You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 574 I want to be the best in the world

Wescia played six times against Eddie Jordan's team, but he wasn't particularly impressed with Jordan.

The opponent gave him the feeling that he was just an ordinary head coach.

Neither is he full of philosophy like a Zen master, nor is he as good at adapting and learning as Popovich, nor is he like the patriarchal control of Jerry Sloan.

There are not a few coaches like him. After all, the vast majority of practitioners cannot achieve excellence in their profession.

"Wish, are you still used to life in Philadelphia?"

Jordan looks like he has no other business, just chatting a few words?

If it's small talk, Wei Xia doesn't care.

"Coach, you are joking, this is my home." Wei Xia's words made Jordan smile bitterly.

He was too busy looking for a place to start the conversation, but he ignored this level.

"It was my mistake. It was a big mistake. I apologize to you." Jordan became serious.

Wei Xia said: "It's serious, I don't know where your hometown is, so we're even."

Jordan brought Wei Xia to his office and asked softly, "What do you want to drink?"

"Don't bother, I'm not thirsty." Wei Xia said politely.

Jordan, however, is a pragmatist: "I don't think we're going to end this conversation in a few words, so. You'd better have a drink."

Wei Xia couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Jordan's coaching ability is indeed far inferior to that of Phil Jackson, but it is definitely easier to play under such a coach than under Jackson.

During the Lakers period, in the early days, every game, every practice session, every game review, every tactical analysis meeting-every meeting with Jackson, he would be terrified.

Because Jackson used him as a punching bag, he killed the chicken in the trick countless times in the past three years.

After a long time, he realized that the cruel words said by the Zen master would not come true, he was just scaring people.

But even knowing that he is bluffing, deceitful, thundering without rain, some of his actions and practices on weekdays still make people feel puzzling.

Such a thing would never happen under Eddie Jordan.

Wei Xia asked for a glass of ice water.

"That's a good start," Jordan laughs. "When the players are willing to eat in the coach's office, it's the beginning of honesty."

And this statement?

Thinking back carefully, it seems that Wei Xia has never eaten in Jackson's office.

No, he didn't even enter Jackson's office a handful of times.

Because Jackson seems to have a habit of publicly executing him, even if he wants to scold him, it will not be done in private, but in front of the whole team.

When Wei Xia has nothing to do, he would rather find a place to lie down than see Jackson showing off his philosophy.

Moreover, every time he entered Jackson's office, his mood was solemn.

Don't talk about eating and drinking, it's not bad if you don't vomit.

Jordan is undeniably a talkative guy, and he will take the time to talk about other things first, keeping the topics he really wants to talk about in his heart.

Wei Xia was still thinking about training, and almost always answered his questions directly.

Within ten minutes, they went from their childhood experiences to their private hobbies.And the topic of where I usually like to go to eat is exhausted.

It's just a comparison of how much experience of the opposite sex they have with each other.

Jordan didn't expect that Wei Xia would start the mode of dealing with media questions and answers for him.

Wei Xia in front of the media has two most distinctive images.

One of those images is the brevity with which you answer 99% of formal questions.

No matter how difficult the question is, when it comes to him, the answer will not be too long-winded and complicated.

The media had no choice but to throw out topics related to Kobe to arouse his interest.

If it wasn't for Jordan still having business to do today, he really wanted to chat with Wei Xia about Kobe.He was very curious about how Wei Xia and Kobe usually get along with each other, and why Kobe, who was rumored to be vengeful, could endure his teammates slandering him in front of the media again and again.

Bryant is a heavyweight weapon.

Jordan didn't want to use it today. He decided to skip all the complicated links: "Wish, the 76ers are a new team, for you, and for me. You are an excellent player, but I want to know, what role do you want to play on my team?"

After so long, Jordan finally got to the point.

Wei Xia would like to praise his wrangling ability.

What role does he want to play?In fact, he thought about it.

Initially, I just wanted to go in the direction of John Havlicek.But as he left the Lakers, he found that becoming a second Havlicek was not his goal.

At first, he thought that way only because he was teammates with Kobe.

With Kobe by his side, it is natural to choose a role with no conflicting functions.

What now?After all this, who does he want to be?

At the age of 25, Wei Xia has already seen many great players.

He spent time with the NBA's most successful winner, Bill Russell, in the old days, and in reality, he was teammates with the most paranoid jerk in NBA history. At the same time, as a fan, he completely experienced Michael Jordan's 90s.

Who does he want to be?

"I want to be..." Wei Xia thought over and over again and gave the answer, "Coach, I want to be the number one choice of the team. I want to be the sharpest sword, the hardest shield, the most reliable point, and the most important part."

Jordan narrowed his eyes.

His expression made his football-like head shape even more deformed.

Jordan originally thought that he needed to enlighten Wei Xia, but he didn't expect that he still had this ambition in his heart. It can be seen how much encouragement he was given up by the Lakers.

Jordan smiled lightly: "Before you were injured, no one in the 76ers could match half of you. But now, it's been 16 months since you last played, and you need to prove yourself again. These few days of confrontation alone are not enough. I know you still have room for it. Start tomorrow and prove it to me."

Wei Xia agreed, and the two stopped talking.

Wei Xia walked out of Jordan's office, he didn't expect to stay there for half an hour.

Everyone is different, he never stays in Zen master's office for more than 5 minutes, unless someone is with him, every second is a torment.

What Jordan asked for was exactly what he wanted.

In the past few days, due to Jordan's absence, in the confrontation match, he mainly let his teammates let go, and his own performance is still secondary.

Because he knew that no matter how well he performed, only the teaching assistants were in his eyes, which was useless.Only by letting the head coach see his strength can he be positioned correctly.

After a few days of confrontation, Wei Xia discovered a change in himself.

Perhaps it was because of the fact that Larry Bird played that game, which made him see what high-dimensional basketball is like.

It is not necessary to have the ability to fly into the sky and escape from the ground.

It doesn't have to be lightning-quick athleticism, either.

Was Bird half his athleticism and explosiveness in his prime?No.

But with his unfathomable basketball IQ, defensive awareness, early prediction, and experience, he was selected to the second team of the best defensive team of the year three times.

What if Bird had his physicality?

Weisha can be sure that he can average 2 steals and 2 blocks per game like Dr. J, and become a contender for Defensive Player of the Year every year before screwing up his back.

One defense every year may be just a basic operation.

Therefore, the partially degraded lateral speed should not be an excuse for Weixia's defensive degradation.

He should take advantage of what he's got from Bird.

In addition, Bird's touch makes his shooting feel completely different.

He often encounters situations where he cannot accurately control his touch.

Because he has formed a set of muscle memory of his own by virtue of his hard training in the past.Bird's touch came out of nowhere, but he didn't have a good chemical reaction with his muscle memory, and they were mutually exclusive.

Wei Xia didn't know how long it would take for these two seemingly unrelated but interdependent elements to form a virtuous circle.

Until that day comes, he will be a secondary shooter.

Either extremely accurate or extremely inaccurate, there is no intermediate value.

And for now, it is not allowed to be in the majority.

At the end of the training that day, Wei Xia returned to the apartment prepared for them by the team. Feeling that there was nothing to do, he surfed the Internet.

Because he was so bored, he registered his first Twitter account and tweeted.

"I want to be the best in the world!"

After tweeting, he closed the webpage in shame and closed his notebook as if he had done something unconscionable.

(End of this chapter)