Chapter 30: The Immature 'Du Shen'

After the game against the Pistons, the doubts about Zhang Kong faded a little. (Baidu search: with dreams, the fastest update) Many so-called experts began to turn their heads and sang praises to Zhang Kong, believing that his defense on the inside made the overall lineup thickness of the Cavaliers rise a whole notch. But most people are still skeptical.

Bill Simmons, for example, firmly believes that Zhang's performance is short-lived, and as time goes on, it will soon fade into the pan and disappear from the league.

"He's just a rookie who plays a few good games once in a while, and there are a dozen of them in the NBA every year, but as time goes on, they're going to be eliminated from the NBA very quickly, and I have no reason to think he's going to be a special one."

At the same time, he is adamantly singing the praises of Seattle SuperSonics star Durant, who he believes has been better than one game despite his poor performance in the first two preseason games. And Durant has not adapted to the NBA, and when he adapts to the NBA, the future of the league will belong to him.

"He's full of potential and he's growing at the fastest pace." Bill Simmons said this about Durant in his column.

Zhang Kong didn't know about this until he was interviewed by reporters before the start of the game.

Hearing the reporter's retelling of Bill Simmons' column, Zhang Kong was a little dazed.

He didn't know where he offended this Bill Simmons, but after being said by the reporter for a while, even Zhang Kong couldn't help but raise a little anger, and after a slight pause, Zhang Kong said: "I know, then please don't miss tonight's game, although the two of us are not in place, but I can also observe Durant's strength up close." ”

After saying this, Zhang Kong walked directly into the locker room to prepare for the game, and the reporter put away the recorder with a smile on his face, and at the same time quickly dialed a phone call: "Hey, Editor-in-Chief Mondey, it's me, I have news, it's like this...... Yes, yes, I will prepare two manuscripts, and I will definitely publish them as soon as possible tomorrow, yes, Toutiao. Oh, great! ”

Receiving the praise of the editor-in-chief, the reporter waved his arm excitedly, it was so right to come here for an interview.

"What, you want to teach that kid a lesson?" Entering the locker room, James leaned over to Zhang Kong's side and said: "I heard what you said to that reporter, you have to be careful, those reporters are all guys who take things out of context, and if you talk nonsense, it will only cause trouble for yourself." ”

"I know." Zhang Kong nodded: "It's just a little angry." ”

"Journalists are the kind of stuff that they don't have to eat if they don't write something scary, especially the columnists, whose faces you haven't seen yet." Ilgoskas said with a look of disdain: "When you become a superstar, they will come and lick your toes." ”

Looking at Ilgoskas, Zhang Kong's face was surprised, he didn't expect that Ilgoskas, who has always been elegant on weekdays and looks like a good gentleman, would be so fierce when he mentioned reporters.

"Il, but he was a little miserable by the reporters." James seemed to know something about this matter, and when he saw that Zhang Kong was a little confused, he explained it to Zhang Kong.

After listening to this, Zhang Kong suddenly realized that this matter involved three women, two children, two men and a dog...... All in all, it was a scandal out of nowhere, but it was this scandal that almost ruined the family of this Lithuanian center forward. What's more, Ilgoskas doesn't even have a way to make those media apologize out of nothing, the American press freedom system, to say that everyone is qualified to know the truth, but to put it badly, for the sake of sales, in order to attract attention, deliberately exaggerate the incident with a thriller headline, and distort the facts is also the trick of these guys.

In such a situation, Ilgoskas naturally does not have a good impression of the media.

"That guy is not easy to deal with, he has the best talent." Speaking of Durant, James said quite seriously: "If you want to deal with him, then I'll defend him." ”

"Oh, no need." Zhang Kong smiled and shook his head: "I can do it myself." As long as Larry pushes him inside as much as he can. ”

Zhang Kong said while thinking, moving a wide range of defense, I haven't tried it for a long time.

Today, give it a try.

If it was Durant in 2012, of course he would take it seriously, playing NBA2K12, although the final championship opponent was the Lakers, but in the regular season, the Thunder caused him a lot of trouble, especially Durant's consecutive three-pointers, as long as there is a little free time when this guy can send the ball to the basket.

But now, it's just a small shoot......

Zhang Kong thought disdainfully, unaware that he was also a tender shoot in the eyes of others.

With the buzzer sounding, the Cavaliers' third preseason game, the Seattle SuperSonics vs. Cleveland Cavaliers preseason game officially ended. The new core of the Seattle SuperSonics, Durant looked at the scoreboard blankly, and the score of 135:89 on it was so bright and conspicuous. Until now, he hadn't even figured out how it all happened.

This is a slaughter, from the moment the whistle sounds, until the moment the beep sounds, the Cavaliers maintain the suppression of the Seattle SuperSonics throughout the game, from the beginning of the game LeBron hit a mid-range shot to score two points, the whole game did not let the Seattle SuperSonics lead once, the maximum point difference once widened to 50 points, and then the game went into garbage time.

Zhang Kong was relaxed. Today, he set a new low of 17 rebounds, but he had 13 blocks, including 10 blocks in the first half, and seven of those 13 blocks were given to Durant.

Larry Hughes became the easiest guy on the defensive end, he only needed to keep up with Durant at the three-point line, and Zhang Kong did all the rest of the defensive work for him.

Under the suppression of Zhang Kong, Durant only scored a miserable 6 points in 25 shots in this game, and scored as many as 5 turnovers, refreshing his own score low and his own turnover high.

If it is a confrontation between Zhang Kong and Durant, then there is no doubt that this confrontation, Durant is completely defeated.

The current Kevin Durant is not the future scoring champion 'Du Shen', he is still very immature, just a thin and tall pitcher, and the slightest pressure will be in a hurry. However, Zhang Kong didn't think that Durant would collapse under today's blow, and Durant in his previous life suffered such a blow, but he still grew rapidly step by step, and finally became one of the top superstars in the league.

He has a big heart.

After the race, he stopped thinking about what was going on the field. As Ilgoskas said, journalists, as long as they perform well on the field, they can say whatever they say, and naturally someone will sing praises to them.

Sure enough, after the game against the SuperSonics, the media once again sang loudly in the newspaper for the Cavaliers and Zhang Kong. Zhang Kong found a lot of newspapers, and found that there were even many bold media that directly called Zhang Kong the kind of big forward that only happens once in ten years, believing that his potential is immeasurable, and the future will inevitably shock the whole league.

(Although Zhang Kong positioned himself as a center, as written in the information, but in the Cavaliers, he basically played with Ilgoskas as a power forward.) Although on the defensive end, he basically does the work of a power forward and a center. ）

What's even funnier is that some media even directly transferred some of the praises originally written to Auden directly to Zhang Kong's head, which made Zhang Kong a little crying and laughing.

However, some media have looked elsewhere, and they expressed their amazement at the Cavaliers' strong strength and good form in their reports, believing that if the Cavaliers can maintain this form in the following season, then it will be very possible to win the championship.

In addition to the Spurs' three carriages, the only thing that can prevent them from winning the championship is the BIG3 combination of the Boston Celtics.

However, Bill Simmons, who Zhang Kong is most concerned about, did not change his mind this time, and in his column to ESPN, he only said that he would give Durant more time to adapt to the NBA, but did not mention a word about his previous comments about Zhang Kong.

This kind of turtle-like behavior with a shrunken head naturally made Zhang Kong laugh for a while.

Regardless, after playing the game against the Seattle SuperSonics, the Cavaliers will host the Orlando Magic in three days' time.

The match was hyped by the media as 'Revenge Fight!' ’

As for the reason for revenge, of course, it is because in the summer, the Orlando Magic quickly traded him to the Cleveland Cavaliers after the trade came to Zhang Kong, and in the eyes of the media, this is naturally the Orlando Magic 'abandoned' Zhang Kong. In this way, when Zhang Kong, who is in Cleveland, finally ushered in the game against the Magic team, this is naturally Zhang Kong's 'revenge battle'

"Of course, even now, I don't mind opening a hole in the hearts of those who have abandoned me, like executing traitors." Zhang Kong said as he gestured with his hand to swing the knife and cut it.

To be honest, Zhang Kong didn't have much resentment towards the Magic team in his heart, but when Zhang Kong was in the most confused state in his life, the continuous phone calls from the Mavericks and the Magic team made Zhang Kong feel very unhappy. Now that he has the opportunity, he doesn't mind hitting the Magic.

And when the reporter put these words in front of the Magic team as they were, the Magic people were filled with righteous indignation.

"The most important thing for him right now is to play well and not do these things to make a splash." In this regard, Magic head coach Big Van Gundy expressed disdain.

"It's just a rookie, do you think you can go to heaven after a few good games?" "I'm going to teach him a hard lesson and tell him the gap between him and me, and that's why I can get a contract for 100 million dollars and he can only be drafted at the end of the second round!" After today, all of you will know who they really are. ”

Howard smirked blankly. As a result of his injury, he won't play in the Magic's seven preseason games at all.

The reporters didn't care about the thirty-seven twenty-one, got what they wanted, and immediately picked up the camera and took a slam shot, and then a hot report was freshly released, which made this ordinary preseason game even hotter.