One Hundred and Twenty: True Fragrance Warning (32/40)

On the afternoon of February 17, in the Staples Center, the training of the rookie team officially began.

Of course, the biggest purpose of this training is not to train players, but to make commercial hype.

Every year at All-Star Weekend, pre-rookie workouts and pre-All-Star workouts are all open to the media. To put it bluntly, this training is a show for the media to increase the exposure of the All-Stars.

In the training ground, some players were fighting, some chatting with each other, and some being interviewed by reporters. There are only a few people who are training seriously.

Link felt a little regretful. He had known that the All-Star Game training was a show, so he brought the trainer Marcus Weir. Now that Link can only train with an unfamiliar trainer, Link always feels inefficient.

At this time, what Link is practicing is naturally the offensive footwork he learned from Kobe this morning.

Link and Kobe's training continued until 7:30 in the morning, when both of them were too tired, they just gave up.

To Link's surprise, after training with Kobe in the early morning, he didn't feel sleepy, but he was refreshed walking on the street in the early morning. Moreover, the addition of such an extra training not only allowed him to learn a lot from Kobe, but also made his progress of the little white bar grow unplanned.

After training, Kobe patted Link's shoulder with a smile, "Next time I have a chance, I'll be together again. I'm very happy to train with you."

Link really didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. Fortunately, I am not a player of the Lakers, otherwise I must receive a call from a paranoid from time to time in the middle of the night.

When it comes to what Kobe taught Link today, there are many, many complicated things.

What kind of tentative steps, dribbling and breakthrough steps, and even back-to-back steps, Kobe Bryant talked about wherever he thought of it, and it didn't matter whether Link could digest it or not.

Because Kobe knows very well that basketball, if you just rely on others to teach you a few times, there is a high probability that you will not be able to learn it. Unless you go down and are willing to think about it slowly, you will never become a trick in your "arsenal". Therefore, whether you can learn is not by digesting it while you are learning, but by how much time you are willing to spend practicing.

Link also knows this truth. When he was learning defense with Tony Allen, Link liked to catch his teammates and practice with him when he had nothing to do. Conley was tortured the most. He was embarrassed to reject Link, so he was only tortured by Link over and over again on the training ground.

Now that Link can have a fairly good defensive foundation, in addition to Hill's talent and Tony Allen's guidance, he must also thank Conley for his sacrifice.

However, the defense of the trainer in front of him was too weak for Link. He doesn't need to walk, he can enter directly by pulling and pulling. With an unfamiliar trainer, there is no effect at all.

Seeing that Link has been catching the trainer's footsteps for practice, the reporters are also interested. In particular, some media from China finally took advantage of Link's break to interview.

"Link, do you have time for an interview?" Chinese reporters are still quite cautious. After all, there are not many Chinese players playing in the NBA, and they don't know the temperament of the opponent.

"No problem." Link smiled, and he was still very happy to see the "hometown" media interviewing him.

"Excuse me, what have you been practicing just now? We've seen you practice the same items since the beginning of training."

The reporter communicated with Link in English. Link looked around,

There were no American reporters either, so when he answered, he spoke Chinese.

"Attack, all kinds of attack. I want to perfect my attack, so I have to hurry."

The reporters were overjoyed. Link spoke Chinese with no surprise.

"For you, what does it mean to train hard? You are almost the hardest player in the entire training hall. Why are you still working so hard during the relaxed moment of the All-Star Weekend?" The reporter then began to speak with Link in Chinese. The communication has not only shortened the distance between the reporter and Link, but also directly shortened the distance between Link and the Chinese fans.

Chinese fans will feel that this guy is no different from everyone except that he couldn't choose his own nationality. Jeff Austin would be overjoyed to know this. In the future, the door of the Chinese market will undoubtedly be greatly opened to Link.

In this era when black people can shout "I love China" in Chinese, why can't Chinese people?

"Training hard means everything, I know very well how I got up from the bottom step by step. So, I will not relax for a moment. Because there are a lot of people who are staring at you, and once you relax, some people want to replace you. "

"If you have the opportunity, are you willing to play in China?" Finally, the reporter asked a question that was enough to attract the attention of all Chinese fans.

Link was a little confused. When this guy said he came to play in China, did he mean the CBA or the national team? The key point is that no matter which one it refers to, it is not realistic.

"Of course I'll go if I have the chance, but for now, I still want to do my job well." Link could only answer in a very official tone, which was considered a muddle.

After sending the Chinese reporters off, Link sat on the sidelines and thought for a while. One of the advantages of being Chinese-American may be that you don't have to contact the Chinese Basketball Association. After all, China does not allow dual nationality, and even if Link wants to, he can't play for the Chinese team.

What's more, Link's wishes were not so intense.

Winning glory for the country is of course something every boy would dream of, but joining the Chinese men's basketball team is not as simple as winning glory for the country. The rules of the game are more complicated than those in the NBA.

When the Chinese Basketball Association enters the Yao Ming era in the future, Link is willing to do some support within his capacity. But now... Forget it, the Chinese national team Zhang Tang is better to stay away.

"Link, what have you been practicing? Are you thinking about how to overshadow me tomorrow?"

Just then, Link heard someone talking to him. Turning his head, he found that it was his "good teammate" DeMarcus Cousins ​​of the first-year team.

As one of the best insiders among the 10 rookies, Cousins ​​was naturally invited to participate in this year's rookie game. Because Link and Cousins ​​did not deal with each other during the regular season, as soon as Link arrived in the locker room today, Cousins ​​kept pestering him.

"You can't catch my pass tomorrow, Link."

"On the training ground, I will definitely not show mercy to you, bastard!"

"If something goes wrong tomorrow, I can't spare you!"

Cousins ​​is like a wet market aunt, always nagging next to Link from time to time, and Link can't stand it anymore.

Isn't it just that I lost to myself once, is it necessary! ? And in that game, strictly speaking, Cousins ​​lost to Randolph. Why do you always catch me!

"No, I just practice casually, who dares to steal your limelight." Link did not entangle with Cousins. At this time, Cousins ​​was extremely immature, and there were very few people in the league who could communicate with him. .

"You're useless, asshole. See that guy? Wall is my buddy! Tomorrow, he's going to pass the ball to me, lots, lots. As for you? You'll be forgotten, man. "Cousins ​​is a little childish, and the loss to the undrafted makes him brooding to this day.

"Yes, yes, that's your good buddy Wall. But you may not have figured out the situation, DeMarcus. Our team is special this year, we have two No. 1 picks. Wall and No. 1 pick Griffin are the Tomorrow's spotlight. So guess what, is your buddy Wall going to pass the ball to Griffin or to you? Have you seen Griffin's dunk? All Los Angeles is waiting to see him Dunks. You and I, we'll all be forgotten."

Hearing what Link said, Cousins ​​looked at Wall, then at Griffin, who was surrounded by reporters, and pouted.

"But don't worry too much, DeMarcus. Because of me and you, we don't want to be forgotten. But in the middle of two No. 1 picks, how are we going to get noticed? Yes, we have to join forces. We have to be proactive. , steal their limelight. The rookie game is not really about winning or losing, if we can't even leave an impressive picture, then what are we going to play?"

Link flickered vigorously, dealing with a guy like Cousins, no matter what he did. After all, the brain circuit of such a person is abnormal.

"I...I won't join forces with you!" Cousins ​​scratched his head, then turned and left without pestering Link.

Link's ears are finally quiet, and Cousins ​​will definitely think about whether or not to trust himself now. For a while, it shouldn't be annoying again.

Although he said those words to fool Cousins ​​away, Link really wanted to leave a good performance. What's the point if it's just to accompany Wall and Griffin?

The All-Star Weekend is coming, so let's increase the exposure.