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Chapter Thirty-Nine

On the 17th, the Magic flew to Texas to challenge the Dallas Mavericks.

This season, the Mavericks let go of Nash and determined the "German Tank" Nowitzki, who averaged more than 20 points per game this season, as the core of the tactics. There are also Finley, Jason Terry, and Stackhouse.

Si, Josh Howard and Daniels formed a terrifying outside group, including Dampier, who claims to be the "No. 1 center in the West", and Congolese meat shield Mbanga. It can be said that in terms of personnel configuration, the Mavericks this season have begun to truly

He established his status as a powerful player in the Western Conference and used an offensive strategy of one inside lineman and four pitchers.

Originally, this lineup was already very luxurious, and its powerful firepower already made people feel nervous, but sitting on the Mavericks' coaching bench was an offensive lunatic, Old Nelson, known as the "mad scientist."

This actually made others feel at ease. I no longer had to guess at the Mavericks' tactics or how they would launch an attack. You couldn't guess it. It was already like this anyway, so what else could happen.

The Mavericks, like the Magic, are teams that have undergone major changes, so relatively speaking, they play preseason games more carefully than other teams.

Both teams are offensive teams, and their focus is more on scoring. So all the fans watching this game were excited. What an offensive feast this was.

In the end, the Mavericks narrowly defeated the Magic at home 131-129, and Marion finally missed the chance to win.

Although Nash failed to defeat his former team, he still performed well. He sent out an astonishing 23 assists and made 8 of 12 shots. Plus free throws, he scored a total of 19 points. He undoubtedly became the most dazzling star in the game. About

Shi Ye performed well, scoring 24 points and 8 rebounds; Howard had 15 points and 14 rebounds, which was also a stable double-double; Iguodala had 18 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 steals, with quite comprehensive statistics. Marion, Martin

, Wallace and others also scored in double figures.

For the Mavericks, Nowitzki played for 33 minutes and scored a game-high 36 points. He is worthy of being the soul of the Mavericks.

After the game, Nelson took the initiative to shake Edison's hand and said, "Well done, young man. Your tactics are very imaginative. I didn't expect Nash to let you perform to this extent. This is something I never imagined before."

Then he patted Edison's shoulder hard. When he saw a reporter coming, he even asked the reporter to come over and take photos of the two of them.

In fact, when Nelson was with the Bucks in his early years, he was a defensive coach. The Bucks were the best defensive team in the league at the time, but they had never entered the finals, so the Bucks fired Nelson in order to go further.

The failure in the Bucks made Nelson start to reflect on his tactics, and the result was that he slipped from one extreme to the other.

When he picked up the coach again with the Warriors, everyone was shocked. This time he went against the defensive style he emphasized in the Bucks and instilled his later characteristic-run and gun offense (run and gun) into the team.

, so much so that they were once nicknamed the "Track and Field Team." From then on, Nelson became the representative of offensive coaches in the league. Unfortunately, he later had a conflict with the team's general Webber, which caused the team's record to plummet and had to resign.

Then Nelson came to the Knicks, and there was another disagreement between the generals. This time because he tried to use the team's symbol Ewing to replace the fledgling O'Neal, he once again had bad relations with the players. At the same time, he hoped to use his fast offense and defense.

The defensive supremacy advocated by his predecessor Pat Riley, who came to replace the Knicks, also made the players uncomfortable, which made him leave midway in March 1996.

But with Nelson's previous achievements, he never lacked a job, and the Mavericks quickly hired him as the team manager. But who is Nelson? He is not a person who can tolerate loneliness in the office, so he did

One of the most comical things in the league. Within a week of taking office as the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, Don Nelson made a large-scale trade for three players. However, the three players exchanged were basically useless later.

Forced away the original head coach Jim Clemens, and then took charge himself...

In 2005, Nelson resigned as the head coach of the Mavericks due to health and other reasons, and then announced his retirement.

But is the crazy Nelson really willing to stay at home? Many people doubt this. For example, Popovich was invited to speak at Nelson's farewell dinner, but he asked a question: "Why are we here today?" Metaphorical

He didn't believe that Nelson would completely retire. Sure enough, in 2006, Nelson announced his comeback with the Warriors, and then organized a running and jumping three-point team according to his own wishes. As a result, he led this team with a sense of irony or fate.

After defeating his old team, the Dallas Mavericks, Nelson's magic once again surprised the world.

Of course, Nelson has not yet gone to the Warriors and is still the head coach of the Mavericks, but his crazy offensive and team-oriented bombardment game style has been completely finalized. Originally, his style was unique in the league.

A confidant. But now a Paul Edison has appeared. Although the two people have differences in specific tactical arrangements, their styles and rhythms are exactly the same. Seeing that his style finally has a successor in the league, this proves the bombardment.

The tactical concept is correct, and it is just around the corner to continue to branch out. Naturally, I am very happy.

Edison was a little confused by Nelson, but in any case, Nelson's attitude towards him was very good. He was obviously supporting and supporting himself, so he was very cooperative.

After this game, the Magic had three days of rest and adjustment, and their next game will be against the Hornets at home on the 21st.

While taking advantage of the break, Edison dragged the players to do private work again and again, pretending to be self-serving.

After the training on the afternoon of October 20, Edison stopped everyone and said, "We have been training together for 20 days and are very tired. Moreover, we have never held any team activities. Tonight, I will organize a group meeting for everyone."

Go watch a movie. Everyone should go, including coaches and related staff."

Howard and other young people were very excited after hearing this, "Coach, can you tell us what movie you will take us to watch? It won't be "Spring of the Cowherd Class". I saw this movie and it was very boring."

"I think "Fang Zero" is good. The Canadian film is very meaningful." Nash also expressed his opinion. However, in response to his speech, other players collectively booed and mentioned other countries in the United States.

The video was well shot and you are very funny.

As long as one person makes the move, everyone becomes unscrupulous. With every word you say, the whole training ground quickly becomes noisy and noisy.

"Quiet, don't worry, I won't lead you to watch those dull literary films or films with philosophical significance. Halloween is coming soon, and we saw a horror film, and it has not been officially released yet. What we watched was a preview version.

."

As soon as Edison finished speaking, the underground exploded. Watching horror movies on Halloween is a tradition in the United States, and a bunch of young guys got excited when this was mentioned, and they all said that the head coach had finally done something wrong.

"The preview version, it's a good thing. Coach, who starred in it?" Josh also started to boo.

"You will know by then, but I can tell you that I played a guest role in it."

As soon as Edison said this, there was a lot of discussion in the underground, and the quarrel turned into a pot of porridge.

"Okay, everyone is going home now. You can bring your family members if you want, but don't come if you are under 18 years old. It's not suitable. We will meet at the Universal Cinema at 7 o'clock. Everyone knows the way. Okay, except for those with heart disease and cowards.

, everyone present now must come."

"No problem." "Don't worry."

Soon everyone left the training ground. At this time, Edison made a phone call: "Clark, prepare the camera, our first audience is coming." After saying that, he suppressed a smile and hummed a song...

Thibodeau was beside him, looking at his lewd smile, his anus could not help but tighten, "What's wrong, Paul, you look very happy. Is there any difference in this movie?"

"You'll know when the time comes, Tom. I personally suggest you take medicine for heart disease with you."

Although Thibodeau's daily life is a cycle of basketball books - videos - training gyms - materials, etc., he is still a human being. When Edison said this, he became interested and full of expectations.

At 7 o'clock, everyone from the Magic arrived on time. Originally, there were only about 50 players, various staff, and staff, but many people brought their families, and the number suddenly reached more than 200, including Edison's original reservation.

The venue for 300 people is very tight. What? I can't do math. Sorry, as long as the seats for active or retired players are seated, no one can sit in the back at least two rows. They are blocked.

Of course, Edison arranged all the players on the team in the first row for some special purposes.

"Clark, how are you? Are the cameras arranged?" Edison asked a man in work clothes.

"Don't worry, I have arranged three cameras in this place. They will definitely be able to take pictures of everyone without missing an expression."

Soon the film started to be shown, and everyone was laughing and joking, each one waiting to find Edison's guest appearance.

But in less than a minute, everyone discovered that the person holding the camera was Edison, so many people felt disappointed and a lot of fun was missing.

But soon they found a new hotspot.

"Isn't this woman Rachel?"

"Yes." With the release of Rachel's two films, "The Notebook" and "Mean Girls," she is finally considered a relatively well-known actress.

"It seems like he is really dating Paul."

"Hmm? It's true or false."

"Really, I also heard that they stayed together all summer." Ordinarily, you are not allowed to talk in the movie theater, but everyone is familiar with each other, and there is no one in the two rows behind, so it won't affect other people. Josh,

Howard, De Klerk, Uncle Huo and others took the opportunity to gossip.

But they quickly returned their attention to the movie, and everyone was attentive for a while. There were various sounds in the screening room, "Hmm~" to see the scary place; "Ah~" to see the horror

We have reached a more terrifying place; "Haha~" Edison showed his face.

When the film came to an end, when the heroine played by Rachel threw Edison in front of the camera like a puppet, everyone was frightened. Howard held his head, Nash covered his face, and Josh was even more nervous and direct

He stood up. Old people like Joe Rogewski clutched his chest tightly, while old Pat held his breath completely, and it took a long time to regain his strength.

Then someone started to applaud. The applause was sparse at first, but soon everyone came to their senses and the audience burst into applause. Many young people with more open-minded personalities even started shouting and whistling.

At this time, Edison walked onto the stage and said, "Don't leave in a hurry. I just gave you a shock. Please wait for 10 minutes. We will show you each other's reactions while watching the movie. Some people's performances were very exaggerated."

After hearing what Edison said, everyone became interested. Some people knew that they had lost their composure, so they were uneasy and afraid of being embarrassed; some knew that they were relatively calm and just waited to see other people's excitement; and still others

I don’t know what my reaction was just now, but I was also full of expectations.

Soon, an image appeared on the big curtain again. The picture was also very unclear. It was secretly filmed using night vision effects.

The first person to appear on the screen was Gorilla Ewing. Although he usually looks calm and composed, rarely showing any mood swings, he really looks like a gorilla in the zoo, his whole person is lazy.

. But Ewing is different now. His eyes are more protruding than his lips. From time to time, he reaches out his hands to cover his face and looks at the screen through his fingers...

Seeing this scene, everyone laughed and turned their attention to Ewing. Varejao, who was beside Ewing, even leaned forward and backward, patting Ewing non-stop. Ewing was extremely embarrassed and couldn't use either of his hands.

I know where to put it.

But soon he also found his balance, and new people appeared on the screen.

Aaron Nelson and his wife watched the movie together. Nelson has always been relatively normal, except for the last moment when he was really frightened and covered his mouth with his hands. But his wife was more exaggerated and kept doing various things.

He made small movements, and seemed to stand up several times. Finally, he lay directly in Nelson's arms and beat his chest wildly. Nelson saw that his wife was frightened, so he naturally kissed her forehead.

He patted her back to express comfort. He didn't expect that this intimate gesture was caught on camera, so the audience below immediately started cheering.

Then they showed a lot of funny expressions that people make when they are scared, so it often happens that one person just points at another person's nose and laughs wildly, and then finds someone pointing directly at the back of his head and laughing loudly.

So this group activity came to an end after a roller coaster-like process that was first thrilling and then joyful.

After the show ended, Edison found Clark, who was in charge of photography.

"You cut these things into two versions after selection, one within 3 minutes and one within 10 minutes. We will use the break time to play it in the next game to liven up the atmosphere of the game and let the audience see the players.

On the other hand, I also gave a copy of the stuff to Lionsgate."

Edison is now using the magic banner to benefit himself. As long as the funny side of life of NBA players is released, it will definitely attract the attention of many people. After all, they are all in front of the public.

They exist like Iron King Kong. Then people will ask, "What movie can make them like this?" Then "The Ghost Story" will take advantage of it.

The most important thing is that this does not involve any commercial infringement, because this is not a player advertising a movie, but a short film made for self-entertainment in the name of a team activity.

After finishing this matter, Edison has finished the promotion of "The Ghost Story", and the rest can only depend on the market. This is God rolling the dice.

So Edison began to devote all his efforts to the last three playoff games and the upcoming regular season.

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The second update has arrived. There are more of these two today, which slightly makes up for the lack of updates in the previous two days.

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