Chapter 225: After Winning
“…… What happened in the North Shore Gardens brought the Pacers, who had been carrying the sign of the pseudo-strong team on their backs, to the attention of people again, regardless of whether they were young or not, and they were the ones who took the victory in the end...... As a veteran Green Army fan, it's hard for me to understand why the current Pacers are so strong, but it is this seemingly not powerful Pacers who have managed to take out almost all the teams that threaten them in the East, the Cavaliers have fallen, the Magic have fallen, the Hawks have fallen, and now the Celtics have fallen under their butcher's knife for the second time...... Or Zhang Kong can really do magic," was written by Carl Stimar, the editor-in-chief of the sports section of the local Boston Globe in Boston.
"The current Pacers can already successfully take off their pseudo-strong team brand, what about weak inside? What about the unstable outside firepower, Zhang Kong didn't shoot a three-point shot in this game, but in the end he still killed the Green Army, the current Pacers are no longer the moment to pay attention to individual battles, Zhang Kong's arrival has successfully connected them together, and the current Pacers are the real strong team! There's a good chance this year's Pacers will pull off miracles...... "wrote the editor-in-chief of the New York Times sports column.
The above two editors-in-chief only represent the words of some fans, but they fit the minds of many people.
And Doug Rivers, who has formed the Big Three, is definitely a future coach in the NBA, and also shook his head again and again at the post-season press conference, this iron-fisted coach who has always put defense first, actually admitted his mistake at the beginning of the press conference, which is rare in ordinary games, as the so-called loser does not lose, especially such a young head coach.
"I admit that the command of this game is my mistake, it is my wrong command to lose the game, I have a little underestimation of Zhang Kong, originally I only thought he was just a young stunned young man who would be strong, but I don't know when he started, he actually learned Ginobili's layup, which is very surprising, because Ginobili's layup is not so easy to learn, such a layup, coupled with his original strength, made the Celtics players suffer, especially the last ball, I have to admit that Zhang Kong is a genius!" Doug Rivers has praised Zhang Kong this season, and Zhang Kong is quite scary for him.
In addition to Zhang Kong, Troy Murphy, who scored 24 points and 18 rebounds in this game, also became the focus of everyone's attention, and he successfully became a big gate for the Pacers in this game, and he successfully attracted everyone's attention with Hibbert's performance of only six points in the whole game, with 24 points and 18 rebounds in the game, which shocked everyone.
It can be said that he carried out the combination of Garnett, Perkins and Wallace on the inside, allowing the Pacers to win the game, except for Murphy, the score on the Pacers' side is not too high, except for Granger with 21 points and Dunleavy with 10 points, no one has scored double-doubles, but all the players on the court have scored.
It wasn't an easy thing to do, and at the same time, the game between the Lakers and the Thunder came to an end.
The Thunder is really not the opponent of the Lakers, the boss of the West, and they were directly slaughtered by the Lakers.
The battle for the top three, except for a change of position between the Pacers and the Celtics, is still the same.
The Lakers are still firmly seated at the top of the league, although the chair under his ass has loosened a bit.
After playing the Celtics, the Pacers faced the earliest game against the Hawks on the night of the 26th carnival, but it was still at home, so the Pacers didn't care too much, but after playing the Hawks, they had to fly to Miami to play the Heat, which was more troublesome, but before that, they could enjoy their Christmas vacation.
Even if Zhang Kong forgot what he had said when he chose his surname, the rest of the Pacers would not forget.
They remember that Zhang Kongke said that after he returned to Indiana, he took money to invite everyone to dinner, and after the plane landed in Indiana, a few guys who like to play will ask Zhang Kong to treat him, Zhang Kong is now level 70, and the name has also risen from the previous inferior player, to the substitute player, and after the rise to the substitute player, Zhang Kong obviously felt that everyone's attitude towards himself was a little different, and after this win, the league's publicity was also more in place.
On the other side of the ocean in China, some websites even organized a non-governmental gathering because Zhang Kong's performance was too good.
This made Zhang Kong a little unexpected, and this time everyone said that they wanted to invite guests to dinner, Zhang Kong did not refuse, but happily went to a Western restaurant near the stadium with everyone, this place was booked by Granger, because he usually likes to eat here.
The main dish here is French cuisine, and when the boss saw the NBA superstars arriving, he immediately came out to greet everyone and welcomed everyone to a relatively large reception restaurant, which was also the first dinner of the Pacers team.
And because of the addition of some emotions, Zhang Kong, whose cold feelings have finally loosened, does not reject such a dinner party.
As long as he doesn't go to nightclubs or discotheques or other places, Zhang Kong still likes to play outside with these buddies.
In line with the idea of fighting local tyrants, these evil guys of the Pacers slashed Zhang Kong fiercely, and when Zhang Kong checked out, he found that he had eaten more than 60,000 US dollars for this meal...... Damn, are these guys pigs?
But at present, Zhang Kong, who is not bad at money, has not played any urine and run away, as a gentleman, he naturally has to do what he says, but he also secretly swore in his heart that he would never invite such a large number of guys to eat in the future, a total of 15 players, plus caddies, trainers, physicians and assistant coaches, adding up to a total of thirty or forty people, all the things they eat are paid for by Zhang Kong, and they are also specially expensive, these are not the most important, the most important thing is that Zhang Kong did not eat anything at all...... Zhang Kong's body is indeed very strong, but it's a pity that he has a Chinese stomach and a Chinese intestine, these French meals, Italian meals, Zhang Kong has no blessings, the only thing he can eat is steak, or after they serve it, they will reheat themselves until they are nine ripe before eating...... Seeing his teammates eating so deliciously, Zhang Kong's voice was depressed.
And when everyone knew why Zhang Kong didn't eat, they laughed even happier, especially like Earl Watson, who had a good relationship with Zhang Kong, and even deliberately pursed their mouths when eating, making a delicious expression, and the hated Zhang Kong almost flew over with the knife in his right hand, so that they could see if Xiao Zhang's flying knife was as accurate as his basketball.
The meal was eaten until seven o'clock in the afternoon, when it was already dark outside, and the players parked their cars in the parking lot of the stadium before leaving Indianapolis.
Because they know that Zhang Kong's home is near here. It's a half-joke, so they all drove away, and in the end only the honest instructor, Jim O'Brien, drove a particularly short, 65-year-old Ford...... Ask Zhang if he sits empty.
In order not to wronged himself, Zhang Kong could only say in a very kind voice, "I'll go back, it's close anyway, coach, be careful when driving!" Now Zhang Kong hates why he has grown so tall, even if he dismantles the perfect card, with his height of 1.9 meters and that weight, it is estimated that it will be troublesome to even squat while sitting in this car...... Suddenly, Zhang Kong had a feeling that he wanted to buy a car.
"Looks like I need to get a trolley myself." Last season Zhang Kong was in the Kings, according to the latitude, the two cities are not too much different, but according to the temperature, it is too much worse, Sacramento, the coldest time in January is 0 degrees, and the highest temperature during the day usually reaches about 10 degrees above zero, that kind of weather is quite beautiful, at least stronger than the current Indianapolis, think about when Joanna came to Zhang Kong's house, she was still wearing a miniskirt Christmas dress.
At this time, the temperature in Indianapolis drops to about minus 10 degrees Celsius at night, after all, it is inland.
It can't compare to the other party's ocean climate, the temperature difference between the two places is at least ten degrees, even Zhang Kong, who is used to staying in Harbin, feels a little painful, because he wears too little...... Full of warmth and silver desire, this sentence is very revealing.
Even if it is a person who is more colorful, he is full first, and then thinks about other issues after he is warm, so Zhang Kong is very miserable now.
He only wore a fleece shirt inside, and only a team training hood T-shirt on the outside, so it's no wonder that it's not cold.
Along the way, he ran back to his house with a trot, that is, Zhang Kong's physique was good, and the others estimated that they had already caught a cold, so they took out the key tremblingly, and after opening the door, Zhang Kong got in.
But after getting in, Zhang Kong was stunned for a moment, this is not his own home...... Why is the whole villa decorated, weird?
"Hey, Zhang Kong, are you back?" At this time, in the kitchen next to her, she may have heard the sound of Zhang Kong, Joanna jumped up happily, and at this time Joanna was wearing a red Christmas dress, which was quite similar to last year's one, but it was obviously remodeled.
"Uh...... This is ...... in the house" Zhang Kong saw Joanna to make sure that he had made a mistake, and asked with a surprised face.
"Oh, Merry Christmas!" Joanna covered her mouth and laughed softly, shouting loudly at Zhang Kong.
(To be continued)