Chapter 47: Counterpoint Bydam
"I'm starting?" Wang Cannon pointed at his nose and looked at Spoelstra in surprise. Wang Cannon knew very well that it was a matter of time before he became a starter, but he didn't expect it to be so sudden, and he didn't tell himself until before the game, is this a Christmas surprise?
"That's you! Not ready yet? Spoelstra said, in fact, he is not ready to let Wang Cannon start, although Wang Cannon's table is much better than the starters of many teams, but after all, Wang Cannon's flaws are too big, and it is still difficult to be a starter.
Lack of height, offensive ability is about equal to 5, and his understanding of tactics is very poor.
But Spoelstra, to put it bluntly, is just a head coach, he is the biggest in the team, but that doesn't mean he's the boss.
Just an hour before the game, Spoelstra received a phone call from his immediate boss, general manager Pat Riley. On the phone, Patelley said to Spoelstra in a tone of constant helplessness, "In this game, let Wang Cannon start!" β
"Why?" Spoelstra was anxious at the time, "Teacher, you used to be a head coach, you should know that the current Wang Cannon is not suitable for starters." β
"! Of course I do! But the shareholders don't know! Riley has never had a good temper with his disciples, "I also received a phone call just now, the boss called, and he told me that he had just signed a cooperation plan with a Chinese company, but the Chinese side asked for Wang Dacang to be the first player. β
"Holy? No way? Spoelstra was dumbfounded, "Just because of this, you're going to disrupt our whole plan?" β
"You can choose not to, but you and I will probably have to roll up and fuck off! Do you understand? It is said that this partnership is a large cooperation of more than $1 billion, which is more expensive than the entire Heat team! Riley said, "So you know what to do, right?" β
Spoelstra was very skeptical that Wang Cannon had a close relationship with the Chinese company, but Spoelstra still remembered that he had heard from the players that Wang Cannon was poor and didn't even have a car, and he had to rub his teammates' cars to go back every day when he went home, how could he have anything to do with those local tyrant companies?
But no matter how suspicious he was, Spoelstra could only obediently arrange Wang Cannon in the starting position temporarily.
The head coach is indeed very bullish and can call the players around, and the general manager is even more bullish and can control the stay of the head coach and players, but the boss is the most bullish, he can control the whereabouts and stays of everyone.
When he heard that Wang Cannon was going to start, the whole locker room was quiet for a while, and then it began to be lively, and Haslem looked at Wang Cannon who also looked surprised, and was extremely relieved. Wang Cannon was brought to the team by him, as a draft player, he was able to play the starting position in just a few games, and he was not wrong.
At this moment, Haslem was suddenly stunned, he looked at a corner of the locker room, a little stunned.
In that corner, there stood a player with a rather glazed look and a blue face.
"Joel? Are you okay? Haslem stepped forward and patted the player and asked.
"Huh? I'm fine! Joel Anthony shook his head with a smile before turning around and continuing to change his clothes.
"This guy." Haslem shook his head a little strangely, and didn't pay attention to it anymore, there are so many people in the team, and many people have to come and go every season, even the Haslem team can't take care of everyone.
Unbeknownst to Haslem, Joel Anthony had developed a strong hostility towards the king cannon at this time.
Haslem really doesn't know because Joel Antony isn't a starter either, he's just a substitute. Wang Cannon's starting position is the top of the big Z, and it has nothing to do with Joel Anthony.
But Joel Anthony doesn't think so, he thinks that this starting position should be his.
Although the big Z is very powerful, but because of age and injuries, the current big Z is no longer what it used to be, and as time goes by, the position of the Heat's starting center will definitely be Joel Anthony's.
But at this time, Wang Cannon suddenly came in, and also snatched the starter that was about to belong to him, who can face it calmly?
Fortunately, Joel Anthony himself is not an important figure in the team, and not many people have noticed him, and most of the eyes are still on the Big Three and Wang Cannon.
"Coach, what position do I play as a starter?" Wang Cannon asked curiously.
"A center, of course." Spoelstra said with some pain.
"I'm playing as a starting center at my height?" Wang Cannon pushed Bosh, "You let him play center, I'll play power forward." β
"Isn't it just playing a center? What's the big deal? Didn't the Rockets use the 1.98m Hayes to play center before? You're not better than Hayes? Bosh patted Wang Cannon's shoulder hard and said, "Since you came to the team, my average rebounds per game have dropped from 8 to 6, which is enough to show how good you are!" β
"Seriously, what I care more about is the scene when I jump the ball for a while, it's definitely a bunker!" James said sternly.
"Holy!" Wang Cannon rolled his eyes depressedly, "That's not right! Shouldn't it be a joy to start? Why am I so depressed? β
"The starting line-ups for both sides have been announced, so let's take a look." On the other side, in the live broadcast room, Yu Jia saw the starting list allocated by the director. "First of all, the Lakers, the Lakers' starters are no different from usual, point guard Fisher, scoring guard Kobe, small forward Artest, big forward Gasol, center Bydam."
"Well, the Heat's starting lineup hasn't changed, point guard Chalmers, scoring guard Wade, small forward James, big forward Bosh, center big huh?" Zhang Weiping, who was reading, suddenly exclaimed, and almost at the same time, the stadium where the starting lineup list could be seen was also chaotic.
"We saw that Wang Cannon's name appeared on the Heat's starting center list, and Wang Dacang turned out to be a starter in this game! Wang Cannon became the third Chinese player to start in the NBA after Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian! β
At this moment, the fans on the other side of the ocean were all excited.
"It's just that this starting center" Yu Jia couldn't help laughing, "Wang Cannon's height is less than 2 meters, in my statistics here, even if he wears shoes, he is only 1.99 meters, and a 1.99 meter player is the starting center."
"What's this!" Zhang Weiping said with a very reasonable look: "Although the position of center forward has very important requirements for height, it is not that he can't play at all without height?" Just like the Rockets when Yao Ming was injured, didn't Hayes, who is only 1.98 meters tall, make a cameo appearance as the starting center? And Hayes' starting results are quite good. There must be a reason why the Heat let Wang Cannon serve as the starting center, maybe this is a tactic against the Lakers' interior twin towers? β
"Eh" Yu Jia wants to say that he doesn't know much about the specific tactics of the Lakers' inner twin towers, but the gap between them when they stand together is too big.
At this time, the players on both sides were already standing on the court, and when Wang Cannon and Lakers center Bydam stood together, there was indeed a special sense of joy.
With a height of 2.13 meters, Baidam, who is as tall as 2.13 meters, is a head taller than Wang Cannon, and his body size is also a circle of flesh than the chubby Wang Cannon, which definitely looks like a bear at first glance. Wang Cannon is much inferior in terms of appearance alone, although Wang Cannon completely explodes Bydam on the number of jΓΉ.
"Dude, are you sure you're going to jump with me in a moment?" Bydam looked at Wang Cannon standing in front of him, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"What? Can't you? Wang Cannon asked.
"Okay! Absolutely! Bydam replied, "Just don't jump for a while, you won't be able to catch the ball if you jump anyway." β
"I rub?" Wang Dacang was a little surprised, there were still people who dared to provoke him, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. "Am I acquainted with you? Why are you talking to me, or are you famous? But when I was in China, I heard that there was an O'Neal, a Yao Ming, and Howard in the NBA, but why hadn't I heard of you? β
"You!" Bydam was suddenly a little angry, he was not famous? Are you kidding? As the starting center of the city of archangels, he can also be ranked number one in the league, this Wang Cannon actually said that he is not famous, didn't he just grab a few more rebounds? What's the big deal?
Before the official match began, these two people were already unhappy with each other, and this game would definitely not be a peaceful match.
"Get ready to jump the ball! Remember, be small! Do you understand? The referee stood beside Wang Dacang and Bydam and admonished, and then threw the basketball in his hand into the sky.
When the basketball rose to the highest point and was about to fall, Wang Cannon and Bydam used their feet at the same time, like two rockets soaring to the ground.
Then, Bydam was dumbfounded.
"Holy! Is this girl really jumping so hard like in the video? β
Bydam's bounce is actually not good, he belongs to the kind of center with a steady pace, and bounce is not his strong point, but no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that he can't jump so much higher than the king cannon.
At this moment, the reality in front of me tells SΓΉ Bydam, and sometimes there is indeed a gap between imagination and reality.
Standing on the flat ground, the king cannon was a head shorter than Bidham, but in the air, it became a head shorter than the king cannon.