"It's okay Ed, I knew it a long time ago. Coach Phil told me, this is the NBA, a business." Kwame Brown seemed very disappointed. The team was able to reach the Western Conference finals last season. Although he was not
The most important one, but it also played a big role. I didn't expect that he would be traded this season.
"Don't worry Ed, we can live well even in Memphis." Compared to Kwame Brown, Turiaf is quite optimistic: "But I heard it's quite cold over there, although not as cold as Minnesota.
I’m a human being, but I feel a little uncomfortable.”
Seeing that the new season is about to begin, Kwame and Ronnie are preparing to leave Los Angeles and go to the cold Memphis. This transaction makes Adrian feel depressed, not only because the arrival of Gasol may take away Adrian
The other reason is that Ronnie and Kwame Brown are the two people with the best relationship in the Lakers team. Although Adrian knows that the Lakers use these two as their main players.
There is no problem in trading Gasol with chips. After all, the strength is there. If the Lakers want to go further, it is imperative to trade Gasol. But strength belongs to strength, and relationship belongs to relationship. Getting along between people can never be the same.
Only consider the use value.
Relatively speaking, although Trevor Ariza is an alumnus of Adrian's school and is also Adrian's principal, the relationship between them is not very close. He had already left Los Angeles for Memphis in mid-August.
Find a house.
After sending the two people on the plane, Adrian hugged them goodbye.
"Come on Ed!" Kwame Brown and Adrian gave a fierce chest-bumping salute: "You will definitely win the championship this year and strive for a maximum salary contract."
Kwame Brown has always been obsessed with the maximum salary contract. This has always been Kwame Brown's biggest pursuit in the NBA. Adrian just smiled and said nothing. Now his most income does not come from his own players.
contract, but a commercial endorsement contract.
After sending away Kwame Brown and Turiaf, Adrian does not have much time left to train independently. Although there are still nearly two months until the start of the regular season, the training of each team
The training camp has already opened. This year, because the team's lineup has changed a lot, in order to allow new players to integrate into the entire team as soon as possible, and also to run in as early as possible to produce a good chemical reaction, the Lakers training camp will be
One week earlier than before. That is, on September 20th, and now less than half a month before the opening of the training camp, Adrian finally received the help he had been waiting for.
Before the Lakers' training camp was about to start, Adrian took a plane from Los Angeles to the windy city of Chicago alone.
Chicago is known as the Windy City. It is located at the intersection of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River. It is hot in summer, not cold in winter, and windy all year round. When Adrian arrived in Chicago, the local wind force reached level 6. Although the wind was strong, it was not
It's not bone-chilling, especially in a place like the airport. The heat wave is blowing in your face along with the strong wind.
Adrian came here to meet a person. He used this person's video and game data to learn the low post steps for a summer. When Adrian called this person with a sense of luck, he told him that he was on the low post steps.
When Adrian asked him for advice, what he didn't expect was that he would call him directly to come to Chicago and he would personally provide him with one-on-one guidance.
Adrian first called the man and told him that he had arrived in Chicago and was currently waiting for news at the airport, and told him his specific location.
After a while, a silver-gray Rolls-Royce stopped in front of Adrian. A strong black man in a straight suit, about thirty years old, and nearly two meters tall stepped out of the driver's seat. He looked like
He is tall, strong, and his eyes are obviously cold. From the collar of his suit, some tattoos can be exposed. It can be seen that he should have joined the army or even the Marine Corps, but what the situation is, Adrian does not know.
"Mr. Adrian, I am Mr. Jordan's bodyguard. You can call me Karl. Mr. Jordan asked me to pick you up."
"Thank you Karl." Adrian nodded: "Is he at home now?"
"Mr. Jordan is waiting for you."
"Then let's set off immediately."
Jordan is the person that Adrian called to ask. Since he studied Jordan's low-post footwork skills against Jordan's game videos, when Adrian has questions about learning low-post footwork, he will naturally choose to ask Jordan
He got Jordan's phone number from Kobe. Contrary to popular rumors, Jordan and Kobe had a pretty good relationship. It was said that when Jordan had just retired for the second time, he often had one-on-one meetings with Kobe in the summer.
Bullfighting.
Adrian called Jordan just to get guidance on his footwork. He wanted some advice from him, but Adrian really didn't expect that Jordan would actually take the time to give him individual guidance. You know what he is doing now
Although Jordan has retired a long time ago, he is quite busy. In the past summer, he became the Bobcats' second owner and owned the most shares of the team second only to the big boss Johnson. And this summer happened like this.
There are so many things, many teams are busy strengthening themselves, Jordan should be very busy too.
But when Adrian contacted Jordan for the first time on the phone, he still proposed that he could take time to provide Adrian with one-on-one low-post footwork guidance.
Adrian has heard of how big Jordan's mansion in Chicago is. It is a super mansion covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters. The main body of the building is divided into a master villa, a guest villa and a butler's villa that can accommodate nearly 20 people. Indoor entertainment facilities
It includes a 7.1-channel luxury theater, bowling alley, constant-temperature surfing swimming pool, and constant-temperature wine cellar. In addition to standard swimming pools, standard tennis courts, basketball courts and other facilities, the private garden also has a small golf course because Jordan loves golf.
.If you walk, it will take more than 10 minutes to get from the gate of Jordan's mansion to the living room of the villa.
When commenting on Jordan's house, Barkley, Jordan's friend, once said: "I almost get lost every time I go there. You can even have racing games in his (Jordan's) home." Although Barkley's words are a bit exaggerated, Jordan's mansion
The scale of the mansion can be imagined. According to the US authoritative organization, the market value of this mansion built by Jordan is as high as 35 million U.S. dollars. If the fame of "Flying Man" is added, its value will be unlimited!
"How do you feel about my family?" Jordan asked Adrian as soon as they met.
"I hope I can have a bigger one when I retire," Adrian said seriously.
Adrian and Jordan met in the private basketball gym at his home. At this time, Jordan had already put on his own equipment, basketball shoes, sportswear, wristbands and even his North Carolina underwear.
"Oh. This is not easy." Jordan tilted his head.
"But I will do it."
As Adrian said, after he retired, he had a bigger and more luxurious house, which was simply his private kingdom. At that time, the championship ring on his hand and even his personal reputation had completely surpassed
Jordan has become a new generation of basketball god.
But now, neither party knows about this matter. Jordan is a retired basketball god, and Adrian is a rookie who has just emerged in the NBA. No one knows what will happen many years later.
The method is expected.
"Okay Ed, you want to learn low post footwork from me, seriously. A lot of people have tried to learn from me over the years. But all they want to learn from me is
My dunks, my breakthroughs, and even my shooting. Those who want to learn low-post footwork from me..." Jordan casually threw the basketball in his hand, about half a meter away from the three-point line. He didn't even jump. The basketball
Que fell neatly into the basket, making only a crisp sound of wiping the net.
"You are the first."
"I'm sure this can help me. In fact, Mr. Jordan, I really need to strengthen myself in the low post. My offensive space may be narrower in the new season."
"Are you unhappy with your team?"
"No, why do you say that?"
"Because I heard it." Jordan pointed to his ear with his other finger while dribbling the ball.
"I said that my offensive space will be narrower in the new season." Adrian smiled: "It's because after last season's game, other teams will definitely defend me more tightly this season. If I want
To maintain your performance, or even go further, you must develop stronger and more reliable scoring methods."
"Yes, this is one aspect. But as long as the ball is still in your hands, you won't worry about this problem, right? You went all the way last season, and offense has never been your only option."
Jordan smiled and said: "But if the ball no longer belongs to you, the situation will be very different, right?"
"I have watched your performance last season. Your offensive ability is very strong, beyond average. But you have been talking about your offense from the beginning, but judging from your performance last season, I dare say that it is quite
You prefer organizing the team than attacking." Jordan smiled and said: "Do you really want to give up the ball? Adrian."
Adrian was silent. Jordan spoke to his heart. He couldn't tell whether Jordan was too smart or because he was too incapable of hiding himself and allowed all his feelings to be revealed.
"So what do you mean, Mr. Jordan, what do you want?"
"I'll teach you, Adrian." Jordan shrugged, and then said jokingly: "I know everything, my playing style in the low post, my experience, how I get rid of the players who are guarding me, how
I will leave it all to you to make offensive choices, and I am sure that you will be able to learn it."
"Just if one day you decide to give Bobcat a little thought."
ps. My state is not good again. I have no feeling when I write it. I feel like I am just piling up the word count. There are some things that I am not sure whether to explain or not. If I don’t explain them in the future, it will be a little thin and the explanation will be suspected of cheating on the word count. (
To be continued...)
ps: ps. The state is not good again. I have no feeling when I write it. I feel like I am just piling up the word count. I am not sure whether I should explain some things. If I don’t explain it in the future, it will be a little thin and the explanation will be suspected of cheating on the word count.
