Chapter 3 Which team will it be?
"Are you dead? What do you mean? Wang Xiaomu was a little puzzled by the name of the team.
Gao Yuanyuan didn't know much about the origin of the Nix, so he hurriedly gooleded, "Probably talking about some foreign businessmen." She didn't bother to explain what thrift merchants, bloomers, and tried to pick up haode said.
"Well, let's take a look." Wang Xiaomu drank the Martini with orange slices in his hand.
"Okay, there's a game tonight, oh, the location, um, Charlotte, North Carolina. It's an hour and a half from here. Do I need to book a ticket? Gao Yuanyuan picked up the iPad and searched it.
"Well, let's go." Wang Xiaomu nodded, and quickly cut through the mess.
Domestic short-haul flights in the U.S. are generally dominated by small passenger aircraft, which are more cramped in first class. Wang Xiaomu squeezed into his seat, his face was blue. He thought Gao Yuanyuan was talking about driving or walking for more than an hour.
"You have to get used to flying a lot because the NBA has a lot of away games." Gao Yuanyuan gestured and explained to Wang Xiaomu. The sound insulation of the small airliner is very mediocre, and the engines of this aircraft are distributed near the wings, and even the first class cabin is like sitting on the lid of a boiling pot.
"Well, xiexie reminds. By the way, give you this, maybe you'll be better. Wang Xiaomu is also a person who knows how to repay his kindness, looking at Gao Yuanyuan beside him who endured a miserable face but was comforting himself, and handed her a piece of jade pendant in front of him.
The pattern on the jade pendant is very simple, and it looks like the distribution of mountains and rivers. Gao Yuanyuan took the jade pendant curiously. To be honest, this is the worst plane Gao Yuanyuan has ever done since he was a child, and only this flight is the most suitable for catching up with the competition.
It's cold to start, and the restlessness in your heart disappears, it's amazing. Gao Yuanyuan was about to ask a few more questions, but Wang Xiaomu closed his eyes and stopped talking.
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On January 24, Eastern time, Time Warner Cable Arena ushered in a new round of regular season games. For the New York Knicks, they've had a rough time lately. In the 18 rounds of the league, it ushered in 6 consecutive defeats, and the last 4 home games were all lost, abused by the Magic, killed by the Suns, and topped by the Bucks, and even the Nuggets with similar strength laughed at the home court of the Knicks.
In this season of castration, the Knicks have become the target of castration. Coach Mike D'Antoni is even more on pins and needles.
"We're going to have a big win!" Facing the Bobcats, who only won 3 games, D'Antoni expressed his stance to the media with confidence, and his beard was blown high.
However, for the Bobcats at the bottom, many media outlets are not interested. In addition to the local media in Charlotte, only a few small media outlets sent reporters to the scene.
And Bobcats fans have also lost confidence in the team's results this year, in addition to die-hard diehards, many fans are coming for the Knicks' star Anthony, Stoudemire and Chandler, and their sophomore rookie Landry Fields has been eye-catching recently, which is also the biggest gain for the Knicks.
For an event of this level, tickets are naturally not tight. Wang Xiaomu and Gao Yuanyuan chose a seat with a wider view and sat down. Gao Yuanyuan is still professionally configured, with a handwritten notebook and laptop with him, ready to record at any time.
"Relax." Wang Xiaomu tried the home team's popcorn at the entrance, and found that it was not bad, so he took two bags and handed Gao Yuanyuan a bag.
"No, Xiexie, it's my job." Sitting next to the basketball idiot, Gao Yuanyuan did not relax at all, she had to get into the role as soon as possible, the woman behind the head coach? Hey, the head coach behind the pig's foot face is right.
"Beep~~" With the referee's whistle, the game began.
At the beginning of the game, the Knicks really let D'Antoni not salivate in vain, and a wave of 8-0 shockwaves directly pressed the pause button for the Bobcats. Fields, a second-year freshman, made a stunning appearance, and the team's morale was high.
As a rookie cultivator of the amazing Maoshan School, Wang Xiaomu naturally has a super understanding and memory, although the start is zero, it does not mean that his progress is also zero.
"This is the three-second zone, that is the reasonable collision zone, and that is the three-point line~~~" Gao Yuanyuan explained to Wang Xiaomu carefully and patiently.
The old and young people wearing the No. 7 Knicks jersey around them turned out to be die-hard Knicks fans, and they spared no effort to roar every time the Knicks attacked. When Anthony got the ball, the two were even more coquettish, and the grandson couldn't wait to ride on his grandfather's neck to cheer for Anthony.
The super long performance of the two men made Gao Yuanyuan have to raise his voice, and his voice was a little hoarse.
"The scene is to watch the fans, and the TV broadcast is to watch the game." Gao Yuanyuan put his mouth close to Wang Xiaomu's ear and shouted vigorously.
"Don't shout, I can hear you." Wang Xiaomu motioned to Gao Yuanyuan to protect his throat in the contempt of the two lynxes, and by the way, stop glaring at the grandfather and grandson.
After watching half the court briefly, Wang Xiaomu already knew the basic rules of basketball, and the atmosphere on the scene also stimulated his adrenaline.
However, the Knicks are like a dancing girl who squandered their youth, and in the case of a large lead, they were overtaken by the Bobcats in the second quarter. D'Antoni's on-court command was terrible, and the players had to rely on singles to chase the score back with the help of their opponents' worse performances. Finally led 52-42 at halftime.
With 6 minutes left in the game, Jeremy Lin came off the bench to attract Wang's attention. He made two of two shots, four of four free throws and dished out four assists.
"That's what you're talking about Chinese players?" Wang Xiaomu asked, pointing to Jeremy Lin's yellow skin.
Gao Yuanyuan nodded, but the pen in his hand kept remembering. She felt that Wang Xiaomu was still quite satisfied with this team, and what made her tired was the Knicks' main player Anthony, this guy dared to shoot 0 of 7, and directly blew up his single-game scoring rate, or relied on a jishu foul free throw to get a pitiful 1 point, Zuihou didn't even dare to shoot. And the cooperation between the team members is too sloppy, even she, a halfway monk, knows that someone has misread the scriptures.
She needs to sort out her current thoughts and the state of the players on the field, so she doesn't care about talking to Wang Xiaomu.
But the grandparents and grandchildren around the two of them saw something. The grandson tugged at his grandfather's sleeve, "Are they scouts for which team?" Grandpa looked at Gao Yuanyuan's state, nodded, and lowered his voice: "I heard that there is also a basketball league in China, maybe she came to see the two teams as substitutes!" ”
Thanks to Miss Gao, she didn't have time to listen to the conversation between her grandfather and grandson, otherwise she would have to go violent.
In the end, the Knicks combined to win 111-78.
Anthony faced the post-match camera and could only explain awkwardly: "I need a night like this, I didn't do much, but we can win by a big score." ”
'We started to have a full-blown outburst and oh you said Cameron, well, we need him to be fit because tomorrow is a back-to-back game and we need to win as well.' In the face of courtesy questions from reporters, D'Antoni spoke optimistically.
On the sidelines, Wang Xiaomu learned to lick his tongue from the guys on the field, and nodded heavily, "I want this team!" ”