Chapter 237: Joining forces

Wang Shuang didn't seem to have an easy time completing the first task.

After all, he only won by 5 points in the end.

And on the side of the Wang Shuang team, Gasol and Joe Johnson are former All-Stars.

The two also played well in the game, scoring 20 points each.

Wang Shuang was suspected of hugging his thighs.

Durant scored 44 points and seemed to be defeated.

But this intra-team training game, only the players themselves know.

Who is the real winner.

Wang Shuang: This seems to be difficult.

In fact, it is a good idea.

Hold the minds of your teammates firmly.

Who can win?

Who can get the data with it?

Who can get exposure to the finals?

Who can get a big contract with?

The players will slowly have the answers in their hearts.

Anyway, a group of people such as Xiao Nansi and Lu Wei have already made up their minds.

Wang Shuangtie must be the boss of the team in their hearts.

Kobe Bryant's return doesn't necessarily work.

Both Lowe and Clarkson have signed new contracts.

Can you go to the next level in the future?

Whether you can improve or not depends on the next performance.

These are things that Durant hasn't really understood after so many years in the league.

Because his upbringing was too simple.

From the beginning of the supersonic speed, he was held by the management.

The next series of reinforcements, drafts, and trades all revolve around Durant.

Durant takes it for granted that he is the boss.

Whoever is strong is the boss of the team.

Wasn't that how it used to be at school?

And when Durant was in school.

No one is stronger than him.

But the NBA is not a school.

People think you're the boss.

In addition to being strong, the most important thing is to give food to his brothers.

But any good team boss is someone who can bring food to his brother.

For example, Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, and Big Q were all fed by him.

Although James does not work well with inside lines like Love and Bosh.

But the outside shooter and James really enjoy a lot of benefits.

There is also Kobe, Vujacic and Brown during the two-consecutive championship.

Such small guards were all brought by Kobe Bryant.

Durant, on the other hand, has led the team with the Thunder for many years.

Most of the role players on the team are what they look like.

It was still the same when I left.

Few people say that playing next to Durant can be improved and improved.

It shows that Durant has not yet understood the true meaning of being the boss.

And Wang Shuang realized it in half a season.

Because his basketball upbringing is very different from Durant's.

He was never the pride of the sky.

It's a player who has been struggling on the edge.

He still remembers that he had just arrived in the United States.

I wanted to join the basketball team in middle school and was ridiculed by my coach and classmates.

Because the U.S. high school basketball team is not a hobby group or a club.

You can participate if you want.

Some strong middle school basketball team players.

At a very young age, he was a well-known genius boy in the United States.

These children were selected and promised scholarships.

It's impossible for an amateur basketball enthusiast like this to want to join a basketball team.

But Wang Shuang's persistence still impressed the team coach.

And that high school wasn't a particularly strong school either.

At that time, there was a player in the team who was very famous in the local area.

He has a lot of strength and a good personality.

After Wang Shuang joined the team, he took good care of Wang Shuang.

In Wang Shuang's limited playing time.

Others don't give Wang double passes.

Only he will give Wang Shuangqiu and give him a chance to hone himself.

The rest of the time, Wang Shuang grabbed the ball by himself.

That's when it began.

Wang Shuang has a strong ability to win the ball.

All the way to the NBA now.

He has a natural sense of where the ball is.

He was of course more impressed by the team boss at the time.

Later, the player was not able to get into college and get a scholarship.

After that, he took the path of ordinary people.

became an IT employee and worked in Silicon Valley.

But his approach in the team, Wang Shuang understands what it means to be a real boss.

Later in the Lakers, Kobe Bryant also gave a good demonstration.

Strongly support Wang Shuang, so that Wang Shuang can successfully get the position of boss.

What about Durant? He had no such experience.

As soon as he entered the NBA, he was trained as a boss.

SuperSonics after taking down Durant.

Immediately traded away Lewis and Ray Allen.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Then the first season gave Durant unlimited firing rights.

Play whatever you want, just have fun.

Such an environment has cultivated Durant's confidence.

Developed Durant's offensive ability with the ball.

But at the same time, it also made Durant less grinding.

There are no veterans who grow up with him, and they all hold him.

At that time, when he first entered the league, Durant was only 19 years old.

A hairy boy who just finished his freshman year.

Later, the team had Wei Shao, Harden, Ibaka.

The team is getting stronger, but Durant has never been a good leader.

He's more of a number one thug.

It's okay to be the number one thug, the problem is that he feels like a leader and a boss.

He has this heart, but he is not the character of the boss.

Coming to the Lakers' first practice game.

He seemed quite undignified.

At the end of the game, after the coach's lecture.

He went back to the locker room alone, without saying a word.

Wang Shuang is not the kind of person who likes to chatter.

People who mingle with their teammates and call each other brothers.

But Wang Shuang greeted several young players such as Nance Jr. and Clarkson.

Stay and practice at the Toyota Center.

Wang Shuang also said to Durant: "Kevin, do you want to stay and train for a while?" ”

Durant waved his hand and said, "No, I'm tired and need to rest." ”

When he was younger, Durant was a notoriously training gym mouse.

He and Westbrook often practiced like crazy.

But now, Westbrook has broken ties with him.

Durant returns to the locker room.

I can't help but wonder if I'm doing this right.

When it came time to make the decision, Durant felt it was the right one.

He was disgusted by everything about the Thunder.

Time and time again, management has made self-shutting off deals to save money.

Tyson Chandler didn't want it, sent the Maverick to give the Maverick a crown.

Battier didn't want to, and sent it to the Heat to give the Heat a championship.

The key is that these two championships were won by stepping on the Thunder corpse!

Can Durant not be angry in his heart?

So, no matter how much he retained, he had to leave.

Come to the Lakers, come to this giant who has created miracles.

As a result, he found that everything did not seem to be as good as he thought.

Love, Clarkson, Gasol, Joe Johnson......

Again, some of the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Durant muttered in his heart.

How did Wang Shuang defeat Thunder with the old, weak, sick and disabled.

How did you beat the Warriors and beat the Cavaliers to win the championship?

This is a question that Durant can't figure out for the time being.

You have to get to the start of the regular season and experience it for yourself.

Time flies quickly, after the training camp opens in October.

The Lakers started the preseason right after.

Teams from the Pacific Division compete against each other.

The tournament took place mainly in a small town in California.

In the preseason, everyone paddled and made a bright appearance.

Wang Shuang and Durant appeared in the game at the same time.

For a while, a large number of fans came to watch the game.

Of course, both men had short playing time.

And to each his own.

Wang Shuang unloaded all the props in the game.

Give yourself a taste of what would happen if one day the system disappeared and you played by yourself.

The result feels okay, and I still have some strength.

At least the ability to grab frontcourt rebounds under the basket has not disappeared.

The ability to respond is still the same, and the shooting is so-so.

But it's almost meaningless to eat alone at a low level.

And then the defense also regressed.

The offense with the ball has improved.

The pull-up jump shot hit several in a row.

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The appearance of playing ball is more and more like Larry Bird's.

After all, the match is more than 60 percent.

Wang Shuang played for more than ten minutes per game.

The Lakers also lost in the preseason.

After all, the real powerhouses never make a splash in the preseason.

But October 19th.

The Lakers are hosting the Golden State Warriors in Palm Springs.

This pre-season match has attracted a lot of attention.

Because the two strongest teams in the West met this year.

The Lakers have Durant as the defending champions.

And the Warriors have James as the best regular season in history.

Especially since the Warriors have James.

The strength of the team's books is so strong that it is jaw-dropping.

The Lakers though have Durant is greatly strengthened.

But after all, the Lakers still have one less Kobe.

Let one Kobe, one more Durant.

The overall feeling is that there is an improvement.

But not much.

Warriors are different.

They are in the condition that they retain the full core of the squad.

Hard-nosed airborne a MVP-level superstar.

And not your average superstar.

He is a player who is historical and was once thought to be able to challenge Jordan at the GOAT level.

Of course, he joined the Warriors, and it is basically difficult to surpass Jordan.

But fame is fame, and strength is strength.

James' strength is there.

It's really strong.

Lost to the Lakers and Wang Shuang in the finals.

There are more surprises that everyone feels.

James' on-court performance remained impeccable.

It's just that Wang Shuangkai is too powerful.

I really can't help it.

The finals have just ended.

And when James just made the decision to leave the Cavaliers and go to the Warriors.

There was a scolding on the Internet.

But soon, the comments about James slowly reversed.

Especially after the news of Owen's request for a trade came out.

There is more and more news to understand James.

Especially in the United States, the media has posted a lot of news about James and Curry training and playing together.

Everyone said they were looking forward to the collaboration between James and Curry.

Both are Akron, both "sons of America."

James is also actively involved in various community activities in the Bay Area.

He was welcomed by local fans, as well as by the mayor and dignitaries.

and all kinds of news have lowered the criticism that James received before.

Now everyone is very much looking forward to the power of the new Warrior, the galactic battleship, to destroy everything.

In contrast, Wang Shuang disappeared after the finals.

Even if you go to the mountainous areas of China to donate money and do activities, it is quiet.

Basically, I didn't make any sound, and I did it.

After returning to the United States, I trained with my head bored, and the rest of the time was spent with Jessica Chen to run lawsuits and do business.

His favorite thing to do is to dance with Jessica Chan in the spacious living room of Beverly Hills.

All this makes him look like a reclusive demon king.

In addition, Wang Shuang was not an American player in the first place.

The "Yellow Peril" theory during the finals is still in my ears.

The American media is also very willing to create an image of the "Great Demon King of the East".

As for Durant, he is naturally a rebel who fell at the feet of the Demon King.

Attracted by power, he sold his soul.

So, in just a few months,

The wind has changed again, and everyone is starting to hope that the Warriors will beat the Lakers again.

All this actually had no effect on Wang Shuang.

He still plays basketball wholeheartedly and wants to win games.

It's as simple as that.

As for the fans, what stories does the media want to tell.

Let them be.

This game on the 17th.

Both sides attach great importance to it.

So at the beginning, it was all the main force.

On the Lakers' side, it's Gasol, Wang Shuang, Durant, Joe Johnson plus Clarkson.

On the Warriors' side, Pachulia, Green, James, Thompson and Curry.

Both sides are superior in strength.

But on paper, it's clear that the Warriors are superior.

So as soon as it opened, the Warriors suppressed the Lakers.

In preseason, no one will come up with real guys.

Therefore, there is no tactical targeting.

How well you play on the pitch depends on the condition and freedom of the players.

The arrival of James made Curry willing to play without the ball.

And James' playmaking ability with the ball is historic.

There are Curry and Thompson running to open up space.

James couldn't have played too easily.

In the first quarter of the game, Curry and Thompson hit consecutive three-pointers.

The Lakers were overwhelmed.

In comparison, the Lakers' heavy and slow style of play is like an old broken tractor.

And the Warrior upgraded to a superjet.

The game between the two is not at all in the same rhythm.

In a single quarter, the Warriors scored 40 points.

At 40:21, he led the Lakers by 19 points.

It's equivalent to knocking the Lakers apart in one game.

The Warriors' preseason games were all petty before.

James, Curry and others go up and just swipe it twice.

I didn't expect this enemy to see each other.

riveted a wave of punches and directly penetrated.

The fans in the live broadcast hotline were stunned.

"Damn, the warrior is too strong, this is the true strength of the universe brave!"

"The combination of Zhanku is really invincible in the world! This season is running for 70 wins. ”

"The Lakers are already strong, but it doesn't feel like a Warriors match at all."

"The miracle of the Lakers last season will not be repeated, it is really the right time and place to win the championship."

"I also think that last season's Lakers Finals were sacrificed, so who else can sacrifice this year for the championship?"

"Sacrifice the magician's son, I think I can defend the title."

"You can make a comeback, and then retire with an injury, stimulate Wang Shuang's energy, and win the championship again!"

There are all kinds of scrambled replies in the hotline.

Anyway, it's a preseason, and everyone is ridiculing.

But as a player on the field.

Wang Shuang is still very unhappy.

Durant was also very unhappy.

One by one, the warriors went in.

The speed is extremely fast and extremely smooth.

Curry also recruited Durant at the beginning.

Call Durant in person.

Hopefully he will come to the Warriors to form the Avengers.

But Durant chose to "go to the enemy" in the end.

Curry also said in the interview that he "couldn't understand".

The explanation given by Durant was "I think it's too bad to go to the Warriors, the Lakers don't have Kobe, and I think I'm better suited there." ”

I can't say it anyway.

See you on the field.

Wang Shuang sat on the bench and said to Durant:

"Hey, Kevin, how about we slowly chase it back together later?"

Durant nodded and said, "Okay, no problem." ”

That's when the two really started to join forces.

(End of chapter)