Chapter 9 Renting and Playing against the Bulls
Now that he has renewed his contract with the Lakers, Wang Meng needs to find a house that is relatively cheap and very close to the arena to live in, which is not easy to find in Los Angeles, and it also needs to be relatively close to the arena, which is even more difficult. In the past few days, Wang Meng has been wandering around in addition to training, looking for a more suitable place to rent, and finally let him find a better place, this house is not far from the stadium, it is a typical American-style two-story building, the owner wants to rent out the house because he wants to go out to do business, three thousand five a month, all the furniture is available, you can use it casually, of course, if it is broken, you will have to pay for it.
Wang Meng is very satisfied with this house, although the rent is a little more expensive, but it is very close to the stadium, it can be reached by walking for about half an hour, no need to drive, although it is a little more expensive, it is worth the money, 3,500 US dollars a month for Chengren famous coins is almost nearly 20,000 yuan, but Wang Meng is now a big money, every month the Lakers will pay Wang Meng's salary, 440,000 US dollars a year, the Lakers will give Wang Meng more than 36,000 a month, 3,500 paid the rent, Wang Meng estimates that 2,500 is enough for his own monthly expenses, There are still 30,000 US dollars to save, this petty bourgeois feeling made Wang Meng laugh for several days.
The Lakers played away against the Bulls on December 11, this is Wang Meng's first time playing away, on the afternoon of the 10th, he followed the team on the plane to Chicago, the first time to do the team plane made Wang Meng feel very novel, this kind of special plane does not have many seats, and there are various entertainment facilities, specially for the players to play on the plane boring time.
Wang Meng got on the plane and watched a movie with an iPad, he watched the latest blockbuster "The Expendables" in 2010, which claimed to have Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jet Li and other superstars co-starring. However, Wang Meng watched it for a long time and felt that it was average, but it was just boring to pass the time. Look around, where Kobe Bryant is wearing headphones and close his eyes to recuperate, Fisher, Bydam, Odom, Artest, Shannon Brown is playing Texas Hold'em, Spaniard Gasol and Wang Meng are sitting in the seat watching a movie, Phil Jackson doesn't know where to run, he should have run to a special room to enjoy, as the son-in-law of the Lakers owner, Phil can always enjoy certain privileges.
The plane flew to Chicago in the evening, and as soon as he arrived at the hotel, Wang Meng had a casual bite to eat, and then went to sleep.
At nine o'clock the next morning, all the Lakers gathered for training, the Bulls are not the two weak teams in front of the battle, this year's Bulls can be described as full of firepower, 08 years champion Derrick Rose is still powerful, the Bulls have introduced the famous anti-bone Boozer, plus the original Bulls' Ruel Deng, Joaquin. Noah, the Bulls finally have a little bit of the shadow of the Jordan era. After about 20 games, the Bulls are temporarily the team with the best record in the East, while the Heat, who previously formed the Big Three, can only temporarily rank third in the East due to shooting problems.
The Bulls are a defensive powerhouse, and their head coach, Tom Thibodeau, was originally a defensive assistant coach for the Celtics and was later invited by the Bulls to become a head coach. He has helped his team become one of the top 10 teams in the league on 15 occasions. He is a strong coach, and his current results with the Bulls are a testament to his coaching skills.
Phil Jackson fed the players to do simple warm-up training and physical training, mainly for physical training, because the next game is not easy to play, after playing the Bulls away on December 11, away against the Nets on December 13, away against the Wizards on December 15, away against the Pacers on December 16, away against the 76ers on December 18, away team Raptors on December 20, plus away against the Clippers on December 9. Lakers this is a wave of seven away back-to-back, very test of the players' physical strength, in the league players hate the most is back-to-back, consecutive away games will make the players depressed, physical and mental fatigue, Phil Jackson is very aware of this situation, so he did not arrange too difficult training for the players.
On the evening of December 11, in the center of Chicago, the Lakers' game against the Bulls began.
Bulls boss Rose is not the kind of rookie who has just entered the league like Wall, although he is the same champion, there is a big gap in strength, Wall's competitiveness is not as big as Rose, and the same year Rose was drafted with Michael Beasley, OJ Mayo, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Brook Lopez These demons, especially Michael Beasley, OJ Mayo, it seems that they are not very good now, But Beasley was an NCAA demon who contributed an average of 20+10 per game, and OJ Mayo was even more famous in college than James, and he was able to fight a bloody way out of these people to become the champion, which shows how strong Rose is.
Jump ball Noah jumped over the bounced Bydam, Rose received the ball and immediately went down, the old fish couldn't keep up with Rose's speed at all, so Rose easily scored a layup, offense and defense switched, Kobe Bryant held the ball, the Bulls deliberately used a famous defensive Ronnie Brewer in order to defend him, but can Brewer prevent Kobe? I'm afraid that no one in this league dares to say that they can prevent Kobe.
With Gasol's pick-and-roll, Kobe Bryant easily rushed inside, jumped in two steps, and made a perfect pull bar in the air to open Boozer's defensive layup.
Immediately after Rose attacked, poor Fisher was shaken away again, and Rose faced the unsuspecting Bydam and stuffed the ball from his armpit to Noah, who smashed it with one hand.
"Two or three joint defense! Leave him alone. Phil Jackson shouted from the sidelines.
Rose is now a typical offensive point guard, speed, strength, skills are very strong, offensive ability is diverse, relying on their own offensive ability to pull the line of defense to drive the rhythm, this kind of point guard is most afraid of two or three defense, no matter if you let you in, there are centers and big forwards to deal with you.
Seeing that the Lakers changed to two or three joint defense, Rose did not blindly break through, but handed the ball to Boozer who wanted the ball in the position, Boozer leaned on Gasol, suddenly turned around, and scored a layup with a low hand, although Boozer is much lower than Gasol, but his strength is stronger than Gasol, pressing his body down and squeezing it inside will make Gasol very uncomfortable, he is too tall, and if you want to carry Boozer hard, you have to lower the center of gravity, but as soon as Gasol pressed down in the center, Boozer immediately turned around and made a layup, and Gasol didn't have time to react at all.
Fisher took possession of the ball and went up to the front court and handed the ball to Gasol in order to get him to hit one back.