Two months later, Zheng returned to Minnesota after his last game against Team USA for gold.

It was mid-September, and the temperature in Minnesota had dropped compared to the previous two months, and Zheng and Taylor immediately felt the coolness after getting off the plane, and Taylor, who was still wearing a T-shirt and short skirt, shivered.

"It's starting to drop again." Taylor complained that she had been uncomfortable with the drastic drop in temperatures.

Zheng Ke pushed his suitcase and glanced at Taylor, who had wrinkled his nose, Taylor had sacrificed a lot for him, including accompanying him to live in this relatively unfamiliar area of Minnesota, which made him feel grateful and guilty all the time.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Although Taylor was wearing sunglasses, he could still see the tenderness in Zheng Ke's eyes, and his heart trembled, but he pouted and turned his head to look at the other side.

"Hehe, I see you're getting better and better." Zheng Ke praised his woman.

"Really?" Hearing Zheng Ke's praise, Taylor smiled so much that his eyes were full of crescent moons.

At this moment, the familiar voices of two children came from outside the airport-

"Daddy, Mommy—"

The two turned their heads at the same time and found that Xiao Zheng Shuang was holding Taylor's mother's arms, like two people waving his fleshy little hands, and his dark eyes were round.

"Xiao Shuang, mom wants you to death." When Taylor saw his son, he took two steps forward, took Taylor's mother's hand, hugged Xiao Zheng Shuang in his arms, and then kissed him.

Xiao Zheng Shuang was hugged in Taylor's arms and immediately giggled. He looked extremely happy.

"Uncle, aunt."

Zheng Ke greeted Taylor's parents with a smile on their faces. His eyes glanced at Xiao Zheng Shuang, and Xiao Zheng Shuang also stretched out a small hand to greet Zheng Ke.

After greeting each other and chatting about recent matters, the group got into Taylor's father's large SUV and drove to the city.

"I almost lost to you again!"

With Taylor's father, Zheng Ke always talked about basketball. Taylor's father is also a very standard basketball fan now, and he has watched the World Championships.

"Hehe, it's impossible to beat the U.S. team every time." Zheng Ke is quite open to this matter. Touched his nose and lay back in the seat.

"It was still Anthony's three-pointer at the last moment to directly maintain our lead." Although the prospective son-in-law is on the Chinese team, Taylor's father is also a loyal fan of the American team.

"This time the 2K11 game is about to be released. What do you think. When will we take the time to PK? Taylor's father said.

Zheng Ke was stunned, and then smiled: "Uncle, are you still playing this?" ”

"Your uncle is a die-hard NBA2K fan and is always clamoring to play a 2K game with you." Taylor's mother, who was in the back seat, said with a smile.

Taylor's father blushed at Taylor's mother's teasing words, and immediately defended himself: "What's so strange about this, we die-hard fans love to play this game." Although the 76ers' record is not good now, it is not me who brags, it is under my control. The 76ers can beat you Timberwolves. ”

Zheng Ke Ha laughed, and then asked with interest, "Then what is my ability value in 11." It must be higher than 10, right? ”

"High, of course high."

Taylor's father said: "A few days ago, 2K announced the full ability value of 2K11, you and James are the two highest ranked, each with 95 ability values, followed by Wade's 94, and then Howard 92, Kobe Bryant 91, Paul 91, Durant 89, Delon 89, Yao Ming 88, Duncan 87 and so on. ”

"So low? The overall ability value is much lower than last year! Zheng Ke was surprised.

"Maybe there will be adjustments when it really comes out, but it's already good, you and James are tied for the first place, and you are already the first person in the league."

Zheng Ke heard Da Lu laugh and said: The first person? In terms of ability value, it should be considered, but I still need to prove myself with results in the new season

With the end of the World Championships, NBA teams have opened basketball training camps.

Around October 8 is the start date of the NBA preseason, and a week or two before that, new players on the team need to familiarize themselves with the team's facilities and personnel; The team's old teammates need to go through this period of intensive training to regain their form and strive to return to their peak level.

As head coach, Thibodeau will measure the physical condition of each player through the first day of training.

In the stadium at this moment, Zheng Ke and others are sweating like rain.

"Switchback at full speed, hurry, hurry!" With a stopwatch in his left hand and a whistle around his neck, Thibodeau waved his right hand and shouted to Zheng Ke on the field to speed up.

"OK, pretty!"

Thibodeau pressed the stopwatch, a hint of shock flashed in his eyes, and he shouted at the staff: "10 seconds 89!" ”

"Wow~"

There was an uproar among the shirtless men around, and Lefu, who had returned from injury, was the first to clap his hands and shout: "Zheng, it's too good, your speed is the fastest guard." ”

"A little faster than Rose!" Thibodeau was very excited, he was also very excited about coaching the Bulls when he left the Celtics, and he made a data survey of the main personnel of the Bulls, knowing the data on the side of Dowros's body, and the baseline switchback ran in 11.69 seconds.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Zheng Ke arched his hand and smiled.

Billups, who participated in this year's draft, said: "It seems to be on par with this year's champion Wall, who ran 10.84 seconds on the bottom line when he was on the side of Wall's body, which caused a sensation in the rookie training camp at that time." ”

The more Thibodeau learned about the Timberwolves, the more shocked he was at their talent.

"It's a horrible team. The triumvirate composed of Billups, Zheng Ke, and Lefu is not inferior to this year's Miami triumvirate, and even from the perspective of reasonable allocation, the Timberwolves are more powerful. Plus Afflalo, Jordan Jr., Gibson, Lowry OMG! "Thibodeau felt like he was fainting with happiness, so many great players!

Thinking of this, he even somewhat despised the departed former head coach Randy Whitman.

"It's completely tyrannical, how can such a strong lineup not even pass the first round? This season, we will win the division championship for the first time! Thibodeau has set himself a minimum target for the season.

At this time—

There was a noisy quarrel at the door of the training hall of the target center.

"What's going on?" Thibodeau frowned, motioned for the players to continue training, and ran over himself.

I saw that the security guards at the door were struggling to stop the crowd that was about to enter the stadium, and the crowd was holding a video camera, a camera, a long gun and a short gun, and at first glance it was a reporter from a major newspaper.

"Coach Thibodeau is out!" I don't know who shouted, the reporters looked up one after another, and sure enough, Thibodeau walked out of the hall.

Suddenly, the crowd became even more frenzied, and the reporters flocked to it, breaking through the defense of the security team at once, and handing countless microphones to Thibodeau.

"Coach Thibodeau, is Zheng Ke back? Two months ago, Zheng Ke said that he would win 60 wins in the new season, what do you think? ”

"Is Love fit and how is he in shape to be a regular in the double-double like he did in the previous two seasons?"

"I heard that the starting point guard of the Timberwolves in the new season is Kyle Lowry, do you have anything to say about this 24-year-old young point guard?"

Problems abounded, and Thibodeau finally knew what it was like to be a head coach, which was a kind of pressure from the stars to the moon.

Looking at the eyes of hope around him, Thibodeau pressed his hand and motioned for them to lower their voices.

Everyone was very face-saving, and slowly no one began to ask questions, quietly surrounding Thibodeau, hoping to pry a little top-secret value news out of his mouth.

"Ahem~" Thibodeau cleared his throat and said, "I can understand everyone's feelings, after a summer of rest, the NBA also needs such news to recover." But at present, the Timberwolves players have just returned, and we have only conducted the first closed training within the team, so in principle, we cannot give you an interview, so please forgive me. ”

Journalists don't buy it, a slap in principle is like sending them away? How can they go back and explain to the editor-in-chief? So they all started to ask Thibodeau to answer the question.

"That's it," Thibodeau pondered for a while, and then said slowly: "I'm going to answer three questions from you, I hope you can step back and go, no matter what, no Timberwolves player will be interviewed today." ”

"Three questions?" The reporters were stunned, there is still such a statement? They looked at each other and whispered among themselves.

Thibodeau is much better talking than Popovich, and if Popovich had closed the door at this moment, he would never have paid attention to these guys, even if he was noisy.

However, there are many monks and few porridges, and the reporters have never been able to reach a unified voice on what specific questions to ask, and a few hot tempers and even angry hands have come, and the scene is chaotic for a while, Xibodu thinks that he is really dizzy, how could he come up with such an idea, it is simply asking for trouble.

"What's going on out there? The coach went and didn't come back? Zheng Keyang jumped with his hands and threw in a mid-range jumper, asking Jordan Jr. with a look of surprise on his face.

"Shouldn't be anything?" Little Jordan is also a bad guy, he still can't practice his free throws for several seasons, and he is standing on the free throw line to practice his free throws at the moment.

But the strange thing is that Jordan Jr.'s free throw action is very standard, compared to Howard, O'Neal and other weird free-throw shooters, his shooting action is infinitely close to textbook, but the shooting percentage is a bit of a joke.

"Huh!"

Another exaggerated free throw three non-sticks, the trainer of the baseline took Jordan Jr.'s free throw and passed it directly to him.

Zheng Ke watched it for a long time, and he was also amazed, and he didn't understand why Little Jordan's free throws were so bad, was it really too stiff? (To be continued......)