Chapter 12: A smug smile
"You kid, how did you know Yao Ming?"
Although Morey shows up in the cafeteria and wants Raylin to try out with Team Rocket, Lei Zheng doesn't think his nephew can stay with Team Rocket!
That's something that is basically unthinkable!
Why?
The wages of the players are simply too high! He couldn't believe that his nephew was so lucky!
"We are friends!"
At this time, Lei Lin, who was still thinking about finding a tutor for himself, didn't have the heart to chat with Lei Zheng in the restaurant at all!
"You kid, is there a drama about joining Team Rocket?"
After Lei Zheng finished asking the question, he looked at Lei Lin smiling vigorously there, and knew that ** was not far from ten!
"Hehe, I said you little guy, why is your luck so good! By the way, call and talk to your parents so they don't worry all the time! ”
At this time, Lei Zhen looked at Lei Lin and also showed a happy smile! He is also very happy that his relatives can come out like this!
"Got it! I'll go back first! ”
With that, Lei Lin left the restaurant directly, and then called his parents as he walked!
It's good news!
This phone call lasted nearly an hour!
After hanging up the phone, Leylin turned on his computer directly!
I landed on a forum such as studying abroad, and there are many people studying abroad on it!
After Lei Lin registered an account, he directly posted a post on it looking for an English foreign teacher!
Then turn off the computer, take a shower and lie on your own bed!
It feels like a dream! The day's transformation was so fast that it gave him a sense of unreality!
In the morning, he followed his uncle to find a job, and in the afternoon, he became a temporary worker for Team Rocket!
Lying on the bed, Lei Lin thought a lot, because the NBA, the basketball palace, was once too far away from him, and he appeared in his life all of a sudden, and he really needed a process of adaptation!
He thought a lot about that night!
Thought of the upcoming competition! Think of the rookie season, think of the All-Star, even think of the Olympics, and even think of the World Championships!
The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, so it wasn't until more than two o'clock in the morning that Lei Lin fell asleep in a daze!
By the time he was woken up by his uncle from the bed the next morning, Lei Lin still looked dazed!
"Hehe, boy, what shall I say about you? It's almost nine o'clock! When do you train? ”
"Nine o'clock!"
"It's 8:45 now!"
Listening to his uncle's words, Lei Lin immediately woke up!
After washing and dressing in a hurry, I rushed out with two slices of bread!
At this time, outside the Toyota Center of the rocket, there are many reporters, waiting there! Most of them are Chinese, apparently they are here for Leylin! Although the information given on the official website of the rocket team is not so detailed, at least on the nationality, it is very clearly marked, Chinese!
"I don't know if I can interview Lei Lin today?"
"I think it can! But it's almost nine o'clock now, and it looks like it's still not there! ”
"yes, today should be his first training, right? The consequences of being late shouldn't be very good! ”
"Wait! I really can't, apply with Team Rocket, after the end of training, in an interview! ”
Several reporters are also very familiar with each other! Chatting outside the Toyota Center! Just to interview Leylin! But I didn't expect it to be almost nine o'clock, and Lei Lin hadn't arrived yet! The most taboo thing about playing is being late for training, which is a reflection of a player's mental state and a manifestation of disrespect for others!
Leylin certainly knows that!
But last night the excitement made him unable to sleep, and he couldn't help himself!
After leaving the house, Leylin immediately flagged down a taxi and rushed straight to the Toyota Center!
But hurry, Leylin is still late! When the car parked outside the Toyota Center, it was already 9:05!
After getting out of the car, Lei Lin rushed directly to the training ground, but at this time the training had already begun!
Raelin's tardiness made many players smile, obviously they wanted to watch a good show!
Adelman looked at Leylin beside him and frowned directly!
He hates people being late, not to mention that he's still a newcomer, a temporary worker!
But Adelman didn't say anything!
Leylin went directly to the locker room to change his clothes and came to the sidelines again!
Because Yao Ming is injured, there is no need to train with the team for the time being! In addition, the team is not equipped with a translator for the time being, so without Yao Ming's Lei Lin, he temporarily lost the ability to communicate with people!
Standing on the sidelines, watching his teammates train on the field, Lei Lin realized the importance of language for the first time!
At the same time, I also understood the meaning of Yao Ming's words!
If he doesn't solve the language problem in a short time, he will only be eliminated by the environment!
In desperation, Leylin could only search for English words on the Internet and ask head coach Adelman there!
"What should I do?"
"What do you think you should do? Run laps! Twenty laps around the training ground, which is as a punishment for being late! ”
As soon as Leylin spoke, he felt that he had made a mistake! Because Adelman basically roared out!
The players in the stadium laughed out loud after hearing Adelman's roar! Especially after seeing Lei Lin's half-understood expression, he smiled even more happily!
"Laps, twenty laps!"
After Adelman's repeated stresses, Leylin finally knew what he should do!
"Uncle's!" After putting down his phone, Lei Lin ran in the training ground!
Twenty laps around the training ground doesn't sound very far, but twenty laps down is almost two kilometers!
After running for about seven or eight minutes, Leylin was able to complete Adelman's punishment!
At this time, Yao Ming also appeared in the stadium!
With Yao Ming's appearance, Lei Lin seemed to have seen a savior! With Yao Ming's translation, Lei Lin's next training will be much easier!
Because tomorrow night against the Grizzlies, the main training content today is tactical drills!
This Thunderlin is even more unfamiliar! But fortunately, Leylin is just a spare tire for the team now, and I don't know if he can play!
So Adelman didn't want the ball for Leylin to fit into the system now!
But when defending, it is still necessary to form a team mode, otherwise when Reelin comes on the court, the Rockets' defensive system will be disintegrated from the inside by their own people!
Fortunately, with Yao Ming on the sidelines to translate and explain, Lei Lin was able to accept Adelman's defensive system and tactical ideas more quickly!
The morning training, although not very long, but at least for Lei Lin, this is a new step in life!
At noon, Yao Ming took Lei Lin out to eat in the restaurant outside!
"You need a translator! This will help you integrate into the team quickly! Colin Pan is very good, and if you could, I think you would, I think he would take the job! ”
Listening to Yao Ming's words, Lei Lin didn't know how to thank Yao Ming! Maybe playing basketball well is the only way to repay Yao Ming!
"Of course I do!"
Lei Lin was no stranger to the translator who had always been by Yao Ming's side, but he didn't expect that one day, he would be by his side!
"Of course, you have to pay for this part of the salary yourself! I don't think they're going to be willing to pay Colin until you get a new contract with the team! ”
"No problem!"
There is an advantage in Texas, that is, there is no need to pay personal income tax, so that the $50,000 in the rocket will all go into his pocket, which is a considerable amount of money for Leylin!
It's more than enough to hire a translator!
Even Lei Lin thought about buying himself a car after getting this salary! In the United States, it is indeed too inconvenient to not have a car to travel!
After Yao Ming got Lei Lin's consent, he immediately called Colin!
After the translation is done, Lei Lin doesn't need to worry about the language barrier! Now all he has to do is concentrate on training!
Afternoon training usually starts around 2 p.m.!
But after eating and resting for half an hour, Leylin returned to the training ground!
He needs more training so that he can improve his game in less time!
And it is still Yao Ming who accompanies him here!
"Bang!"
One of Raylin's shots popped up again!
This is how many shots Lei Lin has, Yao Ming can't remember anymore!
But with the current level of Raelin's shooting, it is estimated that even Hayes will laugh there when he sees it!
"No, when you shoot, you have to relax, the basketball is thrown out like this with your wrist! Didn't push it out, got it? ”
Yao Ming came to the training ground again and corrected it! At the same time, it was also demonstrated, and the basketball thrown out, with a bang, went directly into the net!
Shooting, for domestic basketball players, has never been a problem! But I didn't expect that such a wonderful thing as Lei Lin was born! It's the same as Howard in terms of shooting action, so stiff!
"Come on, let's try!"
After taking over the basketball, Lei Lin was adjusting his posture according to Yao Ming's request!
"The legs are slightly bent, three ninety degrees, yes, all the time with strong hands! The other hand does not need to be forced, pay attention to the wrist force! ”
Boom!
The basketball smashed directly on top of the basket and popped out!
"Hahaha......"
When Leylin's basketball didn't go in, a burst of laughter broke out directly in the training ground!
When I turned my head, I saw the members of Team Rocket, all laughing at the entrance of the training ground! Especially Mutombo and Hayes, who laughed the most out there!
Yao Ming also smiled when he saw his teammates at the gate of the training ground!
After Mutombo walked in, he directly picked up a basketball, and then with a bang, the basketball thrown out went directly into the net!
Lei Lin saw that Uncle Mu's mid-pitch was hollow into the net, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into!
It's so shameless!
Uncle Mu's mid-range shooting ability, which is well-known, is very poor in the NBA!
But this is not the key, the key is that Hayes, who basically has no offensive ability, can actually come to a hollow net!
What's even more hateful is that after Uncle Mu and Hayes threw in, they were still laughing proudly there! It seems to be saying that from the moment Leylin joined the Rockets, they are no longer the worst shooting players on the Rockets!