You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 339
In early September, the Lakers decided to move this year's preseason training camp from Los Angeles to Hawaii.

As for why this is done, the official statement is to let the players calm down.

After all, there are too many things in Los Angeles that distract players. Although Hawaii has a lot of entertainment, it is not a home game after all. Players go there and are unfamiliar with the place, so they will take care of themselves.

After Wei Xia returned to Los Angeles from Philadelphia, he went through another month of special training.

In the past month, he has mainly strengthened his body and left corner three-pointer.

At the same time, he has to do 10 to 15 sets of left and right hand breakthrough layups under high confrontation every day.

He intends to develop his left hand, but it will take a long time for his left hand to be as skilled and durable as his right hand.

In recent days, apart from training, reading, and dealing with sporadic activities, Wei Xia has devoted almost all of his time to those things that he didn't care about before.

Like reading a book, like texting Elaine Trovis.

Kim Director taught him a way.

When sending text messages to women, don't send them every day, don't send them frequently, don't make your demands too obvious, and pay attention to controlling the scale and means.

For example, you can output crazily in a short period of time, making her think that "you will definitely send another text message when the time comes".At that time, I resolutely stopped and let her hang out for a day or two.

Director is, after all, a 30-year-old woman who can play tricks like a tiger.

Trovis took the initiative to send a text message to Wei Xia, which made the latter very excited.

Thanks to Director, Wei Xia initially mastered some skills that only veterans have, and at the same time began to pay attention to his personal image.

He used to trim his hair once a month to one and a half months, but now he trims his hair every half a month.

He used to never use skin care products, now his room is full of skin care products.

His life became refined.

After the arrival of the preseason training camp, Wei Xia returned to the team, and he began to review the first offseason of his career.What did he gain?
He thought about it, and thought that his greatest achievement was to discover that the old time had the function of predicting the future.

Once he foresees the future as it happens, he has the ability to change it.

After that, he went into the light curtain that allowed him to see the future.

But he didn't see anything, his body passed through the light curtain.

It seemed that he could only go in once, and those important things remained clearly in his mind.

Odom's tragedy has been prevented by him.

What's next?
There is no photo of the Lakers team without him.

Kobe fell.

A smoking plane.

What do they each represent?According to the order he saw, he thought that the big event that would happen to him in the future was that he was facing the situation of leaving the Lakers.

What went wrong to get him out of the Lakers?
In Wei Xia's view, he may be the safest player on the Lakers.

He's like Kobe in 1996.

The No. [-] player in the team, that is, Kobe, is just like the Sharks back then.But he has a much better relationship with Kobe than Kobe and the Sharks.

At the same time, the team's future head Jim Bass liked him very much.

Moreover, he believes that he still has considerable potential to be developed.

Why did he leave the Lakers?Was there a huge change that forced him to leave, was he traded, or something else?
Wei Xia's timeline cannot foresee the future.

He can only take one step at a time and be more sensitive to the things around him than in the past.

What will happen, I don't know.

All he can be sure of is himself, that he will do everything he is supposed to do well.

On the first day of the training camp, the players first went to see their dormitories and put down their luggage.

The Lakers are the Lakers after all, everyone has a luxurious single room, and they arranged Kyle Lowry next door to Wei Xia very thoughtfully.

Not long ago, Lowry represented the Lakers in the summer league and made it to the semi-finals.

But there is nothing to say about Lowry's performance. He is one of the best defenders in this summer league.

He averaged 15 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game, shooting 44% from the field.

The new season is coming, and after all the members of the Lakers gathered, they found that there were many new faces.

Latrell Sprewell is still surprising. I didn't expect him to be willing to lower the standard of supporting his family and stay in the Lakers as a starter.

Letting Sprewell stay was Jackson's suggestion.

Although his signing rights were taken back by the old Buss, the Lakers can't only have the young Buss and the management, and Jackson must also have his own people. Therefore, after the madman stayed, the Zen master had an extra voice barrel.

All members of the Lakers are assembled, whether they are selected or not, they are all on the scene.

Wearing loose white short-sleeves and pale yellow fat pants, with a strange combination, a mysterious expression and a hoarse voice, Jackson established absolute prestige from the first training session: "We don't need selfish players in this gym, we don't need arrogant idiots, we don't need lone rangers who ignore the team. We reached the second round of the playoffs last year, but this is far from enough. The Lakers are a great team. We have a great tradition, so our first goal is always to compete for the championship." The Lakers are unqualified Lakers."

"The interesting thing about the triangle offense is that it doesn't segment you from guys like Kobe. As long as you can fit into the triangle offense, you can find your place in the system. Only the players who are most comfortable with the triangle offense will stay at the end. I also only want people who are willing to put their ego away for the team."

He said the problem was very serious, but most of the guys who really thought it was serious only stood on the first floor.

The Lakers' reinforcement during the offseason is not the attitude that a championship team should have.

Competing with the bulls for Big Ben lost because of money.

Bid for Evans with the Nuggets, still because they couldn't give more money, and lost again.

If you really want to win the championship, you will never count the extra millions.

The Lakers still care about those, which shows that they don't have the confidence to organize a championship team, or in other words, their reinforcement focus is not aimed at the championship.

Otherwise, 6 years and 3000 million for Radmanovic who are full?

Another problem, Jackson said "only those players who are most comfortable with the triangle offense will be left at the end".According to this logic, Smush Parker is the biggest cancer, but he played the starter for nearly a season last season.

Does he have a thorough understanding of the triangle offense?of course not.

Jackson's words can only bluff newcomers and rookies who have just entered the NBA.

For Kobe, who has known him for many years, and Wei Xia, who has been taught by him for a season, his speech is not scary.

Grandpa KFC is bluffing again.

That's what they think.

After Jackson dismissed the players, Lowry said in horror: "It's a good thing I've signed."

For those who are on the first floor, Wei Xia can only give them a bewildered smile.

It's not that he didn't want to enlighten them, but he just thought that if he didn't let them go through the hardships he had experienced, wouldn't they have played under Phil Jackson in vain?
So, don't talk if you can, and give them a full rookie season.

He is such a warm-hearted person.

Jackson's approach is the same as last year, playing cards out of common sense.

When other teams started camp on the first day, they had to play a confrontation game to test the players' status, so he let the players train spontaneously.

Moreover, he was not on the scene to supervise. He just reminded the players that the on-site surveillance video will record their training, and whoever is not serious or lazy will leave clear evidence.

This is Jackson's method again.

The so-called surveillance video does exist, but they have not opened it, so they will not leave any clear information.When he said that, the new players don't know the details, so they will naturally train at full speed, hoping that they can leave a good impression in the heart of the head coach.Their ideas are destined to be given away, because when they work hard, Jackson may not even look at them.

Wei Xia carried the ball to the side to practice shooting by himself.

Odom offered to come over and help him train.

Before Wei Xia rescued Jayden, he and Odom were relatively good teammates.After that incident, they developed a strong bond, and Odom regarded Wei Xia as his little brother, and he was utterly devoted to each other.

Wei Xia took the opportunity to ask Odom how to use his left hand better, and his left-handed offense is bound to be developed.

Odom then asked Wei Xia how to improve his right hand. Compared with those great left-handed players, his biggest disadvantage is that his left hand is strong and his right hand is not good.

However, it would be foolish to ask why someone is handed so well.

Because the answer is nothing more than - it is born this way.

(End of this chapter)