The afternoon training ended, and Lin Yu became the focus of the training field, not because he guarded Paul Pierce again.
On the contrary, he was beaten badly by Pierce, and his success rate in one-on-one defense was about 50%.
In other words, Pierce was able to achieve a hit rate of about 50% in one-on-one singles against him, which is already a very successful hit rate.
But because of Lin Yu's successful defense against Ricky Davis, he has become the biggest dark horse in today's training ground. Even coach Rivers gave Lin Yu a thumbs up.
Rivers' thumb is a signal, which means that Lin Yu, who has been on the bench for more than a season, is likely to become a full-time player.
On the side of the court, Lin Yu packed his belongings together and prepared to leave the training ground.
Suddenly, someone behind him tapped his shoulder. When he turned around, he saw that it was Ricky Davis who was in the background of the afternoon match.
"Rookie, help me carry my shoes to the locker room."
Ricky Davis handed Lin Yu a pair of smelly shoes. Lin Yu pinched his nose and said, "Come on, Ricky, I'm already a second-year player, not a rookie anymore."
Ricky Davis likes to find someone to carry his shoes. Last season, when Lin Yu was still a rookie, he helped Ricky Davis carry his shoes countless times.
But since the new season, the job of carrying shoes belongs to the three rookies Ryan Gomez, Orion Green and Dwayne Jones, especially Ryan Gomez who is in the same position as Ricky Davis.
S.
Carrying shoes is not a heavy job, it just has a symbolic meaning that the rookie has to do something for the veteran. From this point of view, Ricky Davis is not a bad guy, he just likes to cause trouble.
Now, Ricky Davis took the opportunity to "retaliate", and Lin Yu naturally couldn't agree to it.
He threw the shoes to Ryan Gomez on the other side: "Lian, help Ricky carry the shoes to the locker room."
Ryan Gomez nodded innocently, carrying Ricky Davis's shoes towards the locker room.
Ricky Davis failed to "retaliate", so he could only hold Lin Yu's neck and walk towards the locker room while educating Lin Yu: "As long as you don't play in the regular season, you will always be a rookie. Do you understand?
Forest?"
"I understand, Ricky, but compared to me, Ryan is even more of a rookie. There's nothing wrong with me asking him to carry your shoes..."
Lin Yu was perfunctory with Ricky Davis, and Ricky Davis naturally noticed Lin Yu's perfunctory behavior.
He laughed and said, "Forget it, you guy. Do you want to go out and have fun together at night? It's your treat."
"Okay, no problem. Call a few more people and I'll treat you."
Lin Yu would never refuse a treat to have fun together. He knew very well that this was a good opportunity to increase the friendship between him and his teammates.
Ricky Davis called a lot of people, including Kendrick Perkins, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, Ryan Gomez, and even Pierce.
In a classic bar in Newton Town, Boston, seven or eight big guys from Team Kai directly occupied a corner and each ordered a few drinks.
The environment in the bar was quiet for a while, then loud music started playing, and then it immediately became noisy.
Pierce went out for a walk, and soon he returned to Team Kai's small corner with his arms around a hot girl with two big balls of meat stuffed into her chest.
"Wow, Paul, you're so quick."
Ricky Davis had just noticed this conspicuous hottie. Being overtaken by Pierce, he began to criticize Pierce, and by the way, he showed his envy of Pierce.
Pierce smiled: "Don't think I don't know, Ricky, you recently fell in love with a Hollywood actor. Normally, you would have taken action long ago."
As soon as Pierce said these words, everyone immediately turned their envious eyes to Ricky Davis.
"Ricky, a Hollywood actor, do we know each other?"
Although there is no distinction between culture and sports, it is still quite difficult for NBA players to find Hollywood stars as partners. Famous NBA stars look down on most of them because they are ugly. Even if they are attracted to unknown NBA stars, they do not show them out.
Bragging rights.
Ricky Davis picked up someone who was not famous, so he waved his hand: "It's just an unknown person. I'll bring it out to you next time. There's really nothing to say."
"You guys, do you still want to date famous people?" Pierce pointed at Ricky Davis, a famous Hollywood actor. Not to mention Ricky Davis, even Pierce couldn't date him.
"Oh, when I think about it, I really envy those beautiful female stars who play football and hang out with them." Al Jefferson said with emotion.
Lin Yu, who had not spoken to him, secretly complained: That's not true, football players are much better looking.
"Speaking of those who play football, did you hear that David Beckham is coming to the United States?"
Pierce took a sip of beer and revealed something.
The topic then came to the football circle, and Al Jefferson was a little surprised: "America? Major League Soccer? That's a football desert!"
"Yes, his wife Victoria wants Beckham to join the LA Galaxy if she wants to be closer to Hollywood. And my friend in Major League Soccer said that the Galaxy is indeed trying to persuade Beckham to join."
"Special code, this is the disadvantage of finding a celebrity girlfriend, these women know bad things!"
The person who made the complaint at this time was Tony Allen, and Ricky Davis patted him on the head: "Tony, don't say that. If I give you a celebrity girlfriend, can you still refuse it?"
Tony Allen scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "Then you might have to think about it. If it's Charlize Theron..."
The big men of Team Kai in the corner let out strange screams in unison.
Lin Yu, who had not spoken to her, followed the thoughts of his teammates for a long time, and suddenly he had an idea and said: "Do you know Natalie Portman? I like her, and you let me drink from her."
I’ll take the bath water!”
"Natalie Portman? Oh my gosh, Lin, I didn't expect you to like this Jew. I thought you Chinese would only like Chinese beauties."
"As far as I know, Natalie is a Harvard graduate. If she goes back to school anytime, your chance will come, Lin."
"I'm afraid Natalie doesn't know you, an unknown person in the professional basketball world, haha."
Pierce, who was sitting next to him, also laughed: "Lin, work hard. If you can become an All-Star player, let alone Natalie Portman, even Charlize Theron, whom Tony likes, you have."
The opportunity is available."
Lin Yu showed a rare expression, and then found an excuse to end the topic.
But he was thinking in his mind, without Twitter, what kind of method should he use to spread the bath water memes here in a way that is not too direct and not embarrassing.
Lin Yu spent the night in a slightly tipsy state, and at four o'clock in the morning, he went out on time again.
On another training day, after two hours of additional training, the team's training began. Lin Yu was called aside by the team's assistant coach Lex Kalamian.
Coach Karamian is the player development coach of the Celtics and is responsible for developing customized training plans for the players.
Prior to this, Lin Yu had been asked by coach Karamian to do more shooting training. This is why the Kai team's coaching staff, after analysis, felt that Lin Yu's best future development direction would be something similar to "White Mamba" Skarab.
Ryan type character.
But now, after Lin Yu showed the league's top personal defense, Doc Rivers gave Karamian an order. He hopes to see a Lin Yu with better confrontation ability, a defense similar to Pierce.
Lin Yu is such a heavy small forward.
"We don't lack defenders at the back. Don't forget we still have Tony (Tony Allen). On the contrary, we lack defenders at the forward position. Apart from Paul (Pierce), we can't provide any other defenders."
, Lin’s height can be used to play the third position in shoes, so we will let him gain weight, enhance his strength, and finally enhance his confrontation ability and let him defend players at the third position.”
"In the next few seasons, our goal will always be the playoffs, and in the playoffs, who will be our biggest opponent? Not the aging Pistons, nor the Heat, where the Sharks are, but the young and energetic Cleveland.
Cavaliers, LeBron James will be our biggest opponent..."
Doc Rivers, who was prepared for a rainy day, placed high hopes of defending James on Lin Yu, so early in the morning, coach Karamian took Lin Yu to the weight room.
"Lin, in the next month, your regular training tasks need to make some changes. You need to gain weight, increase your strength, and enhance your resistance ability."
Lin Yu nodded without expressing any objection.
Karamian took out a training plan: "Starting from today, your lunch and dinner need to be doubled. You used to eat one sandwich, but from today on you will eat two. You need to prepare your own dinner, a big one."
You can eat steaks, chicken breasts, fruits, etc., but you must not eat fried foods. Also, it is best not to drink, and you must go to nightclubs and bars less..."
Lin Yu scratched his head in embarrassment. It seemed that the team's coaching staff knew that they went out together to have fun yesterday, but there was no game for the time being, so it had nothing to do with the overall situation.
"Start your strength training now, I'll let Du guide you."
Brian Du, the Chinese trainer of the Kai team, has the same skin color as Lin Yu, so the two are naturally familiar with each other.
After greeting each other, Lin Yu lay down on the equipment designated by Brian Du, and with the help of Brian Du, he continued to do waist and abdominal jerks.
More than ten minutes later, Lin Yu was breathing heavily: "Du, can you help me lose some weight? I can't bear it anymore!"
Brian Du shook his head: "Hold on for a while, Lin. The current weight is the most effective for you."
Lin Yu's strength training continued like this, and the originally nourishing life seemed to become hard again. Compared with shooting training, strength training was much more tiring.
For the sake of his future in the NBA, Lin Yu could only grit his teeth and persevere.
