Some people can perform well when they are under pressure, and some people are too stressed and will perform abnormally.

LeBron James doesn't know which one he belongs to, but tonight, the summer league team that the Cavaliers management specially assigned to him didn't make him comfortable.

His rough technique of holding the ball and not having the means to shoot was further amplified in this game.

The summer league players, except for the rookies, are a bunch of "old oilers" with several years of professional experience, and their talent is far less than that of LeBron James, but they know how to clean up the rookies too well.

LeBron James is playing hard under their "left and right men".

Except for the first quarter, it took time for the opposite side to get used to his style of play, which allowed him to score 7 points in a single quarter, in addition to 3 assists and 3 rebounds, and the remaining three quarters were dull.

In the end, the game was over, not to mention the Cavaliers lost, and LeBron James's statistics were only 13 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, which was not as good as Wade and even worse than Woody.

After the game, LeBron James said in frustration: "The NBA is going to be longer and more confrontational than in the high school league, and I need time to get used to it!" ”

It is said that "surrender loses half of everything", he is still an 18-year-old child, and it is said that journalists should not be aggressive.

But who let Nike and LeBron James' team blow LeBron to the sky before?

The journalists simply did not let him go.

One of the reporters continued to ask a sharp question: "Your high school teammate Woody just played his first game of Summer League and he played well, do you think he has a better adjustment ability, or is he better than he should be?" ”

Both of these choices are "pits", and no matter which LeBron James chooses, it is tantamount to admitting in disguise that he is not as good as Woody now.

He raised his head very old-fashionedly, avoiding the camera on the sidelines, and only then did he look back at the camera and said with a serious face: "Our opponents are different opponents, and our teammates are also different teammates, so I don't think it can be confused, I think he played great, and at the same time, I think Dwyane Wade played well in that game." ”

The subtext of this statement is:

Give me Wade, don't I C?

However, his performance today doomed Woody to be trampled under his feet in the next day's news.

The next day, many reporters began to brag about Woody, some of whom thought that Cleveland management should be upset by now; Others believe that Woody's potential is greatly underestimated and his risk is overestimated; There are also those who think that LeBron James is not ready to play in a higher league and that he should go to the NCAA to experience it again.

And among these drafts, there are many reporters who originally wrote the press release, which was ready to praise a wave of LeBron James.

As a result, LeBron James's poor debut made these reporters immediately change their attitude!

And this is what you need to bear to enter the NBA as a "proud son of the sky"!

In 01, "Champion Lang" became the biggest "parallel champion" at present, which has personal reasons, as well as Michael Jordan's reasons, but it can't escape the reasons of these media.

Therefore, the endurance of the heart is really critical for an NBA rookie with a high pick!

LeBron James's ability to resist pressure on the court did not show, but under the comfort of the team off the court, coupled with his constant chanting "I'm King, I'm the champion of '03, I'm the best rookie in this class, and Woody is also my underdog!" "It was quickly adjusted.

Therefore, whether the ability to resist pressure is strong or not is different from whether the skin is thick or not.

Just like a taciturn person, he is not the same as an introverted good boy.

Nike, for its part, has temporarily stopped touting LeBron James.

LeBron James's performance, especially after Woody played an eye-catching performance on the other side......

They just can't blow it!

Let's rest for two days......

They don't blow, someone blows.

Scottie Pippen appeared in the crowd on the sidelines of the game, and after the game, he said: "James didn't play very well today, but he still showed his all-round side, I think I can see the shadow of my youth in him, and I believe he will get better!" ”

It's just that neither LeBron James, nor Cavaliers management, nor Nike, has paid any attention to him.

Cavaliers: The "chosen one" with us is a Pippen, isn't he?

LeBron: You're only the "second", your whole family is the "second", and I'm a "magician" Johnson no matter how bad I am!

Nike: I paid such a high contract to sign a high school student and package him as a "Pippen", right?

They...... Avoid it.

It's really disgusting!

Adidas' propaganda department has been "New Year" for the past two days.

But in the second game of the summer league, Woody's performance also took a dip.

The Heat's opponent in Game 2 was the Detroit Pistons.

Before the start of the summer league, everyone was looking forward to this game, because it was the first meeting between Woody and Milicic in the NBA.

But as a result, Milicic suffered a contract dispute with his parent team.

The other party must give him liquidated damages before he is willing to release him.

The problem is that the NBA stipulates that teams can only pay players a maximum of 500,000 buyout fees, and the rest needs to be paid out of pocket.

Milicic is running to escape the war and come to the NBA with an annual salary of tens of millions, he is ambitious, but he also does not want to pay too much price, so he stays in Europe with his team and slowly fights with his parent team.

I don't know if I can make it to the new season, but the summer league certainly won't catch up.

The Pistons have also become one of the few teams without rookies in this year's summer league.

As for the Heat, Woody and Wade are both newcomers, although Haslem has played in France for a year, but the experience of one year is just like that, and what good league can France have, they are struggling to meet a group of "old oilers" in the summer league.

In the end, they lost the summer league by 76 to 85, 9 points.

Woody's performance was much worse than the previous game, with only 6 of 14 shots and a shooting rate of only 43.8%, which is certainly not enough to see with his "cake-eating" scoring style.

The number of rebounds is still stable at 12, which is only one less than in the previous game.

But the number of assists is only 4, the number of steals is only 1, and the number of blocks is only 1, which is a big drop.

He also had six fouls and three turnovers.

Most important ......

It was the first time in his career that he lost!

From his first open 5v5 in training camp to now, he has never lost any open game on an official occasion, and St. Mary's High School in his final year of high school won the final state championship trophy with a record of 28 wins and 0 losses!

Looking at the bright red numbers, Woody felt a little glaring.

He wasn't going to lose a summer league game and lose a pearl.

But there was a choke in his chest, which made him very depressed.

Originally......

That's how it feels to lose!

"Dude, this is mine, I didn't fight well!"

Woody's play was not good, Wade's play was even worse, 4 of 14 shots, the shooting rate was not even 30%, and the speed of the opponent's "old oil" defense support made him very uncomfortable, and lost the sharp weapon of breakthrough, and the problem of his unstable shooting was exposed.

That's a big reason why he and Woody were restricted tonight:

Neither of them has a consistent mid-range that gives each other plenty of space to pull up. Haslem's mid-range shooting ability, which cannot be a heavy task, is simply not enough to make opponents fearful.

Spoelstra came over and comforted the two of them: "Don't take it to heart, that's how everyone came!" ”

Woody was just uncomfortable, but not under much pressure.

This is thanks to LeBron James, whose second summer league game started a little earlier than Woody, and they were over before Woody started, and LeBron James continued to play poorly, and the opponent's "iron bucket" made him unable to play at all.

After the game, there was exciting news from the Cavaliers' summer league team:

LeBron James is considering retiring.

After the news came out, the officials of the summer league were a little panicked.

Because the next game is the Heat vs. the Cavaliers, they can wait for this game to make a lot of money!

If LeBron really retires at this time, then this game will be one less highlight.

Woody is also looking forward to LeBron James being able to continue playing in Summer League.

After playing this game against the Pistons, he now knows very well that compared to the "old oilboys" of the summer league, it is the "peers" who are better to deal with.

Although it is more talented, it has not yet been cashed in, and at the same time, everyone is inexperienced and belongs to the same starting line.

Woody also pointed at LeBron James and replied "blood"!

It's not just him, Wade and Haslem are also looking forward to this day!

No offense, they respect LeBron as the "champion", but the summer league has been going on so far, and judging from the current situation, he is indeed more like a "soft persimmon".

"Eric are you there?"

After the game against the Pistons, Spoelstra gave Woody a day off.

Mainly to take care of Woody, the American high school league is not scheduled to play a game every two days. The intensity was too high, and if additional training was arranged, he was afraid that Woody would not be able to bear it.

But unexpectedly, Woody came to knock on his door early in the morning, and when he opened the door, Woody went straight to the point: "Man, help me take a look at yesterday's game against the Pistons, where can I improve!" ”

Spoelstra was slightly stunned, he really didn't expect Woody to have such an idea.

Woody showed a helpless expression: "The level of the NBA should be higher, right?" I can only play smarter! ”

"Okay, you sit down first, I'll prepare a playback video for you!"

Spoelstra nodded in agreement, and when he took the computer, he wanted to ask Woody if he wanted to call Wade over and make progress together.

But thinking that this guy's brain must not be able to keep up with Woody's rhythm, let's break them one by one, it's a big deal to help Woody solve the problem, and then go to Wade and arrange special counseling for him later.

Wade, who was asleep, sneezed violently, woke him up directly, opened his eyes in a daze, smashed his mouth twice, and he fell into a deep sleep again, and muttered a sentence in his mouth:

"Who, who's thinking about me!"

Woody's questions were more on his mind than Spoelstra's, and he found that Woody now knew a lot about some of the Heat's usual tactics.

That's a bit of a fast progress!

That way, he can focus all his work on Wade and help him grow.

That afternoon, the day before the Heat played the Cavaliers, LeBron James officially held a press conference to announce that he would miss all the remaining games of the Orlando Summer League.

Because of his performance, reporters are becoming more and more acute about his questions.

"Can we understand that you chose to avoid meeting Woody in the Ring?"

LeBron James hurriedly said: "Man, I'm not running away from playing against anyone, but I've found my shortcomings, so we've decided to play in the next Charlotte Summer League, you know, it's bigger, it's more games, and I hope to get more workouts!" ”

There's really nothing wrong with that.

Compared to the Orlando Summer League, which only has 6 teams in the competition, the Charlotte Summer League is the size of a dozen teams, and there are indeed more games that can be played.

After the "three little ones" of the Heat team learned the news, they felt a little regretful at the time.

However, LeBron James is retiring, and the game between the Heat and the Cavaliers will continue.

Woody and Spoelstra studied the video for almost a morning yesterday, and this game has improved a lot, at least some of the basket opportunities are much better than before.

It may also have something to do with LeBron James' sudden announcement of his withdrawal, and the Cavaliers summer league team has no intention of fighting.

In this game, he cut "20 plus 10" again.

For this game, Pat Riley also came to the sidelines and bought tickets out of his own pocket.

He's not here for LeBron James' vs. Woody showdown, but ......

7th day Woody left Miami, miss him!

Therefore, the "God Operator" flew to Orlando not travel a hundred miles.

After the game, reporters asked Woody a question: "Do you plan to play in the Charlotte Summer League?" ”

Woody almost burst out laughing when he heard the news.

Good guy, "he runs, he chases, he can't fly with wings", right?

This drama, not to mention, is really interesting, and it all makes Woody excited.

However, after this game, Pat Riley specifically asked Woody and Wade to visit: "Guys, how's it going?" If you're already feeling used to it, you won't have to play the next few games! ”

When it comes to the scale of confrontation in the summer league alone, it may be fiercer than the NBA regular season.

This is a place where the "law of the jungle" is really "the law of the jungle", and he risked his life for a contract.

Pat Riley was worried that they would get hurt in this kind of place, and that would be too much to lose.

He has already watched the videos of these three games, and he is very satisfied with the performance of Woody and Wade in these three games, and at the same time he feels that Woody and Wade do not need to prove anything on such a stage.

Woody didn't insist either, after these three games, July is about to bottom, he still has the task of gaining weight, and he will definitely have to adapt to it later, so if you calculate it, the time is really tight, and there is really no need to waste time in the summer league.

In this way, Woody and Wade ended their Orlando Summer League journey and returned to Miami early.

Today's third update.

Brothers, today is another 12,000-word update, see you tomorrow.

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