do it because you're not sure, I don't think there's anything in the world where you're really 100 per cent sure, and it looks like the probability of our success this season is low, isn't it? But if we don't do it now, we still have to face the same problem next season, then next season, next season, but we can't wait that long, I don't think the club will give us that long, what we've done so far this season has deviated from what the club had set out to do, but at least so far they haven't made any statement, I think it's a tacit acquiescence and it seems like they want us to give it a try. ”

"Hmm......" Asker thought for a moment, he hadn't thought of it.

"Of course, we can choose a little more secure path and do these things when we have a stronger and more suitable player, but how can we make sure that the player we choose is necessarily stronger and more suitable? Even if such a player is chosen, what is the use if he has no ambition? Even if he is ambitious, what is the use if everyone else is not? ”

“……”

"Of course, that's also a bit of my ambition as a manager, and although it can't be avoided in a sense, I don't want to hear from people that 'his success is only because of a superstar', and if I don't do something about it now, maybe I'll wear this hat," Brett Brown laughed self-deprecatingly, "Again, Chad, now tell me, what is your ambition?" ”

"Uh." Asker wanted to blurt out "being the head coach", but in the end he held back and asked why he was doing this, it was easy to have internal injuries!

"Haha," Brett Brown couldn't help but laugh heartily at his assistant's embarrassment, "It seems that you care about your ambition too, but if you don't even believe that you can do it, can ambition still be called ambition?" When he said this, his expression had gradually become serious.

Esker's heart seemed to be struck by the last sentence, and he turned his eyes to the players who were running on the field, and suddenly found that he was the most nervous, the most concerned, and the least ambitious person in the training gym.

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