In the early morning, Lin Yu stood outside the three-point line and continued to practice shooting.
In the morning, he appeared in the weight room again, and with the help of Brian Du, he further gained weight and strengthened his ability to resist.
In the afternoon, coach Doc Rivers arranged a team training match.
At the beginning of the training match, coach Jim Brevo unexpectedly handed Lin Yu a white vest, which was a symbol of the main force.
Lin Yu was surprised that he actually entered the main team, and the person who was squeezed out of the starting lineup was Ricky Davis, who had a good relationship with him in the team.
However, this training match only lasted for more than four minutes before Rivers stopped it early.
After a few minutes of rest, the training match started again. This time, Lin Yu appeared on the substitute team. His position in the main team was once again taken by Tony Allen.
In other words, Ricky Davis is still a substitute.
Such a change allowed Lin Yu to figure out a little bit of the inner flavor. He glanced at Doc Rivers on the sidelines and knew clearly that maybe he still had a chance to enter the main lineup.
But before that, he still needs to further improve his personal abilities on the offensive end.
"Compared to Lin, Tony still has some offensive ability. Let's just decide, Ricky will be the substitute and Tony will be the starter."
On the sidelines, Rivers held a notebook. After writing something, he turned to Jim Braver again and said: "As for Lin, let him go to the second team and partner with Ricky."
On the other side, Lex Karamian made a suggestion: "Should we change Lin's training plan again and let him practice three-point long-range shooting?"
Rivers shook his head: "There is no need. Before his defense evolved, he had been practicing shooting. You have also seen Lex, for more than a season, his shooting has not improved. What does this mean?
?This shows that he really has no shooting talent."
Lin Yu didn't know that Rivers on the sidelines had already sentenced his shot to death. At this moment, he had already started to plan something for the team training match in the afternoon.
He clearly knew that after Ricky Davis was taken out of the starting lineup, there was only one reason why the player who appeared in the starting lineup was not him but Tony Allen.
Now he has no offensive ability. Not to mention the ability to attack independently, he doesn't even have the ability to eat cake.
In contrast, Tony Allen does not have the ability to attack independently, but he has an outstanding ability to eat cakes. This is why Tony Allen beat him to become the starter.
Lin Yu also stood from an objective perspective. Comparing his current strength with Tony Allen, his defense, especially single defense, should be slightly better than Tony Allen's. The advantage is small and can be ignored, but his offense
But it is far weaker than the other party.
For Lin Yu, if he wants to seize the starting position from Tony Allen, he must take two steps in the next stage.
One is to further improve one's defense or enhance one's confrontation ability.
Needless to say, there is no need to say much about improving defense. His single defense attribute value is now 86 points. If it is further improved, his personal defensive ability will be close to historical-level perimeter singles like Bruce Bowen and Ron Artest.
By guarding players, he can widen the gap in quality with the current Tony Allen.
Improving confrontation ability is considered from another aspect. If his confrontation ability is improved, then Lin Yu can defend those heavy small forwards in the league. Compared with Tony Allen, who can only defend defenders at present, he can
You will get certain physical advantages.
The second is to improve personal offensive capabilities. If you want to surpass Tony Allen in personal offense, it will be very difficult in the short term.
Lin Yu put his hope in Durant's two cheats, so it became a top priority to complete the progress of those two cheats as soon as possible.
Lin Yu was thinking about countermeasures. He felt that he must find an obedient reporter.
After the training match, during the break, Lin Yu had been sitting on the sidelines thinking, but the team's press officer Howard Hamlin appeared on the court at this time.
Hamlin walked up to Rivers, whispered a few words to Rivers, and then Rivers called Lin Yu.
"Lin, you go with Hamlin."
Lin Yu was a little surprised that the team's press officer had nothing to do with him. He followed Hamlin out of the stadium and walked into the long passage of the training hall.
"Lin, one of your compatriots said that he just came from Houston and wanted to give you an exclusive interview. Generally speaking, the media department will reject these exclusive interview requests and ask them to contact your agent, but considering that a few days ago
You just accepted an exclusive interview with an American reporter, which shows that you do not refuse these interviews, and this compatriot of yours took out a press card from China CCTV, so I made a decision..."
Lin Yu nodded and expressed his understanding. No matter what, he really couldn't refuse this exclusive interview with the CCTV reporter.
Zhang Jianwei is a reporter stationed by CCTV in the NBA and a special writer for some domestic sports print media. His usual task is to do some special interviews and provide them to CCTV's sports news column and basketball special column, and then to those domestic sports print media.
Write some columns.
Compared to Yang Meng and Shenyang, he does not need to travel around the United States. Most of the time, he stays in Houston because Houston has Yao Ming, so he only needs to keep an eye on Yao Ming.
CCTV controls the authenticity of news very strictly, so it does not need and cannot make some false and saliva-attracting news reports.
Since he was assigned to the NBA, he rarely reported on Lin Yu, who was on the east coast, because Lin Yu had no games to play and had little value to report.
But now, everything is different. Lin Yu made his NBA debut. Although the statistics were not good, he was ridiculed by the domestic media after the game.
But Zhang Jianwei watched the video of the game between the Celtics and Bobcats, and he found that Lin Yu was not as good as some domestic reporters said, playing for more than six minutes, or even having side effects.
On the contrary, Zhang Jianwei discovered a huge shining point in Lin Yu, which made him excited.
So, he booked a flight overnight and flew to Boston.
In an office at the Celtics training facility, Howard Hamlin exited the room and helped Lin Yu close the door.
Suddenly, only Lin Yu and the compatriot reporter in front of Lin Yu were left in the room.
"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhang Jianwei. I work for CCTV. I am also writing columns for some domestic sports print media. This exclusive interview with you will be sent to CCTV and will not be sent to those domestic sports print media.
.”
Zhang Jianwei introduced himself and explained at the end that although he writes articles for domestic sports print media, this exclusive interview will not be sent to those domestic print media.
Obviously, he also knew very well that Lin Yu's relationship with domestic sports print media and online media was not very good, and could even be described as bad.
Lin Yu smiled. Since he decided to accept an exclusive interview, he would not get entangled in these trivial matters. What's more, Zhang Jianwei's arrival also gave Lin Yu other ideas.
He decided to use Zhang Jianwei's exclusive interview to complete the progress of a meme he was currently working on. Therefore, to be more precise, Zhang Jianwei came to help him.
"Then, shall we begin our exclusive interview?"
Seeing that Lin Yu had no objections, Zhang Jianwei adjusted the camera behind him, pointed it at Lin Yu, who was sitting upright, and started an exclusive interview.
"Let's talk about your NBA debut first. 0 points, 2 rebounds and 1 turnover are not good statistics?"
Lin Yu nodded: "Indeed, this data is not comparable to good, it can even be regarded as bad."
Zhang Jianwei smiled: "But some domestic media used the word 'angry slashing', which caused some saliva."
"Yes, I noticed it." Lin Yu did not expect Lao Zhang to enter the topic so quickly. He was delighted and quickly mentioned that he had been paying attention to domestic public opinion.
"Did you notice that too?"
"Yes, I have always read domestic media reports. Basically, after every game, I will set aside special time to read domestic news reports about me."
"Do you read the comments behind those news reports?"
"Yes, that's right, I will watch it. I will even watch it carefully one by one."
"There are a lot of negative comments about you in the comments. Won't this affect you?"
When the question was asked, Lin Yu organized his language and went directly to the topic: "Of course, of course it will have an impact on me. There are some objective and negative comments that are indeed giving me suggestions. I will think about it, and then
I want to change myself, but I will be very angry at some comments that are purely for the sake of being black. Sometimes when I get angry to a certain extent, I will even register one or two small accounts to refute those black comments from the perspective of a bystander.
"
"You will personally refute those negative comments?" Zhang Jianwei found it incredible. He did not expect Lin Yu to care so much about these negative comments.
"I will, because I really can't bear it."
"Why can't you bear it?"
"Because I am really not a person who is not enterprising, joins the NBA just for gold, and lives a dawdling life as described by media reporters, fans and netizens. I am also working hard."
When saying this, Lin Yu's expression was very serious.
Zhang Jianwei also nodded to express his understanding, and then he turned the topic back to Lin Yu's debut performance.
"Actually, I watched the Celtics-Bobcats game in its entirety, especially the more than six minutes you played. I don't think your performance was what the domestic media reporters and fans said.
, completely soy sauce, and even has side effects.”
"I noticed your defense. Your one-on-one defense against Gerald Wallace was very successful. Before you came out, Gerald Wallace scored 11 points, the highest in the Bobcats team. And after you came out,
For more than 6 minutes, you have been facing off against Gerald Wallace on the defensive end, and Wallace did not score a point."
"What I want to ask is, is your defense your strongest point, and is it also because of your defense that you are able to play?"
Lin Yu nodded: "Yes, I did rely on defense to successfully break into the team's rotation. In the game against the Bobcats, coach Doc Rivers was indeed very impressed with my performance.
Satisfied because I successfully restricted Gerald Wallace."
"So, in that case, you will still play in the next game?"
"It's hard to say. I can only say that there is a high probability that he will appear."
"If defense is your strength, what level do you think your defense is?"
Lin Yu thought for a while and replied very immodestly: "It's somewhere between the top and the sub-top. It's already very close to the top."
"Do you think you can get more playing time with this level of defense?"
Lin Yu shook his head again: "I'm afraid not, because my offense is very bad. If I don't improve my offense, it will be difficult for me to get more playing time."
"..."
Time flies, and half an hour later, Zhang Jianwei turned off the camera.
"Okay, Dayu, that's it for the exclusive interview. It's about half an hour of material. I will edit it when I get back, leaving only about 10 minutes. Then I will add some of your game highlights to make it 15 minutes, and then send it out.
If you have any requirements for CCTV's 'Basketball Park', please tell me in advance."
"..."
Lin Yu was a little speechless: "My game highlights? Five minutes? I'm afraid it will be difficult to put together, right?"
"Defensive success is also a collection of highlights, plus some of your playing moments in the NBA, etc., it is easy to put together, and this interview of mine will not be published immediately, it may not be published until the middle of next month, so I will still read it
Play a few of your games and find more material."
Zhang Jianwei explained.
Lin Yu nodded: "Okay, my request is that the section that I attach great importance to online speech must not be cut."
"Why?" Zhang Jianwei was scratching his head. It was exactly that section that he wanted to cut because it was a bit large.
"Because the domestic public opinion environment for me is so bad, I am under a lot of pressure. I need this exclusive interview to relieve the pressure."
Zhang Jianwei understood it all at once, and he immediately said, "That's no problem, I will keep this section for you. Of course, if CCTV really doesn't want to broadcast it, I will also write a few columns and put this section on the air."
Go in and send it to several domestic newspapers."
