Chapter 35: A Big Hat
Orlando is located in the middle of Florida, USA, and is one of the best leisure cities in the world, with many lakes, a clean urban environment, friendly residents, and a mild climate, which is definitely the best place for travel, camping, water sports, honeymoons and family trips.
Chamberlain had hoped to visit Orlando one day, but due to financial and physical reasons, he had not been able to fulfill this wish.
Orlando is indeed a great city to visit, especially for children, with the largest Disneyland in the world on a par with Los Angeles Disneyland, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of History, and Harry's Gardens in the Lock-Haven district, as well as the largest maritime world in the United States, as well as Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and the recently released "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter".
Originally, Chamberlain thought that he could walk around the city after this game, but when he entered Amway Center, the home arena of the Magic team, he was almost overturned by the roars of the fans:
When Chamberlain came out, the DJ first said weakly: "Let's welcome Chamberlain, the seven-foot-and-one-inch power forward of the Oakland Warriors......"
The DJ's voice is like a match, insignificant in itself, but it ignites a powder keg.
"Rookie get out of the way, get back to your country in Oakland, this is a big city, not a little hillbilly like you should be!"
"Wait to be beaten into meat sauce by our Howard, no one will sympathize with you, let your family prepare to collect your body!"
"It's going to be your nightmare today......"
"The shotgun in Lao Tzu's hand is dedicated to shooting rookies......"
Chamberlain was taken aback by the invective in the stadium, it was the first time he had encountered such a violent scene, when he was at Staples Center before, the fans in Los Angeles did not scold him, but just gave a few boos elegantly, where like here, the fans were eager to rush down and chop him up!
"Fuck, whoever tells me Orlandos is friendly in the future, I'm going to give him two fucking big mouths!" Chamberlain said to Jackson smugly.
Jackson: "What did you say?" Be louder, the fans are too loud for me to hear! ”
Chamberlain: "Fuck your sister!" ”
Jackson was quite excited today because he was finally released from prison, his two suspensions have been lifted, and he is finally ready to play.
In fact, even if the suspension time does not arrive, the Warriors may unilaterally explain the suspension of Jackson, because with Davis's injury, the team's strength has been greatly reduced, and there is almost no main player available. Since the first game against the Lakers, Al Harrington has felt discomfort in his back, out of protection for him, he did not play in the last game, if all three are not there, then the Warriors' starting list last season will be left with Biedrins and Ellis.
Jackson's face was full of excitement, and he yelled, "Z, let's join forces to create a big scene today!" Damn Orlando, I'm going to make you shiver under Uncle Stephen Jackson's feet! ”
Chamberlain: "What did you say?" Be louder, the fans are too loud for me to hear! ”
JACKSON: "FUCK-YOU-SISTER! ”
The Warriors fielded the starting lineup: center Chamberlain, power forward Steve Jackson, small forward Petrus, playmaking guard Azubuke, and scoring guard Ellis.
Jackson's arrival is considered to have liberated Petrus, although the latter is physical, but the problem is that the height is there, he usually plays the two positions of small forward and shooting guard, and generally the latter, Jackson's suspension in the last game and Harrington's injury made Nelson Sr. have to put him in the position of power forward.
Fortunately, the first two games were pure small-ball tactics, except for Chamberlain, who was a serious insider, the other four people were all in the same position, all scoring guards.
The starting lineup for the Magic is: center Dwight Howard, power forward Rashad Lewis, small forward Hida Turkoglou, playmaking guard Jamil Nelson, and scoring guard Keith Bogans.
In fact, in terms of the tactics of the Magic this season, they are quite close to the Warriors, the Warriors are now all artillery shooters except for Chamberlain, and the Magic team is more thorough, their big forward Lewis, who was a famous musketeer when he was in the supersonic speed, has almost no dominance in the restricted area, but has a strong projection ability.
In this way, both teams belong to the fast-paced tactical executors, so the game is destined to be very good, and there are quite a lot of fans who come to watch the game.
Compared to the Warriors, the Magic team is more serious about this game, because they have lost two in a row in the opening season, and if they lose again today, it will be a three-game losing streak, and this is still their home court, so do you want to mix in Orlando in the future?
The current head coach of the Magic team is Stan Van Gundy, who is known as Da Fan in the mouth of Chinese fans, and his younger brother is the current head coach of the Rockets, Jeff Van Gundy.
However, compared with his younger brother Erfan, Da Fan has been a little annoyed recently, mainly because his upper position is not right, and now the team's record is not good, and he has received a lot of criticism.
Originally, this season, the head coach chosen by the Magic team was not Dafan, but Billy Donovan, the head coach of the University of Florida men's basketball varsity alligators. As a result, just before the start of the preseason, Donovan suddenly regretted running back to take charge of the Alligators again, and in desperation, the Magic team could only hastily choose Dafan as the head coach of the team.
In this matter, Dafan plays the role of a spare tire, generally speaking, no matter which industry, the role of a spare tire is not very outstanding, so since Dafan entered the team, he has been encountering doubts, and the team has recently lost two games in a row, and he has suffered a lot of accusations.
By the way, the reason why Donovan shamelessly ran back to the University of Florida and would rather be the head coach of the varsity team than the NBA coach was because the alligators recruited a handsome rookie named Chandler Parsons this year.
Donovan thought that Parsons could complete a four-game winning streak with two consecutive NCAA titles, but it turned out that this fool was blind, and he was able to lead the alligator to two consecutive championships in the first two years, because he had Horford and Joakim Noah under his hands, and both of them were famous stars after they arrived in the NBA this year. Compared with the two of them, in addition to appearance, Parsons is not half a star in other aspects, especially in ball skills.
Regardless, Van Gundy wants to prove to the Magic uniform team and fans that he's not a spare tire, but a qualified NBA coach.
And to prove it, the best way to do it is for him to lead the Magic team to take out the Warriors led by Nelson Sr.
The referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, the starting lineups of both teams walked onto the court, Sudmons also followed Orlando, Chamberlain came on the court, he waved his hand vigorously and shouted: "Z, go up and kill that guy Howard, he is not your opponent, I have played with him, that guy is garbage except for funny!" ”
Sudmons is qualified to say this, and when he was healthy, he once met Howard at a Nike training camp and played him around.
Chamberlain and Howard took a stand on the halfway line, and the latter looked relaxed and said, "Rookie, how do you feel about our arena?" ”
He meant to ask what the atmosphere was, but Chamberlain deliberately misinterpreted him, exaggeratedly craned his neck to look left and right, and then pouted and said, "This arena is really bad, I suggest you go to our Oracle Stadium and have a look, it's a shabby stadium in comparison." ”
As he spoke, he showed a look of sudden realization, and said: "I forgot, this is the Rag Factory, which specializes in collecting rag players, right?" ”
Chamberlain is not nonsense, there are 29 arenas among the 30 teams in the NBA, and the Amway Center Arena is indeed relatively old. Of course, the Celtics' stadium is older, but what people want is that sense of vicissitudes, and the amount of money invested in the stadium is a lot, unlike Amway Arena, which is terrible.
Howard is still a kind man now, he is not very good at trash talk, so he maliciously left a sentence of "will make you look good later", and then began to prepare for the jump ball.
The reason why Chamberlain's mouth is so damaged is because he is a little depressed now, he thought that Li Qun would also come to the scene, but he didn't see the shadow of the other party, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
However, this feeling did not affect Chamberlain's condition, and the referee threw the ball up, and he and Howard jumped up almost simultaneously with their legs bent, like two rockets out of the chamber, whistling into the sky.
One black and one gold, two long arms like a dragon chasing an orange basketball to the sea, this scene is a bit like the Chinese legend of the double dragon grabbing the pearl, but Howard's dragon is a bit short, his height is claimed to be six feet eleven, that is, 211 centimeters, in fact, that's, according to Chamberlain's eyesight, it's just 208.
But what about Chamberlain? His height is seven feet one, a real 216!
If you put this distance on the arm span, then Howard is even worse than Chamberlain!
Jumping almost at the same time, both of them were first-class perverts in terms of speed and bounce, but Chamberlain was the first to touch the ball and gave the racket to Azubuuk.
Azubuuk took the ball to the front court like a gust of wind, and Nelson Jr. came up to block it, both of them were small muscle sticks, entangled in each other for a while. However, for Azubuke on the attacking side, being entangled is a loss, so he passed the ball to Ellis.
Ellis now sees himself as the Warriors' No. 1 cannon on the outside, and of course he has the strength, so after getting the ball, he uses his speed to shake off Bogans, stride into the interior, and shoot a steady and ruthless throw.
"Roar!" A roar sounded from the side, and Ellis, who was in mid-air, shuddered as he saw a long arm chasing him and stretching out high, and Howard came out of the side and slapped the racket out of the court.
Ellis was slapped with a dirty face, he looked at Chamberlain with a look of resentment, and his eyes clearly said a sentence: "Why don't you get this grandson stuck?" ”
It's really not easy to get stuck with someone like Howard, otherwise he wouldn't be called a Warcraft, Chamberlain smiled helplessly. Howard was unforgiving, turned his head and opened his mouth wide and yelled at him, "Is this hot pot cool? Rookie, does the uncle's hot pot make you feel refreshed?! ”
Chamberlain secretly said to himself, are you a fool? Didn't you take me off and ask me if I was happy, what are you doing?
A big hat came at the beginning, and Howard's actions immediately stimulated the adrenaline of the fans in the stadium, and for a moment the cheers and ridicule in the Amway Center rushed to the stadium like a tide.