Chapter 102: Contradictions
After the All-Star bench was announced, it was obvious to the players on the Warriors that Green was in a bad mood.
It is estimated that Green did not expect that he would not be selected as an All-Star when the team's record was so good.
Although Green has signed a contract extension with the Warriors last summer, and his five-year, $85 million contract is also close to the maximum salary, Green obviously wants him to have a higher status with the Warriors, and it is difficult to say who is the No. 3 man in the Warriors between him and Wang Feng.
Wang Feng averages 20+ points per game, and his efficiency is even better than Thompson's, while Green's personal data is 10+7+7, which is difficult to say that he is better than Wang Feng, and losing to Wang Feng in the selection of All-Star substitutes is the best proof.
This undoubtedly made Green feel threatened.
Drummond. Green is a different player from Curry and Thompson.
Although he will always be the most passionate and active player on the court, he is not as selfless as Curry, at least in the eyes of Wang Feng, a traverser.
According to the original course of history, Durant would choose to join the Warriors in the summer of '16 to form a five-star Warriors that the entire league feared, and help the Warriors win the championship and win the FMVP in the next two years.
But in the face of Durant, Green has never been polite, and even said the world-famous Green formula - we were champions before you came!
Even if Durant's approach is indeed debatable, Green, as a teammate, said something like that, which is one of the reasons why Durant switched to the Nets after his contract expired.
Green sprayed Durant not because he was really jealous and hateful, he couldn't put sand in his eyes, and he looked down on Durant as a person, just to get greater benefits for himself.
After the Warriors won two consecutive championships, player contracts expired one after another, and after Curry and Thompson completed their contract extensions, the team's salary space was not much left, and if they wanted to renew Durant and Green at the same time, someone had to make sacrifices and make concessions on the renewal salary.
Green wants to sign a contract extension with the Warriors and is not prepared to compromise on the amount of the extension.
In this case, the Warriors will have to make a trade-off.
Green vs. Durant, who to choose between the two? There will be no hesitation in any choice, how can Green be better than Durant?
So after Durant left. Many people analyzed that Green deliberately squeezed out Durant so that he could successfully get a high-salary contract extension.
Of course, this is just speculation, and it is certainly impossible for the parties concerned to admit such a thing. But in hindsight, his personal ability has begun to decline, including Green, who is no longer in peak shape on the defensive end, but he has received a four-year, $100 million contract extension from the Warriors, and is definitely the biggest beneficiary of the incident.
Wang Feng didn't believe this speculation at first, and felt that this kind of remarks were somewhat exaggerated, NBA players are all local tyrants who make money every day, and they deliberately squeeze out and criticize their teammates for the sake of a larger contract amount, which is too doggy, right?
However, after the All-Star bench was announced, Wang Feng found that Green's attitude towards him immediately changed.
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"Hey! Wang! What are you in a daze? Hurry up and get in the run! It's all empty over there! ”
"Run aggressively on the pitch or I'm going to pass you the ball!"
"What did you do with that ball? Can the vacant seats be missed? ”
The team practiced daily, and the arena was filled with Green's unceremonious and loud rebukes.
"Calling what?"
Wang Feng squinted his eyes at Green, and said coldly: "Come, you stand here, I'll pass the ball to you, show me how many empty three-pointers you can throw!" ”
"Wang Feng." Curry came up to be a peacemaker and whispered to Wang Feng to persuade: "Drummond failed to be selected as an All-Star, and he is not in a good mood these days, understand, let him order." ”
"Really?" Wang Feng squinted his eyes, glanced at Green sideways, and sneered disdainfully. "I don't have enough skills to be selected as an All-Star, don't ask me to be angry, have the ability to cut 40 points and 50 points on the court, and can't pull to blame the earth for no gravity?"
"What did you say?" Green, who was already furious, was even more furious when he heard this, and he was about to rush to Wang Feng after throwing away the basketball.
Lack of scoring ability is Green's fatal weakness, even in the future.
Green's career-high single-game score is only 31 points, and the number of points above 25 points in a single game is only 4 times, and the gap between him and Wang Feng in terms of scoring ability is not half a point!
"Alright, alright! Say less! A bunch of players stepped forward to stop Green, but they didn't make things worse.
Green, who used to play aggressively, would often push his teammates like this, and would reprimand them mercilessly when he saw teammates who were not active in training, and the Warriors players were used to it.
But today the situation is clearly somewhat different. Green is a little too aimed at Wang Feng, but after training for half a day, he has already named Wang Feng several times, no matter what Wang Feng does, it is wrong, and he is more lenient than the coach.
Wang Feng had already held back a fire in his heart.
He is not the kind of soft persimmon who is bullied and does not dare to speak up.
Originally, Wang Feng felt a little guilty about Green's failure to be selected as an All-Star, and when the league coaches voted, they must have considered that if the four players of the Warriors were selected, the number would still be a bit too much, and Green's performance this season could indeed only be regarded as good, and there was no problem with not selecting him.
In other words, it was really Wang Feng's reason that led to Green's defeat.
But what Wang Feng didn't expect was that Green and Barnes were actually a urine, this kind of thing Wang Feng didn't mean it, he didn't make the selection, shouldn't he continue to work hard, play a better performance, and strive to be selected next season? Why did you come to put on my little shoes? What are you?
Wang Feng was not used to Green, so there was a scene of scolding Green in front of everyone just now.
It's just that it's clear that Green is much higher than Barnes' rank.
At the beginning, Barnes's original position in the Warriors was similar to the current Wang Feng, and the two of them rarely appeared on the court at the same time, and who played more time depended on their performance on the court.
It's a different story for Green, who has a position with the Warriors as a point forward and has been on the ball for as long as Curry. A lot of the time, it's Green who directs his teammates on the court and dominates the game.
The vignettes in training are directly reflected in the official competition.
It's February.
On Feb. 1, the Warriors host the Atlanta Hawks.
The game was a breeze, with the team winning comfortably 109-93.
But Wang Feng played 28 minutes and scored 12 points on 6 shots with only 10 shots.
On February 3, the Warriors played away against the Memphis Grizzlies, and Wang Feng scored only 10 points on 4-of-11 shooting.
On February 5, the Warriors played away against the Brooklyn Nets, and Wang Feng scored 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting.
After three games, anyone noticed that something seemed to be wrong with the Warriors.
But this Warriors team is just too strong, and even in this situation, it still maintains a super high win rate.