Chapter 144 Bad Omen (9/10)
"They pulled ten girls to open a suite!"
Vaughan Weaver, as the lowest-ranked rookie, was relatively the hardest thing he was ordered.
Wei Xia carried his bag, Bynum took care of the teaching tools, while Weaver was responsible for bringing the women that the bosses valued to the hotel, and even watching the wind outside when necessary.
"Give it, I wish you all the best, man." Bynum said solemnly to Weaver.
"What's going on or not? Those old bastards will be going on!" Weaver took the teaching tools and walked out of Bynum's room angrily.
After Weaver left, Wei Xia reacted and said to Bynum: "I just said Chris is very capable, you don't believe it."
Bynum seemed to have distributed all the teaching tools in the warehouse as a career, and suddenly pointed at a whip and said, "Do you really want it? No matter what the things here are, you can take them away as long as you like them, and you don't charge any money."
"Thank you for your concern, no need." Wei Xia shook her head with a wry smile.
The Lakers still need to play three preseason games in Casino.
Phil Jackson has his own arrangements for the preseason, and he knows exactly which games to practice the main players and which games to practice the marginal people.
In the first game, he asked Wei Xia and Bynum to try his skills.
Wei Xia's performance is in line with expectations. He is the most powerful rookie, who can play in the shooting guard and small forward. This is a problem because the most crowded positions of the Lakers are the small forward and the second position.
If Wei Xia is not counted, the Lakers' forward guards have these: Kobe, Luke Walton, Devin George, Shasha Vujacic, Brian Russell, and Sprewell.
Kobe is a starter without suspense, so he directly occupied the starting shooting guard position.
Including Wei Xia, the remaining six people will compete for the only starter.
There are too many monks and fewer meats, and the competition is fierce.
The Lakers' offseason signings are controversial. They won Weisha and Weaver in the draft. Logically speaking, they should have fought for the inside and point guards in the free market, but they threw the money on the Madman, and then introduced Russell and Kukoc, who had little left to fight, which enhanced the depth of the small forward and had not yet strengthened the inside.
Currently, Zen masters tend to let the madman play the starter of the new season.
In four preseason games, Madman started every game.
Wei Xia scored 20 minutes per game, averaging 5.4 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game.
Although the intensity of the preseason is not high, Wei Xia plays like a formal game in every game. He still has the style of college, but his teammates around him are no longer Allen Leis who trust him completely.
Smash Parker’s passing philosophy is debatable;
Kobe is a terminator. Although he intends to make himself the axis, sooner or later he will find that the job is not suitable for him.
Odom is the one who is most willing to pass the ball to Wei Xia. Unfortunately, as an inside player, he has few opportunities to hold the ball. Most of the opportunities in Wei Xia's positional battles were Odom showing off his hand to assist Wei Xia in scoring. Similarly, Odom is not without flaws. He relaxes at times. If he shows off his head, he will have a coquettish pass from behind and smash it out of bounds.
Chris Mim's tactical status is lower than that of Weisha. It is better to expect him to pass the ball than to expect death to discover his conscience.
This is the situation of the main force, and the situation of the bench is more dangerous.
On the Lakers' bench, Tony Kukoc, who is so old that he can't play, has organizational skills. Since he can't play, the Lakers' second team is like a mess.
"It's a long journey and we're still looking for the best solution." Finalizing the preseason with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, Phil Jackson told reporters.
On October 29, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles from Casino.
With a day off, the Lakers will announce the 15-man roster for the new season tomorrow.
Then take another day of rest and the team will rush to Denver to start the opening game of the new season with the Nuggets.
The year Wei Xia went to college was the year before Cameron Anthony led Syracuse to sweep the national cup. After that, Anthony participated in the draft, and Wei Xia failed to compete with him.
By age, he and Anthony are the same age.
But the opponent won the All-American championship two years ago and played against the NBA two years ago. This is why many talented players will choose to jump to the level in the future.
Anthony, who entered the NBA, led the Nuggets back to the playoffs in his first season. He was a stunning rookie year, but his progress in the next two years was not as good as that of LeBron James.
Wei Xia didn't know much about his debut in the new season on November 2.
Back in Los Angeles from Casino, the first thing Weisha did was to date Selinda Swan.
Swan's biggest advantage is her affinity, which is innate.
Therefore, when she wanted Wei Xia to drink some wine, but Wei Xia could not withstand her attack after refusing and drank the wine, he felt ashamed and relaxed.
What he was ashamed of was that he had vowed in the old days that he would never drink until he had no choice.
Relaxed, alcohol can indeed relieve him from stress.
He was worried that he was obsessed with this feeling.
"You seem to be worried," Swan asked, "has something happened?"
"I can tell you, but you have to keep it confidential."
"Do you think there will be paparazzi following me? Or those paparazzi followed me just to understand what the Lakers are doing?" Swan said funny, "If they want to know what they want, go and read the Orange County Chronicle!"
Wei Xia smiled and said, "Because I have exclusive news."
Moreover, the Orange County Chronicle is the mouthpiece of the Lakers. They will ask about the Lakers before publishing articles. They will only publish them when the Lakers' public relations department believes that the article can be published and will not have a negative impact. They often feel disappointed to find the Lakers' explosive points from the Orange County Chronicle. What they reveal is either fans have heard the rumors long ago, or they are not explosive at all. Fans will never expect the Orange County Chronicle to report as efficiently and quickly as TMZ about Clinton's inkling the secretary to airplanes, the magicians are infected with HIV, Simpson is innocent, Eagle County, and Shake have done so that they can shake the whole United States and will bring tons of negative impacts to the parties involved.
"Tell me, maybe I can help you." Swan lay on the table and listened without any warning.
"The Lakers' competitiveness is the strongest team I have ever been."
"Didn't you say you don't have the strength to compete for the championship?"
"It's not the competitiveness of competing for the championship, it's the competitiveness I face," Wei Xia said. "I need to compete for time with six players with the same position as me."
Swan himself compared Wei Xia's competitiveness with her audition.
Is competing with seven people equivalent to competing with seven actors for roles?
From this point of view, the actors are under great pressure. Some of the big productions have more than seven competitors in the leading role, and seventy of them are just foundations.
"The worst part is that the coach doesn't seem to like me because I'm Jim Buss."
"You are Mr. Bath's person..."
"I'm not anyone's person." Wei Xia corrected her, "but I can't change the coach's point of view. I need to compete with six other people under his prejudice."
Swan immediately compared Wei Xia's encounter to the competitive pressure of the actor version: he had six audition opponents and rejected the director's unspoken rules.
From this point of view, Wei Xia is really in trouble.
"What a pitiful little!" Swan gently hugged Wei Xia and touched his head.
"But, at least you have a good relationship with the producer." Swan said with a simulcast of the scene in his heart.
Wei Xia didn't understand at the time: "Producer?"
"No, I mean...at least you have a good relationship with Mr. Bass. He is the future leader of the Lakers. Maybe you can use him to get some opportunities." Swann came up with an idea that anyone could come up with.
If Weisha hadn't seen Jackson drive Buss out of Toyota Center with his own eyes, Swan's idea might be feasible.
Ever since Wei Xia saw Jackson knocking Buss away during the trial, he concluded that Buss has no say in the team's game plan.
At most, he was fanning the flames outside. As long as the Zen master could stabilize the team, Bass's words were of no weight.
Wei Xia did not tell the story of Jackson knocking Buss away during the trial. This is a big deal. Although it is not a scandal, if it is in the newspaper, it will inevitably cause some riots within the Lakers.
Weisha's second girlfriend, Lara Darby, brought him the best experience, is that women's mouths are like deceitful ghosts, and it is as difficult to count on them to keep secrets as it is to count on Kevin Lou's guarding the Knights' basket.
The next day, Wei Xia spent a boring day.
Dick Long and Lee Zhongxian came to his house to find him at the gym for half a day, and he went to the basketball court alone to practice football.
The Lakers also happened to announce the 15-man roster for the new season today.
There are as many as 8 players on the wing, and the depth and thickness of the point guard and inside are seriously lacking.
Only he knows why Jackson wants to use the right to choose from Jerry Bass to bring back several players with overlapping functions.
November 2, 2005
Denver Pepsi Center (denver pepsi
In the player channel, Kobe talks about the first game of the new season.
What he said specifically, Wei Xia didn't remember what he ran out of the player channel, he only knew that he used the classic slogan of the Bulls Dynasty.
“What is the moment now?”
"Match moment!"
Everyone shouted that sound, feeling the blood in their bodies ignited. Wei Xia ran into the Nuggets' home court with blank brains, but the booing sound that made his cheeks heat up.
"Just get used to it, this little thing is no big deal." Kobe said to the people around him.
Wei Xia couldn't get used to it for the time being. In order to relieve sensory discomfort, he used fancy warm-up dunks to relax his body and mind.
The opposite side thought he was provoking, and it was unreasonable if he didn't want to give up.
Kenyon Martin shows off his dunks without permission.
He came to a small windmill, and Wei Xia got on the big windmill again;
He played the free throw line, and Wei Xia hit the line with the slash;
He stubbornly used a dunk within the free throw line, while Wei Xia used a dunk under the crotch to make the Denver people stunned.
"If today's dunk, we can declare the Lakers winning." Nuggets radio announcer Chris Marlowe teased.
The Nuggets' talent and athletic ability are recognized by the entire league, but none of them can compare with Wei Xia, who has obtained the Skywalker talent.
Losing a move before the game started is not a good sign.
Chapter completed!