You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 139 Sure, Definitely, and 100% Sure (310)

The 15th day of training camp, media day, is also the last Monday in September.

Phil Jackson is preparing to deal with the draft of the interview. He has been an NBA coach for many years, and he knows what the media wants to ask.

He generally does not give the media too direct and affirmative answers unless necessary.

Like what is necessary?

When OK turned against him and stood on the shark's side, the media asked him whose fault it was.

He will consciously or unconsciously point out that the person who takes more shots should reflect.

Now that the Sharks are away from Miami, the latter's decline last year and the increasingly youthful Kobe Bryant seem to prove Jerry Buss right again.

Just as he was about to try on the suit Jenny prepared for him, there was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in."

Walking in from the outside is the team's trainer Gary Vitti.

Vitti worked at the University of Utah and the University of Portland. When Riley asked him to join the Lakers, he refused.Later, after careful discussion, he agreed, because he wanted to provide services for the best players in the world.

He didn't expect to work for 30 years.

For the Lakers, any player may leave, but Vitti will not. The Lakers are his home.

Seeing him, Jackson showed a faint smile: "Gary, today is media day, are you dressed like this?"

"Phil, you have to stop those two people from continuing to mess around!"

Vitti, however, was not in the mood to joke with the Zen master, and cut straight to the point as soon as he entered the office.

Jackson knew something about what happened to the team recently, but he didn't expect Vitti to be unbearable first.

The dark circles around his face might explain how hard his day was.

"What happened?" Jackson pretended not to know.

"Kobe and Visa, they are crazy! They are already crazy! They must be stopped!" His subtext is: Otherwise, the old man will go crazy!

Jackson asked with a smile, "What happened to them?"

"They're competing to be the hardest-working Lakers!" Vitti said indignantly.

If there were aliens present, they would probably think that it is a bad thing to train hard on Earth.

Jackson looked at Vitti like an alien; "Gary, I don't see any harm in working hard"

"There is nothing wrong with just training hard, but they have turned the competition into a vicious competition. If we don't stop it, the consequences will be disastrous!" Vitti told Jackson what happened in the past ten days, so that Jackson would know how miserable he was.

He found Kobe's training schedule from Weixia, and chose to attend training before 08:30 to start the war.

The matter of accepting bribes was naturally edited by him verbally.

Then Kobe adjusted the time to eight o'clock.

Wei Xia adjusted it to [-]:[-].

Bryant improved to 07:30.

Wei Xia arrived early at seven twenty.

Kobe was ruthless: arrive at seven o'clock!
Jackson laughed out loud when he heard it, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it: "They were just on a whim, maybe it will be fine after a while."

"In order to kill Visa, Kobe decided to train at the Toyota Center at six o'clock every day after the media day!" Vitti said sadly, "Six o'clock! It's almost twelve o'clock when we go home and go to bed every day. If we want to go to Toyota Center at six o'clock, we have to get up at five o'clock in the morning. It's terrible!"

Jackson knew what Vitti wanted to express.

Wei Xia and Kobe continue to compete, and it may not be clear who wins and who loses, but Vitti's old life is likely to be involved.

Miraculously, after Vitti left, he got the call.

Someone who should never have called him.

Someone who never called him.

There was a call.

Caller Name: Vanessa Bryant.

"Hi Vanessa, what's up?" Jackson asked with a smile.

"Coach, I have a situation that I want to report to you. Maybe you can tell me what happened recently." Vanessa acted as fast as the rumors said, and she avoided even hypocritical greetings and got straight to the point.

Jackson met Kobe's parents, and now he knows why Vanessa is at odds with Kobe's family.

Kobe's family looked down on her background, and she was also a strong person, and Kobe was devoted to her during the rebellious period. The series of family conflicts seemed irreconcilable.

"Please tell me," said the Zen master.

"Kobe has been a little strange recently. He always leaves early and returns late." Vanessa said, "Especially in the past few days, when I get up, I can't see anyone else. When he comes home, he looks exhausted. He doesn't care about the children, he doesn't care about the housework, and his mind is completely in the Toyota Center. What happened?"

"Is there such a thing?"

"I hope this has nothing to do with you."

"Of course, I am the coach with the most relaxed training arrangements in the league."

Jackson immediately distanced himself from the relationship.

"Why is that? What the hell is Kobe doing lately?"

"I'll look into it."

After hanging up the phone, Jackson realized that things were not as simple as he thought, and the competition between the two might have reached a fever pitch.

Jackson didn't expect Wei Xia to be so courageous, who is more diligent than Kobe?Totally picked the wrong opponent.

It's like comparing with Bill Russell who has more rings, comparing with Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley who can't control his body shape during the offseason, and he doesn't know who his opponent is and what ability he has, and this will happen.

The Easter egg of this incident is that Wei Xia's sister and brother also wanted to call Jackson.

But they didn't have Zen Master's phone number, and they didn't know how to speak if they called.

Wei Xia's recent developments are too strange. He goes to bed at [-] o'clock every night, doesn't watch TV, doesn't care about housework, disappears during the day, and has no energy at night.

Continuously changing the training schedule, Wei Xia and Kobe's mental state is not very good.

On the media day, Wei Xia was asked how he felt in the Lakers.

He replied: "I am facing unprecedented challenges."

When Kobe talked about rookies, he replied meaningfully: "I am very glad that our team finally has a rookie who can bring challenges."

Regarding the complaints from many parties, Jackson accepted the reporter's interview with a smile on his face, and talked about his goals and prospects for the new season: "Kobe will learn to be a true leader. We have experienced veterans and talented rookies. I believe we will go far."

The next day, Toyota Center.

Wesha arrived at the gym at 06:30, and he saw that Kobe was sweating as if he had completed several rounds of training.

"Yo, here we come." Kobe said hello.

Wei Xia was furious, "Yes, here we come."

Kobe jokingly said: "We must train hard together today."

"Okay," Wei Xia gritted his teeth and walked to Vitti's side, "What time did you guys come?"

Vitti doubted life with panda eyes: "Enough of Visa, don't make trouble anymore, you won, okay? In my heart, you have won the whole world!"

The next sentence will make people doubt the relationship between Wei Xia and Kobe: "It doesn't matter if the world Kobe doesn't recognize!"

Although they are not a fiercely hostile relationship, they are not a gluey partner relationship either. They are the kind of competitive relationship that insists on the other party admitting "yes, you are stronger".

"What do you want?" Vitti asked in horror.

"Tell me what time he gets up today, and then I'll tell you what I want!" Wei Xia threw the implicit British way into his mother's womb.

Vitti said despondently: "Six o'clock."

"Tell him, at 05:30 tomorrow, I will drive a car and enjoy the dawn of Los Angeles while training profusely in Toyota Gymnasium!" Wei Xia turned around in bewilderment, "I am the most diligent!"

Vitti's sad face turned to the old security guard in the stadium: "Help!"

The next day, it was dark.

Bryant learned that Wesha would arrive at the Toyota Center at 05:30 in the morning, so he called Vitti and asked him to prepare in advance.

Vitti shut down.

He couldn't take it anymore.

Bryant could only go to the Toyota Center alone.

Yet by the time he arrived at the Toyota Center at 5:20, Wesha was dripping with sweat.

Seeing Kobe standing at the door, Wei Xia laughed and said, "Do you think I'll let you succeed? I'll be there at five o'clock!"

"Okay, great!"

Any fan who has seen Kobe grinning and killing opponents on the court can clearly describe Kobe's face at this time.

That's the most annoyed, most unwilling, and most wanting to kill the opponent's face.

"I know what you want to do, see you at four o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"No!" Kobe yelled back, "It's three in the morning!"

Kobe usually goes to bed at [-] or [-] o'clock, and it will be later if there are temporary activities.

If he's coming to the Toyota Center at [-] a.m. for training, he's going to get two to three hours of sleep at most.Because he had to leave an hour earlier.

This man has gone crazy!
Unfortunately, his competitor is even crazier than he is.

"Annie, can you send me a set of clothes sometime? Yes, Toyota Center."

"What am I going to do?"

Wei Xia said seriously: "I'm not going back today, I'm going to sleep in the gym."

Two people who couldn't admit defeat just brought things to extremes.

Because they have constantly messed up their biological clocks in the past ten days, their mental energy is no longer up to this day.

But they have to go on.

And their competition will usher in a dramatic ending.

At nine o'clock that night, Wei Xia borrowed the desk in the security room to sleep, and he set the alarm clock.

At 02:30 in the morning, he woke up.

The alarm clock woke him up.

His mind was clouded, and the intense drowsiness forced him to close his eyes.He didn't forget that Kobe would come in half an hour. In order not to be overwhelmed by drowsiness, he hit the wall three times and touched the bathroom. He stimulated his nerves with cold water and finally regained consciousness.

When he came out of the bathroom, the old security guard on the night shift saw him holding the ball, "Visa, do you mean it?"

"That's right, today's training has already started, Nathan, I will be on the night shift with you." Wei Xia said, yawned, and shot a three-pointer.

Great, didn't even touch the rim.

"Are you sure you won't take a break anymore?" The security guard sweated for him.

"Sure, definitely, and 100% sure." Wei Xia yawned again at the security guard, "No need."

(End of this chapter)