Chapter 96: The Ultimate Team Basketball in History
After the complaints, the training that should be completed still had to be carried out, but before that, Wang Zelin wore a mask to play for the first time in his life.
"Uncle Zhou, you're looking for a better-looking mask at least. Why did you find a black one? It looks weird and spooky."
Shaking the black mask in his hand that covered his face above the nose, Wang Zelin felt helpless.
This is too ugly!
"This is called mentally intimidating the opponent. Didn't you see that there were several famous masked generals in ancient my country, and their masks were all mainly eerie and terrifying."
"You said you are serious. If someone wants to deduct it, just deduct it. You still have to compete with that black stick..."
"Uncle Zhou, I have fair skin..."
"So what, you are here to play ball, not to fight hard, and you are not really going to the battlefield..."
After learning about Wang Zelin's injury, Zhou Yang immediately booked a flight from China to Portland.
Wang Zelin is not only his employer, but also one of his nephews. Wang Changhai and his wife entrusted their son to him because they trusted him. Otherwise, the talent Wang Zelin has shown now would be enough to attract famous NBA agents.
Regarding Wang Zelin, Zhou Yang felt that he had done his best, but he didn't expect that something like this happened, so now his heart is full of responsibilities.
"Okay, okay, I will pay attention next time."
Zhou Yang is only more than ten years older than Wang Zelin. They usually treat each other as brothers. Now seeing Zhou Yang with a serious face, Wang Zelin realized that Zhou Yang would also like to talk about things just like his parents.
stop.
"You still want a next time!"
"By the way, Uncle Zhou, sit down slowly, I'm going to train first."
Although he knew Zhou Yang was caring about him, Wang Zelin quickly slipped out of the house.
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It was only around seven o'clock when he arrived at the training ground, and Wang Zelin went straight into the weight room.
The first time he trained with a mask in his life, Wang Zelin felt extremely uncomfortable and had no choice but to appropriately reduce the training intensity, and his body slowly got used to it.
"No! no! no! Wang, you have just recovered. Don't do such strenuous exercise. Put the barbell down quickly."
Hearing something going on in the weight room, Coach Terry, who had just arrived at the gym, trotted over and found Wang Zelin wearing a black mask and undergoing high-intensity training.
"coach!"
After putting down the barbell, Wang Zelin stood up.
"Wang, who is your trainer? Fire him as soon as you get back. It's not professional at all. There is no injured person who was just injured yesterday and will be doing strength training today."
Looking at the chattering coach Terry, Wang Zelin once again felt the care from the elders and replied with a smile: "Don't worry, coach, I know my body best. Besides, I injured my face, hands and feet.
The training is my own."
After Wang Zelin's repeated explanations, coach Terry was still worried and stayed in the weight room to observe until 8 o'clock. After everyone arrived, he went out with Wang Zelin.
"Wang, are you playing Batman today? Look at those big chest muscles and that black mask. It's so cool."
Wang Zelin's black mask unexpectedly won praise from his teammates.
"I remember Hamilton, McGrady, and Kobe also wore masks, but they were all transparent. Why did Wang choose black ones? He was really unique!"
Batum pointed at Wang Zelin's black mask and asked curiously.
"Nicholas, come here."
Wang Zelin suddenly remembered Zhou Yang's original intention of choosing a black tone for himself, and suddenly had an idea and wanted to see the effect of the black mask.
"Ah, are you going to hit me?" Batum was a little flustered.
"Go aside!"
After laughing and scolding, Wang Zelin told the team members why he chose the black mask.
"Um, is there such a thing about masks?"
Batum didn't believe this nonsense.
"Then come and try it. I just want to see the effect."
"Just try it."
Under the watchful eyes of Aldridge and others, Wang Zelin and Batum carried out a series of eye attacks~~~In fact, the two of them kept looking at each other to see that no one could withstand them.
Ten seconds passed, and the two of them still didn't move at all.
Thirty seconds passed, and Batum's eyelids visibly started to twitch.
A minute and a half later, the more Batum looked at the mask, the more terrified he became, and he directly chose to admit defeat.
"What the heck, Wang's black mask is absolutely poisonous. The longer I look at it, the more panicked I feel."
After Batum took a breath for a while, he expressed his feelings.
The more you look at it, the more panic you get?
But why do I become more and more addicted to watching it, and my heart always feels hot and hot.
After listening to Batum's words, Wang Zelin found that he felt exactly the opposite.
"How can there be such a god?"
"That's right, Nicholas must be a liar."
The teammates obviously didn't believe this statement. Just as they were about to give it a try, Coach Terry interrupted the farce.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and train. Don't play house tricks like this. Tomorrow our opponent will be the San Antonio Spurs led by the No. 21 rookie. Don't lose too badly."
The coach's words restored everyone's seriousness. Tomorrow the Trail Blazers will go to San Antonio to challenge the Spurs.
After the Trail Blazers ended their seven-game winning streak, the Spurs continued their winning streak.
Every year they say Duncan is old, but in the playoffs he and his Spurs are not strong contenders for the championship. Whoever believes this nonsense is sick.
What Wang Zelin knows better is that the Spurs will continue to enter the playoffs in the past two years with the historical ultimate team basketball system. If it weren't for Ray Allen's life-saving three-pointer, the championship this season would most likely belong to the Spurs.
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Unlike the Lakers and Thunder, which are gradually declining, the Spurs are a true championship-level team and will be an unprecedentedly powerful opponent.
At the beginning of the season, the Lakers were undoubtedly the most likely winners of the championship.
The winning prediction given by TNT: the regular season record is 66 wins and 16 losses, and the winning probability prediction is 50.2%.
The prediction given by ESPN is that the regular season record is 67 wins and 15 losses, and the probability of winning is 53%.
The prediction given by Sports Illustrated is that the regular season record is 66 wins and 16 losses, and the championship victory prediction is 51.7%.
These are the most authoritative sports media outlets in the United States. It can be said that they are celebrating the Lakers winning the championship in advance.
After all, this year's Lakers formed another F4 Galaxy Battleship.
Who would have thought that the Lakers' performance would get worse and worse, severely slapping everyone in the face.
The Lakers said: I'm sorry, we don't deserve it and let everyone down.
The original second seed to win the championship was the defending champion Miami Heat, but as time went by, the Spurs changed from their habit of pretending to be dead at the beginning of the previous seasons, and went on to win eight consecutive games, with a direct record.
Came to the top of the league.
Therefore, in the subsequent championship prediction rankings, the Spurs' three old coaches and the new core face-paralyzed boy reached the top of the list.
As for the Trail Blazers' previous performance, they were also very impressive, but not many media experts were optimistic about them. They only reached ninth on the list, barely entering the top ten.
The young pioneers were about to face such a strong enemy. Wang Zelin and others were both nervous and excited. The whole day of training was spent in this extremely excited mood.
At 10 a.m. on the 17th, in order to adapt to the away arena in advance, Wang Zelin followed the team to the ATT Center Arena in San Antonio.
As soon as the Trail Blazers got off the bus and arrived at the media interview area, reporters who had been waiting for a long time swarmed in.
Especially after seeing the black mask Wang Zelin wore, they became even more excited.
However, Coach Terry obviously didn't want the players to be confused by the media, so he waved his hand and refused the interview, and led the team to the locker room.
The Trail Blazers did not accept interviews, but this does not mean that this group of uncrowned kings has nothing to recruit.
Soon, the Blazers' cowardly performance made the headlines on various websites.
In fact, it is just some snapshots with eye-catching text next to them, and the content is just some xjb nonsense copywriting. But no matter what, the clicks and exposure that the media want are indeed there, and what the melon-eating masses want to see.
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After entering the locker room, everyone packed their equipment and went out to warm up.
As soon as I entered the stadium, I saw four championship flags flying on the dome, several retired jerseys, and many division championship flags.
The Trail Blazers' ATT Center is the largest arena in the NBA, with a capacity of 34,000 spectators, and the team's home atmosphere is also very good.
After all, San Antonio's football market is not very big, so the Spurs, an odd-year dynasty team in the new century, have naturally become the biggest hope in the hearts of fans.
It had just reached noon, and Wang Zelin and others had already seen many fans entering the arena.
"Wang, the Spurs' team atmosphere is really good. I wonder when our fans will be like them."
Will Barton looked left and right, his heart filled with envy.
"Whenever we can enter the playoffs every year like the Spurs, and be a championship seed-level team, our fans will not be worse than theirs." Wang Zelin said without knowing it.
"Champion? I really hope that day comes soon." Lillard, who came to the Spurs' home court for the first time, was also infected by the atmosphere.
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Amidst the noise, the entrance ceremony of the two teams was completed, and with the referee's whistle, the game was about to begin.
The Spurs' starting lineup: Patrick Mills, Danny Green, Leonard, Diaw, and the number one power forward in history, Duncan.
Wang Zelin looked at the figure No. 21 not far across the way, and was filled with emotion, and finally formed three words.
Thank you for your patience!
The No. 21 rookie who debuted at the peak of his career and who can be said to have played for the San Antonio Spurs all his life from the player era to the coaching era, was Wang Zelin's opponent in this game.
Looking at the comprehensive score of 93 points given in the system space, Wang Zelin was extremely speechless.
That guy is 36 this year, what an old monster!
No wonder I can still hug LeBron James next season and say, "The future is yours!"
The remaining two of the troika are Tony Parker, the "French sports car" who has just passed 30 and is in his prime, with an overall score of 88; and Ginobili, the 35-year-old "Demon Sword" who is tending to be older.
Leonard, a sophomore from 77, Huang Ama from 76... and a bunch of bench gangsters sitting on the sidelines.
Six players on a team averaged double figures in points per game in a single season, and one player averaged 9.5 points per game...
How terrifying would the ultimate team basketball in history be?